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Redwing Records Joni Mitchell’s upcoming live album, Joni Mitchell At Newport, is set to drop July 28, and now, fans are getting to hear another track from the record. The latest is Joni’s performance of the George Gershwin classic “Summertime,” which was actually the first song she sang during the Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, her first live performance in 20 years. Joni Mitchell At Newport, produced by Joni and Brandi Carlile, […]

Queen Production Ltd. Queen loves to keep their audience guessing at their live shows; that’s the subject of "Expect the Unexpected," episode 26 of their weekly YouTube series Queen the Greatest Live. In the episode, Brian May and Roger Taylor discuss their desire to throw in surprises in order to keep the audience engaged and keep things fresh for themselves on long tours.  Some of the ways they’ve done that is with acoustic sets, medleys of their hits and […]

When Minx returns with its sophomore season on July 21, it’s bringing a bunch of changes along with it. The series, which was initially an HBO Max original, now airs exclusively on Starz. In an interview held before the SAG-AFTRA strike, star and producer Jake Johnson told ABC Audio that the former HBO Max made a “corporate decision and a financial decision to move on from a lot of shows.” In fact, Minx was in the […]

Legendary crooner Tony Bennett, who made teenyboppers scream in the 1950s and toured with Lady Gaga in the 2000s, has died at age 96. Bennett, who passed away in his hometown of New York City on Friday, July 21, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, but he didn't reveal it until February 2021. Born Dominick Benedetto in Queens, New York, Bennett was blessed with the ability to sing pop hits, jazz […]

(NEW YORK) -- After his home was raided by cops last year, despite no criminal charges, rapper Afroman said he decided to turn his emotions over the incident into his art. "The best thing I came up with was to write songs about my experience and try to sell them and make some money to pay for the destruction that they brought to my house," the "Because I Got High" […]

courtesy of Live Nation It looks like a lot of fans made sure they saw Dead & Company on what was billed as their Final Tour. The Grateful Dead offshoot has been touring for eight years, and as Billboard reports, this trek, which wrapped July 14-16 at San Francisco’s Oracle Park, saw them bring in their best grosses and attendance numbers. The tour grossed more than $115 million and sold over 840,000 tickets. Since the band's inception in 2015, they've […]

Sony Music Roger Waters appears to be teasing his remake of Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon. Waters revealed he was rerecording the 1973 album back in February, and now, he’s shared a snippet of some music on Instagram alongside a video that reads “DSOTM” and “REDUX.” The short song clip appears to be the buildup to the album’s final song, “Eclipse.”  This isn’t the first time Waters has shared a tease […]

On This Day, July 20, 1975… Ahead of the release of his third studio album, Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen launched a new tour at the Palace Theater in Providence, Rhode Island.  The show marked Steve Van Zandt’s first official gig as a member of the E Street Band and also the live debut of the future classic “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” Other songs in the set included "Born To Run," “Thunder Road,” “Rosalita” and more. Born To […]

(NEW YORK) -- The virus lab at the heart of the contentious debate around COVID-19’s origins has been cut off from U.S. funding opportunities for likely violating National Institutes of Health's biosafety rules, according to a memo shared with ABC News. The Department of Health and Human Services has suspended the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s access to federal funding, and proposed banning them longer-term after the lab failed to provide […]