Cosmic Kids is a story-based series that Jaime Amor and her husband, Martin, began in 2012 to teach children yoga and mindfulness. Episodes are available on YouTube and via an app that can be accessed through various streaming devices.
The new episode will offer a kids yoga adventure based on Grandude’s Green Submarine, which tells the story of a grandfather who sets sail with his grandkids, whom he calls his chillers, in his magical submarine on a journey to find his wife, Nandude.
According to a statement promoting the show, the story is a “wonderful celebration of the relationship between kids and their grandparents.”
You can check out a preview of the episode at Macca’s Facebook page.
Grandude’s Green Submarine is a sequel 2019’s Hey Grandude! Both books were written by McCartney and illustrated by Kathryn Durst.
Is Jane’s Addiction hinting at a reunion with Eric Avery?
In a tweet Wednesday, the “Been Caught Stealing” rockers posted a video featuring Avery jamming on a bass alongside frontman Perry Farrell. Sadly, the video doesn’t feature the audio from the session, just the hiss of static feedback.
Avery is an original member of Jane’s Addiction and played with the group through their 1991 breakup. He eventually rejoined Jane’s from 2008 to 2010, but he didn’t play on either of the band’s reunion records, 2003’s Strays and 2011’s The Great Escape Artist.
If Avery is indeed back in Jane’s, that raises the question of what becomes of Chris Chaney, who’s played bass in the band since 2011. There’s also uncertainly surrounding guitarist Dave Navarro, whose “long bout” with COVID-19 forced Jane’s to scrap their set at this year’s Welcome to Rockville festival. Jane’s was also set to play Lollapalooza last month, but was quietly removed from the lineup. In both cases, Jane’s was replaced by the reunited Porno for Pyros, which is also fronted by Farrell.
Meanwhile, Farrell recently toldSpin that new Jane’s material is in the works, and the band is set to embark on a U.S. tour with The Smashing Pumpkins in October.
When it comes to blended families, Rod Stewart‘s an expert: He’s got eight children by five different women, so you can imagine how hard it must be to get them all together for anything, let alone a vacation. But he and his wife, Penny Lancaster, managed to pull it off for the first time in seven years.
The luxurious Italian vacation brought together seven of Sir Rod’s kids: Ruby,Renee,Liam,Kimberly,Sean, Alastair and Aidan. The only one missing was Sarah, who was raised by adoptive parents and didn’t meet Rod, 77, until later in life. They do have a relationship, but it’s not as close as the others.
Rod’s daughter Ruby, whose mother is model Kelly Emberg, has posted numerous photos of herself and her half siblings with Rod and Penny on Instagram. She wrote, “Our last family vacation was in 2015, so this one was well overdue. We all live in different places now and sometimes we miss some pretty important milestones in one another’s life. It can be difficult getting us all together, but the incredible @penny.lancaster managed to do it this time.”
She added, “I am beyond grateful for this mixed batch of personalities that is the Stewart Clan. I don’t know where I’d be with out you lot…Thank you dad for reminding us of the importance of family and Thank you Penny for always bringing us together again.”
Penny and the various siblings also posted their own snaps of the trip to the Amalfi coast, the island of Elba and other locations.
Todd Rundgren‘s long-delayed studio album Space Force, which features collaborations with an eclectic variety of artists, will finally be released October 14.
Space Force is a 12-track collection that, as previously reported, includes contributions from Cheap Trick‘s Rick Nielsen, Steve Vai, Thomas Dolby, Crowded House frontman Neil Finn, former King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew, Weezer‘s Rivers Cuomo, Sparks and The Roots.
The lead track, a collaboration with Belew titled “Puzzle,” has just been released as the latest advance single from the album.
Four other Space Force tracks were previously released — “Espionage,” featuring Iraqi-Canadian hip-hop artist Narcy; “Down with the Ship” with Cuomo; “Your Fandango” with Sparks; and “Godiva Girl” with The Roots.
Originally due out in early 2021, Space Force is a follow-up to Rundgren’s 2017 album White Knight, another star-studded collection of collaborations.
In a new Variety interview, Rundgren says Space Force differs from White Knight in that the new album’s tracks featured more input from his collaborators.
“One of the reasons why I did White Knight was to force myself into opening up the process to others, but I had only done it halfway because I was still coming up with almost all of the material,” Todd notes. “So I thought, let’s go the next step. Let’s start using other people’s song ideas as the basis of where the music should go.”
Space Force can be preordered now and will be available on CD, in multiple colored-vinyl options and via digital formats.
Meanwhile, Rundgren has one joint concert with Daryl Hallscheduled for October 1 in Brookville, New York. Then, starting October 6, he’ll head out on the Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour, which also features Belew and other musicians.
Here’s the full Space Force track list:
“Puzzle” — with Adrian Belew
“Down with the Ship” — with Rivers Cuomo
“Artist in Residence” — with Neil Finn
“Godiva Girl” — with The Roots
“Your Fandango” — with Sparks
“Someday” — with Davey Lane
“I’m Not Your Dog” — with Thomas Dolby
“Espionage” — with Narcy
“STFU” — with Rick Nielsen
“Head in the Ocean” — with Alfie
“I’m Leaving” — with The Lemon Twigs
“Eco Warrior Goddess” — with Steve Vai
Jann Wenner and Bruce Springsteen in 2010; Theo Wargo/WireImage
Bruce Springsteen will help his longtime friend Jann Wenner celebrate the release of the Rolling Stone magazine co-founder’s new memoir, Like a Rolling Stone, by taking part in a special interview event on September 13 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
At the event, Springsteen and Wenner will discuss the famous publisher’s deeply personal book, which follows his eventful life while looking at the changing landscape of music, politics and pop culture of his generation, as covered by Rolling Stone since its 1967 inception.
The memoir also features Wenner’s reflections on a wide variety of important music artists, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono and Springsteen.
In-person tickets for the Q&A session are already sold out, but the event also will be streamed live online, and tickets to the virtual presentation are available at 92ny.org. Everyone purchasing a ticket will receive a copy of Like a Rolling Stone.
“If you were young, alone and in the far lands of New Jersey, Rolling Stone was a dispatch from the front, carrying news of a bigger world and another life awaiting,” says Springsteen with regard to the book. “Like a Rolling Stone is a touchingly honest memoir from a man who recorded and shaped our times and of a grand life well lived. It is wonderfully deep and rewarding reading. I loved it.”
Like a Rolling Stone will be published on September 13 and can be preordered now.
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Dave Grohl made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles charity concert Tuesday put together by director Judd Apatow in support of the Victims First organization.
According to the L.A. club Largo, which hosted the show, the Foo Fighters frontman joined Beck and Tenacious D to make “yacht-rock musical sound effects” during a cover of the Seals & Crofts song “Summer Breeze.” Also onstage were actor John C. Reilly and producer/frequent Grohl collaborator Greg Kurstin.
You can watch footage of the performance via the Largo Instagram.
The show marked one of Grohl’s first public appearances following the unexpected death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins in March. Grohl performed for the first time since Hawkins’ passing in June during Paul McCartney’s headlining Glastonbury set.
Grohl and the rest of Foo Fighters are holding a pair of Hawkins tribute concerts, taking place September 3 in London and September 27 in Los Angeles. As was announced Wednesday, the London concert will stream live via Paramount+ and MTV Brand YouTube channels.
If you can’t make it to London’s Wembley Stadium to see the star-studded tribute concert for Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, you’ll be able to watch the entire thing on Paramount+.
The September 3 show will stream live on Paramount+ starting 11:30 a.m. ET and globally on MTV Brand YouTube channels. It’ll also be available on-demand that day on Paramount+.
Don’t have that streaming service? CBS TV will air an hour-long version of the concert that night at 9 p.m. ET. MTV will then air the one-hour special internationally, and follow that up with an extended two-hour special in September.
Meanwhile, both the London tribute and its U.S. counterpart, scheduled for September 27 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, have added more artists to their lineups.
The London concert has added Joe Walsh‘s pre-Eagles band James Gang, AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich, The Pretenders‘ Martin Chambers, Josh Freese, Kesha, Dave Grohl‘s daughter Violet, Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, Taylor’s son Shane and more to a lineup that already included Led Zeppelin‘s John Paul Jones, Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen‘s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Chrissie Hynde, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Nirvana‘s Krist Novoselic, ex-Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, Wolfgang Van Halen, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and others.
The U.S. tribute has added James Gang, Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler, Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, ex-Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, Ulrich Barker, Freese, Violet Grohl, Shane Hawkins and more to a bill that already featured Joan Jett, Heart‘s Nancy Wilson, KISS‘ Gene Simmons, Alanis Morissette, Miley Cyrus, Pink, and many of the same guests as the London show.
If you can’t make it to London’s Wembley Stadium to see the star-studded Taylor Hawkins tribute concert, you’ll be able to watch the entire thing on Paramount+.
The September 3 show will stream live on Paramount+ starting 11:30am EDT and globally on MTV Brand YouTube Channels. It’ll also be available on-demand that day on Paramount+.
Don’t have that streaming service? CBS TV will air an hour-long version of the concert that night a 9 p.m EDT. MTV will then air the one-hour special internationally, and follow that up with an extended two-hour special in September.
The London tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer, who died earlier this year in Colombia, has added Travis Barker, The Pretenders‘ Martin Chambers, Josh Freese, Violet Grohl, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Kesha, The Struts‘ Luke Spiller,Lars Ulrich and Taylor’s son, Shane, to a lineup that includes Chrissie Hynde, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen‘s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Krist Novoselic, Josh Homme, Liam Gallagher, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Wolfgang Van Halen, Hawkins’ side project Chevy Metal, Nandi Bushell, Chris Chaney, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and more.
Meanwhile, the U.S. tribute concert, scheduled for September 27 at the Kia Forum in LA, has added Sebastian Bach, Barker, Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler, Def Leppard‘s Phil Collen and Joe Elliott, Freese, Violet Grohl, Ulrich and Taylor’s son Shane to a bill that already included Miley Cyrus, Pink, Gene Simmons, Chad Smith, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette and many of the same guests as the London show.
As The Scorpions gear up to launch the 2022 North American leg of their Rock Believer World Tour this Sunday in Toronto, the veteran German hard rockers have offered up a couple of goodies for fans.
First, the band has released a new song titled “Hammersmith” that’s available now as a digital download and via streaming services. The heavy-pounding tune finds The Scorpions paying tribute to the famous London venue the Hammersmith Odeon, while also expressing how enthusiastic they are to keep rocking their fans.
“The song takes us back to a time when we played in the smallest clubs, just dreaming about being able to perform in the Temple of Rock, the Hammersmith Odeon,” explains frontman Klaus Meine, who wrote the tune’s lyrics.
Meanwhile, The Scorpions have also just debuted an “official fan video” for the title track of their latest album, Rock Believer, which was released in February.
The clip features footage that Scorpions fans from around the world submitted, showing them rocking out and singing along to the song, and sharing their love for the group, mixed with video of the band performing the song.
The Rock Believer tour features 24 dates and is mapped out through an October 21 concert in Las Vegas. Whitesnake had originally been slated to open most of the shows, but had to drop off the trek recently because frontman David Coverdale has been battling a persistent respiratory infection. All-female Swedish rock band Thundermother will serve as The Scorpions’ support act throughout most of the tour.
Status Quo will release a new compilation titled Quo’ing In — The Best of the Noughties that focuses on the veteran English rock band’s career since 2000.
The retrospective, which will be released on November 25, will be available as a two-CD set, as a limited-edition three-CD deluxe package and via digital formats.
Quo’ing In features key tracks from most of the albums that Status Quo has released since 2000, including selections from 2002’s Heavy Traffic, 2005’s The Party Ain’t Over Yet, 2007’s In Search of the Fourth Chord, 2011’s Quid Pro Quo, 2013’s Bula Quo!, 2014’s Aquostic: Stripped Bare, 2016’s Aquostic II: That’s a Fact! and 2019’s Backbone.
The compilation also includes some non-album singles, new mixes of older tunes, collaborations and newly recorded versions of three of Status Quo’s major U.K. hits from the 1970s — “Caroline,” “Paper Plane” and the John Fogerty cover “Rockin’ All Over the World.”
The collaborations featured on the album are a rendition of Buddy Holly‘s “Raining in My Heart” featuring Queen‘s Brian May and a duet with The Beach Boys on that group’s classic “Fun Fun Fun.”
The three-CD version of Quo’ing In features a bonus disc that includes previously unreleased live performances that were recorded in June 2008 and mixed and mastered this year.
“This was a time of change and the band that recorded Heavy Traffic is different to the one that laid down Backbone,” notes frontman Francis Rossi about the period covered in the compilation, “but what did not change was the passion, energy, and desire to build on what had gone before.”
You can preorderQuo’ing In now. Here’s the track list:
CD 1: Quo’ing In
“Backbone” (Out Out Quoin’ Mix 2022)*
“Looking Out for Caroline”
“Two Way Traffic”
“In the Army Now” (Studio Version 2010)
“Beginning of the End”
“Round and Round”
“Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘n’ You”
“Raining in My Heart” (with Brian May)
“Liberty Lane”
“Jam Side Down”
“Running Inside My Head”
“Electric Arena”
“Twenty Wild Horses”
“Blues and Rhythm”
“Gotta Get Up and Go”
“The Way It Goes”
“Bula Bula Quo – Kua Ni Lega”
CD 2: Quo’ing Out
“Caroline” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Paper Plane” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Rockin’ All Over the World” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Face the Music”*** (7” Single A-Side)
“Cut Me Some Slack” (Out Out Quoin’ Mix 2022)*
“The Party Ain’t Over Yet” (Single Mix)***
“Fun Fun Fun” (with The Beach Boys)
“Pictures of Matchstick Men” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“That’s a Fact” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“I’m Not Ready”***
“Tilting at the Mill”***
“I’m Watching Over You”***
“Mortified”***
“Temporary Friend”***
“I’ll Never Get Over You”***
“Live Medley”***
“Down Down” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“It’s Christmas Time”***
CD 3: Quo’ing Live (previously unreleased; only available with deluxe digipak edition)
“The Wanderer”
“Rain”
“Don’t Waste My Time”
“Don’t Drive My Car”
“Hold You Back”
“Creeping Up on You”
“Paper Plane”
“Living on an Island”
“Roll Over Lay Down”
“Rock and Roll Music/Bye Bye Johnny”
* = new 2022 mix
** = new 2022 studio recording
*** = rare recording previously only available as single or on limited-edition release
