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Island Records/Interscope U2 is celebrating the release of their new album, Songs of Surrender, all around the world, and fans can be a part of it.  The band just announced what they are calling “40 songs, 40 cities,” which will run until Sunday, where fans can gather in 40 cities around the world to find “unique tributes to the 40 songs on the album.”  In addition, in each location fans will have access to exclusive merchandise, […]

Nappy Boy Entertainment The king of Auto-Tune is taking on the Prince of Darkness. T-Pain has released a cover of the Black Sabbath song "War Pigs." It appears on his newly released covers album On Top of the Covers, which finds the singer and rapper ditching his signature vocal effects to showcase his natural voice. For his take on "War Pigs," T-Pain belts out the iconic lyrics about "Generals gathered […]

Elektra Catalog Group Yes will not be bringing their Relayer tour overseas as planned. The band just announced they are postponing their European and U.K. tour “due to unforeseen circumstances beyond the band’s control.” “Yes and their management have explored every possible avenue to arrange insurance cover for the tour in the event of COVID-related exemption or Act of War exclusion,” reads a statement on their website. “The insurance industry has withdrawn all […]

Sam Tabone/WireImage Rod Stewart is holding steadfast to plans to perform in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, following a devastating cyclone that hit the area last month. Cyclone Gabrielle battered the region mid-February and has since been described as the most severe weather event in years. Stuff reports the legendary rocker remains committed to his original April 8 concert date, despite ongoing recovery efforts. Live Nation emailed a statement to the outlet, which said, "Our teams continue to […]

Van Halen’s sixth studio album, 1984, hit number two on the Billboard album chart and stayed there for five weeks. The album was denied the top spot by Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" – which features guest guitar work from Eddie Van Halen.  The album never reached number one, but did go on to sell more than 10 million copies. 1984 was the last Van Halen album to feature original frontman David Lee Roth, until 2012’s A Different Kind of Truth. It […]

Queen Production Ltd. Queen’s deep dive into their live performances continues with episode nine of Queen The Greatest Live taking a look at the importance of lighting in a show. The episode, “Under the Lights,” looks at the production that has gone into their tours, with Brian May and Roger Taylor sharing their thoughts on why lighting is such an important part of their stage show. “For that 2 1/2 hours that we're onstage, we are […]

Island Records/Interscope U2 fans have a lot to keep them busy this weekend. The band's new album, Songs of Surrender, is out now, featuring 40 rerecorded and reimagined U2 classics. The opening track is the Achtung Baby classic “One,” while the album closes, appropriately enough, with the War song “40.” Curated and produced by The Edge, each of the album's four parts are named after one of the band members. Each song on the album is a completely new recording, with new arrangements and […]

Mono Mundo Recordings/Thirty Tigers Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck guest on another new song from Cuban musician Hector Tellez Jr. The track is called "Where's My Phone" and is available now via digital outlets. Novoselic and Buck previously played with Tellez on the song "Silver Blue Jellyfish." The tracks were recorded during a session in Seattle produced by Barrett Martin, former drummer for Screaming Trees and the grunge […]

GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images U2's Bono and The Edge are out and proud fans of ABBA -- but they once viewed their music as "the National Anthem for young mothers." Speaking to BBC's The Radio 2 Piano Room, the rockers chatted about their love of the band and explained why they tried to hide it when they were younger. Bono recalled feeling a certain pressure to appear macho, and to do that, it meant consuming punk music […]