Classic Rock News

The Black Crowes have added another show to their schedule. The rockers are set to play SEMA Fest 2025 on Nov. 7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The event is described as a “celebration of music and car culture.” It closes out the annual SEMA Show, which includes high-performance automotive demonstrations, freestyle motocross and custom vehicles.

Other artists on the SEMA Fest bill include Queens of the Stone Age and Neon Trees.

Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday; the general sale begins Friday. More info on the festival and tickets can be found at SemaFest.com.

Next up for The Black Crowes, they’ll play FloydFest 25-Aurora in Floyd, Virginia, on July 26, followed by more headlining dates. Frontman Chris Robinson is also set to join the Joe Perry Project tour, which kicks off Aug. 13 in Tampa, Florida.

A complete list of Black Crowes dates can be found at TheBlackCrowes.com.

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Looks like Sammy Hagar may be returning to Las Vegas.

The rocker teased fans with the possibility of more residency dates in a birthday post to guitarist and Best of All Worlds bandmate Joe Satriani.

“Happy birthday my brother, looks like you’re celebrating hard already!” he wrote on Instagram. “Just remember Smoke, you can have your cake and eat it too! just gotta know the trick P.”

Hagar ended the post by adding, “can’t wait for the next residency announcement sssshhhhh.”

While Hagar doesn’t mention where the residency will be, it’s possible he could be referring to additional dates of his Best of All Worlds residency at Vegas’ Dolby Live at Park MGM. The initial residency took place in April and May, with Hagar backed by Satriani, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Kenny Aronoff.

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Actor Stephen Graham, who just scored Emmy nominations for acting in and co-creating the Netflix series Adolescence, plays Bruce Springsteen’s father in the upcoming film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. And apparently he and the rocker have developed a relationship because of it.

“This sounds weird, but it’s not weird, it’s just what it is,” he tells Deadline. “I’ve got a really lovely new friend, and his name just happens to be Bruce, and he’s really lovely and he’s one of the most wonderful human beings I’ve ever met.”

And that friendship evidently includes hanging out together.

“I took him to the park, and we had a little look of the sculptures, and then I put him back in his fancy car and off he drove,” he says. “We went for a nice little bit of lunch and stuff like, yeah, he’s a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful man.”

Springsteen, for his part, has had nothing but great things to say about Graham, telling Rolling Stone in a recent interview that he’s “out of this world” in the film.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which stars Jeremy Allen White as The Boss and Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, follows the rocker’s efforts to make his 1982 solo album Nebraska.

The film hits theaters Oct. 24.

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After several delays, Genesis has finally announced the release date for the much anticipated 50th anniversary box set of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

The band originally announced the box set in November 2024 for a planned March 2025 release. It was then delayed until June, and now they’ve announced it will be coming out Sept. 26.

Genesis announced the news on Instagram next to a photo of band members Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks at Gabriel’s Real World Studios, where they oversaw the Dolby Atmos mix of the album.

“It was an interesting experience to be back again inside the world we built 50 years ago for The Lamb,” Gabriel said. “[I]t was good to be back in the mixing chairs with Tony. It brought back many good memories of being in a band.”

Banks added, “Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth, and relive some of the moments we had when recording these pieces. Still sound fresh to me!”

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, created with input from the band’s members — Banks, Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford — will include the remastered album, done at Abbey Road Studios; a Blu-ray with the Dolby Atmos mixes; never-before-released demos; and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Live at the Shrine Auditorium, recorded Jan. 24, 1975.

It is available for preorder now.

Released Nov. 22, 1974, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a concept album based on an idea by Gabriel, about a Puerto Rican youth named Rael who goes on a journey of self-discovery. During the tour for the album, Gabriel announced to the band he was leaving Genesis once the tour was over.

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Paul Simon has added two new shows to his current Quiet Celebration tour, and folks at home may get to experience them one day.

The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced he’ll be playing McCaw Hall in Seattle in August, and he plans to record both shows.

According to a press release, the concerts are being filmed “for archival purposes and possible broadcast.” It notes that the shows “will provide a unique opportunity for audiences to become part of the Quiet Celebration tour.”

Tickets for the Aug. 5 and Aug. 6 shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

Simon kicked off his Quiet Celebration tour in April. His next show is Wednesday at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the final night of a five-night stand at the venue. 

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The Emmy nominations were announced Tuesday, with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh earning a nod, along with projects about Sly Stone, The Beatles and Bono.

Mothersbaugh, a founding member of Devo, earned a nomination for outstanding original main title theme music for his work on Netflix’s The Residence. Although he’s made music for TV for years, this is his first Emmy nomination.

Also nominated is the Hulu Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), directed by Amir “Questlove” Thompson, which was recognized in the outstanding documentary non-fiction category. Questlove also earned a nod for outstanding direction for a documentary/non-fiction program for Ladies and Gentleman…50 years of SNL Music, which charted the history of musical guests on the NBC late-night comedy show.

And several musical projects were nominated in technical categories, including the Disney+ doc Beatles ’64, Bono’s Apple TV+ documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, the CBS special An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlile, ABC’s 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction special and SNL50: the Homecoming Concert.

One rocker who didn’t get an Emmy nod was Bruce Springsteen, although he was eligible for his Hulu documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. That continues to leave The Boss one award shy of an EGOT, as he’s already won 20 Grammys, an Oscar and an honorary Tony Award.

The 77th Emmy Awards, hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze, will air Sept. 14 live on CBS. The show will stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

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Peter Frampton has announced a new set of tour dates.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will kick off a new leg of his Let’s Do It Again tour on Oct. 17 in New Orleans, with the nine-date trek also hitting San Antonio, Tulsa, Memphis, Atlanta and more before wrapping Nov. 2 in Hollywood, Florida.

“Let’s continue making amazing memories together,” the 75-year-old Frampton wrote next to the announcement on social media.

A presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

Frampton launched the Let’s Do It Again tour in April, marking his first tour since becoming a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Prior to that he embarked on what he called the Positively Thankful tour, which launched in September 2024.

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Styx is doing what they can to help the victims of the flash floods that occurred July 4 in Texas.

“We are heartbroken over the devastating floods from July 4th in the Texas Hill Country,” the band wrote on social media. They note that Live Nation and Styx’s charity, Rock to the Rescue, have made a $10,000 donation to the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, which will go toward those affected by the floods.

The band is also donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of their upcoming album, Circling from Above, on their website and at their shows to the organization.

Circling from Above is Styx’s 18th studio album and their first album of new material since 2021’s Crash the Crown. The album will be available for streaming and download on Friday.

Styx is currently on their Brotherhood of Rock tour with REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin and Don Felder. The tour hits Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday. A complete list of dates can be found at StyxWorld.com.

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The Long Island Music Hall of Fame has announced details of their upcoming Music Documentary Film Festival, happening Aug. 8-10.

The festival will include screenings of 24 music documentaries, covering artists like The Beatles, Harry Chapin and The Zombies.

Opening day will include a screening of the documentary Building the Beatles, followed by a Q&A with the film’s co-director John Rose and a performance by British artist Billy J. Kramer.

Also on opening night, there will be a screening of the Chapin doc, Cat’s in the Cradle 50th Anniversary: The Song That Changed Our Lives, featuring a musical tribute to Chapin, along with a Q&A with the film’s producer and director.

Closing the festival will be a screening of Hung Up On A Dream: The Zombies Documentary, featuring a Q&A with director Robert Schwartzman.

Other music docs screening at the festival include: They All Came Out to Montreux, about the Montreux Jazz Festival; Ron Delsener Presents, about famed New York concert promoter Ron Delsener; and My Back Pages, a short film about the world’s foremost collector of Bob Dylan memorabilia memorabilia and recordings.

More info and a complete lineup can be found at limusichalloffame.org.

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Bob Geldof is setting the record straight about a moment in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody that claimed donations to help famine relief in Ethiopia skyrocketed after the band performed at Live Aid.

Geldof, one of the founders of Live Aid, told The New York Times that it was actually David Bowie who was responsible for the surge in donations.

“The movie isn’t right. Queen were completely, utterly brilliant. But the telephone lines collapsed after David Bowie performed,” Geldof said in the article marking Sunday’s 40th anniversary of the charity concerts, which took place in Philadelphia and London.

Geldof says that ahead of Bowie’s performance, he showed him some outtakes from a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on the Ethiopian famine, which were cut from the final report because of the “appalling” images.

“David was crying and said he would cut a song from his set to show the CBC report instead,” Geldof explained. “It’s an extraordinary moment during the concert, because at the end of ‘Heroes,’ which the crowd were all singing, he quietly introduces the clip and asks people to send their money in. It was like a slap in the face.”

Geldof added, “Bowie brought the house down. That was the key moment.”

Live Aid, organized by Geldof and Midge Ure, raised more than $150 million for Ethiopian famine relief.

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