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WaterAid/ Lucy Le Brocq Rod Stewart is making the most of his upcoming performance at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival.He's teamed up with the charity Water Aid to design a public toilet for the festival that's -- we kid you not -- shaped like a giant boombox. Dubbed the "Boombox Bog" -- bog is British slang for toilet -- it features Rod Stewart cassette tapes affixed to the walls, a neon […]

While Dead & Company are playing three nights in San Francisco in August to mark the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, those won’t be the only shows celebrating the band’s enduring legacy.Grahame Lesh & Friends are set to host a three-night concert series, The Heart of Town, put on by The San Francisco Giants and Relix. The concerts will take place July 31-Aug. 2 at San Francisco's Pier 48 in Mission Rock, near […]

BMG Scorpions are celebrating their 60th anniversary with a new compilation album.The German rockers are set to drop From the First Sting on Sept. 26, a 16-track, career-spanning collection that features such hits as "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Wind of Change" and "No One Like You," along with two previously unreleased songs, "This Is My Song" and "Still Loving You," the latter of which features a guest appearance by British […]

Rhino/Warner Records The Pretenders are set to reissue their greatest hits collection.The Chrissie Hynde-led band will rerelease their 1987 compilation, The Singles, on two-LP and CD with remastered audio on Aug. 15.The 16-track album features Pretenders classics like "Brass in Pocket," "Back on the Chain Gang," "Talk of the Town," "Middle of the Road," and "Don’t Get Me Wrong," as well as their cover of the Sonny & Cher classic "I Got You Babe."The […]

Isabel Infantes/PA Images via Getty Images) Bob Dylan broke out one of his classic songs in Tennessee Wednesday night for the first time in more than a decade.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performed a slow version of his 1964 classic "The Times They Are A-Changin'" on piano during his set at the Outlaw Music Festival in Franklin, Tennessee.According to Rolling Stone, the last time Dylan performed the song […]

Photo credit Keoghan: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Photo Credit Starr: Disney/Randy Holmes Barry Keoghan is set to play Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’ four Beatles biopics, and Ringo’s son, drummer Zak Starkey, has some thoughts about the casting.When asked by NME if he had any advice on how to play Ringo, Starkey shared, "Get a big rubber nose. I don’t know what else to say. He doesn’t look anything like my dad, does […]

On This Day, June 26, 2021 ...After a 471-day closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Broadway theaters finally reopened in New York.The first official show was a performance of Bruce Springsteen’s critically acclaimed Tony-winning show, Springsteen on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre. It featured The Boss telling his life story through his songs, sharing incidents featured in his 2016 autobiography, Born to Run.This was the second Broadway run of […]

Rhino Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing The Grateful Dead recently announced their next Meet-Up at the Movies will be screenings of The Grateful Dead Movie on Aug. 14, and now they are sharing a trailer for the experience.The clip features performance footage from the film, which is a recording of their five-night stand at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in October 1974, which at the time was believed to be their final […]

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for FIREAID Two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash has sung with a lot of great artists over the years, but there’s one musician he’s dying to collaborate with.In an interview with Vulture, Nash was asked to reveal his "top bucket-list item." He said it's "singing a two-part harmony on 'Yesterday' with one guitar with Paul McCartney.""If anyone has Paul’s number, give him a call for […]