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The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored rock star Sammy Hagar with the 2,779th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a ceremony on Tuesday at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard. Hagar received his star in the category of Recording. Multiple Grammy winner John Mayer and Hagar’s longtime manager Tom Consolo joined emcee Guy Fieri to speak…

Slipknot have announced the lineup for their own Knotfest Iowa 2024 festival, which will feature Knocked Loose, Hatebreed, Poison The Well and more. The one-day festival will take place at the Water Works Park in Des Moines on September 21. Tickets are on sale now. Other bands set to perform include Gwar, Vended, Dying Wish,…

British hard rock legends Deep Purple recently released a new single, “Portable Door,” from the band’s upcoming album, =1, along with an accompanying video. The video, produced by Mutter & Vater and directed by Leo Feimer, showcases the band against the backdrop of the new album artwork and captures the group’s stage performance. The “Portable…

System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian has announced a new solo EP Foundations. Foundations is expected to drop this autumn and will feature the newly teased single “A.F. Day,” which is due out on May 17. “This is a song I wrote in the early days of SOAD that I never released. The majority of…

Grammy Award-winning rock band Cage The Elephant have announced they will perform an intimate show at Los Angeles’ Echoplex on Tuesday, May 7th. The band, which is set to release their new album Neon Pill on May 17th via RCA Records, has already released “Out Cloud,” “Neon Pill” and “Good Time” from the upcoming record.…

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash is set to play a special acoustic set at Amoeba Hollywood in celebration of his sixth solo album Orgy Of The Damned on Wednesday, May 29. Orgy Of The Damned will be available in-store only on CD or double-LP from May 17 at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. Those purchasing a…

Paramount+ has announced it will premiere the Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza docuseries in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, May 21st. The series will premiere on May 22nd in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Multi-Emmy nominated Michael John Warren directed the three-part docuseries, which made its world premiere…

Blink-182 have announced the final North American leg of their massive 2024 reunion tour. The announcement comes just weeks after the band wrapped the Australia and New Zealand leg of their One More Time Tour. The band will travel throughout the U.S. and Canada this summer with original Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge and a long…

Twenty One Pilots recently released a video for “Backslide,” the third single from their upcoming album Clancy. The video, which marks the directorial debut of drummer Josh Dun, shows Tyler Joseph, dressed in black pants and a bomber jacket and t-shirt, riding around town on his red and black BMX bike. In the visual, Joseph…

Andra Day, The War And Treaty, Ravyn Lenae and Shinedown will perform at the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum’s inaugural Grammy Hall Of Fame Gala. The Academy said the names of more performers will be announced at a later date. The Grammy Hall Of Fame Gala will take place on May 21 at the Novo…