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John Fogerty reveals challenges he's been facing while working on long-awaited new studio album
Erika Goldring/Getty ImagesJohn Fogerty released a new single, "Weeping in the Promised Land," in January, but it's been more than 13 years since the former Creedence Clearwater Revival ...
Jun 10, 2021
David Gilmour says he's working on a new solo album he hopes to release "within a year or two"
Brian Rasic/WireImageIn a new Rolling Stone interview, Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour revealed that he's working on a new solo album. During the conversation, which also included Gilmour's ...
Jun 09, 2021
Former Ambrosia keyboardist David Cutler Lewis passes away; musicians pay tribute
Ambrosia, David Cutler Lewis second from left; Courtesy of Warner Bros.David Cutler Lewis, a dynamic keyboardist who played with Ambrosia and the New Age group Shadowfax, died earlier this week, repor...
Jun 09, 2021
Ronnie Wood releasing new live album, 'Mr. Luck,' paying tribute to blues great Jimmy Reed
BMGRolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood celebrates one of his blues heroes, the late Jimmy Reed, on a new live album documenting a special 2013 concert Wood played at London's Royal Albert Hall that w...
Jun 09, 2021
Deluxe, expanded reissue of Eric Clapton's eponymous debut solo album due in August
UMe/PolydorAn expanded 50th anniversary reissue of Eric Clapton's 1970 self-titled debut solo album will be released as a four-CD set on August 20. The deluxe collection will feature three different m...
Jun 09, 2021
Cruise to the Edge to set sail again in 2022, but apparently without Yes
Courtesy of Cruise to the EdgeThe prog-rock-themed Cruise to the Edge is scheduled to return next year after being grounded in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it apparently will be...
Jun 09, 2021
AC/DC rocks a crystal ball in new "Witch's Spell" video
Credit: Josh CheuseAC/DC has premiered the video for "Witch's Spell," a track off the band's new album, Power Up. The clip lives up to its the song's title, as it finds the "Back in Black" rockers tra...
Jun 09, 2021
Lynyrd Skynyrd resuming touring this month with newly announced Big Wheels Keep On Turnin' trek
Credit: Doltyn SneddenLast year, Lynyrd Skynyrd had to push "pause" on its Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but more than 15 months later, the Southern rock...
Jun 09, 2021
The Doobie Brothers add three August 2021 concerts to 50th anniversary tour
Credit: Clay Patrick McBrideAfter multiple postponements because of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Doobie Brothers' 50th anniversary tour finally is scheduled to get underway this August, and now the band...
Jun 08, 2021
Bonnie Tyler celebrates her 70th birthday today, says "in my head I'm in my 40s"
Courtesy of earMUSICBonnie Tyler, the raspy-voiced Welsh singer best known for her hits "It's a Heartache," "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," celebrates her 70th birthday toda...
Jun 08, 2021