Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band have been off the road for more than two years, but the Michigan rockers have returned to action!

“Are you ready to gamble your car? Are you ready to gamble your house? Are you ready to gamble the American dream?” Bono asked the audience in September 2016, when U2 appeared for the first time in almost a year as part of the IHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas.

Paramore released their fifth album, the sparklingly miserable After Laughter. The LP sees the now-trio continuing to evolve its sound from the spiky pop-punk it first electrified fans with into a more mature and accessible, but no less effervescent or biting, synth-pop-influenced sound.

Just days after the announcement of the nominees for this year's Americana Music Association Awards and Honors, Van Morrison has been named 2017's Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting recipient. 

The legendary songwriter will also headline AmericanaFest, with a performance slated for September 14th at Nashville's Ascend Amphitheater.

When the chance to reunite came in 2004, the band jumped at the chance, returning with a sold-out worldwide tour.

For seven years they toured, playing around the U.S. and Europe, and then they got the itch to scratch out their first LP since reuniting, “Indie Cindy,” released in 2014.

Starr, meanwhile, is currently working on a new solo album -- with contributions from Beatlemate Paul McCartney and brother-in-law Joe Walsh -- and kicks off his next All Starr Band tour on Oct. 13 with a residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

If you’ve seen the band live, you understand what the hype is about. They’re like Pink Floyd for metalheads. There’s really nobody else out there quite like them.

In a 2016 interview with The Morning Call, KISS frontman Paul Stanley spoke about how KISS chooses its setlist: "The cream has always risen to the top, and the people expect certain songs and they'll get those, undoubtedly. And we'll try to mix in some lesser classics. But the idea of playing obscure songs is only appealing to a die-hard fan who knows our albums inside out. To go up on stage and play unknown sons for a handful of people as opposed to playing the songs that everybody wants to hear is really not in our best interests or the audiences."

Like any thrash metal band, Metallica makes body-moving music. But they’re several decades removed from playing to sweaty teens in nightclubs, and there’s something lost watching them perform from the stands on the other side of a football field, where the closest you can get to moshing is furiously bopping your head in appreciation. Metallica has done an admirable job of translating their music for the stadium, however, and some of the night’s most bizarrely compelling moments were clearly designed to reach the cheap seats.