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INXS' 'Kick' (Rhino) INXS’ hit album Kick is getting an audio upgrade.The 1987 album is the latest record to get a Rhino High Fidelity release, with an audiophile-vinyl edition of the album set to drop May 1.Kick (Rhino High Fidelity) was cut from the original master tapes and will feature new liner notes from journalist David Fricke. The release is limited to just 5,000 individually numbered copies and is available exclusively […]

On This Day, March 11, 1972 ...Neil Young hit #1 on the Billboard 200 with his fourth studio album, Harvest. It spent two weeks at the top of the chart.The album featured guest vocals by Young's Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmates, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, along with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. It also featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two songs.Songs on Harvest include “Heart of […]

Bruce Springsteen on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(Disney/Randy Holmes) The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has an opening date.The center, formerly known as the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music, will open to the public on June 7 on the campus of New Jersey's Monmouth University. Not only will the center house the Bruce Springsteen archives, but it will host exhibits, concerts, education initiatives and more, covering all aspects […]

Rob Halford (L) and Ian Hill of Judas Priest perform on stage at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre on October 18, 2025 in Chula Vista, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) The new Judas Priest documentary, The Ballad of Judas Priest, is set to have its Canadian premiere at the 2026 Hot Docs Festival.The film, co-directed by Sam Dunn and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, chronicles the band’s five-decade […]

Mike Campbell of Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs joins Backberry Smoke onstage at Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park on August 09, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images) Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs are hitting the road this summer.The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist and his band have announced a 10-date tour that will kick off July 7 in Minneapolis. The tour will hit […]

Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere artwork. (Courtesy of Live Nation) Metallica has shared a statement thanking fans following the announcement of their Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas."We are so appreciative and grateful to all of you for the incredible response to our upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas," Metallica writes in an Instagram post. "We are completely and […]

Portrait of American rock band Bon Jovi backstage before a performance, Illinois, early March, 1987. Pictured are, from left, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Alec John Such. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) It's their life and it's headed to the big screen.Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has just closed a deal to make a biopic about New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi, with frontman Jon Bon […]

(L-R) Richard Williams, Tom Brislin, Phil Ehart, Joe Deninzon, Ronnie Platt, and Billy Greer of Kansas perform on stage at Balboa Theatre on September 17, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) Kansas has announced some new tour dates with 38 Special.The “Carry On My Wayward Son” rockers have added seven co-headlining dates with 38 Special to their 2026 schedule. The tour begins June 5 in Little […]

Tommy DeCarlo performs on stage at Alice Cooper's 21st Annual Christmas Pudding at Celebrity Theatre on December 09, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) Boston founder Tom Scholz has paid tribute to the band’s late singer Tommy DeCarlo, who passed away Monday at age 60 after being diagnosed with brain cancer last September.“Everyone who has heard Tommy sing on stage, or on BOSTON albums, knows what a […]