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Getty ImagesHitting the road this week is Smith/Kotzen, the collaboration between Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and Winery Dog’s Richie Kotzen. The pair will be promoting their first joint eponymous set, which dropped last March and peaked at Number 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. For ticket info, log on to: https://bnds.us/0gfhas Adrian Smith said…

’90s power pop rockers the Gin Blossoms have just announced their “30 Miserable Years Tour” in celebration of their multi-platinum breakthrough 1992 album New Miserable Experience. The band will play the album in its entirety along with other hits. The Blossoms hit the road on February 18th in Fort Pierce, Florida with the 15-city winter…

PRPhotos.comBruce Springsteen is “The Boss” of top earning musicians on Rolling Stone’s list of 2021’s 10 Highest Paid Musicians with a whopping $590 million. A majority of the top earers of the year came down to artists — like Springsteen — selling either they songwriting catalogues, publishing, and/or other major assets. Number Two on the…

PRPhotos.comSpencer Elden, the baby from Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover has refiled his lawsuit against the band. Last week, the lawsuit filed by Elden was dismissed by a California federal judge after his lawyers missed a deadline to respond to a motion for dismissal. But the judge gave another deadline to amend the lawsuit. According to…

Getty ImagesOut now is Tears For Fears’ newest single, “Break The Man” — a teaser from the group’s first new album in 17 years, titled The Tipping Point. Rolling Stone reported will the collection be released on February 25th via the Concord imprint and co-produced by the band’s Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, along with…

Getty ImagesIt was 42 years ago Sunday (January 16th, 1980) that Paul McCartney was arrested in Tokyo, Japan for bringing 7.7 ounces of marijuana into the country. Fans were stunned at McCartney’s action seeing as how he had lobbied so hard to be granted a work visa to perform in Japan after Wings was turned…

PRPhotos.comRonnie Spector had revised her 1990 memoir Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, And Madness, in the weeks before her death. The Ronettes’ singer died on January 12th at the age of 78. The new edition, which includes a new postscript by Spector and a forward by Spector’s close friend and collaborator Keith…

Getty ImagesIt was 50 years ago Saturday (January 15th, 1972) that Don McLean’s “American Pie” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first week of its month-long run. The song is the origin of the term “the day the music died,” about the February 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and…

Getty ImagesSet for publication on May 1st is Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer – The Untold Story, written by John Lennon’s former attorney Jay Bergen. Bergen defended the former-Beatle in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against record business veteran — and known mafia associate, Roulette Records owner, Morris Levy, who took unmixed tapes of Lennon…