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Jimmy Buffett’s love of New Orleans depicted in video for “University of Bourbon Street”

Mailboat Records, distributed by Sun RecordsJimmy Buffett's well-known love of New Orleans is being celebrated in a video for his track “University of Bourbon Street,” which is featured on the posthumous album Equal Strain on All Parts, released back in November.The song features NOLA’s Preservation Hall Jazz Band and has Jimmy singing about the life lessons he learned while experiencing the city's famed party street.The video features photos and video from Buffett’s life in the city from the '70s and on, along with clips of him […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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Elvis Costello & Daryl Hall announce co-headlining tour

Courtesy Live NationElvis Costello and Daryl Hall are teaming up for a new co-headlining tour.  The trek, which will feature Costello backed by his longtime band The Imposters with Charlie Sexton, will kick off June 2 in Troutdale, Oregon, and hit such cities as Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Boston and more before wrapping July 25 in Vienna, Virginia. "It’s fantastic to be able to rekindle a musical relationship. Get ready for lots of great music," Hall shares. Costello […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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Paul Rodgers, Billy F Gibbons & more to appear on Slash’s new blues album

Snakepit Records/Gibson RecordsBad Company's Paul Rodgers, ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are just a few of the A-list artists making guest appearances on the upcoming blues-inspired album from Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.The album, Orgy of the Damned, is due out May 17 and has the rocker joined by a variety of guest vocalists. In addition to Gibbons and Rodgers, The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson and AC/DC's Brian Johnson are featured on songs, as are Iggy Pop, Gary Clark Jr., pop star Demi Lovato and country […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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On This Day, March 8, 2016: The “fifth Beatle,” Sir George Martin, dies at age 90

On This Day, March 8, 2016...Legendary music producer Sir George Martin, often referred to as the “fifth Beatle,” passed away at age 90. With a career that spanned more than six decades, Martin produced all but one of The Beatles' albums, including 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which became the first rock album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year.Martin won six Grammys throughout his career and had 23 #1 singles in the U.S. In addition to The Beatles, he produced works by […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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Actor cast to play AC/DC’s Bon Scott in upcoming movie

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesA film about the late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott is in the works, and now, we know who’ll be playing the iconic rocker. Actor Lee Tiger Halley, who appeared in the Australian Netflix series Boy Swallows World, has been cast to play a young Scott in the film The Kid From Harvest Road, which producers warn is not a straight-up biopic.Halo Films’ description of the movie calls it a “fictionalized narrative set in the 1960s” capturing “the essence” of […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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U2 shares Sphere cover of Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” for International Women’s Day

ABC/Michael YadaU2 is celebrating International Women’s Day by sharing a live cover of the Crowded House classic “Don’t Dream It’s Over" on their Instagram. The cover has them singing along to a new recording of the song sent to them by Crowded House frontman Neil Finn. The performance was recorded during the final night of U2’s Las Vegas residency, U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, and it was dedicated to Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.“Neil Finn beamed in to Sphere […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra to perform the music of Pink Floyd next month

Brillullstein bild via Getty ImagesPink Floyd fans in the Detroit area will be able to experience their music in a whole new way next month.The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be holding a special event, The Music of Pink Floyd, at Orchestra Hall. It’s being held on April 20 aka 4/20, which just happens to be a holiday celebrated by weed smokers across the U.S., which seems a bit appropriate for Pink Floyd fans.The event will have the orchestra, backed by […]

todayMarch 8, 2024

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Chicago sets record with 50th Las Vegas residency show at The Venetian

Photo credit: The Venetian Resort Las VegasChicago has hit a new career milestone.The band headlined the 50th show of their Las Vegas residency at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 6, earning them the honor of being the longest-running residency artist in the venue's history.Chicago has been playing The Venetian for the past seven years and has sold more than 80,000 tickets. The new milestone was marked with a plaque that was presented to them onstage, along […]

todayMarch 7, 2024

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Peter Gabriel to appear in documentary ‘Resynator’ premiering at SXSW

Scott Legato/Getty ImagesPeter Gabriel is set to appear in a new documentary, Resynator, which is set to premiere at SXSW. The film has director Alison Tavel trying to learn about her late father, Don Tavel, through the synthesizer prototype he created, the Resynator.Tavel tells Variety that she reached out to several musicians, including Jon Anderson and Fred Armisen, to talk about the synthesizer, telling Variety, “I’m so grateful that so many musicians were interested and down to experiment. Everyone’s experiences were unique and helped me gain insight into […]

todayMarch 7, 2024

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