Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has announced an expanded digital edition of his acclaimed third solo album, Lighthouse. The deluxe release includes eight additional tracks with three exclusive live performance videos filmed last December at Easy Street Records in McKagan’s hometown of Seattle, Washington. Lighthouse (Expanded Edition) features a stripped-down acoustic rendition of “I…

System of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has teamed up with composer Bear McCreary on “Incinerator,” a track from the latter’s upcoming album, The Singularity, which is due out on May 10th. “When I got the music, when I got this song specifically, I was blown away. It’s explosive,” Tankian said about the song. The…

Korn have announced dates for a 2024 North American tour, with support from Gojira and Spiritbox. The extensive 25-city North American fall tour will kick off on September 12 in Tampa at the MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre. The tour will make stops across Charlotte, Newark, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas…

BBC Radio 6 Music has announced a new series hosted by Courtney Love. “Courtney Love’s Women” will start airing on BBC Radio 6 Music next month. According to BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds, “Courtney Love’s Women” will be a “candid and raw new music series, in which the legendary Courtney Love shares the…

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes recently released the official video for “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero).” The star-studded re-recording of Knopfler’s 1983 solo single was released in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America. For the nearly 10-minute new take of the Local Hero theme song, Knopfler joined forces with numerous rock…

The Pretty Reckless are set to provide support for AC/DC on their upcoming European tour. The news was announced earlier this week, when AC/DC shared a poster for their first European tour in eight years, which will feature the Taylor Momsen-fronted band as the only opener on all 24 dates. The tour is slated to…

Pop-punk band Sum 41 have added a Canadian leg to their farewell tour next January. The band will also be touring the United States, Mexico, Europe, the U.K. and Japan before ending The Tour Of The Setting Sum in Canada. Canadian punk bands PUP and Gob will support Sum 41 on their final tour. Sum…

Ozzy Osbourne has joined Billy Morrison on the new single “Crack Cocaine,” which also features guitarist Steve Stevens. “Crack Cocaine” appears on Morrison’s upcoming album The Morrison Project, due out April 19. The track also features Tommy Clufetos, who plays drums in Ozzy’s solo band. Other guests on The Morrison Project include Billy Idol, Slipknot’s…

Pearl Jam recently released a punky new single, “Running,” from their upcoming album, Dark Matter. “Lost in the tunnel and the tunnel’s getting funneled / Like the sewage in the plumbing / ‘Cause we left the fucking water running,” the lyrics go. The two-minute song follows the title track, which dropped last month. Dark Matter,…

Dierks Bentley recently shared a music video for his cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “American Girl.” The video shows Bentley playing Petty’s own Rickenbacker guitar, flown in from the rock icon’s archives in California for the shoot. The Wes Edwards-directed music video was shot at the Clementine in Nashville, Tennessee, with Bentley teaming…