Author: Jeremiah Terkula
GREEN Day has canceled its upcoming show in Pennsylvania hours before the concert was scheduled to begin. On Saturday, the band announced that its tour stop in Hersey, Pennsylvania, just east of the state capital, will be rescheduled to a later date in September after lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong lost his voice. They said Billie fell sick “right after stepping off the stage” at the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Friday, August 9. “Philly, you were unreal last night! Thanks for powering through the rain with us!” a message posted on Green Day’s Instagram Stories read. “Sadly, right…
After leaving Genesis in 1975, Peter Gabriel gradually grew from having a relatively modest but devoted following as a solo artist to becoming an international superstar. His 1986 album So was the breakout that, for the most part, introduced Gabriel to listeners of Top 40 radio. So had its heavy moments, but it was the lighthearted “Sledgehammer” that earned Gabriel many of his new fans. Those who were looking for his 1992 follow-up Us to build on those feel-good vibes were likely disappointed with the album’s somber tone. Us’ lead single, “Digging in the Dirt,” was a fair indication of…
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are one of tennis’ most famous couples. The pair met in Wimbledon in the ’90s, at the start of their careers, and married in 2001. Last week, Agassi attended the Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, prompting many to revisit a sweet video where he discusses the impact of meeting Graf and how much he admired her tennis skills. The video was shared in June by the Australian Open account and shows Agassi discussing the moment he met Graf. “I remember saying to myself, ‘One day I’m gonna marry her,'” he said, leaving…
Since its release as part of the British hard rockers’ landmark 1972 LP “Machine Head”, “Smoke on the Water” has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most immediately recognizable songs in all of rock. In addition to being driven by a delightful earworm of a lick (whose effectiveness and simplicity meant that countless players made their first steps on the electric guitar by learning it), the fourth and final single from Deep Purple’s sixth studio album also had its lyrics tell one of the wildest true stories in rock history. Of course, the whole ordeal of a fire engulfing…
Hudson O’Neal has won races this year for two of Dirt Late Model racing’s most accomplished car owners, Mark Richards and Kevin Rumley. Now the reigning Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion owns the keys to one of the most dominant Dirt Late Model rides since the start of last year. Late Wednesday night O’Neal spoke out for the first time since SSI Motorsports owner Todd Burns revealed Tuesday that he’s bringing back the 23-year-old to the Morgantown, Ind., operation formerly spearheaded by reigning DirtonDirt.com Driver of the Year, Ricky Thornton Jr. O’Neal, who’s sixth in Lucas Oil Series…
Things can change quickly in the cycling world. One week you win two gold medals at the Olympics, and the next, you’re featured in The New York Times. This is what happened to Remco Evenepoel after his incredible performances in Paris. In an interview with The Athletic, the sports section of the American newspaper, the Belgian cyclist made some remarkable revelations. Not only about his potential ambitions after his cycling career but also about a rare mistake made during the Olympics… Winning both the time trial and the road race at the Olympics: in Paris, Evenepoel displayed one of the…
MotoGP is set to be purchased by Liberty Media, thus ending up with the same owners as Formula 1. The deal is not yet confirmed and may have to go through the scrutiny of the European Union authorities to ensure it does not involve anti-competitive practices. Both championships were close to having the same owners when in 2006 CVC Capital Partners – at the time owner of Dorna Sports – acquired F1. However, it ended up having to divest itself of MotoGP due to the European authorities’ intervention. And, according to Giacomo Agostini, before that there was another attempt for…
In 2013 Elbow leader Guy Garvey told Prog how long he’d been in love with Genesis’ music, and why former lead singer Peter Gabriel was his prog hero. “My older sister Becky introduced me to Genesis. I don’t remember hearing them for the first time; they’ve always been there from my childhood onwards. As a very, very small kid, they were my nursery rhymes really, because of the magical quality and the storytelling nature of the lyrics. The dark edge of it didn’t really shock me as a child. I didn’t consider the skewed look at middle England that Peter…
Max Verstappen has admitted that McLaren are a very real title threat, telling his Red Bull team that they need to ‘focus on themselves’ if they are to maintain their place at the top of both the Drivers’ Championship and Constructors’ Championship standings. After the first five races of the 2024 campaign, Verstappen looked to be cruising towards a fourth successive Drivers’ Championship title. The Dutchman won four of the opening five Grands Prix, with his only time off the top step of the podium being in Australia, where he suffered a mechanical DNF. In the nine races that have…
Tadej Pogačar was already in the midst of his finest season ever when things suddenly took a giant step up – literally and figuratively. The literal was his ascent of Plateau de Beille, where he destroyed a 26-year-old climbing record. And the figurative was the speculation around what had produced a ride that was immediately dubbed by commentators as the single greatest climbing performance in the sport’s history. That the man whose record Pogačar took – Marco Pantani – was both the last male rider to win both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same season and…