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Crosby, Stills & Nash will be the subject of a tribute concert in New York City this May, and we now know the artists who’ll be on hand to celebrate their legendary catalog.

The Music of Crosby Stills & Nash is set to take place May 13 at Carnegie Hall, with a lineup that includes Todd Rundgren, Iron & Wine, Rickie Lee Jones, Grace Potter, Yola, Shawn Colvin, Real Estate and Neal Francis. Each artist will share their take on songs from the band’s catalog as well as David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash‘s solo careers. Nash is expected to take part in the show as well. 

“To be a part of this incredible evening at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the music that David, Stephen, and I created together, is a profound honor,” Nash shares. “I look forward to seeing a diverse and talented group of artists perform our songs.”

The show is the latest in a series of charity concerts put on by New York City entrepreneur Michael Dorf, with each one celebrating a different artist. Proceeds from the concert will benefit music education for underserved youth, including such organizations as Grammys in the Schools, Theater Within and VH1 Save the Music.

Nash adds, “Music has always been about connection, about sharing stories and emotions that resonate with each other. This event allows us to relive those connections and support a cause close to our hearts—music education.”

Tickets go on sale to the general public via Carnegie Hall on March 20. VIP ticket packages are on sale now.

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Paul Simon revealed in May that he had lost hearing in his left ear, making it difficult for him to play live, but it sounds like things are changing for the better.

During a Q&A at the New York premiere for In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, his two-part Alex Gibney-directed docuseries, Simon revealed that some of his hearing has returned.

“That’s come back to enough of a degree that I’m comfortable singing and playing guitar and playing a few other instruments,” he said, according to People. “I can hear my voice the way I want it in the context of the music.” 

He added, “If there’s a drum or an electric guitar, it’s too loud and I can’t hear my voice. But when I first lost the hearing, I couldn’t get, it threw me off. Everything was coming from this side.”

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, which follows Simon’s career journey as well as the recording of his most recent album, Seven Psalms, premieres March 17 and 24 on MGM+.

Simon is set to be be honored with the prestigious Pen/Audible Literary Award at a gala held May 16 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He’s being celebrated for “his indelible lyrics, boundless contributions to our canon and elevation of essential cultures over nearly six decades.” 

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The Who‘s Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and James Taylor are among the artists booked for the 2024 Ravinia Festival season, which runs from June 4 to September 15 in Highland Park, Chicago.

James Taylor and his All-Star Band will headline the festival’s Pavilion on June 8 and 9, with Plant and Krauss booked for June 12 and Daltrey with KT Tunstall headlining on June 29.

Other artists booked for the season include Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Crowded House, The Beach Boys with John Stamos and more.

Information on tickets and the complete Ravinia Festival lineup can be found at ravinia.org.

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Pink Floyd is set to reissue their classic album Animals in Dolby Atmos for the first time. 

Animals 2018 Remix – Dolby Atmos will be released on Blu-ray and digital platforms on May 17. The Blu-ray includes the 1977 original stereo mix along with high resolution stereo and 5.1 mixes of the album. 

According to the press release, with the new mix, “listeners will feel like they are inside the song as music moves around and above them.” 

The album’s iconic cover of a floating pig between two chimneys of the Battersea Power Station, conceived by Roger Waters and designed by Storm Thorgerson, has been reimagined for the new release. The new take, created by Thorgerson’s Hipgnosis partner Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and Peter Curzon from StormStudios, still features the pig and the power station but has been modernized with various light projections.

Released in January 1977, Animals was the 10th studio album by Pink Floyd. It peaked at #3 in the U.S. and went on to be certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA. 

Animals 2018 Remix – Dolby Atmos is available for preorder now.

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After quite a few teases, Bon Jovi has finally announced details of their new album.

Called Forever, it’ll be out June 7 and is now available for preorder in multiple formats, including colored vinyl, cassettes, and limited-edition signed copies.

“This record is a return to joy. From the writing, through the recording process, this is turn up the volume, feel good Bon Jovi,” says Jon Bon Jovi in a statement. 

Forever is the band’s first release since their album 2020, which came out four years ago.

The first single, “Legendary,” and accompanying video are out now. In the video, Jon and the band are performing at a recording studio which opens up to show them standing in a green field, with a huge moon visible in the sky behind them.  Throughout the video, a number of young people are shown looking up at the moon; at the end, they’re all standing in a group, looking at it together.

Tonight, March 14, the band’s new documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story will premiere at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas. It streams on Hulu April 26.

Here’s the track list for Forever:

“Legendary”
“We Made It Look Easy”
“Living Proof”
“Waves”
“Seeds”
“Kiss the Bride”
“The People’s House”
“Walls of Jericho”
“I Wrote You a Song”
“Living in Paradise”
“My First Guitar”
“Hollow Man”

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland has a new exhibit called Revolutionary Women in Music: Left of Center, featuring items from groundbreaking female artists across all genres of music. One of those artists is The Go-Go’s, and guitarist Jane Wiedlin has some opinions about who should be represented.

“Of course, the women from the past, right? Like Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Aretha Franklin and then Patti Smith in the ’70s,” she tells ABC Audio. “And then, I mean, I think of The Go-Go’s in the ’80s because we were kind of a revolution.” 

The exhibit is important considering the Hall of Fame’s been called out for lack of female representation in the past, something Wiedlin and her bandmates know all to well.  

The Go-Go’s were inducted into the hall in 2021, but it took 15 years after they were first eligible to even be nominated. Wiedlin blames that on sexism, claiming there was one man on the nominating committee who kept them off the ballot. 

“We were literally the first all-female band to play their own instruments that wrote their own songs, and that were hugely successful,” she says. “We were the first, and that alone is enough that we deserved a place in this Hall of Fame.” 

But things have been getting better, with more female artists being inducted in the past few years. Wiedlin sees that, and the new exhibit, as a great example of change. 

“The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, speaking of revolutionary, it is really changed. They’re noticing all the important female artists finally,” she says. “There’s not enough of us, but there are a lot of us.”  

For more info on Revolutionary Women in Music: Left of Center, visit RockHall.com. 

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Early in The Black Crowes’ career, frontman Chris Robinson was known for his bratty behavior, calling out other musicians who he didn’t think were rock ‘n’ roll enough. Well, he now says there was a dark reason behind that behavior.

“A lot of my comments during that time came out of being in a depression,” Robinson tells Mojo in an interview promoting their new album, Happiness Bastards. “Back then, no one cared if you were depressed and had to go on a press tour.”

Some of Chris’ bad behavior included insulting Miller Lite in 1991, the sponsor of the ZZ Top tour they were on, getting booted off the trek. He also called out the popular boy band New Kids on the Block, describing them as “talentless p*****.”

Chris notes, “If I have a tinge of regret, it would be the way [I] came across as so outspoken in the media and how that became the headline more than how good the music was.”

This was all happening as The Black Crowes were gaining fame with their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, and Chris says another problem was that critics seemed to not get their music, often comparing them to other bands. 

“We never sounded like f****** Lynyrd Skynyrd,” he says. “The Stones? Yeah I get it. But, ‘Oh you guys sound like Faces.’ We didn’t really, we just wore flares.”

Happiness Bastards, The Black Crowes’ first album of new music in 15 years, comes out Friday, March 15. It is available for preorder now.

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Former Procol Harum guitarist Robin Trower is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his sophomore solo album, Bridge of Sighs, with a new reissue of the album.

The reissue will be released May 17 on double-LP and as a three-CD set. In addition to a newly mixed album from the original tapes, the CD set will include a 2024 stereo mix with never-before-heard outtakes and rarities. There will also be a disc featuring a recording of Trower and his band performing at The Record Plant in Sausalito, California, during the tour for the album, the first time the entire performance has been available.

The album will also be released on Blu-ray, featuring the CD set, as well as a Dolby Atmos 5.1, Stereo album with instrumentals and additional outtakes.

The sets also come with a 24-page booklet with new liner notes, and interviews with Trower and the album’s producer, his former Procul Harum bandmate Matthew Fisher, along with testimonials from the likes of Bryan Ferry, Robert Fripp, Steve Lukather and more.

Released in 1974, Bridge of Sighs was Trower’s second record after leaving Procul Harum and the follow-up to his 1973 solo debut, Twice Removed From Yesterday. It was recorded at Olympic and Air studios in London, with new bandmates James Dewar on vocal and bass, and Reg Isidore on drums. The album was considered a commercial breakthrough for Trower, hitting to #7 in the U.S.

The reissue is available for preorder now.

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Billy Idol is giving fans a preview of the upcoming 40th anniversary deluxe expanded edition of his breakthrough album, Rebel Yell.

The rocker has just released a visualizer for his cover of Rose Royce’s “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore,” one of the previously unreleased tracks that will appear on the release.

The reissue will be available digitally, and as a two-LP and two-CD set on April 26. It will include the original album and an album of previously unreleased songs and demos. In addition to “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore,” it will include “Best Way Out Of Here,” a never-before-heard Idol/Steve Stevens track from the album’s original recording sessions, and a Poolside remix of “Eyes Without A Face.”

The Rebel Yell deluxe expanded edition is available for preorder now.

Released in November 1983, Rebel Yell was Idol’s sophomore studio album. It peaked at #6 in the U.S. and went on to be certified double Platinum by the RIAA. In addition to “Eyes Without A Face,” which was a top five hit for Idol, the album featured such classic tunes as the title track and “Flesh for Fantasy.”

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The Black Crowes are giving fans another preview of their new album, Happiness Bastards, ahead of its release on Friday, March 15. The band just dropped the new track “Wilted Rose,” which features a guest appearance by country star Lainey Wilson.

This is the third track Chris and Rich Robinson have released from Happiness Bastards, their first album of new material in 15 years, following “Wanting and Waiting” and “Cross Your Fingers.” 

The band is set to celebrate the album with a special release day show in Brooklyn, New York, for Amazon Music’s City Sessions, in which they’ll play tunes from the new album as well as some classic hits.

They will then hit the road on the Happiness Bastards tour starting April 2 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. A complete list of dates can be found at theblackcrowes.com.

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