Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant kicked off a tour together in Pensacola, Florida.
The tour followed the November 1994 release of the joint album, No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded.
The album was a recording of the duo’s MTV Unledded special, which was filmed in London and Wales and aired in October of that year. It featured orchestrations of Led Zeppelin tunes, with the duo backed by a Moroccan string band and an Egyptian orchestra. It also included four new songs.
The tour featured a set heavy on Led Zeppelin tunes, including “Kashmir,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Dancing Days” “Immigrant Song” and more.
Folks who didn’t get to catch Bono’s Stories of Surrender book tour will finally get a chance to see what they missed.
Apple TV+ is set to air the new documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender, on May 30. The doc will feature what’s described as a “reimagining” of the U2 frontman’s one-man stage show, Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief, which coincided with the release of his memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, released in November 2022.
The doc will feature footage from one of his shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre, which had him sharing stories of about his life, family, friends and more, along with performances of some U2 songs “that have shaped his life and legacy.”
And for those with Apple Vision Pro, Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive) will also premiere on May 30, giving viewers an immersive experience of the film, recorded in 8K with Spatial Audio to produce a 180-degree video. It will be the first feature-length film to be available on Apple Vision Pro.
Bono’s Stories of Surrender book tour kicked off in November 2022 at the Beacon Theatre in New York, and had him hitting 14 cities in the U.S. and around the world. He later added a longer residency at the Beacon.
The 90-track compilation album Good Music to Lift Los Angeles raised $275,000 in just 24 hours to help those affected by the California wildfires.
The album featured previously unreleased recordings, including covers, remixes, live tracks and unreleased demos. One such song was a previously unreleased R.E.M. live recording of the New Adventures in Hi-Fi song “Electrolite,” from the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 6, 1999.
The album also featured a live cover of the R.E.M. track “The One I Love” by Jason Isbelland the400 Unit.
Other artists contributing to the compilation included Soul Asylum, Dawes, The Postal Service and DeathCab for Cutie, Jeff Tweedy, Modest Mouse and Tenacious D.
Good Music to Lift Los Angeles was released Feb. 7 on Bandcamp and was available for 24 hours. All of the net proceeds from the record are being donated to California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the LA Food Bank. In addition, Bandcamp is donating 100% of its share of album sales to MusiCares’ relief efforts.
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, Physical Graffiti, and drummer Jason Bonham, son of the band’s late drummer John Bonham, is planning to celebrate the milestone on the road.
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening will kick off a new tour in May focusing on the classic album, the first time the band has done a tour specifically around one record. The trek, dubbed An Evening with JBLZE Celebrating 50 Years of Physical Graffiti, will have Jason and his band performing the album in its entirety, alongside other Led Zeppelin classics.
“This is my favorite Led Zeppelin album of all time. Being able to celebrate it the way we are planning on this tour is something I am extremely excited about,” Jason shares. “I can’t wait for people to come out and see these shows and celebrate this extraordinary record with us. My goal is to play at least 50 shows to commemorate 50 years. … And don’t worry there will be plenty of other songs that you also love played that night.”
The 21-city tour kicks off May 3 in Wallingford, Connecticut, and wraps May 21 in Los Angeles.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at jasonbonham.net.
Def Leppard is set to headline Ottawa Bluesfest, a nine-day festival that runs July 10-13 and July 16-20.
The “Hysteria” rockers will headline the July 16 bill that also features Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, The Decemberists and more.
Other headliners include Green Day, Hozier, Shania Twain, Lainey Wilson and Papa Roach.
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit OttawaBluesfest.ca.
Def Leppard is set to headline several other festivals this year, including Rockin’ Thunder in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Boardwalk Rock 2025 in Ocean City, Maryland; Milwaukee’s Summerfest; and Country Thunder Craven 2025 in Saskatchewan, Canada. Their next show is May 15 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A complete list of dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.
Tuesday would have been the late George Harrison’s 82nd birthday, and he was on the minds of some of his rock star friends, who paid tribute to him on social media.
The Beatles’ official social media accounts shared a video set to Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” to mark the occasion, while bandmate Paul McCartneyposted a black-and-white photo of the two of them together with the caption, “Time to celebrate my good mate George’s birthday.”
Eric Clapton —who had an affair with, and later married, Harrison’s first wife, Pattie Boyd — marked Harrison’s birthday by sharing video of an all-star performance of Harrison’s tune “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala in 1987. The performance included Harrison and Clapton, along with Ringo Starr, Elton John and Phil Collins.
John Lennon’s son Julian Lennonshared photos of himself when he was a toddler with Harrison and his father, as well as one of him and Harrison when he was an adult, set to The Beatles’ “It’s All Too Much.” He captioned the clip “HBG.”
And singer Carole King also paid tribute to Harrison, sharing a picture of the rocker with the caption, “Remembering George Harrison on his birthday.”
Harrison passed away Nov. 29, 2001, after a battle with cancer. He was 58.
Lenny Kravitz and Devo are among the artists booked to play the 12th edition of Shaky Knees Music Festival, taking place Sept. 19-21 at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
The festival will be headlined by The Deftones, My Chemical Romance and blink-182, with the lineup also featuring 4 Non Blondes, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Alabama Shakes, Sublime, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend and more.
Kravitz has been booking a lot of festivals in the U.S. this year. He’s already set to play Beachlife Festival in Redondo Beach, California; New Orleans Jazz Fest; Roots Picnic 2025 in Philadelphia; JAS Aspen Snowmass in Aspen, Colorado; and Oceans Calling in Ocean City, Maryland.
Devo is also set to play Oceans Calling, as well as Milwaukee Summerfest. They’ll also kick off their own tour, 50 Years of Devolution … Continued, on May 1 in Philadelphia.
Billy Joel is booked and busy this year, with solo concerts and co-headlining dates with Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart and Sting booked all over the U.S. and overseas. But three of those concerts will give him another entry in the live performance history books.
According to Billboard, Billy’s shows at New York’s Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, plus MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will make him the first artist ever to play all three New York City-area sports stadiums in a single summer.
He’ll play Yankee Stadium on July 18 with Rod; MetLife Stadium — home of the New York Giants and Jets — on Aug. 8 with Stevie; and Citi Field, home of the Mets, Aug. 21 with Sting.
“I’m looking forward to playing these iconic stadiums this summer – each holds personal significance to me,” Billy tells Billboard. “There’s nothing like the energy of the crowds in New York, and sharing a stage with my friends Rod Stewart, Sting and Stevie Nicks, whose music always inspires me, is extremely rewarding.”
Billy’s shows follow the end of his 10-year residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which sold nearly 2 million tickets and earned nearly $267 million between 2014 and 2024.
Stephen Stills and Neil Young are set to perform together at the upcoming Light Up The Blues fundraiser for Autism Speaks.
The show, hosted by Stills and his wife, Kristen,will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Autism Speaks, which is “dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.”
The show will be held April 26 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, with a lineup that also includes Billy Idol, Linda Perry, Cat Power, Christina Applegate and Stephen’s sons, Chris Stills and Oliver Stills.
“We are once again feeling grateful that we can play a part in helping Autism Speaks to fulfill their mission of creating such meaningful progress for autistic people and their families,” Stephen and Kristen share. “All the amazing artists joining us to celebrate autistic people will give our audience a night to remember for many years to come and we can’t wait to be with them once again!”
This is the seventh year of the charity show, which launched in 2013 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Young has played previous installments, as have such artists as Crosby, Stills & Nash, John Mayer, Jack Black, Patti Smith, Joe Walsh, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile and Sheryl Crow.
Tickets for Light Up The Blues go on sale Friday.
In other Stephen Stills news, he’ll join Judy Collins at her 85th birthday celebration in New York. Judy Collins and Friends: 85 Years of Music and Protest is happening March 8 at The Town Hall in New York. Other artists on the bill include Rickie Lee Jones and Paula Cole.
The Black Crowes and Jimmy Page have shared another track from their upcoming 25th anniversary rerelease of Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek.
The latest is a soundcheck performance of the Led Zeppelin tune “The Lemon Song.” It is one of five soundcheck recordings featured in the package. The others include “Custard Pie,” “You Shook Me,” “Ten Years Gone” and “Jam,” a song Page and The Crowes’ Rich Robinson wrote during a soundcheck.
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek, dropping March 14, features 36 tracks, both Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin tunes, recorded in October 1999 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre and in August 1999 at New York’s Jones Beach Theater.
“The Lemon Song” is the third track that’s been released from the set. They previously released a performance of The Crowes tune “No Speak No Slave” and a never-before-released performance of “Bring It on Home,” from Led Zeppelin’s 1969 album Led Zeppelin II.
