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Traffic co-founder Dave Mason has just announced the cancellation of his upcoming “Traffic Jam 2024” fall West Coast tour. During a recent routine appointment, doctors detected that Mason had a serious heart condition that required immediate medical attention, which prompted the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to immediately cancel all of his tour dates.…

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band finished up their current run of U.S. dates in style, playing a special homecoming show on September 15 in Asbury Park at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival. That 3-hour, 30-song headlining set became an instant classic, with Springsteen dusting off classic tracks, rarely-played deep cuts, and choice cover songs during…

Following criticism of his rough performance at Rock in Rio recently, Journey’s singer Arnel Pineda has asked fans to vote on social media about whether or not he should remain in the band. In footage from Journey’s performance on September 15, Pineda’s voice can be heard cracking multiple times while he struggled to hit the…

“Weird Al” Yankovic announced that he is returning to the road with his Bigger & Weirder 2025 Tour. The comedic pop superstar’s new run of shows will feature the triumphant return of his celebrated parody hit songs, after 2022’s The Unfortunate Return of The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour focused solely on deep cuts in…

Morrissey has spent the past few weeks waging a public war of words with his former bandmate in the Smiths, Johnny Marr. And seemingly as a result of their ongoing personal disagreements, Morrissey has taken the dramatic step of firing his entire management team. Moz shared the matter-of-fact statement in a post on his official…

Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker looks back on his creative time spent with UFO on his new album, My Years With UFO, which was just released on Friday (September 20th). The collection features Schenker reworking classic UFO songs with a variety of guest vocalists including Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose, who sings on the new…

Perry Farrell’s wife, Etty Lau Farrell, provided an update on her husband’s physical and mental well-being with an Instagram post she shared on Saturday (September 21). This comes after Ferrell’s onstage meltdown in Boston two weeks ago, where the singer got into a physical altercation with his bandmates which caused the show to end early…

Following Chris Martin’s performance at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday, the Coldplay frontman also made an incognito appearance at a popular local karaoke bar to perform a rendition of his band’s new song. Martin wore a disguise when he took to the small stage at Dino’s Lounge – sporting a…

Ice-T’s hard rock band Body Count have just shared a reworked cover of the Pink Floyd classic, “Comfortably Numb.” Their rendition modernizes the 1980 hit, which features new guitar riffs from former Floyd member David Gilmour and contemporary rhymes from Ice-T. The track is lifted from Body Count’s forthcoming album, Merciless, due out November 22.…

Metallica announced plans to extend their M72 World Tour with a series of new North American dates in 2025. Support acts for Metallica’s new run of shows will come from Pantera and Limp Bizkit, along with Suicidal Tendencies and Ice Nine Kills on select dates. The new leg of Metallica’s M72 World Tour gets underway…