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Courtesy of Good Music; Artwork by Cleon Peterson The 90-track compilation album Good Music to Lift Los Angeles raised $275,000 in just 24 hours to help those affected by the California wildfires.The album featured previously unreleased recordings, including covers, remixes, live tracks and unreleased demos. One such song was a previously unreleased R.E.M. live recording of the New Adventures in Hi-Fi song “Electrolite,” from the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 6, 1999.The album also […]

Courtesy of Jason Bonham Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, Physical Graffiti, and drummer Jason Bonham, son of the band’s late drummer John Bonham, is planning to celebrate the milestone on the road.Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening will kick off a new tour in May focusing on the classic album, the first time the band has done a tour specifically around one record. The trek, dubbed An Evening […]

Paras Griffin/Getty Images Def Leppard is set to headline Ottawa Bluesfest, a nine-day festival that runs July 10-13 and July 16-20.The “Hysteria” rockers will headline the July 16 bill that also features Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, The Decemberists and more.Other headliners include Green Day, Hozier, Shania Twain, Lainey Wilson and Papa Roach.Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.For the […]

ABC Tuesday would have been the late George Harrison’s 82nd birthday, and he was on the minds of some of his rock star friends, who paid tribute to him on social media.The Beatles’ official social media accounts shared a video set to Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” to mark the occasion, while bandmate Paul McCartney posted a black-and-white photo of the two of them together with the caption, “Time to celebrate my […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Lenny Kravitz and Devo are among the artists booked to play the 12th edition of Shaky Knees Music Festival, taking place Sept. 19-21 at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.The festival will be headlined by The Deftones, My Chemical Romance and blink-182, with the lineup also featuring 4 Non Blondes, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Alabama Shakes, Sublime, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend and more.A presale begins Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.For […]

Courtesy of Light Up the Blues Stephen Stills and Neil Young are set to perform together at the upcoming Light Up The Blues fundraiser for Autism Speaks.The show, hosted by Stills and his wife, Kristen, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Autism Speaks, which is “dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.”The show will be held April 26 at the Greek Theatre […]

Silver Arrow Records The Black Crowes and Jimmy Page have shared another track from their upcoming 25th anniversary rerelease of Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek.The latest is a soundcheck performance of the Led Zeppelin tune “The Lemon Song." It is one of five soundcheck recordings featured in the package. The others include “Custard Pie,” “You Shook Me,” “Ten Years Gone” and “Jam,” a song Page and The Crowes' […]

Disney/Eric McCandless A new documentary on Ozzy Osbourne titled No Escape from Now is set to premiere later in 2025 on Paramount+.The feature-length project will focus on how the Prince of Darkness has dealt with a myriad of health issues in recent years, including being diagnosed with Parkinson's and suffering a fall in his home in 2019, which required multiple surgeries and has kept him from performing a full live concert for […]

Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Elton John, Paul McCartney and The Who's Pete Townshend are among the artists who’ve signed an open letter published in The Times calling out plans to change U.K. copyright laws to benefit AI companies.The letter contends that the planned changes “represent a wholesale giveaway of rights and income from the U.K. creative sectors to big tech.” As The Times notes, the changes would allow these companies to “use copyrighted works to train […]