A new visualizer accompanying the Nirvana song “Dumb” is streaming now on YouTube.
The clip was created by animator RuffMercy using hand-painted Super-8mm film.
“Dumb” appears on Nirvana’s 1993 album, In Utero, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in September. A 30th anniversary reissue of the record, featuring remastered audio alongside B-sides and previously unreleased live recordings, is due out October 27.
Meanwhile, a newly annotated version of author Michael Azerrad‘s 1993 Nirvana biography, Come As You Are, is being released October 24.
Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band have rescheduled the Canadian leg of their 2023 tour.
The Boss will now head north of the border starting October 31, 2024, in Montreal, hitting Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton before wrapping November 22 in Vancouver.
Tickets for the originally scheduled Canadian dates will be valid for the new shows. Refunds are available to those who can’t make the new dates.
In late September, Springsteen pushed all of his remaining 2023 dates to 2024 in order to give himself more time to recover from peptic ulcer disease. The tour is now set to resume March 19 in Phoenix, Arizona. A complete list of dates can be found at springsteen.net.
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Heart’s Ann Wilson has given fans an update on a planned biopic on the group.
While appearing on the Totally 80s podcast, Wilson confirmed that the film, first announced in 2020, is still happening; she didn’t give a timeline as to when production may start.
“The pandemic kind of slowed them down a little bit, but it’s in the works still. Carrie Brownstein‘s writing it,” she said.
“I’ve seen a couple of drafts of the script. It’s good. She’s a great writer. If anybody can capture the story of a couple of women in rock, it’s probably Carrie, ’cause she’s been there herself,” Wilson added of the Sleater-Kinney rocker.
As for whether anyone has been cast to play her or her sister and bandmate Nancy Wilson, Ann noted, “There’ve been a few things bandied about, but nothing solid yet.”
“I’d like somebody who could sing, and then they could sing some, I could sing some,” she continued. “I think that my preference would be somebody young and brand new and fresh, somebody who’s really got their s*** together in terms of being into the script.”
Ringo Starr is out with a brand-new EP, Rewind Forward, and it includes the new song “Feeling The Sunlight,” which was written by his friend and former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.
“We were Facetiming each other — we do that quite a bit — and I say, ‘I’m doing an EP. Write me a song,’” Starr tells Billboard in a new interview. “And he said, ‘OK.’ And he not only wrote it, he’s on bass, he’s singing on it. He’s all over it. He actually put his drums on it.”
However, being that Starr’s a drummer, that contribution from McCartney didn’t stay on the tune.
“I wiped him off completely and did it myself. It would be like me sending him a track and I’m on bass,” Starr says.
He adds he wasn’t worried that McCartney’s contribution to the EP would be a bad one, noting, “Well, he’d written me a couple of good songs, you know, like ‘Yellow Submarine.’ I thought, ‘He can do this.'”
Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first songwriter to ever win the award.
Dylan was the 12th Nobel laureate from the United States and the first American to win since Toni Morrison was chosen in 1993.
Dylan’s win was not without controversy, as some in the literature community felt his contributions were not up to par with traditional authors.
Dylan was not present to accept his award in Sweden that December, as he had prior commitments. Instead it was accepted on his behalf by singer Patti Smith, who performed Dylan’s song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
Queen is taking a look at one of their classic anthems, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” in episode 37 of their weekly YouTube series, Queen The Greatest Live.
Queen has included “Bohemian Rhapsody” in every concert they’ve played since 1975. The clip features a medley of performances of the iconic song, which appeared on their 1975 album, A Night At The Opera.
“That one really took us into another league,” drummer Roger Taylor once said of the single, which was the band’s first U.K. #1. “It was a game-changer.”
Performances featured in the clip include the band at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, Japan’s Seibu Lions Stadium and England’s Milton Keynes Bowl in 1982, Brazil’s Rock In Rio in 1985 and London’s Wembley Stadium in 1986.
Next week on Queen The Greatest Live: “Love of My Life.”
Judas Priest fans just got their first preview of the band’s upcoming new album Invincible Shield, which drops March 8.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just dropped the record’s first single, “Panic Attack,” described as “a classic slice of Judas Priest at their very best.”
Judas Priest surprised fans with the announcement of their new album during their set at Power Trip in Indio, California, earlier this month. It will be their first new album since 2018’s Firepower.
Following the album’s release, Judas Priest will kick off a U.K. and European tour starting in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 11, wrapping April 8 in Paris, France. A complete list of dates can be found at judaspriest.com.
The Rolling Stones have teamed with the creative collection KidSuper for a new merch line coinciding with the release of their new album, Hackney Diamonds.
The limited-edition Rolling Stones x KidSuper collection, produced in partnership with merch company Bravado, includes a CD and cassette of Hackney Diamonds with the Rolling Stones’ lips logo reimagined in two different ways. Other merch offerings include tees, hooded sweatshirts, hats and mugs.
“I’ve been a fan of The Rolling Stones since I was a kid, so when the opportunity came to support the release of their new studio album, I couldn’t turn it down,” says Colm Dillane, artist, designer and founder of KidSuper. “The iconic logo, which I designed using fingerprint artwork, represents the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, and how many people have been touched by the band’s music over their incredible 60-year history.”
He adds, “I’m so proud with how the collection turned out and am excited for fans to get their hands on it!”
All items in the collection will be available exclusively at The Rolling Stones’ RS No. 9 stores, including their flagship store in London, pop-up stores in New York and Los Angeles and a soon-to-be-opened location in Tokyo. They will also be available online starting October 20, the same day Hackney Diamonds is released.
The black-and-white clip shows a person standing in front of a burning car and throwing an object through a glass window as a guitar riff plays in the background.
Green Day first launched TheAmericanDreamIsKillingMe.com on October 1 — which, of course, is when September ends — with a video of frontman Billie Joe Armstrong waking up in bed and looking at a calendar with the date October 24 circled.
The most recent Green Day album is 2020’s Father of All… The group also just put out a 30th anniversary of their 1994 breakout record, Dookie, in September.
U2 is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their iconic live album Under A Blood Red Sky with a special Record Store Day release.
The band is set to drop a remastered version of the album on 180g red vinyl. The new release includes a double-sided insert with credits and lyrics, and the bonus of a large two-sided poster.
Record Store Day Black Friday is happening November 24 at independent record stores across the country. A complete list of releases can be found at recordstoreday.com.
Released November 21, 1983, Under A Blood Red Sky features eight songs recorded live during three shows on the band’s War Tour. Two of those songs came from the band’s show at Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, which was the subject of last year’s concert film U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky.
