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The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Frank Micelotta) The Black Crowes released their latest album, Happiness Bastards, in 2024, marking their first album of new material in 15 years. Fortunately for fans, it sounds like they won’t have to wait nearly as long for the band to release some more new music.In a holiday message posted to social media and YouTube, […]

Bad Company’s Simon Kirke performs with Heart’s Nancy Wilson, The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Frank Micelotta) ABC will air The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights and standout moments of November's ceremony, on New Year's Day at 8 p.m. ET. Bad Company was one of this year’s inductees, and drummer Simon Kirke […]

There were certainly a lot of big things happening in music in 2025. Here's a roundup of some of the other music stories that made headlines this year:-Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson surprised fans by announcing they were heading back on tour. Fifty Something, the band’s first tour in 10 years and the first since the death of drummer Neil Peart, will launch in June 2026. Playing drums on […]

Bruce Springsteen on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(Disney/Randy Holmes) A legendary Bruce Springsteen concert has just gotten an audio upgrade.A newly remixed version of Bruce and The E Street Band’s 1975 New Year’s Eve performance at the Tower Theater near Philadelphia is now available on nugs.net. The recording was taken from the 16-track analog master tapes originally recorded by producer Jimmy Iovine. The show was the final night of a four-night stand at […]

On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999 ...The Beatles' George Harrison and his wife, Olivia Harrison, were attacked in their Friar Park estate by a 34-year-old mentally ill intruder named Michael Abram.Abram punctured George's lung with a kitchen knife and stabbed him more than 40 times, before Olivia intervened and repeatedly struck Abram with a fireplace poker and a lamp.George had to have part of his punctured lung removed.Abram was tried […]

The Who celebrated their 60th anniversary in 2025, which ended with what will likely be their last North American tour, much to the disappointment of many fans.-The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers kicked off the year by announcing they were headlining two shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March to benefit Teenage Cancer Trust.-During the shows, Pete Townshend revealed that he had just had hip replacement surgery, while Roger […]

Bono and The Edge at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by JB Lacroix/FilmMagic) Back in October, Bono and The Edge were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to represent U2 as they were honored with the Woody Guthrie Prize, which was given out by the Woody Guthrie Center. Now they are giving fans who weren’t in attendance a chance to hear what […]

On This Day, Dec. 29, 1985 …Billy Joel became a father when he and his wife, model Christie Brinkley, welcomed their only child together, daughter Alexa Ray Joel.Their daughter's middle name was a tribute to legendary musician Ray Charles, with whom Billy collaborated on the 1987 song “Baby Grand." Joel later wrote the 1993 song “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” for Alexa.Alexa followed in her father's footsteps as a musician and […]

Billy Idol and The Warning perform at the CBS and the Recording Academy® present A GRAMMY® CELEBRATION OF LATIN MUSIC, airing Sunday, Dec. 28. (Gustavo Caballero/CBS) The Warning performed alongside Billy Idol during a special called A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music, which aired Sunday.The set began with the sister trio rocking out the iconic Mexican folk song "La Bamba" before Idol joined the stage alongside his guitarist Steve Stevens. Together, […]