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Robert Plant says he’d love to do another album with Alison Krauss, after their first collaboration since 2007 was nominated for three Grammy awards. “I can’t see any reason why not,” the former Led Zeppelin frontman tells Billboard. He just can’t afford so much time between projects. “I suppose if we wait another 14 years

Ohio indie rock band The Sidekicks have announced news of their break-up. The quartet – comprising of Steve Ciolek, Toby Reif, Ryan Starinsky and Matt Climer – took to Instagram over the weekend to confirm the news. “Folks have been asking and it’s about time that we let everyone know that we have called it

Dave Grohl, Greg Kurstin and director Judd Apatow have shared their take on Blood, Sweat & Tears‘ 1968 hit “Spinning Wheel.” Apatow handles vocals on the track, with Grohl on drums, Kurstin on keyboards and a brass trio in support. The cover was reportedly inspired by a karaoke night the director spent in Hawaii with

Rookie K-pop girl group NewJeans have released ‘Ditto’, a B-side from their upcoming single album ‘OMG’. On December 19 at 6PM KST, NewJeans unveiled a pair of visuals for their new track ‘Ditto’, which has also been released digitally. The song is described as a “spin on Baltimore club dance music with an old-school drum

Jane’s Addiction will continue work on their upcoming album despite the absence of guitarist Dave Navarro, frontman Perry Farrell confirmed. The band just completed their first tour with original bassist Eric Avery since 2010, but just before it started Navarro revealed his continuing fight with long COVID meant he couldn’t join them. He was replaced

Gorillaz took over New York’s Times Square and London’s Piccadilly Circus for two augmented reality (AR) shows in celebration of new single ‘Skinny Ape‘ this weekend- check out fan-shot footage below. The animated band announced the concerts earlier this month (December 8) with fans needing to download a special app to view the AR performance,

Thirty Rockefeller Plaza was abuzz in the lead-up to Saturday Night Live’s third season Christmas episode. Taking nothing away from that Dec. 17, 1977 show’s host, 80-year-old Miskel Spillman, the winner of SNL’s first (and, to this point only) “Anyone Can Host the Saturday Night Show” contest, it was the announced musical guests who had NBC

Iggy Pop has recalled Elton John playing a prank on him in a gorilla suit back in the 1970s. The former Stooges frontman explained that the timing for the prank couldn’t have been worse – it happened while he was addicted to heroin, and on a day where he’d taken too much the night before.

Metallica delivered their third Helping Hands fundraising concert at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles last night, supporting their All Within My Hands charity initiative. The evening was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Following an opening set from Greta Van Fleet, the main show began with five acoustic tracks, including new covers of Thin Lizzy‘s “Borderline”

Travis have been confirmed as the first headline act for Wychwood Festival 2023. The Glaswegian band will be headlining the Saturday night of the Cheltenham festival, with The Proclaimers and Heather Small also confirmed to be playing on the same day. The full line-up will be announced in the New Year. “I can’t wait to

Critics. Who needs them? According to Paul Stanley of Kiss, nobody. The legendary vocalist has weathered his share of critical drubbings from the day Kiss first stepped on stage nearly 50 years ago. He remains unfazed. “Critics want you to believe that you need them,” he tells UCR. “And you don’t. You don’t need anybody to tell

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you get the feeling Neil Young’s new record is important to him. In the old days – the days that press behind the simple, shaky, beguiling, bemusing, finally burning surfaces of these songs – your first impression of the album would have been its cover. And there,

Olivia Rodrigo has shared a Christmas song called ‘the bels’ on her fan Discord page – find out how to listen below. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo: “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter” The track was written by Rodrigo when she was just five years old and she shared a clip of

Feuds have been prevalent throughout rock history, and 2022 gave us plenty more to add to the list. Whether on social media, face-to-face or through their lawyers, the following acts had no problems airing their grievances this year. In some cases, a war of words erupted due to a simple difference of opinion. Such was

From about the mid-1980s onwards, Tom Petty’s output was defined by a frequently infuriating contradiction. While Petty and his Heartbreakers were (obviously) as fine and fierce a rock’n’roll band as had ever been assembled, Petty seemed peculiarly insistent on making records from which you wouldn’t necessarily know it. There was rarely much wrong with the

Pixies have confirmed details of the first leg of their US headline tour in support of new album ‘Doggerel’ – get tour dates below and tickets here. READ MORE: Pixies – ‘Doggerel’ review: still the alt-rock gold standard The band, who are currently touring Australia and New Zealand, will be making their way to North

Update 12/15: After crowd-shot footage of Mike Patton’s onstage battle with a drone went viral, video taken from the drone itself has emerged on YouTube. The clip below, uploaded by a user named Sebastian Yañez, starts with the drone providing an aerial view of the Mr. Bungle performance at Knotfest Chile. It doesn’t take long