Credit: Maryanne Bilham“Smooth” move, UCLA! The Los Angeles university’s Herb Alpert School of Music has called on Carlos Santana to deliver a keynote speech during its 2020 commencement celebration, which will take place online on Friday, June
Warner RecordsGoo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik has been a frequent participant in live streams ever since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the concert industry. Now, he and the band are launching a formal series of performances
Matt Jelonek/Wire ImageYesterday, Rob Thomas made a special appearance on The Rachael Ray Show, performing one of his solo songs that’s very appropriate for our present moment. If you missed it, you can now watch it on
Mailboat RecordsJimmy Buffett has scored his highest-charting album in almost 16 years, as his new release, Life on the Flip Side, has debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200. The record notched 75,000 equivalent album units earned,
Credit: dhlovelifeNeil Young has penned a lengthy message reflecting on the current racial tensions in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police. Young’s letter, titled “Hope,” which he posted at
ABC/CRAIG SJODINFor a while now, we’ve been hearing that Elton John is writing a musical based on the life of Tammy Faye Bakker, wife of 1980s televangelist Jim Bakker, who prior to her death in 2007 became
Credit: Rose WesterbackNeal Smith, founding drummer of the original Alice Cooper group, has released a brand-new solo album titled POP 85/95. It’s a collection of retro-sounding tunes that were mostly written between 1985 and 1995. The 11-track
Craft RecordingsA trio of albums by British Invasion legends The Zombies will be reissued on vinyl on July 31, and the discs also will be available as a three-LP bundle. The albums are the Rock & Roll
Courtesy of Teen Cancer AmericaSunday was National Cancer Survivors Day, and in recognition of the day, The Who‘s Roger Daltrey took part in a video chat with young folk-pop singer/songwriter Harry Hudson, a lymphoma survivor who’s a
William KidstonPatricia “Bonnie” Pointer of the Grammy-winning family act The Pointer Sisters has died. She was 69. In a statement, her sister Anita Pointer announced, “It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the