Neil Young topped the Billboard singles chart with “Heart of Gold,” his first, and to this day, only solo #1 single.
The track featured backup vocals from Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor.
“Heart of Gold” was featured on Neil’s fourth studio album Harvest, which spent two weeks on top the Billboard Album chart, and was Billboard‘s top album of 1972. It also included the hit single “Old Man,” which was a top 40 hit for Neil.
Young is due to head out on the Love Earth Tour with his band Crazy Horse this year. The 15-city tour is set to kick off with two nights in San Diego, April 24 and 25.
The public is getting its first look at Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan.
People has shared photos of the actor on the New York City set of the upcoming Dylan flick A Complete Unknown. In the pictures he’s seen in a green jacket with a yellow backpack, hat and brown scarf, carrying a guitar.
A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold, has been in the works for more than four years. It is expected to cover the early ’60s in New York, when a 17-year-old Dylan comes to the Big Apple and meets artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, and follows him through his famed 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival, when he shocks the crowd by plugging in an electric guitar.
In addition to Chalamet, the film stars Edward Norton as Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax.
A new vintage of Rush beer will be available for fans in the coming weeks.
Henderson Brewing Co. is about to release a 2024 vintage of their Moving Pictures Belgian dark strong ale with riesling must.
According to the description, the beer was first brewed by the Toronto company for the 40thanniversary of the classic album Moving Pictures, which was released in 1981 and features such songs as “Limelight” and “Tom Sawyer.”
“This Belgian Dark Strong Ale with Riesling Must pours a gorgeous deep, ruby color with a fine, tan head,” the company says. “The taste is complex, with notes of dark fruit pudding, toffee, dates, cherries, honey, bread crusts and a slight booziness.”
Moving Pictures (2024 Vintage) is available for preorder now and will be shipped within four to six weeks.
Henderson Brewing Co. is also offering a limited-edition four-pack of Rush beer, which includes the Moving Pictures (2024 Vintage), along with X-1, a Belgian black ale with cherry, Xanabrew, a Belgian extra strong ale and Signals, a Belgian-style blonde with riesling must.
They are also celebrating the band with Rush Day 2024 on August 25, which includes a day of Rush music with special guests, a new Rush beer, Rush beer tastings, a pop-up museum filled with memorabilia and a screening of the 2010 film Beyond The Lighted Stage. Tickets are on sale now.
KISS made their living wearing makeup onstage, so the fact that they’ve teamed up with a makeup company for a new line of products shouldn’t be all that surprising.
The band has collaborated with Glamlite cosmetics for their first-ever makeup collection, which is available now. The limited-edition collection includes the KISS X Glamlite PR Box, which comes with an eye shadow palette, mascara, lip kit, black and white bases and a mirror, which all comes in a PR box. There’s also a collection without the box and a makeup bag that uses lenticular motion technology for a design with movement.
Fans can also purchase items separately, including the eye shadow palette, “Lick it Up” lip kit and mascara.
Items in the collection range in price from $14 to $120 and are available to purchase on the Glamlite website.
Looks like Judas Priest has a hit with their new album, Invincible Shield.
The album, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ first since 2018’s Firepower, debuted at #2 on the U.K. Official Albums chart, making it their highest-charting album ever.
Invincible Shield surpasses the band’s 1980 release, British Steel, which peaked at #4.
Judas Priest kicked off their Invincible Shield tour in support of the album in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday. The tour hits Dublin, Ireland, on March 15 and kicks off in the U.S. on April 18 in Wallingford, Connecticut. A complete list of dates can be found at judaspriest.com.
Neil Young announced Wednesday that his music would be returning to Spotify, two years after he pulled the tunes off the streaming service in protest of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Well, now Rogan has commented on Young’s latest move.
“By the way, Neil Young came back to Spotify. Congratulations, Neil,” Rogan said in his episode featuring political commentator James Lindsay. “And his excuse was he said that because all of the platforms are now allowing my disinformation, he’s just going back on Spotify, too.”
“Great to know you’ve got some ethics,” Rogan added, with Lindsay chiming in, “Well, everybody’s doing it these days—disinformation.”
Young demanded his music be pulled from Spotify back in January 2022, accusing the service of “spreading fake information” about the COVID-19 vaccine on the podcast. At the time, he said they “can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”
In the announcement of his music’s return, Young said it was because both Apple and Amazon were also carrying The Joe Rogan Experience, noting he couldn’t leave them too “because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all.”
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So many fans were eager to snag tickets to Sting’s new Sting 3.0 theater tour that he’s added more shows to the trek.
The former Police frontman has added six new dates to the tour, including third shows in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles and second shows in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami. He also added a second show at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, but that’s already sold out.
Citi and American Express (for Canada only) presales for the new dates will kick off Tuesday, March 19, at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday, March 22, at 10 a.m.
The tour, which will have Sting backed by guitarist and longtime collaborator Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas, kicks off September 17 in Detroit and wraps with a newly added November 15 date at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Tickets for the original run of shows are currently on sale, although shows in several cities, including Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, are already sold out. A complete list of dates can be found at sting.com.
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The Black Crowes’Rich Robinson has some strong opinions about today’s music, and he isn’t necessarily a fan.
“The problem with a lot of music today is that there’s no humanity in it,” he tells The Sun in a new interview. “There’s a pursuit of perfection and a use of these tools that sucks all human qualities out of it.”
Robinson would rather listen to music that embraced imperfection, suggesting it made songs better.
“Listen to a Beatles record – they’re all over the f******place. Same with Led Zeppelin and the Stones. That’s why their records are exciting,” he says. “Some of my favorite moments on my favorite records have f-ups in them. “
“You listen to Zeppelin’s ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’ and you hear John Bonham’s squeaky kick-drum. That’s so cool. You hear about the Stones and the chaos that went into making ‘Exile On Main St.’ in this moldy French villa and it’s 100 degrees,” he continues. “It’s amazing and it’s dangerous and can fall off the rails at any time but it’s brilliant and it never does. That’s the human element.”
The Black Crowes just released their first new album in 15 years, Happiness Bastards. They will hit the road on the Happiness Bastards tour starting April 2 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. A complete list of dates can be found at theblackcrowes.com.
The S84 Shade to Black was created in collaboration with vocalist James Hetfield alongside Jonathan Drew of the cigar company Drew Estate and distiller Rob Dietrich, who also works with Metallica on their Blackened Whiskey. The trio previously worked together on Metallica’s first cigar, 2022’s M81.
A description for S84 Shade to Black reads, “Wrapped in a luxurious Connecticut Ecuador cover leaf, this expression is distinctly different from the original while still retaining core qualities of M81 through the Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf Maduro binder and Nicaraguan Maduro and Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro filler leaves.”
Metallica, meanwhile, is preparing to return to the road for the 2024 leg of their world M72 tour, which comes to the U.S. in July.
Pearl Jam‘s new album, Dark Matter, was recorded at the famed Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, California, which was famously shown in The Band documentary The Last Waltz. Speaking with MOJO, frontman Eddie Vedder shares he felt he was “tapping into a sacred space” while writing there.
“I can’t tell you how much it meant to be in that spot,” says Vedder, who refers to The Last Waltz as his “introduction to so much music.”
“It was like mining energy in a safe place,” he adds. “It was a huge part of being able to go deep.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Vedder opens up about a number of Dark Matter songs. He describes the cut “Waiting for Stevie” as being about “a young girl not feeling appreciated by her peers, who finds relief and connection in music at a show.”
That leads him to a discussion of Taylor Swift. You might recall that Vedder attended the pop superstar’s Eras Tour over the summer, though he was misidentified by one Swiftie as Pedro Pascal.
“The craziest thing was it reminded me of punk rock crowds, of being aligned with all of the misfits in our town, back in the day,” Vedder says of his Eras experience. “It was galvanizing and powerful.”
Dark Matter is due out April 19, which is actually the same day that Swift’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, drops.
