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Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe was back on stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy Saturday, when the duo brought their tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction to Brooklyn Steel in New York.Stipe joined the pair to perform the Reckoning track "Pretty Persuasion."Stipe previously performed the song with Shannon and Narducy and his R.E.M. bandmates Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry, when the Fables tour hit R.E.M.'s hometown of […]

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell has announced a special event tied in to the upcoming release of his new memoir, Heartbreaker.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will sit down for a conversation with Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on March 19, one day after the book’s March 18 release.And it won’t […]

Disney/Eric McCandless Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be bossed around by Gene Simmons? Well, if you’ve got the dough, now’s your chance.The KISS rocker is offering up what he calls the “ultimate Gene Simmons experience” – a chance to be his personal assistant and band roadie for the day.The package is only available to one person per show, but that person will become a member […]

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Folks are still hitting the theaters to catch the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.BoxOfficeMojo reports that the film, starring Timothée Chalamet as the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, has grossed over $120 million at the box office worldwide since its Christmas Day release.According to Billboard, the film is now the eighth-highest-grossing music biopic, just behind Jamie Foxx’s Ray Charles biopic, Ray, which grossed $124 million.Still topping […]

L-R: Stephen Graham, Bruce Springsteen and Scott Cooper/Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Peaky Blinders actor Stephen Graham will play Bruce Springsteen’s father in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, and he tells British GQ what it was like to meet the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.“I think the first [scene] we did was when we pull up to this big house, and I'm in the ‘50s look, and everything. And he came over, and […]

Peter Frampton and Michael McDonald attend the ninth annual LOVE ROCKS NYC benefit concert For God's Love We Deliver/Getty Images for LOVE ROCKS NYC/photographer Dimitrios Kambouris The ninth annual Love Rocks NYC concert took place at New York's Beacon Theatre Thursday, raising $4 million for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to people who are too sick to prepare them themselves.The concert featured an A-list lineup of talent, […]

Parlaphone Records/Warner Music Group Fifty years ago Friday David Bowie released his ninth studio album, Young Americans, which was considered a departure from his glam-rock style, focusing more on funk, soul and R&B influences.The album, which came out less than a year after 1974's Diamond Dogs, featured backing vocals by a then-unknown singer named Luther Vandross; its first single, the title track, peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Its second single, […]

Erica Echenberg/Redferns Brian James, founding guitarist of the influential English punk band The Damned, has died. He was 70.A post to his Facebook Thursday reads, "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of one of the true pioneers of music, guitarist, songwriter, and true gentleman, Brian James."The Damned formed in the mid-'70s with James, vocalist Dave Vanian, bassist Raymond "Captain Sensible" Burns and drummer Christopher "Rat Scabies" Millar. […]

On This Day, March 7, 1970…Simon & Garfunkel hit #1 with their fifth and final studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water.The album featured such iconic Simon & Garfunkel tunes as the title track, “The Boxer,” “The Only Living Boy in New York,” and “Cecilia.”With Garfunkel concentrating on an acting career, Simon wrote all the songs on the album, with the exception of a cover of the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love.”The […]