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Bono receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty ImagesBono has added another honor to his list of achievements. The U2 frontman was at the White House Saturday, where he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation's highest civilian honor.According to the White House, the honor is given to people who’ve made "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values or security of the United States, world peace or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”“President Biden believes great leaders keep the faith, give everyone a fair shot, […]

todayJanuary 4, 2025

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Neil Young to release ‘lost’ album ‘Oceanside Countryside’

Reprise RecordsNeil Young has announced his latest Analog Original Series release, the “lost” album Oceanside Countryside.The previously unreleased album was recorded before 1978’s Comes A Time and includes three songs that wound up appearing on that album, “Goin’ Back,” “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity.”While some of the tracks from the album appear on a CD version of Oceanside Countryside that was part of Young’s Archives Vol. III release, the new version, being released in analog on vinyl for the first time, features the originally […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Carlos Santana postpones 2025 Las Vegas residency start after breaking finger

courtesy of House of Blues Las VegasCarlos Santana has been forced to postpone the start of his 2025 Las Vegas residency after being injured in a fall at his home in Hawaii. “I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and he broke his little finger on his left hand,” Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management, announced. “He had to have pins inserted in the […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ makes BAFTA longlist in documentary category

Courtesy of DisneyElton John is in the running for a BAFTA nomination for his recent documentary Elton John: Never Too Late.The film has made the longlist for the 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards, handed out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.Never Too Late is one of 10 films in the running in the documentary category. Others include I Am: Celine Dion, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper, starring Will Ferrell and Harper Steele.The final list […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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R.E.M.’s Peter Buck records cover of 1968 track ‘Shape of Things To Come’

Al Pereira/Getty ImagesR.E.M.’s Peter Buck has recorded a cover in celebration of one of his favorite music films of the 1960s.Buck revealed the news on R.E.M.’s Instagram account. He explained that after he appeared on the Revolutions Per Movie podcast, where he discussed the 1968 rock 'n' roll movie Wild in the Streets, he recorded a cover of the movie’s theme song, “Shape of Things To Come,” featuring Vanessa Briscoe Hay from the Athens, Georgia, band Pylon and Camper Van Beethoven’s Victor […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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On This Day, Jan. 3, 1945: Stephen Stills was born

On This Day, Jan. 3, 1945 ...Stephen Stills, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Manassas, was born in Dallas, Texas.Stills has written such tunes as “For What It’s Worth,” "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" and "Bluebird" for Buffalo Springfield, and “Carry On” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” for CSN.“Love the One You’re With,” from his 1970 self-titled solo debut, was Stills’ biggest solo hit, peaking at #14 on the Billboard charts. The tune features his CSN bandmates David Crosby and Graham […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Neil Young says he will now play Glastonbury, citing ‘error in the information received’

Gary Miller/Getty ImagesNeil Young is going to Glastonbury after all.After announcing he was pulling out of the British festival due to the BBC’s sponsorship of the event, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has now announced he and his band Chrome Hearts will indeed be on the bill.“Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved,” he wrote on his Neil Young Archives website. “Happily, the […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Rhino launches Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl series with releases from Fleetwood Mac, the Ramones & more

RhinoRhino is kicking off 2025 with a new series of limited-edition vinyl releases from artists like Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, the Ramones, ZZ Top and more.The Start Your Ear Off Right series launches Friday with the release of Fleetwood Mac - Live at the Record Plant (December 15, 1974) on two-LP transparent red vinyl, Buckingham's four-LP box set 20th Century Lindsey and three Ramones albums: 1984’s Too Tough to Die, 1987’s Halfway to Insanity and 1989’s Brain Drain.There are also albums […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Osmond Brothers member Wayne Osmond dies at 73

C Brandon/RedfernsWayne Osmond, one of the original members of the Osmond Brothers, has died at the age of 73. The news was announced on social media by Wayne’s brother Merrill Osmond, who shared that he died after suffering a “massive stroke.”“My brother was a saint before he came into this world, and he will leave as an even greater saint than he came in,” Merrill wrote. “I’ve never known a man that had more humility. A man with absolute no guile. An […]

todayJanuary 2, 2025

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