Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Legendary rock band the Grateful Dead will be the subject of a new Stanford Continuing Studies course this fall. Did It Matter? Does It Now? The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead is an eight-week course that kicks off Oct. 3, taught by David Gans, producerRead More →
ABC Two reel-to-reel audio tapes featuring a soundboard recording of a Toronto Beatles concert may soon be up for sale. Billboard reports the owner, Piers Hemmingsen, a Toronto-based Beatles historian and author of The Beatles in Canada, is looking to sell the recordings, which were made at Toronto’s Maple Leaf GardensRead More →
Don Arnold/WireImage Def Leppard fans may debate which of their albums is better, 1983’s Pyromania or 1987’s Hysteria, but you won’t hear frontman Joe Elliott picking a favorite. Elliott was asked to pick a fav in an interview with the Los Angeles Times and had a very diplomatic answer. “Obviously, the breakthroughRead More →
Island Def Jam Music Group KISS is celebrating the 35th anniversary of their album Hot in the Shade with an all-new merch collection. The line includes special limited-edition bundles; one features a 35th anniversary Hot in the Shade deluxe picture disc, along with a Hot in the Shade track listRead More →
SVR B-52s founding member Kate Pierson is sharing a new preview of her upcoming solo album, Radios and Rainbows, set to drop Sept. 20. The latest is the club track “Take Me Back To The Party,” which she co-write with Jimmy Harry, who previously worked with Madonna, Pink and many others. “IRead More →
Scott Legato/Getty Images Daryl Hall was forced to cut his Thursday night concert short after not feeling well. The singer, one half of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame duo Hall & Oates, was performing in Vancouver when he walked off the stage after just three songs. A postRead More →
BAD Records Bryan Adams has dropped a video for the song “War Machine,” which is his take on one of two songs he co-wrote in the ’80s with Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for KISS. The video opens with Adams walking through a field holding a white flag with a peace sign, and as the camera pansRead More →
ABC/Randy Holmes U2 is wrapping their U2 to Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides digital series with a new playlist dedicated to “Electrical Storm,” one of two singles the band recorded for their 2002 greatest hits album, The Best of 1990–2000. The 12th and final installment includes a remastered version ofRead More →
On This Day, Aug. 23, 1946 … Future The Who drummer Keith Moon was born in North West London. Moon joined the band in 1964 before they recorded their first single and went on to play on eight of The Who’s albums, with his last being 1978’s Who Are You. Throughout his musical career, heRead More →
Reprise Records Back in July, Neil Young released the fifth installment in his Official Release Series, featuring four remastered albums. Now he’s giving fans another way to snag those records. The four albums featured in the set included 1989’s Freedom, which includes the Young classic “Rockin’ In The Free World”; 1990’s RaggedRead More →
