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Andy Summers performs onstage during 100 Years of Leica: Witness to a Century at The Whitney Museum on May 02, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Leica Camera USA) The Police’s Andy Summers is taking his guitar on a global trek.Variety reports that Summers will star in a new eight-part docuseries, Global Guitar, that will have the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer traveling around the world to learn about the […]

Singer David Bowie stands backstage at The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Tribute to Susan Sarandon at Avery Fisher Hall May 5, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images) David Bowie was working on a new musical when he died in 2016, according to the BBC.Handwritten notes on the project, called The Spectator, were donated to the V&A Museum, along with the rest of Bowie’s archives. They describe the show as an […]

Cover of Led Zeppelin's 'Live E.P.'/(Atlantic Records) As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of their album Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin is releasing a new live EP, titled Live E.P., and now they’ve shared another preview.The band just dropped a video for “In My Time of Dying,” featuring archival footage of their performance at London’s Earls Court in May 1975. The band previously shared a performance of “Trampled Underfoot,” also from Earls Court.Live E.P. includes four live Led […]

Cover of The Who's 'Who Are You'/(UMe) The Who is giving fans a preview of the bonus material that will be featured on the upcoming Who Are You super-deluxe edition, dropping Oct. 31.The band has shared a previously unheard version of the track “New Song,” which is an early take on the tune featuring Pete Townshend laying down guide vocals for Roger Daltrey. The track is newly mixed by producer Steve Wilson.“New Song (Pete Vocal Version)” is available […]

On This Day, Sept. 5, 1981 ...Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks topped the chart with her debut solo album, Bella Donna, which was produced by Tom Petty and Jimmy Iovine.The album featured four hit singles, the highest-charting one being “Stop Draggin My Heart Around,” a Petty-penned track, which she recorded with him and the Heartbreakers. The song peaked at #3.The other hits included “Leather and Lace,” a duet with Don Henley, which peaked at #6; “Edge of Seventeen,” which hit #11; […]

Cover of Eric Clapton's 'Journeyman' deluxe edition/ (Bushbranch/Surfdog Records) Eric Clapton is revisiting his 1989 album Journeyman.The three time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is set to release Journeyman: Deluxe Edition on Nov. 21, featuring a remastered version of the original album, along with four new bonus tracks, three of which are from the original Journeyman recording sessions.One of those bonus tracks is the just released “Forever,” written by Jerry Williams, which is out now via digital […]

2025 MTV VMA logo. (Courtesy MTV) Yungblud will perform alongside Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry in tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.The set, which will also feature Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, will include a medley of the Prince of Darkness' greatest hits, according to a press release.The 2025 MTV VMAs will air live coast-to-coast Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and […]

Peter Frampton and Warren Haynes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art / (Photo Credit: Jim Belmont) Guitar great Peter Frampton takes center stage for the latest installment in the public television series The Art of Music. The episode was filmed in front of a live audience at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Frampton is interviewed by Gov’t Mule founder Warren Haynes in the episode, with the pair teaming up […]

Sir Paul McCartney performs at The O2 Arena during his 'Got Back' world tour on December 18, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images) Back in February 2024, Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner bass was returned to him after over 50 years, and now the story of how that happened will be told in a new documentary.According to Variety, the mystery of the missing instrument will be the subject of the new doc The Beatle […]