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Carlos Santana has been forced to postpone the start of his 2025 Las Vegas residency after being injured in a fall at his home in Hawaii. 

“I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and he broke his little finger on his left hand,” Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management, announced. “He had to have pins inserted in the finger. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to play guitar for approximately six weeks. Doctors do say that he will recuperate fully.”

The 77-year-old Santana was due to return to the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Jan. 22 for the latest dates of his An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live residency. He has been headlining his House of Blues residency for 13 years.

“Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs to heal,” Vrionis added. “Santana profoundly regrets these postponements of his upcoming performances, but accidents happen, and his health is our number one concern. He is looking forward to seeing all of his fans very soon.”

Affected shows will be rescheduled and tickets will be honored on the new dates.

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R.E.M.’s Peter Buck has recorded a cover in celebration of one of his favorite music films of the 1960s.

Buck revealed the news on R.E.M.’s Instagram account. He explained that after he appeared on the Revolutions Per Movie podcast, where he discussed the 1968 rock ‘n’ roll movie Wild in the Streets, he recorded a cover of the movie’s theme song, “Shape of Things To Come,” featuring Vanessa Briscoe Hay from the Athens, Georgia, band Pylon and Camper Van Beethoven’s Victor Krummenacher.

The song is available on limited-edition flexi disc to those who join the Revolutions Per Movie club.

Wild in the Streets, based on the Robert Thom short story The Day It All Happened, Baby!, starred Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook and Shelley Winters. The song, “Shape of Things To Come,” was written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, and was performed by the movie’s fictional band, Max Frost and the Troopers.

While Buck is no longer making music with R.E.M., he is still making music. In 2024 he teamed with The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin and singer Joseph Arthur to form the supergroup Silverlites, which released their debut album in November.

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Elton John is in the running for a BAFTA nomination for his recent documentary Elton John: Never Too Late.

The film has made the longlist for the 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards, handed out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Never Too Late is one of 10 films in the running in the documentary category. Others include I Am: Celine Dion, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper, starring Will Ferrell and Harper Steele.

The final list of nominees will be announced Jan. 15, with the EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony happening Feb. 16 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, hosted by Dr. Who star David Tennant.

Elton John: Never Too Late premiered in December on Disney+, featuring never-before-seen footage of Elton’s career and of his life today as a husband and father.

The film missed out on earning a spot on the Academy Awards short list for best documentary, but his song from the movie, “Never Too Late,” which he wrote with Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt, is on the short list for best original song.

The Academy Award nominations will be revealed Jan. 17.

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On This Day, Jan. 3, 1945 …

Stephen Stills, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Manassas, was born in Dallas, Texas.

Stills has written such tunes as “For What It’s Worth,” “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” and “Bluebird” for Buffalo Springfield, and “Carry On” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” for CSN.

“Love the One You’re With,” from his 1970 self-titled solo debut, was Stills’ biggest solo hit, peaking at #14 on the Billboard charts. The tune features his CSN bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash, and Rita Coolidge on background vocals.

Stills has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and Buffalo Springfield. Both inductions took place in 1996, and he is the only artist to be inducted into the Hall of Fame twice in the same night.

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Neil Young is going to Glastonbury after all.

After announcing he was pulling out of the British festival due to the BBC’s sponsorship of the event, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has now announced he and his band Chrome Hearts will indeed be on the bill.

“Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved,” he wrote on his Neil Young Archives website. “Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing! Hope to see you there!” 

Young had previously said he and his band had been “looking forward to playing” the festival, but that BBC had “wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in” so they were pulling out.

“It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being,” he explained, “We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be.” 

Glastonbury is now the first show Young has confirmed for 2025. He previously played the festival in 2009.

Glastonbury Festival is set to take place June 25 to June 29. The full lineup has not been announced, although Rod Stewart is confirmed to play the Legends slot.

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Rhino is kicking off 2025 with a new series of limited-edition vinyl releases from artists like Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, the Ramones, ZZ Top and more.

The Start Your Ear Off Right series launches Friday with the release of Fleetwood Mac – Live at the Record Plant (December 15, 1974) on two-LP transparent red vinyl, Buckingham’s four-LP box set 20th Century Lindsey and three Ramones albums: 1984’s Too Tough to Die, 1987’s Halfway to Insanity and 1989’s Brain Drain.

There are also albums from The English Beat and Dream Theater, as well as ZZ Top’s first five albums, all on Rhino High Fidelity black vinyl: 1971’s ZZ Top’s First Album, 1972’s Rio Grande Mud, 1973’s Tres Hombres, 1975’s Fandango! and 1976’s Tejas.

Future releases include The Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) on two-LP translucent lemonade vinyl on Jan. 17; Yes’ Fragile (Steven Wilson Remix) on emerald green vinyl, coming Jan. 24; and four albums from Rush — 1989’s Presto, 1991’s Roll the Bones, 1993’s Counterparts and 1996’s Test for Echo — on Jan. 31.

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The nominees for the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are usually decided upon in January, and it’s likely that someone will be disappointed when their favorite artist doesn’t get recognized with a nomination.

In a new interview with Vulture, RRHOF Chairman John Sykes shares his thoughts on some of the artists who have failed to nab a nod.

One of those artists is Phil Collins, who’s in as a member of Genesis, but hasn’t been recognized for his solo career. Sykes notes, “He’s come up in meetings so much.”

“What happens to great artists like Phil Collins, and I could name about four or five more, is that the committee will sometimes say, ‘He’s already in with Genesis,’” Sykes says. “We have such a backlog of people that need to get in that sometimes great solo artists like Phil can’t get on the ballot because there’s someone who’s not on in any configuration.” 

He adds, “I’ll say right now that’s no excuse for not putting Phil Collins in because he’s a great artist.”

Sykes also says he thinks Sting, an inductee with The Police, should be recognized for his solo career.

“I’ve nominated him many times, and I’m the chairman. That shows how this isn’t some backroom organization where decisions are made by a couple of people,” he says. “People vote on these things, and they fight like hell.”

Sykes also says The B-52s have come up in conversation, noting, “We’ve heard passionate pleas for them but they just haven’t made it onto the ballot yet, but I think they will one day.”

And Joe Cocker is another artist who’s yet to get a nod. “He hasn’t been able to get through, and I think he’s a deserving name,” Sykes adds.

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Alice Cooper is helping make folks’ dry January a bit tastier.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has teamed with WhistlePig Whiskey for a new limited-edition nonalcoholic cocktail, WhistlePig’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Old Fashioned, crafted with 100% rye non-whiskey, barrel-aged maple syrup and more. 

“I’ve been shocking audiences for years with snakes, guillotines, and enough fake blood to fill the Grand Canyon. But now these maniacs at WhistlePig have gone and shocked me with a non-alcoholic cocktail,” says Cooper, who’s been sober for over 40 years. “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Old Fashioned is a lethal injection of flavors proving you don’t need to be drunk to be punk.”

The cocktail is described in a press release as “a rock anthem in a glass,” with notes of summer berries, wild herbs, black pepper, candied lime and more.

WhistlePig’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Old Fashioned is available now at shop.whistlepigwhiskey.com, and there’s even a special Go Pig Go Bundle, which includes a 750ml bottle of the cocktail along with a rye liquid-infused vinyl of Alice Cooper’s 2019 EP Breadcrumbs.

And it’s all going to a good cause, with 100% of the profits going to the nonprofit Giving Kitchen, which helps provide emergency assistance to food service workers across the country. 

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Bruce Springsteen is singing the praises of The Bear actor Jeremy Allen White, who is set to portray him in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere.

White is set to do his own singing in the film, and in an interview for Sirius XM’s E Street Radio, The Boss shared, “He sings well. He sings very well.”

Bruce has been seen on the New Jersey set of the film; when asked whether it’s weird to watch White play him, Bruce said that it was “a little at first.”

“But you get over that pretty quick, and Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it,” he said. “He’s got an interpretation of me that I think A, the fans will deeply recognize and he’s just done a great job, so I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.”

The Boss also praised the rest of the cast, including Jeremy Strong, who plays Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau.

“It’s a tremendous cast of people,” he says. “They cast the film beautifully, so it’s very exciting.”

Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper, follows Springsteen’s efforts to make his 1982 solo album Nebraska. The film is based on Warren Zanes‘ book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

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Ever wonder what it would sound like if Stewart Copeland played in Limp Bizkit?

The former Police drummer is the latest participant in the YouTube channel Drumeo‘s viral series, which challenges drummers to play along with a song they’d never heard before. For Copeland, Drumeo chose the Bizkit’s 2000 single “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle).”

Copeland delivered his version of “Rollin'” in just one take, adding that it was a “fun song to play.” Upon learning that he was playing along to a Limp Bizkit track, Copeland responded, “I like those guys in concept, I’m not that familiar with their music.”

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer also opened up about the way he writes his drum parts, revealing that his improvisational style became an issue for the Police’s frontman, Sting.

“I actually did try very hard to make my band happy and when Stingo would have an idea for something I absolutely would listen cause he’s actually is pretty good at this stuff,” Copeland explained. “I would listen but then I’d forget, and instinct takes over and I did my best … I wasn’t being obstinate or anything when I didn’t do what he asked it was just cause I forgot.”

Stewart notes he’d go into the studio with the intention of making Sting happy, but “it didn’t last.” 

“Our intentions were always really good but then that old bugaboo, that thing that used to always piss us both off, that point of conflict would always rear its ugly head, that thing known as the music,” he added.

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