Festival season just got a great new addition, as a number of top rock bands will add San Antonio to their itinerary in late May. The inaugural Bud Light River City Rockfest will take place on the grounds of the AT&T Center in San Antonio on May 26th with Guns N' Roses and Alice in Chains serving as the day's headliners.
Zakk Wylde's popular 'Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berzerker's Guide to World Domination' book is being released in paperback on April 9, and to celebrate, Wylde is hitting the road for a new book tour.
"Impractical Jokers"is a TV show that airs on TruTV every Thursday night. The "Jokers" are fours high school buddies who formed a comedy improv troupe called "The Tenderloins", which eventually morphed into the TV show "Impractical Jokers"!
The worlds of hard rock and electronic music don't cross paths that frequently, but at Canada's upcoming Boonstock festival, there will be a full-on collision of the two genres. Booked for June 27-30 over the Canada Day weekend, the festival will take place in Gibbons, Alberta, with Godsmack, Limp Bizkit and Sebastian Bach leading the way.
Now in its sixth year, the annual Rockapalooza Festival is set to invade the Jackson County Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mich., on June 22, kicking off on June 21 with a free pre-party.
Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland had an interesting weekend on his latest solo tour that included him challenging a heckling audience member to a fight in New York and some rather odd rants during a show in Washington, D.C.
Comedic heavy metal act Steel Panther are about to bang their way across the globe once again with their upcoming 'Spread the Disease' (S.T.D.) 2013 tour. The men of Steel Panther are set to infect thousands of fans during the string of dates.
The original Guns N' Roses lineup may never reunite, but every once in a while there are little slivers of past glory with at least a couple of members teaming up onstage together. That was the case this past week when Duff McKagan's Loaded and Adler shared the stage together in Shibuya, Japan for a pair of shows.
Motley Crue played an abbreviated set Sunday night (March 10) in Sydney, Australia, after singer Vince Neil could no longer continue and had to be rushed to a local hospital. Guitarist Mick Mars took to Twitter a little after the fact to reveal that the singer was suffering from kidney stones and that the pain got the better of him.
The Smashing Pumpkins will soon be back in action, launching their 2013 World Tour at the Cumbre Tajin Festival in Mexico on March 23. The band will be promoting their 2012 effort, 'Oceania,' and they've got a few tricks up their sleeves for the forthcoming tour.
The rumors are true! Marilyn Manson has officially confirmed that he will be touring this summer with the original shock rocker Alice Cooper. Though a full itinerary has yet to be unveiled, Manson announced today (March 8) via his website that the trek is definitely happening along with revealing three tour dates.
