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Health problems to Ozzy Osbourne have temporarily forced Black Sabbath off the road. The band was forced to postpone last night’s show in Edmonton, Alberta, and tomorrow’s date in Calgary, Alberta. “Due to extreme sinusitis with Ozzy Osbourne the shows...

A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, he helped forge the sound of ‘70s rock. After a lengthy battle with rheumatoid arthritis and its complications, Eagles co-founder and singer-guitarist Glenn Frey died on Monday in New York. As a musical...

The new reissue of the Beatles‘ 1 compilation has Paul McCartney digging deeper into some of the group’s best-known songs. For one thing, McCartney tells Billboard, everyone’s accepted origin story of “Eight Days a Week” – the 1966 chart-topper that’s...

Billy Gibbons is ready to hit the road in support of his debut solo outing, Perfectamundo. As previously reported, the ZZ Top singer and guitarist was forced to postpone a slew of shows originally scheduled to begin Nov. 10, bumping...

Tickets go on Saturday (Nov. 7) via Live Nation for a special benefit concert for Tony MacAlpine featuring Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Billy Sheehan and others. Proceeds from the show, to be held Dec. 12 at the Wiltern Theater in...

U2 drummer Larry Mullen is taking aim at streaming services, decrying their role in a “broken” music business. “Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more,” Mullen tells...

By the release of their 1980 album Unmasked, Kiss‘s following in the United States had declined drastically. Looking back, it’s shocking to think that just two years earlier the Kiss machine looked like an unstoppable juggernaut built to rake-in massive...

The drummer for Goodbye to Gravity, Bogdan Enache, who was playing in the Colectiv club in Bucharest on Oct. 30, died tonight, according to Billboard. This now brings the death toll to 45 from tragedy, which also claimed the lives...

Having spent the first few years of their career essentially on a perma-tour, it's been unusually quiet on the gig front for The Vaccines since the release of third album 'English Graffiti' back in May. Now, however, the quartet are...