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Disney/Eric McCandless A new documentary on Ozzy Osbourne titled No Escape from Now is set to premiere later in 2025 on Paramount+.The feature-length project will focus on how the Prince of Darkness has dealt with a myriad of health issues in recent years, including being diagnosed with Parkinson's and suffering a fall in his home in 2019, which required multiple surgeries and has kept him from performing a full live concert for […]

Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Elton John, Paul McCartney and The Who's Pete Townshend are among the artists who’ve signed an open letter published in The Times calling out plans to change U.K. copyright laws to benefit AI companies.The letter contends that the planned changes “represent a wholesale giveaway of rights and income from the U.K. creative sectors to big tech.” As The Times notes, the changes would allow these companies to “use copyrighted works to train […]

On This Day, Feb. 25, 1984…Van Halen hit #1 with the track “Jump” off their sixth studio album, 1984. The song was the rock band’s only #1 single.The tune’s popularity was aided by its music video, which was a staple on MTV. The clip, directed by Pete Angelus and Roth, was a performance video, that wound up nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards, winning best stage performance.The track was […]

Express Newspapers/Getty Images The success of A Complete Unknown continues to shine a spotlight on the career of Bob Dylan, and now a new auction is giving fans a chance to own a piece of memorabilia from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.RR Auction recently launched a new Dylan-themed auction featuring over 70 items, including a recording of one of his earliest demos, circa 1961. The demo, recorded live […]

Ethan Miller/Getty Images RATT frontman Stephen Pearcy and lead guitarist Warren DeMartini have added another show to their upcoming reunion.The duo is already set to headline the annual M3 Rock Festival, which takes place May 2-4 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Now they’ve added a show ahead of the festival.They'll now headline the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on April 5. Ticket go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.These shows are the […]

Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Elton John's concert at LA's Dodger Stadium in 2022 was billed as his final North American show — except for the fact that he'll be rocking a different stadium in California this spring.Elton will do a one-night-only benefit concert at San Diego's Petco Park on May 9; tickets for the show go on sale March 7. It's the latest installment of an annual event called Concert for Cures, […]

Photo Credit: Shimon Karmel Bachman Turner-Overdrive has announced dates for their new Roll On Down The Highway 2025 tour.The tour will consist of nine co-headlining shows with The Marshall Tucker Band, with Jefferson Starship as special guest, and another nine shows with the “Taking Care of Business” rockers as the sole headliner.The tour kicks off July 18 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with their final show with The Marshall Tucker Band Aug. […]

Disney/Randy Holmes The Beatles' Ringo Starr made his Grand Ole Opry debut over the weekend.The rocker performed at the Nashville institution on Friday, coming onto the stage in a big white cowboy hat, like the one he wears on the cover of his recently released country album, Look Up.“As you may have noticed I’m dressed up a bit tonight,” Ringo told the audience, as seen in fan-shot video posted to YouTube. “I’m a […]

ABC/Randy Holmes U2 has marked the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the release of a reading set to a piano piece.In a post on Instagram, Bono shares that the song and reading of the poem, “My Friendly Epistle” by 19th century poet Taras Shevchenko, is one he and The Edge sent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just after the invasion began. He notes that Shevchenko is a poet who “defined ‘Ukrainian-ness’ for so […]