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Sun Records/Cover art by Johnny Depp Ian Hunter has released a deluxe edition of his 2024 album, Defiance Part 2: Fiction, to digital services for the very first time.Initially released as part of a Record Store Day vinyl, the deluxe edition features three bonus tracks: “How’d Ya Like To Meet Henry,” featuring Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Matt Cameron; “Normal Service Will be Resumed as […]

Round Hill Records Dee Snider’s contribution to the all-star Triumph tribute album has just been released.The Twisted Sister frontman has recorded a cover of the Canadian rockers' classic “Lay It On the Line,” one of 15 songs that will appear on Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph, dropping June 6."The first time I heard this song, I was blown away,” Snider shares. “There's only one (Triumph frontman) Rik Emmett and Triumph. I'm […]

Dave Benett/Getty Images for Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing Pink Floyd’s 1972 concert film, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, is set to hit theaters and IMAX on April 24, but it sounds like the band almost skipped out on the whole project.During a preview screening of the film in London, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason revealed that the band initially wasn’t interested in making the film. He credits the director, Adrian […]

On This Day, April 18, 2024 ...Allman Brothers Band founding member Dickey Betts died at the age of 80.Born Forrest Richard Betts on Dec. 12, 1943, Dickey co-founded Allman Brothers Band in 1969 with brothers Duane and Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johanson. They released their self-titled debut that year.They went on to be considered one of the pioneering Southern rock bands and were particularly known for their […]

Kevin Mazur/WireImage Music from the late Robbie Robertson will be featured in the new History Channel documentary Sitting Bull, Rolling Stone reports.The score features music Robertson made with his son, Sebastian Robertson, and is among the final pieces of music Robbie worked on before his August 2023 death.“We were thrilled by the prospect and dove right in,” Sebastian tells the mag of the project. “This was a complicated time in our lives as my dad’s […]

Javier Bragado/Redferns A documentary about Scottish rockers Simple Minds is set to hit U.S. theaters in June.Deadline reports that Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to Simple Minds Everything is Possible, from director Joss Crowley.“From working-class kids in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing Live Aid, this is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring around the world to this day," reads the film description.Simple […]

Festication Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard are headlining the inaugural Rock the Tides, a new destination festival taking place Nov. 7-9 in Riviera Maya, Mexico.The bill also includes Poison's Bret Michaels, Extreme, The Struts, Buckcherry, Dorothy and Living Colour."Mexico has always been one of the most electric places we've played - the energy is just unreal," Mötley Crüe says. "Some of our most unforgettable shows have happened there, and we know this […]

Disney/Michael J. Le Brecht II Stevie Nicks hinted back in June that she was going to be working on a new album, and now she’s shared a new update about the project.Nicks was inducted into the Pollstar Live! Hall of Fame Wednesday night in Los Angeles, and during her speech she spilled the beans on her new music."I'm actually making a record right now. I call it the ghost record […]

Al Pereira/WireImage New York City restauranteur Keith McNally has outed musician Patti Smith for her rude behavior.McNally, who is behind such NYC restaurants as Balthazar and Minetta Tavern, has a new memoir coming out, I Regret Almost Everything. In an excerpt shared by New York Magazine's Grub Street, he writes about Smith driving a server to tears back in the '70s.The incident occurred at the Manhattan restaurant One Fifth, where McNally […]