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Javier Bragado/Redferns A documentary about Scottish rockers Simple Minds is set to hit U.S. theaters in June.Deadline reports that Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to Simple Minds Everything is Possible, from director Joss Crowley.“From working-class kids in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing Live Aid, this is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring around the world to this day," reads the film description.Simple […]

Festication Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard are headlining the inaugural Rock the Tides, a new destination festival taking place Nov. 7-9 in Riviera Maya, Mexico.The bill also includes Poison's Bret Michaels, Extreme, The Struts, Buckcherry, Dorothy and Living Colour."Mexico has always been one of the most electric places we've played - the energy is just unreal," Mötley Crüe says. "Some of our most unforgettable shows have happened there, and we know this […]

Disney/Michael J. Le Brecht II Stevie Nicks hinted back in June that she was going to be working on a new album, and now she’s shared a new update about the project.Nicks was inducted into the Pollstar Live! Hall of Fame Wednesday night in Los Angeles, and during her speech she spilled the beans on her new music."I'm actually making a record right now. I call it the ghost record […]

Al Pereira/WireImage New York City restauranteur Keith McNally has outed musician Patti Smith for her rude behavior.McNally, who is behind such NYC restaurants as Balthazar and Minetta Tavern, has a new memoir coming out, I Regret Almost Everything. In an excerpt shared by New York Magazine's Grub Street, he writes about Smith driving a server to tears back in the '70s.The incident occurred at the Manhattan restaurant One Fifth, where McNally […]

courtesy of Pollstar Dead & Company and Bruce Springsteen were among the winners at the 36th annual Pollstar Awards, which were held Wednesday in Los Angeles.Dead & Company took home the trophy for residency of the year for their Dead Forever residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, with Bob Weir and John Mayer on hand to accept the award.Springsteen and the E Street Band took home rock tour of […]

Crown Publishing In addition to his own musical endeavors, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Robbie Robertson spent years working with his close friend Martin Scorsese on many of the filmmaker's biggest movies. November will see the publication of Insomnia, a book Robertson wrote prior to his death about their decadeslong creative partnership.The book is a sequel of sorts to Robertson's 2016 memoir, Testimony, which ended in 1976 as his group The […]

Photo Credit: Mariah Gray The Marshall Tucker Band is set to kick off their All Our Friends Tour in May, but it will be without founding member and lead singer Doug Gray.The band, best known for the song “Can’t You See,” just announced that Gray is “taking a hiatus” from the road due to health issues.“Taking care of business as I always do,” Gray says. “Thanks and see you soon."Gray also wants […]

On This Day, April 17, 1970…Paul McCartney released his debut solo album, McCartney, which he recorded secretly, performing all the instruments himself, with some contributions from his wife Linda McCartney.The album, which was released three days later in America, was recorded during a period of estrangement with The Beatles after John Lennon privately left the group.Songs on McCartney included “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “The Lovely Linda,” and others.The album went to […]

Sony Music Bruce Springsteen has shared another preview of his upcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.The Boss has released the song “Blind Spot,” off the set’s Streets of Philadelphia Sessions album, which features 10 tracks recorded around the time Springsteen wrote the Oscar-winning tune “Streets of Philadelphia.” For fans, the album has been known as Springsteen’s so-called “loops record.”According to the press release, the album “found Springsteen exploring an interest in the […]