Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images Robert Plant is rich enough to take a private plane wherever he wants to go, but evidently he prefers to take the train — if you believe a new ad for Italy’s Trenitalia rail service. Plant is currently touring Europe with his acoustic band Saving Grace,Read More →
Kscope Envy of None, featuring Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, has dropped a new song timed to coincide with Halloween. The band, which also features bassist Andy Curran, guitarist/keyboardist Alfio Annibalini and singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne, released the track “Not Dead Yet,” along with an animated Dia De Los Muertos aka Day of the Dead inspired video. The song was writtenRead More →
Recording Academy For the past 50 years, The Grammys have aired on CBS. But starting in 2027, they’ll have a new home. The award show, known as Music’s Biggest Night, is moving to ABC, Hulu and Disney+, where it will remain through 2036. The Recording Academy will produce multiple Grammy-brandedRead More →
L-R: Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love & Sinead O’Connor; Ke.Mazur/WireImage The late Sinéad O’Connor‘s cover of Nirvana‘s “All Apologies” soundtracks the newly released trailer for the upcoming film Queer. Starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, Queer is based on the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, published in 1985. It’s directed by ChallengersRead More →
Rhino Rush is set to release a new vinyl box set dedicated to their time with Atlantic Records. The Albums: 1989-1996, dropping Nov. 1, will be made up of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s first four albums with the label — 1989’s Presto, 1991’s Roll the Bones, 1993’s Counterparts and 1996’s TestRead More →
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 →
