Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images The 77th annual Tony Awards are happening Sunday in New York, with The Who‘s Pete Townshend previously confirmed as a presenter. Well, he may be doing more than that. Deadline is now reporting that Townshend is actually going to perform on the show, joining the cast ofRead More →
UMe Paul McCartney & Wings’ live album One Hand Clapping is finally out, and to celebrate the release, McCartney has shared a fully restored performance video of the track “Soily.” The video is taken from footage recorded by director David Litchfield in August 1974, when McCartney and the band hitRead More →
On This Day, June 14, 1980 … Billy Joel landed at #1 with his seventh studio album, Glass Houses. Influenced in part by new wave music, it featured, in Billy’s words, “bigger, louder, faster, shorter and punchier” material. Four tunes off the album became Top 40 hits, including “It’s Still Rock andRead More →
Deko Entertainment A new compilation of rarities from late The Who bassist John Entwistle is being released later this year. Rarities Oxhumed – Volume Two is the follow-up to the 2022 release Rarities Oxhumed – Volume One, and features alternative takes, demos, studio tracks and live tracks from the early years ofRead More →
Robin Little/Redferns When The Who‘s Roger Daltrey kicked off his solo tour on June 10 he included a cover John Fogerty’s Creedence Clearwater Revival classic “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” in the set list, and Fogerty took to social media to thank him for the tribute. Fogerty shared a clipRead More →
Joy Malone/Getty Images The four members of R.E.M. – Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry – were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night in New York, where they surprised the audience by performing together. After being inducted by Jason Isbell, who performed the classic “It’s theRead More →
BMG Mike Campbell and his band The Dirty Knobs’ third album, Vagabonds, Virgins and Misfits, is out now, and Campbell tells ABC Audio the record shows them coming into their own sound. He says the first two albums proved they were “a rock ‘n’ roll boogie band mostly,” but they’re evolving. “We’reRead More →
Arista Records The Alan Parsons Project is revisiting their 1978 album, Pyramid. The band announced that the record will be reissued in a variety of formats, including a super deluxe edition that comes with four CDs, and a Blu-ray with the first ever Dolby Atmos mix of one of the band’sRead More →
Frontiers Jon Anderson is sharing the first preview of his upcoming album, True, which he recorded with The Band Geeks. The former Yes lead singer just released “Shine On,” the first single from the album, along with an accompanying performance video. True, dropping Aug. 23, is Anderson’s first new album since 2019’s 1000Read More →
Rhino Van Halen fans are getting another preview of the upcoming expanded edition of the band’s ninth studio album, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The band just shared a previously unreleased live performance video of “Top Of The World,” recorded at a Dec. 4, 1991, concert at West End Marketplace in Dallas, Texas. “Top ofRead More →
