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Want to stay up to date with the latest in rock music? Our Breaking News column brings you all you need and want to know about what’s happening.

Eric Clapton, B.B. King ‘Riding With the King’: 20th Anniversary Edition: Listen

Two previously unreleased tracks have been added: the blues standard, “Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” and a cover of Willie Dixon’s “Let Me Love You Baby”

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Rock Music Festival Has Been Scheduled For July… Really

Dozens of rock tours and music festivals have been cancelled or postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Then there’s the 3-day July Mini Fest

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Insert Yourself Into Iconic Album Cover Art

For those of you using video conferencing to work and socialize from home, Iconic Music Backgrounds allows you to use your photo on an album cover

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Turtles Albums Expanded: Exclusive Interview With Howard Kaylan

The group’s studio LPs, originally released on White Whale, are being reissued on vinyl for the first time in more than a decade. Kaylan offers insights

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Tom Petty’s Family Denounces Use of ‘I Won’t Back Down’ at Trump Rally

Tom Petty’s family has denounced the Donald Trump campaign’s use of the musician’s 1989 hit, “I Won’t Back Down,” tonight (June 20) at Presidential rally in Oklahoma. Hours after the rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa ended, Petty’s social

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Neil Young to Release ‘Homegrown’ Album… 45 Years Later

Long described by fans as a mysterious “lost” album, it was recorded in 1974 and 1975. He describes it as “the one that got away”

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Yes’ Steve Howe Sets New Solo Album: Listen

Love Is is his first solo LP since the all-instrumental Time in 2011. He sings and plays electric, acoustic and steel guitars, keyboards, percussion and bass guitar

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Cat Stevens Cancels 2020 Tour Due to Pandemic

The singer-songwriting legend was planning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Tea For the Tillerman album. He expects to tour in “the near future”

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The The’s Matt Johnson: ‘Close Shave With the Grim Reaper’

The singer for the English post-punk group had emergency throat surgery after a throat infection took an unexpected and freakish turn

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Kansas Previews New Album, ‘The Absence of Presence’

The progressive rock band talk about their new LP and offer a video for the first release. They have a big summer tour planned with two other major bands

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