Tag: glam

Festivalgoers on their way to Glastonbury, who took the 12:35pm from London’s Paddington on Thursday the 26th, were treated to a truly unexpected secret act — a surprise takeover and live acoustic set from none other than critically acclaimed artist Sam Ryder, who was onboard a Glastonbury train service, making his way to the festival ahead of his weekend performance, guitar in hand!

Dolly Parton and Mötley Crüe have re-recorded the Mötley Crüe classic ‘Home Sweet Home’.

So anyway, there is this band from Los Angeles called GayC/DC that has been around since 2013 and is now getting some traction with their new song ‘Gay Boy Boogie’, a nod to AC/DC’s 1977 Let There Be Rock anthem ‘Bad Boy Boogie’.

Ratt’s 1984 debut album ‘Out of the Cellar’ will have a 40th anniversary release with an extra track added.

Nikki Sixx has hit back at critics who poured scorn on Motley Crue’s new music.

The Sweet will return to Australia for one last time in November.

Mick Mars would be willing to write new music for Mötley Crüe – despite his ousting and legal wrangle with his former bandmates.

Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx has been “pumping out amazing lyrics and great music”.

Winger’s upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand for September has been cancelled.

Rick Springfield’s aborted 1970’s album ‘Springfield’ will finally be released on May 12, 2023.

The Cult will reveal their 11th album ‘Under The Midnight Sun’ in October and have announced the news with the premiere of ‘Give Me Mercy’.

A concert to honor the life and music of Marc Bolan will be held in London on the 45th anniversary of the passing of the T.Rex lead singer.

Pisstake glam metal band Steel Panther will return to Australia in October.

Tommy Lee managed to make it to the end of a Motley Crue show for the first time on the current ‘The Stadium Tour’.

Tommy Lee broke four ribs carrying luggage down uneven stairs at a rental house in Nashville.

Nikki Sixx has branded Pearl Jam “one of the most boring bands in history”.

Sixx:A.M. have no current plans to tour or release new music.

Motley Crue are “100 per cent planning” to reunite for their ‘The Stadium Tour’ next year.

Motley Crue’s debut album ‘Too Fast For Love’ was released 40 years ago today, 10 November, 1981.

Slade’s underrated ‘Slade In Flame’ album is the next vinyl reissue from the UK’s 70s Glam Rock band.

Andy Scott has resurrected an old song called ‘Everything’ by Sweet into a new song for Sweet now called ‘Everything 2021’.

‘Electric Warrior’, the sixth album but first breakthrough for T. Rex, was released on this day on 24 September 1971.

Founding Steel Panther bass player Lexxi Foxx has left the band.

Rock band Cinderella has lost two members in one day. On the same day guitarist Jeff LaBar died at age 58, keyboard player Gary Corbett has also passed away.

Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar has died at age 58. A cause of death has not been announced.

November 10 2021 will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the first Motley Crue album ‘Too Fast For Love’.

Tommy Bolan, who was the lead singer of T. Rex and one of the pioneers of the glam rock movement of the 1970s, inspired her music and image.

Taste have used self-isolation time to create a music video for their new song ‘Stand Up’.

The Sweet bass player Steve Priest has died at age 72.

California’s notoriously raucous glam metal days can be summed up with the era’s poster boys Motley Crue and their album ‘Dr. Feelgood’. Now, 30 years on it is getting a re-release, but is it the re-release we need?