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On This Day, Nov. 4, 1988 ...The U2 music documentary/concert film Rattle and Hum opened in theaters, following the Irish rockers as they recorded the hybrid live/studio album of the same name.Directed by Phil Joanou, the film included concert footage from their fall 1987 Joshua Tree tour of North America, as well as footage of the band in the studio recording. It also followed them as they visited historical musical sites […]

The Doors' Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger pose for a portrait circa 1968 in Hollywood, California. (Edmund Teske/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) A new podcast dedicated to The Doors has been announced.Really?? The Doors? will be hosted by The New Yorker writer Naomi Fry and aims to "use The Doors' chaotic legend to ask what happens when myth overtakes meaning, and what that reveals about how we talk about […]

Scott Weiland performs at the Fox Theater on October 20, 2009 in Oakland, California. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, has announced a concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of his father's death.The show will take place on Dec. 3 at the Garden Amp in Orange County, California. Jakob Nowell, current Sublime frontman and son of the late Bradley Nowell, will also perform."10 […]

Guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Jeff Pilson and guitarist Luis Maldonado on stage as the band Foreigner performs on the "Fox & Friends" Summer Concert Series at FOX Studios on July 22, 2022 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Foreigner is set to rock the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.The "Juke Box Hero" outfit will perform upon the event's Stranger Things float. The Netflix series has previously used the Foreigner songs […]

Paul Rodgers performs onstage during the 2023 CMT Music Awards at Moody Center on April 02, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for CMT) Paul Rodgers will no longer be attending Bad Company's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Rodgers was set to reunite with former bandmate Simon Kirke, the only other surviving member of the original Bad Co. lineup, at the ceremony, with Kirke recently confirming that they […]

George Thorogood performs at Spark Arena on May 17, 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Dave Simpson/Getty Images) George Thorogood & the Destroyers have announced a 2026 North American leg for their Baddest Show on Earth tour.The trek launches March 6 in Highland, California, and will conclude up in Canada on April 4 in Ottawa."When we decided to call this tour 'The Baddest Show on Earth,' we had no doubt we could back […]

Slash and Axl Rose of Guns and Roses perform, during a show as part of the 'Hell & Heaven 2023' at Foro Pegaso on November 5, 2023 in Toluca, Mexico. (Luis Gutierrez/Norte Photo/Getty Images) Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit are headlining the 2026 edition of England's Download Festival.The bill also includes Bad Omens, Trivium, Architects, Halestorm, Ice Nine Kills, BABYMETAL, The Pretty Reckless, Black Veil Brides, Mastodon, […]

Donna Jean Godchaux performs during the "Move Me Brightly" 70th Birthday Tribute for Jerry Garcia at TRI Studios on August 3, 2012 in San Rafael, California. (C Flanigan/WireImage) Former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died. She was 78."It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of Donna Jean Godchaux," reads a post on the Dead's Instagram. "Her unmistakable voice and radiant spirit touched the lives of countless […]

'Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run' book cover. (Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company) Paul McCartney looks back at the infamous rumors that he'd died in the 1960s in his upcoming new book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run. As the story went, conspiracy theorists alleged that the Beatles member had actually died in the mid-'60s and had been replaced by a lookalike. As a […]