Stevie Nicks has confirmed that she and Lindsey Buckingham are talking again, after a bitter dispute that led to Buckingham’s 2018 departure from Fleetwood Mac. The singer revealed the news during the duo’s separate interviews on the newest episode of the Song Exploder podcast, which found them dissecting the song “Frozen Love” from their recently […]
Iron Maiden have added two dates to the 2026 North American leg of their Run for Your Lives tour due to “overwhelming demand.” The metal legends will now play two nights at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena (Aug. 29 and 30) and Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium (Sept. 25 and 26). Tickets for the North American shows go on sale to […]
Sammy Hagar famously said there’s only one way to rock and for the past 30 years, it seemed like he might never play Van Halen songs again as a solo artist in the U.K. He played six dates with the legendary group overseas in June of 1995, including three massive shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. The […]
Just like Wile E. Coyote can’t stop chasing the Road Runner, Kiss have rarely been able to resist changing their sound to keep up with the latest music trends. To the dismay of fans of their original hard rock sound, the group pursued disco on 1979’s Dynasty, tried to deliver their own version of Pink […]
Gary Numan‘s upcoming tour will include a stint aboard Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas for an ’80s themed cruise, where he’s sure to play the era’s synth-pop favorite “Cars.” Also confirmed is an expanded 45th anniversary reissue of Numan’s 1980 sophomore solo album. Telekon was his third consecutive chart-topping album in the U.K., following […]
It didn’t take long for Lou Reed to outgrow the Beach Boys cash-ins he was making as a contract artist and songwriter and head toward more fertile land. By 1965, he had met John Cale, and the pair started working on the music that would become the core foundation of the Velvet Underground. Within two years, they released one of the […]
Radiohead members have explained that grief and depression were among the reasons they hadn’t toured in seven years. The band recently announced a series of European shows, marking the first time they’ll have appeared on stage since 2018’s road trip in support of A Moon Shaped Pool. In an interview with the Sunday Times, singer […]
Paul Simon could have continued trading on the outsized successes of 1986’s Graceland. After all, the LP was as joyous as it was celebrated. This world-beat classic stayed on that charts for almost two years, going five-times-platinum and winning multiple Grammys. But just as Simon had on his seventh album, he’d start from creative scratch […]
Chad Smith has played drums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. He’s now in his 60s, but even after decades of drumming, Smith continues to tirelessly hit the kit. “I’ve talked to some other players as they get older and they stop playing in between tours or whatever, and they try to crank […]
Slash addressed the viral moment that stemmed from a technical mishap at last week’s Guns N’ Roses concert in Argentina, explaining that Axl Rose‘s frustrated microphone throw had nothing to do with drummer Isaac Carpenter or the rest of the band. “Oh, that whole thing, God, it got so blown out of proportion,” the guitarist said on a recent […]