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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…
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…
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…
Queens Of The Stone Age have canceled the remaining nine concerts of their European tour because frontman Josh Homme needed to return to the U.S. to undergo ’emergency surgery’. “Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue,” reads a band statement. QOTSA last performed in Milan, Italy,…
AC/DC’s ’80 breakthrough album “Back In Black“ has been certified for U.S. shipments of 26-million copies by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA). The band’s seventh studio effort was their first to feature Brian Johnson (pictured) following the death of Bon Scott, their previous vocalist. “Back In Black” first went platinum in ’80 and had previously been certified 25…
Six vehicles from James Hetfield’s private collection are being displayed at the American Automobile Experience in Kearney, NE. The cars were transported from the Peterson Automotive Museum (which displayed the cars) in L.A for a year-long loan deal. Blueprint Engines and local Kearney donors reached out to Peterson. Hetfield has gained recognition in the automotive world for his unique…