Steve Miller Band landed their first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “The Joker,” the title track from their eighth studio album.
The song also topped the U.K. chart in 1990, after it was reissued following its use in a Levi’s commercial. Additionally, the reissue topped the charts in Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
The tune, which became a signature song for the band, went on to be certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA. It was the first of three #1 hits for Steve Miller Band, the others being “Rock’n Me” in 1976 and “Abracadabra” in 1982.
The Black Crowes are back with new music. The band just announced they’ll release their 10th studio album Happiness Bastardson March 15, with brothers Chris and Rich Robinsontelling fans they were “Leaving the bullsh** in the past…”
“Happiness Bastards is our love letter to rock n’ roll,” Chris shares. “Rich and I are always writing and creating music; that has never stopped for us, and it is always where we find harmony together. This record represents that.”
Rich adds, “This album is a continuation of our story as a band. Our years of experience writing and making music and touring the world are represented in this record … I am incredibly proud of what we put together.”
The release is the first album of new music in 15 years from the band, who are giving fans a first taste of the record with their new single “Wanting and Waiting.”
The Black Crowes’ last album of new music was 2009’s Before the Frost…Until the Freeze. The band broke up in 2015, but the brothers reunited in 2019 for a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. They were due to open for Aerosmith‘s Peace Out tour in 2023, but the trek got cut short after Steven Tyler fractured his larynx.
Grateful Dead fans will be taking over Riviera Cancun, Mexico, to enjoy some music, sun and more at the first-ever Dead Ahead festival, which kicks off Friday, January 12.
The festival will feature four nights of music, with artists like The Dead’s Bobby Weir and Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge, Don Was and Jay Lane, along with special appearances by Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson and more.
The festival begins with two headlining sets from Weir and the Wolf Brothers, featuring the Wolfpack. It’s followed by a ”late night rhythmic experience” with Hart’s Noche de Ondas, featuring a guest list that includes Trucks, percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Karl Perazzo, bass player Isaac Eady and drummer Lane. Hart promises a performance that “ties together many musical worlds.”
Saturday night will be headlined by Oteil & Friends, followed by a late night show from Lettuce celebrating the Jerry Garcia Band.
The last two nights will feature curated collaborations celebrating the Grateful Dead songbook, all with Weir, Hart, Chimenti, Burbridge, Was and Lane, with Sunday’s set featuring guests Trucks, Tedeschi and Simpson, and Monday’s featuring Price, Rick Mitarotonda and Simpson.
The weekend is more than just a concert, though, with attendees able to enjoy pool parties, jam sessions on the beach, golf outings, performance artists, interactive art installations and plenty of other activities.
While this is the inaugural Dead Ahead festival, it isn’t the first time members of The Dead have held a festival south of the border. From 2018 to 2020 Dead & Company headlined their own Playing in the Sand festival in Riviera Maya.
Jon Bon Jovi is saluting NFL coach Bill Belichick, who on Thursday parted ways with the New England Patriots after 24 seasons.
“Here’s a couple pics with my friend Bill. Thank you Coach for this chapter in an already legendary career,” he wrote on Instagram alongside photos of them together. “You are the G.O.A.T on and off the field … I’ve got your tambourine ready for you. Let’s go !!!”
Belichick joined the Patriots in 2000 and went on to coach the team to six Super Bowl wins. He is one of only three NFL coaches to have won six championships.
The planned Michael Jackson biopic finally has a release date.
Deadline reports that Michael, directed by Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua and starring the singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role, will hit theaters April 18, 2025.
Production on the film is set to begin January 22. It’s being produced by Graham King, who was responsible for the 2000 Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, as well as the 2006 Oscar winner The Departed. The script is by John Logan, who wrote the James Bond flick Skyfall.
The film is expected to cover all aspects of Jackson’s career and personal life, giving insight into both his personal struggles and creative genius.
Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir is set to be posthumously released later this year.
Random House just announced that it collaborated with the late singer-songwriter’s daughter Riley Keough on the yet-to-be-titled book, debuting October 15.
According to a press release, Presley’s “raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir will lift the veil on one of America’s most storied families, sharing intimate memories of Lisa Marie’s remarkable, tumultuous life while offering a poignant exploration of the bonds between a mother and daughter.”
The audiobook version will be read by Daisy Jones and the Six Golden Globe nominee Keough and include never-before-heard recollections in Presley’s own voice.
“Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’ daughter,” Keough said in a statement. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one.”
Riley continues, “I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.”
The press release notes that the memoir is “composed mostly of Presley’s own words,” with Keough “filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother.”
The publisher promises the work will explore “the unconditional love [Lisa Marie] felt from her father … her complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla, her own wild love stories” and “the shattering loss” of Lisa Marie’s son, Riley’s brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide.
Presley, the only daughter of the late superstar Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, died January 12, 2023, at age 54.
Elvis Costello and Christopher Cross are among the artists set to perform at The Nearness of You Concert, happening February 6 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room in New York City.
The event, which will honor 15-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker, will also feature performances by Costello’s wife Diana Krall, jazz singer Dianne Reeves and saxophonist Branford Marsalis.
The concert is a benefit to support cancer research at Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Previous Nearness of You concerts featured artists such as James Taylor, Paul Simon and Chaka Khan, and have raised nearly $5 million for cancer research.
Paul McCartney and Fleetwood Mac are among the artists who have contributed items to the new MusiCares Charity Relief Auction, set to coincide with this year’s Grammy Awards.
More than 75 one-of-a-kind items are up for grabs this year, including a signed and personalized hardcover copy of McCartney’s book The Lyrics: 1965 to Present; a Yamaha C3 Baby Grand Piano the late Fleetwood Mac co-founder, co-singer and songwriter Christine McVie played onstage; Metallica frontman James Hetfield’s signed black ESP LTD Vulture model guitar; and Eagle guitarist Joe Walsh’s personally owned and autographed 2015 Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Other items include The Cure frontman Robert Smith’s acoustic guitar, a twice signed Stevie Nicks Barbie doll, autographed Nicks records and a signed 2023 Gibson Les Paul from Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.There are also contributions from Foo Fighters, The Who’s Pete Townshend, James Brown, Coldplay and more.
The MusiCares Charity Relief Auction is happening Sunday, February 4, at 12 p.m. PT; it will take place at Julien’s Auctions and online. Proceeds benefit MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s charity arm that provides health and human services to the music community.
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has shared another taste of his upcoming album, The Circus and the Nightwhale, which will be released February 16.
The Rock & Roll Famer has just dropped a new single, “Wherever You Are,” along with a video for the track. This is the second single Hackett’s released from the album, following “People of the Smoke.”
The Circus and the Nightwhale is described as an autobiographical concept album revolving around a character named Travla. It is Hackett’s first album of new material since 2021’s instrumental album Under A Mediterranean Sky.
Hackett is set to return to the U.S. for a new leg of his Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour on March 1 in Jacksonville, Florida, with dates confirmed through April 13 in Phoenix, Arizona. A complete list of tour dates can be found at hackettsongs.com.
Elton John recently sold his Atlanta, Georgia, duplex for over $7 million. After living there for 30 years, he amassed quite a lot of stuff, and now, he’s getting ready to sell it all.
Christie’s has announced The Collection of Sir Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road auction, featuring art, clothing, jewelry and other objects from the home.
Items on the auction block include Elton’s living room piano, the Sandy Powell-designed 18th century costume he wore for his 47th birthday, silver leather platform boots with “E” and “J” on both sides and over 100 Versace woven-silk shirts from the 1990s.
There’s also photos by Irving Penn, Herb Ritts and Robert Mapplethorpe, art by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Banksy, a painting Damien Hurst made specifically for Elton and a lot more.
“It may not be everyone’s taste, but it’s certainly my taste,” John tells Christie’s about the collection. “My apartment in Atlanta was like my man cave full of things that I loved, mementos from everywhere in the world, things that gave me inspiration every day.”
Items in the collection will be on exhibit from February 9-21 at Christie’s in New York. There will be a series of eight auctions in total, both online and in person. More information on the auction can be found at christies.com.
