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One OK Rock served as the special guest on Muse and Evanescence’s North American tour.Just two years later, the Japanese rockers have leveled up to full-on headliner status.Starting in May, the “Wherever You Are” group will play arenas all over the U.S. and Canada on their ‘Detox Tour’ in support of their upcoming album with the same name due out in February along with special guest Stand Atlantic.Midway through the nationwide run, Takahiro Moriuchi and co.

Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee has revealed he nearly died because of a recent sepsis infection.The 61-year-old heavy metal rocker, who has been with the band Scorpions since 2016, shared details of his life-and-death battle on Thursday in a Facebook post.“Just a quick statement about what has been happening to me these past three weeks,” the Swedish-born star began his statement.“First I like to thank everyone for these heartwarming Christmas and New Years greetings, that I have not been able to respond to. I always try to do that every year.”“This holiday season, I have been hospitalized with a very serious blood infection (Sepsis),” Dee confessed.

Ringo Starr thrilled fans with a surprise reunion onstage at a London concert. “Should we rock? Get on your kit,” McCartney said to his former bandmate as Starr came on, and the crowd went wild. The two last surviving Beatles performed in front of 20,000 fans at London’s O2 arena as part of the final night of McCartney’s “Got Back” tour.

Larry Mullen Jr. of U2 fame has a diagnosis that makes playing music difficult.Mullen, drummer and founding member of the Irish rock band, revealed in a new interview with Times Radio that he suffers from dyscalculia, a learning disorder.“I’ve always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers,” he explained.

Pearl Jam is leaving no stone unturned.After wrapping 2024’s massive ‘Dark Matter Tour’ in support of their recently-released record, the Rock Hall of Famers announced they will play ten concerts next year in five cities that they didn’t hit earlier this year.This time around, Eddie Vedder and co. will shred in Hollywood, FL (April 24, 26), Atlanta, GA (April 29, May 1), Nashville, TN (May 6, 8), Raleigh, NC (May 11, 13) and Pittsburgh, PA (May 16, 18).Although we don’t know what putting multiple shows in cities means just yet — will they have different set lists on nights one and two like Metallica has been doing on tour? — we do know that these concerts are an extension of the ‘Dark Matter Tour’ as confirmed by this Instagram post from the group.“We still care about putting something out there that is meaningful,” lead singer Eddie Vedder shared in a press release about the record.

Pierce The Veil just announced their international ‘I Can’t Hear You Tour’ that will send the band to North America, Europe and Latin America from May through December 2025.Early in the run, the post-hardcore trio has a gig at New York City’s Madison Square Garden booked. They’ll headline at the Knicks and Rangers’ home on Tuesday, May 20.Sleeping With Sirens will serve as Pierce The Veil’s special guest at all shows.

AC/DC is back in black in the U.S.In 2025, the high-octane Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are embarking on a North American stadium tour for the first time since 2016.This 13-show run, which they’re calling the ‘Power Up Tour,’ is in support of their raucous 2020 album with the same name. The Pretty Reckless will serve as the special guest at all dates.As of now, AC/DC hasn’t announced a New York or New Jersey date.

“Vertigo,” “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” and “City of Blinding Lights,” the group’s 11th studio LP would go multiplatinum and win them eight of their 22 Grammys — including a second Album of the Year prize after 1987’s seminal “The Joshua Tree.”Reinforcing their relevance as Bono’s boys gave way from alt-rock to aughts rock, it turned middle age into an “Atomic” age for U2.Boom.And who better to help U2 recapture their unforgettable fire than Lillywhite — who had produced the band’s first three albums: 1980’s “Boy,” 1981’s “October” and 1983’s “War,” while also contributing to “The Joshua Tree.”“They were feeling a bit depressed,” recalled Lillywhite, 69. “When they see me, they perk up because it reminds them of when they were young, I suppose.”Indeed, the British producer — who has also worked with everyone from the Rolling Stones to Dave Matthews Band and The Killers — has known U2 since Day One.“When I first worked with them, I was 24 and the eldest member of the band was 19,” he explained.

Jack White down.The former White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather/Them Crooked Vultures frontman just announced his nationwide ‘No Name Tour’ in support of his recently-released Grammy-nominated album with the same name.Early in the run, the 49-year-old rocker will make a pair of stops in Brooklyn.First, the 12-time Grammy winner is slated to headline at Kings Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

former Iron Maiden lead vocalist Paul Di’Anno has been revealed.The singer, born Paul Andrews but known by his stage name Paul Di’Anno, passed away at his home in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England on Oct. 21 at age 66.

Roger Waters are, in the immortal words of Taylor Swift, never ever getting back together.Gilmour recently made it clear that he would “absolutely not” perform with his rival former bandmate ever again, citing Waters’ controversial political views that have included inflammatory comments about Israel, Ukraine and the US.“I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like [president of Russia Vladimir] Putin and [president of Venezuela Nicolás] Maduro,” Gilmour, 78, told the Guardian in October. “Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK.”But the legend and legacy of the British prof-rock band — which sold its catalog to Sony Music for $400 million last month — is such that even a solo Gilmour can draw faithful Floydians for five nights at Madison Square Garden on his “Luck and Strange” Tour.In 2024, that’s more than Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj, you name it.Gilmour released his fifth solo studio album, “Luck and Strange,” in September.

rock music has been dead.But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life.The goth gods — who had been left for dead after not releasing a new studio LP since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — have come back after 16 long years with the best rock album of 2024: “Songs of a Lost World,” which fittingly dropped the day after Halloween. It’s Friday, and I’m in love with the Cure all over again.“Songs of a Lost World” is easily the Cure’s best album since 1992’s “Wish” — which included their hit “Friday I’m in Love” — but maybe even since their 1989 masterpiece “Disintegration.”That’s saying a whole helluva lot for a band that didn’t owe us anything else — and could’ve easily coasted along on the well-deserved Rock & Roll Hall of Fame props they earned in 2019.

Ghost just delivered the perfect Halloween treat.On Monday, Oct. 28, the Swedish heavy metal group announced they’re heading out on a 2025 world tour that will send them to venues all over the globe from April through September.Midway through the U.S.

Bruce Springsteen isn’t dancing in the dough — at least not to billionaire status.The 75-year-old rock legend denies the July Forbes report “conservatively estimating” him to be worth $1.1 billion.“I’m not a billionaire,” he told The Telegraph. “I wish I was, but they got that real wrong.

inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, soft rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne Warwick.It was a five-hour-plus show that also honored hip-hop trailblazers A Tribe Called Quest, punk pioneers the MC5, the effortless dance music of Kool & the Gang, the beach bum tunes of Jimmy Buffett and the jam band fusion of Dave Matthews Band.Dua Lipa opened the show singing Cher’s “Believe” before the 78-year-old icon joined her onstage, giving way to Zendaya who noted that Cher is the only woman to have a No.

Bruce Springsteen has a hungry heart for the stage.The singer, who turned 75 in September, has been performing sold-out arena around the world for close to half a century. And the 20-time Grammy winner has no plans to stop anytime soon.

Ozzy Osbourne, when he almost became the lead singer of the band.After stints by David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar and Extreme’s Gary Cherone, the group was between frontmen circa 2001 when its namesake brothers, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, were in talks for Osbourne to bring his signature wail to VH. “When you get a dog, you don’t expect it to be a cat,” Alex told Rolling Stone in his first interview since guitar god Eddie’s death in 2020.

Jerry Cantrell just spent his summer opening for Bush.Now, just a month later, the prolific Alice In Chains frontman announced he’ll play venues all over North America on his winter 2025 ‘I Want Blood Tour’ in support of his forthcoming album with the same name.Early in the nationwide run, the “Cut You In” singer is slated to drop into Sayreville, NJ’s Starland Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 1, New York City’s Irving Plaza on Wednesday, Feb.

Prince fans will be given the opportunity to live how the iconic music star lived, for a small fee.Lisa and Wendy of The Revolution band have restored Prince’s childhood home in Minneapolis, Minnesota and are making it available on Airbnb from October 26 to December 14. Over the 25 consecutive nights, fans will be allowed to book a one-night stay, with up to four guests for $7 per person – a nod to the former musician’s favorite number.The downstairs of Prince’s childhood home has purple velvet wallpaper and a ‘80s stereo preloaded with songs “that inspired The Kid,” according to the press release.The “spa,” or bathroom, is decorated similar to the “When Doves Cry” music video.

The Cure has been found again. Robert Smith and his band of not-so-merry men are back in their inimitable mope mode with “Alone,” their first new song in 16 years, which was released on Thursday.And even after such a long wait, the single takes its sweet — or make that, sullen — time to unfold over nearly seven minutes.In fact, as the group’s absorbing atmospherics — shades of their 1989 classic LP “Disintegration” — set the melancholy mood, it takes three minutes and 22 seconds before Smith even sings a single word.But finally, he comes in with his tortured croon: “This is the end of every song that we sing/The fire burned out to ash and the stars grown dim with tears/Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we’ve been/We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness.”Inspired by Ernest Dowson’s poem “Dregs,” “Alone” is an ode “to all the love falling out of our lives,” tailor-made for your doldrums after your next breakup.I mean, did you think that Smith — even though he’s been married to the same woman, Mary Poole, since 1988 — would all of a sudden get happy at 65?It’s comforting to know that some things — and some alt-rock icons — don’t change.Accurately described in the song as a “broken-voiced lament,” “Alone” is the first single and opening track of “Songs of a Lost World” — the Cure’s first studio album since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — which will be released on Nov.