Kiss resumed their long-delayed farewell tour last night, playing their first complete show in front of a live audience since March 2020. You can see video, exclusive photos and the set list from the band’s Aug. 18 concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Mass., below. “If you told me two months ago we could
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Roger Taylor has released the first single from his forthcoming new solo album, ‘Outsider’ – listen to ‘We’re All Just Trying To Get By’ below. The song, which features KT Tunstall, is the first taste of Taylor’s first new album in eight years. ‘We’re All Just Trying To Get By’ was written during “the dark
Lurking about in the darkness, a bluesy bassline seems to follow a funereal beat like it’s leading the way straight into the pits of a hell occupied by the most sinful of sonic experimentalists to walk the earth. We’re alone, isolated with the leering textures and threatening tempo breathing down our necks in “Luminaries,” but
Yes have released a 30th-anniversary deluxe box set featuring concert recordings from their 1991 Union tour. The collection, which is available for purchasing now, includes a multi-camera-shot DVD with an accompanying soundtrack mixed by Trevor Rabin, as well as fan recordings, desk tapes and radio broadcasts. The video footage will be of most interest to collectors. “These will be included with the main
She continued: “People are like, don’t let ‘em see you with your head down. My head is always up. Even when I’m upset and even when I’m crying, my head is up. But I know it’s my job as an artist to reflect at times, and this shit should not fly. This shouldn’t be ok.
No one can say Tom Tikka dodges life’s larger questions. Most songwriters working within popular music are content to rework a smorgasbord of tropes for each new generation, orbiting the same concerns, reaching the same conclusions. Going out on a limb seldom pays off. I do not know how old Tikka but his new release, This
Dead & Company returned to the stage for the first time in 19 months with a performance at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh, N.C. on Aug. 16. The band — made up of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff
Future Islands have shared the standalone track ‘Peach’, the first original track from the band since releasing their sixth album ‘As Long As You Are’ last year. The latest effort from the Baltimore group sees them experimenting with laidback synth sounds once more, with frontman Samuel T. Herring offering a series of meditative observations on
Pardon the Interruption host Tony Kornheiser said attending a Kiss concert immediately convinced him to quit his job as a music critic. “I was a rock critic at Newsday, [and] I went to the Calderone Music Theater in Hempstead one night to see Kiss,” the longtime ESPN host explained on a new episode of The Tony Kornheiser Show.
Megadeth‘s touring bassist James LoMenzo has shared behind-the-scenes images of the band rehearsing for their upcoming ‘Metal Tour Of The Year’. LoMenzo was recently appointed as the replacement for Megadeth co-founder and former bassist David Ellefson, who parted ways with the group in May following allegations of grooming an underage girl (He previously denied the
Classic cars previously owned by Rush drummer Neil Peart were sold at auction over the weekend, totaling more than $3.9 million in sales. The automobile collection — dubbed “The Silver Surfers” by the late musician — were up for bid as part of the Gooding & Company’s 17th annual Pebble Beach Auctions. Seven of Peart’s
‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’ rapper Silento has been indicted on murder charges after being charged with murdering his cousin earlier this year. 23-year-old Silento – real name Richard “Ricky” Lamar Hawk – was arrested on February 1 for the murder of his cousin, 34-year-old Frederick Rooks. The DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia confirmed the
A new lawsuit alleges that Bob Dylan sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in 1965. The suit claims that Dylan “befriended and established an emotional connection with the plaintiff” — referred to only as “J.C.” in the court documents — over a “six-week period between April and May of 1965.” It further alleges that the musician
Lorde has teased the imminent arrival of new song ‘Mood Ring’, presumably the final single to be lifted from new album ‘Solar Power’ before it drops at the end of the week. The New Zealand pop singer revealed a release date of August 17 for the song via a post on her website. A music
For all the praise and controversy Guns N’ Roses have generated with their formidable discography, they’ve stoked equal intrigue with their robust catalog of unreleased songs. Perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise, given frontman Axl Rose‘s perfectionistic tendencies and the glacial pace at which the band makes music. In the last 25 years, Guns
The Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he’s exited the lineup, ending his long tenure in the gothic rock band. “With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure!” he wrote Saturday on his personal Facebook account. “Good luck to them all…” According to Rolling Stone, when asked if the departure
When Night Ranger released the music video for their 1987 single “The Secret of My Success,” an unlikely trio of musicians appeared on screen as the horn section: Motley Crue’s Vince Neil and Tommy Lee, along with Weird Al Yankovic. “Vince and I have been friends since 1984,” Night Ranger bassist and singer Jack Blades
Secondary ticketing websites could be fined or shut down under new rules aiming to battle against “unscrupulous” ticket touts. New proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) come as live music returns to the UK after the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new proposals, websites such as Viagogo and StubHub would need to gain licenses
The description for Kanye West‘s much-anticipated album ‘DONDA’ has been updated on Apple Music. READ MORE: Kanye West’s much-delayed 10th album ‘DONDA’: the story so far Kanye’s follow-up to 2019’s ‘Jesus Is King’, which had initially been set to arrive in July 2020, was scheduled to finally be released last month after West’s first public listening event
Lorde has discussed ideas around body image that pop stars face, saying that in her case she “kicked [it] out the conversation” when she first emerged. The singer, who releases her third album ‘Solar Power’ this week (August 20), was asked in a new interview whether she had any issues surrounding body issues as a