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Journey has apparently backed out of the U.K. and Ireland leg of their 50th-anniversary tour. These shows are now listed as canceled on Ticketmaster; their London concert no longer appears on the O2’s website. Meanwhile, ticket holders were also reportedly receiving emails today confirming that the 11-date fall trek has been called off: “Due to
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Jay Jay French discussed Twisted Sister’s trick for preventing fans from heading to the restroom when the band played a new song live. It’s an age-old problem for those who’ve become known as “legacy acts”: Their catalog is so well-loved that crowds want to hear the hits, regardless of how much the artists want to pursue
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Chicago has announced more tour dates for later this year, scheduled for October and November. The band has already been on the road for much of this year, co-headlining the Heart & Soul Tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, which ends Sept. 7. But Chicago is slated to continue touring the U.S. through the rest of the summer into early
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Journey tweaked their North American summer stadium tour set list on Friday, playing the Top 5 hit “Who’s Crying Now” for the first time since their trek with Def Leppard launched nearly a month ago. You can watch the performance below. The set list shakeup took place at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where Journey’s 18-song set also included a
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Waterparks have cancelled the release of their forthcoming album ‘Intellectual Property 2: Lost In The Property’. Announced in May, the release was intended as a ‘sister’ album to 2023’s ‘Intellectual Property’ and was set to feature the already-released singles ‘SOULSUCKER’, ‘SNEAKING OUT OF HEAVEN’ and ‘FAI2’, a rework of their previous single ‘Fuck About It’
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News of Aerosmith‘s retirement from touring reverberated throughout the music world, with several of their peers and acolytes quickly chiming in to pay their respects to the rock ‘n’ roll titans. The Boston legends dominated the stage for more than half a century before they officially called it quits in August 2024, scrapping the rescheduled dates of their Peace Out farewell
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Rough Trade have suspended their much-criticised new scheme for selling vinyl, saying they are “very sorry for this mistake”. The enterprise was announced yesterday (August 2), intended to allow people to swap “pre-loved records for cash with FlipVinyl”, a company described as the “fastest-growing second-hand vinyl buyers in Germany”. Almost immediately, the scheme came in
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When Aerosmith walked off the stage at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York on Sept. 9, 2023, they had no idea their touring life had just come to an end. The band had only just launched their Peace Out farewell tour, a goodbye trek which started a week earlier on Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. That
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Elton John has celebrated 34 years of sobriety, marking the occasion in a new post on social media. Sir Elton took a year off from work in 1990 to attend recovery after years of addiction issues. In his 2019 memoir, Me, he opened up about just how bad his addiction was – recalling the time
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Dave Mustaine has played his share of challenging gigs with Megadeth. But it was the closing night of the historic Big 4 tour — Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax at Yankee Stadium in September 2011 — that found the metal frontman in a serious bind. “My neck was getting ready to stop working,” he tells UCR, remembering the
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