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Metallica announced plans to extend their M72 World Tour with a series of new North American dates in 2025. Support acts for Metallica’s new run of shows will come from Pantera and Limp Bizkit, along with Suicidal Tendencies and Ice Nine Kills on select dates. The new leg of Metallica’s M72 World Tour gets underway…

Iron Maiden shared details of their 2025 Run for Your Lives World Tour, which starts in May 2025 and continues into 2026. Maiden’s tour is part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the band’s first live performance back in 1975. The shows will feature the British heavy metal legends performing a classic set highlighting their…

Only one day before the September 20 release date of the new Bright Eyes album, Five Dice, All Threes, the band was forced to cancel a series of three record release shows promoting their album. Bright Eyes had a trio of shows planned to celebrate their album release in New York City, Chicago (at Riot…

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chester Bennington’s mom, Susan Eubanks, shares her thoughts on Linkin Park’s reunion and their new lead singer, Emily Armstrong. Eubanks feels “betrayed” by the band, revealing that no one told her about their plans to reunite. “They told me that if they were ever going to do something, they…

The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas has announced a special series of guided tours this fall led by punk legends and classic rock superstars. Members of Operation Ivy, Circle Jerks, Ramones, and ZZ Top have been selected to take part in personalized guided tours of the museum, where rock icons will take guests around…

In an interview featured in the just released Paramount+ docuseries, Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ’80s Hair Metal, Warrant drummer Steven Sweet looked back at the highly sexualized music videos of that era, especially the provactive one for Warrant’s provocative “Cherry Pie.” “Warrant was all about having fun without hurting anybody,”…

Jane’s Addiction picked an unfortunate time to release their brand new song, “True Love.” The track is the second new single recorded by the band’s reunited classic lineup, but it arrives only two days after the group canceled all the remaining dates on their current North American tour following an onstage band fight last week.…

The Darkness have just announced the upcoming release of their eighth studio album, Dreams on Toast, which is out on March 28, 2025 via Cooking Vinyl. “These bangers we present to you here,” writes the band’s frontman Justin Hawkins in a press release. “Wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of…

311 have shared details of their forthcoming new album, Full Bloom, which is due out on October 25. The Omaha, Nebraska rock veterans made the announcement of their 14th studio album with a post on Instagram on Wednesday (September 18), where they also shared the cover art and the 10-song tracklist. “This record is a…

JD Souther, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and co-writer of many hits by the Eagles, died at his Santa Fe home on Tuesday (September 17) at the age of 78. Souther is best known as a frequent co-writer of classic hits by the Eagles, including their first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1…