The Rock & Roll Fantasy

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has confirmed his rumored stay at a rehab facility. There’s been some gossip that Tyler — who, along with his bandmates, successfully battled addiction years ago — had fallen off the wagon, but he made the move to preserve his health after a number of surgeries and physical therapy that dealt […]

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Judas Priest will get up-close and personal with a bunch of fans in the U.S. over the next few days. Frontman Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing will be on hand for an in-store autograph session today (Thursday, May 8th) at Hot Topic in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, followed by a second […]

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It wasn’t a simple tech issue that knocked Peter Gabriel’s websites off-line for the past few days. Gabriel’s Internet Service Provider was robbed over the weekend, and the thieves actually removed the servers during the break-in. As of yesterday (Tuesday, May 6th), several of the Gabriel-related sites were still affected, including Real World and WOMAD. […]

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The rumors about Eric Clapton and Roger Waters working together appear to be true. According to The Palm Beach Post, the old friends recently spent some time at Palm Beach Sound Studios in Riviera Beach, Florida, and Waters was reportedly clutching his Apple laptop “as if it were the Ark Of The Covenant” as […]

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Whitesnake is going full-on to promote their new album Good To Be Bad, which came out last week in North America. The band has released a video for the track “Lay Down Your Love,” which features a mix of off-stage footage with live performance of the song. You can watch the video here:
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The Trews are giving fans a peek behind the curtain at life on the road with a new video . The Canadian rockers have posted a homemade tour film online, which you can see here:
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The footage is set to a track called “Burning Wheels,” […]

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From the looks of things, there might be a band calling itself Bad Company playing live this year. A group billed as “Bad Company 2008″ is listed as performing at a festival on May 5th in Manchester, England, to help launch the new station Rock Radio. The musicians include original Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs; […]

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The video for the new Def Leppard song “Nine Lives” is out now. It features the band performing on a soundstage with country superstar Tim McGraw, who is the first voice you hear on the track. McGraw sticks around for the whole clip, adding harmony vocals and taking a couple more lines for himself throughout […]

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Bruce Springsteen and Illinois Senator Barack Obama have been slagged in a mock negative ad that’s jokingly been attributed to New York Senator Hillary Clinton. The good people at the online video magazine Slate V have posted a video that links Obama’s “religion and guns” comment to Springsteen lyrics like “town full of losers” […]

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The mighty mighty Van Halen is back and sounding better than ever! The group postponed their tour earlier this year so guitarist Eddie Van Halen could deal with some unexplained health issues, and they made their return last week in Reno and then in Las Vegas. Any doubts about what the group would sound like […]

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