Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt will be celebrated on Sunday as some of this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. The celebration is happening at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., with highlights from the ceremony to air Dec. 22 on CBS.Read More →
Kristy Sparow/Getty Images Paul McCartney is being honored by The Royal Mint with his very own coin. McCartney’s coin, officially approved by The Beatles legend, will feature McCartney’s Magic Piano and will reference his career, with piano notes chosen by McCartney, the Wings logo and his Höfner Violin Bass guitar. “This feelsRead More →
Steve Jennings/WireImage Sammy Hagar has joined the lineup for Metallica‘s 2024 Helping Hands benefit concert, taking place Dec. 13 in Los Angeles. The Red Rocker will be joined by his Best of All Worlds lineup, which includes his former Van Halen bandmate Mike Anthony, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and drummer KennyRead More →
On This Day, Dec. 6, 1969 … The Altamont Speedway Free Festival kicked off in the Bay Area of California, headlined by The Rolling Stones and featuring a lineup that included Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills & Nash. The counterculture concert, attended by nearly 300,000 people, was marred by the presence of theRead More →
Columbia Records Timothée Chalamet and the cast of the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown do their own singing in the film, and now fans will be able to enjoy their performance long after they’ve left the movie theater. A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) will be released Dec. 25Read More →
Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival Grateful Dead, who’ll receive the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, have a long history of philanthropy, and in a new interview with Billboard they talk about their motivation for giving back to the public. “We’re part of a community, and so the better theRead More →
Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images for ABA Billy Joel has announced his first 2025 show with Rod Stewart. The two Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will headline Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium on July 5. A Citi presale for tickets begins Dec. 9 at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general publicRead More →
Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images Queen guitarist Brian May revealed in September that he was recovering from a “minor stroke” that initially left him with no control over his left arm, but according to his wife, actress Anita Dobson, his health now seems to be back on track. According to The Mirror, while speaking at a ChristmasRead More →
Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Elton John sits down with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts for a new interview airing Dec. 11, ahead of the Dec. 13 premiere of his new Disney+ documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late. In a new preview of the sit-down, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer talksRead More →
On This Day, Dec. 5, 1974… Paul McCartney and Wings released their third album, Band on the Run, which became a huge hit and to this day remains McCartney’s most successful non-Beatles album. The album produced two hits, the title track and “Jet,” and went to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K.Read More →
