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PRPhotos.comFoo Fighters will play a string of West Coast dates beginning in December in Las Vegas, followed by Sacramento and Fresno. Tickets for those shows will go on sale on Friday (September 10th) at 10 a.m. PT at ticketmaster.com. Foo Fighter’s next show is on September 15th in Syracuse, NY. The band will be presented…

Getty ImagesBruce Springsteen has tapped his May 17th, 2005 solo show at Upper Darby, Pennsylvania’s Tower Theater as his latest archival release. The new Tower Theater 2005 collection is Springsteen’s fifth pick from the solo 2005 trek behind his Devils & Dust collection, having previously issued concerts from Trenton, New Jersey; Columbus, Ohio; Grand Rapids,…

Getty ImagesToday (September 7th) marks what would have been Buddy Holly’s 85th birthday. Holly, who would die tragically on February 3rd, 1959, at the age of 22 in plane crash with Ritchie Valens and J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, was arguably rock n’ roll’s first singer-songwriter. Holly’s death while on tour with the 1959 Winter Dance…

Getty ImagesOnce again the BottleRock festival shut down Dave Grohl for exceeding the event’s curfew. The Foo Fighters’ frontman sat in with Guns N’ Roses during the band’s headline appearance on Saturday night (September 4th) and during a particularly hot show-closing take of the the band’s “Paradise City,” the promoters pulled the plug on the…

Getty ImagesRod Stewart is reuniting with his early-’70s band the Faces, featuring surviving members Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and from Who drummer Kenny Jones. Jones revealed the group’s plans, telling Bang Showbiz: “We’ve done about 14 songs, it’s a mixture of stuff we never released which is worthy of releasing and there’s some…

Getty ImagesDavid Crosby remains busier than ever at 80-years-old. He’s been receiving raves for his recently released album, For Free, and just announced a deluxe 50th anniversary edition of his 1971 solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name, which is due out on October 15th. Crosby was asked about a possible reunion between…

Getty ImagesMetallica will guest on this Friday’s (9-10) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band made the announcement and said, that Jimmy Kimmel invited them back to celebrate the reissue of The Black Album. Their appearance is the same day of the release, which will be available in multiple formats, including a deluxe box set,…

Getty ImagesAfter testing positive for Covid-19 last week, Gene Simmons posted on Twitter over the weekend and said he’s “doing just fine, thanks to the vaccine.” With a series of tweets, he answered fan’s questions about covid, in what seemed like a “teaching moment” from the rock star. After one fan pointed out that he…

PRPhotos.comJimmy Page attended a film festival in Venice for the premier of the new Led Zeppelin documentary. He also walked the red carpet at the event. In an interview printed in Billboard, he commented about the movie and said he appreciated the focus on the music and the fact that the songs were played at…