Bono‘s memoir, Surrender – 40 Songs One Story, won Audiobook of the Year at the 2024 Audie Awards Monday night in Los Angeles.
Billy Idol will headline the opening day of Portland, Oregon’s Project Pabst festival, which returns to Waterfront Park on July 27th and 28th after a seven year hiatus.
Stevie Van Zandt’s Outlaw Country Cruise 9 will feature John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and others. It will set sail from Miami on February 22nd, 2025.
E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg‘s son, former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg, has announced he’s joined Suicidal Tendencies. The move comes just a few weeks after Weinberg was announced as the touring drummer for the Tendencies offshoot band, Infectious Grooves. Suicidal Tendencies will play their first show with Weinberg March 14th in Japan.
Slash will unveil details about his long-in-the-works blues solo album on Friday.
Ex-Yes singer Jon Anderson will hit the road with The Band Geeks starting May 30th in New Brunswick, New Jersey and wrapping up August 16th in Thousand Oaks, California. Anderson and The Band Geeks have also recorded a new studio album with the first single out in June.
Burton Cummings of The Guess Who has announced a 60th anniversary U.S tour that starts September 14th in Denver and wraps up October 19th in New Buffalo, Michigan. Tickets go on sale Friday. Cummings also announced that his first studio album in 16 years, A Few Good Moments, will be out later this year.
Epiphone has officially unveiled the Dave Grohl DG-335, a more affordable version of his signature Gibson guitar. This model is on sale now for $1300.
Fender has marked the 70th anniversary of the Stratocaster by having Strat players Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Jimmie Vaughan and others cover Jimi Hendrix‘s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” Check it out on YouTube.
Metallica have posted another “Blending Sessions” video. This one features Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo talking about how they got their start in music. Watch it on YouTube. And, in other Metallica-related news, Game Over Cycles has created a motorcycle inspired by the 1936 Auburn 852 Boattail Speedster “Slow Burn” car owned by James Hetfield. The bike will have its public debut Saturday at the Rat’s Hole Custom Bike Show in Daytona Beach, Florida.