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Terry Luttrell 1977/Paul Natkin/Getty Images REO Speedwagon’s original frontman Terry Luttrell is recuperating in the hospital after wrecking his car on the way home from an REO Speedwagon reunion event Saturday in the band's hometown of Champaign, Illinois.Luttrell tells The News-Gazette that he fell asleep at the wheel after getting little sleep following the band's performance at the State Farm Center."It just happened," Luttrell said. "I nodded off. I rolled the car […]

Rick Diamond/WireImage The Police’s Sting and Andy Summers have reunited for a new cover of the band's tune "Murder by Numbers."The former bandmates, who last played together during The Police’s 2007-08 reunion tour, both appear on a new version of the track. It was recorded by big band bassist Christian McBride for his upcoming album, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1., due out Aug. 29."I am absolutely thrilled to have Sting and Andy […]

Matthew Baker/Getty Images Bob Dylan appears on Barbra Streisand’s upcoming duets album, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, and apparently their collaboration was a long time in the making.Dylan previously said he wrote the song "Lay Lady Lay" for her to sing and had reached out about them singing together. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Babs talks about that early connection with Dylan."The fun thing is that […]

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Liquid Death may be going off the rails with its latest collaboration.Known primarily for selling canned water, Liquid Death is also the company behind the Pit Diaper and the Travis Barker signature enema kit. Now, it's announced Infinitely Recyclable Ozzy — cans of Liquid Death iced tea featuring the actual DNA of Ozzy Osbourne.As a commercial explains, the Prince of […]

ABC/ Heidi Gutman Paul McCartney has gotten a shoutout from Beyoncé.Beyoncé wrapped up a six-night stand of her Cowboy Carter tour in London on Monday and took to Instagram to thank McCartney for writing The Beatles track "Blackbird," which she covers."Thank you, Sir Paul McCartney, for writing one of the best songs ever made," she wrote. "Every time I sing it I feel so honored."The post included pictures of Bey in one […]

Mark Seliger/20th Century Studios We’re finally going to get our first look at the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring The Bear's Jeremy Allen White as The Boss and Jeremy Strong as his manager, Jon Landau.Twentieth Century Studios shared a teaser on Instagram, announcing that the trailer for the film will be out on Wednesday.The teaser shows someone loading a cassette labeled Colts Neck Demo into a player. When […]

On This Day, June 17, 1972 ...The Rolling Stones hit #1 with their double album Exile on Main St., which went on to spend four weeks on top of the chart.Recorded mostly in a villa in the South of France, where the band had moved to escape paying U.K. taxes, the album featured such classics as "Happy" featuring Keith Richards on vocals, "Tumbling Dice," "Rocks Off," "Rip This Joint" and […]

Credit: David Byrne. Courtesy of L-Acoustics for “The Art of Sound: Sound is Fundamental." Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is featured in a new three-part documentary series The Art of Sound, from L-Acoustics, a creator of professional audio technology.According to the press release, the series "merges scientific discovery with artistic insight to explore sound's fundamental role in human evolution and its continuing influence on our daily lives.""It's remarkable how much we […]

UMG Recordings After a hugely successful career as frontman of The Police, Sting launched his solo career 40 years ago Tuesday with the release of his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles.The album, named after a dream Sting had, saw the rocker embracing a jazzier sound and working with jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim and Kenny Kirkland, which is something Sting found very fulfilling."I was putting myself out […]