On This Day, June 7, 1975 … Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy became the first album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard chart. The album remained at #1 for seven weeks. The record, Elton’s ninth studio album, included the classic “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” inspired byRead More →
Island Bon Jovi‘s new album, FOREVER, their first since 2020, is out Friday. Jon Bon Jovi wrote many of the songs while recovering from his 2022 vocal surgery and says that in those songs, he found joy again after going through several negative experiences. “My health concerns were certainly one of them,”Read More →
Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt is the subject of a new documentary, Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, which will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York on Saturday, before premiering on Max June 22. After over 50 years in music, you’d thinkRead More →
courtesy of Totally Tubular Festival The upcoming Totally Tubular festival, celebrating the music of the ’80s, has made a lineup change. The festival, which kicks off June 25 in Seattle and runs through July 28 in Cleveland, has added The Tubes, remembered for their hit “She’s A Beauty,” to the lineup. They willRead More →
Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The ticket reselling platform StubHub is out with its annual list of the summer’s most in-demand tours, with The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen making the cut this year. The list is based on the global concert sales on StubHub and Viagogo as of June 3 forRead More →
courtesy of Noise for Now David Byrne and Devo’s contribution to the new compilation album Noise For Now Vol. 2, raising money to benefit abortion access and reproductive rights, has been released. The track, “Empire,” was one of two songs Byrne recorded with Devo for the 1997 album Feelings, although it never made theRead More →
On This Day, June 6, 1993 … The Broadway musical adaption of The Who’s Tommy won five awards at the 47th annual Tony Awards. Based on the band’s 1969 album and 1975 film of the same name, the musical earned a Best Original Score Tony for The Who’s Pete Townshend, as well asRead More →
Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Jon Bon Jovi revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday that he was witness to a historic recording session in New. York. The rocker was talking about his job as the gofer at New York’s Power Station recording studio when he was somewhere between 18 andRead More →
The John Lennon Estate/Capitol/Ume A new video has just been released featuring never-before-seen footage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The video is for a new ultimate mix of “You Are Here” from Lennon’s 1973 album, Mind Games. The clip includes footage filmed during John’s first major art show, You Are Here (ToRead More →
UMe Pete Townshend’s solo live performances will be chronicled in a new box set coming this summer. Pete Townshend Live > In Concert 1985-2001, dropping July 26, will feature newly remastered versions of Pete’s live solo recordings, seven of which have been long out of print. The concerts were previouslyRead More →
