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Disney/Randy Holmes In what we're guessing is not coincidental timing post-Election Day, the David Letterman YouTube channel has uploaded unearthed footage of Green Day's 2004 performance of "American Idiot" on the Late Show.The episode aired on Sept. 20, just a day before Green Day dropped their American Idiot album.In introducing Billie Joe Armstrong and company, Letterman quipped, "I don't know how our next guests slipped past Secret Service."Green Day celebrated the 20th […]

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images After canceling his live dates in September due to what he called an "urgent heart condition," Dave Mason has now given fans a major health update.On Instagram, the ex-Traffic rocker reveals that he's going to have heart valve replacement surgery on Nov. 11. He says specifically, he'll be having a kind of surgery called TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement. It's a minimally invasive procedure that Mason […]

Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Not only is Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee not dead, he's also extremely ticked off.A fake news article claiming that he'd died -- from a website that had previously published a fake story claiming that Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore had died -- has been circulating on Facebook. Dee took to Instagram to share a screenshot of the Facebook story with the word "FAKE!" written across it."NO! I AM NOT […]

On This Day, Nov. 6, 1993 …Meat Loaf scored his one and only #1 song with the track “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That),” from his multi-Platinum album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, the sequel to his 1977 debut, Bat Out Of Hell.The track, written by Jim Steinman, who penned Meat Loaf’s other classic tunes “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” featured […]

Sony Music Entertainment UK Judas Priest will mark the 35th anniversary of their 1990 album Painkiller on their 2025 Shield of Pain tour.In an Instagram post, the metal legends tease, "This rare unique set including beloved classics will be defending the metal faith in a truly memorable experience throughout Europe this summer."The RIAA Gold-certified Painkiller spawned singles in "A Touch of Evil" and the title track. It marked the final Priest […]

Courtesy of the Nicky Hopkins Family Archive New documentary The Session Man about the late rock keyboardist Nicky Hopkins is out now on Prime Video, giving fans insight into the famed musician who played on records by The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones and more.The film features interviews with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, as well as The Kinks' Dave Davies, The Who's Pete Townshend and Peter Frampton, who met Hopkins when he was […]

Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images In October, Pink Floyd sold the rights to their recorded works to Sony Music for a reported $400 million. And guitarist David Gilmour says he's glad to be done with it — so he doesn't have to fight with his bandmates anymore.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Gilmour, 78, says, "I’m an old person. I’ve spent the last 40-odd years trying to fight the good fight against […]

Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank Over the five decades that Saturday Night Live has been on the air, almost ever major rock or rock-adjacent act has appeared on the show. So in honor of the show's milestone 50th season, Rolling Stone has ranked its 50 greatest musical performances.Topping the list is David Bowie's 1979 performance of "The Man Who Sold the World," during which he was carried to the mic by performance artists […]

Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images Robert Plant is rich enough to take a private plane wherever he wants to go, but evidently he prefers to take the train — if you believe a new ad for Italy's Trenitalia rail service.Plant is currently touring Europe with his acoustic band Saving Grace, which features Suzy Dian. According to Classic Rock magazine, when they were in Italy they made the promotional film for Trenitalia's […]