Category: Oldies News

Credit: Jenny RisherAlice Cooper‘s latest studio album, Detroit Stories, gets its release this Friday, February 26, and in celebration of the new record’s impending arrival, the shock rocker will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-networking site talkshoplive. Cooper’s appearance, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, also marks the launch of the talkshoplive platform’s new Rock n Roll Channel, which will feature well-known artists encouraging direct-to-consumer sales of their releases. Detroit Stories will be available for purchase in various formats and configurations during Alice’s segment. In…

Credits: Ross HalfinAerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons are featured in a new preview from the upcoming film and album documenting the star-studded London tribute concert Mick Fleetwood organized last year celebrating Fleetwood Mac‘s early years and the group’s original leader, Peter Green. A video of Tyler singing the 1969 Fleetwood Mac blues-rock gem “Rattlesnake Shake” with Gibbons on guest guitar has premiered on YouTube, while the audio is available now for download and streaming. Tyler and Gibbons were accompanied by the show’s house band, which included Fleetwood…

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe Beatles were masters at creating memorable pop and rock songs, and now college students in the band’s hometown of Liverpool, U.K., will have the opportunity to earn a master’s degree focusing on the group. This September, the University of Liverpool is launching an MA course called “The Beatles: Music Industry and Heritage,” which according to a description on the school’s website “will explore how [the band], their music and their story are inextricably bound up within an increasing number of creative and cultural industries including…music, media…

Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesDionne Warwick is looking back at her successful career and can credit her success to mentor Lena Horne. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight alongside Horne’s granddaughter Jenny Lumet, the “Heartbreaker” singer reflected on the woman who helped shape her career. “Lena Horne was one of my major mentors,” said Warwick, 80. “I called her Mama, she called me daughter. She was one of the many mentors that I had, but she was one of the very special ones to me. Because of the way she treated me.” “The one thing I never forgot and never will…

Courtesy of The Fest for Beatles FansToday marks what would have been George Harrison‘s 78th birthday, and to mark the occasion, The Fest for Beatles Fans is presenting a special virtual evening of music, storytelling and other tributes, featuring some of the late Beatles guitarist’s friends and fellow musicians. Dubbed “Life of George: A Beatles Birthday Celebration,” the event will run from 5 p.m. through 11 p.m. ET and will be viewable via Zoom, with tickets available for $15 at Eventbrite.com. Among the special guests scheduled to take part in…

Rob DeMartin/Courtesy of JeepAfter Bruce Springsteen received only a minor penalty stemming from a DWI arrest last November, Jeep has reinstated its Super Bowl ad featuring The Boss. In a statement to ABC News, a Jeep spokesperson said, “As we stated previously, we paused the commercial until the facts were established. Now, that the matter has been resolved, we are unpausing the film.” Following the recent news of Springsteen’s arrest for driving while intoxicated and other charges this past fall in his home state of New Jersey, the high-profile ads…

RhinoThis past week, Whitesnake released a new compilation called The Blues Album, the third and final installment of the band’s “Red, White and Blues” trilogy of themed retrospective albums. The 14-track collection features remixed and remastered versions of blues-rock-flavored songs from Whitesnake’s back catalog spanning from 1984 through 2011, as well as one tune from frontman David Coverdale‘s 2000 solo album, Into the Light. Coverdale tells ABC Audio that the remixes on The Blues Album, like those on the trilogy’s other two compilations, Love Songs and The Rock Album, have…

Credit: Ross HalfinFleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood is among the artists and celebrities that will be featured speakers at the virtual 2021 edition of the annual South by Southwest Festival, dubbed SXSW Online 2021, which is scheduled for March 16-20. Fleetwood will take part in an event called “Going Viral: In Your Dreams,” during which he will discuss such topics as how he’s sustained a long and lucrative music career and his recent success with the viral video platform TikTok. The session was inspired in part by Fleetwood’s connection to…

Courtesy of Can-Am On-RoadJoan Jett is featured in a new ad campaign for Can-Am On-Road three-wheeled motorcycles alongside visionary hip-hop artist SAINt JHN. The initiative, dubbed “Outliers,” seeks to bring attention to the need for diversity representation with regard to the on-road riding community, addressing preconceived ideas about what open-road riders should look and act like. The campaign marks Jett’s first brand collaboration in her decades-long career. A new commercial for the vehicles features the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer sitting on a Can-Am Spyder F3-T in a Brooklyn, New…

Liveright/W.W. NortonPaul McCartney has never written an autobiography, but the former Beatles legend has shared much of his life story through his songs. With that in mind, McCartney has unveiled plans to release a book called The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, which offers a self-portrait while profiling 154 songs he’s written throughout his long career. The book, which will be published on November 2, features the lyrics of tunes spanning from Paul’s childhood, through his years with The Beatles and Wings and as a solo artist, up to the…