Lenny Kravitz has released a collection of new remixes of his song “Let It Ride.”
The set includes eight different takes on the track, which originally appeared on Kravitz’s latest album, 2024’s Blue Electric Ride. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.
Kravitz previously put out a group of “Let It Ride” remixes in April alongside the premiere of the song’s video, which the “Fly Away” rocker directed himself.
Kravitz will resume touring in support of Blue Electric Ride in June at the Roots Picnic festival in Philadelphia.
Elton John‘s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was first released on May 23, 1975 — 50 years ago Friday.
In honor of the milestone, Elton has shared an Instagram post reflecting on the significance of the record, which was the first-ever album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. It also spawned the hit “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.”
“An autobiographical album telling the story of how [lyricist] Bernie [Taupin] and I met and strived for success in the late 60s [sic],” Elton writes. “It made history as the first album ever to debut at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart and stayed there for seven weeks.”
He adds, “It’s one of the albums I’m proudest of.”
Elton revisited Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy in 2006 with the sequel album The Captain & the Kid.
This bird you cannot change, but this bird now has a video.
UMe has premiered the first-ever official video for Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s classic epic, “Free Bird.” The clip arrives over 50 years after the original song was released in 1973 on the album (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd).
The video begins with an older man walking through his house when he’s startled by a bird tapping at a window. That makes him notice an old photo album filled with pictures of his younger days of riding his motorcycle and falling in love with his future wife.
When he reaches the end of the album, he discovers the keys to his old chopper and decides to fix it up. He then takes a trip to a fireworks store and lights up a huge display reminiscent of one he experienced with his wife.
“Although there are many interpretations to the song’s meaning, this interpretation of the epic song is a nostalgic narrative of eternal love and the timeless spirit of ‘Free Bird’ with its own relatable and uplifting American tale of true love,” a press release says.
You may find yourself at a beautiful wedding, with a beautiful bride, with David Byrne performing, and you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
If you’re Andrew Kuo, you got here by marrying Malu Byrne, the daughter of the Talking Heads frontman. According to The New York Times, the couple tied the knot during a May 2 ceremony that David officiated. As they walked down the aisle, Papa Byrne performed the Talking Heads song “Heaven.”
The Times also reports that Kuo asked his future father-in-law for his blessing before popping the question.
“It was very old-fashioned and sweet,” David says. “I obviously said yes, but I also asked a lot of pointed questions.”
“I was amazed at how much of an old-fashioned dad I am,” he adds. “My care for Malu suddenly came pouring out. Andrew passed with flying colors.”
Billy Joel has canceled all scheduled concert dates after revealing he was recently diagnosed with a health condition.
In a statement posted to his social media Friday, the singer shared he has been dealing with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a disorder where fluid builds up in the brain.
“This condition has been exacerbated by recent concert performances, leading to problems with hearing, vision, and balance,” the statement reads.
The post goes on to say that on doctor’s orders, Billy will be refraining from performing while he undergoes physical therapy. It adds that Billy “looks forward to the day when he can once again take the stage.”
“I’m sincerely sorry to disappoint our audience, and thank you for understanding,” Billy, 76, says in a statement.
Fans will receive an automatic refund for all canceled dates, which span through 2026.
Neil Young has shared the title track off his upcoming album, Talkin to the Trees, recorded with his Chrome Hearts band.
You can listen to the song now via digital outlets. The album, which also includes the previously released cuts “big change” and “Lets Roll Again,” is due out June 13.
Chrome Hearts consists of organist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo.
Young will take the Chrome Hearts out on the road for a U.S. tour beginning in August.
There definitely was a reason to get excited during Bob Dylan‘s latest performance on Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Festival tour.
During Thursday’s show in Spokane, Washington, Dylan was joined onstage by acclaimed bluegrass musician and fellow Outlaw performer Billy Strings for a rendition of “All Along the Watchtower.”
As seen in fan-shot footage, Dylan sang the track from behind a piano while Strings strummed and picked an acoustic guitar in his virtuosic style.
Dylan’s previous Outlaw sets have included the first performance of “Mr. Tambourine Man” in 15 years, and the live debut of covers of The Pogues‘ “A Rainy Night in Soho” and Ricky Nelson‘s “Garden Party.”
The Outlaw Music Festival continues Saturday in Ridgefield, Washington.
Bruce Springsteen was celebrated in London as he was honored as an Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy.
He was the first international songwriter to receive the honor by the U.K. organization, which presents The Ivor Novello Awards, celebrating excellence in British and Irish songwriting.
Paul McCartney, an Academy Fellow himself, was on hand to give Springsteen his honor. During his speech, The Boss recalled his early shows in London.
U2 was just honored as the 2025 Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy. They became the first-ever Irish songwriters to earn a fellowship.
It’s been eight years since the last U2 album, but Bono and the boys are back.
The BBC reports that backstage at The Ivors ceremony in London on Thursday, where the band was given a prestigious fellowship of The Ivors Academy, they said they were in the studio making new music, complete with drummer Larry Mullen Jr. He’d been sidelined due to a neck surgery and was absent from U2’s residency shows at Sphere Las Vegas.
“It was difficult being away because of injury,” Mullen said. “So I’m thrilled to be back in a creative environment, even if I’m not 100% there and I’ve got some bits falling off.”
He added, “When I was away from the band, I missed it, but I didn’t realize how much I missed it.”
The band’s most recent projects have looked to their back catalog — playing Achtung Baby at the Sphere, rerecording their catalog acoustically on the Songs of Surrender album and reimagining How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. But as Bono said Thursday, “You do that because you need to understand where that desire to be heard came from.”
Now, however, “The sound of the future is what we’re most interested in. It doesn’t exist yet. It’s ours to make, and that’s what we have the chance to do.”
According to the BBC, Bono said U2’s latest songwriting sessions consisted of “just the four of us in a room, trying a new song and going, ‘What’s that feeling? Oh right, that’s chemistry.'”
“We’ve had it over the years but you lose it sometimes,” he added. “But isn’t it strange that it’s just got to the moment when just bass, drums, guitar and a loudmouth singer sounds like an original idea? That’s where we’re at in 2025.”
Deadline reported in March that pop star Lizzo would star as rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in an upcoming biopic. But now, news comes that Mick Jagger, in partnership with Live Nation Productions among others, is producing a feature film on Tharpe. This film appears to have no connection to the Lizzo project.
Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue [ingenue] Ellis-Taylor has been tapped to write the movie, which has been granted the rights to Tharpe’s music by the late singer’s estate, according to Deadline. The producers have also secured the rights to the definitive biography of Tharpe, who died in 1973. A companion documentary is also planned.
In a statement, Jagger says he’s “so thrilled to be a part” of telling the story of the “trailblazing singer and electrifying guitarist,” adding that she “reshaped music history and influenced countless artists.”
Tharpe was a queer Black gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist who made a huge impact on early rock ‘n’ roll artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Her electric guitar playing, in particular, influenced artists like Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt and Jagger’s Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards. Known as the Godmother of Rock and Roll, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
As for the Lizzo project, it’s being developed and produced by an entirely different team and will focus on one event in Tharpe’s life: when she married her manager in front of 25,000 paying customers at a Washington, D.C., stadium in 1951 and then performed. The event has been described as “the first stadium show.”
