We are getting our first look at Ringo Starr’s upcoming CBS special, Ringo & Friends at the Ryman.
The network has shared a clip of Ringo performing his solo track “It Don’t Come Easy,” joined by Sheryl Crow, country star Mickey Guyton and Americana artist Molly Tuttle.
Ringo & Friends at the Ryman premieres Monday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+. It was recorded during Ringo’s two nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in January, following the release of his new country album, Look Up.
Other special guests joining Ringo during the show include Jack White, Brenda Lee, Billy Strings, Rodney Crowell and TheWar and Treaty.
Longtime Moody Blues singer/guitarist Justin Hayward has announced a set of 2025 tour dates for his Blue World tour, which has him playing songs from throughout his career and sharing stories about those tunes.
The new dates kick off April 15 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and wrap May 20 in San Francisco.
A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at JustinHayward.com.
In addition to the tour, Hayward is set to host the upcoming On The Blue Cruise, featuring performances by more than 25 artists. The cruise, dubbed Forever Autumn, is happening Aug. 22-29 on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Gem, departing out of Boston and hitting four ports.
Other artists on the cruise include Alan Parsons, Traffic‘s Dave Mason and The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone.
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder recently announced plans to release a new solo album this year, and now he’s sharing details of the album.
The rocker is set release his fourth solo album, The Vault – Fifty Years of Music, on May 23. It will feature a collection of newly recorded versions of songs he’s demoed over the past five decades.
Felder is previewing the release with the new single “Free At Last,” which he says “is a heartfelt tribute to the freedom that awaits us beyond this life.”
“It’s about shedding the burdens of this world and finding peace in the promise that, one day, we will all be ‘Free At Last,'” he adds.
Felder has a series solo shows booked for March and April, with his next gig on Thursday in Worely, Idaho. He’s also booked to join Styx and REO Speedwagon‘s Kevin Cronin on their upcoming Brotherhood of Rock tour, which kicks off May 28 in Greenville, South Carolina. A complete list of dates can be found at donfelder.com.
Jane’s Addiction‘s Dave Navarro and Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison have announced a rescheduled date for the 2025 edition of their Above Ground benefit concert.
The show is now set to take place on Oct. 26 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. It was originally scheduled at that same venue for Jan. 25, but was postponed due to the LA fires.
As with the originally announced date, Navarro and Morrison will be joined by a guest lineup to perform The Cars and New York Dolls‘ debut albums. A press release notes that the show “will be even more poignant” due to Dolls frontman David Johansen‘s death on Friday at age 75.
Said guest lineup has yet to be announced. Before the show was rescheduled, the bill included Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
Elton John and Brandi Carlile are giving fans another preview of their upcoming collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels?
They’ve just released the new track “Swing for the Fences,” the second song released from the album following the title track.
On the album, the song follows tunes about singers Little Richard and Laura Nyro, and in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Brandi shares the placement makes sense because they were both “queer predecessors” to her and Elton who were not able to live their lives openly.
She notes that the song is “kind of an anthem of encouragement to LGBTQ youth,” adding, “I think it’s a really interesting way to follow up the lives of those two icons that influenced us so much, but I think who deep down we wish could have walked through the world the way we’re getting to walk through the world now.”
Brandi says, “Hopefully it can help those marginalized kids and those young people right now and they can look to me and Elton and they can go, ‘Yeah, I’m going to be OK. Yeah, I’m going to be all right, yeah,’ because we got their back.”
Elton tells Lowe that the tune is a “positive” one, noting “electricity is flowing through that song.” In a press release he shared that recording the song “was the moment that crystallized where the album was going.”
Billie Joe Armstrong is going from “American Idiot” to America’s pastime.
The Green Day frontman has joined the ownership group for the Oakland Ballers baseball team, which plays in the minor Pioneer League. The Ballers, or B’s, as they’re often called, played their inaugural season in 2024 after the Oakland A’s MLB team announced their relocation.
“Sports in the Bay Area have been transforming over the last couple of years,” Armstrong says in a statement. “We’ve had some emotional goodbyes to teams we grew up with, but recently there has been a major shift.”
“The Oakland Ballers and the Oakland Roots & Soul [soccer teams] represent everything I love and grew up on in the Bay Area,” he continues. “The welcoming atmosphere, DIY attitude and the people behind it make me proud to be an investor and support the next generation of teams kids in the bay will be proud of.”
Armstrong previously protested the plans to relocate the A’s from Oakland, where he was born, and took part in the calls for owner John Fisher to sell the team instead of move it. Despite his and the Oakland faithful’s efforts, the A’s relocated to West Sacramento, California, where they’ll play until moving to their new permanent home, Las Vegas, in 2028.
Ever since Heart kicked off their Royal Flush tour in Las Vegas on Feb. 28, Ann Wilson has been performing in a wheelchair. But she’s let fans know the reason she’s in the chair has nothing to do with the cancer she battled last year.
“I think some people thought that I was in a wheelchair because of cancer, which I just kicked its a** and I’m nice and clear now,” she shared on her After Dinner Thinks With Ann Wilson podcast. “It’s not about cancer. It’s about me being a klutz and missing a step and falling into a parking lot and busting my elbow in three places and then having to have it pinned back together with screws and all that kind of stuff.”
The accident happened five days before the tour was to start, but Wilson assures fans that other than that she is “perfectly fine.”
“It’s just I don’t have the use of my left arm right now,” she says, and it’s hard for her to navigate onstage with her arm in a sling.
“So I chose to sit because then I can just concentrate on singing and not on keeping my balance and having somebody out there catching me when I reel to the side,” she adds.
Ann says some people think using a wheelchair is “kind of an admission of vulnerability,” but she sees it as a “great tool.” She notes, “And I’ll be up and out of it after a while.”
Heart’s Royal Flush tour hits Phoenix on Thursday. They also just announced dates for the An Evening With Heart tour, which kicks off May 31 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and wraps June 28 in Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at heart-music.com.
A newly restored version of Pink Floyd‘s 1972 concert film, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, is set to hit theaters and IMAX on April 24, and now the first trailer for the film has been released.
The clip has the four members of Pink Floyd walking along the ruins of Pompeii, with a David Gilmour voiceover sharing, “It would be interesting to see exactly what four people could do if just given the equipment, it’d be an interesting experiment.”
It then features clips of them setting up and performing at the ancient site, and later it shows footage of the band at Abbey Road Studios as they begin work on their iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon.
The movie is a recording of Pink Floyd’s October 1971 performance at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Italy, which was the first live concert ever to take place at the site. The performance happened just before they released their sixth studio album, Meddle.
Tickets for Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII are on sale now.
In addition to the theatrical release, Pink Floyd will also release the live album Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII on May 2, marking the first full-length live record of the concert. It will be released on CD, LP, Blu-Ray, DVD, digital audio and Dolby Atmos. It is available for preorder now.
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Stephen Stills reveals in a new interview with Rolling Stone that he’s been sober for three years.
“I’m really comfortable in sobriety,” Stills shares. “It gets me back to the kid I was before this madness started, pretty affable and friendly.”
He adds, “Things were so special at the beginning of my career before I sold a single record. But when you add poison into that mix … I’m just glad I have my original personality back.”
Stills retired from touring in 2018, but still performs now and again. He recently reunited onstage with his Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate Graham Nash for a performance at L.A. FireAid and tells the mag, “It felt like putting on an old shoe again … I don’t see [Nash] a lot since he lives on the East Coast, but it was great to see my old pal.”
And Stills will next take the stage with his other former bandmate, Neil Young, as well as Billy Idol and others at his Light Up The Blues benefit for Autism Speaks on April 26 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
As for whether he plans to reconsider that retirement, he’s not exactly saying no.
“FireAid helped me check and see if my thrusting and coagulating still worked,” he shares. “I’m getting a little more active now, so there’s a possibility. It depends on the kind of venues I can attract.”
He adds that getting back on a tour bus is a “big obstacle” for him when it comes to touring, although, “I do still love to play.”
Metallica will be paying tribute to late singer and actress Marianne Faithfull on the latest episode of their weekly podcast, The Metallica Report.
The metal legends worked with Faithfull, who died in January at age 78, on “The Memory Remains,” a cut off their 1997 album, Reload.
Following Faithfull’s death, drummer Lars Ulrichposted, “Thank you, Marianne… For the good times For your kindness For the great stories For your fearlessness.”
The Metallica Report premieres new episodes on Wednesdays.
