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Radio presenter Ken Bruce has sparked backlash for his remarks about Taylor Swift. READ MORE: Taylor Swift live in Edinburgh: The ‘Eras Tour’ finally hits the UK The former BBC Radio 2 presenter, who now hosts a show on Greatest Hits radio, made the comments in a recent interview with The Mail On Sunday. “All her songs

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

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’

Running for president of the United States of America is no small task, but it can help to have some great music behind you. For one thing, utilizing a campaign song (or a couple of them) is a way to give voters a sense of what kind of a candidate you are. Do the song’s lyrics

A brass band switched up Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ into a Donald Trump diss outside his appearance at the NABJ conference this week. The former president was speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday (July 31), and a brass band took the chance to mount a mini-protest. The

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

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

Sammy Hagar paid tribute to the retiring Aerosmith with a Beatles song on Friday night during his The Best of All Worlds Tour stop in suburban Detroit. And he had a very personal reason for that particular choice. Coming back for the encore at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, Hagar first told the crowd that,

Ted Nugent and his son Rocco have released a song about the attempted Donald Trump assassination, ‘Who Shot Trump’. The American musician – who is a high profile supporter of Donald Trump – has now dropped a song with his son, with its chorus warning that whoever shot the former US President “fucked up / When they

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

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

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

Charli XCX and Billie Eilish have joined forces on a new remix of ‘Brat’ deluxe edition track ‘Guess’. Watch its music video below. The track, co-produced by The Dare and Finneas, sees Eilish adopt her whispered cadence for the suggestive – and explosive – dance track, marking a left-turn from her recent album ‘Hit Me

Sammy Hagar delivered on his promise to celebrate the history of Van Halen more intensely than ever at the Akron* stop of his Best of All Worlds tour Monday night. Together with frequent collaborators Joe Satriani and Jason Bonham, Hagar and his longtime running mate Michael Anthony faithfully recreated the high points of their time

Krazy Super Concert 2024 in Los Angeles has announced its new line-up for its upcoming September festival, featuring aespa, ZEROBASEONE, CL and more. Here’s everything we know about the upcoming event. When will Krazy Super Concert 2024 take place? Today (August 1), Pulse Events, the organisers of Krazy Super Concert 2024 announced that the festival

The pioneering Detroit band MC5 returns with the new single “Can’t Be Found” featuring Vernon Reid of Living Colour. Check out the second single from their upcoming album Heavy Lifting below. The project was led by MC5’s late founding guitarist Wayne Kramer, who also co-wrote 12 of its 13 songs. Heavy Lifting features “everyone and

The genre of collaborative albums between a younger fan and an older hero has started to take on several distinct forms in recent years. Sometimes the artists collaborate as equals, writing new songs together – take Franz Ferdinand and Sparks’ 2015’s album FFS, or Elton John’s 2010 LP with Leon Russell, The Union. Sometimes, the

Ice Spice has now been immortalised in a Pop! Funko – check out images of the new doll below. The popular items have seen many musical figures turned into dolls over the years including The Cure, Slipknot, Liam and Noel Gallagher, The White Stripes, Metallica, Post Malone and the late Eddie Van Halen. The new doll

When Jason Bonham first met Alex Van Halen, things didn’t go well. Bonham – who is currently on tour with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony on the Best of All Worlds tour — recalled the incident during a recent interview with KSHE 95 (audio below). “It’s 40 years since I saw Mike play at Donington,” he said

Drive-By Truckers are an American institution: alt.country punks turned Southern rock revivalists, grizzled latter-day flag-wavers for the 20th-century indie idealism Michael Azerrad documented in This Band Can Be Your Life, and a crucible of world-class songwriting talent that includes ex-Trucker Jason Isbell and founding fathers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Over the course of 14