Rockers to Doctors

Skid Row finally has a new singer. Ozzy Osbourne's final performance is coming home. Twisted Sister is revisiting its classic catalog. Welcome to Rockville has announced a massive 2027 lineup, and Iron Maiden is bringing its 50th Anniversary tour back to North America. For their October 2026 freestyle episode, Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott revisit five rock and metal stories that deserve a lon...

Poison was at the top of the rock world in 1990. Three successful albums, sold-out arenas, and hit singles had made Bret Michaels, C.C. DeVille, Rikki Rockett, and Bobby Dall some of the most recognizable musicians of the hair metal era. Then came the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. In Part 2 of their Poison deep dive, Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott examine the band's spectacular public meltdown,...

What happens when rock and roll history meets the supernatural? In this special pre-Halloween episode of Rockers to Doctors, Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott each share a story from rock history's eerie side. Nova begins with Concrete Blonde singer Johnette Napolitano's strange experience at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel in 1991. While touring with Sting, Johnette reportedly encountered unexpl...

From a converted ambulance to MTV superstardom, Nova and Dorian explore Poison's rise, Slash's audition, the making of their biggest hits, and their feud with Guns N' Roses. Before Poison became one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, they were struggling musicians from Pennsylvania trying to make it on the Sunset Strip. They had almost no money, no record deal, and eventually no lead guitarist. Th...

Nova and Dorian dig into five September stories involving Skid Row, Ozzfest, Ozzy and Black Sabbath, Van Halen and Slipknot. Description This month, Rockers to Doctors is doing the news freestyle a little differently. Instead of trying to squeeze every September headline into one episode, Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott went back through the month's coverage and chose five stories that gave them...

From "Signs" and Five Man Acoustical Jam to a $5 million payout, addiction, the "No Yoko" clause, and a feud that still hasn't completely died. Tesla emerged from Sacramento at the height of hair metal. They appeared on MTV, toured arenas, and sold millions of records. But Tesla never really sounded or looked like the bands they were constantly grouped with. Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott trace...

From thousands of Long Island bar gigs and Dee Snider's legendary Senate testimony to breakups, political battles and Sebastian Bach taking the microphone in 2026. Twisted Sister's history is considerably stranger than "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock." Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott go back to 1972 and trace the band's journey from a New York-area glam cover band through a decade-lo...

Nova and Dorian cover the week's biggest rock headlines, including Metallica, Anthrax, KISS, Ozzy and Black Sabbath, Poison, Skid Row, Rammstein, Def Leppard, Queen, and more. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova and Dorian break down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending September 19, 2026 . Stories include Metallica extending the M72 World Tour into 2027 with Limp...

Nova and Dorian follow the money from a new band's first recording to stadium tours, streaming royalties and the multimillion-dollar fortunes of rock's biggest stars. Rock and metal may sell rebellion, but behind every album, tour bus, stage set and pyro cannon is a bill that somebody has to pay. Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott follow the money through the music industry, beginning with what an...

Nova and Dorian cover the week's biggest rock headlines, including Slipknot, Def Leppard, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, William Shatner, Mötley Crüe, Gojira, Staind, and more. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova and Dorian break down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending September 12, 2026 . Stories include Slipknot surprise-releasing "Arsenal," its first new song in over...

Nova and Dorian follow heavy metal's family tree from Black Sabbath through thrash, hair metal, nu metal, black metal, sludge, power metal, metalcore, and the genre debates of 2026. Heavy metal started with a handful of bands. More than 50 years later, it has become a sprawling family tree of genres, subgenres, and scenes that sometimes barely sound related. Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott trace...

We're changing up Rockers to Doctors news. Instead of trying to cover every headline, Nova and Dorian are going live to dig into the five rock stories actually worth talking about . KISS has somehow reached a new U.K. downloads-chart high after retiring from touring, Gene Simmons still can't stay offstage, and Pophouse's ownership raises an interesting question: who actually controls KISS now? Que...

Nova and Dorian cover Twisted Sister's first show with Sebastian Bach, Soundgarden's Seahawks halftime performance, Quiet Riot's singer update, Polyphia, Tony Iommi, Bruce Dickinson, and more. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova and Dorian break down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending August 29, 2026 . Stories include Twisted Sister playing its first concert with...

One year after Back to the Beginning, Nova and Dorian track what happened next for the artists who gathered to say goodbye to Ozzy and Black Sabbath. It has been roughly one year since some of the biggest names in rock and metal gathered at Villa Park for Back to the Beginning , the historic farewell to Ozzy Osbourne and the original Black Sabbath. So what happened to everyone after they left the...

Nova and Dorian cover the week's biggest rock headlines, including Ozzfest 2027, Slipknot, ZZ Top, Queens of the Stone Age, Ritchie Blackmore, Demon Hunter, Bush, Buckcherry, and MTV. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova and Dorian break down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending August 22, 2026 . Stories include Ozzfest officially confirming its 2027 return at Villa...

From "Everything About You" to Nirvana criticism, Norman Reedus and three days with Black Sabbath, Nova and Dorian uncover the strange career of Ugly Kid Joe. Ugly Kid Joe arrived just as hair metal was dying and grunge was taking over, yet somehow found an audience in the middle. Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott trace the band's story from its beginnings in Isla Vista, California, and the joke t...

This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova takes the mic solo while Dorian is out and breaks down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending August 15, 2026 . Stories include Ritchie Blackmore performing with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years, Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" passing one billion streams on Spotify, and the Neil Peart: No One's Disciple documentary heading...

Nova and Dorian count down their favorite summer rock anthems and the memories attached to them This week on Rockers to Doctors, Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott build a Top 10 list of the greatest hard rock and heavy metal songs that capture the feeling of summer. From Def Leppard and Bon Jovi to Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Cheap Trick, Whitesnake, and Y&T, the discussion comb...

Nova and Dorian cover the week's biggest rock headlines, including Ozzfest 2027 planning, Danny Carey's Tool commitments, David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen, Glenn Hughes, Lita Ford, Megadeth, Linkin Park, and more. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova and Dorian break down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending August 8, 2026 . Stories include Lita Ford moving closer...

Nova counts down July's biggest rock stories, including Avenged Sevenfold, Mötley Crüe, U2, Walk of Fame honors, Green Day, Halestorm, Greta Van Fleet, KISS, and more. This month on Nova's Monthly Rock News Countdown , Nova takes the mic solo for a special July edition of Shot of Rock News: Last Call . Normally, Nova and Dorian break down the month's biggest rock stories in a freeform discussion,...

Nova goes solo with Greta Van Fleet, Ozzy Osbourne, Faith No More, Van Halen history, Bruce Dickinson, Bret Michaels, Motörhead, Tom Keifer, and Cinderella. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova takes the mic solo while Dorian is out and breaks down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending August 1, 2026 . Stories include Greta Van Fleet announcing the new album Palace F...

Hello, Crawlers. Nova goes solo for a Dungeon Crawler Carl music episode exploring the rock and rock-adjacent songs used throughout the series. We move book by book, from The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through A Parade of Horribles , so listeners can stop before reaching spoilers for books they have not finished. Along the way, Nova looks at Carl's musical alarm traps, AC/DC becoming Dungeon AI...

Nova goes solo for this week's Shot of Rock News: Last Call with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Day, Halestorm, Trivium, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Avenged Sevenfold, and more. This week on Shot of Rock News: Last Call , Nova takes the mic solo while Dorian is out and breaks down the biggest rock and metal headlines for the week ending July 24, 2026 . Stories include Jizzy Pearl leaving Quiet Riot after the ban...

Dorian explores the forgotten economy that has kept dozens of legendary rock bands touring for decades after the MTV era ended. In this solo episode, Dorian Prescott explores one of the least-discussed parts of the music industry: the county fair and casino circuit that keeps many legendary rock bands on the road decades after their commercial peak. From Quiet Riot, Dokken, Warrant, Trickster, Bla...

Nova and Dorian cover the biggest rock stories of the week, from Iron Maiden's landmark catalog deal to Quiet Riot's vocalist search and Cliff Burton's digital legacy This week's Shot of Rock News: Last Call covers the biggest headlines from across the rock and metal world. Nova Starwick and Dorian Prescott discuss Iron Maiden's partnership with Pophouse Entertainment, Quiet Riot's search for a ne...