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Jerry Garcia is one step closer to being immortalized with his own street in San Francisco.

SF Gate reports that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution to rename Harrington Street, a one-block street in the Excelsior District of San Fran, Jerry Garcia Street.

Many fans of the Grateful Dead are well aware of the significance of Harrington Street, which is only about a tenth of a mile long. The block, between Alemany Boulevard and Mission Street, is where Garcia’s grandparents had a home, and fans are known to visit the yellow house where the rocker spent a good amount of time during his childhood.

Supervisor Chyanne Chen, who represents San Francisco’s 11th District where the house is located, introduced the resolution.

“Over the course of his lifetime, Jerry would become one of the most influential and revered musicians of all time, whose memory continues to unite people in their love of music,” read the resolution. It noted that in addition to being a co-founder of “the world’s most renowned band,” Garcia “believed in making music more accessible and giving back to his community, and his memory still brings the neighborhood pride and a sense of camaraderie.”

Garcia, Bobby Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann co-founded the Grateful Dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965, with drummer Mickey Hart and lyricist Robert Hunter joining the group in 1967. Garcia passed away Aug. 9, 1995.

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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry is hitting the road this summer and he’s bringing some superstar friends along with him.

The rocker is set to launch a new tour in August with The Joe Perry Project, featuring his Aerosmith bandmate Brad Whitford; Buck Johnson, who’s been part of Aerosmith’s touring band since 2014; The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson; and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz of Stone Temple Pilots.

“Well…it’s time to let the music do the talkin’ again,” Perry shares. “I’m really excited about the JPP line up this year!!!! … They’re all busy as hell but thankfully they’re able to carve out some time for this run.”

“The set list is gonna include my fav JPP cuts, STP, Black Crowes, and with Brad we’ll be hitting the Aero hits and some deep cuts and then ya never know,” he adds. “Gonna be a blast, and if you’ve ever been to one of my shows you know the words garage band on steroids come to mind! See you there!!!!”

The eight-show tour kicks off Aug. 13 in Tampa and wraps Aug. 23 in Port Chester, New York.

An artist presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, followed by local presales starting Thursday at 10 a.m. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.

A complete list of dates can be found at JoePerry.com.

Perry formed The Joe Perry Project back in 1979 after his departure from Aerosmith. They released three albums before Perry returned to Aerosmith in 1984. He last toured as The Joe Perry Project in 2023.

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Queen is once again revisiting their 1973 self-titled debut album.

Last year the band reissued a remastered version of the album, retitled Queen I, as part of an expanded collector’s edition box set, and now they’re releasing the album in Dolby Atmos for the very first time.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just announced that Queen I will be released as a limited edition Dolby Atmos Audiophile Blu-ray on June 13.

“I’m particularly excited about this new Dolby Atmos version of what we now call Queen I,” Queen’s Brian May, who executive produced the project with bandmate Roger Taylor, shares. “There are now a few nice adventurous Easter eggs in there, which those who know the album intimately will hopefully enjoy. Nobody has ever heard our first album quite like this!”

Taylor adds, “At last we get our first album to sound as we imagined it should sound … phew!”

The Queen I Dolby Atmos Audiophile Blu-ray is available for preorder now.

Released in October, the Queen I expanded collector’s edition box set featured six CDs and one LP, with 63 tracks with 43 brand new mixes. It included the original album with a new track listing, along with its originally intended running order, and the addition of “Mad the Swine,” a song that was absent from the 1973 release. There were also alternative takes, demos and rare live tracks.

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Steve Miller Band is headed to Las Vegas.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have added a new show to their 2025 touring schedule that will take them to Sin City. They’re set to play PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Oct. 25.

Tickets for the show go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

The Vegas show is one of several concerts Steve Miller Band has booked for this year. Their summer tour is set to kick off Aug. 15 in Bethel, New York, with shows in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Long Island, New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; Memphis, Tennessee and more.

A complete list of dates can be found at SteveMillerBand.com.

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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is being sued by a songwriter who claims he is owed credit for writing the band’s hit song “Dazed and Confused.”

Songwriter Jake Holmes argues in legal documents that he is “sole owner of the copyright” of the song,  which appeared on the band’s 1969 self-titled debut album.

According to the documents, Holmes wrote the song in 1967 and Page first recorded a reworked version in 1968 when he was a member of the Yardbirds. After their breakup, Page recorded the song with Led Zeppelin and gave himself sole credit as writer.

Holmes went on to sue Page over the song and the case was settled in 2011, with the recent legal documents noting that Page acknowledged that Holmes “created and had and has complete ownership” of the composition.

The new case argues that live recording of both the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin versions of the song were featured in the recent documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin and credited as “written by Jimmy Page, inspired by Jake Holmes.” He argues that is false and that he hasn’t been compensated for their use. He also argues that since the 2011 settlement Page has released other live versions of the track without Holmes being credited or compensated.

Holmes is suing for copyright infringement and breach of contract, and has named Sony Pictures as one of the defendants in the case. He is seeking damages of at least $150,000 for each instance of infringement.

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Fresh off his first public performance in five years, David Lee Roth appears to be ready for more.

The former Van Halen frontman just announced dates for a summer tour, kicking off July 22 in Paso Robles, California. The tour will hit such cities as Tampa, Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Diego and more before wrapping in Napa, California, on Sept. 14.

A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at DavidLeeRoth.com.

Roth returned to the stage Saturday, headlining the annual M3 Rock Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, where he treated the crowd to a set filled with Van Halen classics. It was the singer’s first public performance since March 2020, when he opened for KISS in Lubbock, Texas.

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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder is sharing another track off his upcoming solo album, The Vault – Fifty Years of Music.

The latest is the single “I Like the Things You Do,” which he wrote as a tribute to his partner Jaden. The track is the third single Felder has released from the album, following “Free At Last” and “Hollywood Victim.”

The Vault – Fifty Years of Music, dropping May 23, will feature a collection of newly recorded versions of songs Felder’s demoed over the past five decades. It’s his first album since 2019’s American Rock ‘n’ Roll, which featured such special guests as Slash, Joe Satriani, Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar and Chad Smith.

The Vault – Fifty Years of Music is available for preorder now.

Felder is set 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.

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Tesla, the band not the electric car company, has announced dates for a new Las Vegas residency.

The rockers will return to Sin City this fall for TESLA: The Las Vegas Residency, consisting of five shows at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

The shows are scheduled for October, with the band set to treat their fans to a night of hits, including their two top-10 singles, “Signs” and “Love Song.”

A Citi presale kicks off Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

This isn’t the first time Tesla has headlined a residency at the House of Blues. Their last stint there was in April 2024.

In addition to the residency, Tesla has several shows on the books this year. Their next is June 1 in Webster, Massachusetts. A complete list of dates can be found at teslatheband.com.

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are going to be working together again, just not on music.

Variety has revealed the voice cast for the the 3D animated film High in the Clouds, based on McCartney’s children’s novel, and Starr is on board for the film.

Others lending their voices to the film include Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Hannah Waddingham, Idris Elba, Jimmy Fallon, Clémence Poésy, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pom Klementieff, French actor Alain Chabat and Himesh Patel, who starred in the Beatles-themed film Yesterday.

High in the Clouds, which McCartney wrote with Philip Ardagh in 2005, follows a teenage squirrel named Wirral in his quest to overthrow an owl named Gretsch who banned music in their city of Gretschville in an attempt to be the town’s only singer. 

Toby Genkel, who directed the 2022 film The Amazing Maurice, is on board to helm the project, which will feature original songs written and composed by McCartney. In addition, Michael Giacchino, who did the music for Coco, is writing the score and Paddington 2’s Jon Croker is writing the script.

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Soundgarden is among the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and guitarist Kim Thayil tells Rolling Stone what a possible performance would look like during the November ceremony without late frontman Chris Cornell.

“It’s up to the Hall to how they develop their program, but we would love to play there,” Thayil says. “Our discussions haven’t gone that deep yet, but you could probably look at the people that [drummer] Matt [Cameron], [bassist] Ben [Shepherd], and I have played with over the past handful of years, going back to the Chris Cornell Tribute Concert in 2019, there’s a few people we’ve performed with who on top of our head would be the first ones for the call.”

The Cornell tribute concert featured performances by artists including Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Foo Fighters, Metallica and Queens of the Stone Age‘s Josh Homme.

Most recently, Thayil, Cameron and Shepherd played together alongside local Seattle artist Shaina Shepherd.

“I think the best I can say is look at the people we’ve worked with over the past five years,” Thayil says of the potential Rock Hall performance. “Then I take a note from what Nirvana did when they went in and they had three or four different singers [who] performed with them. I think it’s going to be something like that.”

Nirvana’s induction performance in 2014 featured guest vocalists Joan Jett, Lorde, St. Vincent and Kim Gordon in place of the late Kurt Cobain.

Elsewhere in the interview, Thayil comments on the possible release of a new Soundgarden record, which they’d been working on before Cornell’s 2017 death. The material has remained in limbo due to legal issues with Cornell’s estate.

“I have pride for what I did and I want to see that come out,” Thayil says.

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