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ABC/Randy Holmes Lenny Kravitz is featured in a new campaign for YSL Beauty's fragrance Y Le Parfum.Lenny is seen in the clip walking onstage, shirtless of course, then it cuts to a snake slithering near his neck, before he straps on a guitar and takes the stage in front of a group of fans.“Your path to success begins when you embrace your why,” Lenny says in the clip. “When you master your passion and dare to show why.”The […]

Disney/Randy Holmes Ringo Starr is returning to Las Vegas.The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and his All Starr Band – Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men at Work’s Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart and Gregg Bissonette – have announced a new set of shows at the Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort.The latest residency consists of six shows, starting Sept. 17 and wrapping Sept. 24.Various presales kick off Tuesday […]

Linda D. Robbins/Getty Images Blondie’s Debbie Harry is one of the many artists paying tribute to the late David Johansen, lead singer and last surviving original member of the proto-glam-punk band New York Dolls, who passed away Friday at 75.“One of my favorite things was to go see the New York Dolls. They were so exciting to watch. They were a real rock band,” Harry wrote, noting how “they were so […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Crossroads Guitar Festival Eric Clapton will hit the road in September for a limited run of U.S. tour dates.The trek, featuring special guests The Wallflowers, will kick off Sept. 8 in Nashville and will hit Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston and New York before wrapping Sept. 20 in Uncasville, Connecticut.Local presales for tickets begin Thursday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at […]

Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images Neil Young is adding a new show to his upcoming European tour.The rocker announced on his Neil Young Archives website that he and his band the Chrome Hearts plan to open their upcoming love earth tour with a free concert in Ukraine.He added that they are currently in talks for the show and it will be officially announced on the site, ending the post with “Keep on Rockin’ in the […]

On This Day, March 3, 2009...U2 released their 12th studio album No Line on the Horizon in North America.The album was released five years after their previous release, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which up until then, marked the longest break between albums for the band.To promote the record, U2 performed for five consecutive nights on The Late Show with David Letterman. It was the first time ever an artist […]

Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for ABA When Conan O’Brien and Mick Jagger joked that Bob Dylan was invited to present at the Oscars they apparently weren't joking.According to The Hollywood Reporter, producers did in fact invite the "Like a Rolling Stone" singer to not only to present but to perform as well, but he passed.During Conan’s opening monologue he was talking about A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet, and cracked that he “is nominated […]

MPL/UMe Paul McCartney’s band Wings is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fourth studio album, Venus and Mars, with a new reissue, and now McCartney is reminiscing about the record.In a Q&A posted to his website, McCartney shares that they initially titled the album after a song on the record, but it soon took on a different meaning.“We only meant the planets, but then we had a great party on the […]

Oscar nominees Brandi Carlile and Elton John; John Shearer/97th Oscars/The Academy via Getty Images Elton John lost his shot at his third best original song Oscar Sunday night at the 97th Academy Awards.Elton was nominated for "Never Too Late," from his Disney+ documentary of the same name. Elton's friend Brandi Carlile started writing the song after seeing a rough cut of the documentary, and it impressed him so much that […]