Rock

For 40 years, the Golden Raspberry Awards, colloquially referred to as the Razzies, has honored the worst that Hollywood has to offer. Created by publicist John Wilson in 1981, the original Golden Raspberry Awards was little more than a bunch of friends getting together to make fun of terrible movies. “I set up a cardboard

Even by his own over-achieving standards, Sam Shepherd has pulled off an impressive coup with his latest pan-generational opus. Over the past decade, the classically trained Mancunian polymath composer behind Floating Points has traversed the outer limits of jazz, electronica and orchestral post-rock, DJ-ed at achingly cool clubs and worked with numerous stellar talents. Meanwhile,

Rebecca Black is back with another new single for the year, this time a queer post-breakup anthem called ‘Personal’. Released yesterday (April 23), Black’s new glitchy pop track marks her third 2021 single. It serves as a send-off song to a relationship, in which she’s the one doing the dumping. In it, Black tells her

If Exile on Main St. is considered the Rolling Stones‘ creative peak – and it often is – then Sticky Fingers helped get them most of the way there. Unlike Sticky Fingers, Exile was recorded piecemeal, using leftovers from the previous album’s sessions at Olympic Studios in London and at Mick Jagger‘s Stargroves manor in

Young Shakespeare, the latest in Young’s ongoing Performance Series (this is vol 3.5 for those crazy enough to keep track), captures the songwriter at the cusp of solo superstardom. He was still best known as the Y in CSNY but he’d packed several lifetimes’ worth of activity into a very brief span of time: from

KoRn worked on a new album during lockdown, the band’s frontman Jonathan Davis has confirmed. The band last released an album in 2019 with ‘The Nothing’. That record was their 13th studio album since forming in 1993. Speaking to Kerrang!, Davis said the group had used the enforced downtime brought about by the coronavirus pandemic

Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown has died at age 65. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved husband and father Leslie Richard McKeown,” reads a message uploaded to the singer’s Twitter account this morning on behalf of his wife, Keiko, and son, Jubei. “Leslie died suddenly at home

Hardcore monoliths Beartooth have just dropped new single ‘Hell Of It’. The latest release from forthcoming album ‘Below’, singer Caleb Shomo said in a press statement, “‘Hell Of It’ is one of my favourites on the album. It’s meant to try and melt as much face as possible. “This song was really important for discovering

Aerosmith scored more hits and had more knock-down, drag-out fights per album cycle than most bands experience in their whole careers. Their tenure is the stuff of rock ’n’ roll legend, spanning decades of euphoric highs, devastating lows, musical reinventions, lineup changes and, of course, a whole lot of brilliant songs. Led by singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry — known in their drug-addled heyday

Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown has died. He was 65-years-old. The news was shared by his family earlier today (April 22) on the group’s official Facebook page. McKeown passed away “suddenly” on Tuesday (April 20); no cause of death has yet been shared. The post read: “It is with profound sadness that we announce

Weezer have released an adrenalized new song titled “I Need Some of That,” off their upcoming Van Weezer album, which comes out next month. The alt-rock veterans’ new single is a sugary, hook-laden ode to the good old days of riding bikes through their neighborhood, blasting Aerosmith on the radio and cranking their Marshall stack

After a lengthy bidding battle, Netflix are near to closing a deal for a forthcoming KISS biopic, set to be called Shout It Out Loud. According to Deadline, the film looks to be produced in close collaboration with bandleaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. It will be driven by stories of the pair’s formative years

Kenny Loggins, “The Soundtrack King,” knows a thing or two about singing for the cinema. And he’s now prepping the release of At the Movies, an entire album featuring his most popular soundtrack hits from films like Footloose, Top Gun and Caddyshack. The upcoming vinyl-only release will hit stores on June 12 for Record Store Day. “Over the course of my career,

Sports Team have released a new song, ‘Happy (God’s Own Country’) – watch the video for the new single below. READ MORE: Sports Team – ‘Deep Down Happy’ review: A flag in the ground from a band dedicated to extremes A press release from the group describes the new single, which they teased in a social

Meat Loaf paid tribute to his longtime collaborator Jim Steinman with a short post to Facebook. “Coming here soon, my brother Jimmy. Fly Jimmy fly,” the singer wrote. His words were accompanied by a selection of photographs of the two from throughout their career (see below). Steinman died on Monday at age 73. the songwriter and producer’s partnership with

Boy George has teased the cast of his forthcoming biopic Karma Chameleon in a new video. Following the success of such biopics as Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, the Karma Chameleon project was first announced in 2019, though it was untitled at that time. The film will share the story of Boy George’s beginnings in an

The former girlfriend of Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen has put a “very personal” collection of memorabilia up for auction, including early recordings of the band’s On Through the Night and Hysteria albums. Miriam Barendsen met Allen in 1984 and was his passenger when he lost control of his car on Dec. 31, 1984, resulting

Sports Team will be sharing some new music tomorrow according to a social media post shared earlier today (April 20). READ MORE: Sports Team – ‘Deep Down Happy’ review: A flag in the ground from a band dedicated to extremes Writing on Twitter, the group wrote “new music tomorrow” and shared a link for fans to

Ted Nugent announced that he tested positive for COVID-19. The rocker took to Facebook to share the news. “I got an announcement to make,” Nugent explained in a video message, noting that “everybody told me that I shouldn’t announce this.” “I have had flu symptoms for the last ten days,” he continued. “And I just, I