FORMER CHEAP TRICK DRUMMER BUN E. CARLOS SAYS THE WAY HE WAS TREATED “WAS REALLY AN INSULT”
“You know what happens with bands. Usually it’s a woman or something. It’s usually sex, drugs or money. When the lawsuits got filed, it ended up to be money.” That’s how drummer Bun E. Carlos sums up his recent disagreements with the other members of Cheap Trick, who threatened to send the former bandmates in […]
KISS’ PAUL STANLEY DEBUTS HIS SIDE PROJECT, SOUL STATION, AT THE ROXY THEATRE ON SEPTEMBER 11TH
Come this fall, KISS frontman Paul Stanley will have a new gig as a soul singer. Yes, you read that right, a soul singer. Stanley has a new side project called Soul Station, which plays a mix of Sixties and Seventies soul classics, and they are scheduled to perform their first-ever concert at Los Angeles’ […]
SINGER UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER SAYS HE WILL PERFORM ACCEPT SONGS ONE MORE TIME AND THEN “CLOSE THE CHAPTER”
Vocalist Udo Dirkschneider says he’s planning a 2016 tour where he’ll perform songs from his former band, Accept, one last time. The singer co-founded the band in 1976 then left in 1987. He returned in 1992 after the band had split three years previously and exited again when the group disbanded in 2005. He declined […]
BON JOVI RELEASE A PAIR OF LYRIC VIDEOS FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING “BURNING BRIDGES” ALBUM
As previously reported, Bon Jovi will be releasing their album, Burning Bridges, on August 21st. The band has released a pair of lyric videos, for the songs We Don’t Run and Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning, from the forthcoming album. Listen to them below. A spokesperson for Bon Jovi said, “Burning Bridges, which will […]
SONGFACTS TOP TEN BANDS MOST LIKE SPINAL TAP, SEE WHO MADE THE LIST
Spinal Tap may have been based on a fictitious band, but Jeff Suwak and Ed Pearce of Songfacts have created a list of real bands that they think are most like Spinal Tap. What follows is their criteria and then which bands made their Top Ten list. First, the criteria: 1) Offensive Album Covers: Album […]
CINDERELLA FRONTMAN REMINISCES ABOUT SHOOTING THE COVER FOR “NIGHT SONGS” AND DISCUSSES THE ROCK SCENE
On August 2nd, 1986 Cinderella released their debut album, Night Songs. Tom Keifer remembers when he shot the cover with photographer Mark Weiss. As Tom recalls, “It was shot in the historic district of Philadelphia … but the most interesting thing that I remember about that shoot was that the album was called Night Songs […]