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Steven Tyler doesn’t want to miss a thing, so he’s reuniting Aerosmith for his 6th annual Grammys viewing party.

They’ll be joined by A-listers like Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Linda Perry, Matt Sorum, Nuno Bettencourt, and Lainey Wilson for the philanthropic event on Sunday, Feb. 2 at the Hollywood Palladium. Tiffany Haddish will serve as host. (See Gold Derby’s Grammy predictions.)

Aerosmith announced its retirement from touring in 2024 after Tyler fractured his larynx the year prior. The four-time Grammy-winning rock band consists of lead vocalist Tyler, bassist Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarists Perry and Brad Whitford. This will mark Aerosmith’s first time performing together since Sept. 9, 2023.

As usual, Tyler’s Grammys viewing party is sponsored by Janie’s Fund, the initiative he created in order to bring hope and healing to girls and young women who have experienced trauma. More than...

Members of R.E.M., The Black Crowes, and Screaming Trees have formed a new supergroup, Silverlites, alongside singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. The band’s first single “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” is out now ahead of the November 15th release of its self-titled debut album.

The project features Arthur on lead vocals alongside R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on acoustic guitars, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson on acoustic and electric guitars, and Barrett Martin on drums, upright bass, vibraphone, and backing vocals.

“Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” introduces the Silverlites’ roots-rock sound, as Arthur sings over organic instrumentation from Buck, Robinson, and Martin — the latter of whom recorded the initial acoustic guitar tracks in a Nashville hotel room in 2019.

“We hope you like the songs, as we spent the pandemic years doing various recording and mixing sessions,” wrote Martin on Instagram, “and we used a classic songwriting form, which...

The Black Crowes were set to support Aerosmith on the latter’s farewell tour this fall, but those plans were scrapped earlier this month when Aerosmith suddenly retired from touring due to singer Steven Tyler’s vocal injury. With a major hole to fill, the Black Crowes have mapped out a full headlining North American tour of their own.

As it stood, the Black Crowes were slated to play a number of headlining shows during their off days from the Aerosmith outing. In order to create a sensible itinerary, many of those gigs have been rescheduled, while a few have been canceled, and several new cities have been added. The extensive 33-date tour kicks off September 27th in Northfield, Ohio, and runs all the way through a two-night stand in Port Chester, New York, on December 21st and 22nd.

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The Black Crowes have begun their extensive tour in support of their highly anticipated upcoming album, Happiness Bastards.

Spanning nearly three dozen dates, the tour will kick off with a performance in Nashville in early April and is currently scheduled to culminate on June 9 with an appearance at a festival in Spain.

Happiness Bastards will mark The Black Crowes’ 10th studio album and their first collection of new music in 15 years. Their previous album, Before the Frost … Until the Freeze, showcased live recordings of new material performed in front of a live audience. Since then, they have released an album that featured reimagined renditions of their older tracks and an EP comprised of songs from 1972.

Band leaders Chris and Rich Robinson reunited in 2019, ending a four-year hiatus that saw the brothers estranged from each other. The planned 2020 tour to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker,...

April 2024 is poised to be a big month in music history. Beyond Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, ushering in the month and Taylor Swift’s new LP, The Tortured Poets Department, arriving on April 19th, a number of exciting tour are set to kick off, including jaunts by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, a reunited Heart, a reunited Black Crowes, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, and many more.

There will also be a number of joint tours kicking off in April. The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie are teaming up for an outing, as are Bad Religion and Social Distortion. A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Primus will even team up for a three-act tour.

See what other acts are heading out on the road and learn how to get last-minute tickets…

A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Primus

Maynard James Keenan’s 60th birthday is on April 17th this year,...

The Black Crowes have dropped a new music video for, “Wanting and Waiting,” the first single from the rock outfit’s first album in 15 years, Happiness Bastards, out March 15.

Directed by Christopher Acosta, the visual matches the punchy rock and roll energy of “Wanting and Waiting.” It pairs a spirited performance with an overlay of animation — illustrated lyrics, skulls, and of course a murder of crows in full flight as the Black Crowes rip through “Wanting and Waiting.”

The “Wanting and Waiting” clip is also the first music video the...

The Black Crowes have announced their first new album of original material in 15 years. The LP, titled Happiness Bastards, will arrive on March 15th via the band’s own Silver Arrow Records. In advance of the set, they’ve released a new song “Wanting and Waiting” (listen below).

Happiness Bastards marks The Black Crowes’ first album of completely original material since 2009’s Before the Frost…Until the Freeze. Between studio albums, the band released 1972 in 2022, a collection of cover songs.

Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson reunited The Black Crowes in 2019, and 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the band’s start.

“The Robinson Brothers are claiming this momentous year as their own,” a press release states. “Following decades marked by sex, drugs, fights, breakups, and divorce, they are leaving their bulls**t behind. While they have dealt with their share of differences over the years, they are now two happy bastards,...

Lainey Wilson has recorded a new song with the Black Crowes that’s set to appear on Happiness Bastards, the rock group’s first album in 15 years. Wilson harmonizes with vocalist Chris Robinson on “Wilted Rose,” a gospel-tinged number.

According to Rich Robinson, the group’s guitarist, the seed for Wilson’s guest appearance was planted backstage at last year’s CMT Awards in Austin, where Wilson told the Robinson brothers that she was a longtime fan. The Crowes appeared on the CMTs to perform their hit 1990 ballad “She Talks...

It was hard to imagine in the years when Chris and Rich Robinson weren’t even on speaking terms, but the Black Crowes have managed to write and record their first studio album of new material in 15 years. Happiness Bastards is due March 15, with a hard-riffing, big-chorused first single, “Wanting and Waiting,” out now.

For the Robinsons, who reconciled in 2019 after what seemed like a final parting in 2015, creating new music together was the easy part. “I wouldn’t say we had to repair our writing relationship, because that was never an issue,...

Led Zeppelin’s influence on musicians that followed them showed up in interesting ways. He seemingly alienated Jimmy Page on tour, but Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson also defended Page from those who said he played sloppy. For Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, his mastery of a Led Zeppelin outtake told him he was ready to record music again after a low point in his life.

Led Zeppelin’s ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’ outtake inspired John Frusciante to make music again

The Chili Peppers’ rocket ride to fame with their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik didn’t sit well with Frusciante. He felt uncomfortable with the adoration and used drugs to cope. The guitarist left the band but continued using drugs. In time, he couldn’t live his life without heroin.

Frusciante’s addiction to heroin spiraled to a point where he was dangerously thin and...

Jimmy Page won over millions of fans with his guitar playing in Led Zeppelin. The incredible riffs, great guitar solos, and stylistic diversity helped the band’s music stand the test of time. A knock on Page was that his playing was too sloppy to be considered great. For anyone making that claim, The Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson has some choice words.

Was Jimmy Page a sloppy guitar player? Rich Robinson says ‘f*** that,’ and he would know

It seems like an absurd classic rock take, but some music fans believe Page’s playing in Led Zeppelin was too sloppy to be considered great. They seem to ignore the passion and emotion behind the playing and judge him only on technical skill.

Rich Robinson, the guitar player for The Black Crowes, isn’t having it.

While discussing the guitarists who influenced him with Guitar World, Robinson called anyone and...

Kanye West revealed that he has asked former US president Donald Trump to be his “running mate” for the 2024 presidential elections.

In a tweet shared on Wednesday (23 November), the 45-year-old rapper said he visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for the first time.

“First time at Mar-a-Lago,” wrote West, who legally changed his name to Ye. “Rain and traffic. Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting. And I had on jeans.

“What you guys think [Trump’s] response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” Ye, who ran for office in 2020, added.

A separate report suggested West had travelled to Mar-a-Lago with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who marched at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, at which a neo-Nazi drove his car into counter-protesters, killing one woman and injured dozens more.

Trump, the first president in US history to be impeached twice, declared earlier this month...

A fifth woman has made misconduct allegations against Win Butler, the frontman of indie rock group Arcade Fire.

Earlier this year, four other women came forward with claims of sexual misconduct against Butler, 42, citing incidents that allegedly took place between 2016 and 2020.

In a statement at the time, Butler denied all claims of misconduct, stating that he was “very sorry to anyone who I have hurt with my behaviour” but that “these relationships were all consensual”.

“I f***ed up, and while not an excuse, I will continue to look forward and heal what can be healed, and learn from past experiences,” he said.

Now, a fifth woman, indentified by the pseudonym Sabina, has told Pitchfork magazine that she had a “toxic” relationship with Butler that lasted three years.

Butler has been married to the musician and Arcade Fire bandmate Régine Chassagne since 2003.

Sabina claims that she met Butler at the...

The Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson removed a man from the stage at a gig after he was seen being chased around by security.

The “Hard to Handle” band were performing at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday (20 November) when the incident took place.

In a moment caught on video, the man appeared alongside the band during the song “Stare It Cold”.

He was chased by security, who tried to push him off the stage, but it was only when guitarist Robinson shoved him with his guitar that the man jumped down.

Robinson was met with gasps and cheers from the crowd as the song came to a halt.

Singer Chris Robinson could be seen shouting at the stage invader from the audience.

“Hey, you throw that motherf***er out, right,” he said into the microphone. “You get the f*** out of here.” The band then restarted the song.

Twelve years after releasing the acoustic album Croweology, with a nasty break-up and an unexpected reunion in between, the Black Crowes are finally dropping new music — sort of. “New recordings, old music,” frontman Chris Robinson says with a laugh. He’s referring to 1972, a collection of six freshly recorded cover songs from that year, which will be available exclusively on Amazon Music on May 4. The first single, a sleek version of the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” is out now.

As the Robinson brothers attempt to rebuild their creative partnership,...

The Black Crowes announced their Shake Your Money Maker 30th anniversary tour in November 2019. On Tuesday night, nearly two years later, the trek finally got underway at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater.

While the big news around the tour is the reunion of perpetually squabbling siblings Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson, it’s billed as a celebration of the Black Crowes’ 1990 debut Shake Your Money Maker, plus “all the hits.” The band played the album in full and in sequence, opening the show with a blistering “Twice as Hard.”

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Brothers Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson were gearing up for the Black Crowes’ 2020 reunion tour and the celebration of the band’s 1990 debut Shake Your Money Maker when the pandemic hit. While the full-band tour was delayed until this summer — it kicks off July 20th in Nashville — the Robinsons did sneak in an acoustic duo club tour. On Friday, the siblings announced a new concert film that captures one of the shows on the stripped-down run.

Titled Brothers of a Feather, the movie documents their March 6th, 2020, gig at the...

The Black Crowes will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1990 debut album Shake Your Money Maker with a deluxe reissue. Set for a February 26th release, the package arrives in multiple formats, including a “super deluxe” edition with unreleased songs, demos, and a raucous concert recording from the band’s early days that finds singer Chris Robinson breaking up a crowd fight mid-song.

In 2019, Chris and his guitar-playing brother Rich Robinson patched up their own notoriously volatile relationship to reform the Black Crowes with new members for a 2020 summer tour.

Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson, performing acoustic under the moniker Brothers of a Feather, have shared a short concert film from the duo’s March 6th concert in San Francisco, the last date on their brief tour that served as a tuneup for the Black Crowes’ long-awaited reunion trek later this year.

With the entire concert industry halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Robinsons uploaded the 15-minute The Black Crowes Present Brothers of a Feather: Live at the Chapel in San Francisco, featuring three songs from the duo’s gig – “Hotel Illness,...

It’s taken some time — and the unfortunate circumstance of a pandemic — but concert livestreaming could finally be having its moment. Amid major festival cancellations and hundreds of tours and concerts getting the chopping block due to Covid-19, artists and their teams are scrambling for new ways forward; and because waiting isn’t much of an option for those who need the income or can’t afford to cancel, the fledgling livestreaming industry is finding itself in the spotlight.

In the past week, several concerts and events elected to stream...

Chris and Rich Robinson — as the acoustic duo Brothers of a Feather — delivered a three-song set of Black Crowes classics during the brothers’ performance at this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit.

Ahead of the band’s Shake Your Money Maker 30th anniversary reunion tour, the Robinson brothers performed the Black Crowes hits “Jealous Again,” “She Talks to Angels” and “Hard to Handle.”

The concert which took place Thursday hours after New York State instituted a ban on mass gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic; the Beacon Theatre audience subsisted...

While performing an intimate acoustic show as Brothers of a Feather, the Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson were joined by Peter Buck for a cover of R.E.M.’s “7 Chinese Bros.” in Portland on Wednesday.

They performed the song, off 1984’s Reckoning, during the duo’s encore. Rich and Buck plucked their acoustic guitars simultaneously, as Chris stood beside them holding the mike. “Wrap your heel in bones of steel,” he sings. “Turn the leg, a twist of color.”

Ahead of their massive Black Crowes reunion tour, the...

The Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson, Dave Matthews, Jackson Browne and Cyndi Lauper will lead the fourth annual Love Rocks NYC concert, taking place at New York’s Beacon Theatre on March 12th.

Warren Haynes, Leon Bridges, Macy Gray, Jimmie Vaughan, Ivan Neville and more will also take part in the Love Rocks show, which raises money for God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves.

Designer John Varvatos and God’s...

Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes — A Memoir, by Steve Gorman, the band’s former drummer and co-founder (who co-wrote the book with Steven Hyden), is one of the most jaw-droppingly entertaining rock books in years, painting the recently reunited Chris and Rich Robinson as constantly at war, and tragically intent on destroying their own band’s potential. In a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Gorman (who currently plays in Trigger Hippy) shares some of the most outrageous, tragic and drugged-out...

In a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Brittany Spanos and Andy Greene join host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of a trio of just-announced band reunions: Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, and the Black Crowes. They spend a good portion of the episode debating the real reasons behind Rage’s reunion – is it just a nostalgia play, or are they drawn by the irresistible symbolism of a key election year? After trying to understand how Chris and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes overcame their animus,...

After months of rumors, the Black Crowes announced a 2020 reunion tour on Monday where they’ll play their 1990 debut LP Shake Your Money Maker straight through at every show along with a set of other hits. Chris and Rich Robinson are the only returning members from any prior incarnation of the band. “That was the first thing Rich and I agreed on,” Chris Robinson told Rolling Stone. “We don’t want anyone from the solo groups. We don’t want anyone from the past.”

They group broke up in early 2015 after years of acrimony.

The Black Crowes ripped through their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, during their first live show in six years at New York’s Bowery Ballroom Monday night. The show took place the same day the band announced a massive 2020 reunion tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Shake Your Money Maker.

The show, like the LP, opened with “Twice as Hard,” and a fan-shot video captured the back-half of the tune, with frontman Chris Robinson and his brother, guitarist Rich Robinson, belting the song’s hook in unison, “Twice...

On the second floor of a Brooklyn recording studio nestled between an ice cream parlor and bridal shop, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson is wailing through “Struttin’ Blues,” a deep cut on the group’s 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. His on-again, off-again bandmate and on-again, off-again brother Rich is two feet away, locking eyes with drummer Raj Ojha as he tears into the muscular blues-rock track.

“It’s just the way it sounded in 1990,” Chris says to no one in particular. “Which was the last time we played that.

The Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, with a 2020 tour that will mark their first live shows since 2013.

The 46-date run will kick off June 17th at the Austin360 Amphitheater in Austin, Texas and stretch throughout the summer, wrapping September 19th at the Forum in Los Angeles.

To mark the tour announcement, the band will play an intimate gig at New York’s Bowery Ballroom tonight, November 11th, and at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on Thursday,...

Music evokes many emotions in people, and never was that more evident than in this week’s music news.

In Hong Kong, the street protests have adopted a new anthem to fuel passions, while on the domestic front, President Donald Trump managed to get into a dust-up with the Prince estate. He also found time to put down “little” Bruce Springsteen and let the world know that he didn’t need any music superstars to appear at his rallies in order to draw a crowd (perhaps disappointing Lee Greenwood and Toby Keith).

This week in music:

The Prince And The President: Prince’s estate was miffed at President Donald Trump this week for playing Purple Rain at his Minneapolis rally. Trump’s attorneys previously promised that they would not use Prince’s music in connection with the campaign activities. It was unlikely that Trump had anything to do with the music selection at the rally,...

As the drummer for the Black Crowes for 27 years, Steve Gorman has seen some shit. He recounts a lot of it in his new book Hard to Handle: The Life & Death of the Black Crowes — A Memoir, a backstage tell-all that features more than a few fights between brothers Chris and Rich Robinson.

“‘You’re gonna have to write the book, man.’ That’s something everybody would say to me,” says Gorman, sipping a coffee in a popular Nashville breakfast spot. “And what I said for 25 years was, ‘Well, I would,...

This story originally appeared in the March 20, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone

Sitting shoulder to shoulder on high stools, in front of a handful of microphones at Electric Lady Studios in New York, singer Chris and guitarist Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes look nothing like kin and act even less like bandmates.

The Georgia-born brothers are recording a dozen numbers as a duo, unplugged, a few weeks before the release of their band’s new album, Warpaint, on the Crowes’ own Silver Arrow label. Eleven tracks of brawny Southern rock and psychedelic

R&b ecstasy,...

In today’s film news roundup, “Roma” will not be in the best picture showcases at AMC and Regal, “Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church” gets a release and SAG-AFTRA’s David White has a new appointment.

‘Roma’ Spurned

AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas are leaving Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” out of their upcoming annual showings of the contenders for the Academy Award for best picture.

Both chains made the announcement Tuesday after “Roma” was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and indicated that the rationale stems from their refusal to book Neflix’s titles, due to the Netflix policy of ignoring the traditional 90-day window between initial theatrical release and home release. In the case of “Roma,” Netflix debuted the movie on Nov. 21 and began streaming the film on Dec. 14.

AMC said, “For more than a decade, movie-lovers have enjoyed the AMC Best Picture Showcase to catch up on the nominated...

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, which documents the legendary guitarist’s July 4th, 1970 performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, will be screened in select movie theaters around the world starting January 31st.

The film premiered on Showtime in 2015, and was accompanied by a live album, Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival, which contained Hendrix’s 16-song set. John McDermott directed Electric Church, which features color 16mm footage shot by Steve Rash, who later directed The Buddy Holly Story and Can’t Buy Me Love.

The limited theatrical run for Electric Church will...