This Week in Rock

A long-lost acoustic guitar used by the late John Lennon sold for $2.9 million at auction on Wednesday (5/29), becoming the highest grossing auctioned guitar in Beatles history. The 12-string guitar, used in the recording of The Beatles’ ’65 “Help!” album and film (notably on “You Got To Hide Your Love Away“) was found in an attic having not…

Hillhaven, a band comprised of members of Ice Nine Kills and From Ashes To New, have released a second single “The God You Think You Are.” The song “is a frontal assault on the manipulative narcissist,” the band stated. “It’s an aggressive, forward, unapologetic ego killer of a song.” The first single was “Damned To Dream.” “We’ve…

Heart has canceled a planned summer European tour so that singer Ann Wilson can recover from what is described as a “time-sensitive but routine medical procedure.” The minimum recovery time is six weeks.  The European leg of the “Royal Flush” tour was scheduled to kick off next month and run through mid-July, with several festival appearances.  “I’m okay! Please…

Soulfly will embark on the “Superstition” U.S. tour in October. Soulfly is continuing to tour in support of its latest album, “Totem,“ which came out in ’22. A follow isn’t expected to arrive before ’25. In ’21, Soulfly parted ways with longtime guitarist Marc Rizzo due to personal differences.  Dino Cazares played guitar on the band’s run of ’21 – ’22 shows.  Mike DeLeon is now slated…

The movie “Reagan,” which features Creed vocalist Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra, will be in U.S. theaters August 30th. As the title implies, the film details the life and career of late U.S. President Ronald Reagan, with Dennis Quaid in the title role. However, it seems the Sinatra role should have gone to Stapp’s guitarist bandmate Mark Tremonti, since he…

Jane’s Addiction has announced a co-headlining tour with Love And Rockets. The news comes on the heels of a Jane’s Addiction intimate London show, the first in 14-years with the original band members. The 23-city trek kicks off on August 9th in Las Vegas concludes in St, Louis no September 29th. Jane’s Addiction formed in ’85…

The official music video for Disturbed’s cover of “The Sound Of Silence” has officially topped a billion views on YouTube. “The Sound Of Silence,” originally appeared on Disturbed’s sixth studio album “Immortalized,” was uploaded to YouTube in ’15, and marks Disturbed’s first song to reach the milestone. Disturbed’s “The Sound Of Silence“ went to #1 on Billboard‘s Hard Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. Written by Paul…

The Offspring was joined by pop maven Ed Sheeran on stage during the band’s performance during Sunday’s BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. They performed a “Million Miles Away” from The Offspring’s ’00 album “Conspiracy Of One,” which the band hadn’t played live since ’16. “Ed told us that one of our records was his first CD that he ever bought…

Vixen has parted ways with singer Lorraine Lewis (pictured above), who joined the band in ’19 following the departure of founding member, Janet Gardner. In a statement via her social media Lewis noted that “the band has taken a different direction.” Vixen’s most commercially viable period was in the late-80s/early-90s with the albums “Vixen” (’88),”Rev It Up” (’90) which featured…

Approximately 60 Rock songs have generated over a billion streams on Sportify. 10. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son The song became a ’60s anti-war anthem and a symbol of the counterculture’s opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war while expressing solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. 9. Black Sabbath: Paranoid With Tony Iommi’s machine-gun guitar…