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Peter Gabriel Releases ‘Won’t Stand Down,’ a Call to Activism From Upcoming Album OI
Peter Gabriel has released ‘Won’t Stand Down,’ a politically charged new single from his upcoming 11th studio album OI, inspired by The Elders and Marvin Gaye.
How Buddy Guy Inspired Eric Clapton to Leave the Bluesbreakers and Form Cream
Eric Clapton credited Buddy Guy as the key inspiration for leaving John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and forming the power trio Cream in the 1960s.
Mammoth WVH Announces Summer 2026 Headline Tour Dates Across North America and Europe
Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth announces summer 2026 headline tour dates supporting The End, including European arena shows and a North American run from July 27
Lynyrd Skynyrd Saddles Up for Fall 2026 Tour
The boys from Jacksonville aren’t done with 2026 yet. Not by a long shot. Fresh off the Double Trouble Double…
Gene Simmons Wishes He Had Staged the Intervention He Never Staged for Ace Frehley
The hardest sentences in rock and roll are the ones that come too late. Gene Simmons has been issuing them…
Metallica Crack Open the Vault Again: ReLoad Gets the Deluxe Box Set Treatment
Nearly three decades after it landed in record stores with a thud heard around the metal world, ReLoad is getting…
Diamond Dave Cashes In: David Lee Roth Joins the Rock Royalty Catalog Gold Rush
There is a particular kind of grin that only appears on the face of a man who has just been…
The Soul Beneath the Smoke: New Gregg Allman Documentary Heads to Theaters in June
The voice was always the giveaway. Long before the world understood what the Allman Brothers Band represented, before the twin-guitar…
The Rolling Stones Speak in Foreign Tongues: Teases 25th Album With Global Billboard Blitz
The world’s most enduring rock-and-roll outfit doesn’t do anything quietly, and the rollout for their twenty-fifth studio album is no…
Journey’s Stagecoach Set Ends With Emergency Evacuation
The desert always has the last word at Indio. On Saturday night, April 25, the wind came in hard off…
Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder and Rock’s Forrest Gump, Dead at 79
He once called himself “kind of the Forrest Gump of rock,” and like the character, Dave Mason had an uncanny…
Madonna Offers Rewards For “Safe Return” of Vintage Costumes “Lost” at Coachella
The Queen of Pop came back to the polo fields of Indio wearing history, and history, apparently, has walked off…
An Unreleased Prince Single Drops on the 10 Year Anniversary of his Passing
The song sat in a tape vault under a purple house in Minnesota for 34 years before anyone was…
The Party Train Keeps Rolling: ZZ Top Piles On Another Two Dozen 2026 Tour Dates
That little ol’ band from Texas has done it again. ZZ Top, the bearded, beat-up, boogie-propelled institution that has somehow…
Dylan at 85: The Never Ending Tour Keeps Rolling as Bard Piles On Summer Dates
The old troubadour isn’t finished yet. Not by a country mile. Bob Dylan, who turns 85 on May 24, has…
Watch: “The First Songs We Ever Played”: Phish Hands Joe Walsh a Love Letter at the Sphere
There are tribute covers, and then there are tribute covers where the guy who wrote the song is sitting ten…
Paul McCartney Announces new Duet with Ringo Starr: “Home to Us” Lands on The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Fifty six years after the last handshake at Savile Row, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are doing the one thing…
KISS Kruise Drops Anchor in Vegas for Round Two
There’s a certain irony in calling something a “kruise” when the closest body of water is a hotel swimming pool,…
Phil Collins Talks About His Second Rock Hall Nod
The man who once turned a drum fill into a cultural event has never been one for grand declarations. So…
The Rolling Stones Release a New Single as “The Cockroaches,” But It’s Only On Vinyl
The Rolling Stones drop a vinyl-only blues stomp under a pseudonym, announce a July album, and remind everyone why they…
After 20 Years, Billy Idol Is Entering the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The second time is always sweeter when the first time stings. Billy Idol, who watched his debut Rock Hall nomination…
Iron Maiden’s Troubled History With the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, And What Their Nomination Means
After two decades of eligibility, three nominations, and one of the most memorably hostile relationships in Rock Hall history, Iron…
Phil Collins, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Question Nobody Wants to Answer
A long-overdue solo induction lands against a backdrop of years of health struggles, a quiet comeback signal, and serious doubt…
The Class of 2026: Rock Hall Swings Wide and Lands Big
Iron Maiden, Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, and Phil Collins headline a sprawling 18-honoree class that reflects the genre’s elastic identity The…