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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star and actor, dead at 81

Jimmy Cliff performs live on stage on Day 1 at the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix Marina Bay Street Circuit at the Padang on September 18, 2015 in Singapore. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)Jimmy Cliff, a Grammy Award-winning singer and actor, who helped Jamaican reggae music find its place within global pop culture, is dead at 81."It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia," Latifa Chambers, Cliff's wife, […]

todayNovember 24, 2025

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Holiday releases include a bonanza of The Band & Robbie Robertson vinyl LPs

'The Best of The Band' (Capitol/UMe); 'Filmworks: Insomnia' (Omnivore Recordings)Fans of The Band have multiple vinyl releases to choose from this holiday season.Available for preorder now is the Vinylphyle pressing of 1975's Northern Lights, Southern Cross, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. Featuring classics like "Ophelia," "It Makes No Difference" and "Acadian Driftwood," the 180-gram black vinyl LP was mastered from the original analog sources, and includes gatefold packaging and new liner notes.  Then on Record Store Day Black Friday, Nov. 28, […]

todayNovember 24, 2025

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New John Lennon documentary to focus on his final interview

Former Beatle John Lennon outside of the Times Square recording studio 'The Hit Factory' before a recording session of his final album 'Double Fanasy' in August 1980 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images)Another John Lennon documentary is in the works, this time from Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh.According to Variety, Soderbergh talked about the film at the inaugural Doha Film Festival, explaining that the still-untitled project will focus on Lennon’s final interview, which he and […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Whitesnake releases final video following David Coverdale’s retirement

David Coverdale from Whitesnake performs outside the Vikingship arena on June 02, 2022 in Hamar, Norway. (Photo by Per Ole Hagen/Redferns)Whitesnake has released what they say is their final music video.Following frontman David Coverdale’s announcement that he was retiring from music, the band has dropped the video for “Forevermore (DC & Hook City Strings - Official Video 2025 Remix).”The clip has Coverdale singing on a stage bathed in white and backed by a string section. The clip also features various […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Documentaries about Led Zeppelin, John & Yoko eligible for Oscar nominations

Poster for 'Becoming Led Zeppelin'/(Sony Pictures Classic)Films about Led Zeppelin and John Lennon and Yoko Ono have a chance to be in the running for a 2026 Oscar nomination in the documentary feature film category. Over 200 documentaries have been deemed eligible for consideration , including Becoming Led Zeppelin, which chronicles the early days of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, and One to One: John and Yoko, which follows the 18 months John and Yoko lived in New York's Greenwich Village in the early '70s.Other music […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Game of Thrones’ Harry Lloyd to play George Martin in Beatles films

Harry Lloyd attends the 69th BFI London Film Festival press launch at BFI Southbank on September 3, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/WireImage)We now know who's going to be playing The Beatles producer George Martin in director Sam Mendes' upcoming films about the Fab Four.Martin's son, producer Giles Martin, recently revealed that British actor Harry Lloyd, who played Viserys Targaryen on HBO's Game of Thrones, has been cast to play his dad in The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Watch Pete Townshend perform ‘Let My Love Open the Door’ during ‘Late Show’ commercial break

'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' and musical guest Pete Townshend during Wednesday’s November 12, 2025 show. (Photo: Scott Kowalchyk ©2025 CBS Broadcasting Inc.)The Who's Pete Townshend appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Nov. 12, where he also sat in with the house band. Now the show is revealing what fans at home didn’t get to see.The Late Show just released the latest clip in its “Commercial Breakdown” YouTube series, this time featuring Townshend performing his 1980 solo single “Let […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Eric Clapton drops video for ‘Higher Power’ from ‘Journeyman’ deluxe reissue

Cover of Eric Clapton's 'Journeyman' deluxe edition/ (Bushbranch/Surfdog Records)Eric Clapton has released a new animated video for “Higher Power,” written by Jerry Williams, one of the bonus tracks that appear on the just-released deluxe reissue of his 1989 album, Journeyman.The reissue, out now digitally and on CD and LP, features a remastered version of the original album, along with four new bonus tracks, three of which are from the original Journeyman recording sessions and have never been released before.“Journeyman ... [i]t’s what I want to […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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The Revolution’s Lisa Coleman on how her brother inspired Prince’s ‘Around the World in a Day’

Cover of Prince and the Revolution's 'Around the World in a Day'/(NPG Records/Legacy Recordings)Prince and the Revolution’s seventh studio album, Around the World in a Day, has just been reissued to celebrate its 40th anniversary.The album has been remastered and remixed in Dolby Atmos for the first time, which means fans can enjoy hits like “Raspberry Beret” and “Pop Life” in upgraded audio.The album foound Prince and the band experimenting with sounds that were vastly different from his previous record, […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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