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Getty ImagesIt was 20 years ago today (August 17th, 2002) that Bruce Springsteen’s post-9/11 requiem, The Rising, hit Number One on the Billboard 200 albums charts for the first of its two-week run. The set, which reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a full studio set since 1984’s Born…

PRPhotos.comOn September 23rd Alice In Chains will issue a remastered 30th anniversary two-LP 12-inch black vinyl edition of their second album, Dirt. The album, which was the band’s last album to be recorded with the Seattle group’s core four founding members — Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney and late-members Mike Starr and Layne Staley. Dirt was…

PRPhotos.comJeff Beck has announced a 29-date fall tour, with select dates featuring ZZ Top and Ann Wilson opening. The tour kicks off on September 23rd in Del Valle, Texas at Germania Insurance Amphitheater and wraps on November 12th at Reno, Nevada’s Grand Theatre in the Grand Sierra Resort. ZZ Top will be on hand for…

Getty ImagesRoger Daltrey shed light on his 60-year-relationship with Pete Townshend during a new chat with Forbes. The Who kicks off its next North American run on October 2nd at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. Although no longer at loggerheads as they were during much of the 1970’s, Daltrey explained that he and Townshend’s connection is solely…

Getty ImagesGene Simmons gave the blueprint of how the Kiss brand may live on after the band wraps its ongoing “End Of The Road ” tour. Blabbermouth transcribed some of the bassist’s comment while appearing on Dean Delray’s Let There Be Talk podcast, where he touched on the final Kiss concert: “We don’t know if…

Getty ImagesToday (August 16th) marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Elvis died of a heart attack on August 16th, 1977 at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42-years-old. The day after Elvis’ passing, then-President Jimmy Carter said in an official statement: Elvis Presley’s death deprives our country of a…

Getty ImagesIt was 57 years ago tonight (August 15th, 1965) that the Beatles played their legendary concert at Shea Stadium in New York City. The show was the first on their 1965 U.S. summer tour, and it was also the first-ever open-air stadium rock concert. The group flew into New York on August 13th and…

Getty ImagesComing on December 2nd is the seven-disc Elvis On Tour box set. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s legendary tour the movie was culled from, the Elvis On Tour CD / Blu-ray box set is comprised of the audio from four of the shows — and two rehearsals — that were…

Getty ImagesBruce Springsteen will be in conversation with Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner on September 13th at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. According to the announcement, “the pair will be in conversation about Wenner’s deeply personal new memoir Like A Rolling Stone, which brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a…