This Week in Rock

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…

AC/DC have received the Legend Award at this year’s annual O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday (7/5) in London. They are acknowledged for their five decades as an influential and iconic band. Formed in ’73 by brothers Malcolm (rhythm guitar) and Angus Young (lead guitar), AC/DC has sold over 200 million albums worldwide, roughly 100 million in the U. S….

Prior to Imagine Dragons’ September ’23 show in Baku, Azerbaijan, System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian, who is Armenian-American, wrote a personal letter to the band asking them to pull out of the show claiming that proceeding would help “whitewash the dictatorial regime’s image.” Imagine Dragons went ahead with the show. Months later in a Rolling…

AC/DC top the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart this week with their ’90 hit “Thunderstruck” (from the band’s “The Razor’s Edge” set). “It started off from a little trick I had on guitar,” explained the band’s Angus Young (pictured). “We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few…

The official Ozz Fest YouTube channel has unfurled the documentary “Ozzfest 2002 Uncensored,” a twenty-minute film delving into “the history of Ozzfest from its inception in 1996 to 2001,” with narration by Kurt Loder. Ozzfest was created, in part, to provide a performing platform for Ozzy Osbourne. It came about when Ozzy’s wife/manager Sharon couldn’t…

1980 – The Beach Boys play a free Independence Day concert in Washington, D.C. (for the first time). They perform on the 4th in the nation’s capital, off and on, throughout the ’80s. 2009 – Foo Fighters headline an Independence Day barbecue on the White House lawn in front of a crowd that includes President…

Visions Of Atlantis” Tonight I’m Alive It’s the third single from their upcoming studio album, “Pirates II – Armada“, which is set for release on July 5h. Hammerfall: Freedom The third single from their upcoming album, “Avenge The Fallen,” which is due on August 9th. Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) featuring Spencer Krasch: D.I.B The song from…

“Crack Cocaine,” Billy Morrison’s collaboration with Ozzy Osbourne and guitarist Steve Stevens and co-written by all three – is #1 on Mediabase‘s Active Rock Song chart. The track is the second single from Morrison’s third solo album “The Morrison Project.” “Both the song and the album have been so well-received-I couldn’t have asked for more,”…

Heart has postponed its “Royal Flush” tour so that singer Ann Wilson can undergo cancer treatment. She recently underwent an operation to remove “something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.” “The operation was successful & I’m feeling great but my doctors are now advising me to undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy & I’ve decided to do it,” she…

“You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Thunderstruck” are alive and well on Billboard’s Hard Rock charts. “You Shook Me All Night Long,” released in ’80, is #9 this week on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart and #3 on the Hard Rock Streaming Songs list. Meanwhile, “Thunderstruck,” issued in ’90, holds the #13…