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What’s the latest info about about rock music and the most interesting and momentous events in its past? You can find it all here: breaking news, sales and airplay charts from the past, notable occasions, and our appreciations of recently departed artists and other musical figures of note
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ National Tour in 2019
Following the successful NBC broadcast, a new national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical has been announced.
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Beatles Publicist Derek Taylor: Memoir Reissue
The 1973 book from The Beatles and Apple Records press officer was one of the first ’60s pop-cultural history books to be published
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Nick Lowe Releasing New EP + Touring
For his first new music in five years, the singer-songwriter imagines a bleak landscape as “the polar opposite of what it really is.”
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Emmylou Harris ‘Ballad of Sally Rose’ Reissue
Released in 1985, the song cycle is based loosely on her short time with singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, who died in 1973.
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Steven Bochco, ‘Hill Street Blues’ Creator, Dies
One of television’s most important and innovative creative forces in the 1980s and ’90s gave us series with sprawling casts and gritty realism
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Neil Young Releases ‘Paradox’ Film Soundtrack
The album, also featuring Promise of the Real, includes music from a new film directed by Daryl Hannah. It was recorded spontaneously with no overdubs.
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Wrecking Crew’s New Soundtrack Campaign
The LA-based musicians performed on literally hundreds of hit recordings in the 1960s and 1970s. Their documentarian is planning a 2nd soundtrack
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Hall & Oates’ First New Song in 15 Years: Listen
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo recorded the song with Train. They’re doing a North American co-headlining tour this summer
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Moody Blues, Cars, Bon Jovi Lead Rock Hall 2018
Dire Straits, Nina Simone and the influential Sister Rosetta Tharpe are also among the inductees, as the HoF continues to catch up with many overlooked acts
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Going Electric’ Guitar to Be Auctioned
The Telecaster guitar used by Dylan during that first electric tour in 1965 is headed for the block, along with items by Prince and others.
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