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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy Central Rush launched their final tour in 2015, which hit only the U.S. and Canada, and surviving band members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal they regret they couldn’t bring their show to other countries."I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so that we could do those extra shows and I was unsuccessful," Lee tells Classic Rock in a new interview. "I really felt like I […]

Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Jerry Cantrell's new solo album, I Want Blood, features contributions from Metallica's Robert Trujillo. In an interview with Metal Hammer, the Alice in Chains vocalist/guitarist raises the possibility of collaborating with another 'Tallica member."[Frontman] James [Hetfield] and I have talked about it, kind of," Cantrell shares. "We never had a formal conversation but I've jammed with him at [guitarist] Kirk [Hammett]'s place. I've even spent a night or two […]

On This Day, Jan. 6, 1987 ...Eric Clapton kicked off a six-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall, treating the crowd to such classic songs as “I Shot the Sheriff,” “Wonderful Tonight,” “Cocaine” and more, including Cream tracks “White Room” and “Sunshine of Your Love.”The residency soon became an almost yearly event for Clapton. In 1991 he played a whopping 24 shows at Royal Albert Hall, which broke his own […]

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images While The Beatles broke up in 1970, they're still very much part of popular culture, with the past few years seeing the release of Peter Jackson’s Got Back docuseries, the recent documentary Beatles ’64, their final new song, “Now and Then,” and more. And while Julian Lennon may be Beatle John Lennon’s son, he says he’s usually out of the loop when it comes to new projects associated […]

ABC/Isa Mae Astute It sounds like we may be getting new music from U2 this year.Guitarist The Edge appeared on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast to talk about the band's recent 20th anniversary reissue of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and its accompanying shadow album. While talking about how the band works together in the studio, he let it slip that a new song may be on the way.Edge noted that he and […]

CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images Bono has added another honor to his list of achievements. The U2 frontman was at the White House Saturday, where he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation's highest civilian honor.According to the White House, the honor is given to people who’ve made "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values or security of the United States, world peace or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”“President Biden […]

Reprise Records Neil Young has announced his latest Analog Original Series release, the “lost” album Oceanside Countryside.The previously unreleased album was recorded before 1978’s Comes A Time and includes three songs that wound up appearing on that album, “Goin’ Back,” “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity.”While some of the tracks from the album appear on a CD version of Oceanside Countryside that was part of Young’s Archives Vol. III release, the new version, being released […]

courtesy of House of Blues Las Vegas Carlos Santana has been forced to postpone the start of his 2025 Las Vegas residency after being injured in a fall at his home in Hawaii. “I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and he broke his little finger on his left hand,” Michael Vrionis, president of Universal […]

Al Pereira/Getty Images R.E.M.’s Peter Buck has recorded a cover in celebration of one of his favorite music films of the 1960s.Buck revealed the news on R.E.M.’s Instagram account. He explained that after he appeared on the Revolutions Per Movie podcast, where he discussed the 1968 rock 'n' roll movie Wild in the Streets, he recorded a cover of the movie’s theme song, “Shape of Things To Come,” featuring Vanessa Briscoe Hay […]