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Medios y Media/Getty Images The lineup for the big Black Sabbath reunion/farewell concert is stacked with big names from metal and hard rock, including Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Tool and Slayer. One name that is conspicuously absent, though, is Rob Halford.As the Judas Priest frontman tells Metal Hammer, he's unable to perform at the concert due to a scheduling conflict, having already booked a show with Scorpions on the same day […]

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten thinks The Rolling Stones should call it quits after all these years.Lydon announced his own retirement after his wife Nora’s death in 2023 after a battle with Alzheimer's, but changed his mind and now has dates planned with his band Public Image Ltd. During an appearance on Good Morning Britain, Lydon joked about his change of heart, noting, "That’s dementia for you, […]

Frank Hoensch/Redferns The Who just announced dates for their farewell tour of North America, but it sounds like the band isn’t too sure folks in the U.K. will get a similar goodbye.During a press conference announcing the tour, both Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey expressed doubt they’ll bring the tour to the U.K., with Daltrey joking, "Let’s see if we survive this one."He then explained that it's much easier to […]

Dark Horse Records Billy Idol’s latest album has landed on the Billboard charts.The rocker’s Dream Into It, his first full-length album since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground, debuted at #7 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart. That marks his first album to ever land in the top 10 on that chart. According to the mag, 6,500 copies of Dream Into It were sold in the week ending May 1, consisting of […]

Disney/Michael Le Brecht II Sammy Hagar was joined by a special guest for the latest show of his The Best of All Worlds residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas.Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, who is headlining his own Vegas residency at the Sphere with Dead & Company, joined Hagar Wednesday night for a performance of the Montrose track "Bad Motor Scooter." According to setlist.fm, it was the […]

Photo credit: Kamal Asar A new musical featuring the music of Foreigner is set to open next year in Long Island, New York.Feels Like The First Time – The Foreigner Musical is a collaboration between the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Long Island University’s Post Theatre Company, featuring 14 of the band’s iconic hits.Rent star Adam Pascal, who is the inaugural […]

On This Day, May 8, 1970 ...One month after they broke up, The Beatles released their 12th and final studio album, Let It Be.Although released after the split, Let It Be was actually recorded before their previous album Abbey Road, which was released in September 1969.Let It Be spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Albums chart, thanks to future Beatles classics like the title track, "Get Back," "The […]

ABC/Nicole Wilder; ABC Eddie Vedder gave Jack White a nice shoutout during Pearl Jam's show in Nashville on Tuesday.In footage from the concert, Vedder tells the crowd that he's playing the "Seven Nation Army" rocker's signature Fender TripleSonic guitar, which White had personally given to him."He's just a great human," Vedder said of White.Speaking on White's Third Man Records label, Vedder continued, "You wanna know the secret between having a […]

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Barry Keoghan is set to play Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes' four films about The Beatles and the actor revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he’s met the legendary rock drummer, sharing that he was "absolutely lovely.""I met Ringo the other day. I met him at his house, and he played the drums for me," the Saltburn star said. "He asked me to play, but I wasn't playing […]