Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. “It was spiritual,” Campbell toldRolling Stone of his experience making the album in his Los Angeles home studio earlier this year. “I got a little wistful about Tom because we had been there together, and I stood where we had set up with Mudcrutch originally in that room. I got a lot of flashbacks of sweet memories.” This is the Knobs’ third ...
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KK’s Priest and Accept are teaming up for the Full Metal Assault North American tour. The headbanger’s journey begins on Aug. 31 in Los Angeles and concludes on Oct. 7 in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday. You can see the full list of dates below. The Full Metal Assault Tour marks a full-circle moment for both acts, as Accept supported Judas Priest more than 40 years ago on the latter’s World Wide Blitz Tour. “There is no doubt that we warriors of metal will give every ounce of our energy and our power in order to deliver up our very finest performance,” KK’s ...
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Graham Nash has announced tour dates for 2024. The veteran singer-songwriter will play more than three dozen shows starting this summer. Judy Collins will perform at several of the concerts. The North American tour will start on Aug. 3 in Boulder and wrap up on Oct. 26 in Vienna, Virginia. Nash released his first album in seven years, his seventh solo LP, in 2023. Now included songs that addressed his occasionally fractious relationship with his late Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby. READ MORE: Graham Nash, ‘Now': Album Review The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee – for bot...
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Kiss‘ first live album not only saved the struggling band’s career, it made them superstars. So it makes sense that the group has released many more live albums since that time. By early 1975 the facepaint-wearing foursome had built a reputation as a must-see live act, with a bombastic stage show featuring pyrotechnics, levitating drums and bassist Gene Simmons‘ fire breathing, blood-spitting stunts. The only problem was that not nearly enough people were buying the group’s early studio albums, which didn’t convey the power and energy Kiss was capable of unleashing onstage. With the band and t...
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From a cover painting by his artist father David Bierk to songs that chart a pathway to adulthood, Sebastian Bach‘s Child Within the Man is partly about reconciling with the past. Not that the former Skid Row singer has regrets or a keenly wistful sense of nostalgia, or at least any he shares across the 11 tracks on his first album in 10 years, but this is about as personal as the man who was recently disguised as a giant tiki cup on The Masked Singer has ever gotten on record. Chalk it up to getting older and uncovering a social awareness that was all but buried three decades ago when Bach wa...
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Alex Lifeson recently discovered a brilliant new practice regimen to keep his chops up: playing Rush songs with former bandmate Geddy Lee. It’s something they hadn’t done regularly in nearly a decade, as Rush played their final show in 2015 and called it quits after the death of drummer Neil Peart in January 2020. But lately, the guitarist has been getting a kick out of casually revisiting the band’s catalog with Lee. “We decided that we would play some Rush songs. Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years,” Lifeson tells UCR. “We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get t...
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Michael Anthony recently discussed the failed attempts to launch a Van Halen tribute tour, claiming that one unnamed member “was not playing ball with everybody else.” Reports of the trek emerged in 2022, when former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted claimed in an interview that Alex Van Halen had approached him about taking part in the road trip alongside guitarist Joe Satriani, who would be taking the place of the late Eddie Van Halen. David Lee Roth was also rumored to be involved. Reflecting on both the failed Van Halen tribute tour and his upcoming Best of All Worlds tour with Sammy Hagar a...
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Mike Rutherford will return with Mike and the Mechanics for a tour referencing the group’s biggest hit: He’s confirmed 30 UK shows on the Looking Back: Living the Years 2025 Tour in the spring of 2025. They kick off in March 2025 and continue into April, with highlight shows at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Tickets are on sale now through the group’s website. A complete list of dates and venues is below. Rutherford initially formed the Genesis side project in 1985 with vocalists Paul Young and Paul Carrack. They scored four late-’80s Top 40 hits on the ...
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The myth that Cass Elliot died by choking on a ham sandwich in 1974 was invented by her manager in an attempt to protect her legacy, the singer’s daughter said. Owen Elliot-Kugell was 7 years old when Elliot passed away at 32 from a heart attack after 36 hours of performing and partying. The former The Mamas & the Papas vocalist had been developing her solo career in London, U.K,. and seemed to have a bright future ahead of her. “By the time she got back to her flat, it was evening the following day,” Elliot-Kugell told the BBC in a new interview. “She was hungry, and her dancer made her a san...
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Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil took a serious looking fall during the band’s performance in Atlantic City on Friday night (May 3). The group was only a few songs into its tour-launching show when they began rocking through their 1987 tune “Wild Side.” As Motley Crue tore through the song’s famous opening riffs, Neil began skipping from one side of the stage to the other. The frontman then tripped, sending him sprawling face first onto the stage. Impressively, Neil didn’t let the wipe out keep him down for long. The singer was back on his feet and ready to rock again when “Wild Side”’s vocals ...
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