Rock

New York City’s Central Park is to be the site of a 60,000 capacity gig to mark the return of full capacity live shows after the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio has announced. No artists have yet been announced for the show, which has a tentative date of August 21 and the

Stevie Nicks, Alice Cooper and Wolfgang Van Halen‘s band, Mammoth WVH, will perform this fall at the Shaky Knees Music festival, which will take place at Atlanta’s Central Park from Oct. 22-24. “We are really happy to be able to deliver Shaky Knees this October with a lineup that truly has something for everyone,” said Tim Sweetwood, founder of

The Weeknd has cleaned up at the 2021 Juno Music Awards, taking home five of the six awards he was nominated for. Now in its 51st year, the Junos were established in 1970 to honour the achievements of Canadian music. With the 2021, The Weeknd has received a total of 15 Junos out of 30

Former Kiss guitarist VInnie Vincent said he believed he “really could have” rejoined the band around 1992, after he’d contributed material for their album Revenge. He emphasized that he was only talking from his own perspective, but spoke of the “natural team” energy that had been re-energized as he co-wrote with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley – despite

BTS leader RM has shared a new track called ‘Bicycle’ as part of the band’s annual Festa celebrations. Each year, the Korean group mark the anniversary of their debut, which occurred on June 13, 2013, with a series of new photos, profiles, video content and new music. ‘Bicycle’ is RM’s first solo material since the

Eagles icon Joe Walsh has released a three-track EP titled Prayers, created in collaboration with Indian classical composer Amjad Ali Khan. The project came about after Walsh visited India and performed alongside Khan in Mumbai. Inspired by the experience, the pair started working together along with two of Khan’s sons. The EP also features Stewart Copeland,

A year on from its debut on YouTube, Dave Chappelle has teamed up with Jack White’s label, Third Man Records, to release a limited-edition vinyl pressing of his special 8:46. The release, which is limited to 846 numbered copies, is pressed on a tri-coloured black, red and green vinyl with a white splatter. There will

According to longtime Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, it’s unlikely the band will hit the road again anytime in the near future. Speaking to on a recent episode of Joe Bonamassa‘s podcast, Live from Nerdville, Whitford noted that Aerosmith had originally plotted a 2020 European tour that was pushed back first to 2021, and now to 2022. You

Sinéad O’Connor has announced her retirement from music and touring in a series of new tweets. Posted last night (June 4), O’Connor wrote: “This is to announce my retirement from touring and from working in the record business. I’ve gotten older and I’m tired.” The musician went on to say that her upcoming album, ‘No Veteran

The American art of Sacred Harp singing has spread far and wide since its inception in New England two centuries ago. And as societies continue to sprout across Canada, Australia, mainland Europe and the UK, the tradition has been vigorously upheld in the north-east of England by Cath & Phil Tyler. Prior to lockdown, the

Jim Morrison wanted to pivot from rock stardom to filmmaking shortly before his death, according to a recently unearthed note that will appear in a new anthology of his writings. Morrison’s sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, has compiled the late Doors singer’s poems, screenplay ideas, lyrics and other assorted writings into a book titled The Collected Works

jxdn has announced the release of his debut album, ‘Tell Me About Tomorrow’ – listen to new single ‘Think About Me’ below. Produced by Travis Barker, the 18-track LP comprises 14 new songs, including a feature from Machine Gun Kelly on the track ‘Wanna Be’. It will be released on July 2 via DTA Records.

Billy F. Gibbons has been one-third of one of the most famous power trios in rock history for more than half a century. ZZ Top possess a special kind of chemistry, a type of lightning that rarely strikes twice. But you can still see the scorched earth smoldering from the initial meeting that brought Gibbons together with

Chvrches have spoken about the grounding experience of writing their fourth album ‘Screen Violence’ during the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish trio spoke to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story interview, in which bandmember Martin Doherty described the writing and recording process as “stabilising” in an otherwise uncertain year. “Making this record was really

Bubba Jone is a strange swamp-rock saga about a man just trying to catch a fish. As story-songs go, there’s not very much to it, but Tony Joe White manages to invest it with some humour and some gravity. Over a bluesy guitar lick and a humid groove, he savours the back-country details, even telling you

A new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss is reportedly in the works. The duo famously collaborated on 2007’s Raising Sand, which earned platinum sales and took home five Grammy awards, including Album of the Year. During a recent episode of the Everyone Loves Guitar podcast, Greg Leisz, the pedal steel guitarist who played on Raising

Wolf Alice have announced that they’ll be embarking on a 2021 North American tour in support of their new album, ‘Blue Weekend’. The London band’s third LP arrives tomorrow (June 4) via Dirty Hit, featuring the singles ‘How Can I Make It OK?’, ‘No Hard Feelings’, ‘The Last Man On Earth’ and ‘Smile’. The US tour begins on October

The Beach Boys will release a new five-CD box set, Feel Flows — The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971, on July 30. They previewed the project with the previously unreleased track “Big Sur.” Originally recorded for the group’s 1971 LP, Surf’s Up, the tranquil song gazes out reverently at the titular California coastal town: “Cashmere hills

Frank Sinatra believed that Marilyn Monroe was murdered, a revelatory new book claims. Monroe was found dead from an accidental overdose in August 1962, but the book alleges that the Rat Pack icon believed her death was linked to renowned affairs with President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Bobby. In the book, titled Sinatra And

Wolfgang Van Halen recently spoke about how the coronavirus pandemic torpedoed his “master plan” to play onstage with his late father, Eddie Van Halen, during a gargantuan Van Halen farewell tour that would have delighted fans of all stripes. In a new interview with The Washington Post, the Mammoth WVH leader revealed that in 2019, he had