Pearl Jam‘s tour announcement just got a bit sweeter.
The Las Vegas-based shop Pinkbox Doughnuts has announced a new signature treat inspired by the grunge rockers. The Pearl Jam Dark Magic doughnut features a white frosted shell, raspberry jam and chocolate whip, and also includes “dark matter” sprinkles, named after the band’s just-announced upcoming album.
You can grab a Pearl Jam Dark Magic doughnut on February 23 at one of seven participating Pinkbox stores. One random doughnut at each location will be filled with a pink ticket, which will win the buyer a pair of tickets to Pearl Jam’s show in Las Vegas on May 16.
Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen and his wife, Lauren Monroe, are putting on a concert in New York City in March to benefit the city’s firefighters.
The couple’s Raven Drum Foundation is behind the special show taking place March 14, at The Cutting Room, with the pair scheduled to perform a special set featuring Monroe’s original music.
The concert will also include an all-star jam featuring such well-known drummers as KISS’ Peter Criss, Bad Company’s Simon Kirke, Billy Joel‘s former drummer Liberty DeVitto, Widespread Panic’s Duane Trucks and more. The band will also feature Paul Shaffer and Will Lee from The Late Show with DavidLetterman.
For the concert, Raven Drum Foundation has teamed up with the nonprofit Friends of Firefighters, an organization established after September 11, 2001, to provide active and retired FDNY firefighters and their families with free, independent and confidential mental health counseling and wellness.
“Friends of Firefighters aligns with our mission by offering mental health support and access to alternative medicine to NYC firefighters at no cost,” Allen and Monroe share. “We’re honored by our legendary artist community’s support for Raven Drum’s first event at The Cutting Room. We’re excited to play in New York, creating a fantastic night of music, strengthening our community bonds, and raising funds and awareness for this vital cause!”
Tickets for the concert are on sale now. VIP tickets are also available, which include a reception, artist meet and greet and an auction. Items up for grabs at the auction include Def Leppard summer tour tickets and meet and greet packages, as well as a fire helmet signed by actor Steve Buscemi.
Van Morrison has been slowly adding some shows to his schedule, and he’s just announced two new dates in the U.S.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced a two-night stand at Bimbo’s 365 club in San Francisco, happening February 25 and 26.
Tickets for the two shows go on sale Friday, February 16, at 10 a.m. PT.
Morrison is on tour promoting his latest release, Accentuate The Positive, which has him covering some of his personal rock ‘n’ roll favorites.
In addition to shows in Ireland and the Netherlands, he’s also set to perform at the Sunset Cultural Center in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California, March 2 and 3 and at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California, February 28 and 29.
Def Leppard is getting ready to share a classic live concert with fans.
The band announced they will premiere their full 2022 Whisky a Go Go concert on their YouTube channel on Friday, February 16. The stream will begin at 10 a.m. PT and will be available for 24 hours.
The May 2022 concert saw the band play a rare club show, treating fans to such classic Def Leppard tracks as “Animal,” “Love Bites,” “Photograph,” “Rock of Ages,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and more.
Def Leppard is getting ready to hit the road again this summer. They’ll kick off a stadium tour with Journey July 6 in St. Louis, Missouri. The tour features special guests Steve Miller Band, Cheap Trick and Heart on select dates. A complete list of dates can be found at defleppard.com.
Rod Stewart has released a new song and video from his upcoming album, Swing Fever, a collaboration with former Squeezekeyboard playerJools Holland.
The song is “Pennies from Heaven,” a standard first introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1936 movie of the same name. In the video, Rod, wearing sparkly shoes and a shiny blazer, sings the song with Holland’s big band, which includes another former member of Squeeze,drummer Gilson Lavis.
As they perform the upbeat tune, a couple comes out and dances the jive. Then Rod’s wife, Penny Lancaster, appears and begins dancing with the male dancer. The song ends with Rod’s arm around Penny, as confetti rains down and a banner reading “In Rod We Trust” is unfurled.
Billy Joel is once again revisiting the albums from the first half of his career.
After releasing the box set The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1. in 2021, Joel is now giving fans a chance to purchase those vinyl albums individually. They include 1971’s Cold Spring Harbor, 1974’s Streetlife Serenade, 1976’s Turnstiles, 1977’s The Stranger and 1978’s 52nd Street, plus his first live album, 1981’s Songs in the Attic.
He’s also releasing a previously unreleased concert, Live at the Great American Music Hall – 1975, which will be available for the first time outside the box set.
The double-LP features a June 1975 San Francisco concert from the Streetlife Serenade Tour, with performances of “New York State of Mind,” “Ballad of Billy The Kid,” “The Entertainer” and more.
The albums from The Vinyl Collection, Vol.1 will be released April 5 and are available for preorder now.
Joel followed up The Vinyl Collection, Vol.1 with the November 2023 release of The Vinyl Collection, Vol.2. It featured 1980’s Glass Houses, 1982’s The Nylon Curtain, 1983’s An Innocent Man, 1986’s The Bridge, 1989’s Storm Front and 1993’s The River of Dreams, along with the 2001 instrumental album Fantasies & Delusions and the three-LP live album Billy Joel – Live from Long Island.
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In October, Robert Plant performed the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway to Heaven” for the first time in 16 years at a charity event in Oxfordshire, England, and it sounds like it was quite an experience for the rocker.
“It was cathartic,” Plant tells Rolling Stone of the performance. “People go, ‘Oh, that’s good. He never was going to do that.’ But I didn’t really do it! I just blurted it out.”
Explaining that the song was an important one for him during the time in his life with his Led Zeppelin bandmates Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, Plant adds, “So on that night, it was what it was. It was a trial by fire, but I felt better at the end than at the beginning.”
Unfortunately, fans may never see him perform the tune again. When asked if he thinks it will be his last performance of the song, Plant replied, “Yeah, I think you’re probably right.”
“Who knows? Something could change somewhere,” he says. “Spirit and heart could come back in the soul.” But he notes, “It’s a long song. Who can remember all those words?”
The Dandy Warhols have released a new song called “I’d Like to Help You with Your Problem” featuring Guns N’ Roses shredder Slash.
“The first time we heard it back in our studio we just stared at each other with our mouths open,” says frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the collaboration. “What [Slash] played on the track is amazing. I’ve never heard him play quite like that, but what is so fascinating to me is that it is clearly him playing. As recognizable as a familiar human voice.”
You can listen to “I’d Like to Help You with Your Problem” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanied AI-generated video streaming on YouTube.
“I’d Like to Help You with Your Problem” will appear on the upcoming Dandy Warhols album Rockmaker, due out March 15. It also includes the song “Danzig with Myself,” featuring Pixies frontman Black Francis.
New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi scored their second #1 single when “Livin’ on a Prayer” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Released in October 1986, the track was the second hit single from their third album, Slippery When Wet. The first, “You Give Love a Bad Name,” hit #1 in November, 1986.
“Livin’ on a Prayer,” written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, was also the band’s first #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
The video for the track, directed by Wayne Isham, played in heavy rotation on MTV, and in January of 2023 hit one billion views on YouTube.
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Santana and Eric Burdon & The Animals are among the artists confirmed for the inaugural Fool in Love festival, happening August 31 in Hollywood Park, on the grounds adjacent to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The festival will be headlined by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, with Burdon’s former band War also on the bill, along with Nile Rodgers & Chic, Al Green, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick and others.
A ticket presale kicks off Friday, February 16, at 10 a.m. PT, with the general sale set for the same day at 2 p.m. PT. A complete lineup can be found at foolinlove.com.
