Jordi Vidal/Redferns Elvis Costello and Nile Rodgers & Chic are among the artists set to play the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival, which is the 70th year of the festival. This year’s event is going down August 2-4 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. Other artists confirmed for theRead More →
Pedro Gomes/Redferns Deep Purple is getting ready to hit the road this summer on their = 1 More Time Tour celebrating 50 years of their classic tune “Smoke on the Water.” The tour, featuring special guest Yes, is set to kick off August 14 in Hollywood, Florida, and will hit such cities asRead More →
ABC/Adam Taylor While U2 frontman Bono seems to have a good sense of humor, apparently it only goes so far, as comedian Seth Meyers found out when he made one too many jokes about the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which Bono and The Edge wrote the music and lyricsRead More →
Harry Langdon/Getty Images We are getting our first look at the upcoming documentary about The Beach Boys. The first trailer for the doc has just been released, featuring archival interviews and footage of the band along with new interview clips from Beach Boy Mike Love, producer Don Was, Ryan Tedder and Janelle Monáe. ItRead More →
Luis Gutierrez/Norte Photo/Getty Images Billy Idol is the latest rocker to star in commercials for the company Workday. Continuing the theme from Workday’s Super Bowl ad, which featured Ozzy Osbourne, Joan Jett and Gary Clark Jr., the latest spots feature Idol, blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani. In the ads, the trio callsRead More →
Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images When everyone wasn’t focused on making sure they didn’t burn their eyeballs out while watching the eclipse on April 8, some were focused on creating the perfect soundtrack for their viewing experience. That’s why Bonnie Tyler‘s classic song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” saw a bigRead More →
On This Day, April 9, 1984… R.E.M. released their second studio album, Reckoning, which, like their 1983 debut, Murmur, was produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. The album, which was first released in the U.K. and then the U.S., was recorded at Reflection Sound in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the producers attemptingRead More →
2024 NBCUniversal Media, LLC Heart helped celebrate Monday’s solar eclipse with a special performance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers appeared on the late night show, where they performed Bonnie Tyler’s classic “Total Eclipse of the Heart” with Jimmy, from the rooftopRead More →
Chris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images Def Leppard has jumped on the viral “Of Course” TikTok trend, where folks share stereotypes about their professions, race, gender and more. In a post on Instagram, each member of the band shares what they seem to think is an obvious fact about the group.Read More →
Columbia Records The planned film about Bruce Springsteen’s effort to make his 1982 solo album, Nebraska, is now one step closer to happening. It was just announced that 20th Century Studios and Disney have come on board to produce the film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, based on Warren Zanes‘ book Deliver Me from Nowhere:Read More →
