Rev Rock Report

UMG Nashville Ringo Starr’s new country album, Look Up, is out now, and to celebrate Ringo has dropped the video for the album's title track, which features a guest appearance by Molly Tuttle.According to a press release, the video, directed by Wyndham Garnett, was inspired not only by the song's lyrics, but by Ringo’s mission of sharing peace and love. It features a diverse group of people gathered in a field, as […]

Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images Director James Mangold is known for making movies about musicians, like Walk the Line about Johnny Cash and his recent release, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. So what music has played a pivotal role in his life?In a new interview with NME, Mangold shared the music that he considers the soundtrack to his life, and it includes Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M. Mangold says the first concert he ever went to was Springsteen in 1980, […]

InsideOut Music Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is set to release the new live album Live Magic At Trading Boundaries on Jan. 17, and he’s just shared another track from the release.The latest is a live performance of the song “Jacuzzi,” which originally appeared on his 1980 solo album, Defector.Live Magic At Trading Boundaries is a compilation of various recordings taken from years of shows at the intimate venue in Sussex, England, with Hackett performing stripped down versions of classic tracks, […]

Rhino David Lee Roth’s solo career is being revisited in a new box set from Rhino.The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 will include Roth’s first five solo records, including his debut solo EP, 1985’s Crazy from the Heat, which was a top-15 hit for Roth. It included such hit tracks as “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody,” which peaked at #12, and a cover of The Beach Boys’ “California Girls," which hit […]

Heart's Nancy Wilson had quite a reaction to Led Zeppelin the first time she and her sister and bandmate, Ann Wilson, saw the band in concert.While speaking to Premiere Guitar for the Jimmy Page episode of their 100 Guitarists podcast, Nancy shares that in May 1969 they went to see Fifth Dimension at the Green Lake Aqua Theater in Seattle, where Led Zeppelin was the opening act. They actually walked out because they thought frontman Robert Plant was being […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC Actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy will hit the road in February for a tour where they’ll be performing songs from R.E.M.’s 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction, and folks just got a taste of what to expect. The musicians appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, where they performed the R.E.M. classic “Driver 8.”The tour kicks off Feb. 14 in Pioneertown, California, with stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, New […]

On This Day, Jan. 9, 1944 ...James Patrick Page, better known as Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, was born in Heston, a suburb of London.Page started his career as a studio musician and was a member of The Yardbirds before forming Led Zeppelin in 1968 with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham.The band went on to become one of the bestselling acts in music history, releasing nine studio albums that […]

Disney/Randy Holmes A singer covering a Green Day song at an England venue found himself performing in front of Billie Joe Armstrong himself.The "American Idiot" rocker stopped by the Cavern Club in Liverpool, which is famous for hosting The Beatles back in the day, and caught a set by resident artist Callum McMorran, who just happened to be putting a spin on Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."The Cavern […]

Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images for ABA Back in 1990, Billy Joel staged the first rock concerts ever held at New York's Yankee Stadium. Now he's coming back, and he's bringing Rod Stewart with him.Billy has announced that he and Rod will play a one-night-only show at the iconic New York venue on July 18. A Citi cardmember presale starts Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. ET. The general sale begins Jan. 17 at 10 […]