Ugly Kid Joe have been confirmed for the 2012 Sweden Rock festival, which will be held in Sölvesborg from June 6-9. (more…)

Lynyrd Skynyrd are return to Britain in June next year to play three shows. (more…)

Lynyrd Skynyrd intend to start recording a new album in November. (more…)

Remember Use Your Illusion? The double double albums which followed up Appetite For Destruction? The most anticipated releases of the era, they also marked the end for Guns n’ Roses as we knew them – now we’ve got the whole story in the July issue of Classic Rock. (more…)

Lynyrd Skynyrd are about to have a restaurant open in their honour. (more…)

This week’s Cult Heroes looks at the rather up-and-down career of southern confederate rockers Doc Holliday. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a whole crop of American southern rock bands – such as The Allman Brothers, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet and .38 Special – were regularly breaking into the US Top 30 album charts and selling millions of records. So where do the Docs fit in? Oh yeah… and you can check out all the previous Cult Heroes here. (more…)

Wanna read the greatest rock ’n’ roll stories of all time? We’ve got them for ya, in the latest issue of Classic Rock. (more…)

Leonard Skinner, the Florida teacher who inspired the name Lynyrd Skynyrd, hasa died at the age of 77. (more…)

JoJo Billingsley , who was a backing singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1975 for two years, has died from cancer at the age of 58. (more…)

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s new CD/DVD set, Live From Freedom Hall, has just been released through Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records. (more…)