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'Cheap Trick at Budokan – Live in Las Vegas' admat/(courtesy of Live Nation) Cheap Trick is revisiting their iconic live album Cheap Trick at Budukon, but fans won’t have to travel to Japan to experience it.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced two shows in Las Vegas where they will play the 1978 live record in its entirety, along with their other hits. Cheap Trick at Budokan – Live in Las Vegas will […]

Lynyrd Skynyrd & Foreigner tour admat (Courtesy of Live Nation) Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner are teaming up for a 2026 tour.The Double Trouble Double Vision Tour will consist of 19 co-headlining dates next summer, kicking off July 23 in Atlanta and wrapping Aug 29 in Rogers, Arkansas.“The energy the band has felt knowing we'll be touring with Skynyrd this coming summer has been electric!” Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson says. “Two bands […]

On This Day, Nov. 17, 2010…Rocker Patti Smith was awarded the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.The book documented Smith's relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late '60s and early '70s New York art scene. The book was a New York Times bestseller and won several other awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award.Patti released her second memoir, Bread of Angels, on Nov. 4. Described […]

(L-R) Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of KISS pose as they light the Empire State Building in celebration of the band's final show at The Empire State Building on November 30, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust) KISS returned to the stage for the first time since their final End of the Road World Tour concert at […]

Artwork for 'The Beatles Anthology'/ (courtesy of Disney+) Disney+ is bringing back The Beatles’ Anthology series in November, and now, they are giving fans a look at the project.The streaming service has released a trailer for The Beatles Anthology, a restored and remastered version of ABC’s 1995 documentary that featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr telling stories of their life and career as The Beatles. The […]

Soundgarden at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez) Soundgarden has been working on a new album featuring frontman Chris Cornell's final recordings since his death in 2017. Speaking with ABC Audio on the red carpet of the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, guitarist Kim Thayil shared an update on the record's progress."We're missing a member in making these judgements," Thayil said, referring to […]

Robbie Robertson's final solo album, 2019's Sinematic, features "Beautiful Madness," a song inspired by the two years he and Martin Scorsese lived together after their respective marriages collapsed. That "madness" is now detailed in The Band guitarist's brutally honest new book Insomnia, the sequel to his memoir, Testimony.In Insomnia, Robertson and Scorsese are creatively on fire. As The Band dissolves, they work on The Last Waltz and Raging Bull; hang with Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and […]

Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller pose at the opening night of Pete Townshend's "Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet" at New York City Center on November 14, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Getty Images) He wasn't dancing, but Pete Townshend did appear onstage during Friday's New York City premiere of Quadrophenia: A Rock Ballet, the latest iteration of The Who's 1973 concept album. The production, which debuted in London this […]

(L-R) Lonnie Jordan, Lee Oskar and Howard E. Scott of War attend the ceremony honoring War with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 05, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) War has teamed up with Playing For Change, a multimedia project that aims to connect the world through music, to release a new version of their iconic tune “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” […]