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Frontiers Music Srl Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch has released a new song from his upcoming album with his new band, The Speaker Wars.The group — made up of Lynch, singer-songwriter Jon Christopher Davis, Jay Michael Smith on guitar, Brian Patterson on bass, Steve Ritter on percussion and Jay Brown on keyboards — just dropped a video for the new single "It Ain’t Easy."The track is the second tune released from […]

Disney/Randy Holmes Back in February, The Beatles won a Grammy for best rock performance for their single “Now and Then.”  And the win was a very special one for Ringo Starr.“I didn’t expect to win, but it was great,” Ringo tells People. “It just felt like John (Lennon) was with us.”The win came 55 years after The Beatles broke up. It marked the band’s first Grammy win since 1997, when […]

Ethan Miller/Getty Images Former Guns N' Roses drummer Frank Ferrer is speaking out following the recent announcement that he’s departing the band after playing with them for the last 19 years.“The outpouring of love I have felt from the incredible fans of Guns N’ Roses and my peers over the past 24 hours has been tremendous,” he shares on Instagram. He adds that while he has “immense gratitude and love always” […]

MPL/UMe The 50th anniversary reissue of Venus and Mars, the 1975 album from Paul McCartney's band Wings, is out now. To mark the release they’ve shared some new performance clips of songs from the record.The videos are for the tracks “Letting Go” and “Rock Show,” which have now been remastered in 4K. Both clips were recorded during the 1975 Wings Over The World tour and feature Paul, his late wife Linda McCartney, […]

Mercury Records/Warner Bros. Records Dire Straits is set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their hit album Brothers in Arms with a new reissue.Brothers in Arms 40th Anniversary Edition will be released May 16 as a five-LP or three-CD set. It features the original album, along with a 14-track previously unreleased concert recorded at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, during their Live in 85 tour.As a preview of the live album, […]

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Jack Black has released a new song called "I Feel Alive" featuring Dave Grohl on drums.The track was recorded for the soundtrack to A Minecraft Movie, which stars the Tenacious D frontman alongside Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks and Emma Myers."I Feel Alive" also features guitar by Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen. You can listen to it now via digital outlets and watch its lyric video on […]

Cinema Music Group/Killphonic Records The music of Neil Young is being celebrated on an upcoming tribute album, and now we have another preview.Two new tracks from Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young have jut been released: a cover of the “The Needle and the Damage Done” from Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and Stephen Marley’s take on “Old Man.” Both songs originally appeared on Young’s 1972 album, Harvest.You can listen to “The […]

On This Day, March 21, 1994…Bruce Springsteen added an Oscar to his trophy case, winning the Academy Award for best original song for “Streets of Philadelphia,” which he wrote for the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia. The tune was one of two tracks from the movie to be nominated, the other being “Philadelphia” by Neil Young.Philadelphia was one of the earliest mainstream films to deal with the HIV/AIDS crisis, and won […]

Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images Neil Young is no longer planning to play a free concert in Ukraine.In early March, Young announced that he and his band The Chrome Hearts were in talks to open their love earth tour with the free concert, although he didn't announce a date or exact location for the show. Well, now he says the show is canceled due to safety concerns.“We had a good venue, close to a shelter, […]