'">

AC/DC Concert in Doubt After Stadium Suffers "Significant" Storm Damage

AC/DC's September 16 stop in Toronto is up in the air after a severe thunderstorm tore through Rogers Stadium, buckling large sections of seating and scattering debris — including toppled lighting rigs and shredded portable toilet frames — across the field.

"Rogers Stadium sustained significant damage." — Live Nation

No injuries were reported during the storm. Live Nation says it's still assessing the full extent of the damage, with the Toronto date sitting third-to-last on the band's Power Up tour, which wraps September 29 in Philadelphia.

It's a rare hiccup for a run that's otherwise been smooth sailing — a sharp contrast to the band's notoriously chaotic 2015-16 Rock or Bust tour. Whether the show gets rescheduled, relocated, or scrapped outright likely depends on how fast repair crews can move in the next two weeks.

Read full article →

Noel Gallagher Seemingly Confirms Oasis Summer 2027 Tour

Noel Gallagher isn't quite ready to make it official, but he's not exactly denying it either. Pressed on talkSPORT's Drive about whether Oasis has more shows coming, Gallagher first joked that brother Liam wasn't interested — until host Andy Goldstein pointed out Liam had just quit social media.

"Well, then there must be something happening… there's no football tournament on next year, so we've got to do something in the summer, right?"

Reports suggest the band's promoter has already locked in an events permit for summer 2027, with chatter pointing toward a return to Knebworth — the site of Oasis's legendary 1996 shows.

The band reunited in 2025 for their first gigs in 16 years and is currently riding a wave of renewed attention around Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger, a new documentary premiering at the Venice Film Festival before hitting theaters September 11.

Read full article →

'">

How Queen Almost Became "Build Your Own Boat"

Everyone assumes Freddie Mercury named Queen. He didn't — and the band almost ended up with one of the strangest names in rock history. In a new Guardian interview tied to her upcoming book of Mercury's private notebooks and lyrics, Mary Austin — Freddie's former partner and lifelong confidante — reveals that it was Brian May who first floated the band's name, and it wasn't "Queen."

"I said I preferred Build Your Own Boat. I thought it was a terrible name. But Brian was my friend."

Austin inherited Mercury's Kensington home and half his estate after his death in 1991, including four silver trunks of personal writings she couldn't bring herself to open for years. Her forthcoming book finally digs into that material, promising a rare, unfiltered look at how Mercury actually worked — notebooks, false starts, and all.

"Build Your Own Boat" never made it past the conversation stage, obviously. But it's a fun reminder that even the most iconic names in rock started as somebody's rough draft.

Read full article →

Curated for rock fans  |  jbonamassa.com

Content sourced from Ultimate Classic Rock, Consequence, and MusicRadar. All rights belong to original authors.