Photo: © Elliott Landy 1969/Magnolia PicturesAfter opening in select theaters last Friday, the new documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band gets a wide release today. The film is based on Robbie Robertson‘s 2016 memoir Testimony, and focuses heavily on new interviews with The Band‘s founding guitarist andRead More →
Credit: David BergmanTomorrow in London, Bon Jovi‘s 2019 single “Unbroken” is about to get a new spin, thanks to Prince Harry. On Friday, Jon Bon Jovi will go to London’s legendary Abbey Road studios to record a new version of “Unbroken” — originally written about veterans with PTSD — asRead More →
ABC/Randy HolmesBoth Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger have had eight children with five women, so by rock-star standards, Sting seems positively conservative: He’s got six children with just two women, both of whom he married — which is more than Rod and Mick can say. But in a new interviewRead More →
earMUSICIn a message posted online in December, Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan revealed that the band had recorded a new album, and now full details about the project have been unveiled on a newly launched website. The album, a follow-up to 2017’s InFinite, is titled Whoosh! and will be releasedRead More →
Courtesy of NYC Environmental ProtectionBilly Idol has a message for people who drive vehicles in New York City: “Don’t idle!” The veteran rocker is taking part in a new environmental campaign spearheaded by the Big Apple’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, encouraging people to not leave their vehicles idling. Idol joinedRead More →
Credit: Lee MillwardEx-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett launched a new North American leg of his Genesis Revisited tour on Wednesday in Calgary, Canada. Hackett tells ABC Audio that this year’s trek “is hitting some areas that we didn’t do last time.” As with his 2019 trek, Steve says, this year’s showRead More →
Hologram RecordingsFormer Wings guitarist Laurence Juber has delved into the catalog of his ex-boss Paul McCartney‘s old band The Beatles for a fourth time on a new album titled, appropriately enough, The Fab Fourth, that’s due out on March 27. The new album features Juber’s solo acoustic-guitar interpretations of 16Read More →
Credit: Jody RogacAs previously reported, David Byrne will be the musical guest on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which airs at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC. The ex-Talking Heads frontman has now revealed the songs he’ll sing on the program: renditions of his former group’s 1983 hit “BurningRead More →
Credit: Ross HalfinFleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood corralled an incredible cast of rock legends to pay tribute to his band’s original frontman, singer/guitarist Peter Green, at a concert held Tuesday night at the London Palladium. Among the evening’s performers were Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour, Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler, ZZ Top‘s BillyRead More →
Credit: Kevin FoleyEddie Money‘s family has posted a long note on the late singer’s Facebook page thanking the many musicians, friends and associates who participated in the star-studded tribute concert honoring Eddie that was held last Thursday at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California. The message also reveals thatRead More →
