Squeeze announces new album, ‘Trixies’, featuring songs written 50 years ago

Cover of Squeeze's 'Trixies'/(BMG)Squeeze is getting ready to drop a new album, although the material in it isn’t new … to them.The band will release Trixies, their first album in eight years, on March 6. The songs on it were the first tunes Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook ever wrote together back when they were teens.The songs are described as a "collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies." They were written by the duo back in 1974 […]

November 13, 2025

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On This Day, Nov. 13, 2016: Leon Russell died at age 74

On This Day, Nov. 13, 2016 ...Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell died in his sleep at age 74.His songs, including "Superstar," "A Song for You," "Delta Lady" and "This Masquerade," were big hits for other artists, and he worked with everyone from Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker to George Harrison and The Rolling Stones.In 2010, Elton John, who called Russell a "mentor," helped revive Russell's career with their joint album, The Union, which earned a Grammy nomination […]

November 13, 2025

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Sting bringing reworked musical ‘The Last Ship’ back to NYC — and he’s starring in it

Sting performs at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, October 2025 (Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)Sting's musical The Last Ship closed on Broadway in January of 2015, but now it's sailing back to New York City -- just a little further uptown.A reworked version of the Tony-nominated musical, inspired by Sting's own childhood in Wallsend, a shipbuilding town in the north of England, will play at New York's Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances. The musical, running […]

November 13, 2025

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Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick’s new album, ‘All Washed Up’: ‘We just want to do what we think sounds good’

Cover art for Cheap Trick's 'All Washed Up'/ (BMG)Cheap Trick will release their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and bassist Tom Petersson says their approach to making records today is the same as it was when they first started out over 50 years ago.“We just are making songs that we like, would like to hear ourselves,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it's like we're making it for ourselves and our friends, and then the rest, it’s like having […]

November 13, 2025

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Roberta Flack biopic and documentary in the works

Roberta Flack onstage at Madison Square Garden for the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert, New York, New York, May 14, 1988. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)A new biopic on legendary R&B singer Roberta Flack is in the works.ABC Audio has confirmed that Good Morning America host Robin Roberts’ production company, Rock’n Robin Productions, has acquired the singer’s life rights for a biopic and a documentary on Flack’s life."We are thrilled to add Roberta Flack to the illustrious list of American […]

November 12, 2025

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‘Pure light and soul’: Paula Abdul mourns former band member & ‘Kimmel’ bandleader Cleto Escobedo III

Jimmy Kimmel and Cleto Escobedo III (Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)Jimmy Kimmel isn't the only celebrity mourning bandleader and saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III. Before Cleto became the leader of Cleto and the Cletones on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he toured the world with Paula Abdul. She shared a clip on Instagram that showed her performing her hit "Forever Your Girl" onstage with Escobedo and wrote, "My heart is heavy today as we say goodbye to the incredible Cleto Escobedo III.""I first met Cleto […]

November 12, 2025

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Bryan Adams photo exhibit to open in LA in November

Bryan Adams at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Frank Micelotta)When he isn't being a rock star and touring the world, Bryan Adams is also an acclaimed photographer, and you'll be able to see his work in LA.Adams' latest photography exhibition, #SHOTBYADAMS, will open at the Leica Store & Gallery Los Angeles Nov. 17 and run through Dec. 1. It's the first time the show has been staged in the U.S. Among the highlights are Adams' photos […]

November 12, 2025

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Neil Young, Jackson Browne among the 2025 Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame inductees

Jackson Browne performs onstage during the Wild Honey tribute to Warren Zevon at The Granada Theatre on September 27, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame in Boston has announced its 2025 inductees, including Neil Young and Jackson Browne.Young and Browne are recognized in the living artist category, along with Judy Collins, folk singer Tom Paxton and folks/blues singer Tom Rush. The honor goes to “a contemporary performer whose initial impact on the genre was […]

November 12, 2025

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Graham Nash announces spring 2026 tour dates

Graham Nash performs onstage during the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia Forum on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for FIREAID)Graham Nash has announced his first shows of 2026.The new tour kicks off April 4 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, with stops in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina and more, before wrapping with a two-night stand in Ponte Vedra, Florida, May 1 and 2."Excited to be going out on […]

November 12, 2025