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Johnny Van Zant shares his thoughts about the song with UCR and reveals why he wouldn't sing it when he first joined the band. Continue reading…

Big Freedia (photo: Hunter Holder). More than five years after SOPHIE’s death sent shockwaves through the music world, a previously unreleased collaboration with Big Freedia is finally set to emerge from the vault. The pair’s long-rumored collaborative EP, recorded during sessions at SOPHIE’s Los Angeles home studio in 2016, will arrive June 19, with the first track, “Blaze That Ass,” due May 22. The three-song project was largely completed in […]

Ian Curtis performing with Joy Division at Bowdon Vale Youth Club (photo: Martin O'Neill / Redferns). A new exhibition honoring Ian Curtis is set to bring the late Joy Division singer’s inner world into sharper focus this summer in New York. Opening June 25 at Voltz Clarke Gallery, Ian Curtis: Insight marks the first time a major selection of materials from Curtis’ personal archive has been exhibited in the United […]

No Doubt performs at Sphere in Las Vegas on May 6, 2026 (photo: John Shearer). No Doubt dipped into its back catalog for a host of rarities last night (May 6) during the first of 12 shows at Las Vegas’ Sphere, marking just the third proper live appearance by the Gwen Stefani-fronted band since 2015.The show opened with the title track from the band’s 1995 breakthrough album “Tragic Kingdom,” which […]

"That song," manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham later admitted, "was going nowhere." Continue reading…

Shawn Crahan recalls what it was like seeing Joey Jordison play for the first time prior to the drummer joining Slipknot. Continue reading…

NSYNC, Rihanna and Bruno Mars are among the big-name pop artists who have been covered by emo bands. Continue reading…

Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted visited the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter, Florida and performed for the animals. Continue reading…

(photo: Elise Joseph James) Fresh off a headline-grabbing surprise duet with Noah Kahan in Nashville and the announcement that she’ll co-headline the D.C.-area All Things Go festival in September, Paramore’s Hayley Williams is taking her increasingly ambitious solo era global.The artist has confirmed an expansion of her The Hayley Williams Show trek, adding new dates across North and Latin America following rapid sellouts at venues including Forest Hills Stadium outside […]

The 2020s are racing by. Let's catch up on the decade with the best rock and metal songs so far. Continue reading…

Social Distortion's Mike Ness celebrates his band's latest album, 'Born to Kill,' and opens up about his journey with tonsil cancer and how it's changed him. Continue reading…

Included are albums that still feel like time-stamped baubles and others that have only grown in estimation. Continue reading…

AFI, Clutch, Sevendust with Theory of a Deadman and Underoath are among the big new tours announced this past week. Continue reading…

It's the first time the two Beatles have made a proper duet together. Continue reading…

Jason Newsted dives deep into this year's tour with the Chophouse Band and how a friendship with Blackberry Smoke and a battle with throat cancer led to it. Continue reading…

The former Arch Enemy singer will debut with DragonForce onstage at the 2026 Welcome to Rockville festival. Continue reading…

A Greta Van Fleet fan found an apparent clue hidden in the code of the band's website a few days after their social media post that triggered a breakup scare. Continue reading…

(photo: Ingo Petramer) Three decades in, Lambchop is still finding new ways to sound like no one else, including itself. The long-running Nashville collective led by Kurt Wagner will return Aug. 21 with Punching the Clown (Merge), its 17th album and latest left turn in a catalog that’s veered from alt-country murmur to glitchy soul and minimalist abstraction. Produced by Ryan Olson (Poliça, Gayngs) and co-written with Lambchop member Andrew […]