Don Arnold/WireImage Joe Elliott wants fans to know that what they see at a Def Leppard concert is all live. “You want people to hear it and go, ‘My God, they’re tight,’ but you can tell there’s a difference between the live and the record,” he tells Stereogum in aRead More →
Burton Cummings/ Credit: Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images) The battle over who owns the rights to The Guess Who‘s name and music has taken a sudden and extreme turn. The founding members of the band, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman, sued original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson in October, accusing them of misleading fans into thinking the foundingRead More →
Medios y Media/Getty Images While Billy Idol is getting ready to release a 40th anniversary deluxe expanded edition of Rebel Yell on April 26, it seems when it comes to music he isn’t stuck in the past. In an interview with the Calgary Herald, Idol revealed he has a new albumRead More →
Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images Queen’s Brian May is set to join French new age performer Jean-Michel Jarre for a special concert to kick off this year’s STARMUS Festival. The one-off show, Bridge from the Future, will take place May 12 at Incheba Bratislava, Slovakia, under the backdrop of the SNP (UFO) Bridge.Read More →
Rhino Jethro Tull’s first live album, Bursting Out, is getting reissued with a whole host of extras for fans. Originally released in September 1978 as a double album, Bursting Out was recorded during the band’s Heavy Horses European tour, featuring performances from shows that took place in May and June ofRead More →
Rhino Jon Bon Jovi‘s first hit was “Runaway,” but as many fans know, his first paid job as a singer was on Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album. He discussed the latter on April 10 during his appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jon was working as a gofer at the studio where the Star WarsRead More →
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Paul Simon was the musical entertainment at the White House State Dinner for Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Yuko Kishida, hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday. Video posted to social media shows Simon performing an acoustic version of his Grammy-winning song “Graceland” at the event,Read More →
BMG Crowded House is getting ready to hit the road in support of their upcoming album, Gravity Stairs, which will be released next month. The band just announced dates for the 15-city North American Gravity Stairs tour, set to kick off August 29 in St Augustine, Florida, and wrap September 28 inRead More →
On This Day, April 11, 1981 … Eddie Van Halen married One Day at a Time actress Valerie Bertinelli eight months after meeting her at a concert in Shreveport, Louisiana. They welcomed their first and only child, Wolfgang, in 1991, but the marriage didn’t last, and Bertinelli filed for divorce in 2005. Despite the end ofRead More →
ABC/ Craig Sjodin Last month, Mick Jagger posted a video of him dancing to a band playing Maroon 5’s hit “Moves Like Jagger,” and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine still can’t believe it. “It’s really surreal,” Levine shared during an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. “It’s justRead More →
