Neil Diamond is set to be honored at the 2025 Carousel Ball, put on by the Children’s Diabetes Foundation.
The legendary singer is set to receive the Inspirational Lifetime Achievement Award from the organization, “in recognition of his remarkable legacy, heartfelt generosity, and unwavering dedication to the Children’s Diabetes Foundation.”
The Carousel Ball will be held Oct. 11 in Denver, with the Goo Goo Dolls set to perform at the event.
Since 1977 the Carousel Ball has raised more than $117 million for the Children’s Diabetes Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting research in diabetes, and providing clinical and educational programs for people with the disease.
Information on tickets to the Carousel Ball can be found at aesbid.org.
A new trailer for the documentary on T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan has just been released.
The film, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, got its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival back in 2022 and is now finally hitting theaters in the U.S. on Aug. 9. It will then be available on demand starting Sept. 5.
The doc uses archival footage, rare interviews and more to tell Bolan’s story. The film is centered around the making of the 2020 tribute album, also titled Angelheaded Hipster, which was produced by the late Hal Wilmer.It featured artists like U2, Elton John, Joan Jett and Nick Cave covering T-Rex tunes.
The trailer features interview clips from Elton, Ringo Starr, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Billy Idol.
Bolan and T-Rex were pioneers in the British glam rock movement of the ’70s. They are best known for their 1971 single “Get It On,” which was known as “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” in the U.S., where it peaked at #10 on the singles chart. In 1985 the song was covered by Power Station under the name “Get It On (Bang a Gong),” peaking at #9 on the chart.
Bolan, who died in September 1977 at the age of 29, was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T-Rex.
One of the earliest live recordings of Sly & The Family Stone is about to be released, and now fans are getting a new preview of the live album.
The band’s performance of the Otis Redding tune “I Can’t Turn You Loose” was just released, taken from the upcoming album The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967, dropping July 16.
The performance was recorded during the band’s tenure as the house band at Winchester Cathedral, a club in Redwood City, California. They served as the house band from Dec. 16, 1966, to April 28, 1967. The performance took place a year before the release of their hit track “Dance to the Music.”
The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral was originally released earlier this year as a limited-edition LP for Record Store Day and sold out. It will now be released on CD, LP and digitally, and is available for preorder now.
A new box set dedicated to David Bowie’s later career is coming this fall.
I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) is a massive 12-CD or 18-LP box set that includes Bowie’s last four studio albums: 2002’s Heathen, 2003’s Reality, 2013’s The Next Day and 2016’s Blackstar. It also includes two live albums, two EPs and a new compilation.
The two live albums feature the first official release of Bowie’s 2002 Montreux Jazz Festival performance, and a remastered and re-sequenced version of 2010’s A Reality Tour Live. The set also includes the EPs The Next Day Extra, which was released in 2013 and featured songs from that album’s recording sessions, and 2017’s No Plan, released posthumously on Bowie’s birthday. It featured songs written for the Bowie off-Broadway play Lazarus, which were recorded during the Blackstar sessions.
The set also comes with a companion book that includes essays from Bowie producer Tony Visconti, as well as rare and unpublished photos, memorabilia and more.
I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016), dropping Sept. 12, is named after the final song on Blackstar. In addition to the box sets, it will be available digitally, although some portions of the set are exclusive to the physical copies. All formats are available for preorder now.
I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) is the sixth and final installment in a series of Bowie box sets released by Parlaphone Records. The series kicked off in 2015 with Five Years (1969-1973).
It looks like Paul McCartney may be hitting the road again in 2025.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer seems to be teasing new tour dates, sharing a photo on his Instagram Story of two picks — one with his name written on it, “Got Back in 2025” written on the other.
The post then links to a registration page for “information on tour dates, pre-sales and much more.”
McCartney launched his Got Back tour in 2022 in Spokane, Washington, wrapping that year with a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. The tour has since hit Europe, Australia, Latin America and more, with the last leg touring Europe for a second time. That leg wrapped in December 2024 with two nights at the O2 in London, which included a reunion with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr.
Ronnie Wood is known for his work as guitarist in The Rolling Stones and Faces, and now his 60-year career is being celebrated with a new compilation.
Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025 will feature selections from Wood’s solo career, as well as co-writes and important tracks from his work with The Stones, Faces, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane and the Jeff Beck Group.
The compilation will also include new recordings, which are his first solo releases since 2010’s “I Feel Like Playing.” Guests on those new releases include Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Imelda May, the latter appearing on the track “You’re So Fine,” a cover of the Falcons‘ 1959 hit, which is now available via digital outlets.
Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025 will be released Sept. 26 on two-LP and two-CD formats. The CD release will take fans back to Wood’s teen years with the addition of songs made in the 1960s with his first band, the Birds, and TheCreation.
Bruce Springsteen’s latest box set, Tracks II: The Lost Albums, has landed in the top 10 on two Billboardcharts.
The set, featuring seven unreleased albums, debuted at #7 on both the Top Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums charts. The Boss moved 13,000 equivalent album units of Tracks II in its first week, 10,000 of which were in traditional album sales.
Over on the Billboard 200, Tracks II debuted at #68, making it Springsteen’s 44th entry on that chart.
Also making its chart debut is the compilation Lost and Found: Selections From the Lost Albums, featuring highlights from Tracks II, which debuted at #22 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.
Released June 27, Tracks II: The Lost Album features 83 songs, all of which were originally recorded between 1983 and 2018. Of those songs, 82 have never been released before and 74 have never been heard before.
The set is the follow-up to the box set Tracks, which was released in 1998. Springsteen has already indicated that he has enough material for Tracks III, telling the New York Timesin June that it was finished and contains “five full albums of music.”
The nine-minute film, directed by Chuck Statler, has been given a high resolution upgrade by the band’s audio and video archivist, Peter Conheim,andthe Cinema Preservation Alliance.
According to the description, the film “captures the essence of Devo’s avant-garde vision and pioneering commentary on society, technology, and de-evolution.” It features two Devo performances, a cover of “Secret Agent Man” and “Jocko Homo,” which features the lyric, “Are we not men?/ We are Devo.”
The film is just the first piece of restored content the band is planning to release. On Instagram they teased, “More restored films and mind-melting content coming soon.”
And speaking of Devo, Rolling Stonereports that the band’s full-length documentary, Devo, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is set to premiere on Netflix Aug. 19.
In the meantime, Devo has several upcoming tour dates on their schedule. Their next show is at Mosswood Meltdown 2025 July 19-20 in Oakland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at clubdevo.com.
Back in June, Paul Stanley revealed there were going to be some changes to the announced KISS Army Storms Vegas event — and apparently that includes the name.
The band just updated fans on the experience, which is now named KISS Kruise: Landlocked in Vegas.
The event is still taking place Nov. 14-16 at Virgin Hotels, but now, in addition to the previously announced KISS unmasked performance, a second acoustic unmasked performance has been added on opening night.
The event will also include performances from former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick; Stephen Pearcy performing the music of Ratt; former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach; Quiet Riot; Black N’ Blue; and several KISS cover bands.
In addition to the music, Stanley, Gene Simmons and Tommy Thayer will take part in Q&A sessions, as will the band’s manager, Doc McGhee. There will also be several panels, including one called The Future of Kiss, focused on what’s ahead for the band.
Ringo Starr celebrated his 85th birthday in Beverly Hills Monday with his annual Peace & Love event, but the big day was also marked in a very special way in his home city of Liverpool, England.
According to the U.K.’s The Independent, the city where The Beatles were founded unveiled the “Peace and Love Sculpture” in honor of Ringo. The silver statue, revealed by the city’s Beatles Story museum, features a hand making the peace sign and was created using a casting of Starr’s right hand. A similar statue is currently on display in Beverly Hills.
The unveiling was attended by locals, as well as students from Ringo’s primary school, St. Silas CE.
Ringo is known for spreading peace and love. In fact, on every birthday he asks fans to spread the message at 12 p.m. PT. This year the message was shared in over 38 countries and was also beamed from mission control in Houston to the International Space Station.
