Here Nirvana‘s Nevermind is now, entertaining us on the Billboard 200 for a historic amount of time.
The landmark 1991 record has spent its 700th week on the chart, making it only the ninth album in history to reach that milestone.
Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon holds the record for the most weeks spent on the Billboard 200, with 990.
Nevermind spends its 700th week on the Billboard 200 at #120. It famously hit #1 in January 1992, dethroning the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson.
A seminal release of the early ’90s grunge and alternative scene, Nevermind spawned the generational anthem “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on its way to being certified Diamond by the RIAA.
Looks like Bruce Springsteen fans have a lot to look forward to in 2025, including some previously unreleased material.
A year-end press release shared by The Boss’ reps hints at some possible archival releases in the year to come, noting that “2025 will include a look back at Springsteen’s storied recording career, featuring never-before-heard material.”
Of course, that’s not all Springsteen has planned for 2025.
Next year will also see Bruce and The E Street Band return to Europe for 16 shows. And Springsteen will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of his iconic album Born to Run, as well as the 45th of The River, the 30th of his solo album The Ghost of Tom Joad and the 20th of another solo album, Devils & Dust.
The release also notes that The Boss will “continue his involvement” in the film Deliver Me From Nowhere, about the making of his album Nebraska, starring Jeremy Allen White.
A new video has just been released for a track from the hard rock children’s album Solid Rock Revival.
The latest, perfect for the holiday season, is for the song “My Christmas List,” which features Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Alice Cooper and Brandon Jenner.
Solid Rock Revival, which is nominated for a Grammy for Best Children’s Music, was released under the name Rock for Children, a rock collective that includes Alice, his daughter Calico Cooper and others. They previously released a video for “Freewheelin’,” a track that featured Alice, Calico and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
Proceeds from the album benefit Alice’s Solid Rock Teen Centers, which provide free after-school training in areas such as music, dance and art for teens ages 12-20. It has locations in Mesa, Phoenix and Goodyear, Arizona.
We’re getting another look at the upcoming Led Zeppelin documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin.
A new trailer for the doc has just been released, featuring archival footage, clips of new interviews with band members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant, and archival audio from their late drummer John Bonham. The clip is set to the Led Zeppelin classics “Good Times, Bad Times” and “Whole Lotta Love.”
“The first time we played together you could tell it was gonna be a good group,” Bonham says in the clip. “It was an electric atmosphere and that’d been what I’d been waiting for,” Plant adds.
Talking about producing the band’s first album, Page notes, “I wanted it to be something that they hadn’t heard before.”
As for the band’s name, Jones reveals in the clip, “We were gonna be called Led Zeppelin and I thought, ‘That’s a terrible name,’ but I couldn’t come up with a better one so Led Zeppelin we were.”
Becoming Led Zeppelin first premiered as a work in progress at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights to the completed film in May. The movie, described as a “hybrid docu-concert film,” is the first officially sanctioned documentary about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group.
Becoming Led Zeppelin is set to open exclusively in IMAX theaters on Feb. 7, with early access screenings in 18 markets starting Feb. 5. It will then hit theaters nationwide on Feb. 14.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason opened his wallet to save the London music store where he bought his first drum kit. The store, Foote’s, was about to go out of business, so Mason provided the funding it needed to continue.
“One of my great memories of being a young, budding drummer was going to the original [Foote’s] … and buying my very first kit for £7.50,” he told Britain’s ITV news.
Unfortunately, the store closed down in 2022 after more than 100 years in business.
While Genesis has plenty of fans out there, it turns out their lead singer, Phil Collins, isn’t necessarily one of them.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is the subject of a new Drumeo documentary, Phil Collins: Drummer First, and in it he reveals how he really feels about the band that made him famous.
During the doc, Phil revisits the music he’s made with Genesis and on his own. Collins admits, “I’m not Genesis’ biggest fan, you know.”
“There’s stuff that I like, stuff I’m proud of – stuff that I’m less so,” he notes. “Sometimes it can be like people throwing bricks at you.”
As for how he felt about revisiting his musical career for the doc, he shares, “It’s been an interesting trip down a memory lane, some bits may be better than I thought, some bits aren’t as good as I thought.”
He adds, “I’ve been playing drums since I was 5, there’s gonna be dogs! There’s gonna be stuff you enjoy hearing back, and others not so.”
Specifically, Collins says he’s “not particularly fond of” the …And Then There Were Three period of Genesis, referring to the band’s 1978 album, particularly the song “Down and Out.”
He notes, “Haven’t heard it for ages but I mean it’s, uh, it’s a period piece.”
Grateful Dead has announced details of the next release in their Dave’s Picks bootleg series.
Dave’s Picks Vol. 54, coming out May 1, will feature the band’s March 26, 1973, concert at the Baltimore Civic Center, which is one of the longest concerts the band played that year. The 31-song show stands out for its second-set jam, which included such songs as “He’s Gone,” “Truckin’,” “Weather Report Suite Prelude,” “Jam,” “Wharf Rat,” “Me And Bobby McGee,” “Eyes Of The World” and “Morning Dew.”
It will be followed by a Vol. 54 bonus disc, featuring a March 31, 1973, concert in Buffalo, New York.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead and the 14th year of the Dave Pick’s series.Those who sign up for a subscription get four numbered, limited-edition releases throughout the year, along with the bonus disc.
The first release for 2025 will be an Oct. 27, 1976, concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.
Preorder for the subscription is open now at dead.net.
Blondie’s Chris Stein has revealed some new information about the next Blondie record.
Back in November, Stein announced that the band had a new album in the works, sharing a black-and-white photo of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in the studio, along with the caption, “New Blondie album next year.”
Now he’s shared another photo of Harry in the studio, this time on the social media site BlueSky, and in this one she’s joined by producer John Congleton, suggesting he’s going to be producing the album.
The new album will be the first from Blondie since 2017’s Pollinator, which Congleton also produced. It featured songs written by the members of Blondie and outside collaborators like The Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Sia and Charli XCX.
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Violet Grohl, the eldest daughter of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, is working on her debut album,The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Sources who’ve apparently heard the material tell THR that Violet is “very talented” and that her “vocals are tremendous.”
The report also says Violet is collaborating with producer Justin Raisen on the record. Raisen recently produced Kim Gordon‘s new solo album, The Collective.
Violet, 18, has sung backup live during Foo Fighters concerts and contributed vocals to the But Here We Are track “Show Me How.” She also memorably performed at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts in 2022.
Ed Norton stars as folk legend Pete Seeger in the new Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown, and he realizes many people may not know how influential Seeger was to music.
In an interview with IndieWire, Norton says he hopes the film is “an opportunity to put a light on this period and how amazing these artists were and get reconnected to them,” and that’s particularly true for Seeger, who Norton doesn’t believe is as known as he should be.
As an example of that, Norton shares a story about the reaction Her director Spike Jonze had when he heard Norton was playing Seeger.
“He was like, ‘Wow, are you doing the music yourself?’ I said yes. And he goes, ‘Are you doing “Night Moves” and “Against the Wind” and “Old Time Rock & Roll”?’” Norton says. “I’m like, ‘Pete Seeger, not Bob Seger!’ And he was like, ‘Wait, who is Pete Seeger?’”
Seeger penned such songs as “If I Had A Hammer” and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone.” He was such an important figure in music that in 2006 Bruce Springsteen did a whole album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, dedicated to Seeger’s music. And Norton says he’s not surprised.
“Bruce, to me, he’s 100 percent, no question whatsoever, the Pete Seeger of our generation and our time,” Norton says. “He’s the guy who really actually took up the mantle.”
He adds, “And I’d argue more than anyone, since Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen has been the troubadour of the working man and also an unapologetic deployer of music toward political progressive humanism. He’s a force. Bruce has long been one of the deacons in the Pete Seeger church.”
