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The family of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roy Orbison — known for hits like “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Crying,” “Only the Lonely” and “In Dreams” — has partnered with the independent production and financing company Compelling Pictures to develop both a theatrical feature film and long-form documentary based on singer-songwriter’s life and career.

Tentatively titled “You Got It,” after Orbison’s 1988 hit single, the film will be “a romance more than a traditional biopic,” according to the announcement, focusing on Orbison’s relationship with his wife Barbara, who became his manager and played a key role in his comeback, which took place in the years just before his death at the age of just 52 December of 1988. Barbara Orbison died in 2011.

Denis O’Sullivan (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Jeff Kalligheri (“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”) will produce for Compelling Pictures. Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison Jr., and Wesley Orbison will executive-produce via their production company Roy’s Boys,...

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in history, with more than 133 million people tuning in — and it also may have been the most uncompromising. In a slot that every previous artist has reserved mostly for greatest hits, Lamar only played bits of two older songs, focusing instead on his excellent new album, Gnx, and his Drake-eviscerating smash, “Not Like Us.”

On the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down the...

David Edward Byrd, who created psychedelic posters for Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Grateful Dead shows and for such Broadway productions as Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Little Shop of Horrors, has died. He was 83.

Byrd died Monday at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, rep Jerry Digney announced. Jolino Beserra, his partner of 40 years, said on Facebook that he died of pneumonia.

One of the foremost graphic artists of 20th century pop culture, Byrd did lots of work for rock promoter Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, which opened in the East Village in Manhattan in 1968, and designed a poster for the original Woodstock festival (it turned out it wasn’t used when the event was moved).

He designed posters for The Rolling Stones’ tour of the U.S. in 1969 and The Who’s performance of their rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1971 and album covers...

David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable posters in modern Broadway history for two beloved productions, Follies and Godspell, died Monday, February 3, at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 83.

His husband, the artist Jolino Beserra, announced on social media. In a recent Facebook post, Beserra described Byrd’s failing health as the poster artist struggled with heart and lung problems, pneumonia and the effects of two bouts with Covid.

Born April 4, 1941, in Tennessee but raised in Miami Beach, Florida, Byrd studied painting and design at Carnegie-Mellon University in the mid-1960s, and from 1970 to 1979 taught at New York’s Pratt Institute.

In 1968, his friend Joshua White – who gave rock shows their distinctive psychedelic aura with his Joshua Light Show – recommended Byrd to rock impressario Bill Graham,...

ShipRocked celebrated its 15th sailing January 19-25 onboard Carnival Magic, sailing from Miami, with stops at St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Half Moon Cay in The Bahamas. The annual rock music cruise vacation included performances, artist hosted events and more with Parkway Drive, Hollywood Undead, Nothing More, The Struts, The Stowaways all-star band and over two dozen others.

During the cruise, ShipRocked producers ASK4 Entertainment revealed the dates, ports and a new ship for the Greek mythology-themed 2026 edition. ShipRocked 2026 is set for January 25-31, 2026, sailing from Miami to The Bahamas on Carnival Horizon with stops in Half Moon Cay, Celebration Key–Carnival’s soon to be opened private cruise port on the island of Grand Bahama–and Nassau. While ShipRocked 2025 guests are already pre-registered for the 2026 sailing, look for information on the ShipRocked 2026 public pre-sale soon at www.ShipRocked.com.

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Listen to Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison’s brand-new song, “Gods Of Rock N Roll,” here on the SiriusXM app about 11 minutes into an exclusive Ozzy’s Boneyard special featuring Billy and Mark Strigl.

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During the special, Billy also talks about the song. “Gods Of Rock N Roll” premiered on the SiriusXM channel on Friday, January 17, and is a re-recorded version of the track from 2015 that includes a 61-piece orchestra and choir and a guest appearance by longtime Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens.

Related: Ozzy Osbourne Talks Eddie Van Halen, Michael Jackson, and More

The original “Gods Of Rock N Roll” closed out Billy’s second album, “God Shaped Hole” (2015).

Ozzy’s exclusive SiriusXM channel, Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38), plays hard and heavy classic rock, powered by early riff masters, American thrash titans, British metal icons,...

Infusing a bloodthirsty vampire into the wild times of Woodstock in the summer of 1969, the cleverly named comic book series Woodstake invites you to take part in "three days of peace, music... and blood." With the final issue of Woodstake coming out in stores tomorrow from Shp Comics, we have a special treat for Daily Dead readers to sink their teeth into: the entire issue of Woodstake Prologue (aka issue #0) that you can read right now for free!

Created, written, and edited by Shawn Hainsworth (aka Darin S. Cape), and featuring artwork by Felipe Kroll, lettering by Es Kay, and proofreading by Kim Whitener, Woodstake Prologue is available to read in its entirety below, and we also have insights from Shawn about how he came up with the concept for the historical horror series:

The idea that popped into my head was the title and the concept, wood stake—Woodstake—a vampire at Woodstock.

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White, and four separate Beatles movies from director Sam Mendes. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below).

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Sammy Hagar is set to kick off a Las Vegas residency in April, and going forward residencies and one-off shows might be the only way to see the Red Rocker.

In a new interview, the 77-year-old Hagar revealed that he doesn’t want to tour anymore, and has even told his manager to not book any extended outings. However, it appears Hagar would do more residencies if he enjoys playing in Vegas.

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“I don’t think I want to go on tour anymore,” he told the Miami Herald. “I hate to say that, because I don’t want to piss my fans off. I’ll go out and do a one-off show and do things like that, but the residency is going to give me a good extension of my career. That’s what I’m hoping for.”

He added, “I keep telling my manager,...

America’s Sweetheart, Ari Shaffir’s new Netflix stand-up special, bears a title that flies in the face of the hilariously edgy jokes you’ll hear during the comic’s latest hour. “I’m a big troll,” Shaffir laughed as he explained the special’s ironic name. “I like to rile people up. I’m a habitual shit-starter.”

What to expect from the new special? “I’m trying to take every single thing that people say, ‘This is too serious,’ and I’m gonna be like, ‘Let me show you how to find some joy out of that,’” he says. The message of America’s Sweetheart? “Guys, chill the fuck out.”

I recently spoke with Shaffir about the state of comedy in 2025, the legend of working the door at the Comedy Store and how the advent of podcasting permitted provocative comics to be themselves.

“You see it everywhere in America,...

Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite hip-hop groups of all time, De La Soul. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, well, clearly I can’t do that, because there’s already been a book written,'” he says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “And then much to my surprise, there wasn’t one.” (To hear the whole episode,...

Rhino has unveiled a new David Lee Roth box set, The Warner Recordings 1985-1994, arriving on vinyl and CD on February 21st.

The 5-lp and 5-cd box sets house Roth’s solo recordings following his exit from Van Halen in 1985, beginning with the Crazy from the Heat EP and its hit song “Just a Gigolo.”

Dlr followed that up with the successful Eat ‘Em and Smile LP in 1986, featuring Roth teamed up with an all-star backing band featuring bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Gregg Bissonette, and guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Roth then went on to release three more LPs on Warner including 1988’s Skyscraper, 1991’s A Little Ain’t Enough, and 1994’s Your Filthy Little Mouth.

Of note for collectors, the upcoming vinyl box set will contain the first-ever repressing of Your Filthy Little Mouth, which was only released on vinyl in Germany in 1994, making it a scarce and pricey original pressing.

Sammy Hagar has responded to Alex Van Halen skipping the “Van Hagar” era in his memoir, calling the lack of acknowledgement “blasphemy” to Eddie’s legacy.

Hagar’s remarks came via an otherwise innocuous Instagram post that saw the Red Rocker nostalgically reflecting on his time in Van Halen. In the original post, featuring a photo from 1991 of Hagar and Eddie heading to the stage, Hagar joked about their choice of fashion at the time before taking a more serious tone when commenters began to compare the David Lee Roth years to Van Hagar.

“No disrespect to Alex but it’s ok to like Vh with Sammy, even if he doesn’t anymore,” wrote one commenter, prompting another: “Most purists believe Vh ended with Dlr.”

Here, Hagar chimed in.

“It could have [ended], my friend, but instead we went on to sell over 50 million records for [a] No. 1 album [then] sold out every...

Radiohead have had a spy in their midst for years. As his excellent new book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, reveals, bassist Colin Greenwood has been snapping candid, lovely photographs of his bandmates since the early 2000s — in the studio, in dressing rooms, and even, somehow, onstage during the middle of their concerts.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Greenwood — who just finished a tour playing bass with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — talks about his book, looks back at highlights of his years in the band,...

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Musicians are famously picky about their gear. Legends like Eddie Van Halen and Chuck Berry were apparently fans of .009 (read: light) strings, so why should the music folks in your life be any different? But if your guitarist already has a go-to gauge, or your resident rhythm-keeper swears by a classic 5A, shopping for them can be as challenging as defining their “it’s kinda post-punk-meets-acid jazz” musical style.

“Nonexistent problem, ineffective solution.”

This was the sage advice legendary writer Jim Downey would give to young writers like David Mandel when they were working on commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. “That was often the key to a great commercial parody,” says Mandel, who wrote on the show from 1992 to 1995. “I loved making the commercial parodies. The chance to go off and make a little film was the opposite of SNL. You could edit it and be precise with it. It was exciting.”

Mandel got to write a number of commercial parodies during his three-year run on SNL, but his four favorites are below.

That’s Not Yogurt

The premise was simple: It was a guy eating yogurt, and the announcer keeps telling him, “That’s not yogurt,” but he won’t tell him what it is so the person gets very paranoid. It was my pitch, but Downey...

David Lee Roth is back with another dance video, this time performing and singing along to a solo recording of Van Halen‘s “Panama.”

Roth’s dance clips fall somewhere between Britney Spears’ selfie dances and the absurdist humor of Robert and Toyah Fripp’s musical parodies. There’s a very Dlr cheekiness to them — and they’re not too far removed from his actual stage antics.

Here he’s essentially singing karaoke with himself, as the audio of this version of “Panama” hails from recordings with the Roth Band from a 2022 session at Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood. Opening with a routine featuring a large pole and some rather random background images, Dlr transitions into a barebones stage set where he struts and belts out the lyrics. He looks like he’s actually performing on an empty stage in some venue or theater. The clip ends with the following text: “Don’t use me,...

This year’s Black Friday Record Store Day had its usual share of curios: a version of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft with her vocals isolated, Rage Against the Machine’s 2000 set at the Democratic National Convention, a collection of outtakes from Yes’ Fragile, a previously unreleased 1991 Van Halen show, and a blue-vinyl version of Earl Sweatshirts’ Feet of Clay among them.

And then there’s the live album some of us never thought we’d see or hear.

At this point, Buffalo Springfield are fondly remembered...

One neat thing about the original "Frasier" series was that it had some major guest stars we never actually got to see. In fact, it had a ton of major guest stars we never got to see. Dr. Crane's Kacl talk radio show provided the perfect opportunity to land some of the greatest guests in TV history without having to worry about getting the celebrities into the studio — although Linda Hamilton actually doubled up as a caller and an in-person guest on "Frasier." Everyone from Christopher Reeve to Carrie Fisher called the good doctor for advice over the course of the show's 11 seasons, and it wasn't just actors.

"Frasier" also played host to the voices of musicians Eddie Van Halen and Art Garfunkel, as well as tennis star John McEnroe. While the show never struggled to get big-name actors in the flesh, these "hidden" cameos made for an undeniably cool...

Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, two of the biggest and most interesting pop artists of the past half decade, have a not-so-secret weapon in common: producer and co-writer Daniel Nigro, formerly the frontman of the ’00s band As Tall As Lions. Nigro, who just scored a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, helped Roan and Rodrigo step off the pop assembly line and sidestep trends, building uncommonly sturdy catalogs of precisely crafted, oft rock-inflected hits.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Nigro shares studio...

Marty McFly never tells his parents he traveled through time to bring them together in Back to the Future, but George had more than enough clues to piece it together. When Marty goes back in time and unwittingly bumps into his parents, he doesnt tell them hes their son from the future. Lorraine assumes his name is Calvin Klein, because its written in his underwear, and he just rolls with it. He pretended Doc Brown was his Uncle Doc and he made sure his parents fell in love without revealing he came from the future.

But Marty didnt do a flawless job of hiding his tracks. He may not have outright said that he came from the future, but he did use some of his knowledge of the future to ensure that George would ask Lorraine to the school dance. When that stuff came to pass in the years that followed,...

Credit — or blame, as the case may be — generally goes to Sammy Hagar. The former Van Halen frontman kick-started the celebrity booze movement when he launched his own Cabo Wabo Tequila back in 1999. The trend went into overdrive in 2017 after George Clooney offloaded his Casamigos tequila label to Diageo for a cool $1 billion. Suddenly, every A-lister (and A-list aspirant) wanted in. And though the ubiquity of celebrity brands has reached the point of parody, their performance is entirely serious, outpacing the industry as a whole. But which of them are any good? THR has convened a panel of mixologists and booze experts to single out their favorites — and those best relegated to the bottom shelf.

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If there is a message in this bottle, it’s that Italian-style aperitivi needn’t have such a high sugar content. The rock legend, who owns a sprawling villa in Tuscany,...

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri and rock and roll legend Sammy Hagar co-own a tequila business. However, the two never expected that someone would hijack two trucks bringing their alcohol. That happened, though, and two trucks carrying the valuable merchandise were stolen.

Here is a look at what happened, and what Fieri and Hagar had to say.

Sammy Hagar & Guy Fieri Tequila Trucks Hijacked

Guy Fieri is a celebrity chef best known for his various TV shows on the Food Network, including Diners, Driver-Ins, and Dives. Sammy Hagar is a rock and roll legend. He sang songs like “I Can’t Drive 55” and was Van Halen’s second lead singer. More recently, they co-own a tequila business.

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Fieri, 56, and Hagar, 77, co-own the tequila brand Santo Spirits. According to reports, two of their trucks crossed the border into Texas. After they reached Laredo, Texas, on November 9, the thieves hijacked the trucks.

Sammy Hagar’s “The Best of All Worlds,” his critical and commercial hit summer 2024 tour, will launch in 2025 as “The Best of All Worlds Las Vegas Residency.” From April 30 through May 17, 2025, the tour will reunite the rock powerhouse band of Sammy, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Kenny Aronoff with Rai Thistlethwayte on keyboard and backing vocals.

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Sammy Hagar has announced a 2025 Las Vegas residency with his “Best of All Worlds” all-star band, featuring guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Kenny Aronoff.

The residency is set for April 30th through May 17th and encompasses nine shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Specific dates include April 30th, May 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 16th, and 17th.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (November 20th) at 10 a.m. Pt using the code Beats. General ticket sales start Friday (November 22nd) at 10 a.m. Pt via Ticketmaster.

The residency will be an extension of Hagar’s “Best of All Worlds” summer tour, which saw the Red Rocker performing hits from Van Halen’s catalog as well as his own solo career and prior bands.

Hagar will once again be backed by Anthony on bass and Satriani on guitar. Meanwhile, Aronoff will be behind the kit,...

Sammy Hagar’s Best of All Worlds tour is coming to Las Vegas for a nine-show residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM between April 30 and May 17, 2025. He’ll once again be joined by bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Kenny Aronoff, and keyboardist Rai Thistlethwayte for a show that leans heavily into the Van Halen catalog, but also touches on Hagar and Satriani solo tunes. Ticket sales begin on Friday, November 22.

The song selection was relatively static throughout the summer, but that won’t be the case in Vegas.

This past summer, Sammy Hagar featured an all-star backing band of Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Anthony (bass), and Jason Bonham (drums) as part of his “Best of All Worlds” tour focusing heavily on Van Halen material. Now, the Red Rocker is moving on without Bonham, replacing him with another renowned drummer, Kenny Aronoff.

Aronoff actually filled in for Bonham on the last four dates of the tour, when the son of late Led Zeppelin legend John Bonham had to drop off the outing to be with his ailing mother. According to Jason, the switch has become permanent.

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After posting dates for his own “Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening” tour, which kicks off this Tuesday (November 19th) in Indianapolis (pick up tickets here), the drummer was asked by a fan in the comments, “Will you be rejoining Best of All Worlds band?” To which Jason replied,...

Some lessons need to be learned over and over again. When Bob Dylan and the Beatles broke through in the Sixties, they paved the way for generations of artists to write their own songs. But by the early 2000s, the charts had been largely reclaimed by pro songwriters and svengali producers — until a young, putatively country artist named Taylor Swift came along.

As Swift rapidly moved toward pop stardom, guitar always in hand, she started an industry-wide movement toward artists — especially young women — writing about their own lives again. “When...

The moment in Back to the Future when Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly masquerades as "Darth Vader, from the planet Vulcan," is soundtracked by a song that had already appeared in a movie the year before, and starred the actor who was originally cast as Marty. Often heralded not only as one of the best time travel movies of all time but also one of the best movie trilogies ever, Back to the Future remains as popular as ever. That being said, it went through quite a process to end up in its original form.

Back to the Future began production with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, but he was let go weeks into shooting after it was determined he wasn't right for the role. Thankfully, Fox was brought in to fill the void and was just what the 1985 movie needed, as well as the two sequels that followed.

Decades never start quite on time, pop-culturally speaking, and it’s tempting to say that the Sixties didn’t really kick off until the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, just as “Smells Like Teen Spirt” started the Nineties in 1991. But as David Browne’s new book, Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, suggests, the Sixties’ spirit really began in Greenwich Village, not Liverpool — and the music that really got it going was written by Bob Dylan. In June of 1963, Peter,...

Valerie Bertinelli and her boyfriend of less than a year, Mike Goodnough, have broken up.

The 63-year-old TV personality and the writer – who is 10 years younger than her – were in a long distance relationship. Valerie is west coast based and Mike is east coast based.

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A source told People, “They are no longer in a relationship.”

She previously told People that they had a three week rule to see one another, saying, “We never go longer than that without seeing each other. After all, it’s about finding the joy in life and sharing it.”

Valerie was previously married twice. She was married to Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen from 1981-2007, and then was wed to Tom Vitale from 2011-2022.

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Smashing Pumpkins singer, songwriter, and guitarist Billy Corgan has taken a shot at lists that rank the greatest guitar players of all time, feeling that he’s either ranked too low or snubbed from the lists altogether.

In an interview with Guitar World, Corgan expressed feeling under appreciated from the publications who compile these lists, guitar lovers, and even Smashing Pumpkins fans. “Most people don’t even recognize my contributions as a guitar player,” Corgan told Guitar World. “They don’t even assume I’m the one playing a lot of the guitar.”

He went on, saying that his guitar skills are worthy of a bit more recognition. “You have these silly lists that come out about the greatest guitar players; I usually don’t even make those lists,” he said. “Or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around. I don’t mean to denigrate...

Van Halen’s reunion tour was canceled due to an ongoing feud between David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen before Eddie’s death.

Eddie died of cancer in October 2020. Alex Van Halen, the band’s drummer and Eddie’s brother, opened up about the band’s struggles during an interview with Rolling Stone.

“The thing that broke the camel’s back, and I can be honest about this now, was I said, ‘Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt – not bowing – but an acknowledgment of Ed in the gig,'” Alex said. “‘If you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage.’ And the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave popped a fuse… The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.”

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Alex Van Halen is sharing the last piece of work he made with his late brother, Eddie. On Monday, the musician shared a downloadable version of the instrumental track “Unfinished,” which is featured in the audiobook version of Alex’s new book, Brothers.

The six-minute recording, shared on Van Halen’s website, hears Eddie’s guitars throughout, including a classic Eddie solo about four minutes into the song. The music soundtracks Brothers, which Alex self-narrates.

According to the website, “Unfinished” is ‘the final song that Edward and Alex wrote together.

Alex Van Halen has unveiled the full six-minute version of “Unfinished,” the final song that the drummer wrote and recorded with his late brother, guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The instrumental track comes one day ahead of the release of Alex’s memoir, Brothers (pre-order here).

Eddie’s guitar playing is heard throughout “Unfinished,” with his virtuosity truly shining during a solo that comes at the 4:35 mark of the track. The song provides part of the soundtrack to the audiobook version of Brothers, which is narrated by Alex.

While “Unfinished” may have been the last song the brothers wrote and recorded together, Alex recently told Billboard that there is more unheard Eddie Van Halen material in the archives.

“I’m not in a hurry,” Alex said of unveiling any further unreleased material. “I do have a certain obligation to keep it to Ed’s standards. He was meticulous and he...

The conductor of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s crazy train on Saturday night was actor Jack Black, who had the honor of inducting Ozzy Osbourne into the institution with a speech that was predictably reverent and hilarious.

In addition to celebrating the music of Osbourne’s first band, Black Sabbath, Black has long championed Osbourne’s solo career, performing “Crazy Train” as a member of Tenacious D and “Mr. Crowley” with Tom Morello’s son, Roman. In fact, he’s been a fan of Osbourne’s for most of his life.

As Alex Van Halen continues to promote his upcoming memoir, Brothers, the drummer’s apparent disdain for Sammy Hagar becomes more and more evident. In a new interview with Billboard, Alex suggests that Van Halen lost their “magic” after David Lee Roth left the band in 1985.

In a previous interview with Rolling Stone, Alex blamed Diamond Dave’s apparent refusal to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen for putting the kibosh on a planned reunion tour honoring the late guitarist. That said, he holds the band’s initial years with Dlr in the highest regard.

“What happened after Dave left is not the same band,” Van Halen told Billboard. “I’m not saying it was better or worse or any of that. The fact is Ed and I did our best work whenever we played.”

He continued, “We always gave it our best shot. But the magic was in the first years,...

Van Halen was established back in 1973 and found itself being disbanded after nearly five decades of incredible musicmaking, but its rage among the rock fans is still as strong as ever. Over the years that it was still active, while the heavy metal band restored hard rock to the forefront of the music scene through its energetic live performances – especially through its late lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen – it was also met with quite a lot of changes.

For one, while it started with the Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex, the band went on to let rock singer David Lee Roth hop onto their rock-y journey as well, despite all the complications. But his tenure didn’t last long as, within less than a decade, Roth ended up leaving to embark on his own solo journey, with his empty spot being filled by Sammy Hagar. After a decade, Hagar left too,...

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Alex Van Halen’s new tribute to his late brother Eddie has soared to number one on the bestselling book charts and number one on the audiobook charts, one week ahead of its publication date.

Part-rock and roll memoir and part band biography, “Brothers” is billed as an “intimate and open account” of Alex Van Halen’s life and career, with the drummer writing candidly about his relationship with brother Eddie,...

Despite numerous Grammy nominations in the country field, and a Best Country Duo/Group Performance win with Kacey Musgraves for “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan says he doesn’t want to be defined as a country music artist.

In an exclusive Rolling Stone interview between Bryan and Bruce Springsteen, the Great American Bar Scene songwriter and the New Jersey working-class hero talked at length about how country music has affected their work. Springsteen cited Hank Williams and Johnny Cash as influences, while Bryan praised Jason Isbell and went on to...

At different times when Van Halen were in between singers, Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Cornell were each in the running to front the legendary rock band. The revelation comes courtesy of Alex Van Halen’s first interview since the 2020 passing of his brother Eddie Van Halen.

While speaking with Rolling Stone to promote his new memoir, Brothers, set for release on October 22nd, Alex revealed that, on each occasion, Van Halen were deep in the process of working with Osbourne and Cornell.

Osbourne was approached in 2001, after Gary Cherone’s tenure in Van Halen ended in 1999, and prior to Sammy Hagar’s return in 2003. Alex said that he and Eddie sat down with Sharon Osbourne to discuss an Ozzy-fronted Van Halen album, but the plans fell apart upon the launch of MTV’s The Osbournes reality show.

“When you get a dog, you don’t expect it to be a cat,...

Alex Van Halen has given his first public interview since the death of his brother Eddie Van Halen, and the drummer revealed some shocking revelations regarding a proposed Van Halen reunion tour that never came to fruition.

Alex spoke to Rolling Stone ahead of the release of his memoir Brothers on October 22nd, opening up about myriad topics, including the nixed reunion tour and the bizarre reason why the plans came to a halt.

Rumors of the tour that had circulated since Eddie’s passing were largely true. According to the Rolling Stone article, Roth and Alex had even begun rehearsing for the tour with members of Dlr’s solo band, with plans to fill out the lineup with former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani on lead guitar, in Eddie’s place.

At the time of these rehearsals, Alex had already begun feeling numbness in his feet,...

After His Brother Died, Alex Van Halen fell apart. He can prove it. There’s photographic evidence right here on his phone, which also happens to be a repository of unheard, unfinished Van Halen songs. Spend the day with him, and he might play a few. But first, he’ll scroll to that image, an Mri of his spine with a gaping hole in it, a missing piece.

Eddie Van Halen died at age 65 in October 2020, leaving the world without its greatest post-Sixties guitar hero, and Alex without his brilliant,...

Alex Van Halen’s highly anticipated book Brothers is set to arrive on October 22nd. In advance of the memoir’s release, Spotify has shared an audiobook excerpt in which the drummer pays tribute to his late brother and Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen.

Since Eddie’s passing in October 2020, Alex has remained reclusive and has not made any public appearances. That will change later this month when he launches a mini book tour for Brothers (pre-order here) that includes signings October 21st at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue in New York City and October 22nd at Books & Greetings in Northvale, New Jersey, along with an October 24th live talk at the Frost Auditorium in Culver City, California.

In the four-and-a-half-minute clip (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Alex narrates the following passage from the book:

“Without my brother I would not be. We fight, argue, we even argue about agreeing on things,...

“This world is bullshit,” Chappell Roan recently said, during an extended TikTok rant. “You shouldn’t model your life on what we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself.” All right, fine, that was actually what Fiona Apple said on the VMAs in 1997 — and at the time, Apple’s dissatisfaction with fame briefly threatened to become the essence of her brand, overshadowing the brilliance of her music. But Apple continued creating, and her songs have long since outlasted any passing controversies.

The Beat the Rush sales event has launched on Reverb, offering big savings on guitars, gear, and accessories weeks ahead of the Black Friday frenzy, with select items on sale for more than 40% off the regular price

Dozens of Reverb shops are have items listed as part of the sale, and we sorted through to find some of the highlight guitar-related items for the rocker or soon-to-be rocker in your life. Or if you’re a musician yourself and have been waiting for a good sale to buy that boutique pedal or stock up on patch cables, now is a good time. And you’ll be supporting independent sellers on the Reverb marketplace.

Here are some of our choice picks from the sale listings:

Gibson Les Paul Modern Lite Electric Guitar – Inverness Green Satin ($989)

Manchester Music Mill in New Hampshire has knocked $500 off this gorgeous Les Paul Modern Lite in a striking Green Satin finish,...

Ahead of being honored at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Ozzy Osbourne appeared on a recent episode of “Ozzy Speaks with Billy Morrison” on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38).

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During the show, the “Prince of Darkness” talked to Billy about Eddie Van Halen, Michael Jackson, and his favorite lead guitarist. Listen to the full episode anytime on the SiriusXM app.

Ozzy Osbourne Shares Van Halen Story

Ozzy recalled Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath in 1978 and how Eddie made playing the guitar “look so f—ing easy.”

“They outshone us,” Ozzy said of Van Halen. “They blew us off the stage.”

“Eddie was a great guy,” Ozzy continued. “Always nice with me… he’s a lovely man and Alex [Van Halen]. I took all of them down to my local pub.”

“In England? What was that like?...

The story of the first Back to the Future movie is relatively easy to follow, with Marty McFly accidentally traveling back in time from 1985 to 1955 and almost preventing his own birth. As the franchise continued with two more movies, the Back to the Future timelines grew more elaborate, involving time travel into the future as well as the past. Understandably, for a movie series about time travel, Back to the Future references pop culture moments from the past throughout all three movies, in the form of music, objects in the background, and comments from Marty.

Many of the references in Back to the Future are still recognizable (and hilarious) today, like when Marty scares the younger version of his father, describing himself as "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan" in a Star Wars/Star Trek mashup. However, some of the more outdated references in Back to the Future will now...

No 1970s car exudes more Hollywood allure than the Ferrari 365 Gtb/4, known colloquially as the “Daytona.” Not only was it coveted by movie stars and rock gods, but it had several memorable screen appearances itself. One played a significant role in Robert Altman’s Elliott Gould-starring ode to Film Noir, The Long Goodbye. Perhaps most famously, a convertible version starred in 1976’s A Star Is Born, with Kris Kristofferson at the wheel and Barbra Streisand in the passenger seat.

Now, just as that movie inspired an acclaimed remake a few years back, the 365 Gtb/4 is having a revival. Ferrari design head Flavio Manzoni likes to suggest that all cars from the Italian exotic automaker are of-the-moment, reflecting their time. But he has not been shy in discussing the historical inspiration for the brand’s new, $459,000 two-seater, the 12Cilindri. Manzoni has said quite clearly that the front end and overall shape echo the Daytona.

David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 — as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in an interview featured in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Gilmour dwells on mortality on the new album, which he co-wrote with his wife, Polly Samson, and he’s all too aware that we’ve...