Courtesy of The Mountain Music Festival Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Foghat and Night Ranger are among the acts booked for The Mountain Music Festival, taking place Aug. 23-25 in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. The three-day fest at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, features a lineup ofRead More →
Scott Legato/Getty Images Sammy Hagar took to social media Thursday to wish his bandmate and friend Michael Anthony a happy birthday. “On this day, a long, long time ago, the world was blessed with this bad a**, bass playing, singing rock ‘n’ roll superstar,” Hagar wrote on Instagram. “Ladies and gentlemen IRead More →
Taylor Hill/WireImage Billy Joel is getting ready to wrap his Madison Square Garden residency in July, and while fans got a taste of the show when his 100th concert aired on CBS earlier this year, Billy wasn’t exactly the biggest fan of the telecast. “I’m never crazy about doing TV.Read More →
ABC/Heidi Gutman on Jovi recently released their new album, FOREVER, but hasn’t announced a tour due to Jon Bon Jovi‘s voice problems: He had major vocal cord surgery in 2022 and is still recovering. In fact, Jon told EW that the band won’t tour in 2024. But luckily, Jon says playing liveRead More →
ABC/Heidi Gutman Paul McCartney has added more dates to his Got Back tour. The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is returning to Mexico this fall with two shows: Nov. 8 in Monterrey and Nov. 12 in Mexico City. “The shows at Foro Sol were a highlight of last yearRead More →
Richard E. Aaron/Redferns Queen has reportedly made a lot of money selling off their catalog. According to Variety, sources have confirmed a report first revealed on Hits that the British rockers are selling their catalog to Sony Music for a reported $1.27 billion. The catalog includes such Queen hits as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Another OneRead More →
On This Day, June 20, 1942 … Brian Wilson was born in Inglewood, California. In 1961, he co-founded The Beach Boys and changed the face of popular music with his gift for musical harmonies and vocal arrangements. The band had a string of top-40 hits, including “I Get Around,” “Help Me Rhonda” andRead More →
Courtesy of HBO Music fans know Stevie Van Zandt as the legendary guitarist in Bruce Springsteen‘s E Street Band, but he’s a lot more than that, as they’ll learn watching the new documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple. Director Bill Teck tells ABC Audio he’s been a Van Zandt fan since his teens and wanted to make theRead More →
Disney/Randy Holmes Huey Lewis has had a big year: A musical based on his songs, The Heart of Rock and Roll, opened on Broadway and he’s featured in the hit Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, about the making of the charity single “We Are the World.” Huey tells ABC AudioRead More →
On This Day, June 19, 2020 … Bob Dylan released his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, which was his first album of original songs in almost eight years. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, but hit #1 on the Top Rock Albums chart. ItRead More →
