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 […]
GUITARIST DOUG ALDRICH REMINISCES ABOUT THE TIME RONNIE JAMES DIO ALMOST GOT INTO A BAR FIGHT OVER AN NFL TEAM
XS Rock spoke with guitarist Doug Aldrich (Burning Rain, Dead Daisies, Revolution Saints). Excerpts from the interview appear below. XS Rock: Another question by one of our readers is “Who do you think the best of the current crew of drummers are”? I’m going to guess you probably going to say Deen [Castronovo] as one of […]
ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE (FRANK BELLO OF ANTHRAX & DAVID ELLEFSON OF MEGADETH) SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “PART OF ME” & ANNOUNCE US TOUR DATES
Altitudes & Attitude, a collaboration between Anthrax’s Frank Bello and Megadeth’s David Ellefson—two virtuosic bass players who’ve anchored some of the fiercest thrash records of all time – are sharing their new video for Part of Me, filmed on their recent European tour with Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators. A&A will tour the Midwest this spring, […]