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There's no doubt about it: AC/DC are masters of infectious rock and roll melody. What started as brothers Angus and Malcom Young playing bar and club shows in Australia with friends quickly escalated to being one of Australia's most popular and successful acts. The name "AC/DC" came from an abbreviation on a sewing machine meaning "alternating current/direct current." The band has continued to use electricity in the form of a lightning bolt to symbolize the band's energy. The band's or …

Iron Maiden fans in North America can celebrate with good news and get ready for an epic tour in 2019. After a successful tour in Europe, the relentless rock band are packing their bags and bringing Legacy of the Beast tour to North America. The 34-date tour launches summer of 2019.Kicking things off at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, the band begins their tour on July 18th and brings it to a close September 25th at AT&T Center in San Antonio. Originally starting in Europe, the tour …

It might officially be time to say goodbye to KISS. The classic hard rock band have announced the first 44 dates of what they're calling the  End of the Road tour, and they're chalking it up as being their farewell tour. The final tour from this legendary band kicks off on Jan. 31, 2019, in Vancouver, Canada and (so far) ends on April 13 in Birmingham, Alabama.  However, this is only the first leg of the tour. The full run of the End of the Road tour is expected to last …

Are you ready? Are you ready for this? Are you hanging from the edge of your seat?Released on the 1975 Night at the Opera album, the song Bohemian Rhapsody was a fresh, complex, grand counter to the works of many contemporary artists of the time. Fast forward to 2018, a new rhapsody emerges to tell the fresh, complex, grand story of the band and legendary vocalist who created the iconic composition, and changed the music industry forever: Queen. Just released in the United States, Bohemia …

It’s that time of year again, folks. The time of year music experts at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee gather together to create a list of nominees of some of the most deserving performers across the music sphere to be enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! Ballots are now in the process of being sent to over 1,000 music historians, scholars, producers, journalists, and more in order to determine the 2019 class. This voting body will take into consideration a numbe …

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band will retire from the road after his Travelin' Man tour ends in 2019. Bob Seger’s career has been rags to riches, to say the least. From high school gymnasiums to Michigan bars to theaters and then arenas, he's spent 56 years on the road. Now one of Detroit's most famous sons is taking his final road trip. His final run with the Silver Bullet Band begins November 21 in Grand Rapids and will wind down in the summer of 2019 (dates are still being announced …

...And Justice For All, Metallica's 4th release in 1988, was their first to chart in the Top 10 on BIllboard's Top 200 Albums Chart. The single "One" was the first song ever to win a grammy award for Best Metal Performance . To mark the 30th anniversary of  … And Justice for All, Metallica will release what they're calling the definitive reissue of their metal landmark on November 2. A souped up remastered box set, Justice will feature the original album, a selection of demos …

The Eagles Greatest Hits compilation surpasses Michael Jackson's Thriller to become the best selling album of all time. Since its release in February of 1976, the Eagles Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 album has been a perennial best seller, residing near the top of the sales charts week in and week out. In fact, it spent nearly a decade as the best selling album of all time until Thriller blew past it after Michael Jackson's death in 2009. And that is how the ranking remained until recentl …

August 15, 2018 marks the 49th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock Festival. On an unusually hot August 15, 1969, an estimated 400,000 young people descended on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, NY to hear sets from Richie Havens, CCR, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat,  Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, Joe Cocker, The Band, and dozens of other acts. By the end of the festi …

A new Lynyrd Skynyrd documentary which tells the “warts and all” backstory and tragic history of southern rock’s most iconic band, premieres on the Showtime cable network on August 18. If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd, covers the band’s enduring legacy from their birth in Jacksonville, Florida to the plane crash in 1977 that killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, their assistant road manager, and the plane’s crew. …