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Dick Halligan, a co-founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears, died on January 18 in Rome, Italy, leaving behind his daughter Shana, his son-in-law, Eric, his grandson, Otis, and his stepson, Buddy. Growing up in Glen Falls, New York, Halligan fell in love with big band music, largely because of Stan Kenton, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn…

Neil Young says he wants his music be pulled from Spotify in protest against misinformation spread by podcaster Joe Rogan about the Covid vaccine on the streaming service. “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” Young wrote in a letter to his management team and record label posted on his official website. “I want…

Cyndi Lauper’s music video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” has earned over 1 billion views on YouTube, earning the singer her first entry in the billion-view club on the video streaming platform. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was originally written and performed by American musician Robert Hazard, who released the single in…

Rock icons KISS recently released a new live version of their song, “Lick It Up.” Originally released in 1983, the new track was recorded at a live show at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater on their cross-country “Rock The Nation” tour in 2004. Notably, the trek was the first-ever tour that featured Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons,…

Sony Music Entertainment has announced it has fully acquired Bob Dylan’s entire back catalog of recorded music, as well as the rights to multiple future new releases, in a major expansion of SME’s six-decade relationship with the artist. This agreement, concluded in July 2021, comprises the entirety of Bob Dylan’s recorded body of work since…

Eric Church performed a cover of “I Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” during his stop at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Saturday (January 22), paying tribute to Meat Loaf, who passed away on Thursday (January 20) at age 74. Church and his band were at Little Caesars Arena as part…

Music legend Bob Dylan has announced Spring tour dates for his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour. The next leg of the world tour will kick off in Phoenix on March 3 and wrap up roughly a month and a half later in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 14. Tickets for upcoming performances can be purchased…

Don Wilson, the co-founder and guitarist of the rock quartet The Ventures, died of natural causes at his home in Tacoma, Washington, on Saturday, January 22. Wilson’s death was confirmed by his son Tim. “Our dad was an amazing rhythm guitar player who touched people all over world with his band, the Ventures,” Tim said…

The New Orleans Jazz Fest has unveiled a star-studded lineup for this year’s event, with The Who, Stevie Nicks and Foo Fighters among the headliners. The yearly music festival, which was canceled in both 2020 and 2021 due to pandemic, is now returning in the hopes of making up for lost time, with the lineup…

In a new interview, rock icon Eric Clapton opened up about how his opposition to the government’s Covid policies gave him new motivation. Clapton, who is the writer of the anti-lockdown song “Stand And Deliver,” told the Real Music Observer that he decided to release the politically charged song titled “This Has Gotta Stop” as…