Early REO Speedwagon vocalist Terry Luttrell was involved in a scary automobile accident after participating in this weekend’s reunion show at a venue operated by the University of Illinois in Champaign, where the band got their start. He said he fell asleep on Sunday night and crashed on Interstate 57. “It just happened,” Luttrell told […]
Sting and Andy Summers of the Police have reunited for the first time in nearly two decades, performing together on a new cover of their former band’s 1983 song “Murder by Numbers.” Originally available as a CD and cassette bonus track on their album Synchronicity, the already jazzy “Murder by Numbers” has now been given […]
Three sons of Beatles members have joined forces for a new song called “Rip Off.” The track is by Mantra of the Cosmos, a band Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr, started in 2023. James McCartney son of Paul McCartney, and Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon, contributed vocals to it. “It’s like Mantra […]
Stevie Nicks has extended her 2025 tour. The singer’s summer tour is scheduled to begin in early August and run through October. She has now added eight more dates to the tour, bringing the total number of concerts she will perform this summer to 17. New dates include an opening night at New York’s Barclays Center (moved […]
“Weird Al” Yankovic kicked off his extensive 2025 tour in Las Vegas on Friday night, performing at the Venetian Theatre at the Venetian Resort. Yankovic’s set included several live debuts, like “Mission Statement,” “Polkamania!” and “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” as well as songs he hasn’t performed in years. A complete set list, plus videos from […]
Members of REO Speedwagon came back together in their hometown of Champaign, Illinois for a concert retrospective on Saturday night (June 14) honoring their lengthy career. To quote one of the band’s own song titles, it was like being “Lost in a Dream,” being there on the campus of the University of Illinois as the […]
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai launched their Surfing With the Hydra Tour on Friday night in York, England. The two guitarists each performed several of their own solo songs, both with and without one another, and the evening’s encore featured a handful of famous covers. You can view a complete set list and footage from the show […]
King Charles III has bestowed the honor of knighthood on the Who singer Roger Daltrey. He’ll become Sir Roger after being recognized for his services to music and charity, referring to his patronage of the U.K.’s Teenage Cancer Trust. He’s been overseeing its annual fundraising concert series at the Royal Albert Hall since 2000. Steve […]
You laugh… but the ’70s were a golden era for car design. Scratch that—bold car design. Everything felt heavier back then. The features were outrageously clunky, and the print ads made the average American look like they were either gearing up for a cruise around the world or a shootout with fugitives at a sketchy […]
A new Elvis Presley box set, celebrating his 90th birthday this year, is scheduled to arrive this summer. The collection will feature 89 tracks, just one shy of that birthday milestone, recorded during his final decade. Sunset Boulevard will comb through Presley’s vault of recordings from the first half of the ’70s, when he and the TCB […]