Just so you can book your flights to Los Angeles for the Grammys in Advance, The Recording Academy™ and CBS have generously announced the dates for Music’s Biggest Night® in 2020 and 2021 — The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards® will air on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, and The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards will air on […]
The Beatles are previewing their 50th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of the self titled album with a previously unheard recording of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” The track premiered at Rolling Stone and, like the take that came out on Anthology 3, it features Harrison on acoustic guitar, with Paul McCartney on harmonium […]
A new exhibition honoring the life and work of Whitney Houston has opened at the Grammy Museum at the Prudential Center in Newark, the R&B star’s hometown. Organized by the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in cooperation with the Houston estate, the show, “Whitney!,” features personal artifacts, photographs and footage provided by the singer’s family. […]
There have been many significant and powerful entries into the music industry. The first offering from a teen from Kentwood, Louisiana, named Britney Spears, the song began with three piano chords and an uncanny voice: “Oh baby, baby…” “…Baby One More Time”, a plaintive lament on loneliness and longing, was a phenomenon. It reached the number […]
Jon Bon Jovi recalled a chore-avoiding escapade that led to his discovery of, and his future with, the guitar. Jovi came from a musical family, owned an instrument at an early age, but had no interest, as he told Uncle Joe Benson on the Ultimate Classic Rock NIghts radio show. “My mother actually bought me […]
Ted Nugent’s latest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame outburst drew a reaction from two-time inductee David Crosby, who said Nugent is “not good enough” to receive the honor. Eligible since 2000, Nugent has slammed the establishment for years, and most recently said it was “the most outrageous and disgusting lie” that he’d never been […]
Ted Nugent returned to the theme of his lack of induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, claiming that there was no human being alive who didn’t think he should receive the honor. Last year the veteran, who’s been eligible since 2000, said “political correctness” and particularly his membership in the NRA was […]
Tina Turner’s new memoir, “My Love Story” reveals the full extent of the harrowing ordeals the 78-year-old singer has overcome in her decades in the spotlight. One of those being her encounter with potential suicide. The first half of “My Love Story” is dominated by a relationship that’s quite the opposite of Turner’s book title – her physically, mentally […]
Stanley and Gene Simmons will honor members of the U.S. military, veterans and first responders this Veterans Day, Monday, November 12, by offering them free food nationwide at their Rock & Brews restaurant chain. All day long on the holiday, military personnel and veterans will be able to visit participating Rock & Brews locations and […]
Lindsey Buckingham has filed a lawsuit against his former Fleetwood Mac bandmates for firing him earlier this year. According to Us Weekly, Buckingham filed documents in the Los Angeles County Superior Court that claim his manager informed him in January that the band “would proceed with its upcoming and already organized 2018 to 2019 concert tour without him.” Buckingham is suing his former […]