Tom Petty’s family has paid tribute to the rocker’s former Mudcrutch bandmate Tom Leadon, who passed away March 22 at the age of 71.
Sharing a collage of pictures featuring Petty, Leadon and the rest of the band, Petty’s daughter Adria Petty writes on Instagram, “We are devastated to hear of the passing of Tom Leadon. He was a dear friend of Tom and the fellas in the band and our entire family. He was part of the brotherhood. He was an excellent and accomplished musician and was the reason Tom reformed Mudcrutch, so that the band could enjoy more time and more music together. Tom loved him deeply.”
Petty’s wife, Dana Petty, added, “I am deeply saddened and surprised by this. Tom spent a lot of time staying in our home. He was very sweet with the best memory we’d ever witnessed. He was a unique man. I’m so shocked that he’s gone.”
With a new album on the horizon, fans want to know when they’ll first get to hear Kelly Clarkson‘s new music. The singer has suggested that might happen sooner than they think.
Kelly recently announced her next album, Chemistry, which she only said will be out “soon.” Speaking toEntertainment Tonight, the singer flirted with previewing some new content on The Voice.
“My hope is that yes, we are going to be debuting some new stuff on The Voice,” she said. “I’ve been working on the record for a bit, but I’m now ready to release it.”
She didn’t reveal any potential song titles or when she might perform some of her new material.
The album is rumored to be arriving when Kelly kicks off her chemistry…an intimate night with Kelly Clarkson residency in Las Vegas. The 10-show run starts July 28 at Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
Kelly’s last album of all-new material was 2017’s The Meaning of Life. She also released When Christmas Comes Around in 2021 and her Kellyoke EP in 2022.
Speaking of The Voice, Kelly had some kind words for outgoing coach Blake Shelton, who’s been a bastion of the show since its inception. “I kind of want to be the one to kick him out the door, but also I want to hug him while he’s going,” she said.
Kelly also assessed new coach Niall Horan and how he may have forced her back to the drawing board when it comes to winning. “Usually my strategy is, like, I can relate, I’ve been through a show, too,” she said.
Niall also got his start on a reality singing competition as a member of One Direction; Kelly says losing that edge stinks.
The lineup for the apparent Power Trip festival is getting even more stacked.
As previously reported, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica and Iron Maiden all shared videos Tuesday leading to the website PowerTrip.live, which seems to be teasing a new festival from Coachella producers Goldenvoice. Since then, AC/DC andTool have shared the same videos.
Additionally, Varietyreports that Guns N’ Roses will be on the bill. According to Variety, Power Trip will be held in October at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, the same site as Coachella and Goldenvoice’s similarly high-profile Desert Trip festival in 2016, which featured The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who.
If the teasers hold true, Power Trip will mark Ozzy’s first announced show since he revealed he was retiring from touring earlier this year, as well as AC/DC’s first live performance since 2016. It will also mark the “Back in Black” group’s first show back with vocalist Brian Johnson since the beginning of 2016, when he was forced to leave the tour due to health issues. GN’R’s Axl Rose stepped in for Johnson to finish out the run.
According to the Power Trip website, all will be revealed this Thursday, March 30.
(WASHINGTON) — Starbucks’ former CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday denied breaking the law in response to sharp criticism from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who accused the company of “the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of our country.”
In response to questions from Sanders during a Senate hearing, Schultz affirmed the right of workers to choose whether to unionize and defended the company’s actions.
Starbucks “has not broken the law,” Schultz said. “Let me set the tone for this very early on.”
Schultz, who served as Starbucks CEO for over 20 years across three stints, said Starbucks has negotiated in “good faith” with employees as they’ve sought to unionize and obtain collective benefits.
More than a dozen decisions from federal officials have found that the company violated labor law in its response to a wave of union campaigns at its stores, according to the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency.
Roughly 290 of almost 9,000 company-owned stores in the U.S. have voted to unionize. However, workers have yet to sign a union contract at a single location.
Earlier this month, an administrative judge ruled that Starbucks had committed “egregious and widespread misconduct” in its effort to prevent unionization at some of its stores.
The judge, Michael A. Rosas, mandated the company reinstate several workers and Schultz read a notice to employees, among other remedies.
More than 500 formal allegations of labor law violations have been filed against Starbucks with regional offices of the NLRB, the agency said this month.
In all, 13 decisions have ordered remedies for unfair labor practices committed by Starbucks, including the reinstatement of 22 employees, the NLRB said. Some of those decisions have been appealed, the agency added.
Schultz characterized the findings against Starbucks as “allegations,” adding that the company is “confident that those allegations will be proven false.”
Workers United, the labor organization organizing Starbucks workers, said in a statement that it welcomed the Senate hearing as a venue for Schultz to face accountability for his response to the union campaign.
“We’re hopeful for change,” a Workers United spokesperson said. “We’re hopeful that this hearing moves the needle forward for baristas and workers all across the country.”
“We look forward to Howard Schultz being held accountable for his actions and being forced to answer to his unprecedented union-busting campaign under oath,” the spokesperson added.
Starbucks workers achieved an unprecedented wave of unionization at the company last year but the pace of union victories fell significantly over the course of last year.
Over the first half of 2022, the National Labor Relations Board received union election petitions from an average of 47 Starbucks stores per month; but over five months ending in November, that election rate dwindled to 11 stores per month, according to data from the NLRB.
Tyler, the Creator is hyping the upcoming release of Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale with his new video for “Sorry Not Sorry.”
Released Wednesday, the self-directed visual finds the rapper and iterations of him from previous albums offering both honest and satirical apologies to a slew of individuals in the crowd. Tyler battles his different alter egos and ultimately ends the video beating one of them to death.
“Sorry Not Sorry” come days after the release of “Dogtooth” and its accompanying video. Both tracks will appear on Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale, which will feature songs that didn’t make it onto the original album. The project is due out Friday.
Wes Anderson has always managed to score impressive casts for his films, but the Moonrise Kingdom director may have outdone himself for his latest, Asteroid City.
Tom Hanks stars as an ornery, pistol-packing grandfather in the movie, which just debuted its trailer. But the ’50s-set film also stars Scarlett Johansson as a screen siren, as well as Steve Carell, Rita Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Jeffrey Wright and Liev Schreiber, just to name a few.
Asteroid City is an alien invasion movie, as only Anderson could make: All of the characters in the trailer machine gun their dialogue in the filmmaker’s signature droll fashion, as they come to grips with an alien landing where a famous meteor once did, in Arizona.
Universal Pictures teases, “The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention — organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition — is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.”
Operation Ivy may still be broken up, but half of the legendary punk band is getting back together.
Guitarist Tim Armstrong and vocalist Jesse Michaels have launched a new band called Bad Optix. You can listen to the group’s debut single, “Raid,” now via digital outlets.
Along with the former Op Ivy bandmates, Bad Optix includes ex-Queens of the Stone Age drummer JoeyCastillo.
Op Ivy was a seminal band of California’s East Bay punk scene of the ’80s, which also produced Green Day. Following the group’s brief but impactful two-year run, Armstrong went on to form Rancid alongside Op Ivy bassist Matt Freeman.
AC/DC’s Malcolm Young called Brian Johnson, former singer of the band Geordie, and invited him to replace their late frontman, Bon Scott.
The band released their first album with Johnson, Back In Black, in July 1980. It went on to become one of the biggest albums in music history, selling more than 25 million copies in the U.S. alone, although it never reached number one in the U.S. It featured future AC/DC classics “You Shook Me All Night Long,” “Hells Bells” and the title track.
Johnson, along with the rest of AC/DC, went on to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
He temporarily stepped away from the band in 2016 due to hearing problems, but rejoined the group in 2018 for their album Power Up, which was released in 2020.
Now for another round of America’s favorite game show: What’s going on with Rage Against the Machine?
The “Killing in the Name” outfit finally launched their reunion tour last summer after it had been postponed from 2020, marking the first time they’ve played live together since 2011. However, frontman Zack de la Rocha tore his Achilles tendon during just the second show on the run. While he finished the U.S. leg while performing sitting down, the band’s U.K. and European dates, as well as their 2023 U.S. leg, were canceled so he could recover.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, guitarist Tom Morello was asked whether Rage plans to return to the road once de la Rocha is all healed. His response? “We’ll see.”
“If there is to be any more shows, we will announce it as a band,” Morello says. “I don’t know. I know as much as you do, honestly.”
Morello was then asked what “term” he would use to describe Rage’s current status, to which he replied, “There is no term.”
“Rage Against the Machine is like the ring in Lord of the Rings,” Morello says. “It drives men mad. It drives journalists mad. It drives record industry people mad. They want it. They want the thing, and they’re driven mad.”
“If there are Rage shows, if there are not Rage shows, you’ll hear from the band,” he continues. “I do not know. When there is news, it will come from a collective statement from the band. There is no news.”
Also during the interview, Morello addressed various “misunderstandings” about Rage’s tour last year, clarifying the band never “had a vaccination requirement to be in the room” and that the money brought in from any tickets sold with “dynamic pricing” was donated to charity.
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March 28 marked the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, and guitarist Jimmy Page marked the occasion by sharing a special treat with fans.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist shared an early demo he called “The Seasons,” which eventually became “The Rain Song.” He explained that the clip “was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage.”
The more than seven-minute “The Rain Song” was one of many classic tunes that appeared on Houses of the Holy. Others include “The Song Remains The Same” and “Dancing Days.”
