Sonja Flemming/CBS Talk about a slow climb to #1: An Elton John album is looking like it’s finally going to top the U.K. chart after hanging around in the Top 40 for more than 300 weeks. Elton’s greatest hits compilation Diamonds, originally released in 2017, has spent a total ofRead More →
Sun Records Bruce Springsteen is set to make a guest appearance on a brand new album from The Waterboys. Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, the band’s 16th record, is set to drop April 14, with Springsteen lending his voice to the track “Ten Years Gone.” The album also features guest appearances byRead More →
Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images U2 frontman Bono received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday, and in honor of the occasion he’s penned a new essay for The Atlantic, titled The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom. “Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs,”Read More →
Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Black Crowes are set to play Boston Calling this year. The three-day festival is happening Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25, in Allston, Massachusetts. The band is part of the May 24 bill, which will be headlined by Fall Out Boy and also feature Avril Lavigne, Cage the ElephantRead More →
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy Central Rush launched their final tour in 2015, which hit only the U.S. and Canada, and surviving band members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal they regret they couldn’t bring their show to other countries. “I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so thatRead More →
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images While The Beatles broke up in 1970, they’re still very much part of popular culture, with the past few years seeing the release of Peter Jackson’s Got Back docuseries, the recent documentary Beatles ’64, their final new song, “Now and Then,” and more. And while Julian LennonRead More →
On This Day, Jan. 6, 1987 … Eric Clapton kicked off a six-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall, treating the crowd to such classic songs as “I Shot the Sheriff,” “Wonderful Tonight,” “Cocaine” and more, including Cream tracks “White Room” and “Sunshine of Your Love.” The residency soon becameRead More →
ABC/Isa Mae Astute It sounds like we may be getting new music from U2 this year. Guitarist The Edge appeared on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast to talk about the band’s recent 20th anniversary reissue of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and its accompanying shadow album. While talking about how the band worksRead More →
CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images Bono has added another honor to his list of achievements. The U2 frontman was at the White House Saturday, where he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation’s highest civilian honor. According to the White House, the honor is given to people who’ve made “exemplary contributionsRead More →
Reprise Records Neil Young has announced his latest Analog Original Series release, the “lost” album Oceanside Countryside. The previously unreleased album was recorded before 1978’s Comes A Time and includes three songs that wound up appearing on that album, “Goin’ Back,” “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity.” While some of the tracks fromRead More →
