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The Beatles 'Anthology Collection' cover/(Capitol Records) The Beatles have shared yet another tune from their upcoming Anthology reissue.The legendary band has released an alternate take on the classic “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” the George Harrison-penned track that originally appeared on 1968's The Beatles aka the White Album.The clip, titled “While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Take 27),” opens with Harrison giving someone his meal order. He says, “I’ll just have cheese and lettuce and Marmite sandwich […]

Cover of 'Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-93'/(UMe/Geffen) Guns N’ Roses is set to reissue their first-ever live album.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will drop Guns N’ Roses – Live Era ’87-’93 on Nov. 21, featuring a newly remastered version of the live album, originally released in 1999. The set features 23 live tracks, including performances of such hits as “November Rain,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Welcome To […]

Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'/(ABC/Randy Holmes)  You’d think folks would be excited to see Bruce Springsteen taking part in some karaoke, but apparently that just wasn’t the case.Springsteen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday, where he shared the story of his first and only karaoke experience, noting it happened in a small bar in London.“I decided I was going to do The Temptations' ‘Ain't Too Proud to […]

On This Day, Oct. 3, 1990…The Police released their third studio album, Zenyattà Mondatta, which peaked at #5 on the U.S. charts, making it the band’s highest charting album in the U.S. at that time.The album produced two hit singles, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” which both peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the band’s first two top-10 […]

'Warning' album artwork. (Reprise Records) As previously teased, Green Day has announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their 2000 album, Warning.The expanded set is due out Nov. 14 as five-LP vinyl and four-CD packages, as well as digitally. The track list includes the original album remastered, along with various demos, rarities and alternate mixes, plus a live recording from a 2001 show in Tokyo.You can listen to the demo of a song […]

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (ABC/Randy Holmes) Foo Fighters have released a new live EP called Are Playing Where??? Vol. I.The six-track set was recorded during Dave Grohl and company's recent run of last-minute pop-up shows, which took place in San Luis Obispo and Santa Ana, California, Washington, D.C. and New Haven, Connecticut.Those concerts marked the Foos' first with new drummer Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch […]

Cover of 'Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run'/(Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company) Paul McCartney is set to revisit his post-Beatles career with the new book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, and now fans have a chance to get their hands on a very special edition of the release.The book's publisher, Liveright, has announced that 175 numbered copies of the book […]

Cover of 1973's 'Buckingham Nicks'/(Rhino Records) When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham released their debut album, Buckingham Nicks, in 1973, it failed to make any sort of significant appearance on the album charts. But more than 50 years later, that has all changed.According to Billboard, the recent reissue of Buckingham Nicks has made an appearance on several charts, including the Top Album Sales chart, where it debuted at #3 after moving 30,000 copies […]

English rock group The Yardbirds posed by the gates of Marble Arch in London in 1967. Members of the group are, from left, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja. (Photo by Ivan Keeman/Redferns) Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page is paying tribute to Chris Dreja, his former bandmate in the Yardbirds, who has passed away at age 79.“I heard today of the passing of musician Chris Dreja, who passionately […]