Foo Fighters have added a trio of U.S. headlining dates to their 2024 schedule.
The newly announced shows take place May 1 in Dallas, May 7 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and May in Charlotte. Nova Twins will also be on the bill.
Tickets go on sale Thursday, December 14, at 10 a.m. local time. Visit FooFighters.com for all ticket info.
The Foos will be supporting their latest album, But Here We Are, which dropped in June. Their other 2024 U.S. touring plans include headlining the Shaky Knees and Welcome to Rockville festivals, and launching a U.S. stadium trek in July.
REO Speedwagon is returning to Las Vegas. The band announced some new dates for An Evening of Hi Infidelity… and More at the Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort.
The band has announced six new shows in 2024: May 8, 10 and 11, and October 2, 4 and 5.
“We had so much fun, the audience response was mind-blowing, and all the love and hard work we put into this production more than paid off,” frontman Kevin Cronin shares. “We are very proud of this special production and look forward to returning to The Venetian Theatre in 2024.”
REO Speedwagon first launched An Evening of Hi Infidelity… and More with two shows in November. The show has them performing their classic album Hi Infidelity in its entirety, as well as other hit songs.
Tickets go on sale Friday, December 15, at 10 a.m. PT.
Released in November 1980, Hi Infidelity peaked at #1 on the Billboard Album chart and featured the hit songs “Take It On the Run” and “Keep On Loving You.” It was the biggest selling album of 1981 and was certified 10-times platinum by the RIAA.
Pearl Jam is officially returning to the live stage in 2024.
Eddie Vedder and company are set to headline Spain’s Mad Cool and Portugal’s NOS Alive festivals next year, taking place July 10-13 and July 11-13, respectively.
The Mad Cool lineup also includes Bring Me the Horizon, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sum 41 and Greta Van Fleet. The Pumpkins and Sum 41 are playing NOS Alive as well, along with The Breeders.
Mad Cool and NOS Alive mark the first announced Pearl Jam live performances of 2024. The band wrapped a short U.S. tour in September.
A new PJ album is also in the works. Drummer Matt Cameron said in a recent interview that the upcoming record, the follow-up to 2020’s Gigaton, is “in the can.”
The Rolling Stones began shooting the concert film Rock and Roll Circus.
The film was shot over two days and featured The Stones, as well as The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal and Marianne Faithfull, performing on a stage set that looked like a circus. It also featured a one-time-only performance by The Dirty Mac, a group made up of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and more.
The film was originally supposed to air on the BBC, but, unhappy with their performance, The Stones opted to hold back the broadcast. It took 28 years for them to change their mind and release it. It premiered as part of the New York Film Festival in October 1996. A soundtrack followed two days after the premiere.
A remastered edition of the film in Dolby Atmos received a limited theatrical release in March 2019.
Bruce Springsteen and the late Robbie Robertson are among the artists earning nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards.
Springsteen is nominated in the Best Original Song category for his tune “Addicted to Romance,” which he wrote for the movie She Came to Me, starring Peter Dinklage and Marisa Tomei.
Lenny Kravitz is also nominated for his Rustin song “Road to Freedom, as are three tunes from Barbie, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For,” “I’m Just Ken” and “Dance the Night,” and The Super Mario Bros song“Peaches.”
Robertson is nominated for Best Original Score for his work on Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, where he’ll compete against the scores for Oppenheimer, Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron, The Zone of Interest and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
The 81st annual Golden Globe Awards will air live from the Beverly Hilton on CBS and stream on Paramount+ Sunday, January 7, at 8 p.m. ET.
A new photo book is celebrating the legendary career of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
CSN&Y: Love the One You’re With features over 800 photographs, as well as writings from over 20 contributors, recounting the history of the band — David Crosby, Stephen Stills,Graham Nash and Neil Young — and their cultural impact.
The book, with introduction by Nash and Stills, features photos from photographer Henry Diltz’s CSN&Y archive, marking the first time his photos have been presented in such a format and in this quantity.
Says Diltz, “I have known these guys my entire life as a photographer, way before they even formed a group and so I have photographed them all separately and together for the past almost 60 years.”
“Henry was a part of whatever was going on at any moment. And we certainly never thought this was history when he was shooting us,” Nash shares. “We thought, ‘There’s our friend Henry with his camera.’ And we trusted him.”
Numbered collectors copies of CSN&Y: Love the One You’re With are available now, all individually signed by Diltz, Nash and Stills. They are expected to ship later this month.
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The estate of Tom Petty and RR Auction have reached an agreement over a planned auction the estate argued contained items stolen from the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.
Back in May, the Petty estate threatened to take legal action over the auction, noting the items up for sale, including jackets, hats, vests and autographed memorabilia, were taken from a secure storage archive.
But in a joint statement obtained by ABC Audio, both sides now report that “all concerns regarding the recent offering of personal clothing and items of the rock star have been resolved without litigation.”
“The Petty family is grateful that RR Auction facilitated the safe return of the items, which have been returned to the Petty family’s secure archives,” the statement explains, “and there is currently no belief RR Auction committed or knew of any wrongdoing regarding the disputed ownership of the items.”
The statement concludes by sharing that as part of their “gratitude” to RR Auction, the Petty family “has agreed to a select few of the belongings to be offered for auction through RR Auction.” It notes, “The family supports the upcoming sale and verifies the authenticity of the items to be offered.”
Those select items are part of RR Auction’s Marvels of Music auction, and include Petty’s ornate space-themed vest, a plaid flat cap and brown suede chelsea boots, as well as a signed copy of Damn the Torpedoes anda signed portrait taken by Richard E. Aaron.
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David Lee Roth has found a unique way to get into the Christmas spirit. The former Van Halen frontman just dropped the new holiday tune “Talking Christmas Blues,” although he’s not really singing in it.
The track has Roth basically offering up a stream of consciousness on a bizarre holiday, set to an acoustic guitar and harmonica.
“Late last night I had a crazy dream, Santa Claus dropped in on me,” he shares. “Santa cracked a jar, we all got trashed, elves got thrashed, places got smashed up. Events unfolded, tragedy happened, igloo got flattened.”
In the song, he name drops Oprah Winfrey and at one point mentions needing to light a Menorah for Hanukkah. He also offers up a toast, sharing, “Like a Hallmark Hall of Fame card, Merry Christmas from David Lee.”
The song follows Roth’s solo take on Van Halen’s “Jump,” released earlier this month, and his original tune “Wash and Fold,” which dropped last month.
Funeral services for Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan took place Friday, December 8, in Tipperary, Ireland, and featured performances of the late rocker’s music, as well as readings by such famous names as U2‘s Bono and Johnny Depp.
According to RTE, the service at Mary of the Rosary Church in Nenagh featured a recording of Bono delivering an emotional reading, while Depp, who acted as best man at MacGowan’s 2018 wedding, was there in person to read the prayers of the faithful.
The service featured performances of MacGowan’s “A Rainy Night in Soho,” sung by Nick Cave, and the classic “Fairytale of New York,” performed by Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill.
MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said in her eulogy that MacGowan was not a fan of funerals. “He didn’t like the idea of death. He didn’t want to talk about his own death. He didn’t believe he was going to die,” she said. “He always assured me he would live to be at least 80.”
MacGowan passed away on November 30 at age 65 from pneumonia, although he had also been battling viral encephalitis at the time of his death. Ahead of the funeral, his coffin, draped in an Irish flag, traveled through the streets of Dublin in a horse-drawn carriage.
More fans are discovering Tom Petty’s “Love Is A Long Road” thanks to Grand Theft Auto.
The song, from Petty’s 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever, is featured in the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI.Billboard reports that since the trailer first leaked on social media Monday, December 4, on-demand streams for the song increased from between 4,000 and 5,000 daily to 78,000. After the trailer’s official release on Tuesday, December 5, it was up to 376,000 streams.
That’s not all, almost 1,000 digital copies of the song were sold, compared to negligible amounts prior to the trailer’s debut.
“Love is a Long Road” isn’t actually the first Petty song to be used for Grand Theft Auto. As Petty’s official Instagram page pointed out, “Runnin’ Down A Dream,” also from Full Moon Fever, was used in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
