Disney/Eric McCandlessThe members of Black Sabbath are being honored by their home city of Birmingham.The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved a recommendation that Sabbath founding members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward be given the Freedom of Birmingham honor.The City Freeman title is being given to the band “in deep appreciation and recognition…… read more »
Virgin Music GroupCoheed and Cambria has announced a run of vinyl variants for their upcoming album, The Father of Make Believe.The LP will be available in colors including magenta/black swirl, opaque magenta and translucent light blue, depending on where you order from and where you live in the world.Preorders for all the variants are open now.The Father of Make…… read more »
Barry Brecheisen/Getty ImagesL.S. Dunes, the band featuring My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero and Coheed and Cambria’s Travis Stever, has announced a U.S. tour supporting their upcoming sophomore album, Violet.The headlining trek begins April 8 in Austin, Texas, and concludes May 11 in Phoenix. A presale begins Thursday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on…… read more »
ABC/Paula LoboGreen Day, Fall Out Boy and Hozier are headlining the 2025 Minnesota Yacht Club festival, taking place July 18-20 in St. Paul.The bill also includes the reunited Alabama Shakes, Weezer, Sublime, 311, Garbage, The Beaches, Silversun Pickups, Motion City Soundtrack, Sheryl Crow, Gigi Perez and Semisonic.You can sign up now for a presale beginning…… read more »
Mercury Records/Anthem RecordsRush is looking back at their career with a new box set.Rush 50, dropping March 21, is a 50-track anthology that spans from the band’s 1973 debut single and ends with the last song they ever played together live.The anthology includes select songs from every studio album, as well as seven previously unreleased…… read more »
Samir Hussein/WireImageNever mind the bollocks, here’s Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys ghosting Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.Speaking to NME about the possibility of collaborating with the “Do I Wanna Know?” rocker, Jones shares, “He’s abandoned me!””He wanted to get together and write – five, six, seven years ago,” Jones says of Turner. “I was sick…… read more »
KIDinaKORNER/InterscopeImagine Dragons has announced a new compilation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band’s 2015 sophomore album, Smoke + Mirrors. The set, titled Reflections, is due out Feb. 21. It includes 14 unreleased Smoke + Mirrors-era demo recordings, one of which, “Monica,” is out now via digital outlets.Smoke + Mirrors was originally released on Feb. 17, 2015. While it…… read more »
Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)David Lee Roth, former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, and Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini performing Ratt are the rockers set to headline the annual M3 Rock Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.The 16th edition of the hard rock festival is happening May 2-4, with a lineup that also includes Winger, Slaughter, former KISS…… read more »
ABC/Michael Desmond Blink-182 has announced a one-off show supporting Los Angeles fire relief efforts.The concert takes place Feb. 13 at LA’s Hollywood Palladium. Proceeds will benefit the Pasadena Humane Society, California Fire Department, LAFD Foundation and ARC Firefighter Fund.The bill will also include Alkaline Trio, whose frontman, Matt Skiba, played in blink during Tom DeLonge’s absence…… read more »
Daniel Knighton/Getty ImagesAnthrax’s long-awaited new album will arrive in the fall, if bassist Frank Bello is to be believed.During an interview with American Musical Supply, Bello shares, “The record’s supposed to come out September, October.””There’s some very big shows being planned right now which I can’t talk about, but I’m very psyched,” he adds.Anthrax hasn’t…… read more »
