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Social Distortion’s Mike Ness has revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 1 Tonsil Cancer. As the 61-year-old singer and guitarist undergoes treatment, the band has postponed its upcoming tour and put the recording of a new album on hold. The news of his serious ailment was disclosed by Ness himself, saying in a…

311 have announced their upcoming fall tour with special guests AWOLNATION and Blame My Youth. The tour kicks off in Clive, Iowa, on September 19 and will be making stops in St. Louis, Kansas City, Grand Junction, Salt Lake City, and more before wrapping up in Highland, California, on October 8. Tickets are on sale…

Pantera’s studio albums will make their picture-disc debuts in a new 5-LP boxed set that spotlights the band’s everlasting mark on the metal scene. The Complete Studio Albums 1990-2000 (picture discs) will be available exclusively online at Rhino.com, Pantera.com, and indie retailers on July 21, limited to 3,500 copies worldwide ($149.98). Each picture disc features…

American rock band Queens Of The Stone Age have announced plans to embark on a North American tour. “The End Is Nero Tour” will kick off on August 3 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The East Coast leg of the tour will feature support from Phantogram and The Armed. Viagra Boys and Jehnny Beth will provide…

ABKCO Records has announced plans to reissue 16 titles from The Rolling Stones 1960s Catalog, some of which have been out-of-print for almost four decades, over the next year on 180-gram vinyl. As the first instalment, ABKCO Records reissued the U.S. version of the seminal 1966 album Aftermath on vinyl at the end of March.…

Tool have announced a 2023 North American tour that’s set to kick off this fall. The trek will kick off with an appearance at the Louder Than Life Festival on September 22nd. The tour will properly begin on October 3rd in Loveland, Colorado, and conclude on November 21st in Toronto, Ontario. Tickets for the tour…

Rock legend Neil Young has announced a solo acoustic tour of the West Coast. The solo acoustic West Cost tour will be Young’s first tour in four years and will kick off on July 1 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles and conclude on July 23 at the Oxbow RiverStage in Napa,…

Taylor Swift has revealed the tracklist for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), featuring collaborations with Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Fall Out Boy. “I’m VERY excited to show you the back cover of Speak Now (my version),” the superstar wrote on social media. “Since Speak Now was all about my songwriting, I decided to go to the…

Pixies have announced a new U.K. and European tour to celebrate their Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde albums. The alt-rockers will perform their third studio album and fourth full-length in full at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre between March 8 and 10, Manchester’s Albert Hall between March 12 and 14, and London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town between…

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler has revealed why he no longer talks to former bandmate Ozzy Osbourne. In a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, Butler, the heavy metal bass guitar icon who played with Osbourne in Black Sabbath, said, “We didn’t fall out, it was the wives.” Butler is promoting his newly released autobiography “Into…