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Black Sabbath have announced "The End," their farewell tour set to kick off in January. The group is promising concerts that "surpass all previous tours with their most mesmerizing production ever." The North American leg begins in January in Omaha and ends in February at New York City's Madison Square Garden. The band will do a leg in Australia …
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has found himself a new hobby... The musician has reportedly installed three huge beehives, brilliantly named ‘Flea’s Bees’, in his back garden in an attempt to try and bolster the dwindling bee population. According to TMZ, each hive contains over 60,000 bees and Flea has quickly “mastered the craft” …
By the mid-1980s, British metal pioneers Judas Priest seemed like they were running out of ideas, or at the very least, losing focus. 1986’s Turbo featured chirpy keyboards that sounded new wavey and 1988’s Ram It Down was slightly heavier, but marred by sub-par songwriting and out-of-place synths, and it featured an awful cover of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” Just …
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THE ROLLING STONES guitarist Keith Richards has slammed the current rock scene, telling the New York Daily News that "it sounds like a dull thud to me. For most bands, getting the syncopation is beyond them. It's endless thudding away, with no bounce, no lift, no syncopation." Richards was equally critical of heavy metal, telling the Daily News. "Millions are in love …
Hit Week Presents : Pfm (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - 40th Aniversary tour - Friday nov. 13th 2015 - 8.00 pm Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) (translation: Award-winning Marconi Bakery) is the world famous Italian progressive rockband. They were the first Italian group to gain success abroad, entering both the British and American charts. Between 1973 …
“Wind of Change” was the perfect song at the perfect moment for Scorpions — a lighter-waving ballad whose lyrics captured the zeitgeist at a time of immense political upheaval, and became an anthem for the end of the Cold War in the bargain. In fact, partly due to the its video, “Wind of Change” is …
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This summer has brought big news in regards to Guns N’ Roses. In July, it was revealed that guitarists DJ Ashba and Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal left the group, and in August, former GN’R guitarist Slash revealed that he and singer Axl Rose, who have been on the outs since the mid-90s, are on friendly terms again. So, the question on everyone’s mind …
The track is taken from the band's new album 'Blurryface', which is out now, and Tyler and Josh are also on the cover of our current magazine! There are just a couple of days left to pick it up in UK stores, but you can...
SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell said recently that the band had started working on material for its next album and he was apparently telling the truth: a photo posted at the group's Facebook account on Wednesday (September 2), showed the band members in the studio with guitars in hand, with a caption underneath reading, "Working on new material this week." Cornell told The …
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Fan-filmed video footage of MÖTLEY CRÜE's September 2 performance at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida can be seen below. MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx recently spoke to the Ottawa Citizen about the band's "The Final Tour", which kicked off last year and will end New Year's Eve at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after one more round of North American …
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