Key Events: August 2023

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’s “My War” 2024 Tour

Black Flag’s “My War” 2024 Tour

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,…

Blink 182

Blink-182: 2023 Headlines

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…

Key Events: September 2023

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…

Key Events: October 2023

Key Events: October 2023

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…

Blink 182

Key Events: November 2023

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…