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Lynyrd Skynyrd Is Celebrated With ‘Fyfty’ Collection
The career-spanning collection of 50 tracks on 4-CDs includes a previously unreleased performance of a classic at what proved to be Gary Rossington’s final concert
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Rudolph Isley, Founding Member of the Isley Brothers, Dies
With his siblings Ronald and O’Kelly, he founded the celebrated R&B group who wrote and/or recorded such classics as “Shout,” “Twist and Shout” and “It’s Your Thing”
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The Stones & Brian Jones Documentary Coming
The film features revealing interviews with all the main players and previously unseen archive footage
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Jackson Browne on Making a New Album: ‘Your Standards Plague You’
The legend released Downhill From Everywhere at age 72. “It’s harder and harder, because your standards plague you.”
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AC/DC Triumphs in First Show in 7 Years
The band headlined the second night of the Power Trip Festival, marking the return of lead vocalist Brian Johnson as well as bassist Cliff Williams
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Joni Mitchell Releases ‘Archives Vol 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)’ Box
The collection spans the remarkably fertile creative period in which the singer-songwriter earned significant critical and commercial acclaim
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Roger Waters Releases Brooding ‘The Dark Side of the Moon Redux’
“I’m immensely proud of what we have created, a work that can sit proudly alongside the original, hand-in-hand across a half-century of time.”
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Van Halen Releases ‘The Collection II’ Box Set
The set includes newly remastered versions of four multi-platinum studio albums, along with a selection of rarities recorded between 1989 and 2004
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Queen + Adam Lambert Begin North American Rhapsody Tour
“Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious,” says Brian May
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When Jeff Beck Opened His Final Tour, With Johnny Depp
The pair were supporting their new studio album, 18. Beck shared the bill for the first six shows with longtime musical friends, ZZ Top
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