Bob Dylan won three Grammy Awards, including album of the year, for his 30th studio album, Time Out of Mind.
The record also won best contemporary folk album and Dylan won best male rock vocal performance for the track “Cold Irons Bound.”
Dylan also performed the song “Love Sick” during the ceremony. During the performance, background dancer Michael Portnoy ripped off his shirt and danced around the band with the words “Soy Bomb” painted on his chest.
Over the course of his career, Dylan has won 10 Grammys, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 1992.
Other winners that evening included Elton John for best male pop vocal performance for “Candle in the Wind 1997” and James Taylor for best pop album for Hourglass.
Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere artwork. (Courtesy of Live Nation)
Back in 2023, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich attended the first night of U2’s residency at the newly opened high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas. Since then, the metal legends have fielded questions about whether they’ll ever play the Sphere. Now, we finally have a definitive answer.
The “Enter Sandman” metallers will play eight shows at the Sphere in the fall, dubbed Life Burns Faster. The run is separated into four two-show stands taking place every Thursday and Saturday in October: Oct. 1 and 3, 15 and 17, 22 and 24, and 29 and 31.
Every Thursday performance will have a completely different and unique set list from its corresponding Saturday show, following in the tradition of Metallica’s No Repeat Weekend format on their M72 world tour.
The shows will utilize Sphere’s Immersive Sound audio technology, which “delivers audio with unmatched clarity and precision to every guest,” a press release says. Attendees will also experience “multi-sensory 4D technology” and “the world’s highest resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience.”
“About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ’23, I thought ‘We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!'” Ulrich says in a statement. “This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting.”
He adds, “We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way f*****’ psyched to go next level!”
Presales begin first for members of Metallica’s Fifth Member fan club on March 2. Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 6 at 10 a.m. PT.
Tour admat for Eagles The Long Goodbye Act III (Courtesy of Live Nation)
Turns out the Eagles aren’t done saying goodbye.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band just announced a new set of dates on their The Long Goodbye Tour, which began in September 2023.
The new North American stadium dates, which they are calling The Long Goodbye Act III, so far consists of three shows – May 5 in Atlanta, May 9 in Nashville and May 16 in Arlington, Texas. All three shows feature special guest Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Registration for an artist presale is now open, with presale and VIP tickets going on sale starting March 3 at 10 a.m. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting March 6 at 10 a.m.
Eagles are currently in the midst of their Las Vegas residency at the Sphere, with their next shows happening Friday and Saturday. They have dates confirmed at the venue through April 11. They are also set to play the New Orleans Jazzfest on May 2.
A complete list of Eagles dates can be found at Eagles.com.
2026 Rock Hall Nominees (Courtesy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
The nominees for the 2026 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have been revealed, with 10 out of the 17 artists in the running getting a nomination for the first time.
Phil Collins is among those first-time nominees. He was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2010 as a member of Genesis, but this is his first nomination as a solo artist, although he’s been eligible since 2006.
Other first-timers are INXS, Melissa Etheridge, heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden, the late singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, New Edition, Pink, Shakira, Lauryn Hill and the late R&B singer Luther Vandross.
This year’s other nominees are The Black Crowes and Billy Idol, who were both nominated for the first time in 2025, along with Mariah Carey, British rockers Oasis, new wave pioneers Joy Division/New Order, Sade and rappers Wu-Tang Clan.
“This diverse list of talented nominees recognizes the ever evolving faces and sounds of Rock & Roll and its continued impact on youth culture,” said John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. “Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is music’s highest honor and we look forward to celebrating the Class of 2026 this fall.”
To be eligible for nomination, an artist or band must have released their first commercial recording at least 25 years ago.
This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class will be announced in April. The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction is set to take place this fall, although an exact date has yet to be announced.
Gibson’s Mick Ronson 1968 Les Paul Custom Collector’s Edition (Courtesy of Gibson)
Gibson Custom is honoring legendary David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson with the release of a new guitar inspired by one of his iconic instruments.
The Mick Ronson 1968 Les Paul Custom Collector’s Edition, limited to just 100 guitars, is a replica of the rocker’s stripped finish 1968 Les Paul Custom. Gibson used aging techniques to give the replica the same wear, feel and sound as the original instrument. It even has mismatched volume and tone knobs like the original.
Available worldwide at Gibson.com, the guitar has a mahogany body, with an ebony fretboard with mother-of-pearl block inlays. It comes with a custom case, and features a reproduction of Ronson’s signature.
Ronson, who passed away in 1993, was best known for his work with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders from Mars. In addition to being a guitarist, he was a producer, arranger, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and worked with such artists as Lou Reed, Roger McQuinn, John Mellencamp and Bob Dylan. He also released five solo albums.
‘Bridgerton’ soundtrack artwork (courtesy of Netflix)
Covers of songs by The Cars and Sting are set to make an appearance in Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton.
The final four episodes of season 4 premiere Thursday, with episode six featuring instrumental versions of The Cars’ ”Just What I Needed,” performed by Altum Quartet, and Sting’s “Fields of Gold,” performed by Music Lab Collective.
Part 1 of season 4 featured instrumentals of songs by Coldplay, Third Eye Blind, Paramore and Taylor Swift, while part 2 also features songs by Charli XCX, Billie Eilish and Teddy Swims.
Part 1 of the soundtrack is currently available for streaming, with part 2 going live on Thursday at 12 a.m. PT.
Released in 1978, “Just What I Needed” was the first single off The Cars’ self-titled debut album and reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Fields of Gold” appeared on Sting’s fourth solo album, Ten Summoner’s Tales. It went to #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at #23 on the Hot 100.
Tom Morello at 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony; Bruce Springsteen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser; ABC/Randy Holmes)
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will have a special guest on their upcoming Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour.
Springsteen just announced on social media that Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will be joining the tour for “selected songs for every date” of the tour.
“Grammy-winning, Harvard-educated, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted artist, songwriter and activist Tom Morello is living proof of the transformative power of rock ‘n’ roll,” reads the post.
The announcement comes just weeks after Springsteen was the surprise guest at Morello’s charity concertin Minneapolis, where Springsteen performed his new protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” and was joined by Morello for “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”
“After Bruce joined me last month in Minneapolis for our Defend Minnesota charity concert, I was reminded how important our platform is, and how crucial the resistance work is that our music can do together at this dangerous historical juncture,” Morello says. “Together, Bruce, the E Street Band, and I are going to turn a spotlight on the current threats to democracy and human rights happening all around us on the Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour in the spirit of freedom, justice and rock n roll.”
Morello previously toured with Springsteen and The E Street Band for several years in the mid-2010s, filling in for Stevie Van Zandt who was off filming the TV show Lilyhammer. Morello also appeared on two Springsteen albums, 2012’s WreckingBall and 2014’s High Hopes.
The Land of Hope and Dreams tour kicks off March 31 in Minneapolis, and wraps May 27 in Washington, D.C. A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at BruceSpringsteen.net.
Queen + Adam Lambert performed at the 91st annual Academy Awards held in Los Angeles, treating the Hollywood audience to “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.”
The band attended the ceremony to support Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic about the band’s original frontman Freddie Mercury. The film won four out of the five awards it was nominated for, the most of any other film that evening.
Bohemian Rhapsody earned star Rami Malek the Oscar for best actor and also won best film editing, best sound editing and best sound mixing. The only trophy it lost was best picture — to Green Book.
‘Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition’ film poster. (Trafalgar Releasing; Art by Albert “Akirant” Quirantes)
The story of Iron Maiden is officially coming to the big screen.
A new documentary about the metal legends, titled Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, will premiere in theaters on May 7.
The film features interviews with the band members as well as Maiden fans including Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, rapper Chuck D and actor Javier Bardem.
“With unprecedented access to official band archives, IRON MAIDEN: BURNING AMBITION charts five decades of one of the most iconic journeys in music history,” the doc’s synopsis reads.
It continues, “This electrifying film offers an intimate look at their uncompromising vision and unwavering connection with their global army of fans.”
Cover of U2 EP ‘U2-Days of Ash’ (Interscope Records)
U2 has released a documentary short for their new song “Yours Eternally,” which appears on their just-released EP, Days of Ash. The song features Ed Sheeran and Ukrainian musician-turned-soldier Taras Topolia.
The four-and-a-half-minute clip was directed by Ukrainian cinematographer and filmmaker Ilya Mikhaylus and was released to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mikhaylus and his crew shot the video this past December, when they were embedded alongside the soldiers of Khartiya Corps. The clip is part of a full-scale documentary that will be released at the end of the year.
“For four years, Ukraine has been resisting Russia’s full-scale invasion, and the soldiers of the Khartiya Corps are among the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians defending their homeland,” says Mikhaylus. “In this short film, and in the upcoming full-length documentary, we attempt to show the beating human heart of those incredible men and women, the struggles and sacrifices they are making everyday for the most sacred thing on this planet – freedom.”
U2 released the six-track EP Days of Ash on Feb. 18, featuring five songs and one poem. It was described as “an immediate response to current events and inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom.”
