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The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, has returned to the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in over 15 years. He sings on Zach Bryan’s “Sandpiper,” a track on the Country singer’s (pictured) “The Great American Bar Scene,” which is #1 on Top Country and Top Rock & Alternative Album charts (#2 on the Billboard 200). The…
The Black Crowes have announced a North American “Happiness Bastards Tour (The Reprise)” for this fall and winter. The shows will take place in between their special guest dates on Aerosmith’s “Peace Out” farewell tour, The trek will kick off in Cincinnati on September 28th, and conclude in Uncasville, CT on February 28th, 2025. Locations and dates are listed below. Tickets…
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has finally met the singer he replaced, Paul Di’Anno, for the first time in Croatia. Dickinson, promoting his solo album, “The Mandrake Project,” performed on 7/13 in Zagreb, where Di’Anno has been receiving physiotherapy treatments after undergoing major knee surgery nearly two years ago. Di’Anno was ushered out of Iron Maiden because “his vocal abilities…
JULY 7th – JULY 13th 7/8 AC/DC’s ’80 breakthrough album “Back In Black“ is certified for U.S. shipments of 26-million copies by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA). 7/9 Queens Of The Stone Age cancel the remaining nine concerts of their European tour because frontman Josh Homme needs to return to the U.S. to undergo ’emergency surgery’….
Pearl Jam’s “Wreckage” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated July 13th). It follows “Dark Matter,” title track from the twelfth studio effort, which had a four-week run at the top in March. The band has had five #1s on Mainstream Rock Airplay. In addition to “Wreckage” and “Dark Matter,” they are “Daughter” (’93),…
The Killers have been awarded two Guinness World Records titles for “Mr. Brightside.” The Indie-Rock anthem has spent the most amount of time on the U.K. singles chart compared with any other song, with 416 non-consecutive weeks as of July 4th. Ironically, the U.K,’s biggest single never reached #1. The track has also been awarded…
KISS’s “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” has joined Spotify’s “Billions Club.” The disco-tinged track originally appeared in ’79 on the band’s seventh studio effort, “Dynasty.“ It’s their first billion-streamer. Written by lead guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley and ace songwriter Desmond Child, along with songwriter/producer Vini Poncia, the song sold over 1-million copies. and peaked at #11 on the Billboard singles chart….
Skillet and Seether are headed out on the road together this fall. The tour kicks off on September 17th in Asheville, NC and runs through October 20th in Minneapolis, MN. “We’ve talked about going out together for a while, but after we played a show together this summer that drew big numbers, we knew it…
The Devil Wears Prada has announced a fall “The Devil Wears Prada Is Eternal” North American tour. The trek will begin October 25th in Grand Rapids, MI and will conclude December 1st in Albuquerque, NM. In between, there will be over two dozen concerts. Prior to the tour the band will play the “Ohio Is For Lovers…
Melissa Etheridge is the subject of a two-part docuseries, “I’m Not Broken,” now on Paramount+. The film centers around a show Etheridge played at the Topeka Correctional Facility in Kansas, as well as the bond she formed with five incarcerated women who sent letters to Etheridge. Those letters were the inspiration for a song that…