hris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images Def Leppard and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are among the artists booked to play the Rockin’ Thunder music festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The festival is happening July 11-12 at Exhibition Lands Racetrack, with Def Leppard headlining Friday and Weezer closing the fest onRead More →
Sony Pictures Classic The new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin did blockbuster business in its first weekend in release. The movie opened exclusively in IMAX theaters and set a record in the U.S., bringing in $2.6 million, which is the biggest opening weekend ever for an IMAX exclusive music release. TheRead More →
Reprise Records Neil Young has pushed back the release of his “lost” album Oceanside Countryside. The album, part of Young’s Analog Original Series, was originally scheduled for a vinyl and digital release on Feb. 14, but will now come out on March 7. A standalone CD version will be releasedRead More →
Peggy Sirota As things stands now, the producers of the Academy Awards telecast have decided not to feature performances of the best original song nominees, which means we won’t be able to see Elton John performing “Never Too Late,” his nominated song from his Disney+ documentary. And his co-writer on the song,Read More →
courtesy of Live Nation The Doobie Brothers are set to drop their new album, Walk This Road, in June, and they are hitting the road to support it. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just announced dates for the Walk This Road tour, featuring special guests The Coral Reefer Band,Read More →
Bobby Bank/Getty Images Legendary New York Dolls frontman David Johansen is battling cancer. The musician revealed that since 2020 he has been privately battling an aggressive form of cancer and a brain tumor, and has been dealing with several complications. In addition, he fell over Thanksgiving, breaking his back in two places; evenRead More →
On This Day, Feb. 10, 1979… Rod Stewart hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy,” the first single off his ninth studio album, Blondes Have More Fun. The song spent four weeks at #1 in the U.S. “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy”Read More →
Medios y Media/Getty Images Bryan Adams’ concert in Perth, Australia, Sunday had to be rescheduled due to a plumbing issue. Frontier Touring, the promoter of the show, announced on social media that the concert at RAC Arena had to be postponed “due to an external Perth Water Corporation issue, which wasRead More →
Photo By Kerry Spicer Midas Man, about The Beatles‘ manager Brian Epstein, is now streaming. Epstein, a gay man from an immigrant Jewish family, died of an accidental drug overdose at age 32 after shepherding the Fab Four and other music acts to worldwide fame. Queen’s Gambit actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd,Read More →
Columbia Records Timothée Chalamet has landed on the Billboard Album chart for the first time, thanks to the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. The album, which features Chalamet performing 17 tracks, has debuted at #17 on the Billboard soundtracks chart. It is also at #44 on theRead More →
