Rock

In the mid-’70s, in opposition to the repressive fist of the military junta, the Brazilian counterculture flourished, finding their métier in resistance through dropping out and turning on. The return of two exiled musicians and legends, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, had something to do with it; Veloso’s long hair and feyness was a defiant

A new AI app can create a video of you dancing from a single photograph. As BGR reports, the technology is the product of a collaboration between researchers and Microsoft, and Tan Wang’s research team at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. READ MORE: I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how

Robert Downey Jr. has revealed that he’s a fan of Sleaford Mods. While promoting his new film Oppenheimer, the actor appeared alongside director Christopher Nolan in an autocomplete interview for Wired. During the interview, Downey Jr. was asked what music he’s currently listening to, to which he responded: “Everything from Prokofiev to… I’m into Sleaford

Slash is working on a new album. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist recently told Yahoo Entertainment that the “blues-oriented” LP features “a bunch of different singers” and is ”sort of similar to my first solo record.” Though there is no set release date, he said it will “definitely” come out next year. One of the singers, Slash confirmed, is

Beabadoobee has released her latest single, a sentimental acoustic track titled ‘The Way Things Go’ with a ballet-inspired video. Check it out below. The song reflects on a relationship that has faded with the singer reflecting on both the good times as well as the bad. Beabadoobee – real name Beatrice Laus – sings “Didn’t

Mr. Big played the opening concert of The Big Finish farewell world tour on Sunday at the Yongging Youth Sports Park in Yongqing, China. The band’s first performance since 2018 was also their first without founding drummer Pat Torpey, who died of complications related to Parkinson’s Disease that same year. Performing in his place was Nick

Haim have responded to the constant doubt they receive from trolls about not actually playing their instruments when performing. READ MORE: Haim on the cover: “I think women make the best rock music” While chatting with NME about the 10th anniversary reissue of their 2013 debut album ‘Days Are Gone’ and their upcoming headlining slot at this

With Dead & Company having recently wrapped their final tour, the band’s manager, Irving Azoff, has revealed why the group decided to retire from the road. “Touring is physically hard and nobody wants anybody to get really sick out there,” Azoff explained to Pollstar. “Billy (Kreutzmann) got really sick last year, and I think that

Keanu Reeves‘ band Dogstar have announced a tour, their first album in 23 years, and have shared the lead single ‘Everything Turns Around’. The 90s alt-rock band – consisting of guitarist and vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Rob Mailhouse, and bassist Keanu Reeves – have returned to the music scene with their latest track ‘Everything Turns

John Mellencamp was a bona fide rock star by 1985, with a No. 1 album and a slew of Top 10 hits under his belt, but he proved on that year’s “Small Town” that he hadn’t outgrown his roots. The Seymour, Indiana-born rocker hit the big time with 1982’s chart-topping American Fool, which spawned the No. 1 smash ”Jack

The Cure have broken records with their latest tour, despite frontman Robert Smith’s fight to lower the price of tickets. The records were broken with the band’s latest Shows Of A Lost World live shows in the US and Canada earlier this spring, which soon became their highest-grossing tour, and their best attendance in the

Many of rock music’s biggest names weren’t even born in 1942, when the Manhattan Project, a top-secret government initiative approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was designed to develop nuclear research during World War II. At the helm of the project was J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb” after several years of working

Bryan Adams had a relaxed response after a fan invaded his performance and jumped on stage to sing ‘Summer Of 69’. READ MORE: Cheese wheels, ashes and sex toys: stop throwing shit at pop stars, please During his recent concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, Adams was singing his 1984 hit when a fan decided to

On July 18, 1993, thousands of fans turned out to see rock’s hottest new act, the powerful Los Angeles quartet Rage Against the Machine. What they got instead was full-frontal nudity. At the time, Rage had been on mainstream music fans’ radar for about six months. The band released its self-titled debut album in November

K-pop girl group (G)I-DLE have announced their 2023 world tour, ‘I am FREE-TY’. (G)I-DLE announced that they will be going on a world tour this year, following the release of their new mini-album ‘I Feel’, alongside its title track ‘Queencard’. It kicked off June 17 with a two-night concert in Seoul, South Korea. Meanwhile, the

There are more than two albums’ worth of unreleased Van Halen songs waiting to be heard on YouTube. Below, we chronologically break down 25 demos and live cuts that never found their way to one of the group’s 12 studio albums. We also include information about an additional 16 tracks that have never been bootlegged. And we conclude by rounding up

Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May has said that their former bassist John Deacon is still “very much part of” the band. Deacon joined Queen in 1971 and contributed to all of the band’s albums. The bassist departed the music industry in 1997 after recording the Queen single ‘No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)’.

Mammoth WVH will hit the road this fall for a North American headlining tour with support from Nita Strauss. The trek begins on Nov. 4 in Milwaukee and concludes on Dec. 9 in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday. You can find more information on the band’s website and

Self Esteem singer Rebecca Lucy Taylor is set to be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Sheffield. The Rotherham-born musician is set to be made an honorary Doctor of Music at the South Yorkshire university, in a ceremony that will take place later today (July 17). The news was announced by the university