The Smashing Pumpkins really threw their new touring guitarist into the fire during the kickoff of their The World Is a Vampire - Europe Summer 2024 Tour in Birmingham, UK.
Kiki Wong, the Instagram darling who beat out 10,000 other would be shredders as the third axe alongside Billy Corgan and James Iha, not only had to learn a variety of jams from the vast and ever-growing Pumpkins library, but the band also covered the U2 rocker "Zoo Station" from Actung Baby.
Eminem, Marshall Mathers, B-Rabbit, whatever you want to call him, is back... sorta.
The best-selling rapper of all time is getting an awful lot of, uh, shade, for his latest single, "Houdini" from his forthcoming album The Death of Slim Shady.
Chappell Roan continues to pack in crowds, win over festival audiences, and has skyrocketed into one of the most beloved artists in pop music.
As she did at the Hangout Festival in Alabama and Boston Calling in Massachusetts, the 26-year-old phenom is beating the odds by making a name for herself while at festivals she is not headlining.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are so prolific, weird, and wonderful, it shouldn't be news when they drop new tunes because if you blink they could have dropped a brand new album.
The Aussie group are a spectacle to behold. In the 14 years the band has been together, they have produced an ungodly two dozen studio albums, 15 live albums, and 3 EPs.
North Long Beach's Vince Staples began the European leg of his tour, aptly titled the Black in Europa Tour, with a pair of live debuts.
Supporting his weeks-old album Dark Times, the 30-year-old rapper gave the fans in Cologne, Germany, a treat with debuts of "Children's Song" and "RADIO."
Janet Jackson live debuted a pair of new tunes and dusted off a few others in a re-jiggered set for her Together Again Summer Tour 2024 in the Coachella Valley.
Miss Jackson probably would have done this last month in Las Vegas during the Lovers & Friends Festival, but Mother Nature would not cooperate.
Before a screening of Pulp Fiction at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, Rancid's Tim Armstrong led a solid Ramones tribute band through a half hour of classics, culminating in a finale of tunes with Billy Idol leading the way.
Billed as The Cretin Commandos, Armstrong and the crew, which included CJ Ramone on a few tunes, blasted through 14 Ramones or Ramones-adjacent covers in a blistering 29 minutes.
PJ Harvey gave fans at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, a pleasant surprise when she "live debuted" "Black Hearted Love," a song she had only performed once before for a special from Abbey Road Studios in 2009.
Technically that 2009 performance was the the live debut, but this weekend was the first time she played it in front of a paying audience, many of whom might not have heard it before at all because the fest was headlined by Lana Del Rey, Pulp, and SZA.
Slash's new blues album Orgy of the Damned, is mighty good.
No, the top-hat-wearing Guns N' Roses guitar hero didn't write a bunch of bluesy tunes as a canvas to shred over, instead, he invited a wide variety of stars to help him celebrate some of the best blues numbers out there.
This is a statement he put out recently about a forthcoming tour, his first since 2019: "In the autumn in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan I will be alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing playing versions of the songs I have written from my recent and not so recent past."
