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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Aerosmith’s hit song “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” is featured in a new ad campaign for the 2025 NBA Playoffs.The clip features footage of NBA players like Jayson Tatum, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokic, Donovan Mitchell and Karl-Anthony Towns as everyday people in homes, bars, businesses and more get transported into the arena to watch the game. The clip also includes cameos from Rob Lowe, Shaboozey, Sheila E. and […]

On This Day, April 16, 1996 ...The four original members of KISS – Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley – held a press conference aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City to announce they were getting back together for a reunion tour.The trek would be the band’s first with Criss and Frehley since 1979’s Dynasty tour.When tickets went on sale a few days later they sold out […]

ABC Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Metallica and Depeche Mode are among the musical acts premiering new documentaries at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, taking place June 4-15 in New York City.Vedder's film, Matter of Time, follows his work to support research into finding a cure for the genetic disease epidermolysis bullosa. His EB Research Partnership organization, which he cofounded alongside his wife, Jill, hosts a benefit concert to raise money for the cause.The […]

Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing Pink Floyd has shared another preview of the newly restored version of their 1972 concert film, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, which is set to hit theaters and IMAX on April 24.In addition to the band's October 1971 performance at the ancient Roman amphitheater in Italy, which was the first live concert ever to take place at the site, the film features behind-the-scenes footage of them […]

Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Carlos Santana is set to launch his Oneness tour on Wednesday, which will mark his first show since November 2024. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer was supposed to headline some Las Vegas residency dates back in January, but was forced to postpone the shows after falling and breaking his finger.The 77-year-old Santana tells ABC Audio that the accident “was scary” because he couldn’t feel one of his […]

Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Turns out the lyrics to Bryan Adams' 1985 hit "Summer of ’69" aren't exactly autobiographical.In the lyrics he reminisces about his first guitar, singing about getting his “first real six-string” at the "five and dime." Well, during an appearance on the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast, hosted by Squeeze’s Chris Difford, Adams reveals his uncle actually got him his first guitar when he was 12. “[I] told him that […]

Corine Solberg/Getty Images ZZ Top has added some new dates to their summer Elevation tour.The trek is set to kick off in the U.S. on June 10 in Moorhead, Minnesota, and the band has now added 21 additional shows in such cities as Salinas, Kansas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Eugene, Oregon; Costa Mesa, California; Midland, Texas; and New York City. The tour is now set to wrap on Oct. 10 in Terre Haute, Indiana.Special […]

Photo credit: Nick Oliver Seventies hitmakers 10CC have announced dates for a new summer tour of the U.S.The band, best known for such hits as “I’m Not in Love” and “The Things We Do For Love,” will launch a new leg of The Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour Aug. 27 in Napa, California. The tour will consist of 17 shows, with stops in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland and […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Lenny Kravitz is giving fans a peak inside his Parisian home.The rocker gave Architectural Digest a tour of his mansion, named Hotel de Roxie after his mother, Roxie Roker. He shares that he named it after his mom “because it was her dream to come live in Paris." He notes, “She wanted to retire after doing 11 seasons of The Jeffersons and she never got to do it.”"So I’m doing it […]