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Courtesy of Counting Crows Counting Crows have announced a U.S. tour alongside The Gaslight Anthem.The summer outing, dubbed The Complete Sweets! tour, launches June 10 in Nashville, and will wrap up Aug. 23 in Englewood, Colorado. Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit […]

Indiana rocker John Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.Mellencamp was inducted by Billy Joel, who told him, “Don't let this club membership change you, John.  We need you to be pissed off and restless because no matter what they tell us—we know this country is going to hell in a handcart."He added, "People […]

Michael Tullberg/Getty Images; Disney/Randy Holmes The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone made a surprise appearance in Los Angeles, joining Finneas on stage to perform The Zombies’ classic tune “Time of the Season.”The band just shared video on Instagram of the performance, which took place Wednesday at the Hollywood Palladium, writing, “An unforgettable moment. Colin joined the incredibly talented @finneas on stage at the Hollywood Palladium for a special performance of Time of the […]

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe was back on stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy Saturday, when the duo brought their tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction to Brooklyn Steel in New York.Stipe joined the pair to perform the Reckoning track "Pretty Persuasion."Stipe previously performed the song with Shannon and Narducy and his R.E.M. bandmates Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry, when the Fables tour hit R.E.M.'s hometown of […]

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell has announced a special event tied in to the upcoming release of his new memoir, Heartbreaker.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will sit down for a conversation with Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on March 19, one day after the book’s March 18 release.And it won’t […]

Disney/Eric McCandless Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be bossed around by Gene Simmons? Well, if you’ve got the dough, now’s your chance.The KISS rocker is offering up what he calls the “ultimate Gene Simmons experience” – a chance to be his personal assistant and band roadie for the day.The package is only available to one person per show, but that person will become a member […]

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Folks are still hitting the theaters to catch the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.BoxOfficeMojo reports that the film, starring Timothée Chalamet as the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, has grossed over $120 million at the box office worldwide since its Christmas Day release.According to Billboard, the film is now the eighth-highest-grossing music biopic, just behind Jamie Foxx’s Ray Charles biopic, Ray, which grossed $124 million.Still topping […]

L-R: Stephen Graham, Bruce Springsteen and Scott Cooper/Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Peaky Blinders actor Stephen Graham will play Bruce Springsteen’s father in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, and he tells British GQ what it was like to meet the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.“I think the first [scene] we did was when we pull up to this big house, and I'm in the ‘50s look, and everything. And he came over, and […]

Peter Frampton and Michael McDonald attend the ninth annual LOVE ROCKS NYC benefit concert For God's Love We Deliver/Getty Images for LOVE ROCKS NYC/photographer Dimitrios Kambouris The ninth annual Love Rocks NYC concert took place at New York's Beacon Theatre Thursday, raising $4 million for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to people who are too sick to prepare them themselves.The concert featured an A-list lineup of talent, […]