Rock

Judas Priest have postponed their U.S. tour as guitarist Richie Faulkner battles an undisclosed “major medical heart condition.” “It is with deep regret that we have to postpone the rest of our US tour,” reads a message from the band, shared with UCR. “Richie Faulkner has major medical heart condition issues which have landed him

R. Kelly has been found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York today (September 27). The R&B singer (real name Robert Sylvester Kelly) was standing trial for racketeering, bribery and violating the Mann Act, which criminalises the transportation of any woman or girl across state lines for “immoral”

The Rolling Stones returned to touring Sunday (Sept. 26) with a performance at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. Charlie Watts was a major presence at the show even before the Stones took the stage. Images and videos of the recently deceased drummer played on the arena’s massive big screens, backed the sounds

“I heard myself saying ‘No’ and ‘I don’t want to,’” she wrote in the book which is being serialised in the Mail On Sunday, “but it didn’t make any difference”. “He had sex with me and I felt so ashamed. It was how I lost my virginity and I felt stupid.” She continued: “I felt

Like many huge rock bands, U2 didn’t emerge fully formed and ready for stardom. The group’s very first meeting on Sept. 25, 1976, was casual at best – and wouldn’t have happened at all without the urging of drummer Larry Mullen Jr.’s dad. As the story goes, the elder Mullen saw how passionate his 14-year-old

An Australian cyclist has celebrated the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ by recreating the famous cover art using GPS tracking. Pete Stokes, a national parks project manager, cycled about 150km on a single-speed bike through the streets of Adelaide, using exercise tracker Strava to sketch the outline of the swimming baby featured on the 1991 album’s

The comedy rock duo Tenacious D was already delighting fans and fellow musicians alike, years before their 2001 debut album. “We were like the most indie of all,” Jack Black told Rolling Stone, recalling the period when he and Kyle Gass were appearing on HBO in Tenacious D: The Greatest Band on Earth. ”We don’t even have

Duran Duran have discussed working with Blur‘s Graham Coxon on their new album, saying he “fitted into the band like a glove.” Speaking to the Evening Standard about working with the Blur guitarist, Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes said it felt “like he’d been there forever.” Advertisement “We’re super excited about releasing the album. It’s

Eddie Vedder unexpectedly debuted an new band last night at the Ohana Festival in southern California. Teaming up with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, ex-Chilis and now Pearl Jam touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and more, Vedder performed an hour-long set list that included covers of R.E.M., Pretenders and Prince. You can view a full set list, as well

Noah Yorke, the son of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, has released a new song called ‘Trying Too Hard (Lullaby)’ – you can listen to it below. It’s the first single Noah’s released using his own name after previously releasing music under the moniker Alec Owen, including last year’s ‘L.E.T.H.A.L.’ album. With similar textures to Radiohead’s

Rob Halford revealed why Judas Priest’s current show features a “gigantic, huge” inflatable bull that appears on stage towards the end. The singer explained it was a nod to the British band’s home city of Birmingham, and a well-known landmark which may date to the 12th century. A video of the bull making an appearance

As Mark E Smith once told Peter Hammill, it wasn’t Van Der Graaf Generator’s lyrics that sparked his love for the band, or the specifics of their music, nor even their academic complexity. It was the sheer power of the thing that drew him in. “He said, ‘You just have to go with the power,’”

More names have been added to the line-up for the Sound City festival in Liverpool, including Courting and Pom Poko. Sound City 2021 is set to take place next month after being pushed back from May due to coronavirus-related delays. Sound City 2021 will take place between October 1-3, 2021, with a line-up that includes the already-announced

The Rolling Stones may be touring without drummer Charlie Watts for the first time ever, but the band’s longtime production director says there “is always a piece of Charlie in the show.” The trek that begins Sunday night (Sept. 26) in St. Louis is actually the fourth leg of the Stones’ No Filter Tour, which

If, as LP Hartley’s novel The Go-Between has it, “the past is a foreign country”, then Saint Etienne have earned frequent flyer status. From their 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, which leaned on UK club culture, C86 and ’60s pop, through 2005’s Tales From Turnpike House, a David Essex-featuring, indie-disco set themed around a fictional high-rise,

Ex-Yeasayer band member Anand Wilder has announced his debut solo album and shared new single ‘Delirium Passes’. ‘I Don’t Know My Words’ was written and recorded during lockdown in the singer’s New York apartment, according to Wilder. “After some initial attempts at collaborating with outside musicians, I realised that I needed to have my hands

Guns N’ Roses have officially released the studio version of their new song “Hard Skool.” The track’s life can be traced back to sessions for the band’s long-delayed album Chinese Democracy, when it went by the working title “Jackie Chan.” The song was partially leaked in 2006, only to have a full version put online in

When Taste broke up in the autumn of 1970, Rory Gallagher went through the mixed emotions that follow any divorce. There was pride: their final festival appearance at the alongside and had been spectacular and their last studio album, 1970’s On The Boards, had fused Gallagher’s driving blues-rock with jazzier, more experimental influences and taken

Vans have crowned the winner of the Musicians Wanted competition for 2021 through a livestream concert. The virtual show saw the five finalists from Europe, the Middle East and Africa perform and receive feedback from the judging panel. The judges included British rock star Yungblud, rapper Denzel Curry, Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Julia Michaels and