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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A live bootleg of a classic Tom Petty concert is being released in late November. The Petty estate has teamed with Jack White's Third Man Records to release Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Live In Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes, a concert taken from a bootleg recording by sound mixer Gennaro Rioppo."This rare recording has not been touched since the day it was captured," reads the announcement on Petty's […]

Lorne Thomson/Redferns) Elvis Costello and longtime collaborator Steve Nieve will hit the stage together for a new tour next year.The duo will play 15 U.S. dates, starting off Feb. 19 in Easton, Pennsylvania, with the tour hitting such cities as Woodstock, New York; Port Chester, New York; and Ann Arbor, Michigan. It will wrap with a three-night stand in Chicago.For the Chicago shows, Costello and Nieve will be joined by Eleanor […]

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images We’re finally going to get the definitive story of Fleetwood Mac straight from the band's mouth. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are going to be the subject of a new documentary, which has the backing of the band.Apple Original Films is behind the "fully authorized" documentary, directed by five-time Academy Award nominee Frank Marshall. According to the description, it will be the first time the band […]

Fat Possum Records Legendary soul singer Al Green is back with a new song, dropping a cover of the R.E.M. classic “Everybody Hurts.”“While we were in the studio recording ‘Everybody Hurts,’ I could really feel the heaviness of the song and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it,” the 78-year-old Green shares. “There’s always a presence of light that can break through those times of […]

On This Day, Nov. 19, 1988 ...Bon Jovi topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “Bad Medicine,” the lead single from their fourth album, New Jersey.The song, written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, was the band’s third #1 single following the Slippery When Wet tracks “You Give Love A Bad Name” and “Living On A Prayer,” which were also written by the trio. “Bad Medicine” spent two weeks at #1 in […]

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures While the upcoming Bob Dylan flick A Complete Unknown is not a straight biopic, director James Mangold says Dylan did have input in the film, although he wasn't exactly fact-checking the project.Mangold tells Rolling Stone that he met with the rock icon several times before filming began, noting, “I felt like Bob just wanted to know what I was up to. ‘Who is this guy? Is he […]

Mercury Studios The Rolling Stones have shared a new preview of their upcoming live release, Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush, dropping Dec. 6.Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush is a recording of the band’s June 8, 1999, London club show, and they just shared a video of their performance of the Voodoo Lounge track “You Got Me Rocking."The Shepherd’s Bush concert was a “secret gig” The Stones headlined just a few days before they played two sold-out shows at […]

Little, Brown Former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf is the latest musician revealing his story on the page.The rocker, best known for such songs as “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold,” has written his first-ever memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters Grifters and Goddesses, which will be released March 11.According to a press release, in the book Wolf will share “a treasure trove of vignettes, musings and recollections of his fascinating life […]

Disney/Randy Holmes In a very full-circle moment, Billy Corgan could end up winning the handwritten lyrics to the Hole song "Violet."As previously reported, Courtney Love contributed the lyrics to a raffle benefiting Ellis Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia founded by Warren Ellis of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As for why Corgan would be interested, "Violet" has long been thought to have been about Love's relationship with the Smashing Pumpkins […]