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Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Legendary rock band the Grateful Dead will be the subject of another course at Stanford University this spring.Composition, Interpretation, and Improvisation: The Music of the Grateful Dead, part of Stanford Continuing Studies, is a six-week course running from April 8 to May 13. It's taught by David Gans, producer and host of the nationally syndicated Grateful Dead Hour.According to the description, the course “offers a […]

Courtesy Bleufeu Rod Stewart and Def Leppard are among the artists set to headline Festival d'Été de Québec, an 11-day music festival held July 3-13 in the heart of Quebec City, Canada.Stewart is set to open the festival on July 3, while Def Leppard is booked for July 6.George Thorogood and the Destroyers are also on the bill, performing July 5 ahead of headliner Benson Boone.The festival, whose name translates simply […]

Dark Horse Records Billy Idol is back with new music.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee just released the new tune “Still Dancing,” the first single off his upcoming album, Dream Into It, which will be released April 25.“‘Still Dancing’ is really a reflection of my whole journey,” Idol shares. “From the punk rockperiod through to now. And I’m still looking towards the future, still living the life I set […]

Photo by Mary McCartney Paul McCartney has written another book.The Beatles legend is set to release Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which is described as “a landmark account" of the rocker's "triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the subsequent rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bands.”The book, edited by historian Ted Widmer, is culled from interviews with McCartney and other important players in […]

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Kurt Cobain's hair is up for auction again.Two strands that were once attached to the late Nirvana frontman's head are going under the hammer via Potter & Potter Auctions as part of its Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen sale. According to the lot description, the hairs were collected by barber Tess Osbourne while giving Cobain a haircut in 1989. She then gave them to a friend of Cobain's, Nicole DePolo.Cobain hair […]

Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing The 1972 concert film of Pink Floyd playing Pompeii is returning to theaters.The newly restored Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII will be released in select theaters and IMAX on April 24. It is a recording of their October 1971 performance at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Italy, which was the first live concert ever to take place at the site. The film also features […]

ABC/Randy Holmes A Dave Grohl-signed guitar sold for over $50,000 at the Give a Frock charity auction, which raised money for Los Angeles wildfire relief.The signature Pelham blue Epiphone DG-335 brought in a total of $50,800, 25 times its $2,000 estimate. In addition to featuring Grohl's signature, the guitar was adorned with his handwritten lyrics to the Foo Fighters songs "Rescued" and "These Days."Other items that sold in the auction were the […]

On This Day, Feb. 26, 1995…Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant kicked off a tour together in Pensacola, Florida.The tour followed the November 1994 release of the joint album, No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded.The album was a recording of the duo's MTV Unledded special, which was filmed in London and Wales and aired in October of that year. It featured orchestrations of Led Zeppelin tunes, with the […]

courtesy of Apple TV+ Folks who didn’t get to catch Bono’s Stories of Surrender book tour will finally get a chance to see what they missed.Apple TV+ is set to air the new documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender, on May 30. The doc will feature what’s described as a “reimagining” of the U2 frontman’s one-man stage show, Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief, which coincided with the release of his […]