Classic Hits

It’s really not such a long way to go to make it to the border of Mexico — and once you’re there, you can enjoy a concert by Christopher Cross and his yacht rock cohort.

Sunset Fest Cabo, taking place in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, from Oct. 24 through Oct. 26, is being described as a “three-day celebration of yacht rock, ocean breezes and luxury lifestyle.” In addition to Christopher Cross, the festival will feature performances from Kenny Loggins, Rick Springfield, Alan Parsons, Ambrosia and Pablo Cruise.

Plus, Elliot Lurie of Looking Glass — the guy who wrote and sang “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” — is on the bill, along with Walter Egan of “Magnet and Steel” fame and John Ford Coley of England Dan & John Ford Coley. More acts are still to be announced.

On top of the music, the festival includes food and beverage experiences, parties, the usual resort activities at a variety of hotels and even a VIP yacht club experience. Tickets are on sale now at sunsetfestcabo.com.

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Deep Purple is set to release a new super deluxe edition of their 1972 live album Made in Japan on Friday, and they are giving fans a way to enjoy it together.

The band is set to host a special Made in Japan listening party on YouTube Friday, where fans will get to experience producer Steven Wilson‘s stereo remix of the album. The party starts at 3 p.m. ET.

The album features performances from two shows in Osaka and one in Tokyo. The new super deluxe edition of the record is a five-CD/Blu-Ray set that includes the new stereo and Dolby ATMOS mixes of the original album by Wilson, as well as newly remixed versions of all three concerts and three rare single edits.

The set will also be released digitally and as a 10-LP black vinyl edition, which will be exclusively available on DeepPurple.com and Rhino.com. There will also be a two-LP vinyl edition featuring the Wilson remix, available in the U.S. on Oct. 3.

Live in Japan featured performances of songs from Deep Purple’s then-new album Machine Head, including their now-classic “Smoke on the Water,” as well as “Child in Time” and “Strange Kind of Woman.”

The double LP was supposed to come out only in Japan, but eventually got a wider release. It was released in America that December and was a huge success. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Made in Japan (Super Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

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The Joe Perry Project launched their North American tour in Tampa Wednesday night, treating the audience to a whole bunch of Aerosmith classics and more.

Perry’s band is made up of his Aerosmith bandmate Brad Whitford; Buck Johnson, a member of Aerosmith’s touring band since 2014; The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson; Stone Temple Pilots‘ Robert DeLeo; and longtime JPP drummer Jason Sutter. According to setlist.fm, each band member’s music was represented in the set.

Aerosmith tunes performed during opening night included “Same Old Song and Dance,” “Get the Lead Out,” “Mama Kin” and “Get It Up,” “Last Child,” “Draw the Line” and “Walk This Way.” The set also featured The Black Crowes’ “Jealous Again” and “Twice as Hard,” and Stone Temple Pilots tracks “Vasoline” and “Interstate Love Song.”

The set also featured several of Perry’s own tracks, including “Fortunate One” and “Won’t Let Me Go.”

Perry formed The Joe Perry Project back in 1979 after his departure from Aerosmith. They released three albums before Perry returned to Aerosmith in 1984. He last toured as The Joe Perry Project in 2023.

The tour hits Hollywood, Florida, on Thursday. A complete list of dates can be found at JoePerry.com.

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Robert Plant has released another track off his upcoming album with his acoustic band Saving Grace. The latest is the tune “Gospel Plough,” which is now available.

According to a description on Instagram, with “Gospel Plough” the band transforms “a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion.”

Plant and Saving Grace are set to release their debut album, Saving Grace, on Sept. 26. It’s an album that’s six years in the making, as Plant began working with Saving Grace — drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse Brown and vocalist Suzi Dian — in 2019.

The album, which Plant describes as “a song book of the lost and found,” was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025. It has them covering songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley of Moby Grape, Blind Willie Johnson and more.

Plant and Saving Grace are set to launch their first U.S. tour on Oct. 30 in Wheeling, West Virginia, with dates confirmed through Nov. 23 in Valley Center, California. A complete list of dates can be found at RobertPlant.com.

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The life of singer Sinéad O’Connor may be headed to the big screen.

Variety reports that a biopic on the late Irish singer is being made and has been in the works since the release of her 2022 documentary, Nothing Compares. Irish production company ie: entertainment, which worked with Sinéad on the doc, will produce, along with Irish production company Nine Daughters and See-Saw Films.

The biopic will focus on her early life and career. It will be directed by Josephine Decker, who directed the 2020 Elisabeth Moss film Shirley, with a script written by Irish writer Stacey Gregg.

O’Connor, best known for her 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U,” from the #1 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, died in 2023 at the age of 56.

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A new box set celebrating John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s political activism and early life in New York City is on the way.

Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition), produced by the couple’s son Sean Ono Lennon, will be released Oct. 10, on what would have been John’s 85th birthday. It’s a nine-CD/3-Blu-ray box set, featuring 123 tracks, 90 of which have either never been heard before or were previously unreleased. They include demos, outtakes, home recordings and more.

The set includes a new version of their 1972 album Sometime in New York City, as well as a completely remixed version of the pair’s 1972 One to One concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which were John’s only full length concerts after leaving The Beatles.  The concerts will also be released outside the box set in a variety of configurations. 

As a preview of the box set, a previously unreleased performance of “Come Together” from the One to One concerts has now been released.

“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time,” said Sean. “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.”

The super deluxe edition will come with a 204-page hardcover book and more goodies. There will also be two-CD, four-LP and two-LP colored vinyl editions. 

All formats are available for preorder now.

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Eagles founding member Bernie Leadon has debuted a video for his latest single, “Too Many Memories,” which is his first solo single in over 21 years.

The clip uses old photos to provide a “visual time capsule” of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s life and career, and he says digging through his old pics for the clip was “a lot of fun.”

“I’m sure everyone has their own batch of photos they feel strongly connected to. And a song or two to go with them,” he says. “Looking back at photos, and different moments throughout our lives, so many memories, stories and feelings come back to us, sometimes connected to a song or a similar experience.”

He adds, “It’s not that we literally have ‘Too Many’ memories, it’s that some of them may not be resolved, that we’ve left something undone or unsaid.” He notes, “The song’s conclusion is that we really should leave most of the troubling things behind, let them dissolve like the mist rising off a meadow in the early morning or dwindling light of evening.”

It’s been a long time since Leadon has performed for the public, but that’s about to change. He’s set to perform at the upcoming Americanafest, taking place Sept. 9-13, marking his first public performance since touring with the Eagles on 2105’s History of the Eagles tour.

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Boy George is set to appear in a new British movie coming to theaters for the holiday season.

The Culture Club frontman will play The Ghost of Christmas Future in the film Christmas Karma, a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha.

Boy George shared a glimpse of his character on Instagram, with the post noting the film’s “set to become your new holiday favorite.”

Christmas Karma, opening Nov. 14, also stars The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar as Scrooge, along with Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville, Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, Bridgerton’s Charithra Surya Chandran and more.

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Foreigner has added more orchestral shows to their 2026 calendar.

The Rock & Roll of Famers already announced a five-night Las Vegas residency, Foreigner: The Hits Orchestral – Celebrating 50 Years Live in Vegas, which will take place at The Venetian Theatre March 6-14. And now they’ve added some California dates to the tour.

Following Vegas, Foreigner will play five cities in California starting March 17 in Redding, and hitting Folsom, San Diego and Napa before wrapping March 22 in San Jose.

The shows will have the band playing their biggest hits, like “Urgent,” “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded” and “I Want To Know What Love Is,” backed by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements written by Juilliard cello virtuoso Dave Eggar and conductor Chuck Palmer.

Information on tickets and a complete list of dates can be found at Foreigner.com.

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Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks have shared another track from the upcoming reissue of their only studio album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks.

The artists have released the tune “Don’t Let Me Down Again,” which was the first single off the record when it was originally released. It is now available via digital outlets.

Buckingham Nicks is being released Sept. 19, digitally, on CD and on vinyl, with newly remastered sound. This will mark the first-ever reissue of the album, which has been unavailable for decades.

Lindsey and Stevie’s career didn’t initially take off after the release of Buckingham Nicks. The album wasn’t a commercial success, but shortly after the release Mick Fleetwood heard a track from the album, which led to him inviting Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham insisted his then-girlfriend Nicks come with him, and the pair officially joined the band on New Year’s Eve 1974.

Buckingham Nicks is available for preorder now.

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