Foo Fighters are headlining the 2023 Jazz Aspen Snowmass festival, taking place September 1-3 in Snowmass, Colorado.
The bill also includes The Lumineers, Billy Idol, Grace Potter and James Bay, as well as country musicians Old Dominion, Brothers Osbourne and Jade Jackson.
Jazz Aspen is one of several festivals Foo Fighters are playing this year as part of their live comeback following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last March. They’re also headlining Bonnaroo and Boston Calling, among others.
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Billy Joel may be in a “New York State of Mind,” but he and his wife, Alexis,were honored over the weekend at a benefit hosted by The Everglades Foundation for the work they’ve done for the people of Florida.
Billy and Alexis were honorary chairs for the event called Foreverglades. They were recognized for the work they’ve done through their charity, The Joel Foundation, in providing long-term recovery assistance to Florida residents in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
As winter residents of Florida, the cause is particularly important to the couple. At the event, they also announced a new gift to expand a pre-K-to-12 literacy education program in Florida’s Lee County.
Lionel Richie provided the entertainment at the Palm Beach event, performing hits like “All Night Long,” “Brick House” and “Easy” for the star-studded crowd.
The Everglades Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to restoring and protecting America’s Everglades.
Sean Stewart, the 42-year-old son of Rod Stewart, is reportedly a married man. Sean is Rod’s child with model Alana Stewart.
Peoplereports Sean proposed to girlfriend Jody Weintraub, who is also 42, on Valentine’s Day, and the two didn’t wait long to tie the knot. Sean reportedly popped the question in Las Vegas, and the two exchanged vows hours later.
A source close to the couple claimed, “Sean asked her while they were out to dinner at Catch. They married shortly after getting their marriage license at 10 p.m. at Little Church of the West.”
Sean reportedly called his mom before the wedding and had to convince her it was actually happening “as he’s known as a bit of a jokester in the family.” He then told his father, who the source said “was so happy to hear the news.”
The married couple reportedly celebrated their nuptials with Rod and Alana at the upscale Nobu restaurant in Malibu. They are apparently planning on throwing a more traditional celebration in Spain later this summer.
Jody is the daughter of late Ocean’s Eleven producer Jerry Weintraub. She has a five-year-old son, Doc, whom Sean is close to. “They go to the beach, he reads him books, he takes him to karate class, they play Magna-Tiles,” the source spilled.
The couple reportedly have known each other since high school. The source credits their mutual “best friend, Courtenay Semal,” for being “the reason why they kept reconnecting over the years.”
Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk will be raising money for charity with replicas of a skateboard deck hand-painted by Kurt Cobain.
As previously reported, Hawk obtained the board at an auction last year. In addition to featuring the late Nirvana frontman’s artwork — which depicts the cover of the 1981 Iron Maiden album, Killers — the deck was a signature model by late skater Jeff Phillips. Both Cobain and Phillips died by suicide.
On Monday, which would’ve been Cobain’s 56th birthday, Hawk announced “photorealistic versions” of Cobain’s original work, which will be available as skateboards, stickers and prints. Proceeds will benefit the Jed Foundation mental health organization and the Skatepark Project, which builds skateparks in underserved areas.
If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or by visiting 988lifeline.org. You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
George Harrison‘s solo albums will now be available via a partnership with his Dark Horse Records label and BMG, the company that in 2022 signed on to administer the late Beatle‘s song catalog.
George’s son, Dhani Harrison, says in a statement, “22 years since his passing, for what would have been his 80th birthday, I am overjoyed to announce that we are bringing my father’s music catalogue back home to Dark Horse Records, the company he started back in 1974.”
Dhani went on to tease that “the finest of packages,” “the deepest of dives into our archives” and “all the custom limited vinyl that we can get away with” will be coming as a result of the deal.
To mark the occasion, George’s entire back catalog is now available in Dolby Atmos surround sound for the first time, exclusively on Apple Music. “Happy 80th Dad!!! We love you always,” Dhani concludes.
February 25 will mark the 80th anniversary of George’s birth.
Among the Harrison albums included in the deal are All Things Must Pass,Living in the Material World, Cloud Nine, the concert recording Live in Japan with Eric Clapton and George’s solo debut, Wonderwall Music.
Bono in Sarajevo, 1995; In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images
If you saw U2‘s Zoo TV tour, you may remember that among the videos and transmissions shown on the wall of TV monitors onstage were dispatches from Sarajevo, which at the time was under siege during the Bosnian War. Now, the band’s role in helping the people of Sarajevo, culminating in their concert there in 1997, is the subject of a new documentary called Kiss the Future.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film features interviews with Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton, politicians and others. It describes how a photographer and filmmaker named Bill Carter — who wrote the documentary — wangled an interview with Bono and convinced him that the people of Sarajevo needed help.
The band was fired up by what Carter told them, but after U2’s management nixed Bono’s idea of doing a concert there right way, they started incorporating those video transmissions into the tour.
“We gave them a serious dose of uneditorialized reality in the middle of our show,” The Edge says in the film. However, as Bono notes, they eventually stopped because “it started to look a little bit like reality TV, using people’s pain and anguish for entertainment.” Still, U2 continued bringing attention to the cause, recording the song “Miss Sarajevo” as part of their side project, Passengers.
The war officially ended in 1995, and U2 finally was able to come to Sarajevo in 1997 and do a full-scale concert. As one attendee recalls, “The war ended the moment U2 came onstage.”
Produced by, among others Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Kiss the Future premiered over the weekend at the Berlin International Film Festival.
At the 32 annual Grammy Awards, Bonnie Raitt took home four awards including Album of the Year for Nick of Time.
She also won for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female and Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female for the album’s title track as well as Best Traditional Blues Recording for her Johnny Lee Hooker collaboration “I’m in the Mood.”
In total, Raitt has now won 13 Grammy Awards from 30 nominations. She was also honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.
Following his appearance in a Super Bowl commercial, Ozzy Osbourne‘s now starring in another ad.
The Prince of Darkness shows up in a spot for the new PlayStation VR2 virtual reality system. The clip finds Ozzy putting on the VR2 headset for some virtual reality fun with the game Horizon Call of the Mountain.
As you might expect, there’s a lot of yelling and swearing as the 74-year-old metal legend tries to fight off the game’s enemies, which he refers to as “dino machines.” You can watch the ad streaming now on YouTube.
Ozzy previously entered the virtual reality world during last year’s Metaverse Music Festival.
Roger Waters and David Gilmour are currently feuding, but Waters took to social media to declare that he has nothing but admiration for his former bandmate’s ability to play guitar.
Waters took issue with a piece that journalist Stuart Maconie wrote for the British publication New Statesman. In it, he referred to an article in the Spanish paper El Pais that quoted Waters as saying he was planning to remove Gilmour’s “horrible guitar solos” from his new version of The Dark Side of the Moon.
In a Twitter posting, Waters said he had to “set the record straight” about something in Maconie’s story. Referring to the “horrible guitar solos” quote, Waters wrote, “I don’t know who he thinks he’s quoting when he says Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos’ but it sure as s**t ain’t me.”
He continued, “I was there, I love Dave’s guitar solos on DSOTM, both of them, and on [Wish You Were Here] and on ANIMALS and on THE WALL and on THE FINAL CUT…Dave’s solos on those albums constitute a collection of some of the very best guitar solos in the history of Rock and Roll.”
He then addressed Maconie, writing, “Please check your copy with the subjects of your grubby little piece, before you go to print.” The current version of Maconie’s article now notes that the El Pais quote has been removed.
Of course, there still hasn’t been any resolution between Waters and Gilmour regarding their most recent war of words. Earlier this month, Gilmour’s partner, Polly Samson, tweeted a slew of insults at Waters, to which Gilmour added, “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters threatened legal action and, then speaking to The Telegraph , claimed Gilmour and late Pink Floyd member Rick Wright “can’t write songs…They have no ideas, not a single one between them.”
Guns N’ Roses are hitting the road for the first time since 2021.
The band’s 2023 world tour will start June 5 in Tel Aviv, Israel and storm through Europe through July 22. The North American dates kick off August 5 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and will hit arenas and stadiums across the U.S. and Canada, wrapping up in Vancouver on October 16.
U.S. stops include August 15 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, August 21, at Boston’s Fenway Park and August 24 at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
The band’s ‘Nightrain’ presale starts Wednesday, February 22 at 10 a.m. local time. The general on-sale date for all shows starts February 24 at 10 a.m. local time via gunsnroses.com. The website also has full details about VIP packages and more.
Interest in Axl Rose and company remains high: Their video for “November Rain” just hit two billion views on YouTube, and last year, the vinyl version of their Use Your Illusion I & II box set sold out.
