Outlaw Music Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, cancels show following ‘extreme weather event’

Live Nation/Blackbird PresentsWillie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, which features Bob Dylan as one of the headliners, has canceled its Tuesday show in El Reno, Oklahoma, due to what’s being described as "unforeseen circumstances.""An extreme weather event on the evening of June 29th in Ridgedale, MO at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena produced heavy rains and high winds forcing the crowd to evacuate," reads a post on the festival’s Instagram page. It notes that "much of the Outlaw Music Festival’s equipment and artists’ instruments […]

July 1, 2025

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Five more ZZ Top albums to be released in new high fidelity vinyl

RhinoZZ Top’s first four albums were released as a high fidelity vinyl box set in 2024, and now their next five albums are getting the same treatment.Rhino is set to release From the Top (1979–1990) on Friday, featuring 1979’s Degüello, 1981’s Loco, 1983’s Diamond-certified Eliminator, 1985’s Afterburner and 1990’s Recycler. All copies are cut from the original stereo master tapes and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.Only 3,000 individually numbered copies of From the Top: 1979-1990 will be available and can be preordered […]

July 1, 2025

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On This Day, July 1, 1967: The Beatles hit #1 with ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

On This Day, July 1, 1967 …The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "When I’m Sixty Four," "Lovely Rita" and "A Day in the Life."Sgt. Pepper's was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts in the U.S. It went on to win […]

July 1, 2025

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Call me the birthday girl: Blondie’s Debbie Harry turns 80

Dia Dipasupil/Getty ImagesCelebrations are in order as Blondie's iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like "Heart of Glass," their first #1 single, "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone."The band went on to have four #1 singles, have sold over 40 million […]

July 1, 2025

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ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’ hits 1 billion views on YouTube

Michael Putland/Getty ImagesABBA’s iconic tune "Dancing Queen" has reached a new milestone.The video for the track, first uploaded to YouTube in 2009, has now reached 1 billion views on the site, making it the Swedish band’s first video to accomplish such a feat.In a message on Instagram, ABBA’s Frida Lyngstad shares that the band's "overwhelmed" that so many people have viewed and listened to the song, noting there are only about 300 other videos that have reached 1 billion views.Frida writes that one of her "most cherished" memories is […]

June 30, 2025

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Deep Purple releases new preview of upcoming ‘Rapture of the Deep’ reissue

earMUSICDeep Purple has shared another preview of the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of their 18th studio album, Rapture of the Deep.The band has released a newly remixed and remastered version of the track "Clearly Quite Absurd," along with a B-side, "MTV (2005 Studio Jam)," which is a previously unheard instrumental take from a rehearsal session.Both songs are available now via digital outlets."'Clearly Quite Absurd' is a very unusual Deep Purple song, which I like. We've always liked being unusual," Deep Purple’s […]

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AC/DC sets one-day ticket sales record in Australia

Tibrina Hobson/Getty ImagesAC/DC recently announced they were bringing their Power Up tour to Australia, and their hometown fans were certainly eager to snap up tickets.Ticketek, which handled ticket sales for the tour, reports that AC/DC moved over 320,000 tickets in a single day, breaking a record for the most concert tickets sold in one day on the platform. The previous record for the most concert tickets sold was set in 2009, also by AC/DC.AC/DC initially announced only five total Aussie […]

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America’s ‘Hearts’ getting expanded edition in celebration of its 50th anniversary

Omnivore RecordingsAmerica’s fifth studio album, Hearts, is being celebrated with a new reissue.An expanded edition of the album, their second with producer Sir George Martin, will be released Aug. 8 and feature six bonus tracks, five of which are previously unreleased alternate takes. The sixth is a Spanish version of their #1 hit, "Sister Golden Hair" ("Con Tu Pelo Tan Dorado"), which is getting its first-ever release on CD.Released in March 1975, Hearts was a top-five hit for America, peaking at […]

June 30, 2025

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Queen to share Live Aid performance in honor of event’s 40th anniversary

FG/Bauer-Griffin/Getty ImageWith the 40th anniversary of Live Aid coming up on July 13, Queen is giving fans a chance to relive their electric set.The band just announced that on the day of the anniversary they’ll be showing their set on their YouTube channel for 24 hours starting at 6:41 p.m. BST, the same time Queen took the stage at Wembley Stadium.Live Aid, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, took place at London’s Wembley Stadium and Philly’s John F. Kennedy […]

June 30, 2025