Virgin EMI/Mercury Records Def Leppard is continuing the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Pyromania, this time highlighting the album’s hit tune “Photograph.” The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just dropped a trio of “Photograph” remixes from DJ Armand Van Helden: a radio mix, extended club mix and instrumental mix. Released inRead More →
On This Day, August 2, 1962… A 21-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changed his name to Bob Dylan. In his book Chronicles, Dylan explained that he was inspired to change his name after he saw an article about jazz performer David Allyn and later some poems by Dylan Thomas. He considered the names Robert Allyn and RobertRead More →
BAD Records Bryan Adams has dropped the new single “Rock and Roll Hell,” which is actually one of two songs he co-wrote with Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for KISS. The other is “War Machine,” and Adams is set to release both on 7-inch vinyl on Aug. 30. Both tracks appearedRead More →
UMe Pete Townshend has dropped a new video of a classic live performance. The Who rocker has shared a video of his performance of “After the Fire,” which was shot in 1985 at the Brixton Academy in London. The concert highlighted in the video features Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour on guitar. “After the Fire,”Read More →
ABC/Randy Holmes U2 is back with another installment in their digital series U2 to Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides, a series of 12 newly remastered collections, released throughout the year, made up of songs that until now were only available on vinyl, CD or cassette. The latestRead More →
Rhino ZZ Top’s first five albums have been compiled into their first-ever high fidelity vinyl box set. ZZ Top From The Top: 1971-1976 features high-end vinyl reissues of 1971’s ZZ Top’s First Album, 1972’s Rio Grande Mud, 1973’s Tres Hombres, 1975’s Fandago! and 1976’s Tejas. All copies are cut from the originalRead More →
Twenty First Century Recording Company The Alarm is set to release their new album, Music Television, in August. The record features covers of songs made famous in MTV’s heyday, and was supposed to be available on vinyl and CD during the band’s Live Today Love Tomorrow tour. The tour was supposed to launch inRead More →
Steve Jennings/Getty Images Devo has been added to Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Festival, which will take place Sept. 27-29 in Dana Point, California. The “Whip It” rockers will perform on the festival’s opening night, replacing Garbage, who had to cancel after frontwoman Shirley Manson suffered an injury that requires surgery. “WhenRead More →
Getty/Steve Granitz A planned auction of what has been described as hand-drawn artwork by the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, is being called into question. The auction, featuring 76 pieces of what is reported to be Jackson’s art, including pieces hand-drawn with wax colored pencil, is supposed to take place Saturday throughRead More →
Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia would have turned 82 on Thursday, and to mark the occasion the Sausalito Center for the Arts in California is launching a new exhibit, The Art of Jerry Garcia. The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 1, features 30 museum quality digital printsRead More →
