The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album Loaded will be reissued as a nine-LP box set. The new vinyl boxed set includes nearly all the music from the album’s expansive 2015 CD reissue, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition. The upcoming collection, Loaded (Fully Re-loaded Edition), features nine LPs with stereo, mono, and “Full-Length” mixes of the original…… read more »
Country singer Tenille Townes has teamed up with rocker Bryan Adams for “The Thing That Wrecks You.” According to Townes, the single was born from a chance encounter with Adams in a stairwell. “I was recording a song for a Hallmark movie in Vancouver last summer and found myself completely enamored by the recording space…… read more »
The German city of Frankfurt has announced that it is canceling an upcoming concert by rock legend Roger Waters, accusing him of antisemitism. In a statement announcing the show’s cancellation, Frankfurt’s municipal government called the former Pink Floyd frontman one of the world’s “most widely-known antisemites.” Waters was scheduled to perform at the Festhalle concert…… read more »
Whitesnake will reissue their 2008 album Good to be Bad as Still Good to be Bad in April as a Box Set. The collection will be available in different configurations on April 28, a few days after the original album’s 15th anniversary. The first collection is a 4-CD/Blu-ray with two new versions of the original…… read more »
Yungblud is set to headline the Eden Sessions, which take place at Cornwall’s iconic Eden Project, on June 10. “We’re excited to welcome the hugely talented YUNGBLUD to Eden,” said Rita Broe, Managing Director of Eden Sessions Ltd. “He unites his listeners and provides a voice for a generation, aligning with our mission to bring…… read more »
A&M/UMe recently released a digital-only expanded edition of Ten Summoner’s Tales to mark the 30th anniversary of Sting’s fourth solo album. Originally released on March 1, 1993, the album title is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek mashup of the artist’s given surname, Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 15th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales, the summoner.…… read more »
Disney+ recently released a new trailer for upcoming documentary Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman. The documentary is set to arrive on March 17 alongside U2’s Songs of Surrender album. Songs of Surrender is a companion album to Bono’s recent memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.” U2 have reimagined 40…… read more »
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne features in a commercial for Sony’s PlayStation new VR2 headset. Ozzy becomes a gamer in the ad, which shows him playing games on PSVR 2, as his wife Sharon Osbourne makes a cameo. The ad features lighthearted banter between the couple as they are getting ready to fly home to England,…… read more »
Organizers of the Black Deer Festival of Americana have announced a second wave of artists set to perform in the deer park this summer. The Pretenders, Bear’s Den, Midlake, Steve Earle, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and Far From Saints join the previously announced lineup that includes Grammy…… read more »
The Rolling Stones’ latest album, GRRR Live!, made its maiden entry into Top 10 On Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart this week. The concert album is ranked 7 on the chart dated February 25. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Rolling Stones album has found a place among a top 10-chart. The Black…… read more »