Music icon, philanthropist, reality TV star and RV fanatic Bret Michaels is building a new custom coach tour bus as he heads out on this year's hottest stadium tour and is making a beautiful custom 2014 Entegra Aspire available at a realistic price. The RV has logged some of its 111,165 miles touring across the ...
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According to Metal Sludge, RATT, Tom Keifer, SKID ROW and SLAUGHTER will team up for a U.S. tour this summer. Although there has been no confirmation yet of any of the bands taking part in the trek, Keifer revealed during an appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation" on Monday (February 17) that ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil shared a photo of him with his longtime girlfriend, celebrity makeup artist and beauty educator Rain Hannah, for Valentine's Day. He wrote in an accompanying caption: "Happy Valentine's to my beautiful love @rainhannah" Back in 2015, Vince and Rain, who is 20 years younger than him, took part in the ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE has released a 2020 lyric video for its classic song "Kickstart My Heart". Check it out below. "Kickstart My Heart" is featured in the trailer for "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run". Due in theaters on May 22 via Paramount Pictures, the latest movie will be the first almost entirely CGI adaptation ...
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Sacramento, California rockers TESLA visited iconic recording studio Abbey Road Studios in London, England in June 2019 for a one-night musical event capturing the band performing songs from their legendary arsenal, including "Love Song" and "What You Give", along with their classic covers of "Signs" and "We Can Work It Out". Additionally, the band performed ...
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On the eve of the most romantic holiday Hallmark has ever created, heavy music's medically cleared lovers and partiers STEEL PANTHER are adding another career milestone to their ever-expanding resume. Michael Starr, Satchel, Lexxi Foxx and Stix Zadinia joined up with Q, Murr, Joe and Sal for an appearance on the 200th episode of the ...
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Legendary British rock and roll icons and 2019 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees DEF LEPPARD have announced select "20/20 Vision" fall tour dates with very special guests ZZ TOP. Produced by Live Nation, this new leg of dates will immediately follow the group's massively successful summer stadium tour with MÖTLEY CRÜE, which has ...
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Tommy Lee, producer, author, drummer and founding member of MÖTLEY CRÜE, will make a special guest starring appearance on tonight's episode of the ABC-TV hit comedy "The Goldbergs". MÖTLEY CRÜE's "Home Sweet Home" is also the musical tribute for this episode. In the episode titled "Preventa Mode", Barry Goldberg (Troy Gentile) takes his attractive college ...
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THE DEAD DAISIES — the hard rock "collective" founded by Australian musician and businessman David Lowy — will embark on a massive European tour this spring/simmer — a combination of arena and amphitheater shows with both JUDAS PRIEST and FOREIGNER, performing at some of the most famous and coveted festivals such as Graspop Metal Meeting ...
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Former SKID ROW singer Johnny Solinger has been forced to reschedule his previously announced solo shows later this month due to injuries sustained in a car crash late last year. Solinger, who was a member of SKID ROW from 1999 to 2015, appearing on the "Thickskin" and "Revolutions Per Minute" albums, as well as the ...
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A video message from MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil to a superfan has gone viral. Neil was recently asked to send a birthday message on Cameo, which lets users hire celebrities to record brief, personalized video messages about virtually any topic. What he ended up recording is a 25-second video which sees him totally fumbling ...
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Sacramento, California rockers TESLA visited iconic recording studio Abbey Road Studios in London, England in June 2019 for a one-night musical event capturing the band performing songs from their legendary arsenal, including "Love Song" and "What You Give", along with their classic covers of "Signs" and "We Can Work It Out". Additionally, the band performed ...
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The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, founded in memory of the late rock music legend, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of his passing and the formation of the charity with an Awards Gala on February 20, 2020. The Awards Gala, which will take place at The Avalon in Hollywood, will be ...
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Doug Aldrich spoke to Guitar Interactive Magazine about the forthcoming album from THE DEAD DAISIES, the hard rock "collective" founded by Australian musician and businessman David Lowy. The group's fifth LP was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in the south of France and is due on April 24. The follow-up to ...
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Tommy Lee, producer, author, drummer and founding member of MÖTLEY CRÜE, will make a special guest starring appearance in an upcoming episode of the ABC-TV hit comedy "The Goldbergs" on Wednesday, February 12 at 8 p.m. MÖTLEY CRÜE's "Home Sweet Home" is also the musical tribute for this episode. In the episode titled "Preventa Mode", ...
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After a successful run of tour dates in December in support of its first new album in decades, "Risen", seminal rock band ANGEL will now tour more extensively in the United States with the "Spirit Of '76" 2020 tour. Kicking off in April, the bill also features STARZ, the American metal band that served as ...
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Tommy Lee (MÖTLEY CRÜE), Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX), Tracii Guns (L.A. GUNS) and Phil Labonte (ALL THAT REMAINS) are among the rock musicians who criticized President Donald Trump after he sent a congratulatory tweet to the wrong state following the Kansas City Chiefs's first Super Bowl win in 50 years. "Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs ...
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According to Billboard, MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEF LEPPARD's stadium tour has already sold more than one million tickets. The trek, which also includes POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, has grossed $130 million, with another $5 million generated from VIP seats. The tour saw the fastest sellout in Miller Park ...
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Zoltan Bathory told ITV News in a new interview that sobriety brought a new focus to FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH when he and his bandmates were making their eighth album, "F8" (pronounced "fate"). "We were growing exponentially — arena after arena, just bigger and bigger shows," the guitarist recalled (see video ...
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A brand new photo Vince Neil has emerged online. The MÖTLEY CRÜE singer took to his social media Saturday night (February 1) to share a new picture of him "hanging out" with his "buddy" Mike Wolfe, star of the long-running, treasure-hunting History Channel series "American Pickers". They were photographed "enjoying" country singer JT Hodges's January ...
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Earlier today (Thursday, January 30), the four members of POISON — Bret Michaels, Rikki Rockett, C.C. DeVille and Bobby Dall — were among the first-ever inductees into the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall Of Fame. The ceremony took place at The Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. POISON was formed in 1983 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, thereby making ...
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"Talk To Me", the new video from SIXX:A.M., can be seen below. The track, originally released last September, invites each of us to take the first step toward mutual understanding and healing using the power of conversation. "Talk To Me", written by MÖTLEY CRÜE founding member and Global Recovery Initiative Foundation board member Nikki Sixx ...
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BREAKING BENJAMIN founder/frontman Ben Burnley was recently interviewed by Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the release of "Aurora", a collection of reimagined versions of the band's biggest and most ...
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Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has commented on the passing of Neil Peart, who died on January 7 in Santa Monica, California after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The iconic RUSH drummer was 67 years old. Strauss spoke about Peart's passing in ...
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Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, was was again in attendance at this year's NAMM convention in Anaheim, California for the launch of the latest additions to the Ibanez Nita Strauss signature JIVA family: the new JIVA X, JIVA10 and JIVA Junior models. Video footage of Strauss shredding the ...
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THE DEAD DAISIES — the hard rock "collective" founded by Australian musician and businessman David Lowy — is mixing its fifth album for an April 24 release. Recorded at La Fabrique Studios in the south of France, the follow-up to 2018's "Burn It Down", will be the band's first to feature Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH members Jason Hook (guitar), Chris Kael (bass) and Charlie Engen (drums) joined STEEL PANTHER on stage last night (Sunday, January 19) at the Circus in Helsinki, Finland to perform a cover of the VAN HALEN classic "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love". Fan-filmed video footage of their appearance can be seen below. FIVE ...
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In a brand new interview with the Irish Times, Corey Taylor was asked if a successful band like SLIPKNOT could survive just on royalties from streaming sales. He responded: "You could if the streaming system wasn't set up the way it is. You are being paid less than pennies. In the ...
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POISON frontman Bret Michaels has revealed that he is about to undergo two separate surgeries — one to repair a torn rotator cuff and another to have a patch of skin cancer removed. Michaels offered an update on his health via a personal message on his official web site. He wrote: ...
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ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and his wife, Pearl Aday, have taken to social media to profess their love for each other on their ninth wedding anniversary. Earlier today, Pearl shared a photo of the couple's vow renewal from five years ago and included the following caption: "Twenty years ago we met and moved in together ...
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