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Big Machine Label Group Back in 2014, a group of country artists got together to celebrate the music of Mötley Crüe with the album Nashville Outlaws. Now the band is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the record with a new reissue.Nashville Outlaws 10th Anniversary Edition is out now, featuring all the country covers on the original album, along with the addition of their latest single, “Dogs of War,” covered by Chase […]

Taylor Hill/WireImage Bruce Springsteen has treated fans to another edition of his Live Series. The latest is a 15-track playlist titled Songs of Conscience, which is now on Spotify. The playlist features performances that range from 1981 to 2023, including such songs as “This Land is Your Land,” “Promised Land,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Souls of the Departed,” “Long Walk Home,” “The Rising,” “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” “Sun City,” “American […]

Capitol/UMe The Beach Boys' classic holiday album is getting a special reissue for its 60th anniversary.The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album will be released Nov. 8 as a special limited-edition numbered LP on zoetrope vinyl, which comes with a special 7-inch translucent ruby red vinyl of the holiday tracks “Little Saint Nick” and “Auld Lang Syne.” The 7-inch will also be available separately on ice blue vinyl. Released in 1964, The Beach Boys’ Christmas […]

Matthew Eisman/Getty Images Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has contributed guitar to a new take of the band’s classic tune “Comfortably Numb,” from Ice T’s heavy metal group Body Count.“Body Count's version of 'Comfortably Numb' is quite radical, but the words really struck me,” Gilmour shares. “It astonishes me that a tune I wrote almost 50 years ago is back with this great new approach. They've made it relevant again.”He adds, […]

On This Day, Sept. 20, 1969 ...John Lennon privately informed Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr that he was leaving The Beatles, although the news was initially kept quiet, as the band was about to sign a new recording contract. McCartney then publicly announced his own departure in April 1970 as he released his debut solo album, angering Lennon, who later shared, “I started the band. I disbanded it. It's as simple as […]

Bushbranch/Surfdog Records Eric Clapton is ready to share some new music with fans.The three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced he'll be releasing a new studio album, Meanwhile, digitally on Oct. 4 and on CD and vinyl Jan. 24.The album is made up of six new songs and eight previously released tunes, and features guest appearances by the late Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, Bradley Walker, Judith Hill, Daniel Santiago and Simon […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images AXS TV has planned an October filled with concerts from some of the biggest names in rock music, including Bruce Springsteen, Def Leppard, Fleetwood Mac and Aerosmith. The Springsteen concert, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Darkness on the Edge of Town at the Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, will air Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. and has the band performing The Boss’ 1978 album in its entirety in the […]

Dave J Hogan/Getty Images A photo exhibit featuring images taken by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein is set to open Friday at The Gallery at the Soho Grand Hotel in New York City.As a photographer, Stein captured images of the early New York punk scene, and the exhibit, Chris Stein: Under a Rock, features photos of iconic artists like Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry, the Romanes, Patti Smith, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and more.The exhibit, […]

Gareth Davies/Getty Images David Bowie and Mick Jagger wanted to star in a murder mystery film together, U.K. screenwriter Lynda La Plante shares in her new book, Getting Away with Murder.The Mirror shared an excerpt from the book, in which La Plante says that after the success of her series Prime Suspect in the early '90s, she was contacted about meeting the two rock stars to discuss their ideas for what was described as “a crime […]