AC/DC will return to their home country of Australia for five shows this winter. The tour kicks off Nov. 12 in Melbourne and is currently set to conclude Dec. 14 in Brisbane. Except for the four-day turnaround between Adelaide and Perth, there are at least 9 days between each show, suggesting that there’s room for […]
There are lots of mystical and moving metaphors to be found in Led Zeppelin songs, but when Robert Plant sang about coming from the land of ice and snow in “Immigrant Song,” he meant it literally. “Immigrant Song” appeared on Led Zeppelin’s 1970 album Led Zeppelin III and was its lone single. Several months prior to […]
Genesis had three sometimes overlapping eras, with career-defining and then career-turning tenures by Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins. Even the lone recording with their third frontman, 1997’s Calling All Stations, couldn’t escape the shadow of the trio’s absence. Their album opening songs reflect this diversity of approach and personality. After a pushy producer […]
Bruce Springsteen revealed he was not fully happy with his blockbuster 1984 album Born in the U.S.A., claiming it wasn’t the record he’d planned on making. The Boss reflected on the 30-million-selling album in a new interview with Rolling Stone to promote his upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, which comes out Friday. In the box set liner […]
Summer vacation is in full swing, but if you grew up in the ’70s or ’80s, it probably looked a little different than it does today. Okay — a lot different. The obvious difference? No phones. And if you see any film footage from back then, it’s almost eerie to watch people not staring at […]
45 years after its release, the Blues Brothers movie is getting a comic book sequel. Z2 has partnered with the families of Blues Brothers stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi to create a graphic novel named The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake. Deluxe editions of the book will also come with an exclusive, previously […]
Neil Young and his new band the Chrome Hearts kicked off their 2025 Love Earth Tour on Wednesday night in Rattvik, Sweden. The set list, which you can view in full below, featured a number of songs Young has not performed live for many years. He played a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song called “Looking Forward” […]
Even casual fans are familiar with the Beatles‘ album-opening songs. Three of them went to No. 1, either in the U.K. or America, including 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” 1965’s “Help!” and 1969’s “Come Together.” “I Saw Her Standing There” hit No. 1 in three other countries in 1963. Tracks that were never issued as […]
Veteran session bassist and 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Carol Kaye said she won’t be attending this year’s ceremony, claiming that it doesn’t reflect “the work that studio musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s.” Kaye was inducted into the Hall this year via the Musical Excellence category. The 90-year-old […]
Bruce Springsteen isn’t ready to leave the vaults. He’s already talking about a follow-up just over a week before the arrival of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a new seven-disc, 83-song box. “Tracks III, that is finished,” Springsteen tells The New York Times. He said the next set will return to sessions dating from his 1973 […]