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8/1 COVID-19 sidelines Sevendust guitarist John Connolly. The tour’s opening dates (in Buffalo and Asbury Park) are the first shows he misses in his entire career with the band. 8/1 Heavy rains turn Germany’s Wacken Open Air into a mudfest. Initially, cars and trucks are banned before the expected 85,000 in attendance is limited by organizers to…
Black Flag has announced the 2024 leg of its “My War” tour. The two-set concert will open with their ’84 album “My War” played in its entirety with the second set drawing primarily from the band’s ’79 – ’81 period. Black Flag‘s ’24 lineup has founding guitarist Greg Ginn (pictured above), singer Mike Vallely, the band’s fifth vocalist who joined in ’14,…
The Tom. Mark and Travis Show gets rolling again. Blink 182‘s “One More Time,” the first album with the complete trio of Travis Barker (drums), Mark Hoppus (bass/vocals) and Tom DeLonge (guitar/vocals) since ’11, is #1 on the Billboard 200 (dated 11/4) – the only Rock album to top that chart in ’23. The album held “Fell In Love,” “One More…
9/1 Travis Barker‘s “urgent family matter” forces Blink-182 to postpone U.K. and Ireland tour dates as the drummer returns to the U.S. Barker’s wife, the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star Kourtney Kardashian, has a “brief” hospital stay. 9/2 Avatar’s “The Dirt I’m Buried In” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The song is the lead single…
Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka came out as a member of the LGBTQ community in a 6/20 Instagram post. The frontman described his decision in light of recent laws in his home state of Tennessee targeting the state’s LGBTQ citizens. The band’s third studio album, “Starcatcher,” went to #1 on Top Rock Albums, Top Hard…
10/2 Stevie Nicks states, in a published interview, that she sees “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without keyboardist and co-vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away the previous year. 10/5 Play ball! A scheduling conflict forces a change of venue for a Guns N’ Roses concert in Phoenix. The show was originally scheduled to take…
Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton is celebrating five years of sobriety (12/27). The 51-year-old acknowledged the struggle so many face when it comes to confronting the disease of addiction, expressing that “recovery IS possible.” He vows “it’s so worth it.”
11/1 Five Finger Death Punch announce they will donate a portion of their upcoming tour ticket revenue to Covenant House’s programs to house, feed, educate, provide job assistance, mental health services and healthcare to homeless youth across the Americas. 11/2 “Now And Then,” called “the last Beatles song,” is released. Based on a John Lennon demo from…
The rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated… “(They have YouTube clips reporting on) ‘People who have died… and they put it on that I died,” Ozzy Osbourne explained on a newly released episode of the revived “The Osbournes” podcast. “I’m not dead. I’m not really dead. Just a little flesh wound.” Ozzy has struggled with a number…
The Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard joint “Stadium Tour” wins the Rock Tour of the Year at the Pollstar Awards ceremony in L.A. The twice-postponed North American “Stadium Tour” was one of the highest grossing tours of ’22, earning over $173 million. What killed Hair Metal way back when? Ratt‘s Stephen Pearcy weighs in saying “The whole world…