Classic Rock News

Getty ImagesBeach Boys genius Brian Wilson has just rolled out a 25-city joint summer trek with Chicago. As always, joining Wilson on the road is his crack solo band of the past 21 years — featuring fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. The tour kicks off on June 7th at Phoenix, Arizona’s Ak-Chin…

PRPhotos.comGlobal music company BMG has acquired the entire recorded catalogue of Mötley Crüe. According to the announcement, the new deal includes the band’s complete recorded output spanning their 40-year career totaling nine studio albums from their 1981 debut, Too Fast For Love, through the latest release in 2008 Saints Of Los Angeles, along with all…

Getty ImagesDirector Peter Jackson revealed that Disney was pushing for all the profanity to be be excised from The Beatles – Get Back documentary — something that neither he nor the group wanted to happen. Jackson, who directed the nearly eight-hour, three-part doc now streaming on Disney+, told NME, “Paul (McCartney) describes it as being…

PRPhotos.comFoo Fighters have just announced 16 stadium dates for next spring and summer in support of their Grammy-nominated Medicine At Midnight album. As it stands now, the band will launch the trek on May 14th at Burgettstown, Pennsylvania at The Pavilion at Star Lake and winding things down over two nights — August 18th and…

PRPhotos.comThe Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Unit reportedly executed a search warrant at Marilyn Manson’s home in West Hollywood early Monday (Nov. 29th) morning. Sources tell TMZ that the rocker was not home at the time and law enforcement forced entry. According to the outlet, police seized media storage units, including hard drives,…

PRPhotos.comJudas Priest has rescheduled its 2021 “50 Heavy Metal Years” North American tour dates for next spring. Loudwire posted the band will be supported by Queensryche on the 17-city trek, with the run kicking off on March 7th in West Valley City, Utah at Maverik Center before wrapping on April 11th in Laval, Quebec at…

PRPhotos.com45 years after writing and producing Boston’s mega-platinum self-titled debut, leader Tom Scholz recalls never fitting in. The Boston leader looked back to Rock Candy magazine, and recalled, “I was always an outsider. I wasn’t part of a scene, not part of the crowd that recorded or played in L.A. or New York. I wasn’t…

Getty ImagesBob Dylan’s first U.S. art exhibition, titled Retrospectrum, is now running at Florida International University. The university’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum features more than 120 of Dylan’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning six decades. The exhibit includes 180 acrylics, watercolors, drawings and ironwork sculptures — along with interactive exhibits for fans. The…

Getty ImagesThe Who will screen their legendary March 10th, 1973 show from the Netherlands on Saturday (December 4th) to salute the 11 fans that tragically died in 1979. The 12th Annual P.E.M. Memorial honors the 11 fans who perished on December 3rd, 1979 while entering Cincinnati’s Riverfront Colliseum prior to the Who’s concert that night.…