Classic Rock News

Queensryche singer, Geoff Tate is headed out on an extensive tour of North America, co-headlining with Adrian Vandenberg’s band, Vandenberg. Tate and Vandenberg are now scheduled for 20 shows early next year. The tour kicks off February 26, in Clearwater, Florida and runs through March 16, with the final show in San Antonio. Vandenberg commented…

Getty ImagesShown in a photo, wearing his new concert t-shirt, KISS’ Paul Stanley praised Taylor Swift. He took his wife Erin, and two daughters… teenager Sarah and Emily who turns 12 this week, to Swift’s show in Inglewood, California over the weekend. After raving over her performance, he thanked her and wrote: “Thanks to her…

Getty ImagesOn Sunday night (8-6), Metallica performed “Too Far Gone?” in concert for the time ever at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Footage of the second show of the North American leg of Metallica’s M72 World Tour was posted by a fan online. The trek, which launched in late April, has the band…

PRPhotos.comBilly Idol has released a remix video of his classic hit, “White Wedding”. The song is featured on the new expanded reissue of his self-titled 1982 album. The previously-unreleased 12 minute version of the track is part of the new 2CD package. The new reissue includes an entire unreleased concert from at The Roxy in…

Foreigner’s bassist Jeff Pilson says he’ll be busy on several projects when the Farewell Tour is over. One of them is his band The End Machine with Dokken’s guitarist George Lynch. They’ve written a lot of music and their next record together should be out early next year. He says he’s also doing another project…

PRPhotos.comStaind frontman, Aaron Lewis is celebrating both rock and country success this week. The band just had their first #1 hit in over a decade, on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, with “Lowest In Me.” On top of that, Aaron Lewis, as a solo artist was presented with a Gold plaque commemorating half-a-million in sales…

Getty ImagesGuns N’ Roses is expected to officially release a new single called “Perhaps,” this Friday, August 11. The song first came into suspicion back in June, when someone passing by the venue heard them sound check it before their concert in Tel Aviv, Israel and later posted it online. It’s an older song from…

Brian Setzer has released “Black Leather Jacket,” another new track from his upcoming album, The Devil Always Collects. Guitar World described it as “pure roadside bar sleaze in the best way… with strutting Chuck Berry-gutter riffs.” Setzer talked about writing the song and said that the lyrics are about his jacket that he got when…

Getty ImagesQueen + Adam Lambert hasn’t played during 2023 yet, but the group is already looking ahead to 2024. It’s just announced five Rhapsody Tour dates for February in Japan, starting February 4 in Nagoya and also playing Osaka and Sapporo (for the first time in 42 years) before closing February 13-14 at the Tokyo…

Getty ImagesFormer Yes guitarist, Trevor Rabin, has released a single called “Big Mistakes”. It’s from his first solo album in 34 years titled Rio, which comes out on October 6. About the song, he said, “It’s essentially about surviving my late teens/twenties, hence the lyric: ‘We played in the fire, we danced in the rain.…