Bonnie Raitt is one of the many artists headed to the beach next year for the Tedeschi Trucks Band’s annual Sun, Sand and Soul beach weekend.
The festival is happening May 1-3, 2025, in Miramar Beach, Florida, with Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks’ Tedeschi Trucks Band headlining two nights, May 1 and 3, and Bonnie headlining May 2.
Other artists on the bill include Los Lobos, The Wood Brothers, North Mississippi Allstars and Cory Wong.
Registration for the festival’s presale is open now.
This the second annual Sun, Sand and Soul weekend; the inaugural festival took place in the same location earlier in 2024.
Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood and Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Billy Cox are among the performers set to take part in the first Maui Music & Food Experience, happening Sept. 5-7.
Other artists performing at the three-day fest include Darryl Jones, who’s played bass with The Rolling Stones since 1993; Bernard Fowler, who’s worked with The Stones since 1989; Charlie Sexton; and Ivan Neville.
The festival is set to include a tribute to Jimi Hendrix and the 1970 film Rainbow Bridge, whichhe filmed in Maui. Cox’s participation is being billed as “likely his farewell performance.”
The Maui Music & Food Experience will raise money for essential services like food and housing for the survivors of last August’s Lahaina wildfires. Fleetwood himself was a victim of the fires; his Maui restaurant, Fleetwood’s on Front Street, was one of the many businesses destroyed.
Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson just dropped a new video for his latest single “Resurrection Men,” a track off his recent solo album, The Mandrake Project, which came out in March.
The video gives fans a look at Dickinson’s life on the road, featuring footage from his recent solo tour, which hit the States in the spring, and wrapped July 21 in Greece.
“The tour was one of the very best,” says Dickinson. “The band were just so pumped and on it every night that it was a joy. The audience reactions everywhere for songs old and new were pretty overwhelming and I already can’t wait to go back out again!”
He adds, “The video is my thank you to everyone that came to see us at festivals, clubs, theatres and arenas.”
“Resurrection Men” was recently released as a limited edition three-track CD, which also featured two live tracks, “Afterglow of Ragnarok” and “Abduction,” both from The Mandrake Project.
The late Andy Warhol‘s digital portrait of Blondie’s Debbie Harry is about to go up for sale, the New York Post reports.
Warhol created the portrait in 1985 as part of his gig as brand ambassador for the Commodore tech company. During a promotion at Lincoln Center in New York, he created several digital portraits using an Amiga 1000 home computer, which the Warhol museum says he had originally planned to distribute but never did.
Harry revealed in her 2019 memoir that two of her portraits were printed out, one of which she owns. The other, according to the Post, was gifted to Commodore digital technician Jeff Bruette, who taught Warhol how to use the computer.
Bruette, who has had the portrait in his Delaware home for the past 40 years, is now planning a private sale of the artwork, along with a Warhol autographed Amiga disc that includes 10 digital files, and it is expected to go for millions.
“From rural Delaware, where I live, to Hollywood … Even people who knew Andy made the portrait have only ever seen a photograph of it in a magazine or online,” he says. “I thought it was time the world got to interact with this extraordinary artwork the way it was meant to be experienced.”
As for why he’s selling, he shares, “Parting with this collection now gives me the chance to help find it the right home. And, to be honest, could make retirement just a little bit more comfortable.”
Live performances from one of Fleetwood Mac’s classic tours are set to be released as part of a new live compilation album.
Mirage Tour ’82, dropping Sept. 20, will feature recordings from the band’s two sold out shows at The Forum in Los Angeles, during their 1982 Mirage Tour. The two shows happened October 21 and 22, and featured the classic Fleetwood Mac lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks.
The album contains 22 live recordings, with six songs from the Oct. 21 show that have never been released before, including performances of “Don’t Stop” and “Landslide.” The rest of the album features songs from the Oct. 22 show that have been part of previous releases.
And Fleetwood Mac fans are getting their first preview of the record with the previously unreleased live performance of “Don’t Stop,” which is now available via digital outlets.
Mirage Tour ’82 will be released digitally, and as a three-LP and two-CD set. All formats are available for preorder now.
Sonic Youth was a big influence on Nirvana, and now Dave Grohl is following in the dancing footsteps of Kim Gordon.
After Gordon posted a video of her doing the viral “Apple” dance, inspired by a song off Charli XCX‘s hit album, brat, the Foo Fighters frontman has put his spin on it in a video alongside his daughter Harper.
You can watch the video now via Harper’s TikTok, which is tagged #davgrogbrattttt.
Grohl’s brat summer continues with Foo Fighters’ U.S. stadium tour, which stretches into mid-August.
Three of Pat Benatar’s classic albums are set to be reissued on vinyl this fall.
The three records – 1979’s In The Heat of the Night, 1980’s Crimes of Passion and 1981’s Precious Time – will be available starting Sept. 13 in limited edition configurations.
In The Heat of the Night, with the classic tunes “Heartbreaker” and “I Need a Lover,” will be released on both black and tangerine vinyl. Crimes of Passion, featuring the smash “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and “Treat Me Right,” will be released on black and opaque magenta vinyl. Precious Times, with “Fire and Ice” and “Promises in the Dark,” will be out in black and opaque fruit punch vinyl.
“We know how much you’ve wanted reissues of the early records on vinyl,” Benatar and her husband and musical partner Neil Giraldo share. “Finally, here they are! Happy listening, enjoy!”
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are currently on tour and will play Denver on Tuesday, July 30. A complete list of dates can be found at benatargiraldo.com.
The Rolling Stones, Rush,AC/DC and The Guess Who were among the artists who headlined the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert, also known as SARSStock.
The concert was put together in the wake of Toronto’s SARS outbreaks earlier in the year, with The Stones suggesting the show as a way to revive the economy.
The concert, held at Downsview Park in northern Toronto, was attended by somewhere between 450,000 to 500,000 people, making it the largest outdoor ticketed event ever in Canada.
Justin Timberlake was also on the bill, and while he was booed by the audience during his set, he later returned to perform with The Stones, with him and Mick Jagger teaming for The Stones’ “Miss You” and Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River.”
The musical career of The Band’s Robbie Robertson will be celebrated with an all-star concert taking place this fall.
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson, co-produced by Robertson’s longtime friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese, will take place Oct. 17 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. It will feature a lineup that includes Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Hornsby and Warren Haynes.
Other artists set to celebrate Robertson, who passed away Aug. 9, 2023, include Bobby Weir, Trey Anastasio, Noah Kahan, Jim James, Daniel Lanois, Mavis Staples, Don Was, Eric Church, Jamey Johnson, Lucinda Williams, Margo Price and more.
The venue holds particular significance in Robertson’s career. It was 50 years ago that Bob Dylan and The Band wrapped their famed reunion tour at The Forum. The trek marked Dylan’s return to the road after eight years, and his first tour with The Band since 1966. It was documented on the live album album Before the Flood.
Tickets for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson go on sale to the general public August 2 at 10 a.m PT. More info, including a complete lineup can be found at RobbieCelebration.com.
A street in Chicago is getting a new honorary name in tribute to late audio engineer Steve Albini.
An ordinance signed by Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Ross declares that the 2600-2700 block of West Belmont Avenue will be deemed Steve Albini Way, which encompasses Albini’s Chicago studio, Electrical Audio.
Albini’s label, Touch and Go Records, posted the ordinance on Instagram.
Albini, known for his work on Nirvana‘s In Utero and with bands including Pixies, The Breeders, PJ Harvey and Bush, died in May at age 61. Following his passing, Nirvana posted the letter Albini sent them ahead of working together.
