Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx has defended the band’s choice to replace guitarist Mick Mars with John 5. The bassist, 65, stands by the decision in a new interview with Classic Rock. “It was becoming harder and harder and harder to get anything done with Mick because of his memory problems and just his physical ailments,” Sixx […]

As confirmed by management, legendary rock guitarist Jake E. Lee (Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands, Red Dragon Cartel) was shot multiple times early this morning in a Las Vegas, NV street shooting. Lee is fully conscious and doing well in an intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to fully recover.   Las Vegas authorities believe the shooting […]

Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone reports: After his brother [Eddie] died, Alex Van Halen fell apart. He can prove it. There’s photographic evidence right here on his phone, which also happens to be a repository of unheard, unfinished Van Halen songs. Spend the day with him, and he might play a few. But first, he’ll scroll to that image, an […]

BMG, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment, has shared Reach For The Sky, a previously unreleased track recorded during the sessions for Ratt‘s 1984 debut album Out Of The Cellar. The song will be included on limited-edition versions of the Out Of The Cellar 40th-anniversary release celebrating the band’s massively successful first studio album, due on November 8th, 2024. To read more details […]

Richie Kotzen has premiered the official video for Nomad, the title track of his highly acclaimed new solo studio album, out now via BMG.  The albumis available digitally, on CD and sky-blue vinyl and can be ordered, here. The video see Kotzen bathed in the Californian sunshine as he performs the song in the same […]

An album announcement that is fifteen years in the making, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater return with their sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia. The album marks the first album featuring the iconic lineup of vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, keyboardist Jordan Rudess and drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The news on this […]

Ricky Warwick will release a new solo album, Blood Ties, on March 14th, 2025 throughEarache Records. The official music video for the LP’s latest single, Don’t Leave Me In The Dark, which features Lita Ford on guest vocals, can be seen below. About the single, Ricky comments, “This was the first song written for the album and details the intricacies of love […]

Thrash metal icons Slayer pulls back the curtain on over four decades of brutal, malevolent, and inhumanly fast thrash and invites their fans to take the plunge into the abyss with the official launch of their new online museum, Slaytanic Verses. In partnership with Definitive Authentic/Inveniem, this exclusive virtual museum offers a behind-the-scenes look at memorabilia rarely seen by […]