Paul McCartney is often asked about his favorite Beatles song, and he admits it’s a hard question to answer, but “if pushed,” he admitted recently, it’s “Here, There and Everywhere.” McCartney named the song as his favorite on a newly released episode of his podcast, McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, going on to explain how Fred Astaire was a […]
A brand new documentary about the Beach Boys will arrive on Disney+ on May 24. Directed by Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, The Beach Boys chronicles the band’s rise to fame through never-before-seen footage, plus new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and more. As a press release notes, the film is “a […]
Stray Cats have announced dates for a summer tour that starts on July 27 in Woodinville, Washington, and concludes on Aug. 17 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. More than two dozen shows will keep the trio – singer and guitarist Brian Setzer, bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom – on the road for three weeks this […]
Yes is taking a deep dive into one of the group’s most overlooked albums, as 1994’s Talk returns as an expanded anniversary box set. The reissue will include eight bonus studio tracks and a previously unreleased live concert. A complete track listing is below. Available on May 24 in single-disc, 4CD and limited-edition white vinyl […]
Robert Plant and Eddie Vedder joined Roger Daltrey onstage Sunday for a rendition of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” at London’s Royal Albert Hall, providing a rousing finale to the annual Teenage Cancer Trust benefit. You can watch video of the performance below. Sunday’s “Ovation” concert marked the end of the weeklong musical festivities and the end […]
Former Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson has expressed his disappointment in the group’s recent box set. In 2023, Dokken released The Elektra Albums 1983 – 1987, a set containing the band’s first four albums: Breaking the Chains, Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack. Pilson, who played on all of those […]
There are a lot of things in the music business that are copyrighted and can’t be poached — album titles are not one of them. Just like bands often share song titles with other acts, album titles also have a habit of cropping up more than once. In some cases, there’s a direct correlation between […]
The death toll for Friday’s mass shooting and arson at a Russian concert venue near Moscow has risen to at least 133, making it one of the country’s worst terrorist attacks in decades, The New York Times reports. Russian authorities said they have arrested the four people who committed the attack on Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, where the […]
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has traveled the world and spent countless hours in clubs with no shortage of character. Now, he owns one. Fittingly, the timeline of the Wise River Club is a bit blurry, as a story on its website notes. But in its earliest days in the 1900s, it quickly became a meeting […]
Bruce Springsteen is looking to mix things up as he heads back on the road following an unanticipated break. “I think we’re approaching [the 2024 World Tour] like it’s a new tour,” the rock legend explained during a conversation with SiriusXM’s E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo. “There will be some things from last year’s […]