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Candid Records Carlos Santana is set to release the new career-spanning album Sentient, featuring 11 tracks, including three previously unreleased songs.The album, dropping March 28, features collaborations with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Italian pianist Paolo Rustichelli, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Cindy Blackman Santana.“I’m always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct,” says Santana. “When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, ‘Why don’t we […]

On This Day, Feb. 21, 1990 ...At the 32nd annual Grammy Awards, Bonnie Raitt took home four awards, including album of the year for Nick of Time.She also won for best female pop vocal performance and best female rock vocal performance for the album’s title track, as well as best traditional blues recording for her John Lee Hooker collaboration “I’m in the Mood.”Raitt won her most recent Grammys in 2023, […]

Sony Music Not every album from your favorite artist will necessarily be a winner, and now Mojo is singling out some of those disappointments.The magazine just released a list of what it's calling “the 20 most disappointing albums ever,” although it tries to make the case for why they aren’t so bad.“Every major artist has at least one album that critics and fans routinely dismiss,” it writes. “Yet sometimes they’re records we […]

Scott Legato/Getty Images Peter Gabriel has revealed that he’s already working on a new album, which will be the follow-up to 2023’s i/o.In an interview with Mojo, the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer discussed the new project, sharing, “It will be called o/i ... that’s i/o backwards.”Gabriel released i/o over the course of 2023, dropping a song a month, with the complete 12-track album officially dropping in December of […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images Paul McCartney is reminiscing about his busy time in New York.The Beatles legend headlined three intimate club shows at the Bowery Ballroom, Feb. 11, Feb. 12 and Feb. 14, then closed SNL50: The Anniversary Special Sunday night. He just posted a carousel of photos from both on Instagram.“We had a fabulous week in New York with three small gigs leading to the 50th anniversary show of […]

Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Steve Miller is taking part in a new cover of his classic tune “Fly Like an Eagle.”The new take on the song was released by Playing For Change, a multimedia project that aims to connect the world through music. It was released in conjunction with World Day of Social Justice and features artists from five different countries, including New Orleans musician Ivan Neville.“So […]

Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images The 2025 Rock for Ronnie benefit concert, held in memory of late metal icon Ronnie James Dio, has been announced.The show takes place May 18 at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. Sebastian Bach will headline."The Autry Museum park is a beautiful setting for Rock for Ronnie with plenty of room for the event to grow in future years," says Ronnie's widow, Wendy Dio. "It will be an […]

Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images The late Phil Lesh is being honored with his very own street in Port Chester, New York.The corner of Westchester Avenue and Broad Street, right outside the historic Capitol Theatre, will be renamed Phil Lesh Lane on March 14, which would have been the Grateful Dead bassist’s 85th birthday.Lesh has a strong connection to the Capitol Theatre. Following its reopening in 2012 he played 106 performances at […]

Rick Kern/WireImage Bad Company – former Free members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, along with Mick Ralphs and the late Boz Burrell – is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, and the honor is being celebrated with a new tribute album.Can’t Get Enough: The Music of Bad Company, coming this fall, will feature a yet-to-be-announced lineup of artists covering the group’s biggest hits, including “Feel […]