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The song sat in a tape vault under a purple house in Minnesota for 34 years before anyone was allowed to hear Prince sing it. That changed on April 20, when NPG Records and Legacy Recordings released “With This Tear,” a tender piano ballad recorded at Paisley Park in November 1991 and left there,…
That little ol’ band from Texas has done it again. ZZ Top, the bearded, beat-up, boogie-propelled institution that has somehow been doing this for 56 years and counting, just shoveled nearly two dozen more dates onto a 2026 tour that was already the size of a small state. The latest batch, announced April 21, tacks…
The old troubadour isn’t finished yet. Not by a country mile. Bob Dylan, who turns 85 on May 24, has once again reached into his bottomless bag of tour dates and pulled out another handful, extending what was already shaping up to be one of the most sprawling American itineraries of his late career. The…
There are tribute covers, and then there are tribute covers where the guy who wrote the song is sitting ten rows back, trying to figure out how to keep his face composed. Saturday night at the Sphere in Las Vegas, April 18th, Phish pulled off the latter. The band was closing out the first weekend…
Fifty six years after the last handshake at Savile Row, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are doing the one thing the Beatles somehow never got around to doing: an actual, bona fide, you-sing-a-line-I-sing-a-line duet. And wouldn’t you know it, the song is about Liverpool. The news dropped in the most McCartney way imaginable. No Super…
Queen guitarist Brian May tells Sammy Hagar about how strong Freddie Mercury was in his final days. Even though he was extremely sick at that point, he wanted to continue to create and release music until the end. Find AXS TV on your TV — http://www.axs.tv Subscribe to AXS TV on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/axstv Download…
There’s a certain irony in calling something a “kruise” when the closest body of water is a hotel swimming pool, but KISS have never been a band overly concerned with semantics. Paul Stanley confirmed during an April 11 Q&A session at the Indy KISS Fan Expo that the 2026 edition of KISS Kruise: Landlocked In…
The man who once turned a drum fill into a cultural event has never been one for grand declarations. So when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Phil Collins among its 2026 class of inductees on Monday night, the response from the 75-year-old legend was as understated as you’d expect from a guy…
The Rolling Stones drop a vinyl-only blues stomp under a pseudonym, announce a July album, and remind everyone why they refuse to go away They put up posters first. Cryptic flyposters appeared around Camden Town and throughout London with no explanation beyond a name, “The Cockroaches,” and a QR code directing curious passersby to a…
The second time is always sweeter when the first time stings. Billy Idol, who watched his debut Rock Hall nomination in 2025 come and go without the result he was hoping for, is now a confirmed member of the class of 2026. Hours before Monday night’s announcement went public on American Idol, he got on…
After two decades of eligibility, three nominations, and one of the most memorably hostile relationships in Rock Hall history, Iron Maiden are in Bruce Dickinson once said that rock and roll music does not belong in a mausoleum in Cleveland. He said other things too, none of them particularly diplomatic. And yet, as of Monday…
A long-overdue solo induction lands against a backdrop of years of health struggles, a quiet comeback signal, and serious doubt about what November 14 will actually look like When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame called Phil Collins’ name Monday night, the 75-year-old Londoner became one of only a handful of artists ever inducted…
Iron Maiden, Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, and Phil Collins headline a sprawling 18-honoree class that reflects the genre’s elastic identity The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has never been particularly good at playing it safe, and the class of 2026 makes that abundantly clear. Announced Monday night on a Hall of Fame-themed episode of American…
Alice Cooper shot a 65 in a golf round! Most professional golfers can’t shoot that on a good day. He tells Dan Rather about that once-in-a-lifetime score and how he used golf to help keep him away from other nastier addictions. Find AXS TV on your TV — http://www.axs.tv Subscribe to AXS TV on YouTube…
There is a moment in every slow-motion tragedy where the crash finally becomes loud enough for the room to stop talking. For Britney Spears, that moment arrived on the night of March 4, when California Highway Patrol officers spotted a black BMW 430i tearing erratically down the 101 Freeway in Ventura County. The driver was…