Rock guitarist Jake E. Lee, who’s played with heavy metal heavyweight Ozzy Osbourne, was hospitalized early Tuesday morning after he was shot “multiple times” in Las Vegas, a representative for the musician told CNN in a statement.

“Lee is fully conscious and doing well in an intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to fully recover,” the representative said.

The shooting occurred while Lee was outside walking his dog and is believed to be “completely random.”

According to a statement from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, “officers responded to a shooting incident in the 11000 block of Alora Street” around 2:42 a.m. on Tuesday.

“Officers arrived and located a male victim suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. The male was transported to the hospital,” the statement read.

The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time, police said.

Lee, 67, is a veteran rock guitarist, having spent time playing with Osbourne in the 1980s.

Lee later founded the heavy metal group Badlands with former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen and Eric Singer. He formed his own band Red Dragon Cartel in 2013.

The Creed reunion tour is adding a new leg of shows with 3 Doors Down and Mammoth WVH. Finger Eleven will also play select dates as well.

This latest leg, dubbed the Are You Ready? tour, begins Nov. 2 in Oklahoma City and wraps Dec. 5 in Orlando, Florida. All dates can be seen below.

Everything feels like its falling into place for Creed, with their music being adopted by both the World Series winning Texas Rangers and the NFLs Minnesota Vikings over this past year. The bands song Higher also helped propel rocker Huntley to a win on the previous season of NBCs The Voice.

As another years winds down, Billboard, who annually keeps track of date surrounding sales and charting positions of artists, is revealing the finalists for the best of 2023 in a variety of categories for the 2023 edition of the Billboard Music Awards. While pop always tends to dominate, there are some rock and metal acts providing representation amongst this years nominees.

The two biggest winners when the nominations were revealed with rock-country crossover artist Jelly Roll and the iconic metal veterans Metallica.

Jelly Roll received nominations in the Top New Artist category, where hell face off against Bailey Zimmerman, Ice Spice, Peso Pluma and Zach Bryan. Hes also up for Top Rock Artist, Top Rock Song (Need a Favor) and Top Rock Album (Whitsitt Chapel).

Metallica have also received multiple nominations, with the band up for Top Duo/Group, where theyll square off against Eslabon Armado, Fifty Fifty, Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera, and theyve been nominated in the newly added Top Rock Duo/Group category, which pits them against Arctic Monkeys and Foo Fighters.

Nine new awards were added to this years ceremony, and the Top Rock / Duo Group will add more presence and representation for rock acts after there was only previously two categories.

There is also a Top Rock Touring Artist category which features Coldplay, Depeche Mode and Elton John.

Taylor Swift leads all nominees with 20 nominations this year, followed closely by country superstar Morgan Wallen and R&B favorite SZA with 17 nominations apiece. Winners are chosen from their works that charted between Nov. 19, 2022 and Oct. 21, 2023.

The actual ceremony will take place on Sunday, Nov. 19.

See a full list of the nominees for the 2023 Billboard Music Awards below.

Top New Artist

Bailey Zimmerman
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Peso Pluma
Zach Bryan

Top Duo/Group

Eslabon Armado
Fifty Fifty
Fuerza Regida
Grupo Frontera
Metallica

Top Rock Artist

Jelly Roll
Noah Kahan
Stephen Sanchez
Steve Lacy
Zach Bryan

Top Rock Duo/Group

Arctic Monkeys
Foo Fighters
Metallica

Top Rock Touring Artist

Coldplay
Depeche Mode
Elton John

Top Rock Album

HARDY “the mockingbird & THE CROW”
Jelly Roll “Whitsitt Chapel”
Noah Kahan “Stick Season”
Steve Lacy “Gemini Rights”
Zach Bryan “American Heartbreak”

Top Rock Song

Jelly Roll “Need A Favor”
Stephen Sanchez “Until I Found You”
Steve Lacy “Bad Habit”
Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything”
Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange”

The music world took a massive hit when the news broke that legendary singer Tina Turner died at the age of 83 on May 24.

Hailed The Queen of Rock n Roll, a bunch of artists took to social media to pay their respects to Turner, including members of The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbaths Geezer Butler, Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan and more (see the tributes here). Thus, we wanted to look back on Turners career and explain why her influence was so profound, and how it helped pave the way for women in rock n roll.

Turner first began singing with Ike Turner in the late 50s, making their debut as a duo — Ike & Tina Turner — in 1960. They released a couple of hits throughout the first half of the decade that caught the attention of The Rolling Stones, and they were invited to open for the rockers during their U.K. tour in 1966, as well as their U.S. tour three years later. By the end of the 60s, Ike & Tina Turner recorded a couple of covers of songs by The Beatles, the Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival for the 1970 albums Come Together and Workin Together.

Tina and Ike Turner eventually parted ways, but Tina launched a successful solo career, which earned her 12 different Grammy Awards over the years. She had the chance to work with The Who, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and quite a few other big rockers, so scroll through the gallery below to read about more of her rock n roll collaborations. Some were live performances and others were studio releases — regardless, all of them were unforgettable. Most of the information for the gallery was pulled from the website The World of Tina.