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On This Day, July 25, 1980 ...AC/DC released their seventh studio album, Back in Black, which was their first album following the death of singer Bon Scott.The album featured new lead singer Brian Johnson and contained such future AC/DC classics as the title track, “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hells Bells.”Back in Black was a massive hit for the Aussie rockers, becoming one of the bestselling albums of all time. It sold an estimated […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Mick Fleetwood is the latest artist to pay tribute to British blues/rock guitarist John Mayall, who passed away Monday at the age of 90.Fleetwood was a member of Mayall’s band the Bluesbreakers in the '60s, where he played with his future Fleetwood Mac bandmates John McVie and Peter Green.“The news of John Mayall’s passing …. in many ways hit me as losing a […]

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images After 10 years, Billy Joel is finally ready to wrap his Madison Square Garden residency Thursday, with what will be the 150th show of his career at the iconic New York venue. “It is an honor to be here. I'm kinda flabbergasted that it did last as long as it did,” he told reporters during a June 2023 press conference announcing plans for the residency’s end. He joked that his […]

BMG A new biography of late Motörhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke has been announced.Titled Make My Day: The Rock 'n' Roll Story of 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, the book is due out Sept. 6 and was written by rock journalist Kris Needs alongside Clarke's widow, Mariko Fujiwara.Make My Day will accompany a four-CD box set dedicated to Clarke's career, including unreleased Motörhead and solo material, as well as music from his band Fastway. You can listen to a track […]

UMe/Polydor The Police are giving fans some insight into the making of their #1 single “Every Breath You Take” ahead of the upcoming 40th anniversary reissue of their multi-Platinum album Synchronicity.The band just released a demo of the song, which, according to a post on Instagram, was “Recorded at London’s Utopia Studios, around two months before the version that we all know today.” “Every Breath You Take," The Police’s first and […]

Roxie Records/BMG Lenny Kravitz has just dropped the video for “Paralyzed,” the third single off his recent album Blue Electric Light.The clip, directed by Anthony Mandler, begins with Lenny, in leather pants, a leather jacket and no shirt, walking in the desert toward five women covered in red robes. According to the video’s description, they “symbolize Kravitz’s hypnotic affection for the woman” he’s singing about in the song.As the clip […]

Billy Joel's "Defining Moments" exhibit; MSG Entertainment Billy Joel will play the final show in his residency at New York's Madison Square Garden on Thursday, and the legendary venue is sending the Piano Man out with a bang.Starting Thursday, fans can see a "Defining Moments" exhibit on the Garden's sixth-floor concourse, which will feature memorabilia from Billy's entire career run of 150 shows, including a pair of his Ray-Bans, set […]

Courtesy of ESPN Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is exploring the connection between the worlds of music and sports in the new ESPN film Rhythm Masters: A Mickey Hart Experience. The film will have him talking to legends from the world of sports and using those conversations to create an original score.“Rhythm is the heartbeat of life, and it’s everywhere — in the music we create and the sports we love,” Mickey shares. “When […]

Forty Below Records Mick Fleetwood has some new music to share.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has teamed with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro for a new album, Blues Experience, dropping Oct. 18.  As the title suggests, the record has the pair sharing their take on classic blues tracks, including “Rollin’ N Tumblin',” which you can listen to now via digital outlets. Jake also penned one original song that appears on the album, “Kula […]