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Eric Clapton has announced a trio of California dates.
The three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will be heading to Southern California in October, playing San Diego’s Pechanga Arena on Oct. 8, Palm Desert’s Acrisure Arena on Oct. 10 and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 12.
The concerts are scheduled ahead of Clapton’s appearance at the upcoming tribute concert for The Band’s Robbie Robertson. Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson is happening Oct. 17 at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum.
In addition to Clapton, it will feature Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes and more.
Now that they’re no longer opening for Aerosmith, The Black Crowes have found some more time in their schedule, so they’re adding more dates to their upcoming Happiness Bastards Tour (The Reprise).
The rockers have added 14 new shows to the schedule, including stops in New Orleans, St. Louis, Tulsa, San Antonio, Austin, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. They’ve also rescheduled a handful of dates.
The tour will now kick off Sept. 27 in Northfield, Ohio, and will end with a two-night stand in Port Chester, New York, Dec. 21 and Dec. 22.
Tickets for all new shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at theblackcrowes.com.
The Black Crowes were originally scheduled to be the special guest on Aerosmith’s Peace Out tour, which was due to kick off in September. In early August, Aerosmith announced the tour was canceled and they were retiring from the road due to frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal troubles.
After teasing fans on social media, the band just announced a new greatest hits compilation, Turning Back the Time.It will be released Oct. 4, ahead of the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
The title of the 18-track album is also the one previously unreleased tune that appears on it, “Turning Back the Time.” Originally recorded in 1996, the song features vocals by Lou Gramm and was co-written by Mick Jones, Gramm and Marti Frederiksen.
“Foreigner’s membership in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a priceless highlight of my career,” Jones shares. “I hope that this collection of the songs that brought us here, along with some later recordings that light our way forward, will mean as much to all who listen to them as they do to me.”
Regarding the new song, Jones adds, “The sentiment of the song spoke to us now more than ever and with the upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, we thought it an ideal time to let the world hear it.”
In addition to the new tune, the albumincludes songs from Foreigner’s first six albums, including classics like “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is.” It also features one song, “When It Comes to Love,” with the band’s current lead singer, Kelly Hansen.
Foreigner is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Oct. 19 at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. The ceremony will stream live on Disney+, followed by a special airing on ABC at a later date.
Former Traffic guitarist Steve Winwood hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with his fifth studio album, Roll With It. It would be his only #1 album as a solo artist.
The album’s title track hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent four weeks. It was Winwood’s second and final solo chart-topper. He previously hit #1 with 1986’s “Higher Love.”
Several other singles were released from Roll With It, including “Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do?,” which was featured in a Michelob beer commercial, “Holding On” and “Hearts on Fire.”
The album went on to earn Winwood a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, while the title track was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Performance.
The life and music of Tom Petty will be celebrated by his hometown of Gainesville, Florida, this fall, and one of his former bandmates will be on hand to help.
Petty’s official Instagram account just shared details of the 2024 Tom Petty Weekend, revealing that original Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch will be part of the festivities.
“We are super excited that Heartbreaker Stan Lynch will be part of the tribute this year,” the post notes, sharing that Lynch will be performing with his band The Speaker Wars,featuring musician Jon Christoper Davis.
The 2024 Tom Petty Weekend is happening Oct. 10 to Oct. 13 at Heartwood Soundstage, with The War and Treaty and many others also on the bill.
The celebration takes place a week before what would have been Petty’s 74th birthday on Oct. 20. Since Petty’s death in 2017, the city of Gainesville has been celebrating Petty’s birthday, with the event’s website sharing that “each year has witnessed a pilgrimage of thousands of fans worldwide to Gainesville, fostering a weekend of camaraderie and shared passion for music.”
Snoop Dogg is opening up about the time he met Paul McCartney, revealing how he was shocked to find out The Beatles legend knew who he was.
“I did a little concert for somebody in Hollywood. Paul McCartney was there. So, I never met him before, but I’m a f****** fan of The Beatles,” he shared in an interview he and Dr. Dre did with Complex. “So, I’m in the back smoking and they’re like, ‘Sir Paul would like to meet you.’ I’m like, ‘Oh for real? Hold on.’”
Snoop said he quickly went to put his blunt out, but McCartney told him “don’t put that down.”
“He give me a hug and he meet me and I’m like, ‘F***, Paul McCartney know who the f*** Snoop Dogg is!’” he said. “This is Paul McCartney, he knows who I am. That’s the experience that I love is when the people you respect, respect you. And that’s only from doing quality s***.”
When asked if he’d ever be interested in working with McCartney, Snoop didn’t even have to think about it.
“F*** yes. In a heartbeat,” Snoop declared. “‘Ebony & Ivory,’ ‘The Girl Is Mine.’ What do you want to do?”
James Taylor at the 2012 DNC; Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The DNC has tapped Sweet Baby James to provide the entertainment for the first night of its convention in Chicago.
Convention officials confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that James Taylor will perform Monday at the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Joining him on the bill will be country star Mickey Guyton and Americana star Jason Isbell.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor will be the final performer of the night. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who also campaigned for Presidents JoeBiden and BarackObama, last performed at the DNC in 2012. That year he sang “You’ve Got a Friend,” “How Sweet It Is” and “Carolina In My Mind,” that last song because the event took place in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Other speakers scheduled for Monday night include Biden, first lady Jill Biden, former first lady Hillary Clinton, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, Tony Goldwyn and Ana Navarro will take turns hosting the convention throughout the week. Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday.
The future Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are teasing something on social media, sharing a clip of an old-school jukebox filled with Foreigner hits like “Juke Box Hero,” “I Want To Know What Love Is” and more. A faceless person then chooses song #6, which is listed on the jukebox as “Turning Back Time,” and a short song clip plays.
The band doesn’t offer any other clues as to what they’re teasing but fans won’t have to wait too long to find out. According to the caption, the news will be revealed Tuesday.
Foreigner previously teased the news by telling fans a “very special announcement is coming.”
Foreigner is currently on their Renegades and Juke Box Heroes tour with Styx. The tour hits Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Tuesday. A complete list of dates can be found at foreigneronline.com.
They are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Oct. 19 at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. The ceremony will stream live on Disney+, followed by a special airing on ABC at a later date.
Sammy Hagar is currently out on his The Best of All Worlds Tour with Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Jason Bonham and keyboardist Rai Thistlethwayte, and now he says the group has plans beyond the tour.
When asked by The Bogus Otis Show podcast whether he intends to make new music with the all-star lineup of musicians, he responded, “Yes. I guarantee it.”
But it doesn’t sound like fans should expect that music anytime soon.
“I mean, it’s, like, I don’t know when and why, because records don’t sell,” he says. “I’ve made a couple of my best records of my life, my last two solo records, and I’m lucky to sell (50,000) or 60,000 records.”
He adds, “You go and make a record nowadays just to lose a couple hundred thousand bucks. It’s all good. But I need a tax write-off, so it really helps. ‘I made too many this year. Let’s go make a record.'”
Next up, Hagar’s The Best of All Worlds Tour hits Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Monday. A complete list of dates can be found at redrocker.com.
A previously unseen painting by rocker David Bowie has been shared with the public for the first time.
The blue and yellow abstract painting was posted to Facebook by the late rocker’s wife, supermodel Iman, with a post on Bowie’s official Facebook account explaining that until now the painting “had only previously been seen partially in the background” of a Bowie portrait by photographer Jimmy King.
The post notes, “Iman’s photograph reveals a hitherto unseen vibrancy that shows the painting in all its glory.”
Iman didn’t offer any other information about artwork and simply captioned her post #BowieForever.
Bowie passed away in January 2016 at the age of 69.
