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Island Def Jam Music Group KISS’ 12th studio album, Animalize, is turning 40 this year, and to celebrate the band has launched a new 40th anniversary merch collection, complete with two limited-edition vinyl variant bundles.One of the bundles includes an Animalize 40th anniversary picture disc, along with a T-shirt with the album’s track list. It was limited to only 500 and has already sold out.  The second, limited to 2,500 units, includes a […]

Michael Tullberg/FilmMagic Marky Ramone is hitting the road this summer and promises to treat fans to plenty of Ramones classics.The rocker will tour with his band, Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg, with the trek kicking off Aug. 27 in Denver. The tour will hit such cities as St. Paul, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Portland and more, before wrapping Oct. 11 in Sacramento.“See ya there! Playing all your favorite songs non-stop!” Marky shares.A full list […]

Disney/Randy Holmes Back in June, The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, who’ll star as Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, told Variety he had yet to meet The Boss — but it looks like that may change soon.Speaking again to Variety, this time on the red carpet at the Prelude to the Olympics event at Paris' Fondation Louis Vuitton museum, Allen revealed that he’s now “texted and emailed” with […]

Tone Hall Records Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has dropped a new song and scent.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just released the song “Deified” in conjunction with his new fragrance, Tony Iommi Deified, from luxury perfume company Xerjoff.A video for the track has also been released, featuring pencil-drawn animation, which, according to a post on Instagram, “tells of a profound and powerful story that lies behind the palindromic nature […]

Ross Marino/Getty Images Paul McCartney is the latest musician to pay tribute to legendary British blues/rock guitarist John Mayall, who passed away Monday at the age of 90.“In the 1960’s we would meet at one of the late-night music clubs and often go back to his house where he had a huge and glorious collection of records,” McCartney writes on Instagram. “During these moments he became a mentor and would […]

Warner Records Neil Young is ready to release the third installment in his Archives series. Young is set drop Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) on Sept. 6. As the title suggests, it focuses on Young’s career from 1976 to 1987, complete with music recordings and film, as well as lots of content that has never been heard or seen before.The limited-edition deluxe edition of the set, described as “one of the most extensive anthologies in […]

Gus Stewart/Redferns Bruce Springsteen helped one of his fans pop the question at his show at Wembley Stadium in London on Thursday. Video posted to YouTube shows Bruce noticing a sign in the audience as he finishes performing the tune “The Promised Land.” He grabs it and holds it to the cameras, showing the crowd that it reads “boyfriend will propose to me if he can have your harmonica,” and then […]

On This Day, July 26, 1943 …The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, born Michael Philip Jagger, was born in Dartford, Kent, England.Now considered one of the world’s best rock 'n' roll frontmen, Jagger was studying at the London School of Economics when a chance meeting with childhood friend Keith Richards at a train station changed the course of his future: the two formed a musical partnership that eventually became The Rolling Stones.In […]

Experience Hendrix L.L.C./Legacy Recordings A treasure trove of previously unreleased music from the Jimi Hendrix Experience will be released in September as part of a new box set dedicated to Hendrix's legendary New York studio, Electric Lady.Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, dropping Sept. 13 as a five-LP or three-CD set, will include 39 tracks, 38 of which have never been released before. They were all recorded by Jimi, […]