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Today March 15, 2023, Bret Michaels celebrates turning 60. The Poison frontman, solo artist, and successful businessman has had an extremely successful career in music and has continued to persevere even when health issues attempted to stop the rocker. Bret has lived with Type 1 diabetes since childhood, suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2010, had…
On this day March 15, 1969, Cream started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK charts with their fourth and final original album ‘Goodbye.’ Cream was a British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. During their brief three-year career, the band released…
Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival tour will be returning in 2023. But in some exciting news, he will be joined by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss as well as John Fogerty on different dates of the tour. Plant and Krauss will join the festival’s first three dates, beginning June 23 in Somerset, WI. The duo is touring in…
Yes has released “Cut From the Stars,” the first single from their upcoming album Mirror to the Sky. Mirror to the Sky is Yes’s first new material since the death of Alan White. The band’s longtime drummer died in May 2022, a few months after Yes’ previous album, The Quest, was released. Jay Schellen, who had toured with the band…
Yes, the prog-rock supergroup from the 70’s, will be releasing their 23rd studio album, “Mirror to the Sky,” on May 16, 2023. “This is a very important album for the band,” guitarist Steve Howe stated in a press release. “We kept the continuity in the approach we established on [2021’s] The Quest, but we haven’t repeated…
Billy Squier has released his first new single in 25 years, “Harder on a Woman.” “Harder on a Woman” arrives 25 years after Squiers’ last album, Happy Blue, which was released in 1998. Squier assembled some amazing performers for the new track, enlisting G.E. Smith (from Bob Dylan and Hall & Oates’ groups) to play additional guitars…
Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died of unspecified causes at the age of 71. The guitarist had overcome several health battles in recent years. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter, and guitarist, Gary Rossington,…
In early February of 2023, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger waters revealed that he has been rerecording ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ without the rest of the band. Full story here. Roger Waters has unveiled the first sample of music from his controversial reworking of Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon. The 52-second clip was uploaded to YouTube…
On this day, February 15, 1964, The Beatles: Meet the Beatles! reached the number one spot on the Billboard top 100 charts, and more impressively would rein at the top spot for 11 weeks before, ironically, being knocked out of the top spot by The Beatles’ Second Album. This would be the first instance in…
If you were hoping to see a Pink Floyd reunion in the near future, you are out of luck. In recent days there has been a lot of drama between Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Roger Waters. but one of the most controversial things to have come out is that Roger Waters has rerecorded…