Mike Mazzarone

The big saying in life is ‘don’t meet your heroes.’ Someone must have never informed Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen of this quote as during a recent interview on the BBC’s ‘The Rock Show’, the rock and roll legend discussed meeting one of his icons and in Collen’s own words, ‘rock god’ for the very first time –  » Read More

Rock and roll powerhouse and bassist and co-lead singer of KISS, Gene Simmons has been very pessimistic toward the state of rock and roll as his battle cries of calling the genre ‘dead’ have been well known for quite some time now. In addition, Simmons would even go so far as to double down on the claim earlier this year.  » Read More

Ahead of their newest tour, The Rolling Stones landed in Spain. The tour, which is called ‘sixty’ will be a celebration of The Rolling Stones’ sixty years together as a band and as a collective unit. Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, and Keith Richards landed in style as the group’s private jet landed in the city of Madrid. The Rolling Stones,  » Read More

Recently it was reported how ‘The Prince of Darkness’ and Black Sabbath pioneer, Ozzy Osbourne lamented the royalty structure of streaming services, signaling out Spotify in particular and calling it a ‘f***ing joke. Now, in a new Alternative Nation exclusive, Carmine Appice, legendary drummer and the Classic Drummer Hall of Famer who played with Osbourne in support of his Gold-selling Bark at the Moon album.  » Read More

The Pretty Reckless frontwoman, the beautiful Taylor Momsen continues her successful slate of tour dates as her group packs up from Virginia Beach and rocks the New Jersey/Philadelphia area for the 933 WMMR MMRBQ concert event in Camden, New Jersey. As a stop on The Pretty Reckless’ ‘Death By Rock and Roll’ Tour, the event features Disturbed, Royal Blood,  » Read More

Van Halen has seen several lineup changes and incarnations over the decades, however, one that usually flies over the radar of fans is when Extreme frontman Gary Cherone fronted the group from 1996 to 2000. Cherone would only last one album with Van Halen, Van Halen III before David Lee Roth, who recently had this sad truth revealed,  » Read More

The taxman is coming for Sir Paul McCartney as The Daily Mail is reporting the English legend and co-founder of The Beatles has retained his spot on the list of Britain and Ireland’s richest musicians as ranked by The Sunday Times Music Rich List. McCartney will see a sizable increase in net worth, as he is worth £45m more than he was the year previously.  » Read More

Recently fans were surprised to learn that Pearl Jam, who not too long ago had this ex-member dropped this bombshell, could be putting out another album. This is because Gigaton, the eleventh studio album of Pearl Jam is by all accounts still relatively new as it was released on released March 27, 2020. Still, when a recent screenshot over at IHeart boasting a potential new Pearl Jam EP called ‘Cold […]

In a new statement shared on various forms of their social media, Aerosmith announced that they will be canceling the first set of the group’s Las Vegas Residency tour dates this Summer, which impacts the group’s touring scheduling in June and July. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has, according to the below press release relapsed after working on his sobriety and has since entered a program to focus on recovery and […]