ESPN commentator Pat McAfee wasn’t pleased with John Mellencamp‘s online critique of his mid-game speech to the crowd during game 4 of the NBA finals, telling the rock star to “shut the fuck up.” McAfee, who was a punter for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts from 2009-2016 and has gone on to become one of sports […]
If there was a golden era for three-disc releases, it was clearly the ’70s. Half of the items in the following list of Top 20 Triple Albums arrived in that decade. Some artists have been more apt to release triple albums: Frank Zappa could almost have his own with highlights like 1979’s Joe’s Garage, 1981’s […]
AC/DC closed out their 2025 North American Power Up tour with a commanding show in front of a packed house of 50,000 fans in Cleveland Wednesday night. Here’s hoping it won’t be the last time they visit us. For much of the past decade, it was quite reasonable to assume we’d never see the legendary […]
An expanded, Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads‘ second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, will include discs of studio outtakes and live recordings from the period. The three-CD and one-Blu-ray set will be available on July 25 and marks the band’s first collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who’d go on to work with the group […]
Styx‘s first LP since 2021’s Crash of the Crown has been confirmed. Their avian-themed Circling From Above concept album is set for release on July 18 on streaming sites. Compact disc and vinyl copies are available to purchase now on StyxWorld.com. See a complete track listing and listen to the advance single, “Build and Destroy,” […]
Jason Bonham has added a string of North American shows on a tribute tour to Physical Graffiti, the chart-topping 16-times-platinum Led Zeppelin LP powered by his late father John Bonham. See a complete list of dates and cities below. Tickets for late summer dates by Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening go on sale this Friday, […]
Iron Maiden kicked off their Run for Your Lives tour in Budapest, Hungary Tuesday night with a show that featured six songs they haven’t played live in a decade, and another three they haven’t played in at least five years. The tour commemorates the legendary heavy metal band’s 50th anniversary, and featured a set list […]
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett once found a parallel with famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock that lined up well with his own work. “I sympathize with Hitchcock’s need to remake a classic film,” he said. More than a decade later, it’s a philosophy that continues to develop and spread as he revisits moments and at times, full […]
Being a rock star is a dangerous job. Besides the cliches that we all think of – including excessive partying and adrenaline rush risk taking – musicians are known to go to extremes onstage. This can lead to scary mishaps, like misfired pyrotechnics or dangerous prop malfunctions. Alice Cooper knows a thing or two about […]
Honestly, there has been no rhyme or reason to Paul McCartney‘s choice of album opening songs. In some cases, like 1973’s Band on the Run, 1975’s Venus and Mars and 1984’s Give My Regards to Broadstreet, McCartney led with big hit singles. Other times, as on his ’70s band Wings‘ debut Wild Life and the […]