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The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is producing a new film about jazz legend Miles Davis, and the cast has just been announced.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damson Idris, best known for starring in John Singleton’s Netflix drama Snowfall, has been cast to play Davis. French actress Anamaria Vartolomei, who recently appeared in the film Mickey 17, will play French singer/actress Juliette Gréco.

The film follows a 22-year-old Davis on a trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls for Gréco. Per the description, “what begins as an intimate affair blossoms into a profound connection between two young artists — just before they became cultural legends.”

Jagger has been producing films since he started his company Jagged Films in 1991. He also co-produced the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up.

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The 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead will be celebrated with three Dead & Company concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on social media.

“We have some really big news. Dead & Co., three shows, August 1, 2 and 3, right here in the city that is the home of the Grateful Dead,” Lurie shared on social platform X. “What better way to celebrate? We’ll see you out here in August.”

The post promised “more details coming soon.”

San Francisco and the Grateful Dead have been synonymous with each other since the beginning. The jam band was founded in the City By the Bay in 1965 by Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann, with drummer Mickey Hart and lyricist Robert Hunter joining the group in 1967.

Dead & Company — Weir, Hart, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane — also have a tie to the city. They wrapped their Final Tour with three nights at San Francisco’s Oracle Park in 2023. They returned to live performing with their Dead Forever residency at the Sphere Las Vegas in 2024 and currently have three more shows of their 2025 Sphere stand, happening May 15, 16 and 17.

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A new festival named after ground zero for punk rock in New York City has been set for this September.

The CBGB Festival, named after the legendary club on New York’s Bowery where many punk and new wave legends got their start, will take place Sept. 27 at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn. The lineup features Iggy Pop — doing his first New York show in more than a decade — as well as Jack White, the Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, The Damned, Melvins, Lunachicks and Marky Ramone, as well as current acts like The Linda Lindas.

You can register for a presale now at CBGBFEST.COM. Presale tickets go on sale May 15 at 10 a.m. ET; the general sale begins May 16 at 10 a.m. ET.

New York residents under 25 will be eligible for a “Young Punk” discounted GA ticket, which you can get in person only at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 17 at noon. The limited batch of tickets will cost just $73 — a reference to 1973, the year CBGB opened. There are only 350 tickets available, in a nod to the capacity of the original club.

And speaking of Sex Pistols, the reunited punk icons have added more dates to their upcoming U.S. tour, including Riot Fest, taking place Sept. 19-21 in Chicago, and a Las Vegas show at the Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort on Oct. 17. The band’s lineup includes original members Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, as well as singer Frank Carter. A complete list of dates can be found at SexPistolsFeaturingFrankCarter.com.

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John Mellencamp is teasing fans with a new album coming next year.

The rocker shared a clip on Instagram of him reading lyrics to a song called “Eternity,” noting it would be featured on his “upcoming 2026 album ‘Orphan Train.'”

“There will surely come a time when every crime and every sign of corruption will be washed away and we will join in and share the enlightenment we find there from now until eternity,” John says in the clip. “Our time will slip away and the years and the days like the sun will shine a ray of a little bit of brightness on our face from now until eternity.”

“Eternity, eternity just waiting now for you and for me,” he adds.

Mellencamp didn’t give an exact date for the release of Orphan Train. It will be his first album since 2023’s Orpheus Descending, which was his 25th studio album.

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Foreigner is set to play the season 27 finale of NBC’s The Voice, airing May 20 at 9 p.m. ET.

The band is expected to play a medley of their greatest hits, including “Feels Like The First Time,” “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is.”

It was recently announced that a new musical, Feels Like The First Time – The Foreigner Musical, directed by Rent’s Adam Pascal, will have its world premiere at Long Island University’s Little Theatre in April 2026. The show, featuring the band’s greatest hits, is set to have workshops and staged readings this fall.

Foreigner recently completed a tour of South America, for which they were joined by original frontman Lou Gramm. They are set to kick off a U.S. tour on June 11 in Highland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at Foreigneronline.com.

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On This Day, May 12, 2017…

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their #1 album The Joshua Tree, U2 kicked off a world tour in Vancouver, Canada.

The tour had the band playing the 1987 album in order in its entirety, which included the live debut of the track “Red Hill Mining Town.”

The tour hit North America, Europe and South America, and then U2 came back in 2019 to bring the tour to Oceana and Asia.

The 2017 leg grossed $317 million and was the highest grossing tour globally, selling more than 2.71 million tickets from 51 shows.

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Pearl Jam’s music has played a significant role in the HBO zombie apocalypse series The Last of Us, and now the band is leaning into that collaboration.

The Seattle rockers have just released a new four-song EP, titled The Last of Us, featuring songs “inspired by the show,” with all the tunes appearing on the drama.

The 12-inch EP includes studio versions of “Future Days,” from 2013’s Lightning Bolt, and “All or None,” from 2002’s Riot Act, as well as a live version of “Future Days” recorded at the Ohana Festival, and “Present Tense (Redux),” a new version of a track that appeared on 1996’s No Code.

The EP will come on 45 RPM colored vinyl described as “clear with black smoke,” and is available for purchase through Pearl Jam’s website, while supplies last. It is also available via digital outlets.

Pearl Jam has long been connected to The Last of Us universe. “Future Days” was featured in the 2020 The Last of Us Part II game, while “All or None” featured on soundtrack for show. Eddie Vedder also performed “Future Days” at the 2020 Game Awards, during which The Last of Us Part II won Game of the Year.

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Bruce Springsteen is revisiting his 1999 reunion tour with the E Street Band for the latest release in his Live Archives series.

The New Jersey rocker just released a live recording of his Oct. 28, 1999, concert at Oakland Arena, which was the final show of a three-night stand in Oakland, California.

The 24-song set opens with the Darkness on the Edge of Town track “Adam Raised a Cain,” and features performances of “Prove it All Night,” “Atlantic City,” “The Promised Land,” “Out in the Streets,” and “Land of Hope and Dreams” as well as a stripped down version of the title track to Springsteen’s solo album The Ghost of Tom Joad, and another song from the same album, “Sinaloa Cowboys,” which was the only full band performance of that song ever.

The set also features an appearance by Southside Johnny on “Hungry Heart,” as well as such Springsteen staples as “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” “Backstreets,” “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run,” with the night ending with his Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. track “Blinded by the Light.”

The show is now available to stream or purchase at nugs.net.

Springsteen and The E Street Band are getting ready to launch a new tour. They’ll kick off the Land of Hope and Dreams tour of Europe and the U.K. on May 14 and 17 in Manchester, England.

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Julien’s Auctions has unveiled the complete lineup of items that will be up for grabs at their upcoming Music Icons auction happening May 30 and May 31 at the Hard Rock Café in New York City.

The auction includes plenty of guitars, including Ronnie Wood’s Telecaster in metallic blue finish, which is signed and includes a handwritten “Midnight Rambler” lyric. There’s also Eddie Van Halen’s stage played and signed Charvel Art Series guitar in black with red and white stripes, Joe Perry’s stage played and signed Gibson Les Paul, plus guitars from Eric Clapton, Brian May, Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Slash and more.

Also included are clothing, personal effects and jewelry previously owned by such stars as Elton John, Chrissie Hynde, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, Christine McVie and Cher, plus gear from AC/DC, the Eagles, Neil Young, Aerosmith and others.

Also up for grabs are handwritten works from Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, John Lennon, Cobain, David Bowie and more, including Bob Dylan’s vintage handwritten lyrics for “Lay Lady Lay.”

Highlights from the exhibit will be on display in the window of the Hard Rock Café Piccadilly Circus in London until May 13 and then at the Hard Rock in Times Square from May 21-31.

A complete list of items up for auction can be found at JuliensAuctions.com.

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KISS has shared another fan-curated playlist, this time created by music journalist Allison Hagendorf.

The playlist, titled “My Kiss,” features 40 tracks, including “Love Gun,” “Black Diamond,” “Detroit Rock City,” “God Gave Rock & Roll to You II” and more. It can be found on Spotify and YouTube.

“This playlist is my celebration of KISS in full,” Hagendorf shares. “I wanted to create something that touches every era of their career—something that captures the essence of what made them so iconic but also feels personal to what I love about them.”

KISS launched their fan-curated playlist series in November 2024, with the first dedicated to hidden gems. The last one was released in February 2025 for Valentine’s Day.

The playlist drop comes just weeks after KISS announced a new fan convention, KISS Army Storms Vegas, which will feature an “unmasked” KISS performance from Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Tommy Thayer, their first show together since their final concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden in December 2023. The convention’s happening Nov. 14-16 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas and will feature a Q&A with Simmons and Stanley.

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