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30 years after ‘Cracked Rear View’, Hootie & the Blowfish say, “Success is the best revenge”

Atlantic RecordsJuly will mark the 30th anniversary of Hootie & the Blowfish's album Cracked Rear View, which is still the bestselling debut album of all time. While the band has been the butt of jokes over the years, singer Darius Rucker points out that 23 million fans can't be wrong.While speaking to Billboard about the anniversary, Darius says he agrees "100%" that people didn't understand what their songs were about back then, and they still don't."'Hold My Hand' was a […]

todayJune 4, 2024

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Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein executive producing doc about songwriter/producer Mike Chapman

Dave J Hogan/Getty ImagesBlondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein are set to executive produce a new documentary about producer/songwriter Mike Chapman, Deadline reports.Simply The Best: The Mike Chapman Story will feature previously unseen photos and video footage from Chapman’s career, with Harry and Stein also set to appear in the picture. Chapman co-wrote the Tina Turner classic “The Best” and produced several Blondie albums, including Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, Autoamerican and The Hunter. He also worked with such artist as […]

todayJune 4, 2024

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The Rolling Stones offer two tour debuts at Orlando Hackney Diamonds tour stop

Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe Rolling Stones brought their Hackney Diamonds tour to Orlando’s Camping World Stadium on Monday, and fans attending the show were treated to two tour debuts. According to setlist.fm, the band performed “She’s a Rainbow" from Their Satanic Majesties Request for the first time on the trek, which was the fan-voted song of the night, beating out “Bite My Head Off,” “Out of Control” and “Rocks Off.” The night's other tour debut was the Sticky Fingers track “Dead Flowers,” which featured special […]

todayJune 4, 2024

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On This Day, June 4, 1986: A Conspiracy of Hope tour, featuring U2, Sting & more, kicked off in California

On This Day, June 4, 1986…The six-show A Conspiracy of Hope tour, benefiting Amnesty International, kicked off at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. The tour’s lineup included U2, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Joan Baez and the Neville Brothers.The final three shows, in Atlanta, Chicago and East Rutherford, New Jersey, featured a reunion of The Police, who had been on hiatus since 1984. The final show, on June 15 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, was their […]

todayJune 4, 2024

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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ turns 40

Sony MusicOn June 4, 1984, Bruce Springsteen released what would become one of his most successful albums, Born in the U.S.A.The album, recorded with The E Street Band, spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart and produced seven top-10 singles: the title track, "Dancing in the Dark," "Cover Me," "Glory Days," "I’m On Fire," "I’m Goin’ Down" and "My Hometown."Because it dropped during the era of MTV, Springsteen released his first music videos to promote the album, kicking things off […]

todayJune 4, 2024

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Michael Anthony surprised by Alex Van Halen’s instrument auction

Scott Legato/Getty ImagesIn May, Van Halen co-founder and drummer Alex Van Halen announced he was auctioning off his personal collection of instruments and memorabilia, and the news was a surprise to his former bandmate Michael Anthony.In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, Anthony says he hasn’t talked to Alex in a while, although he tried to reach out via text on Alex's birthday in May, but didn’t get a response.As for the auction, he shared, “Somebody had sent me the link to it, […]

todayJune 3, 2024

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The Police’s Andy Summers releasing new EP, ‘Vertiginous Canyons’, on June 21

Blue Cloud MusicThe Police’s Andy Summers is getting ready to release a new EP of music inspired by his photographs. Vertiginous Canyons, dropping June 21, is a musical companion piece to his 2023 photography book A Series of Glances, with each track described as an "audiovisual snapshot" of a photo from the collection.“This recording, Vertiginous Canyons, came about in a way somewhat different from my normal process,” says Summers, noting that after the publisher of the book requested he create music to […]

todayJune 3, 2024

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Playing Stevie Nicks in a biopic would be “the ultimate” for Kate Hudson

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images; Disney/Michael J. LeBrecht IIIKate Hudson is the daughter of musician Bill Hudson, has been married or engaged to three different musicians and recently released Glorious, her first-ever album as a musician. It's no wonder that she'd love to play a couple of famous female artists on screen one day.Asked by Rolling Stone if there is a dream musical biopic she'd like to star in, Hudson says, "I’ve got a couple. To me it’s also about the interesting […]

todayJune 3, 2024

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Bruce Springsteen reschedules postponed European shows

Mike Lewis Photography/RedfernsBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have rescheduled two of the three shows in Europe they were recently forced to postpone.The Boss postponed shows in Marseille, Prague and Milan due to "vocal issues and under doctor's direction" — and unfortunately fans in at least Marseille and Prague are going to have to wait until next year to see him.The Marseille show is now scheduled to happen on May 31, 2025, while the Prague show has been rescheduled for June 15, 2025. Details on the rescheduled Milan […]

todayJune 3, 2024

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