Elton John has officially picked up where he left off on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, which initially began in September of 2018. After a nearly two-year hiatus, the Rocket Man returned to the stage in New Orleans to play a myriad of classic hits for a roaring crowd of fans. Due to both […]
Category: Oldies
KISS Announces More 2022 U.S. Tour Dates
Adding on to their End Of The Road Tour, KISS has just announced that they will be playing four rescheduled shows in May of this year in addition to their headlining slot for this year’s Welcome to Rockville festival on May 29th in Daytona Beach, Florida, along with Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, and Korn. […]
Happy 76th Birthday Doll Parton!
On January 19th, 1946, Dolly Parton was born. Today, the Queen of Country is turning 76! According to her own website, Parton grew up as the fourth child of 12 in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Over the course of her rhinestone-studded career, the music icon has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the country music […]
David Bowie is the Best-Selling Vinyl Artist of the 21st Century
It has just been revealed that David Bowie is the 21st Century’s best-selling vinyl artist. Bowie’s vinyl sales for the 2000s equated to 582,704 units, placing him ahead of The Beatles at 535,596 sales. These were the only two acts to top half a million units on the vinyl format. According to chart analyst Alan […]
Bruce Springsteen Was the Biggest-Earning Musician of 2021
After selling his masters and publishing catalog for a reported $550 million, Bruce Springsteen was officially confirmed as the biggest earner of 2021. The report, written by former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg, explained how selling valuable music archives heavily skewed the annual chart of artists’ incomes. Greenburg explained the incentive for artists to sell their rights, […]
John Paul Jones, Snow Eye Reportedly Working on Movie Soundtrack
Led Zeppelin co-founder John Paul Jones is reportedly working on the soundtrack for the film And Anne with his band Snoweye, which consists of Elle Marja Eira and Lucy Parnell alongside Jones. The band was formed in 2017, self-described as “ethereal, yet soulful. Elusive, yet instinctive,” performing “folk-inspired melodies” in both an indigenous Finno-Ugric language, called […]
Ronnie Spector, Lead Singer of The Ronettes, Dies at 78
Ronnie Spector, the beloved lead singer of The Ronettes, passed away at 78. In a statement released on Wednesday, her family wrote: “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer,” the family said. “She was with family and in the arms of her husband, Jonathan. Ronnie lived her […]
Just Announced Bonnaroo 2022 Lineup Includes J. Cole, Stevie Nicks, Tool, More
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is coming back to Manchester, Tennessee after two years of setbacks and cancellations, first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then because of severe flooding. Just yesterday, the genre-crossing lineup for the 2022 event was announced, including big names in music like J. Cole, Tool, Stevie Nicks, the War on […]
Woodstock Festival’s Co-Creator Michael Lang Dies at 77
Michael Lang, a co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock music festival alongside Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman, died over the weekend at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “He was absolutely a historic figure, and also a great guy,” Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for the Lang family, […]
Noel Gallagher Covered David Bowie at Mike Garson’s “A Bowie Celebration,” Amongst Def Leppard, Duran Duran, More
Saturday would have been David Bowie’s 75th birthday, and the musician’s pianist, Mike Garson, threw a live-streamed concert to honor the date for the second year in a row. The event consisted of performances by a number of notable artists covering Bowie’s hits. Noel Gallagher covered “Valentine’s Day,” Def Leppard did “Drive-In Saturday,” and Duran […]