Today's Day in Rock Stories

KISS' Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley Do Unplugged Reunion Jam

"On stage it was getting harder and harder to hear the guitars, even hear the keys, and I was basically going on muscle memory," Johnson tells the Sunday Times. "And I'm not the kind of guy who likes to cheat. The way I look at it, I had a great run."

On tour across Australia together over the past few weeks, the pairing teamed up at the city's Etihad Stadium. "We thought 'last night of the Australian tour, we'd do something special for you'," Dave Grohl told the crowd late in their headlining set, "and have Rivers come out and sing a song for you."

With Cuomo on lead vocals, the lineup delivered the legendary opening track from KISS' fourth album, "Destroyer." Coming on the heels of the success of 1975's "Alive!", the record peaked at No. 11 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to sales of 2 million copies in the country.

Featuring unseen photographs and artwork from the Led Zeppelin archives and contributions from photographers around the world, the project presents images of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham on and offstage, in candid moments and in the recording studio.

"Led Zeppelin By Led Zeppelin" is available for pre-order now at reelartpress.com, and fans can enter code LZ50 at checkout for free shipping on their pre-order until April 1.

However, the period of (unofficial) inactivity might be coming to an end. Yesterday, the band was announced as one of the headliners of the upcoming End of the Road Festival in the UK this September. The festival appearance, alongside acts like St. Vincent, Feist, Yo La Tengo, Jeff Tweedy, John Cale and more, could be the first of more live dates to be announced.

Vampire Weekend have also reactivated their website. It currently contains just a landing page with the band's logo on a plain white background, though it's likely that more developments are imminent. In September last year, the band's frontman Ezra Koenig had replied to a Twitter query about the status of a new Vampire Weekend album to say, "80% done but the last 20% is always the hardest."

It was September 14th, 2016, and I was in the middle of a church sanctuary in Tennessee. The lights were off, and I was by myself trying to come to terms with the fact that I was in the middle of a heated legal battle with someone I had considered a friend for a very long time. The record was finished, but because of the dispute, we weren't able to do anything with it. Frustration, anger, hurt, sadness, and little hope-it was all flooding into my head at once in that big, dark, lonely room. Having to sit on something you've worked so hard to create-something that you feel in your bones is special-it's enough to drive you crazy.

I picked up a guitar and started singing something just to feel better. "November and I'm messed up�" The words just fell out. It was only September, but I wanted it to be November. I wanted it to be stormy and cold. I've always loved the cold. The kind of song I was about to write should take place in the cold.

When we turned the demo for "Hold On" in to Tooth & Nail, all I said in the email was, "We may need to add this to the album�". At that point, we had already had the fully mastered album for four months. I guess they thought the song was worth it because four more months later "Hold On" was mastered into the record, marking the completion date of our debut album.

I wanted to write "Hold On" as a song that can resonate with anyone who has experienced heartbreak in any scenario-love, friendship, or even family-but the themes are the same no matter the instance. Frustration, anger, hurt, sadness, and a little hope.

The blistering new track seethes with the unbridled energy of classic Priest, featuring fiery twin guitar histrionics � courtesy of Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner (playing on his second Priest album) � along with the trademark double-bass drumming of Scott Travis. Singer Rob Halford also delivers an impassioned vocal performance on the muscular track.

And now, James Murphy and company's comeback rolls on, as the crew heads down to Texas for an episode of Austin City Limits. The band has shared a performance of the American Dream tune, "Call the Police," from the show, which is set to air on Feb. 3.

The track is the latest taken from the recently released album, The Visitor, with the music video taking a moment to celebrate nature. As the warm, folksy tune strums by, the Darryl Hanah-directed clip highlights the wonder of the natural world, with intimate images of flora, insects and animals.

Young makes a cameo appearance towards the end of the clip, surrounded by a flurry of butterflies. Hanah's directorial skills will be on display at this year's SXSW with the premiere of her new film, Paradox. Her feature film debut stars Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Nelson's sons Micah and Lukas and members of Young's current band, Promise of the Real.

Sting is a rock and pop icon as both a solo artist and member of the Police. Shaggy, meanwhile, is one of the biggest stars in Reggae music history. So, when we learned that this pair was going to start working together, it seemed like an unlikely collaboration.

Turns out the pairing made total sense as fans saw on Sunday night when they made their television performance debut of their new single, "Don't Make Me Wait," during the GRAMMY Awards. While on stage, there was a real energy between these two iconic performers.

We caught up with Sting and Shaggy for an exclusive interview to learn about their creative process as they prepare to release an entire album together, 44/876.

As the haunting notes of Aerosmith's 1973 classic, "Dream On", play backwards, two-time Formula One and Indianapolis 500 champion Emerson Fittipaldi looks on approvingly as Tyler approaches a Kia Stinger on an abandoned racetrack. Once inside, the Stinger GT's twin-turbo, 365-horsepower engine is put to use - in reverse - sending Tyler on a transformative journey back to the seventies.

"I pushed the button on the Kia Stinger and went on an odyssey," says Tyler on his social media sites, "a voyage that defied the laws of physics�"

The band played glow-in-the-dark instruments and wore ghoulish orange glow-in-the-dark face paint, continuing the Day of the Dead theme presented in the video for "Hold Me Tight or Don't."

Fall Out Boy will hit the road this fall, starting August 29 in Uniondale, New York at the Nassau Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, and wrapping up October 10 in New Orleans at the Smoothie King Center. The tour includes a massive hometown show at Chicago's Wrigley Field on September 8 --a first for the band.

Wilcoworld Radio will broadcast from 10 am, Central Time this Friday through to Sunday. The broadcast will feature "10+ hours of interviews, outtakes, live recordings, cover songs and more inspired by the recent reissues of Wilco's first two albums."