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Def Leppard will hit the road this week for the start of their Summer Stadium Tour with Journey. They’ll come armed with new music in the form of their latest single, “Just Like ’73.” Guitarist Phil Collen says fans should expect further surprises: “We changed the whole set,” he tells UCR. “The stage show is drastically different.” Def Leppard has been rehearsing this week in St. Louis in advance of the official start of the tour on Saturday night (July 6). “It’s going to take a lot of energy. There’s going to be a lot of running around,” Collen explained. “So I’m working out, trying to get th...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Dennis DeYoung had big touring plans for 2020. But the former Styx vocalist, like his peers, had to cancel all his road work in early March that year due to the pandemic. As time passed, it felt like an unexpected milestone had been added to his timeline and he doesn’t like it. “The greatest disappointment to me is that I didn’t know my last show was my last show,” DeYoung tells UCR. “So in the back of my mind, I have to correct that at some point here.” But as we learned during a recent conversation with the songwriter, it hasn’t been idle time. He’s been working to complete a memoir and was ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Geezer Butler, much like Ozzy Osbourne, has shared a similar regret about his time in Black Sabbath, telling Full Metal Jackie on her weekend radio show that the absence of drummer Bill Ward on the band’s final tour is something he wished hadn’t happened. “We were all sad about it, that he couldn’t really do it,” says Butler. “But yeah, I’d love Bill to have been on the last album and tour.” Butler was a guest on the show, discussing his “Into the Void” memoir. Within the chat, he speaks about seeing some of rock’s biggest names before they hit it big and which fellow musicians he knew were bo...
Loudwire
W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless has been honest about using backing tracks in the band’s concerts. Still, questions have persisted — with some even suggesting that the group isn’t performing live at all. “Well, if they’re crazy enough to believe it, that’s their business,” he tells UCR. “But if they genuinely feel like that, then don’t go.” For Lawless, there’s a definite line in the sand, as he explained in 2022, telling fans at a VIP experience Q & A that it’s “not fair” to rely completely on backing tracks. But, as he detailed then, they are beneficial when it comes to helping to properly...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Amid her European comedy tour, The Diversity Fire Tour, I caught up with Iraqi-American sensation Reem Edan at a coffee shop in Portobello, London, on a rainy day. Contrasting this with her sunny Italian holiday the previous week, Reem remarked, “Is it freaking cold? Yes… But I love London; it reminds me a lot of New York, which is my favourite city on earth. The comedy here is great, the people are awesome.” A viral clip from her debut comedy set, titled I’m Muslim Unless Trump Gets Elected, led to Reem being invited to host a London comedy show in 2017. Seven years later, she has become the ...
The New Arab
It's midday on a Sunday, and I'm seated, ready to meet rapper and producer Oddisee. Just as I settle in, an email arrives from his agent, suggesting he might be a few minutes late because he has just completed a half-marathon. Intrigued by this unexpected turn of events, I frantically searched for 'London half marathon June' in various ways, but found no relevant results. Oddisee arrives only a few minutes later than our scheduled meeting time and shows no sign of having broken even the slightest sweat. He explains that after his morning run, he still felt good after several miles and decided ...
The New Arab
The night before the Exies released their new EP, Closure, frontman Scott Stevens walked the Loudwire Nights audience through it, track-by-track. “These are six songs that all have meaning to them,” Stevens told host Chuck Armstrong on Thursday night (June 27). “It’s just crazy. I mean, I’m talking to the guys [in the band] and everybody’s just kind of scratching their head a little bit. How did we get here?” The Exies haven’t released a collection of new songs since 2007’s full-length, A Modern Way of Living With the Truth, their fourth album. Since then, Stevens has remained busy as a songwr...
Loudwire
When Aerosmith released “Head First” as a free digital download on June 27, 1994, the fledgling technology team at the band’s label, Geffen, just wanted to prove that it could be done. But it was an important moment in the developing landscape of the World Wide Web which ultimately helped carve a solid path for a new distribution method in the music industry. “It was proof of life for digital music,” Jim Griffin tells UCR now. Growing up as a hard rock fan outside of Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois, he was thrilled to join the label in 1992 as their first Chief Technology Officer, because the...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Former Motley Crue vocalist John Corabi could easily coast on his past glories. Instead, he’s been very intentional in recent years about the things that he does career-wise. “I’m trying to be my own person, not the guy that sang with Motley 30 years ago,” he tells UCR. The same philosophy carries over to the Dead Daisies, the all-star collective that Corabi been part of off and on for close to a decade. As he details in the below conversation, while they could easily lean on music from the work they’ve all done collectively with bands and artists like Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Ratt, Dio and ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
“It really was like my first solo record — I just kind of did it to see if I could do it.” Lamb of God founding member and guitarist Mark Morton recently hung out with Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (June 25) and dove deep into his new book, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir. “I didn’t know if I could do it or not, but I was willing to see if I could do it.” Morton admitted that writing Desolation was a lot harder than putting together an album — something System of a Down’s Serj Tankian also recently revealed. “It’s just very, very time-consuming,” Morton said. “It’s more difficult than ma...
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