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It’s been 40 years since rockabilly icons The Stray Cats started the band. Now the original members – Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom, and Lee Rocker – have announced they will be plotting a 40th-anniversary tour and recording a new album, to boot. The trio will be heading into the studio with producer Peter Collins in Nashville to make their...

Prince’s former band The Revolution has announced a new round of tour dates honoring the late singer’s life. After finishing shows in New York City and Austin, the “Purple Rain” group will embark on a 16-date tour split across the U.S. and Europe. The band includes all the original members of keyboardist Dr. Fink, keyboardist Lisa Coleman, guitarist Wendy Melvoin,...

Greta Van Fleet has been setting the world on fire with their blend of rock for the past few years, and now they’re finally releasing their full-length debut album. Anthem of the Peaceful Army continues their path of paying homage to classic rock with their own twist. The band is anchored by bassist Sam Kiszka alongside his brothers Josh and...

Ever since it was announced, we’ve been dying for more details about Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass. Now we know a little more, thanks to an Instagram post from the Rush bassist. “Hey! Guess what? I wrote a book! No, not about birds… It’s about basses, basses, and more basses!” Lee quipped. “Amongst the 408 pages of glorious...

Technical death metal band Revocation has just released The Outer Ones, which takes their heavy sound into the realm of sci-fi. “The title is my ode to H.P. Lovecraft and the entities of pure cosmic horror that rule that universe he created,” says guitarist/vocalist David Davidson. “Since the new music we were writing was so evil and spacey in sections...

Elvis Costello and The Imposters have returned with a new album called Look Now. The 12-song release, which is his first recording with the band since 2008’s Momofuku, was conceived while on the road during his “Imperial Bedroom & Other Chambers” tour last year. “I knew if we could make an album with the scope of ‘Imperial Bedroom’ and some...

The Marcus King Band has just released Carolina Confessions, an album of 10 brand new songs written by the guitarist/vocalist. Drawing on blues, southern rock, and Americana, the album is deeply personal to King. “Every tune on this record is based around a central theme, which is that none of us are blameless at the end of a relationship,” he...

Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and Anthrax bassist Frank Bello have teamed up once again on their project called Altitudes + Attitude. The band has announced a new album called Get It Out that will be released on January 19, 2019. They’ve also just released the first single from the album, entitled “Out Here.” “I’ve learned that writing songs is very...

Bassist Taylor Lee has released his debut solo album entitled Lightning Man, and it’s a star-studded event. Lee, who has worked with artists like the Jeff Sipe Trio and Bela Fleck, tapped guitarist Mike Seal and drummer Michael D’Angelo for the rhythm section with several special guest bassists. “’Lightning Man’ features several world-class bassists including Taylor’s longtime instructor Steve Bailey,...

If you dig the classic R&B of the late ’60s and early ’70s, you’ll want to check out the new album The Right Time by Ural Thomas and The Pain. Thomas was a soul singer back in that very era and released a few singles including “Can You Dig It,” though he was forced to find other work to make...

The Police have announced a career-spanning vinyl box set called Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings. The six-LP set includes the band’s entire catalog of recorded studio albums plus a 12-track disc called Flexible Strategies that contains B-sides and rarities. The albums were remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell and will be cut onto 180-gram heavyweight vinyl....

High on Fire has released Electric Messiah, an album inspired by the late metal bass god Lemmy Kilmister. The band’s frontman, Matt Pike, wrote the title track after a dream. “When Lemmy was still alive I always got compared to Lemmy, so I had this dream where he got pissed at me,” says Pike. “He gave me a bunch of...