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Bono and Imelda May take part in the annual Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street in Dublin, in aid of homeless charity, the Simon Community. Picture date: Wednesday December 24, 2025. (Photo by Conor O Mearain/PA Images via Getty Images) U2 frontman Bono made an appearance at Dublin's annual Christmas Eve Busk, a gathering of artists who busk on Grafton Street, a busy shopping area in the Irish cap. This year’s event […]

Billy Joel’s 2025 didn’t start out so hot. In January, the Piano Man postponed a show in order to have a medical procedure. He did perform two shows in February and continued to announce more concerts for 2025, including co-headlining dates with Sting, Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks. But issues with his health halted his touring plans.-Joel announced in March he was postponing shows for four months to allow himself time to […]

Flea at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Ser Baffo) Flea is here to help jazz up your holiday season.The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has shared a trumpet performance of what sounds like the song "Christmas Time Is Here" from the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas special."'Twas the night before…," the video caption reads. You can watch Flea's performance now via RHCP's Facebook.You'll be hearing even more […]

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. (ABC) The Pearl Jam camp is celebrating their own fuzzy Christmas miracle.The three kittens that the grunge rockers have been fostering at their Seattle headquarters have now been officially adopted.As previously reported, the cats were found in the PJHQ parking lot over the summer and dubbed the Purrl Jam Kittens. With help from a local organization called the Alley Cat Project, the kittens were safely rescued and remained at […]

'The Löst Tapes, Vol. 7 (Lemmy's 50th Birthday, Live in West Hollywood, 1995)' album artwork. (BMG) Late Motörhead frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister would've turned 80 on Wednesday, and the band is celebrating the occasion with a throwback to another milestone birthday.The Motörhead YouTube channel has uploaded the band's full 1995 performance at the famed Whisky A Go Go club in Los Angeles, which celebrated Lemmy's 50th birthday.The set included renditions of classics including […]

Mick Abrahams - Blodwyn Pig, 1969, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns) Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson is paying tribute to the band’s original guitarist Mick Abrahams, who passed away Dec. 19 at the age of 82.In a post on the band’s website, Anderson wrote that it was "with great sadness" that he learned of Abraham’s’ passing, noting Abrahams had "endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years leaving him finally […]

2025 began with the surprise news that the original Black Sabbath lineup — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — would be reuniting for one final show. It was also announced that the concert would mark Ozzy's final live performance, a promise that he sadly fulfilled upon his death just over two weeks after the show.The concert, dubbed Back to the Beginning, was set for July 5 at Villa […]

Soren Koch, Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Tom Toomey and Steve Rodford of The Zombies perform at Variety Playhouse on April 03, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images) The Zombies have announced the dates for their third annual Begin Here festival. The 2026 event, which takes place in their hometown of St. Albans, U.K., will run from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.The Begin Here festival, which launched in […]

On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988 ...Glam rockers Poison landed their first and only #1 song with the power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”The song, from the band’s sophomore album, Open Up and Say … Ah!, spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and was #3 on the Billboard year-end charts for 1989.The band’s frontman, Bret Michaels, shared in an interview for VH1’s Behind the Music […]