R. Diamond/Getty Images Power-pop rocker Matthew Sweet, best known for his early ’90s hit “Girlfriend,” suffered a stroke in Toronto while on tour. A GoFundMe set up by Sweet’s management shares, “He has been unexpectedly and tragically forced off the road and onto a long, uncertain path to recovery. We areRead More →
Harper Collins Alex Van Halen’s new memoir, Brothers, is out now, and in it he sets the record straight about the reports that Van Halen’s rider would demand M&M’s in their dressing rooms, minus the brown ones. “I know. We sound like jerks,” he writes in the book, according to People.Read More →
Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Jimmy Page has announced a pair of new signature guitars with Gibson. The Jimmy Page 1964 SJ-200 and 1964 SJ-200 Collector’s Edition are inspired by the Led Zeppelin icon’s own mid-’60s Gibson SJ-200 acoustic, which he used to record the “Stairway to Heaven” outfit’s debut album. Speaking about theRead More →
SGranitz/WireImage Ahead of the release of his memoir Brothers on Tuesday, Alex Van Halen has released the full version of “Unfinished,” a previously unreleased track that was the last song he wrote with his brother, Eddie Van Halen. The tune is featured on the audiobook of Brothers, but has now also been shared onRead More →
Disney/Eric McCandless Gene Simmons made a career playing bass for KISS, but he wouldn’t consider himself a virtuoso, and he’s perfectly happy with that. He tells Guitar World that he thinks virtuosos are simply “show-offs in music” and he’s not a fan. “I don’t consider myself – and was neverRead More →
David Tan/Shinko Music/Getty Images It looks like David Lee Roth may be responding to all the Van Halen news that’s been coming out since Alex Van Halen started doing interviews to promote his upcoming memoir, Brothers, which drops Tuesday. The former Van Halen frontman just reposted a video to InstagramRead More →
Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images Alex Van Halen‘s given his first interview since the death of his brother Eddie Van Halen, talking to Rolling Stone ahead of the Oct. 22 release of his memoir, Brothers. In the interview, Alex talks about his reaction to his brother’s 2020 death, telling the mag it led to a diagnosisRead More →
Sunyata Records R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin and singer Joseph Arthur have teamed up to form a new supergroup, Silverlites. The band has just released the new track “Don’t Go Don’t Stay” to digital outlets. The track is the first single fromRead More →
Disney/Eric McCandless Gene Simmons isn’t bothered by the critics of his Dancing with the Stars appearance. The KISS rocker was a guest judge on Tuesday’s hair metal episode, and received backlash from the public over what some argued were “creepy” comments that focused on the dancers’ appearance and looks rather than theirRead More →
Century Media Records Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour appears in a new video for the cover of the band’s classic “Comfortably Numb” from Ice T’s heavy metal group Body Count. The video features black-and-white footage of Gilmour performing his guitar contribution to the song, cut with footage of Ice T at the mic, the band performing and imagesRead More →
