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Elton John and Brandi Carlile are giving fans another preview of their upcoming collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels?

They’ve just released the new track “Swing for the Fences,” the second song released from the album following the title track.

On the album, the song follows tunes about singers Little Richard and Laura Nyro, and in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Brandi shares the placement makes sense because they were both “queer predecessors” to her and Elton who were not able to live their lives openly.

She notes that the song is “kind of an anthem of encouragement to LGBTQ youth,” adding, “I think it’s a really interesting way to follow up the lives of those two icons that influenced us so much, but I think who deep down we wish could have walked through the world the way we’re getting to walk through the world now.”

Brandi says, “Hopefully it can help those marginalized kids and those young people right now and they can look to me and Elton and they can go, ‘Yeah, I’m going to be OK. Yeah, I’m going to be all right, yeah,’ because we got their back.”

Elton tells Lowe that the tune is a “positive” one, noting “electricity is flowing through that song.” In a press release he shared that recording the song “was the moment that crystallized where the album was going.”

“Swing for the Fences” is available now.

Who Believes in Angels?, produced by Andrew Watt, will be released April 4. It is available for preorder now.

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Barbra Streisand has won two awards — not for singing, but for reading.

Her bestselling memoir, My Name Is Barbra, was named audiobook of the year at the 2025 Audies, which are given out by the Audio Publishers Association. Barbra narrated the hefty tome, which weighed in at just under 1,000 pages. The audiobook spans 48 hours.

Streisand’s book was also named autobiography/memoir of the year. She beat out, among others, Elton John‘s Farewell Yellow Brick Road. However, Elton didn’t narrate that particular book.

Streisand’s win at the Audies might soften the blow of her loss at the Grammys, where she was bested in the category of best audio book, narration and storytelling recording to Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration by the late President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100.

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 Ever since Heart kicked off their Royal Flush tour in Las Vegas on Feb. 28, Ann Wilson has been performing in a wheelchair. But she’s let fans know the reason she’s in the chair has nothing to do with the cancer she battled last year.

“I think some people thought that I was in a wheelchair because of cancer, which I just kicked its a** and I’m nice and clear now,” she shared on her After Dinner Thinks With Ann Wilson podcast. “It’s not about cancer. It’s about me being a klutz and missing a step and falling into a parking lot and busting my elbow in three places and then having to have it pinned back together with screws and all that kind of stuff.”

The accident happened five days before the tour was to start, but Wilson assures fans that other than that she is “perfectly fine.”

“It’s just I don’t have the use of my left arm right now,” she says, and it’s hard for her to navigate onstage with her arm in a sling.

“So I chose to sit because then I can just concentrate on singing and not on keeping my balance and having somebody out there catching me when I reel to the side,” she adds.

Ann says some people think using a wheelchair is “kind of an admission of vulnerability,” but she sees it as a “great tool.” She notes, “And I’ll be up and out of it after a while.”

Heart’s Royal Flush tour hits Phoenix on Thursday. They also just announced dates for the An Evening With Heart tour, which kicks off May 31 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and wraps June 28 in Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at heart-music.com.

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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Stephen Stills reveals in a new interview with Rolling Stone that he’s been sober for three years.

“I’m really comfortable in sobriety,” Stills shares. “It gets me back to the kid I was before this madness started, pretty affable and friendly.”

He adds, “Things were so special at the beginning of my career before I sold a single record. But when you add poison into that mix … I’m just glad I have my original personality back.”

Stills retired from touring in 2018, but still performs now and again. He recently reunited onstage with his Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate Graham Nash for a performance at L.A. FireAid and tells the mag, “It felt like putting on an old shoe again … I don’t see [Nash] a lot since he lives on the East Coast, but it was great to see my old pal.”

And Stills will next take the stage with his other former bandmate, Neil Young, as well as Billy Idol and others at his Light Up The Blues benefit for Autism Speaks on April 26 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

As for whether he plans to reconsider that retirement, he’s not exactly saying no.

“FireAid helped me check and see if my thrusting and coagulating still worked,” he shares. “I’m getting a little more active now, so there’s a possibility. It depends on the kind of venues I can attract.”

He adds that getting back on a tour bus is a “big obstacle” for him when it comes to touring, although, “I do still love to play.”

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Netflix announced in February it had canceled the planned docuseries on Prince, and now the director of the series is speaking out about the decision.

Ezra Edelman, who also directed O.J. Made in America, told the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast that Netflix’s decision to axe the series is “a joke.”

The cancellation followed a dispute with Prince’s estate over what they claimed were factual inaccuracies in the film, something Edelman disputes. In fact, he says while Netflix allowed the estate to check the facts of the film, “They came back with a 17-page document full of editorial issues — not factual issues. You think I have any interest in putting out a film that is factually inaccurate?”

As for the estate’s fight against the doc, Edelman said, “It’s a joke. I can’t get past this — the short-sightedness of a group of people whose interest is their own bottom line.”

“This is a gift — a nine-hour treatment about an artist that was, by the way, f***** brilliant,” he said. “Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie. You get to bathe in his genius. But you also have to confront his humanity.”

Edelman adds that the battle over the film was not about the truth, but about “who has control.”

“This [is] reflective of Prince himself, who was notoriously one of the most famous control freaks in the history of artists,” he said. “The irony being that Prince was somebody who fought for artistic freedom, who didn’t want to be held down by Warner Bros., who he believed was stifling sort of his output.”

“And now, in this case — by the way, I’m not Prince, but I worked really hard making something, and now my art’s being stifled and thrown away,” he added.

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Items signed by Mick Fleetwood and Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir are among the new additions to the Help on the Way benefit auction, which raises money for Los Angeles fire relief.

Fleetwood has contributed a Gibson Les Paul Studio Modern guitar, which he signed along with John Mayer, Zac Brown, Wynonna Judd and others, while Weir is offering up a signed photo and print.

Other available items include a Gibson ES-355 guitar signed by Duane Betts and Dead & Company‘s Jeff Chimenti, a Gibson SG Standard ‘61 Stop Bar guitar signed by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, and a Breedlove Discovery S Concert CE Edge Burst guitar autographed by Dave Matthews.

Previously announced participants include Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes, Phil Lesh‘s son Grahame Lesh, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland and Metallica.

Help on the Way is being hosted by the platform Fandiem. For more info, visit Fandiem.com.

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Daryl Hall has announced a new set of summer solo tour dates, featuring special guest Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze.

The latest leg of the tour kicks off July 11 in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and wraps July 25 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

An artist presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.

The first leg of the tour launches March 22 in Houston and wraps April 5 in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. They’ll then head to the U.K. for shows that kick off May 17 in Glasgow, Scotland, and wrap May 25 in Brighton, England.

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Rockers Rod Stewart and Keith Richards are both grandfathers again.

Rod’s son Liam — one of two children he had with his second wife, Rachel Hunter — just welcomed his second child with wife Nicole.

The couple shared the news and photos on Instagram, revealing that the baby, who arrived March 2, is named Elsie Skylar Stewart. She joins big brother Louie, 21 months. Elsie is Rod’s fourth grandchild.

Meanwhile, Richards became a grandfather for the seventh time.

The Rolling Stones guitarist’s daughter Alexandra – one of two children he had with wife Patti Hansen – welcomed her second child with husband Jacques Naudé on Feb. 17. She announced her son’s birth in an Instagram post, sharing that the baby boy’s name is Elvis Nova Naudé. Alexandra is also mom to daughter Arlowe Mae, who was born in 2021.

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Heart recently launched their Royal Flush tour, and they’ve already announced plans for their next trek.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just revealed dates for the new tour, An Evening With Heart, which will have the band performing two sets each night. The tour kicks off May 31 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and wraps June 28 in Hollywood, Florida.

An artist presale launches Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.

Heart launched their Royal Flush tour, with special guest Cheap Trick, on Feb. 28 in Las Vegas. The tour was originally supposed to happen in 2024, but was postponed after Ann Wilson announced she was diagnosed with cancer.

In September Wilson shared on social media that she was doing fine after treatment, noting that the “worst is over.”

The tour hits Sacramento, California, on Tuesday. A complete list of dates can be found at heart-music.com.

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Bono’s memoir is finally coming out in paperback.

The U2 frontman released Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story in November 2022, and now the paperback edition will be released May 27 in the U.S., featuring a new introduction from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

The book followed Bono, born Paul Hewson, from his childhood in Dublin to the formation of U2 and its journey to superstardom, to his 20-year career as an activist for causes such as the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.

The release will coincide with the upcoming Apple TV+ documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, which will debut May 30.

The doc will feature what’s described as a “reimagining” of Bono’s one-man stage show, Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief, which coincided with the original release of his memoir. It will feature footage from one of his shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre, which had him sharing stories about his life, family, friends and more, along with performances of some U2 songs “that have shaped his life and legacy.”

The paperback edition of Bono: Stories of Surrender is available for preorder now.

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