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Poster for 'It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley'/Magnolia Pictures Director Amy Berg’s new documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is hitting theaters Friday, and it’s been a long time coming.The director has been interested in making a doc about the late artist Jeff Buckley since 2006, telling ABC Audio that she was a fan of his critically acclaimed debut album, Grace."I just loved the album and I felt there was an enigma about Jeff that just kind of […]

Artwork for 'Beat Live'/InsideOut Music Another track has just been released from the upcoming album Beat Live, which captures a performance from the 2024 BEAT tour featuring former King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, guitar great Steve Vai and Tool drummer Danny Carey.The tour had the four artists celebrating the '80s-era music of King Crimson, reinterpreting three of the band’s albums – 1981’s Discipline, 1982’s Beat and 1984’s Three of a Perfect Pair – which were also the first three to feature Belew and Levin.The […]

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' ABC/Randy Holmes Songs by artists including Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and Green Day are featured on the soundtrack for Madden NFL 26, the latest edition in the long-running football video game series.Among the included tracks are the Foos' "The Pretender," LP's "The Emptiness Machine" and Green Day's "Basket Case," as well songs by Twenty One Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, 311, Beastie Boys, […]

Randy Bachman, 2012 inductee, and Burton Cummings, 2011 inductee perform at the Canada's Walk Of Fame Fundraising Event Music Under The City Stars held at Casa Loma on July 18, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. Photo by George Pimentel/Getty Images Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have announced another show as The Guess Who.The two original members of the band — responsible for writing some of their biggest hits, including "These Eyes" and "American Woman" — announced […]

Artwork for Peter Gabriel 'Live at WOMAD 1982/Credit: Peter Gabriel LTD. In 1982, Peter Gabriel launched the WOMAD Festival, which stood for World of Music, Arts and Dance, and now he’s revisiting one of his performances for a new digital album.The very first WOMAD Festival took place in Somerset, England, and featured 60 bands from over 20 countries. The new album, Live at WOMAD 1982, features a recording of Gabriel’s Friday night set. It included seven […]

Singer Brian Wilson founding member of the classic rock band The Beach Boys, perform onstage at The Forum on June 09, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, who passed away in June at the age of 82, has been laid to rest, according to an Instagram post by one of his daughters, Wilson Phillips singer Carnie Wilson. "Today we laid my Daddy to rest," she shared on Wednesday. "It […]

On This Day, Aug. 7, 1987 ...Lindsey Buckingham quit Fleetwood Mac, one day after a contentious group meeting at Christine McVie’s house led to a physical altercation between him and Stevie Nicks.With a tour starting in a month, the band replaced Lindsey with Billy Burnette and Rick Vito and hit the road for the Shake the Cage Tour.Buckingham would eventually return to Fleetwood Mac when they reunited in 1993 to perform “Don’t Stop” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration. They […]

Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath, London, 7th May 2010. Mick Hutson/Redferns Back in 2022, the BBC announced a new reality series called Home to Roost, which was set to follow Ozzy Osbourne's move back to the U.K. Now, following the metal icon's death on July 22, the project has been reworked into a a standalone documentary film, Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home.A press release describes Coming Home as a "moving and inspirational account of […]

Cover of The Alan Parsons Projects' 'I, Robot'/ Arista Records The Alan Parsons Project is set to reissue their sophomore album I, Robot, which was inspired by Isaac Asimov's science fiction stories exploring themes of artificial intelligence.The album will be reissued in a variety of formats on Oct. 17, including a super deluxe box set with four CDs, a remastered version of the album done at Abbey Road Studios and 70 bonus tracks, 47 of which have […]