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On this day forty-two years ago… The US Festival kicks-off in San Bernadino, California. The three-day festival featured, the Police (pictured), the Cars, Jackson Browne, David Edmunds, the Ramones, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. The shindig was financed by Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer fame. He intended the US Festivals (this…
Dolly Parton’s single, “Bygones,” featuring Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford (pictured) with Mötley Crüe‘s Nikki Sixx and John 5, debuts at #1 on the Mediabase Classic Rock Songs chart. After being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the previous year, the Country-legend vowed to record a Rock album. “Rockstar,” a collaborative project with a number of Rock musicians…
Foo Fighters headlined the first concert at Madison Square Garden in over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Comedian Dave Chappelle joined the band for a version of Radiohead’s “Creep.” Many audience members were masked as they entered what would become New York’s largest indoor concert since March ’20. A small group of protestors carried…
On this day ten years ago… Metallica, Black Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl (pictured), Rihanna, Eminem, Zac Brown Band, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood were among the performers at the Concert for Valor on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The Veterans Day event, organized by Starbucks and HBO, raised funds for veterans’ charities. Approximately 100,000 people…
On this day twenty-three years ago… Jimmy Eat World delivered “Bleed American.” The platinum set was re-released as “Jimmy Eat World“ following the 9/11 attacks; that name remained until ’08. As a result of the commercial failure and lack of recognition for ’99’s “Clarify” Jimmy Eat World was dropped by Capitol Records. Aside from working odd…
On this day thirteen years ago… Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is ejected from an Oakland to Burbank Southwest Airlines flight because his “pants sagged too low.” Asked by a flight attendant to hike his pants higher, the singer responds by asking if there weren’t “better things to do than worry about that?” That was…
College or Modern Rock radio listeners in the mid-‘80s likely remember the songs “Working With Fire And Steel,” “Black Man Ray,” “King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up)” and “Arizona Sky.” They were created by Liverpool’s New Wave band, China Crisis. Founded in ‘79 by vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon, China Crisis released…
In ’04, Red Hot Chili Peppers played the first of three shows at London’s Hyde Park. This concert plus the two that followed on June 20th and 25th earned more than $17 million setting a record for being the highest-grossing concerts at a single venue. Tracks were recorded for the group’s first official concert album,…
Judas Priest have announced a second leg of their “Invincible Shield“ tour with special guest Sabaton. The September/October trek begins in Montreal and concludes in Irving, TX. Judas Priest‘s nineteenth studio album, “Invincible Shield.” which dropped last March, contains the singles “Panic Attack,” “Trial By Fire,” “Crown Of Horns” and “The Serpent And The King.” “It sounds like a young bunch…
Jinger will embark on a North American tour in the fall with support from Metalcore acts Hanabie and Born Of Osiris. The September-October run precedes and international trek in November. “We’ll be performing some brand-new unreleased songs from our upcoming fifth studio album,” wrote Jinger in a statement. “(We) just cannot wait to share what we’ve been…