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Heavy metal icons Judas Priest have announced the rescheduled dates for their 50th anniversary tour. The North American tour, called the “50 Heavy Metal Years Tour,” will begin on September 8 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and wrap up on November 5 in Hamilton, Ontario. Swedish power-metal band Sabaton will join Judas Priest as openers. “Defending the…

Ed Sheeran, Elton John, and Brandi Carlile were enlisted by actress Courteney Cox for a tribute performance for her “Friends” co-star Lisa Kudrow. The all-star line-up covered Elton’s hit song “Tiny Dancer,” with a slight change in the lyrics to “Tony Danza,” referencing Kudrow’s line in the hit TV series. In a season 3 episode,…

A new deluxe reissue of George Harrison’s 1970 solo masterpiece All Things Must Pass is set to arrive on August 6. The 50th anniversary editions of All Things Must Pass will include multiple limited physical and digital configurations featuring sessions outtakes and jams. Decades in the making and lovingly crafted by the Harrison family, All…

Neil Young has confirmed through a message on his website that he is currently working on a new album with Crazy Horse. “I have five songs ready for the next album. So I think over time the rest will come and we may start recording again soon,” Young wrote on his personal website Neil Young…

The Eagles have added six additional dates to their 2021 “Hotel California Tour,” which will now kick off a month earlier than initially scheduled. “The Hotel California” tour will now begin on August 22 with six new dates in New York City, Boston, and Washington D.C. The 18-stop tour will wrap with two nights at…

A long lost video of Van Halen performing in front of dinosaur statues has resurfaced after more than 40 years. The performance was filmed in late 1981 and broadcast in early 1982 on Italian State TV show “Happy Circus” during the band’s Fair Warning promotion. The video shows the band, including Eddie Van Halen, David…

Bruce Springsteen announced on Monday that he will return to Broadway this summer for a limited run of “Springsteen on Broadway” performances at Jujamcyn’s St. James Theater. “I loved doing Springsteen on Broadway and I’m thrilled to have been asked to reprise the show as part of the reopening of Broadway,” said Bruce. Shows begin…

Kelly Clarkson performed a soaring cover of Prince’s “When Doves Cry”, during the Kellyoke segment of her chat show on Wednesday, June 3. Clarkson performed the cover as a tribute to the late legend, who would have celebrated his 63rd birthday on Sunday, June 7. “When Doves Cry” is the lead single from Prince’s sixth…

Styx have released “Reveries,” a new single from their upcoming seventeenth album Crash of the Crown, which is due out on June 18. Tommy Shaw and Will Evankovich wrote “Reveries.” ” He’ll come up with a rhythm track and a chord progression or something that sounds really good,” Shaw told Ultimate Classic Rock about how…

ZZ Top and Cody Jinks are set to headline the inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival, scheduled to take place at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma, on September 18 and 19. The two-day event will be preceded by a “special pre-festival Honky Tonk” set for Friday, September 17. The lineup for…