Stevie Nicks has added eight more shows — including gigs in Brooklyn, Portland, Charlotte — to her upcoming Live in Concert run this fall. Nicks will kick off her tour with a Barclays Center show in New York on Aug. 8 before playing already-announced shows in Boston, Toronto, and Tampa, …
Read More »Dancehall Legend Vybz Kartel on Life in Prison and His Miraculous Return
I t’s New Year’s Eve, and the roads that lead to Jamaica’s National Stadium are filled with food vendors manning their oil-drum grills. Some sell orange bandannas like the pair Vybz Kartel wore when he walked out of the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre five months earlier, on July 31, …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' Debuts at Number One on Hot 100
Sabrina Carpenter has returned to the top of the charts with her latest single “Manchild” debuting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. “Manchild” is Carpenter’s first song to debut atop the Hot 100, and her second Number One overall after “Please Please Please” spent a week there almost …
Read More »Inside Sly and the Family Stone's Great, Lost Live Album
One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles, buying a sweatsuit off a sale rack. He brought it back to a motel near LAX airport and gave it to Sly Stone, who was living there at the time. “He took one look at it …
Read More »Billy Corgan, Melissa Auf der Maur Reunite to Perform Smashing Pumpkins' 'The Everlasting Gaze'
Billy Corgan and his new band the Machines of God are in the midst of their A Return to Zero Tour, where they’re performing Smashing Pumpkins songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Machina/The Machines of God, and Aghori Mhori Mei. On Friday, they hit Montreal, and Corgan’s former …
Read More »Jonas Brothers Add Dates to 20th Anniversary Tour After Downgrading Some Venues
The Jonas Brothers aren’t dwelling on how they downgraded five shows from stadiums to arenas — instead, they’re expanding their Jonas20 tour, adding new dates with support from acts like the All-American Rejects, Marshmello, and Boys Like Girls. “This tour is both a celebration of 20 years of making music …
Read More »Billy Corgan, Melissa Auf der Maur Reunite to Perform Smashing Pumpkins' 'The Everlasting Gaze'
Billy Corgan and his new band the Machines of God are in the midst of their A Return to Zero Tour, where they’re performing Smashing Pumpkins songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Machina/The Machines of God, and Aghori Mhori Mei. On Friday, they hit Montreal, and Corgan’s former …
Read More »Noah Weiland Re-Recorded Velvet Revolver's 'Slither' for Father's Day With Trippy AI Video
Noah Weiland has recorded his own version of the 2004 Velvet Revolver classic “Slither” that he posted over the weekend to honor his later father, Scott Weiland, on Father’s Day. He also created an AI-generated video for it that contains trippy images of Slash, Duff, his father, himself, and even …
Read More »Zak Starkey on Being Fired, Rehired, and Fired Again by the Who: 'These Guys are F-ckin' Insane'
The past few months have been quite a head-snapping time for Zak Starkey. The roller coaster began April 16 when the Who fired the drummer after three decades of solid work (“The band made a collective decision to part ways with Zak”), continued three days later when Pete Townshend announced …
Read More »The B-52's, Devo to Embark on Co-Headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour
Two titans of New Wave, the B-52’s and Devo, will team up this fall for the co-headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour. Although the B-52’s embarked on a farewell tour three years ago — they’ve since confined themselves to a Las Vegas residency — the idea of joining the “Whip It” troupe …
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