Ozzy Osbourne will receive another all-star tribute during this Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, with Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Extreme‘s Nuno Bettencourt and punk star Yungblud honoring the recently departed metal legend. The four musicians will join forces for a “once-in-a-lifetime performance,” honoring the Prince of Darkness with a medley of his greatest hits […]
Boz Scaggs will release a new album, his first in seven years, on Oct. 17. Detour follows the Grammy-nominated Out of the Blues, and, like that album and its immediate predecessors, will feature songs from the past, with a focus on personal jazz favorites and music from the Great American Songbook. You can hear the first […]
Jack Osbourne reflected on the death of his father Ozzy Osbourne in a new YouTube video, detailing the moment he heard the news and expressing gratitude for the outpouring of love and well wishes his family received in the wake of Ozzy’s passing. Ozzy died on July 22 at the age of 76, less than three weeks after […]
A 50th anniversary edition of Little Feat‘s fifth album, 1975’s The Last Record Album, will be released on Oct. 24. The four-CD Deluxe Edition of the set includes a remastered version of the original album, discs of rarities and previously unreleased songs, and a live show recorded just weeks after the album’s release in October […]
Radiohead has announced a series of European tour dates for November and December, marking their first shows in more than seven years. The art-rock giants will set up shop in various cities across the continent, playing four to five consecutive shows in each location. The tour begins on Nov. 4 in Madrid, Spain, then heads to Bologna, Italy; London; […]
Six weeks after Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Roger Waters has criticized the heavy metal legend for bringing “hundreds of years” of “idiocy and nonsense” into the culture, prompting an angry reply from Osbourne’s son Jack. While speaking to the Independent Ink podcast in the video embedded below, the Pink Floyd legend spoke about how pop culture figures […]
A look at the most skipped songs from 40 of classic rock’s most famous albums makes one thing crystal clear: The music world is dominated by individual songs now. Streaming services such as Spotify have made it easier than ever to cherry-pick your favorite tracks and ignore everything else, either by assembling playlists that exclude […]
Journey could rightly be compared to a shooting star. They made nearly 20 trips into the Billboard Top 40, and all but two of them happened in the ’80s. Which ones didn’t? The double-platinum Steve Perry-sung single “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin,’” their first-ever Top 40 hit, reached No. 16 in the fall of 1979. The million-selling […]
Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock consistency in the prior decade, as all 23 of their singles reached the U.S. Top 40. McCartney’s post-Beatles group would […]
Cher and Joni Mitchell were among the stars who joined Cyndi Lauper Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl for the final concert of her farewell tour. You can see the complete set list for the show below, as well as video of Cher trading verses with Lauper on the show-closing “Girls Just Want to Have […]