The Rolling Stones will return to North American stadiums this summer for the 15-city Zip Code tour. The tour will kick off May 24th at San Diego’s Petco Park, criss-crossing the country before ending July 15th at Quebec’s Le Festival D’Été de Québec. The tour name plays off the jeans-focused cover of the group’s classic […]
Thom Wilson, legendary punk producer, has died, according to the record label Epitaph. Epitaph reports that Wilson died Feb. 8. His cause of death remains unknown, as well as his age at the time of death. Wilson produced the Adolescents’ self-titled debut in 1981, the Dead Kennedys’ landmark second album Plastic Surgery Disasters in 1982, […]
The rap super-duo Run the Jewels was attacked onstage Monday during a performance at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, briefly interrupting their set at the Spotify house event. It’s not clear what exactly happened or why, but mid-set an unidentified man came onstage and approached the pair, attempting to take a swing at El-P. […]
Dan Aykroyd is taking the next step in his commitment to the blues with the launch of his own record label. Alongside Judy Belushi, widow of his Blues Brothers co-star John, Aykroyd has created Blues Brothers Records in order to nurture and develop new blues artists. The label will be distributed by Capitol Music Group’s […]
AMC has officially placed a series order on the much–discussed Walking Dead companion series, picking up the show for two seasons, according to Variety. Season One is scheduled to begin this summer with six planned one-hour episodes, while Season Two will follow in 2016. The show’s rumored titles have been Cobalt and Fear the Walking Dead, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and […]
In the early hours of November 23rd, 2013, outlaw-country artist Wayne Mills and his friend, bar owner Chris Ferrell, became engaged in an altercation in Ferrell’s Nashville bar, the Pit and Barrel. It ended with Ferrell pulling a .22 pistol and firing three shots, one of which hit the journeyman country singer in the back […]
AC/DC will be hitting stadiums for their upcoming North American tour, but the veteran hard rock group channel their small club days in the new video for “Rock the Blues Away.” The third video from the group’s new album Rock or Bust (following “Play Ball” and the titular song) juxtaposes the band performing in a […]
Former founding Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge isn’t letting his public breakup from the band get in the way of releasing new music. Just over a month after Blink-182 announced that their guitarist had left the band “indefinitely,” DeLonge revealed plans to release an album titled To the Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends. The LP, which will arrive on April […]
Metallica will revisit their early years in a big way for the first time next month, when they put out an exact duplication of their thrashing declaration of intent — the 1982 demo tape No Life ‘Til Leather — as a limited-edition cassette on April 18th. “Twelve people will be able to play it, but everybody else will […]
On Monday night, a group of roughly 200 people sat quietly in the heated dome outside New York’s MoMA PS1 for what was touted by associate curator Jenny Schlenzka as “the first, the last, the only public listening session” of Wu-Tang Clan‘s mysterious seventh album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The album has been the […]
After years of figuratively pooping on unlucky celebrities, geeks and financial fat cats, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog finally gets his own sitcom. Adult Swim’s The Jack and Triumph Show pairs the foul-mouthed, cigar-smoking puppet with 30 Rock alum Jack McBrayer as former co-stars of a Lassie-esque show who reunite as the canine comedian emerges […]
American Horror Story’s fifth season is going to get caught in a bad romance. That’s because pop artist Lady Gaga is joining the FX horror anthology series this fall. Gaga will be a series regular according to FX, and is the first confirmed casting for this fall’s upcoming season. Gaga’s upcoming role will be her first […]
