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Duran Duran teams with We Are Rewind for new special-edition cassette player

Duran Duran arrive on stage at the opening of their set at Chelmsford City Live Music Festival. Chelmsford City Live a new music festival at Chelmsford City Racecourse in Essex on Saturday (night 2 of the festival) with Headliners Duran Duran. (Photo by Bonnie Britain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Duran Duran has teamed with the company We Are Rewind for a new one-of-a-kind cassette player.The WE-001 Duran Duran Special Edition features chrome details for '80s nostalgia, and comes with an exclusive reissue of […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Jimmy Buffet’s ashes smuggled into 2024 Rock Hall induction, says Kenny Chesney

Jimmy Buffett of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performs during KAABOO Del Mar music festival on September 16, 2016 in Del Mar, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)Jimmy Buffett was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 in the Musical Excellence category, and even though he passed away in 2023, it turns out he was still able to attend the ceremony.Kenny Chesney and James Taylor performed in honor of Buffett at the induction. In a […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Foreigner’s Lou Gramm to release new solo album

Foreigner's Lou Gramm at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) IIFormer Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm has revealed that he has a new solo album coming out next year.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer made the revelation during an appearance on the Kyle Meredith with... podcast, sharing that he worked on it with former Foreigner bassist Bruce Turgon. Gramm said, "He helped me write songs for my upcoming solo album, which is being released in March."Gramm said […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Lenny Kravitz’s Sunday Night Basketball intro previewed

Lenny Kravitz on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(ABC/Randy Holmes)Lenny Kravitz fans are getting their first look at his upcoming intro to NBC’s Sunday Night Basketball programming.The network is teasing the new NBA season with an ad on Instagram that features the "Are You Gonna Go My Way" rocker performing in front of a crowd, mixed with NBA highlights."I have been a fan of basketball and the NBA since I was a kid," Kravitz said when his participation in the intro was announced in October. […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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On This Day, Dec. 3, 1979: Tragedy strikes The Who concert

On This Day, Dec. 3, 1979 ...Tragedy struck The Who’s concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati when 11 fans were trampled to death while trying to get into the venue.With “festival seating" in place, fans at the front of the line were crushed as those in the back mistook the band’s soundcheck for the start of the show and tried to push their way in.Twenty six additional fans were injured.The Who was not aware of what happened, so the show went […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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BBC picks up series about The Beatles’ Hamburg days

English rock band the Beatles at the BBC television studios in London before leaving for a concert tour of Germany, and afterwards Japan, 16th June 1966. From left to right, they are Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)As if four upcoming Beatles biopics aren’t enough, the BBC is ready to give fans more.The network has picked up a new drama series, Hamburg Days, which will focus on The Beatles' early days as […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Aerosmith intro removed from Disney World’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster

Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith perform live on stage at the Wells Fargo Center on Sept. 2, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images)Aerosmith is no longer a part of one of Disney World’s popular attractions.It was announced in November 2024 that Aerosmith was being replaced by The Muppets on the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Disney World in Orlando, and now Entertainment Weekly reports that their classic intro to the ride has been […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ is the song Lady Gaga would listen to for the rest of her life

The Imagine mosaic in Strawberry Fields in Central Park, a tribute to John Lennon who was gunned down in that spot on December 8, 1980. New York, United States, on October 22, 2022. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)There are a lot of music fans who love John Lennon’s classic tune “Imagine,” and apparently Lady Gaga is one of them.The “Bad Romance” singer recently sat down with The Late Show host Stephen Colbert to answer his Colbert Questionnaire. When asked […]

todayDecember 2, 2025

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Rick Springfield, 4 Non Blondes set for NYRE 2026

'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026' performers (Courtesy DCP)Rick Springfield and 4 Non Blondes are among the acts set to ring in the new year on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026.ABC will kick off the Dec. 31 festivities at 8 p.m. ET, with the show featuring countdowns from New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and beyond. More than 85 songs will be performed before the show wraps up at 4 a.m. ET. […]

todayDecember 2, 2025

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