AC/DC will hit stages in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, U.S.A, and Canada for the continuation of their Power Up Tour in 2026. Tickets on sale Friday, November 7 at 10AM local time, unless otherwise notedd. The band will perform in Australia in December for their final shows of 2025. Continue reading
Dave Evans – the original frontman of AC/DC – is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of his band, Rabbit, with a brand new album. Defenders of Rock is due to be released worldwide on October 31, via Savant Guarde Records, on CD and digitally formats. LP’s will be available in early 2026. Check out the lead single, “We’ll Never Get Too Much Rock n Roll,” and more in the article below.
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In the before times, I enjoyed a band called Airbourne. I’m pretty sure they were Australian, and they sounded remarkably like AC/DC. Highly recommended. So, on the list of available albums, I saw Airborn‘s Lizard Secrets Part 3: Utopia (Fighter Records) and figured I’d give it a shot. Very glad I did. This Italian group delivers a Power Metal tour de force. Bonus, the vocals pitch up in a range most of us can reach.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper (earMusic) is the first album with the original Alice Cooper band since Muscle of Love. Making it the band’s 8th album together, and Cooper’s 30th. Bob Ezrin is handling production duties to help them remember what they did back in the day. It opens with the lead single “Black Mamba,” which is slinky and theatrical. Rather than try to recapture the fire that was burning when they recorded Muscle of Love, they are side-stepping this favor of touching on a more “Schools Out” style of borderline Broadway-drama mixed with the Garage Rock sound Cooper has been dipping his boots in the past few albums. Continue reading
Yeah, so this is tough.
Really fucking tough.
We all knew it was coming at some point. There might have been a whispered inevitability to it all, but that doesn’t make it any easier.
All-gay AC/DC tribute band, GayC/DC, have dropped a new single and video for Pride month, titled “Gay Boy Boogie.” The song is a homoerotic reinterpretation of AC/DC’s “Bad Boy Boogie” from their 1977 album Let There Be Rock. Its accompanying video is a homage to Twisted Sister’s rebellion anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” aporoved by Dee Snider. Watch it in the article below.
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With their debut album Permission To Land, The Darkness enlivened a rock music scene dominated by the likes of The White Stripes, The Strokes, Evanescence, and Linkin Park amongst others. Their goofy lyrics and AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, and Queen sound struck a chord and twenty-two years later they are still at it with the release of their eighth record Dreams On Toast (Cooking Vinyl).Continue reading
On the back of the recently booked US Tour, AC/DC have announced the summer 2025 European leg of the “Power Up” tour. The new AC/DC dates kick off on June 26 at Letňany Airport in Prague, Czech Republic and wrap up at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 21. The tour will make stops in Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Estonia, Sweden, Norway and France. Most of the shows will go on sale on February 7 at 10 a.m. local time, with the Italian tickets going on sale at 11 a.m. the same day, and French tickets going on sale at 10 a.m. on February 10.Continue reading
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