Coldplay’s ongoing Music of the Spheres World Tour is now the biggest rock tour of all time. Based on figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Music of the Spheres World Tour has grossed $945.7 million, while selling a total of 8.8 million tickets since Coldplay first started their run of shows back in March of…… read more »
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dr. Dre revealed new information about his long-rumored forthcoming album with Snoop Dogg, Missionary, including accidentally sharing that it includes a collaboration with rock legend Sting. When Dre was asked how many of the album’s new tracks that he raps on, the Compton hip-hop legend disclosed more about…… read more »
Willie Nelson is releasing his 153rd album, Last Leaf on the Tree, on November 1 via Legacy Recordings. The new collection features the country legend reinterpreting songs by Tom Waits, Keith Richards, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Neil Young, Nina Simone, and Warren Zevon, along with tunes written by Willie and his son, Micah Nelson, who…… read more »
On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair started on a remote farm in Bethel, New York. The three-day music festival would feature over 150 musicians and go on to forever alter the landscape of music and culture. On the 55th anniversary of the first day of Woodstock, Ultimate Classic Rock assembled the…… read more »
Alice In Chains are marking the 15th anniversary of their 2009 comeback album, Black Gives Way to Blue, with a vinyl reissue of their long-out-of-print album. The 2-LP repressing of Black Gives Way to Blue is set to arrive on September 27th via Craft Recordings, pressed in a series of four different vinyl options. There…… read more »
Over the course of a week in 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took over as temporary hosts of the daytime talk show, The Mike Douglas Show. A new documentary called Daytime Revolution captures when two of the best known artists in the world became TV hosts. The guests were personally chosen by John and…… read more »
In an interview with Loudwire, former Guns N’ Roses manager Vicky Hamilton disclosed that a TV series is in the works about the 1980s Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles. Hamilton managed a pre-Appetite For Destruction GnR, and also worked with Motley Crue, Poison, and Faster Pussycat. Hamilton’s 2016 autobiography, Appetite for Dysfunction: A…… read more »
Greg Kihn, the singer-songwriter behind the radio hits “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em),” died on Tuesday at the age of 75. Kihn’s family shared the sad news of his passing in a statement, where they revealed that his cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Kihn was one of the…… read more »
Jack Russell, the lead singer of Great White, has died at age 63, just a few weeks after he retired from touring after being diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy. Great White achieved chart success in the 1980s with hits including “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” “Rock Me,” and “The Angel Song.” The…… read more »
During an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Nick Cave shared a moving story about his experience recording with Johnny Cash back in 2002. The Man in Black and Cave sang a duet of the Hank Williams classic, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” for Cash’s American IV album. The country…… read more »
