Rock

Blondshell has spoken out about how ageism in the music industry made her feel “too old” to be a success. The LA-based artist who was speaking on NME‘s The Cover this week, is only 26 but the singer-songwriter said that she was made to feel that by her late teens and early twenties, she might

Nancy Wilson said that Heart is working on new songs together, seven years after they released their most recent studio album. The guitarist, who is currently touring with a band called Nancy Wilson’s Heart, told WBAB that she and her sister Ann Wilson are working together on material that is “closer to what you would have heard us originally

Stormzy has stunned fans by making a surprise appearance on stage in London this evening (June 9) with singer-songwriter Debbie. READ MORE: Stormzy live at Reading Festival 2021: festival return is another rockstar moment Debbie wrote five songs for Stormzy’s last album including ‘Firebabe‘, which she played at the gig tonight at London’s Omera. Stormzy came

We won’t argue with you: The Rolling Stones made their best music in the ’60s and ’70s. After 1978’s Some Girls, they released only one more classic album, 1981’s ‘Tattoo You.’ But that doesn’t mean that the band’s output since then has been a total waste. There have been some good albums during the period (like

Steve Priest of The Sweet once suggested that glam rock began with Marc Bolan wearing a pink feather boa. From this moment of camp inspiration a gloriously absurd movement was born, and Top Of The Pops was transformed into a crowd-scene of hod-carriers in Bacofoil trousers. For Bolan, the association was a mixed blessing. If

Sam Fender has announced special celebratory Newcastle editions of his next album by sharing QR codes across the city. The announcement comes ahead of the singer-songwriter’s long-awaited live shows, which will see over 100,000 fans flock to Newcastle’s St James’ Park stadium this weekend. The first show of the two-night residency will take place tonight

A Malibu beachfront house once owned by Rod Stewart is on sale for $49.5 million. You can see photos and a video tour of the house below. Known as “the Wave House,” the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom property’s huge windows and wraparound decks offer stunning views of the California coast. The house was designed to resemble a cresting

Cala Mijas 2023 has added three new artists to their festival lineup that will take place later this summer. M83, Underworld and Baxter Dury will join the previously announced performers The Strokes, Florence + the Machine, Arcade Fire, Moderat, Foals, Belle & Sebastian, Metronomy, IDLES and more. The festival will showcase both international and local

Dave Matthews performed an intimate solo gig Wednesday night at New York City’s Irving Plaza, a venue he’s been playing since the mid-’90s. “This place was huge,” Matthews told the crowd about his first experience standing on the Irving Plaza stage 30 years ago. That debut performance at the venue took place on April 21,

Glastonbury-goers are invited to take part in another record-breaking attempt to form the world’s largest ever ‘peace sign’ made up of people. This follows the last attempt in 2017 when around 15,000 people met at the festival to break the previous record, set by a crowd of 5,814 in New York in 2009. Watch footage

Decades after reigning as one of the biggest wrestling superstars of the ’80s, the Iron Sheik gained a new kind of fame thanks to his comedic and frequently profane Twitter posts. You can see more than 60 of the Iron Sheik’s best rock ‘n’ roll-related tweets below. Born in Iran in 1942, Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri

Singer and guitarist Tony McPhee, who fronted British blues and rock group The Groundhogs across six decades, has died aged 79. The band confirmed McPhee’s death in a statement on their Facebook page, which read: “We are deeply saddened to announce that 79-year-old guitar and blues legend Tony (TS) McPhee, died peacefully at home today

Bryan Adams and Joan Jett kicked off their 2023 joint summer tour with a performance at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore on Tuesday night. The trek is a continuation of Adams’ ongoing tour behind his 2022 album So Happy It Hurts. The LP, created during the pandemic, was inspired by “many of the ephemeral things

Former East 17 star Brian Harvey reportedly interrupted a live BBC broadcast today, while protesting outside Prince Harry’s ongoing phone-hacking trial. The singer was spotted with a placard outside London’s High Court today (Wednesday June 7), where he is said to have shouted loudly at the Duke Of Sussex as he arrived, Yahoo reports. BBC news

It’s quite possible that wallet technology peaked in the ’80s, at least in the rock ‘n’ roll world. Check out our gallery of over 100 ’80s retro rock ‘n’ roll wallets and judge for yourself. Sure, nowadays you can buy a wallet made of the same metal they use to protect airplane black boxes, with

The Charlatans have announced a massive 2023 UK headline tour that kicks off in November. Check out the full dates below. Commencing on November 24 in Newcastle, the British indie giants will also play shows at Sheffield, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Wolverhampton. The tour will wrap up on December 10 in Nottingham.

Guns N’ Roses have tantalized their fans in recent years by teasing new music and, occasionally, actually releasing it. They added more fuel to the fire this week by sound checking an unreleased track called “Perhaps” ahead of their Monday show in Tel Aviv, Israel. Diligent fans who waited outside Yarkon Park captured short videos of the band working through the

Foo Fighters and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are currently in a neck-and-neck race to reach the Number One spot on the UK album charts this week. Both acts released their latest LPs — ‘But Here We Are’ and ‘Council Skies’ — last Friday (June 2) and as it stands, it is too close to

It’s not easy to cover a song that’s already legendary, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. While some remakes do an impressive job of both honoring the original while finding a way to be distinctive, the vast majority of cover songs fall flat. It’s not like an act goes out of the way to