In a collaboration that was destined to happen, Twisted Sister has teamed up with the cosmetic company Rock and Roll Beauty to create a new signature makeup line.
The collection includes an eye shadow palette, lip kit, eye liner and blush palette inspired by the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” rockers’ famed look.
“All products are specially designed to create a glam look that screams, ‘you can’t stop rock ‘n’ roll,'” a press release declares.
Rock and Roll Beauty has previously released makeup lines inspired by Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix and Def Leppard.
Skid Row and Buckcherry are teaming up for a co-headlining tour next spring.
The joint outing, dubbed The Gang’s All Here tour, will launch March 9 in Bowler, Wisconsin, and will wrap up March 31 in Hinton, Oklahoma.
“I’m psyched to hit the road together with our friends in Buckcherry,” says Skid Row bassist Rachel Bolan. “This will be the coolest, most bada** tour of 2023!”
“Put two great live rock and roll bands together and watch the sparks fly,” adds Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd. “Buckcherry and Skid Row, the perfect welcome to spring tour!”
Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 9, at 10 a.m. local time.
Skid Row released a new album called The Gang’s All Here in October. Buckcherry, meanwhile, just wrapped working on a new record to follow 2021’s Hellhound.
In other tour news, Queensrÿche has announced a 2023 trek kicking off March 3 in Orlando, Florida. The prog metallers will be supporting their latest effort, October’s Digital Noise Alliance.
The outing will run from January 28 in Reno, Nevada, to February 26 in St. Louis, Missouri, and will see Gavin Rossdale and company performing in indoor theaters after spending their summer playing outdoor amphitheaters with Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin.
“We’ll always love playing those big summer shows and the big stages, but we wanted to do some shows where we could get close to the die-hard Bush fans again,” Rossdale says. “We’re excited for this run coming up.”
Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 9, at 10 a.m. local time. AiC’s Jerry Cantrell, Candlebox and Silversun Pickups will also be on the bill for select dates.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit BushOfficial.com.
Bush will be touring in support of their new album, The Art of Survival, which includes the single “More Than Machines.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers have joined the billion views club on YouTube.
The band’s video for “Californication,” which reimagines Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith as video game characters, has officially passed the milestone, making it the first Peppers clip to reach 1 billion views.
“Californication” is the title track off RHCP’s 1999 album. It’s now one of several videos from the ’90s with 1 billion views, along with Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Guns N’ Roses‘ “November Rain,” AC/DC‘s “Thunderstruck,” Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Matters,” R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion,” The Cranberries‘ “Zombie,” 4 Non Blondes‘ “What’s Up” and Whitney Houston‘s “I Will Always Love You.”
Even without the billion views news, Red Hot Chili Peppers were already having a big week with the announcement of a 2023 world tour in support of their two 2022 albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen.
In the early ’90s, Fleetwood Mac‘s “Don’t Stop” became synonymous with Bill Clinton, who used the song to soundtrack his 1992 presidential campaign. The response was so huge that the band reunited with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham to play “Don’t Stop” at Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. As it turns out, the person who helped put that performance together was Buckingham’s replacement.
Billy Burnette first joined Fleetwood Mac in 1987 after Buckingham’s departure that year amid heated turmoil among the band members. He continued to play with the group through the “Don’t Stop” phenomenon, during which he got a call from Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore, who he’d previously met.
“I put together that gig,” Burnette tells Rolling Stone. “I learned that Tipper Gore‘s favorite song was ‘Don’t Stop.’ It had nothing to do with the Clintons. Al asked me to call the managers and see if we’d do something at the inaugural.”
“I called everybody and got everybody together to do it,” he continues. “And then Stevie [Nicks] calls and asks if it would be OK if Lindsey played with them instead of me.”
Burnette would rejoin Fleetwood Mac after the inauguration, though his time in the band ended shortly thereafter in 1995, after which Buckingham rejoined. When Buckingham again left Fleetwood Mac in 2018 and was replaced by Neil Finn and Mike Campbell, Burnette says he “didn’t understand” why he wasn’t called.
“I got really upset with Mick [Fleetwood] about that,” Burnette says, though he adds he “got over it real quick.”
In other Fleetwood Mac news, the band’s iconic 1977 album Rumours is headed toward the top 10 on the United Kingdom’s Official Albums Chart. Sales of the record have jumped following the death of keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter Christine McVie, who passed away November 30 at age 79.
Following Metallica‘s surprise announcement of their new album 72 Seasons last week, it seems some not-so nice people are trying to take advantage of excited metalheads.
In a Facebook post, the metal legends warn of “the ugly side of social media” including “YouTube channels and live streams, as well as websites, claiming to offer Metallica Crypto giveaways in conjunction with last week’s announcement.”
“Let’s be as clear as possible. These are scams,” Metallica writes. “They’re being streamed on fake YouTube channels posing to be ours and all pointing to websites that we do not run.”
“Please remember — all of our official social media channels are verified,” the band adds. “Always look for official verification before believing something wild and crazy to be true. We thank all of you who have been vigilant in reporting these live streams to YouTube and to us…please don’t let up!”
72 Seasons, the follow-up to 2016’s Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, will be released April 14. It includes the lead single “Lux Æterna.”
Metallica will support 72 Seasons on a massive world tour in 2023 and 2024, which will feature multiple shows in each city featuring completely different set lists.
Last week, Lynyrd Skynyrd raised more than $1.5 million for Hurricane Ian relief at a star-studded benefit concert in Estero, Florida. Frontman Johnny Van Zant, a Florida native, told ABC Audio at the event that he considered the concert “a holy moment.”
“You know what? I think we’ve been blessed a million times over. And you got to give back when you’re blessed,” Van Zant said. “I think the good Lord wants us to do that. So I’m calling this a holy moment.”
The concert, emceed by comedian Jim Breuer, also included performances by Ted Nugent and pop star Gavin DeGraw, as well as country artists RaeLynn, Tracy Lawrence, John Rich and Florida Georgia Line‘s Brian Kelley. Five hundred tickets to the show were donated to those impacted by the record-breaking storm, which killed 157 people and caused widespread damage. Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke, who also lives in Florida, witnessed it firsthand.
“I’m right off of the river: I got film of it … I watched all these 16- to 18-foot waves roll in, destroyed the marina,” Medlocke told ABC Audio. “Fortunately, I was blessed and my house escaped everything. But I got here about a week after it was over with and went riding around. And I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe the devastation.”
“We’re happy to do this, to give an uplift to the community. I wouldn’t miss this, y’know?” Medlocke added.
Ian was a Category 4 hurricane, and Van Zant said he hopes that people who live in hurricane-prone areas “learn a lesson that, ‘Hey, anytime these things are over 3s or 2s, you might want to leave.'”
“You never know what situation you’re going to be in,” he added, and then laughed, “Mother Nature is really, really bad, you know?”
New York’s Madison Square Garden is sometimes called the “world’s greatest arena,” but it’s definitely the world’s highest-earning arena, thanks in no small part to Billy Joel.
Over the past year, the Garden grossed $241.4 million and sold 1.8 million tickets, according to Billboard. That’s more than any other venue this year, including stadiums. It’s also the highest gross for any venue ever in a single year.
Billy alone was responsible for $29.6 million of that total, and 205,000 of those tickets, thanks to his ongoing monthly residency at the famed arena. In 2022, he did 11 shows at the Garden: one each month, except for January, which was canceled due to a resurgence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Pop superstar Harry Styles also contributed to the gross: He played 15 shows at the venue, taking in just over $63 million and selling 277,000 tickets. That means Billy and Harry together accounted for 39% of the total haul.
The other top-grossing shows that helped the Garden set a new record included Phish, Rage Against the Machine, Elton John and Genesis.
Annie Leibovitz signs her Lennon/Ono ‘Rolling Stone’ cover in 2008; Logan Fazio/Getty Images
One of the best-known covers of Rolling Stone shows a naked John Lennon curled up next to his wife, Yoko Ono. The photo was taken by Annie Leibowitz on December 8, 1980 — just hours before Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman — and appeared on the cover of the magazine’s January 22, 1981, edition. Now, a rare copy of that issue is being sold for a good cause.
That issue is generally hard to find, but according to Rolling Stone, a stack of copies was recently discovered in the archives of the magazine’s parent company. One of them, signed by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, is being auctioned off, with a starting bid of $1,000.
The auction runs through Friday, December 16, at 5 p.m. ET. The magazine says 100% of all proceeds will go to “gun violence prevention efforts,” though the exact charities aren’t detailed.
Lennon also appeared on the cover of the very first issue of Rolling Stone in 1967.
Guns N’ Roses is welcoming a Texas gun store to the legal jungle, where the fun and games have been replaced by lawsuits and alleged trademark infringement.
According to documents obtained by People, Axl Rose and company are suing Texas Guns and Roses, alleging that the firearms and ammo proprietor is copying the band’s name “for the purpose of confusing consumers into believing that it was connected or associated with, or licensed by, GNR.”
“This is particularly damaging to GNR given the nature of defendant’s business,” the suit reads. “GNR, quite reasonably, does not want to be associated with defendant, a firearms and weapons retailer.”
Neither Guns N’ Roses nor Texas Guns and Roses have responded to People‘s request for comment.
In 2019 Guns N’ Roses filed a trademark lawsuit against a brewery that was selling a beer called Guns ‘N’ Rosé.
