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On This Day, May 11, 1970...Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More was released.The live album featured performances from the movie documenting the iconic 1969 counterculture festival, which took place Aug. 15 - 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, about 60 miles from the town of Woodstock.The album included performances from Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joan Baez, The Who, Joe Cocker, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and […]

Billy Corgan performs with The Smashing Pumpkins in Milan, Italy, on July 30th, 2025 (Elena Di Vincenzo/Archivio Elena Di Vincenzo/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) Billy Corgan has announced a European tour dubbed A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness.The trek, which launches September in London, will celebrate the 1995 Smashing Pumpkins album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, "on the grandest scale possible." "Opera and rock both tell stories of heightened emotions," […]

The Beatles perform on rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters at 3 Saville Row from 'Get Back' (courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd)) Fans of The Beatles will have a new reason to plan a trip to London next year.It was just announced that 3 Savile Row, the early location of the band's Apple Corps headquarters, in Mayfair, London, will open its doors as the first-ever official Beatles fan experience.The Beatles at 3 […]

'The Boroughs' soundtrack (Legacy Recordings/Sony Music) Tracks from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Santana, Heart and more are featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming Netflix series The Boroughs, which premieres May 21 on the streaming service.Some of the songs featured on the soundtrack include Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run,” Santana’s “Oye Como Va,” Heart’s “Barracuda,” and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band’s “Night Moves.”There are also […]

L-R Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Alex Van Halen of Van Halen circa 1985 in Los Angeles, California. (photo by Ann Summa/Getty Images) In a 2025 interview with Rolling Stone, Sammy Hagar said that he hasn’t spoken to his Van Halen bandmate Alex Van Halen in 21 years. But that distance didn’t stop Sammy from wishing Alex a happy 73rd birthday on Friday.“Alex, I know these wonderful […]

Lenny Kravitz on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'/(ABC/Randy Holmes) Lenny Kravitz is featured on the just released reimagination of DE’WAYNE’s track “highway robbery” with the “Are You Gonna Go My Way” singer appearing in the song's new video, directed by Joe Mischo.“I first became aware of DE’WAYNE on Instagram and I was immediately drawn in to his expression,” says Kravitz. “After I started following him, he reached out, and our conversations naturally […]

Photo of (L-R) singer-bassist Paul McCartney and guitarist George Harrison of The Beatles, live onstage circa May 1962 at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by K & K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns) Casting has been announced for a new BBC series that will focus on The Beatles' early days as a band.The six-part series, Hamburg Days, is based on the autobiography by German artist and musician Klaus Voormann, and is […]

Ann Wilson's Nothing But Love,' co-written by Burt Bacharach (Tawt Tunes/Ann Wilson) Heart’s Ann Wilson has released a new song, “Nothing But Love,” a track she co-wrote with the late songwriting legend Burt Bacharach, who passed away in 2023.”I wrote ‘Nothing But Love’ with Burt Bacharach back in 1999, performed it a few times and then I sort of forgot about it,” says Wilson. “A friend recently asked me about […]

Richard Butler and Tim Butler perform with The Psychedelic Furs at Columbia Theater on November 8, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Martyn Goodacre/Redferns) The Psychedelic Furs have canceled their upcoming spring and summer tour dates due to a "serious medical issue in the band," according to an update on their website."Please accept our deepest apologies for this inconvenience," the post reads.The affected dates include a scheduled tour with Living Colour, which […]