Columbia Mariah Carey‘s first holiday album, Merry Christmas — which includes her timeless hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — turns 30 this year, and she’s revealing some special releases she’s readying to mark the milestone. She wrote on Instagram, “While it is definitely not time to listen to ChristmasRead More →
Disney/Eric McCandless) Gene Simmons was the guest judge for Dancing with the Stars’ hair metal night Tuesday, and it apparently didn’t go over so well with the public. Several folks took to social media to complain that Simmons scored dancers too low, and that his critiques were “creepy” and focusedRead More →
Dey Street Books Cher is finally going to tell her story with the release of Cher: The Memoir, Part One, and she’s going out on a book tour to promote it. The tour will kick off Nov. 20 in New York City, with stops in Englewood, New Jersey, on Nov. 22, LondonRead More →
Tape Modern/BMG Duran Duran has released their cover of the ELO classic “Evil Woman.” The cover is one of three bonus tracks set to appear on the deluxe version of their 2023 album, Danse Macabre, titled Danse Macabre–DeLuxe. The other two songs are an instrumental called “Masque of Pink Death,” which isRead More →
ABC/Paula Lobo After sharing a mysterious teaser video featuring an answering machine and floppy disk, Green Day has announced Dookie Demastered, a collection of reworked versions of songs off the band’s hit 1994 album recorded on “obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient limited-edition formats.” Such formats include the aforementioned answering machine andRead More →
Photo by Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images Chaka Khan‘s song “I’m Every Woman” was released in 1984 but has stood the test of the time. Speaking to Variety, she says she thinks “it must touch some important aspect of something.” “It means something to a lot of people — andRead More →
On This Day, Oct. 9, 1985 … John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, joined The Beatles fans for the opening of Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, a memorial to the late Beatle named after the Lennon-penned track “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Located on Central Park West at 72nd Street, the 5-acre plot of landRead More →
Harper Collins Van Halen fans are getting their first preview of Alex Van Halen’s upcoming memoir, Brothers, with a 4 1/2-minute audio sample shared on Spotify. In a clip titled “Overture,” Alex talks to and about his late brother and Van Halen bandmate, Eddie Van Halen, sharing, “Without my brother I would not be …Read More →
Joy Malone/Getty Images R.E.M. has contributed a song to a new compilation album aimed at helping those devastated by Hurricane Helene. Cardinals at the Window: A Benefit for Flood Relief in Western North Carolina is out now on Bandcamp, with R.E.M. contributing a live performance of the Document track “KingRead More →
Steve Martin in Hulu’s ‘Only Murders In the Building’; Disney/Patrick Harbron SPOILERS) In episode seven of Only Murders in the Building’s fourth season, one of Billy Joel‘s most beloved songs pops up unexpectedly, and the series’ showrunner hopes the Piano Man will enjoy the joke. In the episode, Oliver, Mabel and Charles — playedRead More →
