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Photo credit: Kamal Asar A new musical featuring the music of Foreigner is set to open next year in Long Island, New York.Feels Like The First Time – The Foreigner Musical is a collaboration between the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Long Island University’s Post Theatre Company, featuring 14 of the band’s iconic hits.Rent star Adam Pascal, who is the inaugural […]

On This Day, May 8, 1970 ...One month after they broke up, The Beatles released their 12th and final studio album, Let It Be.Although released after the split, Let It Be was actually recorded before their previous album Abbey Road, which was released in September 1969.Let It Be spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Albums chart, thanks to future Beatles classics like the title track, "Get Back," "The […]

ABC/Nicole Wilder; ABC Eddie Vedder gave Jack White a nice shoutout during Pearl Jam's show in Nashville on Tuesday.In footage from the concert, Vedder tells the crowd that he's playing the "Seven Nation Army" rocker's signature Fender TripleSonic guitar, which White had personally given to him."He's just a great human," Vedder said of White.Speaking on White's Third Man Records label, Vedder continued, "You wanna know the secret between having a […]

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Barry Keoghan is set to play Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes' four films about The Beatles and the actor revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he’s met the legendary rock drummer, sharing that he was "absolutely lovely.""I met Ringo the other day. I met him at his house, and he played the drums for me," the Saltburn star said. "He asked me to play, but I wasn't playing […]

As speculated, The Who has announced dates for a new 2025 tour, which will be their final North American trek.The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour, named after a song on their 1971 album Who’s Next, will kick off Aug. 16 in Sunrise, Florida, and hit such big cities as Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and New York, before wrapping Sept. 28 in Las Vegas.The Who's Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey announced the […]

An exhibit of Bob Dylan’s artwork is set to open at London’s Halcyon Gallery on Friday.The exhibit, Point Blank, will feature 97 paintings by the "Like A Rolling Stone" singer. The description notes that they "read like a glimpse into his visual journey," adding, "[T]hey are a masterful expression of a dynamic imagination, emphasized via the eclectic swathe of subjects depicted."The exhibit will feature works that started out as Dylan sketches, created between […]

Frontiers Music Srl Lynyrd Skynyrd has shared a live recording of their classic tune “Sweet Home Alabama.”The performance is taken from Celebrating 50 Years – Live At The Ryman, a special live album and DVD of the band’s historic 50th anniversary concert, which took place in November 2022.“Sweet Home Alabama (Live)” is available now via digital outlets.The Ryman concert was filmed before the 2023 loss of Gary Rossington, the last […]

Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage) The writers of Sam Mendes’ upcoming films about The Beatles have just been revealed.Variety reports that three writers have been hired for the four films: Jez Butterworth, whose resume includes Ford v Ferrari, Edge of Tomorrow and Spectre; Peter Straughan, who won the Oscar this year for writing Conclave; and Jack Thorne, a BAFTA and Tony Award winner who wrote the 2020 film Enola Holmes and the play Harry Potter and the Cursed […]

Matthew Baker/Getty Images The Who appear to have something brewing.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers shared a cryptic post on Instagram Wednesday, writing, “Stay tuned… in 24-hrs we’ll be answering your questions!” They then asked fans to drop questions in the comments.While the post doesn’t offer any more details, The Who is set to hold a press event in London on Thursday, which will include a "special announcement followed by an exclusive […]