SIRIUS/XM LAUNCHES “MOTLEY CRUE WEEK” CELEBRATING “THE DIRT” MOVIE
SiriusXM announced today that legendary rock band Mötley Crüe will host an exclusive special, Mötley Crüe Week, in advance of the band’s new biopic, The Dirt. SiriusXM’s Hair Nation channel 39 will become Mötley Crüe Week March 18th-24th. The channel takeover will feature music spanning Mötley Crüe’s entire catalogue in addition to tracks from other Sunset Strip rock bands, as well as new songs […]
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST CURRENTLY RECORDING SECOND ALBUM AND ANNOUNCE NEW DRUMMER, US TOUR BEGINS APRIL 15TH
Following the release of their successful first album Resurrection, Michael Schenker Fest is currently recording their second album, co-produced by Michael Schenker & Michael Voss, which is tentatively scheduled to be released in August. The news is bittersweet as the band recently mourned the passing of beloved MSF drummer Ted Mckenna. Michael comments, “We are […]
QUEEN’S BRIAN MAY WILL BE INDUCTING DEF LEPPARD INTO THE ROCK N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME
Queen guitarist Brian May will induct Def Leppard into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this spring. The 34th annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony will be held March 29th at Brooklyn, New York’s Barclays Center. Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen said that May was the “really obvious” choice to induct the band into the Rock Hall. “We just played [Las] Vegas just a few […]
WHITESNAKE STREAM NEW SONG, “TROUBLE IS YOUR MIDDLE NAME”
Whitesnake is streaming another track from their forthcoming album, Flesh & Blood, which will be released on May 10th through through Frontiers Music Srl. The song is called, Trouble Is Your Middle Name, and it can be heard, below. To read more about this release, and to a watch the video for, Shut Up and Kiss Me, please click […]
GEOFF TATE ON REUNITING WITH HIS FORMER QUEENSRYCHE BANDMATES, “WHY?”
Original Queensryche vocalist Geoff Tate was interviewed by TV War, quotes from the interview (as per blabbermouth.net) appear below. On ever working with his former bandmates again: “Pfft. Why? [Laughs] [I have] no interest in that. No. Not at all. [I have] absolutely no reason to. I don’t need the money. That’d be the only […]
KISS GUITARIST TOMMY THAYER ON THE FANS’ DISPLEASURE OF HIS WEARING ACE FREHLEY’S MAKEUP, “I DON’T LET IT BOTHER ME”
Richard Beinstock of Guitar World reports: …[KISS guitarist Tommy] Thayer’s path, of course, was not a straight shot from the bedroom to the KISS stage. He first rose to prominence as the guitarist in Eighties hard rock act Black ‘N Blue, who opened for KISS on tour and for whom Simmons produced a pair of […]