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After his successful U.S. tour in Fall 2021, Carl Palmer will return to the U.S. in January with his second round of live shows since 2019. The tour will kick off on January 27 in Jacksonville with three previously postponed dates appearing with The Alan Parson Live Project in Florida. This will be followed with…

Scorpions have launched the first episode of a three-part documentary series about the making of their upcoming album, Rock Believer. The short documentary series is directed by Thomas Noehre. “For our new album Rock Believer, we all came back together in the studio like in the old days and captured that journey on camera,” the…

Music company BMG and investment firm KKR on Tuesday announced that they have acquired the entire music interests of rock icons ZZ Top. The ZZ Top agreement includes a buyout of the band’s publishing catalogue and their income from recorded royalties and performance royalties. Previously, BMG served as co-publisher and administrator of ZZ Top’s publishing…

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart and his son Stephen Stewart have pleaded guilty to simply battery after a physical altercation with a security guard during a New Years’ Eve celebration in 2019. According to a court statement released last Friday, the singer and his son admitted to manhandling security guard Jessie Dixon…

Evanescence recently released a studio recording of “Across The Universe”- the iconic track by The Beatles from the album Let It Be. Amy Lee and her bandmates covered the song for the first time on their 2018 Synthesis tour. The studio recording of the cover was added to the deluxe version of their latest album,…

Pink Floyd recently shared 12 previously unreleased live albums on streaming services. According to Rolling Stone, all of the concerts occurred between 1970 and 1972, covering the period in which the band released Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), and Obscured by Clouds (1972) and had already begun playing songs from Dark Side of the…

Marking the Golden Jubilee of David Bowie’s classic 1971 album Hunky Dory, a 50th anniversary limited edition picture disc will be released on January 7. The picture disc will feature the 2015 vinyl remaster and a poster of Bowie’s original version of the annotated back cover image. Released on December 17, 1971, the original album…

Martin Scorsese’s musical documentary The Last Waltz, based on The Band’s “farewell concert” is set to receive an official Criterion Collection release on March 29, 2022. The 1978 film captures the final show of the Canadian-American rock group at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976. The show was…

Queen guitarist Brian May has tested positive for Covid-19. He contracted the disease after attending a birthday party, which he described as a “wrong decision.” “Yep. The shocking day finally came for me. The dreaded double red line. And yes – definitely NO sympathy please – it has been a truly horrible few days, but…

A new video for George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” a song from his iconic triple-disc 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass, released as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the record, features a star-studded lineup consisting of more than 40 actors, musicians and comedians. The seven-minute visual, executive produced by Harrison’s son, musician…