The nominations for the 2024 Astra TV Awards have just been announced, and documentaries featuring Bon Jovi, Paul Simon and more have been recognized this year.
Simon’s Paramount+ doc In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon and Bon Jovi’s Hulu docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story are both up for Best Documentary. Also nominated in the category is The Greatest Night in Pop, the movie about the making of the 1985 all-star charity single “We Are the World.”
The awards are handed out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, which includes critics, journalists, content creators and other creatives. They will stream live from Hollywood on Aug. 18 on the official Astra Awards YouTube channel.
British blues rockers Ten Years After are revisiting their appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival with a first-ever standalone album of their performance.
Ten Years After Woodstock 1969 will be released Aug. 16 with newly restored and fresh mixes of their Aug. 17 Woodstock set. It includes their classic performance of “I’m Going Home,” which was featured in the documentary Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace And Music and its soundtrack.
The album will be released on CD and as a two-LP black vinyl set. There will also be a two-LP tie-dye colored vinyl, sold exclusively at indie record stores.
t’s no secret former couple and Fleetwood Mac bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s relationship has always been rocky. They haven’t performed together since Lindsey and Fleetwood Mac parted ways in 2018, and now Mick Fleetwood says he wishes things between them could be better.
In a recent MOJO interview Nicks indicated that her relationship with Buckingham still wasn’t good. “Even if I thought I could work with Lindsey again, he’s had some health problem,” she said when talking about whether Fleetwood Mac could ever tour again, noting that since the death of Christine McVie it couldn’t happen.
Well, now Mick has reflected on those comments, telling MOJO he hopes they could settle their differences some day.
“It’s no secret, it’s no title-tattle that there is a brick wall there emotionally,” he says of the pair’s relationship. “Stevie’s able to speak clearly about how she feels and doesn’t feel, as does Lindsey.”
He adds, “But I’ll say, personally, I would love to see a healing between them – and that doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily.”
But Mick’s relationship with Stevie seems to be okay, and he tells the mag he plans to check out her upcoming BST Hyde Park show in London on July 12, along with ZZ Top’s July 11 concert at Wembley Arena.
“I’m gonna get myself a vicarious fix,” he says. “For once, I get to be a punter in the audience and see them do all the work.”
A previously unreleased song from late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence is getting the picture disc treatment.
“One-Way,” which was released digitally in April, was put together by the rocker’s friend and producer/musician Danny Saber from previously unreleased material. It will now be released on August 9 on two limited edition, 10-inch picture disc variants; standard black and white, and red. Both will be paired with another previously unreleased song, “Save My Life.”
“The release of ‘One-Way’ has exceeded any expectations I dared to have,” says Saber. “If this release has accomplished anything, hopefully hearing ‘That Voice’ again on something fresh and in tune with the times will remind the world of his greatness. If so, then mission accomplished.”
INXS had a string of hits in the mid-’80s to early ’90s, including “Need You Tonight,” their only U.S. #1, “What You Need,” “Never Tear Us Apart,” “New Sensation” and “Suicide Blonde.”
Hutchence was found dead on November 22, 1997. His death was later ruled a suicide. He was 37.
Bob Dylan is getting ready to drop a new box set featuring live recordings made with The Band.
The 1974 Live Recordings will be massive box set made up of 27 CDs. It will include 431 live tracks, 417 of which have never been released before. It also includes 133 newly mixed recordings from 16-track tape, plus all the surviving soundboard recordings.
As a preview of the set, Dylan has shared a previously unreleased live recording of “Forever Young,” from a Seattle show on February 9, 1974. It’s available now via digital outlets.
In addition to the CD box set, Third Man Records will release The 1974 Live Recordings – The Missing Songs From Before the Flood, a three-LP colored vinyl set with highlights from the same recordings. It will feature live versions of tunes that did not appear on Dylan and The Band’s original 1974 live album Before the Flood.
The vinyl set will be available through Third Man’s The Vault mail order service only, and fans need to subscribe by July 31 in order to be eligible for it.
Both sets celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dylan’s historic tour with The Band, which was Dylan’s return to touring after an eight-year break. The tour, which kicked off January 4, 1974 in Chicago, saw the two acts playing arenas for the first time.
After teasing news of an upcoming release, the estate of late Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan has announced a 20th anniversary reissue of his 2004 album, Bubblegum.
The set will be available as a four-LP and three-CD package, as well as digitally, on August 23. It includes remastered editions of the original album, done at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios, and its companion Here Comes That Weird Chill EP, as well as various bonus tracks, demos and unreleased recordings.
Among the unreleased material is a collaboration with Beck, and a collection of tracks newly uncovered and produced by Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen.
“When I heard the news of Mark’s passing, these memories started rushing back to me,” Van Leeuwen says. “I searched through my archive of drives and somehow magically was able to open up these sessions. I thought to myself, ‘That NEVER happens.’ These ideas couldn’t be more fresh out of the tap.”
The vinyl edition also includes a 64-page hardcover book featuring essays by Van Leeuwen and QotSA frontman Josh Homme, plus Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, TheAfghan Whigs frontman and Lanegan’s Gutter Twins bandmate and frequent collaborator Alain Johannes.
Bubblegum was Lanegan’s sixth solo effort, and was recorded amid his tenure with Queens of the Stone Age, which greatly influenced its sound. Along with contributions from various QotSA members, Bubblegum includes two collaborations with PJ Harvey.
The Police landed their first and only #1 song with “Every Breath You Take,” from their #1 album Synchronicity.
The song spent eight weeks on top of the chart, and hit #1 in Canada and the U.K., spending four weeks at #1 in both countries.
“Every Breath You Take” earned The Police two Grammy Awards, Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
The tune was later sampled in Puff Daddy’s 1997 hit “I’ll Be Missing You,” a tribute to the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G. That tune spent 11 weeks on top of the Hot 100 chart, and won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a duo or group.
The Police are set to reissue Synchronicity on July 26, with a deluxe box set that includes 55 previously unreleased tracks, including alternate takes, instrumentals, demos and live recordings.
There are few people who don’t know who Bruce Springsteen is but apparently two years ago, Cara Delevingne was one of them.
The model/actress tells the U.K. Timesthat in 2022 she and her girlfriend Leah Mason met The Boss at the Glastonbury Music Festival, but Cara was clueless about his identity.
“We teach each other so many things. Two years ago we were backstage at Glastonbury and we took a photo with this guy,” Delevingne shared. “I said to Leah afterwards, ‘who was that?’ She was like, ‘What? That was Bruce Springsteen!'”
“I had no idea what he looked like,” Delevingne added. “She thinks that’s blasphemy.”
Rod Stewart may be closing in on the big 8-0, but a farewell tour isn’t in the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s future.
“I don’t see any possibility of slowing down anytime soon,” Rod tells Hello! magazine. “And as I get older, I only really want to do things that give me great pleasure.”
His wife Penny Lancaster confirms that, telling Hello!, “He loves what he does so much and will never retire. He’s a workaholic and constantly on the move. I struggle to keep up with his training schedule. He works out three or four times a week – even on tour.”
Having wrapped a European tour, Rod heads to Las Vegas next for his final run of residency shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Some North American tour dates follow that, including a September 13 stadium show with Billy Joel in Cleveland.
But in between all the work, Rod makes time for his ever-growing family of eight kids, their spouses and their children. He tells Hello! that his approach to parenthood has changed over the years.
“I used to be much more preoccupied with myself and my career,” he says. “But I’ve learnt from my mistakes and am more present.”
Penny adds, “We like to take every opportunity to bring the family, children, and grandchildren together … it requires a lot of planning, but at least two or three times a year, the whole clan comes together.”
She believes that family is what keeps Rod going, “especially the younger generation. They give him strength and drive.”
And what keeps Rod and Penny going? He says, “We listen to each other and try to resolve all our disagreements — the dirty laundry as Penny says — right away, and before we go to bed.”
Sammy Hagar will kick off his The Best of All Worlds Tour on Saturday, and ahead of the kickoff, he and his bandmates – Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Jason Bonham – are answering a few questions to get fans excited about what to expect.
In a video posted to Instagram, all of them were asked which song they’re most excited to play, with both Hagar and Anthony agreeing that it’s Van Halen’s “5150,” with Anthony noting, “it’s smokin’.”
Satriani says he’s simply excited to play all the songs, while Bonham wouldn’t pick a favorite out of fear he’d give away something about the set list.
Hagar also shared how he doesn’t like to rehearse, but explains why it was so important to do so.
“I’m nervous about this set list,” he says. “This is deep. This is so many lyrics for me to remember and so many high notes for me to hit and it’s coming together. I’m happy.”
Bonham reveals he went on a diet before the tour and is down 30 pounds, joking, “Thanks for all those nice comments that used to say ‘hey fatty lose some weight.'”
But getting serious, Bonham shares that being on this tour has a really special meaning for him.
“Forty years ago I saw Mikey with Van Halen for the first ever time in my life so it changed my life,” he says, “and I have been doing music ever since because of that moment.”
Hagar’s The Best of All Worlds tour, which will have him performing Van Halen classics along with solo tunes and tracks from his other bands, The Circle and Chickenfoot, kicks off July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at redrocker.com.
