We are used to seeing Paul McCartney play big stadiums across the globe, but he’s set to play a much smaller venue Tuesday night.
The rock legend just announced he’ll headline New York’s Bowery Ballroom, which has a capacity of 575 people, with the show dubbed McCartney Rocks the Bowery.
Tickets for the concert, which starts at 6:30 p.m., are on sale now but at the box office only, with only one ticket allowed per customer.
Bowery Ballroom is significantly smaller than the last venue McCartney played in the New York area. That was back in 2022, when he headlined New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, which has a capacity of 82,000 people.
Patti Smith is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her debut album, Horses, with a new tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced on Instagram that she and her band will perform the album at an Oct. 6 show in Dublin, sharing in the caption, “This is announcing the first concert of our Horses 50th Anniversary Tour. More to follow.”
That “more to follow” includes U.S. dates that kick off Nov. 10 in Seattle, with the tour hitting Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., and more, including two nights at the Beacon Theatre in New York. It wraps Nov. 29 in Philadelphia.
Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at pattismith.net.
Released in November 1975, Horses was a huge hit with critics and landed in the top 50 on the Billboard 200 chart. It has appeared on several lists of the greatest albums of all time, and in 2009 it was chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Smith’s music is also being celebrated with an all-star tribute concert in New York. People Have the Power – A Celebration of Patti Smith, taking place March 26 at Carnegie Hall, will feature performances by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Ben Harper, Kim Gordon, The National‘s Matt Berninger, Karen O, Sharon Van Etten and more.
The night will celebrate the Horses anniversary and will also include performances of songs from Smith’s full catalog.
The Beatles played their first show in the U.S. at the Washington Coliseum, performing 12 songs, including “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You” an “Twist and Shout.”
Thousands of screaming fans showed up for the concert, which resulted in over 350 police being dispatched to the show.
The Beatles played their show in the round and wound up pausing the concert several times to turn RingoStarr’s drum riser so everyone in the audience got a chance to see him.
The concert, held two days after the band made their TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, was filmed and telecast in U.S. theaters that March.
ZZ Top guitarist Billy F Gibbons has been named grand marshal for Atlanta Motor Speedway’s upcoming Ambetter Health 400, the main event of Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekend, Feb. 21-23.
The Ambetter Health 400 will go down on Feb. 23, with Gibbons helping to kick off the race by declaring the classic race intro, “Drivers, start your engines.”
Gibbons is currently on tour with his band the BFGs. The trek hits Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, with dates confirmed through Feb. 20 in Bristol, Tennessee. A complete list of shows can be found at billygibbons.com.
In addition, ZZ Top will hit the road starting March 5 in Dotham, Alabama, with the tour set to run until Aug. 23 in Richmond, British Columbia. Tour dates can be found at zztop.com.
Duran Duran is giving fans a chance to see them perform in Italy, while raising money to help those affected by the recent California wildfires.
The band has just launched a Fandiem sweepstakes, where the winner and a guest will be flown to Rome to see Duran Duran perform at Circo Massimo on June 15.
The prize package includes roundtrip airfare and four-night hotel accommodations, as well as a merch package and choice of a guided tour of either the Colosseum, the Vatican and St. Peters Basilica, or the Pantheon.
Fans have until April 24 to enter to win.
The sweepstakes is one of many items being offered through Fandiem’s FanAid LA initiative, with proceeds benefiting Los Angeles wildlife relief efforts.
Duran Duran’s Rome show is part of the band’s summer schedule of European and U.K. dates that kick off June 3 in Finland and wrap July 9 in Marbella, Spain. A complete schedule can be found at duranduran.com.
Alice Cooper has added some more dates to his Too Close For Comfort tour.
The rocker has announced a set of spring and summer shows that kick off May 2 in Huntsville, Alabama, and wrap Aug. 30 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Presale tickets will be available starting Tuesday at 11 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.
The current leg of Cooper’s Too Close For Comfort tour is set to wrap Tuesday in St. Augustine, Florida. He’ll then head out on the Rock Legends Cruise XII, which leaves from Miami and runs from Feb. 13-17.
A complete list of tour dates can be found at AliceCooper.com.
Rockin’ Thunder is one of several festivals Def Leppard is playing this year. Others include Boardwalk Rock 2025 in Ocean City, Maryland, Milwaukee’s Summerfest and Country Thunder Craven 2025 in Saskatchewan, Canada. A complete list of dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are hitting the road with Billy Idol this year, with the tour kicking off April 30 in Phoenix. Dates can be found at joanjett.com.
The new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin did blockbuster business in its first weekend in release.
The movie opened exclusively in IMAX theaters and set a record in the U.S., bringing in $2.6 million, which is the biggest opening weekend ever for an IMAX exclusive music release. The film also landed in the top 10 on the weekend box office.
Overall, the film brought in $3 million from showings in 16 countries and territories.
Becoming Led Zeppelin, described as a “hybrid docu-concert film,” is the first officially sanctioned documentary about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group. It features new interviews from the surviving members of the band, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones,as well as rare and previously unseen Led Zeppelin performance footage.
Becoming Led Zeppelin opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.
As things stands now, the producers of the Academy Awards telecast have decided not to feature performances of the best original song nominees, which meanswe won’t be able to see Elton John performing “Never Too Late,” his nominated song from his Disney+ documentary. And his co-writer on the song, Brandi Carlile, who’s dreamed of sharing Oscar glory with Elton for years, is “really sad” about that.
In a virtual roundtable for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which is available to watch online now, Brandi says, “On one hand, I feel really sad because I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to perform on the Oscars again. I can’t fathom it, especially with Elton John.”
“When I first found Elton John, it was in the ’90s, and he was winning an Oscar for The Lion King, and I couldn’t believe it,” she continues. “I thought, ‘One day when I grow up, if I could get the right clothes, I could go to his Oscar party.’ So to have the opportunity to perform with Elton John on the Oscars is a hard thing to not have manifest.”
But on the other hand, Brandi shares, “I feel a lot of relief from getting to … come in on Elton’s arm and to get the lay of the land and not have a lot of pressure on me because it’s already just almost unimaginable to be nominated for one. So I could go either way … I just can’t believe I’m in the conversation.”
The roundtable also features discussions about songwriting inspiration and process with the other nominated writers, including Diane Warren, who wrote “The Journey” from the movie The Six Triple Eight, and the writers of the nominated songs from the films Sing Sing and Emilia Pérez.
Neil Young has pushed back the release of his “lost” album Oceanside Countryside.
The album, part of Young’s Analog Original Series, was originally scheduled for a vinyl and digital release on Feb. 14, but will now come out on March 7. A standalone CD version will be released April 25.
The previously unreleased album was recorded before 1978’s Comes A Time and includes three songs that wound up appearing on that album, “Goin’ Back,” “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity.”
While some of the tracks appear on a CD version of Oceanside Countryside that was part of Young’s Archives Vol. III release, the new version, being released in analog on vinyl for the first time, features the originally planned track list.
