Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Van Halen drummer and co-founder Alex Van Halen is getting ready to part with instruments from his personal collection. Backstage Auctions just announced a new auction of The Alex Van Halen Collection, featuring over 350 lots filled with drum kits, snare drums, kick drums, cymbals, sticks, mallets and more. ThoseRead More →
Courtesy of The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones have just expanded their Hackney Diamonds tour by one show. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers added an additional stop at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale, Missouri, on July 21, which is now the final stop on the U.S. tour. ThunderRead More →
Rhino Van Halen’s ninth studio album, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, their third with frontman Sammy Hagar, is getting an expanded reissue from Rhino this summer. The reissue, dropping July 12, will include the remastered original album, along with an album of rarities and live tracks, including previously unreleased alternative versions ofRead More →
On This Day, May 23, 1978 … Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band kicked off their Darkness tour at Shea’s in Buffalo, New York. The tour, in support of Springsteen’s fourth studio album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, included a three-night stand at the Palladium in New York City. ItRead More →
Roxie Records/BMG Lenny Kravitz is back with a brand new album, Blue Electric Light, dropping Friday, and he tells ABC Audio that the songs on the record came to him “organically.” “I’m always inspired, it’s just a matter of what is it going to be,” he says. “I don’t have anyRead More →
Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images The Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame had planned a 20th anniversary concert for June 7 to celebrate the music of Billy Joel — but it’s been canceled because Billy can’t make it. In a statement provided to ABC Audio, the organization said the event, whichRead More →
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Hank Azaria is set to celebrate the music of Bruce Springsteen in New York this summer. The actor is bringing his Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band tribute show to Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on August 1. The show has him and a bandRead More →
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Kate Hudson has no regrets about marrying The Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson when she was only 21. The pair married in 2000, were together for seven years and welcomed a son, Ryder, before divorcing in 2007. And despite the marriage ending, she doesn’t second-guess her decision toRead More →
Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns Bruce Springsteen is lending his voice to a new song from singer, songwriter and guitarist Joe Ely. The tune, “Odds of the Blues,” will be featured on Ely’s new album, Driven To Drive, due out August 2. “I got the idea for the song from hanging out at an all night afterRead More →
Blue Élan Records America co-founder Gerry Beckley is getting a bit political in the latest preview of his upcoming self-titled solo album, which will be released June 28. The artist has shared the new single “Red And Blue,” which takes on the political divide in our country. “It’s something any of us whoRead More →
