Universal Music Group Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of John Lennon’s fifth solo album, Walls and Bridges, which went to #1 and features “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night,” Lennon’s first U.S. #1 as a solo artist, and his only solo song to top the chart in his lifetime. The album was recorded during Lennon’s “lostRead More →
Baroque Folk Records The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs is getting ready to release a new old album. The singer will drop the archival album The Lost Record on Oct. 18, which she recorded in her garage back in 1999 but never released. It features songs she wrote and recorded with a variety of artists,Read More →
Rhino Albums by artists including Stevie Nicks, Deep Purple, The Doobie Brothers and Foreigner are being reissued on vinyl in celebration of Rhino’s Rocktober campaign. Among the titles getting the reissue treatment are Nicks’ In Your Dreams, Deep Purple’s Machine Head, The Doobie Brothers’ Toulouse Street and What Were Once Vices Are NowRead More →
Aldara Zarraoa/Redferns Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde is one of the artists booked to perform at a tribute concert for the late Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan. The concert, Mark Lanegan – A Celebration, is set to take place Dec. 5 at the Roundhouse in London, about a week after what would’veRead More →
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Paul Simon hasn’t performed live all that much since revealing he lost his hearing, but he took the stage Monday night in New York for The Soho Sessions, which was a fundraiser for the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss. According to setlist.fm,Read More →
Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Heart’s Ann Wilson has given fans a health update, the first time she’s talked about her condition since announcing in July she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy after doctors removed something cancerous from her body. “Now I know lots of you have been wondering how I have beenRead More →
Janis: Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images; Shailene:Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for STARZ Shailene Woodley is opening up about her plans to play Janis Joplin on the big screen. The actress’s plans to produce and star in a biopic about Joplin were announced in early September. During an appearance on Live with Kelly andRead More →
Bushbranch/Surfdog Records Eric Clapton has shared a video for “One Woman,” the first single off his upcoming album, Meanwhile. The video, directed by Dessie Jackson, features a book filled with drawings brought to life through animation. Meanwhile, Clapton’s first album with new material since 2016’s I Still Do, is made up of six newRead More →
BMG The 40th anniversary of Thompson Twins’ breakthrough album Into the Gap is being celebrated with a new remastered reissue. Into The Gap 40th Anniversary Edition, remixed at Abbey Road Studios, will be released in a variety of formats, including a 39-track, three-CD deluxe edition that includes 30 bonus tracks,Read More →
On This Day, Sept. 25, 2017 … Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers headlined The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles for what would turn out to be their final concert ever, as Petty would die less than two weeks later. During the show, Petty and the band treated fans to such classicRead More →
