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Rhino Jethro Tull is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their 14th studio album, Broadsword and The Beast, with a new reissue. Broadsword and The Beast 40th Anniversary Edition, available September 1, will feature a host of goodies for Jethro Tull fans, including demos, live recordings, sessions from 1981 and more, along with new mixes from Steven Wilson.  It will be released in a variety of formats, including a five-CD, three-DVD Monster Edition, which features a live concert […]

Gems/Redferns Journey co-founder and original rhythm guitarist George Tickner has passed away, according to a Facebook post by his former bandmate Neal Schon. Schon shared a series of posts about Tickner’s death at the age of 76, captioning it, “Dear George 'Of a Lifetime' is still one of my favorite songs ever. RIP brother God Speed.” He added in a post on Twitter, “RIP George you now fly with the Angels.” Tickner appeared on Journey's 1975 self-titled debut. He […]

Island Records/UMR U2 has announced a vinyl reissue of the band's 1993 album, Zooropa, in honor of its 30th anniversary. The record will be available as a limited edition transparent yellow two-LP set in October. You can preorder your copy now. Zooropa was first released July 5, 1993, 30 years ago Wednesday. It followed U2's massive 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and continued to experiment with the dance and electronic elements of its predecessor, […]

Leon Neal/Getty Images The legacy of Guns N' Roses' headlining set during June's Glastonbury Festival will live on through two baby owls. According to the U.K.'s Secret World Wildlife Rescue organization, the chicks were rescued from underneath Glastonbury's main Pyramid Stage, which the "Welcome to the Jungle" outfit rocked on Saturday, June 24. Fittingly, they were named Axl and Slash after the GN'R frontman and guitarist, respectively. "Both Axl and Slash […]

George Shelley Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A 69-year-old woman has died following an alligator attack in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, authorities said Tuesday. Beaufort County Sheriff's Office deputies, Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue, the Beaufort County Coroner's Office and Spanish Wells security personnel responded around 9:28 a.m. to a report of a possible alligator attack near a lagoon bordering the golf course in the Spanish Wells community. They […]

(NEW YORK) -- A pair of belVita Breakfast Sandwich products have been voluntarily recalled because they have potential “undeclared peanut,” according to the company that makes the biscuits. Mondelēz Global announced the recall on Monday, saying in a press release that the biscuits may contain the substance as a result of cross-contact on one manufacturing line. "We became aware of this issue during an internal manufacturing inspection when we found […]

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images And baby makes four for Meghan Trainor. The singer and her husband Daryl Sabara welcomed their second son, Barry Bruce Trainor, on July 1, she announced on Instagram on Tuesday, July 4. "On July 1st (our 7 year anniversary of our first date) we welcomed Barry Bruce Trainor into the world," she wrote, along with a photo of herself embracing the newborn. "He was a big boy […]

(NORTH CAROLINA) -- When Dorian Bolden began expanding his coffee shop, Beyu Caffe, in Durham, North Carolina, he says the most difficult part was securing funding as a Black business owner. “I recognize how we were not able to get funding the way I saw, you know, my white counterparts getting funding,” Bolden told ABC News. Bolden is far from the only Black entrepreneur to face such a barrier. Black-owned […]

(NEW YORK) -- Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk averted a cage fight last month but the companies they oversee -- Meta and Twitter, respectively -- are set to square off in direct competition. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, revealed on Monday a new "conversation" app called Threads that appears to be the firm's long-awaited counterpart to Twitter. Set to launch on Thursday, the platform will offer a place "where […]