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To get her music back, first Taylor Swift had to re-record it. After a consortium led by Scooter Braun bought the rights to the masters for her first six albums in 2019, much to Swift’s displeasure, she hatched a simple, if wildly labor-intensive plan: Make new Taylor’s Versions of her catalog available, and then ask her massive fanbase to stream them instead of the originals.

No one had ever tried anything like it before, but fans complied by the millions. The strategy worked exactly as intended, devaluing the masters...

Michael J. Fox and Gibson guitars are searching for the cherry red Es-345 guitar that the actor famously played in Back to the Future, which has been missing since the late 1980s.

Fox played the guitar during the film’s pivotal scene at the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance, as his character Marty McFly tried to make sure his high school-aged parents fell in love. Filling in for injured bandleader Marvin Berry (Harry Waters Jr.), Marty rips a rendition of “Johnny B. Goode” (with some hair metal-style solos for good...

Kelsey Grammer has inhabited Dr. Frasier Crane on television for over 40 years (though not consecutively). Starting with his first appearance on "Cheers" in 1984, the acclaimed actor has taken the beloved psychiatrist from the friendly bar in Boston where everyone knows your name to his hometown of Seattle for a long-running spinoff and back to Boston for a short-lived (but hopefully extended) stint as a Harvard professor. He even stopped by Nantucket for an Emmy-nominated appearance at the tight-knit commuter airport on "Wings."

In all those years as Dr. Crane, Grammer has acted alongside a number of incredible guest stars. In fact, he encountered multiple in a single episode of "Frasier" since many prominent performers and personalities appeared as callers on the good doctor's popular radio show. Iconic "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, rock music icon Eddie Van Halen, sitcom royalty Mary Tyler Moore, and prolific director Penny Marshall were just a...

“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” Bruce Springsteen declared from a Manchester, U.K. stage May 14. At the kick-off show of his newly rechristened Land of Hope and Dreams Tour with the E Street Band, Springsteen framed his criticism of Donald Trump in patriotism: “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its faults, is...

Wolfgang Van Halen stopped by the Drumeo studio for a new video feature about his uncle, Alex, the drummer of Van Halen. In the 20-minute clip, Wolfgang opens up about his uncle’s legacy as a somewhat underrated facet of Van Halen, while also playing through a few Van Halen songs on the kit himself.

“If he wasn’t in a band with Eddie Van Halen, I think he would be lauded as one of the greatest drummers of all-time,” Wolfgang said. “Seeing the show live, you’ve got Dave fucking jumping around, doing pirouettes and shit, and you’ve got all the crazy shit dad’s doing — there’s so much happening, you can’t really lock in on the fact that Alex is demolishing everything in the most amazing way.”

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Wolfgang goes on to discuss Alex’s equipment and over-the-top drum kits — a combination of decorative excess,...

After 35 years, The Simpsons is making a significant change to one of its most recognizable voices. Pamela Hayden, who has voiced the endearingly nerdy character, Milhouse, since the series began in 1989, has officially stepped away from the role. Her departure marks a major shift for the long-running series, which rarely changes its core cast.

In this Sunday’s season 36 finale, a new voice will quietly take over the character. It’s quite a handoff, but a meaningful one. For a show built on a long-running legacy, replacing a voice so closely tied to a character is no small move, and fans are about to hear the difference.

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After 35 years of voicing the bespectacled best friend of Bart Simpson, Pamela Hayden is saying goodbye to The Simpsons. Her retirement, announced in November last year,...

For 35 years, Bart Simpson’s blue-haired best friend, Milhouse Van Houten, was voiced by the same actor, Pamela Hayden, on Fox’s The Simpsons. Hayden announced her retirement in November 2024 after appearing in nearly 700 episodes of the beloved cartoon, prompting the question of who would take over the role of Milhouse. Hayden also voiced the bully Jimbo Jones on the show in addition to the nerdy Milhouse.

The wait is over now as, per Entertainment Weekly, singer Kelly Macleod will take over as the voice of Milhousestarting with the 36th season finale of The Simpsons set to air Sunday, May 18. The episode, titled “Estranger Things,” is described per the official summary as, “When Bart and Lisa stop watching Itchy & Scratchy together, Marge fears that they’ll start to drift apart…but she has no idea how bad things are about to get.”

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In a recent appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, comedian Bill Hader recalled a hilarious story from his days working on South Park when Van Halen singer David Lee Roth pitched a movie — starring himself — to the show’s creative team.

“When I worked at South Park, he pitched a movie to us where he was an assassin: ‘It’s about a guy trying to get his dog back,'” Hader told Conan and his co-hosts, impersonating Roth. Hader and the South Park crew had to remind Dlr: “Yeah, they made this movie John Wick that’s kinda similar.”

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Roth’s response was gold, as impersonated by Hader: “‘Nah, but the guy has a dog?! Whaddaya mean he has a dog?'”

As Hader recalled, South Park co-creator Trey Parker then threw Dlr an alternate pitch: The movie would instead star Roth as himself basically,...

In a recent appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, comedian Bill Hader recalled a hilarious story from his days working on South Park when Van Halen singer David Lee Roth pitched a movie — starring himself — to the show’s creative team.

“When I worked at South Park, he pitched a movie to us where he was an assassin: ‘It’s about a guy trying to get his dog back,'” Hader told Conan and his co-hosts, impersonating Roth. Hader and the South Park crew had to remind Dlr: “Yeah, they made this movie John Wick that’s kinda similar.”

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Roth’s response was gold, as impersonated by Hader: “‘Nah, but the guy has a dog?! Whaddaya mean he has a dog?'”

As Hader recalled, South Park co-creator Trey Parker then threw Dlr an alternate pitch: The movie would instead star Roth as himself basically,...

This year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct acts including Soundgarden, Outkast, and the White Stripes — but some huge names from the ballot didn’t make it, most notably Mariah Carey (for the third time!), Oasis, and Phish.

Carey is an undisputed pop legend; Oasis recorded some of the greatest songs of the Nineties and are about to embark on the most-anticipated reunion tour in years; Phish are, well, Phish, a band that’s created a universe of its own, playing arenas decades into their career. So what happened?...

Wolfgang Van Halen has revealed that he used his late father Eddie Van Halen‘s iconic Frankenstein guitar, aka the Frankenstrat, to record parts on his new Mammoth song “The End.”

The intro to Wolfgang’s one-off single sounds eerily reminiscent to Eddie’s guitar tapping — one of his signature techniques — as heard on Van Halen hits like “Hot for Teacher.” Not only does Wolfgang emulate that tapping perfectly, but he even used Eddie’s legendary red-and-white striped axe to evoke his father’s tone and sound.

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“Fun fact, I recorded the main tapping of the song, and the slap part with the Frankenstein!” shared Wolfgang on X/Twitter, along with a video of him performing the slap part. “Makes me feel closer to Pop that such an important part of his history can live with mine every time I record.”

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Gene Simmons and his solo band kicked off their 2025 tour with gigs in Georgia and Kentucky, albeit the first was cut short due to weather.

Simmons and company only made it through six songs at the tour kickoff show on Friday (May 2nd) at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City, Georgia. The setlist opened with two Kiss classics, “Duece” and “Shout It Out Loud,” and Gene later ran through a cover of Van Halen’s “House of Pain” before the gig was called off due to heavy rain.

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The following night went better, with Simmons’ band running through the full setlist at the Beaver Dam Amphitheater in Kentucky. The first six songs remained the same, with Simmons also throwing in covers of Motörhead (“Ace of Spades”), Thin Lizzy (“Bad Reputation”), and The Beatles (“And Your Bird Can Sing”). The rest of set was...

Hot off his first full concert in five years, David Lee Roth has announced a Summer 2025 US tour. The Van Halen legend will play more than a dozen shows from late July through mid September.

Diamond Dave will kick off the outing July 31st in Hollywood, Florida, and wrap things up September 14th in Napa, California. Along the way, the legendary singer will hit such cities as Bristol, Va; Atlantic City, NJ; Huntington, NY; Cincinnati, Oh; and St. Louis, Mo, among other stops.

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A Live Nation pre-sale using the code Freestyle will begin Tuesday (May 6th) at 10 a.m. local time, while a general on-sale starts Friday, May 9th, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The tour announcement comes just a few days after Dlr played a set at the M3 Rock Festival this past Saturday (May 3rd), marking his first full concert...

As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn’t come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen’s death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland, Saturday night, Van Halen fans were accorded the next best thing: Roth’s return to the stage after five years, playing a set comprised completely of songs from his former band.

Other than a corporate gig for Home Depot in 2023, the last time most people saw Roth onstage was more than five years ago,...

David Lee Roth played his first full concert in five years at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland, on Saturday night (May 3rd). The singer performed a 16-song set consisting entirely of Van Halen classics with his solo band. Update: Roth has announced a US tour taking place this summer.

Diamond Dave’s previous full show took place opening for Kiss on March 10th, 2020, just a few days before the pandemic shut down the concert industry. Since then, Dlr canceled a planned Las Vegas residency and seemingly retired from the stage before playing a couple of mini-sets at corporate gigs.

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At the M3 Rock Festival, Dlr kicked things off with “Panama,” and proceeded to sing other Van Halen favorites like “Runnin’ with the Devil,” “Jamie’s Cryin’,” “Hot for Teacher,” “Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love,” and the set-closing “Jump.” The only non-original Van...

A reunion of the 1996 vampire action film From Dusk Till Dawn has happened, but it isn't for a sequel or a reboot. Instead, director Robert Rodriguez decided to listen to a fan's request and revisit the horror universe that introduced us to Santánico Pandemonium. How exactly? Through a music video that'll leave you wanting more of Rodriguez's unique approach to the vampire genre.

The music video is "The End," by heavy metal band Mammoth. Band leader Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of guitar legend Eddie, stars in the video where the band arrives at a shady bar where their tunes aren't exactly welcome. We'll skip a few of the details that may give you an idea that the bar is just a branch of From Dusk Till Dawn's T*tty Twister.

As reported by Fangoria, the video is based on an idea by the guitarist and singer. Wolfgang...

During the next episode of Wolf Van Halen’s “Top of the Pack” on Classic Rewind (Ch. 25), the musician and SiriusXM host celebrates Mother’s Day with a special co-host: his mom, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Valerie Bertinelli!

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Tune in to Classic Rewind to hear the the newest episode of “Top of the Pack,” featuring Wolf and Valerie, offering an inside look at the Van Halen family. Part of his Mother’s Day gift to mom: She gets to pick the songs. Valerie’s return to the show makes this another can’t-miss special that will rebroadcast on Classic Rewind throughout the week and is available now on the SiriusXM app and web player.

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Genre favorites Robert Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero teamed up to co-direct Mammoth‘s monstrous music video for “The End.”

Mammoth is fronted by Wolfgang Van Halen — son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli — who played bass in Van Halen from 2007 until their disbanding in 2020.

The short film, which pays homage to Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller,” was written by Wolfgang and Rodriguez.

Wolfgang and his band members — Jon Jourdan, Ronnie Ficarro, Frank Sidoris, and Garrett Whitlock — star alongside horror icon Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn), Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, and Bertinelli.

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Oct 31 – Tba

Nov 1 – Las Vegas, Nv – House of Blues

Nov 4 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues

Nov 5 – Houston, TX – House of Blues

Nov 7 – Lake Buena Vista, Fl – House of Blues

Nov 8 – Atlanta, Ga – Tabernacle

Nov 9 – Charlotte, Nc – The Fillmore

Nov 11 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring

Nov 12 – Show information to come soon

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Sammy Hagar’s The Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency kicked off Wednesday night at the Park MGM. The Red Rocker and his band, which includes guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Kenny Aronoff, and keyboardist Rai Thistlethwayte, stuck largely to the setlist they brought around to North American amphitheaters last summer, with some very notable surprises.

The first one took place at the top of the show, when they opened with “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” the brand-new song that Hagar claimed he wrote with Eddie Van Halen in a dream.

Wolfgang Van Halen‘s Mammoth have released a new song, “The End,” along with a star-studded Robert Rodriguez-directed video featuring Danny Trejo, Slash, and more.

“The End” marks the first new music from Wolfgang since he dropped his initials from the Mammoth Wvh moniker, and it’s a ripper, opening with a shreddy tapping solo that echoes the guitar theatrics of Wolfgang’s late father, the legendary Eddie Van Halen. Performed by Wolfgang and returning collaborator Michael “Elvis” Baskette, the track balances fast-paced verses sections with a hyper melodic chorus that showcases Wolfgang’s vocals.

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“I’ve had the tapping idea on the intro for ‘The End’ since before Mammoth,” Wolfgang said via a press release. “I was able to fit it into this world. It’s still over-the-top and shreddy, but it’s also melodic and controlled. Overall, I was doing some different things on the record,...

Billy Idol launched his 2025 North American tour with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on Wednesday (April 30th) at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix.

The outing, dubbed “It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again!,” is running in two legs, with the first one scheduled through a May 23rd show in Toronto. A second leg will launch August 16th in Philadelphia, and wrap up September 25th in Los Angeles. Tickets to both legs are available here.

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Leading up to the tour, Idol told Heavy Consequence in an interview that being paired with Joan Jett is “a fantastic combination,” adding, “I just think it’s gonna be killer.”

At the tour kickoff, Idol played a 17-song set comprised of classics and tunes from his new album, Dream Into It, which was just released this past Friday (April 25th). The punk icon started the set with his recent single “Still Dancing,...

Multi-instrumentalist Wolfgang Van Halen unleashes some of his most virtuosic guitar parts yet on “The End,” the new single from his one-man band, Wolfgang Wvh — which arrives along with an elaborate, Robert Rodriguez-directed video where he plays for an audience packed with vampires, zombies, and, for some reason, Slash.

The song kicks off with a two-handed tapping riff that inevitably evokes Wolfgang’s dad, the late Eddie Van Halen. In a statement, he explained he came up with that part years before he even conceived of his band. “I...

Hardcore Wicked fans have a lot of unshakable opinions, including the widespread belief that the Wizard’s big moment in the first act, the talky “A Sentimental Man,” is the Broadway show’s single worst song. But when Jeff Goldblum stepped in as the Wizard for director Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster film version, he managed to salvage the song in fans’ eyes, playing up the character’s toxic blend of smarm and charisma. “I’ve had a lot of positive anecdotal response like that,” Goldblum says in the new...

Sammy Hagar and Alex Van Halen haven’t been on speaking terms in 21 years, and the Red Rocker has a couple theories as to why the drummer is upset with him, with one being jealousy.

Hagar recently released the new single “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” inspired by a dream he had about Eddie Van Halen. The singer and his all-star backing band of Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, and Kenny Aronoff are set to kick off their “Best of All Worlds” Las Vegas residency on Wednesday night (April 30th) at Dolby Live at Park MGM (pick up tickets here).

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Back in 2022, Hagar revealed that he’d been completely cut off by his onetime Van Halen bandmate, saying, “Alex has got a stick up his ass about something with me still.”

Alex then completely ignored the Van Hagar years of Van Halen in his 2024 memoir, Brothers, with...

Late last week, Sammy Hagar shared his new song “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” which he claims he wrote in a dream with Eddie Van Halen. “This was 100 percent a communication from the beyond,” Hagar told Rolling Stone. “There is no question about it. I dream about Eddie all the time, quite honestly.”

We dove deep into the creation of “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight” in an article a few days back, but Hagar is truly one of the most entertaining interviews in rock, rivaled perhaps only by Noel Gallagher. He wasn...

South Park obviously has a long history of dunking on celebrities, but they’ve generally gone pretty easy on rock musicians — just as long as you don’t count Russell Crowe as a “musician.”

Think about it, The Cure got to battle Mecha-Streisand, Korn were depicted as Scooby-Doo-like paranormal mystery investigators and Radiohead briefly popped by to mock a crying teenager as he’s mourning his dead parents after being tricked into cannibalizing them. And then there was the time that Van Halen helped usher in a new era of world peace.

Apparently, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s admiration for singer David Lee Roth once extended so far as to taking a pitch meeting with him. As Bill Hader recently revealed on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, when the SNL alum was working as a writer on South Park, Roth pitched Parker and Stone “a movie where...

How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande’s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, came down to sheer proximity and an unexpected musical kinship. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play below.

Sammy Hagar has released a new single titled “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight.” that he says was inspired by a dream he had about his late Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen.

The track features Hagar’s all-star band of Joe Satriani on guitar, Michael Anthony on bass, and Kenny Aronoff on drums. The Red Rocker goes so far as to say that Eddie Van Halen presented him the song in the dream.

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“This song is my final bow to that part of my life,” stated Hagar. “It’s not meant to be anything more than a thank-you — with love, with respect, and with one hell of a guitar solo.”

He added, “Joe was the perfect partner to help me shape the sound — he brought in that big, emotional, guitar-driven energy that feels like Eddie’s spirit but is entirely of Joe’s creation. With Michael...

About a year after Eddie Van Halen died in 2020, Sammy Hagar had a dream that they were sharing a chill moment together. “He had a guitar around his neck and we were having a love fest since we hadn’t seen each other in a long time,” Hagar tells Rolling Stone. “And he just started playing this riff, and I started singing.”

It took several years, but Hagar ultimately finished the song, which he wound up calling “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” with help from guitarist Joe Satriani, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony,...

Chappell Roan has taken the title of “The Giver” to heart, gracing fans with album-level promo (Billboards! A secret phone number! An instantly controversial Call Her Daddy interview!) for the Shania-esque stand-alone single. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down Roan’s strategy, even as they try to figure out whether a new album will be out this year — and if the fan-favorite ballad “The Subway” will be her next single. Spanos points out that...

Take the stairway to music heaven with SiriusXM Guitar Greats, SiriusXM’s app-only channel dedicated to guitar gods like Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Eddie Van Halen, and Jack White.

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Guitar-driven music from different eras and genres with mind-blowing rock solos, classic blues licks, and more.

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In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time. By about 60 years.

During most of those years, I was good at keeping up with the currency of popular music. Come the early 1970s, keeping current with the currency would become my vocation, when I took up music journalism.

That, too, was an accident. I never took any journalism courses. Instead, I took...

Metallica’s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon.

“As long as we have our health and our mind, I think we can just keep on going,” says Hammett, whose new coffee-table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, dives into his world-class arsenal of vintage guitars. “Sometimes I forget how old I am,...

Frank Zappa’s son Dweezil is reminiscing about an interaction he had with Eddie Van Halen during his childhood. On Wednesday night, Dweezil spoke at a Discogs event at W Hollywood’s The Loft, where he talked about some of his favorite vinyl records, including Fair Warning by Van Halen, as he shared an anecdote about a surprise visit from the late Van Halen.

“My mom answers the phone and she’s like, ‘This guy says he’s Edward Van Halen.’ I’m 12 and I’ve never heard him speak before,...

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Looking to score some deals at Nordstrom? Make sure to stop by Nordstrom’s Spring Sale before the clock runs out. From now until March 24, the iconic department store’s Spring Sale is offering some of the best deals on warmer-weather gear around — offering up to 50% off, with over 50,000 deals on our editor (and reader!)-favorite brands we’ve written up in the past, like Skims, Hoka, Merch Traffic,...

With his world tour underway, Bryan Adams answers superfan questions and takes live calls from the SiriusXM Studio at Wynn Las Vegas – and you can stream the full special now.

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Hosted by SiriusXM’s Bob Buchmann, “Bryan Adams: 45 Years of Stories and Songs Live” on Classic Rewind (Ch. 25) dives into Bryan’s many memorable moments from his award-winning career and features his songs.

Listen to the full special anytime on the SiriusXM app here.

Related: Bryan Adams on Co-Writing for Kiss and Launching His Label SiriusXM’s Classic Rewind channel plays classic rock from the cassette era. Tune in anytime on channel 25 in cars and on the SiriusXM app to hear hits from the late ’70s and ’80s by Bryan Adams, Boston, Van Halen, the Cars, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, and more. Adding context to the...

Gene Simmons, bassist for the legendary band Kiss, and his solo band the Gene Simmons Band has extended his spring 2025 tour.

Simmons will be joined by the members of the Gene Simmons Band, which include guitarists Brent Woods and Zach Throne, as well as drummer Brian Tichy.

The tour will kick off on April 3 in Anaheim, California, and make 19 stops across the country in cities such as Denver, Orlando and Texas, before concluding in Houston, Texas, on May 24.

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April 03 – House Of Blues – Anaheim, CA April 04 – Pechanga Resort Casino – Temecula, CA April 05 – The Event at Graton Resort & Casino – Rohnert Park, CA April 08 – Muckleshoot Casino Resort – Auburn, Wa April 10 – The Great Saltair – Magna, Ut April 11 – Paramount Theatre – Denver, Co April 25 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, Fl April 26 – Miami Beach, Fl – Fillmore April 28 – The Moon – Tallahassee, Fl April 29 – Florida Theater – Jacksonville,...

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment.

In any case, Rolling Stone‘s Andy Greene recently found 50 examples of classic albums with at least one bad song, and he goes through his entire list with host Brian Hiatt on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now.

The family of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roy Orbison — known for hits like “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Crying,” “Only the Lonely” and “In Dreams” — has partnered with the independent production and financing company Compelling Pictures to develop both a theatrical feature film and long-form documentary based on singer-songwriter’s life and career.

Tentatively titled “You Got It,” after Orbison’s 1988 hit single, the film will be “a romance more than a traditional biopic,” according to the announcement, focusing on Orbison’s relationship with his wife Barbara, who became his manager and played a key role in his comeback, which took place in the years just before his death at the age of just 52 December of 1988. Barbara Orbison died in 2011.

Denis O’Sullivan (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Jeff Kalligheri (“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”) will produce for Compelling Pictures. Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison Jr., and Wesley Orbison will executive-produce via their production company Roy’s Boys,...

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in history, with more than 133 million people tuning in — and it also may have been the most uncompromising. In a slot that every previous artist has reserved mostly for greatest hits, Lamar only played bits of two older songs, focusing instead on his excellent new album, Gnx, and his Drake-eviscerating smash, “Not Like Us.”

On the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down the...

David Edward Byrd, who created psychedelic posters for Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Grateful Dead shows and for such Broadway productions as Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Little Shop of Horrors, has died. He was 83.

Byrd died Monday at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, rep Jerry Digney announced. Jolino Beserra, his partner of 40 years, said on Facebook that he died of pneumonia.

One of the foremost graphic artists of 20th century pop culture, Byrd did lots of work for rock promoter Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, which opened in the East Village in Manhattan in 1968, and designed a poster for the original Woodstock festival (it turned out it wasn’t used when the event was moved).

He designed posters for The Rolling Stones’ tour of the U.S. in 1969 and The Who’s performance of their rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1971 and album covers...

David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable posters in modern Broadway history for two beloved productions, Follies and Godspell, died Monday, February 3, at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 83.

His husband, the artist Jolino Beserra, announced on social media. In a recent Facebook post, Beserra described Byrd’s failing health as the poster artist struggled with heart and lung problems, pneumonia and the effects of two bouts with Covid.

Born April 4, 1941, in Tennessee but raised in Miami Beach, Florida, Byrd studied painting and design at Carnegie-Mellon University in the mid-1960s, and from 1970 to 1979 taught at New York’s Pratt Institute.

In 1968, his friend Joshua White – who gave rock shows their distinctive psychedelic aura with his Joshua Light Show – recommended Byrd to rock impressario Bill Graham,...

ShipRocked celebrated its 15th sailing January 19-25 onboard Carnival Magic, sailing from Miami, with stops at St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Half Moon Cay in The Bahamas. The annual rock music cruise vacation included performances, artist hosted events and more with Parkway Drive, Hollywood Undead, Nothing More, The Struts, The Stowaways all-star band and over two dozen others.

During the cruise, ShipRocked producers ASK4 Entertainment revealed the dates, ports and a new ship for the Greek mythology-themed 2026 edition. ShipRocked 2026 is set for January 25-31, 2026, sailing from Miami to The Bahamas on Carnival Horizon with stops in Half Moon Cay, Celebration Key–Carnival’s soon to be opened private cruise port on the island of Grand Bahama–and Nassau. While ShipRocked 2025 guests are already pre-registered for the 2026 sailing, look for information on the ShipRocked 2026 public pre-sale soon at www.ShipRocked.com.

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Listen to Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison’s brand-new song, “Gods Of Rock N Roll,” here on the SiriusXM app about 11 minutes into an exclusive Ozzy’s Boneyard special featuring Billy and Mark Strigl.

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During the special, Billy also talks about the song. “Gods Of Rock N Roll” premiered on the SiriusXM channel on Friday, January 17, and is a re-recorded version of the track from 2015 that includes a 61-piece orchestra and choir and a guest appearance by longtime Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens.

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The original “Gods Of Rock N Roll” closed out Billy’s second album, “God Shaped Hole” (2015).

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Infusing a bloodthirsty vampire into the wild times of Woodstock in the summer of 1969, the cleverly named comic book series Woodstake invites you to take part in "three days of peace, music... and blood." With the final issue of Woodstake coming out in stores tomorrow from Shp Comics, we have a special treat for Daily Dead readers to sink their teeth into: the entire issue of Woodstake Prologue (aka issue #0) that you can read right now for free!

Created, written, and edited by Shawn Hainsworth (aka Darin S. Cape), and featuring artwork by Felipe Kroll, lettering by Es Kay, and proofreading by Kim Whitener, Woodstake Prologue is available to read in its entirety below, and we also have insights from Shawn about how he came up with the concept for the historical horror series:

The idea that popped into my head was the title and the concept, wood stake—Woodstake—a vampire at Woodstock.

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White, and four separate Beatles movies from director Sam Mendes. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below).

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Sammy Hagar is set to kick off a Las Vegas residency in April, and going forward residencies and one-off shows might be the only way to see the Red Rocker.

In a new interview, the 77-year-old Hagar revealed that he doesn’t want to tour anymore, and has even told his manager to not book any extended outings. However, it appears Hagar would do more residencies if he enjoys playing in Vegas.

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“I don’t think I want to go on tour anymore,” he told the Miami Herald. “I hate to say that, because I don’t want to piss my fans off. I’ll go out and do a one-off show and do things like that, but the residency is going to give me a good extension of my career. That’s what I’m hoping for.”

He added, “I keep telling my manager,...

America’s Sweetheart, Ari Shaffir’s new Netflix stand-up special, bears a title that flies in the face of the hilariously edgy jokes you’ll hear during the comic’s latest hour. “I’m a big troll,” Shaffir laughed as he explained the special’s ironic name. “I like to rile people up. I’m a habitual shit-starter.”

What to expect from the new special? “I’m trying to take every single thing that people say, ‘This is too serious,’ and I’m gonna be like, ‘Let me show you how to find some joy out of that,’” he says. The message of America’s Sweetheart? “Guys, chill the fuck out.”

I recently spoke with Shaffir about the state of comedy in 2025, the legend of working the door at the Comedy Store and how the advent of podcasting permitted provocative comics to be themselves.

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Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite hip-hop groups of all time, De La Soul. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, well, clearly I can’t do that, because there’s already been a book written,'” he says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “And then much to my surprise, there wasn’t one.” (To hear the whole episode,...

Rhino has unveiled a new David Lee Roth box set, The Warner Recordings 1985-1994, arriving on vinyl and CD on February 21st.

The 5-lp and 5-cd box sets house Roth’s solo recordings following his exit from Van Halen in 1985, beginning with the Crazy from the Heat EP and its hit song “Just a Gigolo.”

Dlr followed that up with the successful Eat ‘Em and Smile LP in 1986, featuring Roth teamed up with an all-star backing band featuring bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Gregg Bissonette, and guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Roth then went on to release three more LPs on Warner including 1988’s Skyscraper, 1991’s A Little Ain’t Enough, and 1994’s Your Filthy Little Mouth.

Of note for collectors, the upcoming vinyl box set will contain the first-ever repressing of Your Filthy Little Mouth, which was only released on vinyl in Germany in 1994, making it a scarce and pricey original pressing.