Metallica became the heroes of the day when they swooped in to save Tomorrowland, lending their stage to the Belgian electronic music festival after a fire wiped out its main stage. This year’s Tomorrowland — which runs from July 18 to 27 and will draw 400,000 people to the town of Boom in Belgium’s Antwerp province — […]
It’s not easy to define British music in the 2000s. There were plenty of bands that had staked their claim in the ’90s — Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, etc. – that continued to have a great deal of influence in the new millennium. And then there were bands like Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and the Kooks, who understandably […]
Steve Miller has been accused of lying about the real reason his upcoming tour was cancelled, and his longest-serving bandmate is fighting back. Kenny Lee Lewis, who has played guitar or bass for Miller since 1982, rushed to his boss’s defense against fans and critics who claim the group’s summer tour was cancelled because of low […]
REO Speedwagon‘s Bruce Hall and Spinal Tap are joining in on the Coldplay meme fun with comedic posts about the painfully awkward viral video that’s currently dominating the internet. In the clip, a couple who were caught on camera by the band’s “Kiss Cam” during a show earlier this week at Foxbrorough’s Gillette Stadium react […]
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are working together again, at least in terms of social media marketing. It seems quite possible they are teasing a long-awaited reissue from their pre-Fleetwood Mac days. The former bandmates have been publicly feuding since Buckingham was fired from the group in 2018, after being accused by Nicks of mocking her during […]
Nine Inch Nails are set to release a new album this summer. The soundtrack for Tron: Ares will be available on Sept. 19, three weeks before the film’s release on Oct. 10. The LP marks the first Nine Inch Nails album since the simultaneous release of Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts in 2020. The news was accompanied by […]
Steve Miller has canceled his band’s future tour plans, stating that the threat of natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes and hurricanes has made the risk to his band, crew and fans “unacceptable.” With a Wednesday night social media post Miller, who was set to launch a 28-date U.S. tour on Aug. 15 in Bethel, […]
Robert Plant will release his first album since 2021’s Alison Krauss collaboration, Raise the Roof. Saving Grace arrives on Sept. 26 and marks Plant’s first solo album since 2017’s Carry Fire. The nine-song LP, recorded with his new band Saving Grace, features covers of songs by Moby Grape (“It’s a Beautiful Day Today”), Blind Willie Johnson (“Soul […]
Kim Carnes has explained her feelings about JoJo Siwa’s new cover version of “Bette Davis Eyes,” which A took to No. 1 for five weeks in 1981. Carnes said she’d been concerned when she heard the two versions overlapped, describing Siwa’s performance as too close to her own. But she added that she didn’t want […]
The Cult will embark on a North American tour this fall, playing their own music and songs from their earlier iteration, Death Cult. The Ian Astbury-fronted group described the upcoming trek as “a communal gathering of the tribes featuring sets from Death Cult and the Cult” in a press release. The three-week tour begins on Oct. 9 in […]