Paras Griffin/Getty Images Def Leppard and Journey spent the summer on the road together, and Def Leppard’s Phil Collen is opening up about what it was like touring with a band whose members weren’t exactly getting along. Over the summer Journey’s Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain were suing each otherRead More →
On This Day, Oct. 10, 2013 … Paul McCartney surprised fans in New York City with an impromptu free concert in Times Square, announcing the show on social media about one hour before it occurred. The rocker was promoting his 16th studio album, New, and treated fans to four songs off the record:Read More →
Jonas Mohr/Wolfie’s Whisky Rod Stewart has won a Grammy, been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been knighted at Buckingham Palace. But his latest honor isn’t for his music — it’s for his whisky. Rod launchedRead More →
JoJo Productions The Guess Who founding singer Burton Cummings released A Few Good Moments, his first solo album in over a decade, to digital services back in September, and now physical copies are on the way. The record will be released on CD and two-LP orange vinyl on Nov. 15.Read More →
Fin Costello/Redferns Rush has shared two classic live videos to their official YouTube channel, taken from the 1982 concert film Exit…Stage Left. The clips are performances of “Closer To The Heart” and “Freewill,” both shot at the Montreal Forum on March 27, 1981. Exit…Stage Left was a concert film thatRead More →
Michael Putland/Getty Images Wednesday would have been John Lennon’s 84th birthday and Paul McCartney took to social media to pay tribute to his friend and former Beatles bandmate. Sharing a photo on Instagram of him performing with video of Lennon in the background, McCartney wrote, “Happy Birthday John. Thanks forRead More →
Disney/Eric McCandless) Gene Simmons was the guest judge for Dancing with the Stars’ hair metal night Tuesday, and it apparently didn’t go over so well with the public. Several folks took to social media to complain that Simmons scored dancers too low, and that his critiques were “creepy” and focusedRead More →
ABC/Paula Lobo After sharing a mysterious teaser video featuring an answering machine and floppy disk, Green Day has announced Dookie Demastered, a collection of reworked versions of songs off the band’s hit 1994 album recorded on “obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient limited-edition formats.” Such formats include the aforementioned answering machine andRead More →
On This Day, Oct. 9, 1985 … John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, joined The Beatles fans for the opening of Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, a memorial to the late Beatle named after the Lennon-penned track “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Located on Central Park West at 72nd Street, the 5-acre plot of landRead More →
Harper Collins Van Halen fans are getting their first preview of Alex Van Halen’s upcoming memoir, Brothers, with a 4 1/2-minute audio sample shared on Spotify. In a clip titled “Overture,” Alex talks to and about his late brother and Van Halen bandmate, Eddie Van Halen, sharing, “Without my brother I would not be …Read More →
