Legendary rock bands Styx and Foreigner have announced a joint North American Tour for next year. The Summer 2024 trek, called “The Renegades & Juke Box Heroes” tour, is scheduled to begin on June 11 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The tour will conclude on August 28 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Tickets are on sale…… read more »
Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne, who announced his retirement from touring earlier this year, revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone UK that he still hopes to perform live again, even as he takes it “one day at a time” due to his ongoing health struggles. “It’s really knocked me about,” Osbourne said about a…… read more »
Rock legends the Rolling Stones have announced a live edition of their most recent album, Hackney Diamonds. Hackney Diamonds (Live Edition), which is set to drop on January 19, will feature all seven tracks performed at the recent launch event at Racket in New York City. The 2CD format release includes debut performances of four…… read more »
Daryl Hall and Jon Batiste have been announced as headliners for the first Montreux Jazz Festival Miami. The Montreux Jazz Festival, the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world, has been held in Montreux, Switzerland, since 1967. For the first time, the festival will be held at a U.S. city, taking place March 1-2 at…… read more »
A sequel to This Is Spinal Tap is set to feature appearances by Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks. Director Rob Reiner has confirmed that the shooting for a sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will begin next year. “We’re making a sequel,” Reiner told Richard Herring on an episode of his “RHLSTP” podcast.…… read more »
Cher has earned a new No. 1 song on a Billboard songs chart for the seventh decade in a raw. “DJ Play a Christmas Song,” the lead single from her latest album, Christmas, topped the December 2-dated Dance/Electronic Song Sales survey. “DJ Play a Christmas Song” was digitally released on October 6. Cher performed the…… read more »
IMAX and Pathe Live in partnership with Mercury Studios and Queen Films have announced that Queen Rock Montreal is headed to IMAX Theaters early next year. The concert film, based on the rock band’s 1981 live concert in Montreal, will be released in more than 400 IMAX theatres globally for four days beginning January 18.…… read more »
The third annual ASCAP Foundation Holiday Auction featuring items donated by a range of A-list artists and songwriters has kicked off online. The donors include Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, Olivia Rodrigo, Selena Gomez, Travis Barker, Tenacious D, Steve Aoki, Chris Stapleton, Renee Rapp, Big Daddy Kane, Stephen Schwartz, Old Dominion, Brothers Osborne, Jordan Davis,…… read more »
Shane MacGowan, the lead singer of Celtic punk band The Pogues, has died at 65. Announcing the news of his demise on social media, MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke said, “Shane… has gone to be with Jesus and Mary and his beautiful mother Therese.” She said her husband breathed his last on Thursday after a…… read more »
On Monday, the twelfth full moon of 2023, Peter Gabriel released the final track from his new album i/o. The song, the last to be written for the album, is titled “Live and Let Live.” In a break from previous months, all three mixes were released simultaneously, the Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, the…… read more »
