After Friday night’s show saw the band jam with the likes of Karl Denson and Carrot Top, Widespread Panic continued their run at The Joint in Las Vegas with more guests including Chris Robinson, Neal Casal, Adam MacDougall and Tony Leone. 
Van Halen will tour North America this summer and fall in support of their upcoming concert album, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert. The tour will kick off in Seattle on July 5 and wrap up in Los Angeles on Oct. 2.
The Black Keys announced earlier this week that their Australia, New Zealand and Japan tour dates have been cancelled following a shoulder injury suffered by drummer Patrick Carney in January. 
When synth-pop trailblazers Depeche Mode put out their darkly hued seventh album, Violator, a quarter of a century ago, it was an event. The Beatles may have had Beatlemania, but the group had their own bloodthirsty zombie horde willing to crush anything standing between them and their favorite band. One day after the record came out, a mob of more than 10,000 fans shut down a small section of Los Angeles surrounding a record store where the group was doing a signing.
Widespread Panic’s third and final show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA over the weekend saw the band continue their streak of debuts as they delivered “The Poorhouse of Positive Thinking,” a tune that JoJo Hermann has played before during his some of his solo gigs.
The legendary Robert Plant joined Jack White onstage at Lollapalooza Argentina over the weekend for a blistering rendition of the Led Zeppelin classic 'The Lemon Song." 
It’s no secret that for many rock stars, live performances are where the money is these days. But according to a new book purporting to offer an inside look at Metallica over the past couple decades, the band’s recent tours have been necessary in order to stave off financial ruin wrought by a series of disastrous projects..jpg)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced presenters for this year's ceremony: Paul McCartney will induct Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder will speak on Bill Withers, Patti Smith will intro Lou Reed, Peter Wolf will show praise to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Fall Out Boy will discuss Green Day, John Mayer will pay tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble and Steve Cropper will extol The "5" Royales. Organizers have yet to announce who will induct Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Following Trey Anastasio’s appearance at the 'Fare Thee Well' shows in Chicago, Phish will hit the road for their Summer Tour 2015. Phish will be making stops along the West Coast, the East Coast and which will include their 10th festival, Magnaball, in Watkins Glen, NY beginning August 21. 
Andy Fraser, bassist with Free and co-composer of the classic “All Right Now,” has died at 62. A cause of death was not immediately announced, but Fraser had been battling both cancer and AIDS recently. 
There’s a glimmer of hope for those who don’t have tickets to the Grateful Dead reunion shows and don’t have the funds for hefty scalper fees. The band’s surviving members are gathering for a another concert, this one honoring their fallen leader Jerry Garcia.
In January, the first recording by Elvis Presley – a 1953 acetate disc featuring "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" – sold at auction for $300,000 to "an undisclosed buyer." It turns out the secret purchaser wasn't just any deep-pocketed Elvis fan: Jack White has revealed that it was his winning bid that landed the 10-inch recording, and that he plans to reissue the single on vinyl for this coming Record Store Day.
The full-blown Kiss concert experience is big enough to require the occasional use of pre-recorded backing tracks, but that doesn't mean the group has forgotten how to deliver an old-fashioned, stripped-down acoustic set.
When Soundgarden released the masterful Superunknown in the spring of 1994, the Seattle-centric sound generally referred to as “grunge” had pretty much achieved worldwide dominance. 
Robert Plant has joined the growing list of artists releasing special limited-edition vinyl titles for Record Store Day 2015. 
The White Stripes will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their 2005 LP, Get Behind Me Satan, with the first commercially available vinyl pressing of the album, which arrives on Record Store Day, April 18th, via Jack White's Third Man Records. 
David Gilmour‘s upcoming solo album is progressing nicely, says longtime collaborator Phil Manzanera. “It’s going very well,” Manzanera told Uncut. “I think it sounds fantastic. People will be very happy.” 
Faith No More will return with Sol Invictus, the band's first album since 1997, on May 19th, and after trumpeting their comeback with first single "Motherf%^%&" and "Cone of Shame," the "Epic" crew have unveiled another new cut: the pulverizing, hypnotic "Superhero." The song, fittingly, debuted at Marvel.com, where Faith No More bassist Bill Gould talked about the track and how comic books inspired him as a musician. 
Iron Maiden, like their many fans, are still trying to process the news that singer Bruce Dickinson has been battling cancer. Drummer, Nicko McBrain said his band mate is now rebounding... 
| “ | That was a thing the record company really tried to foist on us. They really tried to fuck with our layout, and sent us these fucking pictures of us, just our heads. It was like this, they wanted us to have a poster inside the record consisted of our five heads on a black background, everything was black, the whole inside, and it's like, 'Fuck you.' We're going to make our cover, we made our record, we produced it our way, we wrote our songs, we played them our way, it sounds like us. | ” |
| “ | There had never been any question of my staying in the band. We started writing the music for this album, and being part of something so fundamental was what made sure of it for me. The Real Thing had been like someone else's, someone else's band, it had felt like an obligatory thing. They hadn't needed a damn singer, it was just that they had to have a singer. That's why I was there, that's why Chuck was there, we weren't needed there. | ” |
