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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.
Arnold Palmer, Icon, Dead at 87
Another mythic figure who came to prominence at the same time as the birth of the classic rock era is gone. “I met Arnie once. I was a kid; he was a giant.”
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Madness to Release Can’t Touch Us Now Album
The British band, which began as part of the ska revival movement in the U.K. 40 years ago, is back with a new album. Check out the title track
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Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Deluxe Release
Planet Drum, a groundbreaking 1991 world music album featuring some of the world’s greatest drummers and percussionists, is getting the deluxe treatment.
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Tori Amos Boys for Pele Deluxe Edition Due
One of the singer-songwriter’s most successful albums is getting the deluxe edition treatment from Rhino. Bonus tracks galore on the CD plus a new vinyl reissue.
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Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd Plans Album
The only surviving original member of the Southern Rock legends still performing with the band will release new music with his wife, Dale, in November.
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Gregg Allman to Resume Performing Sunday
Great news for the legend who cancelled dates on August 5. “I can’t wait to get back out there. I’ve gotten so stir crazy these last few weeks.”
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Monty Python Founder Terry Jones Battling Dementia
The 74-year-old is set to receive a prestigious award from the British Film and Television Academy for his work, which includes directing many of the troupe’s films
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Ray Charles Atlantic Years Box Set Marks 86th Birthday
A 7-LP vinyl collection features the mono mixes of all of the studio albums the multi-faceted artist recorded for the label and feature such hits as “What’d I Say” and “I Got a Woman”
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Red Hot Chili Peppers 2017 Tour (Update)
The band will follow their recent European tour with a string of U.S. arena dates in support of their new album, The Getaway. Click for dates and tickets.
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Songwriter John D. Loudermilk Dies at 82
He wrote such hits as “Indian Reservation” (a #1 pop hit for Paul Revere and the Raiders), “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye” (a #6 hit for the Casinos in 1967) and “Tobacco Road”
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