On This Day, Sept. 30, 1982: Bruce Springsteen releases ‘Nebraska’

On This Day, Sept. 30, 1982 ...Bruce Springsteen released the solo album Nebraska.The album featured 10 acoustic songs Springsteen originally recorded as demos on a four-track recorder. He'd planned to rerecord them with the E Street Band but instead released them as a solo acoustic record.The album was a critical darling and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the album's biggest hit being “Atlantic City,” which reached #10.Some of the songs on the demo that didn’t make it on Nebraska were later rerecorded with the band and […]

September 30, 2025

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Paul McCartney kicks off 2025 North American leg of Got Back tour

Sir Paul McCartney performing on stage at Co-op Live in Manchester during his Got Back tour. Picture date: Saturday December 14, 2024. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)Paul McCartney officially kicked off his 2025 North American Got Back tour at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California, Monday night. He treated the crowd to a set filled with Beatles and Wings classics, as well as his solo material.According to setlist.fm, Sir Paul kicked off his 35-song set with The […]

September 30, 2025

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Vancouver man returns unreleased Beatles demo to Paul McCartney

Sir Paul McCartney performs at The O2 Arena during his 'Got Back' world tour on December 18, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)There’s no doubt Beatles memorabilia is worth a lot of money these days, but one man in Vancouver got something no money can buy when he discovered an unreleased demo recorded in 1962 by the Fab Four. Rob Frith discovered the reel-to-reel tape The Beatles made for Decca records in March, and the Vancouver Sun reports […]

September 29, 2025

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E Street Band’s Stevie Van Zandt praises ‘stunning’ ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’

(L-R) Steven Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen attend the New York Film Festival Spotlight Gala at Alice Tully Hall on September 28, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for 20th Century Studios)While the Bruce Springsteen movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere doesn’t hit theaters until Oct. 24, it is already receiving high praise from one of The Boss’ bandmates.E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt attended the New York Film Festival premiere of the movie on […]

September 29, 2025

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Madonna reveals she contemplated self-harm during custody battle over son Rocco

Madonna and Jay Shetty, 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty' (Ricardo Gomes)During her first-ever podcast interview, Madonna revealed that she contemplated taking her own life, but her spiritual practice helped her work through it.Appearing on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast, Madonna discusses her study of Kabbalah, which is a form of Jewish mysticism, and how she never could have dealt with certain challenges without it."There were moments in my life where ... I actually contemplated suicide," she tells Shetty. "And that probably sounds really […]

September 29, 2025

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REO Speedwagon members reunite for University of Illinois homecoming game halftime performance

Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon performs at Talking Stick Resort on December 15, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by John Medina/Getty Images)REO Speedwagon members Kevin Cronin, Bruce Hall, Neal Doughty and Alan Gratzer reunited Saturday to join the University of Illinois band, the Marching Illini, for a performance during halftime of the school’s homecoming game.The group joined the band on the field for three songs, “Riding the Storm out,” “Roll With the Changes” and “157 Riverside Avenue,” the latter being a song from their […]

September 29, 2025

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Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ ‘Cat On the Road To Findout’ book tour postponed due to visa issues

Cover of Yusuf/Cat Stevens' memoir 'Cat On The Road To Findout' /(Genesis Publications)Yusuf/Cat Stevens has been forced to postpone the North American leg of his book tour in support of his upcoming memoir, Cat On the Road To Findout.Stevens previously shared that the tour, Cat on the Road to Findout: An Evening Of Tales, Tunes, and Other Mysteries, was “in serious jeopardy due to significant delays in U.S. immigration processing,” and apparently his visas still haven’t come through.“Waiting months for visa approvals, we held out as […]

September 29, 2025

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On This Day, Sept. 29, 2023: U2 kicks off first ever residency at Sphere Las Vegas

On This Day, Sept. 29, 2023…U2 opened the brand new state of the art Sphere in Las Vegas, kicking off their U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency.The show, which featured Bram van den Berg sitting in for Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums, had the band performing their entire 1991 album Achtung Baby, although not in order. The set included "So Cruel" for the first time since 1992, and "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World" for the first time since […]

September 29, 2025

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Some guys have all the luck: Rod Stewart returning to Las Vegas in 2026

Rod Stewart, 'The Encore Shows' (Live Nation Las Vegas)Rod Stewart's once again rolling the dice on Las Vegas.The star will return to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in 2026 for another round of The Encore Shows, his current residency show. He has dates mapped out from May 27, 2026, through June 6, 2026. “Next year will mark 15 years at The Colosseum and I still get terribly excited each time I return," Rod says in a statement. "I love this theatre. […]

September 29, 2025