Rock

As Peter Frampton prepares to take his Finale – The Farewell Tour across the ocean next month, he’s talking about his next record, which he says will be “the album that should have followed Frampton Comes Alive!“ By that, the singer and guitarist means it will be a set of original songs written entirely by himself for the first

AKMU’s Lee Chan-hyuk has gone viral for a shocking performance of ‘Panorama’, where he gets his head buzzed on stage. During the most recent broadcast of South Korean live music show Inkigayo on October 23, Lee performed his debut solo single ‘Panorama’ – lifted from his album ‘Error’ released on October 17 – sitting on a

King Crimson leader Robert Fripp has shrugged off a section of the band’s fans who have vocally criticized the prog-rocker for his popular series of viral videos. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Fripp and his wife, actress Toyah Willcox, began recording quirky home videos and uploading them to YouTube. The initial clip featured the usually

Steve Lacy cut his set short at a concert in New Orleans last night (October 24) after a fan threw a disposable camera at him onstage. READ MORE: Steve Lacy – ‘Gemini Rights’ review: a fearlessly funky follow-up from The Internet guitarist While he was performing ‘Bad Habit’, close to the end of his set at

The critical thinking regarding the Beatles‘ recording career has shifted in the decades since they broke up. Where once Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was identified as their showstopper masterpiece, current evaluation places its predecessor Revolver in that esteemed position. And it’s not too hard to hear why. The album was a groundbreaking piece of work when

Kanye West is no longer signed to the record label Def Jam. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? That’s according to a report in The New York Times, which cites an unnamed source claiming that West’s label G.O.O.D. Music – a Def Jam imprint

Former REO Speedwagon bassist Gregg Philbin, who played on the band’s first six studio albums and appeared on 1977’s Live: You Get What You Play For, has died. Singer Kevin Cronin paid tribute to his former bandmate in a statement shared by the band. “No one should underestimate the Philbin Factor in the evolution of REO

Ozzy Osbourne is set feature at a forthcoming Metaverse music festival. READ MORE: Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Patient Number 9’ review: a fizzing piece of hard-rock magic The event, which will take place in the specially created Decentraland virtual world, is set to take place from November 10-13. Over 100 artists will performing and Osbourne’s Ozzfest will

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson said he hopes the band will reconvene to make more music. Their last outing was Power Up, released in November 2020 but completed two years earlier. It came after the veteran group’s leader, Malcolm Young, died in 2017. In a recent interview with Billboard, Johnson described the band as “still a working

Beyoncé has seemingly confirmed a 2023 world tour in support of new album ‘Renaissance’. Over the weekend, the fifth annual Wearable Art Gala auctioned “two concert tickets to Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ 2023 tour” alongside a backstage tour from Beyoncé’s mum, Miss Tina. “Celebrating her seventh studio album, Beyoncé has announced that she will be taking ‘Renaissance’

A pre-fame Brian Johnson received some invaluable advice from Roger Daltrey when the two crossed paths in 1973. He also marveled at the Who frontman’s equestrian prowess. Their chance meeting was backstage at the British music television program Top of the Pops. Johnson was there with his pre-AC/DC band Geordie to promote their new song “All Because

Pierce Brosnan has opened up about who he’d have liked to play in a music biopic, if he’d been given the chance. The Mamma Mia star was speaking to NME in a new interview and was asked if he’d ever been offered the chance to play a musician in a film biopic before. In response, Brosnan explained

Tom Petty‘s approach to songwriting was simple: Stay humble and write what you love. “I don’t think that I can sit down and pick out, ‘OK, another classic,’ you know, or ‘Everything I write is an epic,'” he said in a January 1983 interview, less than three months after the release of his fifth album with

Arctic Monkeys will perform during a special Later…With Jools Holland episode that’s dedicated entirely to them. The final episode of the latest live music series will see the Sheffield band join host Holland for an intimate performance of songs from their new album ‘The Car‘, including ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball‘ and ‘Body Paint‘. They

Bono says he takes ”full responsibility” for U2‘s iTunes controversy of 2014 in his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The tech giant gave away the band’s Songs of Innocence album for free to every iTunes user but faced a backlash after customers discovered it had been automatically uploaded to their accounts and, at first, there was no way to delete it. In Surrender, Bono writes (via The Guardian)

Cardi B has won a lawsuit decided by a trial jury over a man’s claim that she misused his image on the cover of her debut 2016 mixtape, ‘Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1’. READ MORE: New doc Queens Of Rap reinforces the importance of ‘WAP’, more than a year on Claimaint Kevin Brophy Jr alleged in

Like many classic rockers, the Rolling Stones started the ’80s in pretty good shape. By the time the decade was drawing to a close, like many of the veterans who held on long enough to make it to the MTV era, they were barely left standing. It was a rough period for a rock ‘n’