Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images After 104 monthly shows over 10 years — and 1.9 million tickets sold — Billy Joel finally brought his residency at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden to a close on July 25 … with help from special guests Jimmy Fallon and Guns N’ Roses frontmanRead More →
Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images While Van Halen had plenty of success with both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar as their frontmen, they couldn’t produce the same magic when Extreme’s Gary Cherone took over the gig. And bassist Michael Anthony is opening up about why it didn’t work out. “ItRead More →
Dark Star Records/Sony/Orchard The Sweet are back with new music, releasing the new single “Little Miracle,” along with an accompanying video starring model Dominique Mercedes. The Sweet, who hit it big in the ’70s with hits like “Little Willy” and “The Ballroom Blitz,” was originally comprised of lead vocalist BrianRead More →
Paul Morigi/Getty Images Sting is replacing Neil Young at yet another festival. It’s already been announced that the former Police frontman would be filling in for Young at Kentucky’s Bourbon & Beyond music festival on Sept. 19, and now he’s set to do the same at the Eddie Vedder-curated Ohana Festival on Sept. 28. Sting will beRead More →
Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha is being reimagined as an illustrated novel and album, authored and composed by Pete Townshend’s wife, Rachel Fuller, with The Who rocker providing additional songs for the album. The project is titled The Seeker, which also happens to be the name of a WhoRead More →
Interscope Records U2 is revisiting their ’90s ZOO TV tour with a new EP coming out in August. ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993, dropping Aug. 30, features performances from the band’s two-night hometown stand at RDS Arena in August 1993. This marks the first official release of songs fromRead More →
Courtesy UScellular Alanis Morissette appears in a new ad for UScellular that, ironically, encourages customers to use their phones less. It features dozens of references to her song “Ironic,” as well as the song itself, and but it also shows Alanis being guilty of being on her phone, too, which wasRead More →
Disney/Michael J. Le Brecht II Stevie Nicks took the stage in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday after previously postponing her show in the city, and she explained to fans what kept her from performing in the first place. In fan-shot footage posted to YouTube, Stevie revealed she got an infection that led to herRead More →
Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Mick Fleetwood is the latest artist to pay tribute to British blues/rock guitarist John Mayall, who passed away Monday at the age of 90. Fleetwood was a member of Mayall’s band the Bluesbreakers in the ’60s, where he played with his future FleetwoodRead More →
On This Day, July 25, 1980 … AC/DC released their seventh studio album, Back in Black, which was their first album following the death of singer Bon Scott. The album featured new lead singer Brian Johnson and contained such future AC/DC classics as the title track, “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hells Bells.”Read More →
