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Cheap Trick defends performing at the Kennedy Center Honors

Rick Nielsen (L) and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick perform during the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on April 25, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)Cheap Trick is responding to criticism for performing at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, which took place in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 7.The band appeared at the ceremony, which was hosted by President Donald Trump, to honor KISS. They performed the band’s classic “Rock & Roll […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Video of John Lennon & Yoko Ono performing at 1971 Attica prison benefit concert released

John Lennon and Yoko Ono chatted with host Dick Cavett 1971. (ABC/ANN LIMONGELLO)A new video has just been released of John Lennon and Yoko Ono performing at a benefit concert for the families of those killed in New York's Attica prison in 1971.The concert took place 24 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1971, at the Apollo Theater in New York. Video shows John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band performing what was then a new song, “Attica State.”The clip opens with […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Grahame Lesh announces concerts celebrating his late father, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh performs as Phil Lesh & Friends during the Great South Bay Music Festival at Shorefront Park on July 22, 2023 in Patchogue, New York. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)The life and career of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh will once again be celebrated with a series of concerts at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.Phil’s son Grahame Lesh has announced dates for Unbroken Chain: A Celebration of the Life & Music of Phil Lesh. The shows […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox sings theme song for ‘Outlander’s’ final season

'Outlander' season 8 artwork (courtesy of Starz)Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox is the latest artist to record the theme song for the opening sequence of the Starz series Outlander.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performs “The Skye Boat Song” for the show's eighth and final season. It's a 19th century Scottish song, with the show’s version using the text of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem "Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone," although the lyrics have been changed to "sing me […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Stevie Nicks announces first non-festival show of 2026

Stevie Nicks performs at BST Hyde Park at Hyde Park on July 12, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns)Stevie Nicks has announced her first non-festival show of 2026.The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is set to headline Lucas Oil Live in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on April 18.“I couldn’t stay away for long,” Stevie wrote on Instagram. "See you there!"Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.In addition to the Oklahoma show, Stevie is set to play New […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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On This Day, Dec. 17, 1949: Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers was born

On This Day, Dec. 17, 1949…Singer Paul Rodgers was born in Middlesbrough, England.Rodgers would go on to form the rock band Free in 1968 with drummer Simon Kirke, guitarist Paul Kossoff and bassist Andy Fraser. The band landed a #1 hit with ”All Right Now,” which Rodgers co-wrote with Fraser.After their breakup, Rodgers and Kirke formed the supergroup Bad Company with Mott The Hoople’s Mick Ralphs and the King Crimson’s Boz Burrell.Bad Company’s self-titled debut album was released in 1974 […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Van Morrison, Stevie Van Zandt & more set for concert celebrating Taj Mahal

Admat for concert celebrating blues musician Taj Mahal (Courtesy of Sweet Relief Musicians Fund)Van Morrison, E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt, George Thorogood and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell are among the artists set to perform at an upcoming benefit concert celebrating the career of blues musician Taj Mahal.The concert, taking place Feb. 21 at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, is the annual benefit for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.Other artists set to celebrate Mahal include Patty Griffin, Jim […]

todayDecember 17, 2025

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Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to Americana singer Joe Ely

Bruce Springsteen (R) and Joe Ely perform at the Austin Music Awards, held at the Austin Music Hall during the South By Southwest Music Festival on March 14, 2012 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Gary Miller/FilmMagic)Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to Americana singer Joe Ely, who passed away Monday at the age of 78 from complications of Lewy body dementia, Parkinson’s disease and pneumonia."Over here, we’re deeply saddened by the loss of Joe Ely, a singular American singer, great musician […]

todayDecember 16, 2025

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James Taylor announces annual July 4 holiday shows at Tanglewood

James Taylor at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (Disney/Eric McCandless)James Taylor has announced his annual Independence Day shows at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires area of Massachusetts.Taylor and his All-Star Band just announced they’ll play the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, on July 3 and July 4; the Fourth of July show will end with a fireworks display for the holiday, celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.This year marks 52 years since Taylor first took […]

todayDecember 16, 2025

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