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British rockers The Struts have announced their fourth studio album, Pretty Vicious, which is set to drop on November 3. Pretty Vicious will mark the band’s first full-length album to release through Big Machine/John Varvatos Records. The album was produced by the band alongside Julian Raymond. The 11-track Pretty Vicious is a follow-up to 2020’s…

The 1975 are reissuing their debut self-titled album in commemoration of the record’s 10th anniversary. The album will be released on double white vinyl, double CD, cassette, and deluxe 4-LP black vinyl on September 1, 2023. Along with the album, the band has curated a special merchandise line surrounding the record that features t-shirts, a…

Statues of Rolling Stones founding members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been unveiled in their hometown of Dartford in England. The bronze statues of the schoolmates at Wentworth primary school, who formed the Rolling Stones in 1962, were commissioned by the Dartford borough council. The rock stars are depicted in mid-performance posture – Jagger…

Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant said in a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock that the band is not thinking about retiring now and wants to fulfill the wishes of the late guitarist Gary Rossington and “see what the future brings.” Van Zant spoke about the band’s 2018 announcement that it was embarking on…

Rhino has announced that it will release a 7-LP vinyl boxed set featuring all three studio albums Candlebox released via Maverick, plus more than a dozen previously unreleased recordings. The Maverick Years will be available exclusively on vinyl on September 22 for $125.98. The set introduces newly remastered versions of Candlebox (1993), Lucy (1995), and…

Kip Winger recently told Yahoo! Entertainment in a new interview that Metallica frontman James Hetfield called him to apologize for dissing him in the band’s “Nothing Else Matters” video. The video for “Nothing Else Matters” saw Lars Ulrich use a picture of Winger’s face as a dartboard, one of many digs made at the singer…

Yungblud recently released a video for his new single, “Lowlife” showing him strutting around the streets of Camdown Town, London, accompanied by his younger self. The endearing visual finds Yungblud connecting with and accepting his childhood self, a kid whose oddball and misfit personality was ultimately his ticket to success. “I wanted to make something…

Motorhead’s surviving members Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee have enshrined late frontman Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes at the Lemmy’s Bar in the German village of Wacken. They also displayed a surprise performance at the Wacken Open Air Festival. Speaking about the memorial in a video, Dee said, “We’d like to spread it around the whole world…

Queens Of The Stone Age recently released a video for “Negative Space,” a song from their latest album, In Times New Roman… The video, directed by Liam Lynch, shows a holographic figure in a leather jacket and gas mask drifting through a zero-gravity sci-fi scene. In “Negative Space,” Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen play…

Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane Hawkins joined Chevy Metal for a couple of recent gigs and performed covers of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and more. Shane performed on shows on July 27th and 29th at Gold Pacific Studios in Newport Beach and The Canyon in Agoura Hills, respectively. Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, Poison drummer…