Olivia Rodrigo has announced North American and European tour dates stretching from the fall into 2027. The Unraveled Tour comes with support from Grace Ives, Wolf Alice, Devon Again, the Last Dinner

Interpol are gearing up for a North American tour that will feature some of their biggest headlining shows to date. Beginning July 31 in Denver, the band will head across the United States and Canada

Madeon is prepping his first full-length in seven years. Leading Victory is a Slayyyter collaboration called “Fire Away,” which the French producer, singer, and songwriter debuted this month at Coache

Jpegmafia is back with a bruising new single called “Babygirl,” the first offering from the rapper’s forthcoming album Experimental Rap. You can check out the song’s music video and album cover art be

Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter have fulfilled the promise of their surprise Coachella collaboration by releasing a new duet. “Bring Your Love,” the latest single from Madge’s Confessions II, was co-pro

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephen Merritt and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold appeared on the East Village Radio show “Elia Vs.” today (April 30) to chat with host Elia Einhorn and play a few songs, including

On top of her cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Lady Gaga contributed three original songs to the film’s soundtrack. She already shared one of them, the frothy Doechii collab “Runway,” and the other t

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ser

James Garfield Broadnax was executed by lethal injection last night, April 30, at Texas State Penitentiary, Rolling Stone reports. Broadnax had been convicted of double murder in 2009, at the age of 1

Last night, Olivia Rodrigo hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, playing double duty as musical guest. With a little luck on her side courtesy of last week’s musical guest Jack White, Rodrigo

Shakira performed a massive free show in Brazil last night at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. The performance featured some of the Colombian superstar’s most enduring hits, a few special guests, an

The 1980s gave us some truly iconic rock albums, but there are several that are just one song away from being truly perfect. Each of the albums selected in this exercise represent some of the biggest

Kid Rock is once again facing scrutiny concerning a U.S. military helicopter, this time for taking a ride on board an Army Apache attack helicopter at the invite of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Metallica have just announced a reissue of their classic '90s album Reload with a "massive" box set, totaling nearly 1,700 minutes of audio. The metal giants have remastered and reissued several of t

More than 100 metal and hard rock acts tore up the stages of Ozzfest over the years, but how many of them do you actually remember? We tracked down the names of every act that played Ozzfest. The St

With a U.S. tour on the horizon, Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth joined Loudwire Nights on Tuesday (April 28) to dive into what he love about touring America as well as what it's been like working on his

How do you completely cover a band's 50-year career in less than two hours? The answer, at least in the case of Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, is to tell the story, in part, through the lens of their

It's a big week for swemos — that's "Swiftie emos" for those of you out of the loop —as Taylor Swift praised a pair of 2000s pop-punk icons in a new interview with The New York Times. Swift, who was

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl might have just debunked a huge myth about Kurt Cobain. The rocker discussed quite a bit of his career with Nirvana during a recent appearance on Apple Music 1's The Zane Low

Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy is the new memoir from the legendary thrash singer that's coming this fall. Due Nov. 10 through Permuted Press, the book (co-written by Billy and

Ozzy Osbourne's favorite cologne is getting a special limited release so fans can smell like The Prince of Darkness did for over three decades. And as quickly as it was announced, it is already sold o

A new wrestler made her in-ring debut on WWE TV on Tuesday and she fully committed to her metal-inspired character with a callout Iron Maiden fans surely recognize. The wrestler known as Lizzy Rain i

Take a walk down memory lane with the following photo gallery of 20 rock and metal stars in 1986 vs. now. The '80s were a period of radical change in hard rock and metal, and 1986 was no exception. A

Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons, the sons of KISS stars Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, will release their debut studio album Dancing While the World Is Ending on Aug. 28. You can see the cover art and

What are the 11 best nu-metal albums of all time? Nu-metal arose in the mid-'90s while grunge was still the reigning rock 'n' roll superpower and power metal was raging (in Europe and South America,

There's an unreleased Type O Negative song and, from the sound of it, we'll all probably get to hear it one day. In a new interview with Loaded Radio, Type O Negative's Kenny Hickey (guitar, backing

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter North West just dropped a metal song. The track, titled "N0rth4evr," is the first drop from the 12-year-old artist's upcoming debut EP of the same name

There is a glut of Disney cover songs in just about every music genre. Want punk covers of Disney songs? You can get them right here. Is metal more your thing? There are plenty of those covers right

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty difficu

On Thursday's edition of Loudwire Nights (April 30), Nick Hexum joined the show to dive into 311's upcoming tour with Dirty Heads, reflect on his band's longevity and more. "I think the best thing an

As the summer nears, the amount of tours announced each week continues to rise. The past seven days alone, we have 25 new rock and metal tours that have popped up. Leading the way, the legendary Morr

Which rock stars are celebrating a birthday in May? As the weather is warming up, so is the heat coming from all the rock star birthday candles. The fifth month of the year is chock full of rock star

UPDATE (May 1, 2026): Los Angeles judge Patricia A. Young ruled on Tuesday (April 28) that much of Julia Misley's (nee Holcomb) lawsuit against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler would be barred due to t

Those planning to see CKY this month will have to wait a little while as the band has postponed all of their May touring. The band revealed in a social media post that they are pushing back all of the

One thing becomes rather obvious when looking at the biggest rock and metal albums of all time released in May: Some bands just like sticking to their routines. Several acts have targeted May as thei

Below are photos of grunge stars before and after getting famous. Almost all of the bands we associate with the Seattle grunge scene formed during the 1980s. They played shows at all the local venues