A new Jimi Hendrix Experience live album is on the way, showcasing the late guitar icon at the height of his abilities. Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 will be released on Nov. 18 via Legacy Recordings. It features the original Experience lineup with Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. Initially recorded in the spring […]
Pearl Jam played in Toronto a couple nights ago, and Eddie Vedder paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, as seen below. Mclynick posted on the Ten Club board about the show, “So happy I got to this show. I was left wanting way more after Hamilton. Specifically more crowd energy, thought the band […]
Perturbator and Health kicked off their co-headlining tour with a stop at Emo’s in Austin, TX. The mix of heavy instrument driven music with electronic/synth tones made the show an absolute party, from start to finish! Perturbator Health Source link
Sammy Hagar and the Circle have released a video for their new song “Funky Feng Shui,” which appears on their upcoming album, Crazy Times. The 10-track LP arrives on Sept. 30 and follows the band’s 2021 sophomore effort, Lockdown 2020. Hagar included a version of “Funky Fen Shui” on Lockdown 2020, in which he and his bandmates recorded their […]
In a new interview, legendary ex-Guns N’ Roses band manager Alan Niven has spoken out about his time working with Guns N’ Roses at the height of their success – stating that it was Izzy Stradlin who was responsible for the band’s commercial success. When speaking with VWMusic on Thursday, Niven […]
Following a crackerjack showing by the Blue Ridge Festival’s first battalion of rock and metal mainstays on Thursday, September 8 of the grand post-lockdown year of 2022, the hunger for even more stellar performances hung in the early afternoon air as tens of thousands of attendees congregated at the Virginia International Raceway. The weather would […]
Wally Safford, who danced in Prince‘s Revolution band and served as the singer’s bodyguard, has died at age 63. No further details have been given. Safford, a Detroit native, grew up in the Nation of Islam, where he received much of his bodyguard training. (His family was close with Elijah Muhammad , Malcolm X and Muhammad […]
Rikki Rockett honored late Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali during Poison’s performance on the final date of the Stadium Tour. After rocking through a rendition of their 1990 hit “Unskinny Bop,” frontman Bret Michaels introduced Rockett, with the drummer taking the spotlight. As he began his solo — a customary highlight of the band’s sets […]
Stardom was never on Bonnie Raitt‘s radar. From the beginning of her career, she was mostly concerned with the craft of live performance. “I personally don’t have any ambition to be any big hot stuff,” she told Sing Out! in 1972. “I like to play. I could play second act, or play at Jack’s [a bar and […]
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee has never been bashful with his body, but now it seems the rocker has decided to jump to the famous live streaming site Only Fans. “In case you guys are fucking living under a rock, I’ve been in trouble a little bit lately,” Lee declared during Motley Crue’s Stadium Tour closing […]