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The Year in Music 2025: In other news …

There were certainly a lot of big things happening in music in 2025. Here's a roundup of some of the other music stories that made headlines this year:-Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson surprised fans by announcing they were heading back on tour. Fifty Something, the band’s first tour in 10 years and the first since the death of drummer Neil Peart, will launch in June 2026. Playing drums on the tour will be Anika Nilles, who previously worked with the […]

todayDecember 31, 2025

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Remixed recording of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 New Year’s Eve show now available for streaming

Bruce Springsteen on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(Disney/Randy Holmes)A legendary Bruce Springsteen concert has just gotten an audio upgrade.A newly remixed version of Bruce and The E Street Band’s 1975 New Year’s Eve performance at the Tower Theater near Philadelphia is now available on nugs.net. The recording was taken from the 16-track analog master tapes originally recorded by producer Jimmy Iovine. The show was the final night of a four-night stand at the venue.The 18-song set features a slowed down version of “Tenth […]

todayDecember 30, 2025

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Following Linda Perry ‘premonition,’ 4 Non Blondes wrap up comeback year on ’NYRE 2026′

'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026' performers (Courtesy DCP)Who had a 4 Non Blondes comeback on their 2025 bingo card? Well, frontwoman Linda Perry, for one."The top of the year, I had a premonition, and I said, 'You know what? I'm gonna put the band back together,'" Perry told ABC's On the Red Carpet during rehearsals for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, during which 4 Non Blondes will be performing. "When I got that […]

todayDecember 30, 2025

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On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999: George Harrison and wife Olivia were attacked by home intruder

On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999 ...The Beatles' George Harrison and his wife, Olivia Harrison, were attacked in their Friar Park estate by a 34-year-old mentally ill intruder named Michael Abram.Abram punctured George's lung with a kitchen knife and stabbed him more than 40 times, before Olivia intervened and repeatedly struck Abram with a fireplace poker and a lamp.George had to have part of his punctured lung removed.Abram was tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity and was […]

todayDecember 30, 2025

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Rick Springfield on returning to New Year’s Rockin’ Eve: ‘I’m very excited about it’

Rick Springfield performs onstage during the Above Ground 4 concert benefiting Musicares at The Fonda Theatre on October 26, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)Rick Springfield will help ring in the new year with a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, and the experience certainly isn’t new to the singer.In fact, Springfield told ABC's On the Red Carpet during rehearsals for the show that performing on Rockin’ Eve was "one of […]

todayDecember 30, 2025

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The Year in Music 2025: The Who fires drummer, says farewell to North America

The Who celebrated their 60th anniversary in 2025, which ended with what will likely be their last North American tour, much to the disappointment of many fans.-The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers kicked off the year by announcing they were headlining two shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March to benefit Teenage Cancer Trust.-During the shows, Pete Townshend revealed that he had just had hip replacement surgery, while Roger Daltrey, who is known to have hearing issues, also revealed […]

todayDecember 30, 2025

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Bono and The Edge’s Woody Guthrie Prize performance now on YouTube

Bono and The Edge at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by JB Lacroix/FilmMagic)Back in October, Bono and The Edge were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to represent U2 as they were honored with the Woody Guthrie Prize, which was given out by the Woody Guthrie Center. Now they are giving fans who weren’t in attendance a chance to hear what went down.Audio of the conversation Bono and The Edge had with T […]

todayDecember 29, 2025

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On This Day, Dec. 29, 1985: Billy Joel becomes a first-time father

On This Day, Dec. 29, 1985 …Billy Joel became a father when he and his wife, model Christie Brinkley, welcomed their only child together, daughter Alexa Ray Joel.Their daughter's middle name was a tribute to legendary musician Ray Charles, with whom Billy collaborated on the 1987 song “Baby Grand." Joel later wrote the 1993 song “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” for Alexa.Alexa followed in her father's footsteps as a musician and released the EP Sketches in 2006, along with several other […]

todayDecember 29, 2025

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The Year in Music 2025: Brian Wilson, Sly Stone among the music greats we lost this year

It’s always sad to say goodbye to our favorite musicians when they pass away, and 2025 was certainly a tough year.The music world lost a true legend on June 11 when Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson died in his sleep at the age of 82. He was living with dementia at the time and had been placed under a conservatorship in early 2024 following the death of his wife, Melinda Wilson.Another influential artist we lost in 2025 was Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, who passed […]

todayDecember 29, 2025

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