When you look at the alternative rock boom of the ’90s, 1994 was probably the peak year. Just about anything that sounded like stadium-grunge could sell one kajillion copies that year, and plenty of those huge albums are celebrating their 30th anniversaries this year. Today, we learn that the bands behind two of 1994’s bigges...

On Thursday, Stone Temple Pilots’ seminal debut album Core turned 30. On Thursday night, Scott Weiland’s previously unreleased cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” also dropped — it’ll appear on the Deluxe edition of Weiland’s The Most Wonde...

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Last night, the Shins kicked off their Oh, Inverted World 21st birthday tour in San Francisco at the Warfield. During the set, the band covered Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple classic “Vasoline.” Surprising choice, considering how the two acts have such distinctly different vibes — and eras, for that matter. A...

The two-day nonprofit concert will also feature Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, Nicole Scherzinger and moreThe post Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Sting and more to perform in ancient volcano crater for Atlantis Concert for Earth appeared first on NME.