Category Archives: Classic Rock News – ABC Audio

Dave Grohl featured on upcoming episode of Mark Ronson-hosted 'The FADER Uncovered' podcast
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty ImagesDave Grohl will guest on the upcoming second season of The FADER Uncovered podcast, hosted by famed DJ and producer Mark Ronson. On The FADER Uncovered, Ronson interv...
Josh Johnson Sep 28, 2021

Davus Maximus? Grohl almost joined GWAR
Theo Wargo/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBSWe almost lived in a world where Dave Grohl was the drummer for GWAR. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Foo Fighters frontman reveals that he was invited...
Josh Johnson Sep 28, 2021

Ringo Starr teams up with foster youth organization for "Let's Change the World" music video
Credit: Scott Robert RitchieRingo Starr has debuted a music video for his uplifting new song "Let's Change the World," the lead track from the former Beatles drummer's recently released Change the Wor...
Matt Friedlander Sep 28, 2021

Doors guitarist Robby Krieger to discuss new memoir during virtual Q&A event next month
Little, Brown and CompanyOn October 12, The Doors' Robby Krieger will release his first-ever book, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar with The Doors, and to celebrate the memoir'...
Matt Friedlander Sep 28, 2021

Ex-Dire Straits, Pretenders members featured on new instrumental project Held by Trees
Tweed Jacket MusicFounding Dire Straits member David Knopfler and former Pretenders guitarist Robbie McIntosh are among the many respected musicians who are contributing to a new instrumental project ...
Matt Friedlander Sep 27, 2021

Judas Priest postpones 2021 tour after guitarist Richie Faulkner is hospitalized with "major...heart condition"
Credit: Joe LesterJudas Priest is postponing the remainder of the North American leg of the band's 50 Heavy Metal Years tour because guitarist Richie Faulkner has been hospitalized with a "major medic...
Josh Johnson Sep 27, 2021

Founding Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster dies at age 72
Shirlaine Forrest/WireImageAlan Lancaster, original bassist of the veteran U.K. rock band Status Quo, died Saturday at age 72 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Lancaster's death was announc...
Matt Friedlander Sep 27, 2021

Bob Dylan announces 2021 US tour in support of latest album, 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'
Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for ABABob Dylan has scheduled his first tour dates since the start of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The folk-rock legend, who turned 80 this past May, has unveiled a series of ...
Matt Friedlander Sep 27, 2021

Hey Ho, it sold! Johnny Ramone's famous Mosrite guitar fetches over $900K at Boston memorabilia auction
Credit: Ian HarperA rare electric guitar that The Ramones' Johnny Ramone played and recorded with from 1977 to 1996 sold for more than $900,000 at a rock memorabilia auction held over the weekend in B...
Matt Friedlander Sep 27, 2021

Metallica plays 'The Black Album' in full & in reverse during Louder than Life festiva
Blackened RecordingsMetallica continued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Black Album at his past weekend's Louder than Life festival. For their second of two headlining sets at the event, the ...
Josh Johnson Sep 27, 2021
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