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Last week, the Library of Congress unveiled the 2025 additions to its National Recording Registry, which aims to collect recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically important.” If you were Elton John, Steve Miller, Celine Dion, or the estate of the late Helen Reddy, you were probably thrilled. But one man, apparently, was not.

On last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian and commentator made headlines with his much-awaited — and now much parsed, praised, or pummeled — recap of his and pal Kid Rock’s visit to the...

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National Recording Registry adds Amy Winehouse, Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Hamilton, and more

The National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress has selected 25 new recordings for preservation, including albums by Miles Davis, Elton John, Tracy Chapman, and Mary J. Blige, plus Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup chime, the Minecraft video game score, and the original cast recording of Hamilton. Here's the full list:

“Aloha ‘Oe” — Hawaiian Quintette (1913) (single) “Sweet Georgia Brown” — Brother Bones & His Shadows (1949) (single) “Happy Trails” — Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (1952) (single) Radio Broadcast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series — Chuck Thompson (1960) Harry Urata Field Recordings (1960-1980) Hello Dummy! — Don Rickles (1968) (album) Chicago Transit Authority — Chicago (1969) (album) Bitches Brew — Miles Davis (1970) (album) “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” — Charley Pride (1971) (single) “I Am Woman” — Helen Reddy (1972) (single) “El Rey” — Vicente Fernandez (1973) (single) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — Elton John (1973) (album) “Before the...

Steve Miller has re-recorded his 1976 rock anthem “Fly Like an Eagle” with help from musicians all around the world, including organist Ivan Neville (New Orleans, LA), drummer Franklin Vanderbilt (Los Angeles, CA), sitar player Prasad Rahane (Delhi, India), percussionist Rupak Dhamankar (Mumbai, India), guitarist Vasti Jackson (Hattiesburg, Mississippi), bassist Claire Finley (Key West, Fl), drummer Kátsica Mayoral (La Paz, Mexico), singer Quiana Lynell (New Orleans, LA), percussionist Baboulaye Sissokho (Dakar, Senegal) and guitarist Sofia Viola (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

It’s part of Playing For Change’s ongoing Songs Around The World project.

Playing For Change (Pfc), a Certified B Corp (Social Purpose Corporation) global multimedia company dedicated to unifying the world through the power of music, is set to premiere a momentous rendition of the Steve Miller Band's “Fly Like an Eagle,” a timeless anthem of empowerment and unity, on February 20, 2025, World Day of Social Justice, on Rolling Stone and Playing For Change’s YouTube channel and website.

Featuring the iconic Steve Miller, this Song Around The World embodies the harmony and collective spirit at the heart of Playing For Change’s mission.

“So much is at stake for humanity in today’s world, it is difficult to create a message that is positive and inspirational. To help unify the world through the power of music is my greatest dream. Thanks to Ivan Neville, Franklin Vanderbilt, Quiana Lynell, and all these accomplished artists from five different countries who joined the entire...

As he took his seat at the organ behind Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in the summer of 1965, Barry Goldberg wasn’t sure what would happen. “At the beginning, it was just a gig,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. “Bob said, ‘You want to play with me tonight?’ I wasn’t a folkie or knew how serious those people were. We started doing our thing, playing that song [‘Like a Rolling Stone’]. At the end, there were boos but also cheers. They felt betrayed by him. But Bob...

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, and Jonquil Garrick-Reynolds, a theatrical wardrobe technician from Ottawa are back in the second chance tournament. The first round saw Goins take an early lead, demonstrating a strong grasp of “Historic History,” among other categories. By the first commercial break, he […]

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Drew Goins, a Assistant Op-Ed Editor at The Washington Post, has captivated audiences with his intellect and charm on Jeopardy!. Currently based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, but maintaining strong ties to Washington, D.C., Drew began his journalism career in 2016 as a summer intern on the news multiplatform desk at The Post. Over the years, he transitioned to the Opinions section, where he has become a vital voice in elevating underrepresented perspectives.

Before joining The Post, Drew honed his journalistic skills at the Virginian-Pilot and even gained experience in public service with the U.S. Department of Education. A multilingual professional fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, Drew’s focus on a digital-first approach has made him a standout in modern journalism. His commitment to precision and clarity shines through in every piece he edits or writes, underscoring why he has achieved such prominence in his field.

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Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon, is no stranger to Jeopardy!. A lifelong fan of the iconic quiz show, Steve’s journey to the stage is a testament to persistence, passion, and personal growth. Originally from California, Steve tried out for the show multiple times since the 1980s, refusing to let rejection dampen his enthusiasm. Now, decades later, he has returned for Jeopardy!’s Second Chance Tournament, ready to showcase the skills he has honed over a lifetime.

Steve’s determination is deeply rooted in his love for trivia and the competitive spirit of Jeopardy!. His first appearance, which aired on May 28, 2024, was a dream fulfilled, but it also came with lessons that he has carried into his second chance. As a contestant, Steve focused on perfecting his timing, leveraging his career experience in medical transcription to master the critical buzzer technique. For him, this wasn’t...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the January 6 episode of Jeopardy!.] After Drew Goins’ initial appearance in September 2024, fans clamored to see him return to Jeopardy!, and that’s exactly what happened in the second and final week of the Second Chance Tournament. In fact, he even got a bit of redemption after he previously missed out on a Taylor Swift question. Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawai’i, faced off against Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon, and Jonquil Garrick-Reynolds, a theatrical wardrobe technician from Ottawa, Ontario. The three hoped to advance to the January 9 finals and then join Will Yancey in the Champions Wildcard event (beginning January 13). Early on, Goins had control of the game, leading at both breaks in the Jeopardy! round and doubling his score with the first Daily Double; in “Historic History,” he correctly answered, “The 1973 Arab-Israeli War occurred during these 2 periods, one Jewish & one Islamic, both of which involve ...

The Jeopardy! Second Chance 2025 tournament is about to start. This is the first part of the postseason, culminating in the main Tournament of Champions later in January and into February. However, many fans are more excited about the Second Chance Tournament because it gives some fan favorites a chance to get back into contention.

Here is a look at who the fans are behind, and who they want to win this first tournament of 2025.

Jeopardy! Second Chance Tournament Underway

The Jeopardy! Second Chance Tournament offers contestants who didn’t win during the season a second chance to enter the prized Tournament of Champions. Invitations are sent to players who showed they were good enough to win but lost tough battles in matches that could have gone either way.

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This year’s Jeopardy! Second Chance Tournament involves 19 contestants who didn’t win this past season. They are split into two divisions,...

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The Second Chance edition of Jeopardy is ready and all set to be back. It features 18 worthy contestants from the past year who were not able to get another shot at sweet victory over the two weeks long tournament. It brings back players who were either fan favorites or were really close to a win.

The 2025 edition of Jeopardy Second Chance featured players from the end of season 40 and the currently airing season 41. As per the release, it features “select contestants” who would be getting “the chance to change their destinies.” Here’s a brief of the contestants, matchups, and more.

Jeopardy Second Chance 2025 Contestants

The contestants to be featured on the 2025 edition of Jeopardy Second Chance are finance manager Sam Cameron, student Enzo Cunanan, writer Lindsay Denninger, wardrobe technician Jonquil Garrick, journalist Drew Goins, chemistry professor Mike Ferguson, and therapist Zoe Grobman.

Tommy Chong as Leo Chingkwake was one of the funniest characters on That 70s Show who consistently delivered some of the series' most memorable quotes. Across eight seasons, Chong turned Leo from a one-note stoner character into an engaging and insightful father figure for Steven Hyde and, at times, an oddly poetic speaker of philosophical wisdom. Chong was perfectly cast as the aging hippie Leo because, as one-half of the cult stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong, he was already an integral part of 1970s pop culture.

Many of the best episodes of That 70s Show featured Leo, and throughout the series run, Chong was upgraded from an occasional guest star into an important recurring character. As an essential contributor to many of That 70s Shows best recurring gags, Leo was often present as the gang indulged in recreational activities down in Eric Formans basement. While Leo may not have...

Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) hails from Iowa, and here's how Kirk's hometown became Star Trek canon. As the Captain of the USS Enterprise, Kirk has been all over the galaxy. However, James is a human born on Earth, and, like most Starfleet Officers, Kirk graduated from Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry established that Kirk is "from a small town in Iowa," but in 1985, a real life Iowa town made itself the official birthplace of Captain Kirk.

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Admiral Kirk famously quipped, "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space." J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009) movie tweaked Kirk's origin; in the alternate Kelvin timeline, James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) was actually born in space but was raised in Iowa. Star Trek (2009) also showed the Starship Enterprise being built in Kirk's home state. Although Star Trek never showed...

Journey‘s Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon have reached a resolution in a legal dispute regarding the management of their shared business subsidiary, Freedom 2020.

As previously reported, Cain sued Schon for mismanaging their shared business and overspending at the band’s expense — all this coming while Cain and Schon are actively sharing the stage for Journey’s summer North American tour with Def Leppard.

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Cain’s lawsuit, publicly filed on July 30th, alleged that Schon maxed out an American Express credit card with a $1 million limit and blew past a $1,500-per-night hotel allowance, while also chartering private jets and hiring a friend as a security guard. The keyboardist also accused the guitarist of preventing the band from paying its debts.

As a resolution, Cain sought a third party to act as a deciding vote regarding future business disputes, with Cain’s legal team filing the lawsuit...

As Journey continues its stadium tour with Def Leppard and Steve Miller, two of its members have finally settled a legal dispute.

Jonathan Cain announced Wednesday that the Delaware Chancery Court has appointed a third independent director, former Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights, for his and bandmate Neal Schon‘s Freedom 2020 business subsidiary.

“Mr. Schon is prohibited from unilaterally acting on behalf of the Company and all future deadlock between Mr. Cain and Mr. Schon will be broken by the vote of the Custodian,” Cain’s legal team shared in a statement. “Mr. Cain is elated with the outcome and looks forward to moving beyond this matter so that Journey can continue the band’s 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour.”

After Schon agreed last week to Cain’s request to appoint a third party tiebreaker to manage the ongoing tour, Cain’s attorney Kasey H. DeSantis accused Schon of “now seeking to...

Eminem has dropped a grisly music video for “Tobey,” his latest Death of Slim Shady single with Big Sean and BabyTron.

The Cole Bennett-directed clip finds the three Michigan MCs digitally duplicated, delivering their verses and interacting with their doubles as the camera roams through a variety of settings, like a warehouse, hotel room, and club. When it finally gets to Eminem’s verse, the setting switches to the front of a house that looks a lot like the one on the cover of The Marshall Mathers LP.

From there,...

Def Leppard and Journey launched their Summer 2024 North American co-headlining stadium tour on Saturday night (July 6th) at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

The highly anticipated trek sees the rock legends teaming up for an all-star tour package that also includes support from Steve Miller Band and Cheap Trick on select dates (get tickets here).

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This first show gave concertgoers a snapshot of the setlist that they can generally expect to hear from each band as the tour rolls through August and into September.

Def Leppard stuck closely to their classic 1980s albums and the hits from each: High ‘n’ Dry; Pyromania (“Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop),” “Foolin’,” “Comin’ Under Fire,” “Die Hard the Hunter,” “Rock of Ages,” and “Photograph”); and Hysteria.

The setlist also included the new stand-alone single “Just Like ’73” , as well as one song from their 2022 album, Diamond Star Halos (“This Guitar...

Sing 2 is a non-stop sing-along with tracks by popular artists like Prince, Billie Eilish, and U2. The sequel picks up with the cast performing a musical at Buster Moon's rebuilt theater and later embarking on a fun-filled disaster in Redshore City. The Sing 2 soundtrack features a mix of original songs sung by the cast and covers of popular hits, with standout performances by Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, and Scarlett Johansson.

Featuring tracks by Prince, Billie Eilish, U2, and more, the Sing 2 songs comprise a soundtrack that offers several options for the audience to sing along with, with most songs massive hits. Sing 2 is the sequel to 2016s Sing, which saw the main characters assemble for auditions at Mr. Moons theater, with a star-studded cast including Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, and Scarlett Johansson. In 2021, Sing 2 brought the gang back for another musical adventure with all the star power of the first,...

Just before the start of their Summer Stadium Tour 2024, Def Leppard took over the SiriusXM LA Garage for an exclusive concert featuring some of their biggest hits and the first-ever public performance of their brand-new song.

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Watch the band’s full one-hour set on the SiriusXM app now for a limited time, which includes songs like “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” “Photograph,” and “Rock of Ages,” plus the first-ever live performance of their new song, “Just Like 73,” and their “Pyromania” classic “Comin’ Under Fire.”

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Summer Stadium Tour 2024 Classic Rewind Takeover

For more Summer Stadium Tour 2024 excitement, tune in to Classic Rewind (Ch. 25) from July 1–7 to hear members of Def Leppard, Journey, Cheap Trick, and Steve Miller Band take over the channel as Guest Hosts, soundtracking your Fourth of July as they handpick music...

Independence Day is here, and Deep Tracks is focusing on the most essential fourth releases from American classic rock artists! We’re counting down your favorites, as voted by you.

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Stream the “Fourths for the Fourth” countdown in the SiriusXM app now, and catch it on-air when it premieres on Deep Tracks (Ch. 308) on July 4 at 4pm Et.

Directions: Vote once for up to 15 of your favorite albums in the poll below before 11:59pm Et on June 16, 2024.

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Fourth releases from American classic rock artists

These are the possible album choices for this year’s “Fourths for the Fourth” countdown:

Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters

Aerosmith – Rocks

Al Kooper – New York City (You’re A Woman)

Alice Cooper – Killer

Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe

Big Star – In Space...

Steve Miller praised Eminem in a statement Friday after his band’s “Abracadabra” was interpolated in the rapper’s latest single “Houdini.”

Taking to social media after The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) single was released, the Rock Hall-inducted artist said he was “honored” that Eminem chose his 1982 hit for the similarly magic-themed single.

“There is a long chain of stories, poetry, lyrics, and musical roots that have crossed cultures and generations inspiring the whole world for hundreds of years and in all those lines of thought, music,...

American rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) is once again scoring headlines with his latest track that is, apparently, aimed at making his “career disappear.” This comes after he announced earlier this year that he would soon be jumping back onstage after over four years, with his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace). And so he has, with his glorious swag.

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This exclusive single of his has been titled Houdini, and the Goat has really brought about something much different than before as he aims to kill off his alter ego who earned tremendous popularity with his album from 1999, The Slim Shady LP. But what’s really iconic is how the rapper is dressed as he takes down his alter ego, ironically, as Batman’s sidekick, Robin.

Eminem is Back as Robin in His Exclusive Single Houdini

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In December 2023, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Def Leppard and Journey announced they would be joining forces for a colossal co-headlining stadium tour in the summer of 2024. The 23-city “Journey x Def Leppard Tour” kicks off on July 6, 2024, in St. Louis, Missouri and wraps up on September 8 in Denver, Colorado.

Along the way, the superstar lineup will perform at major stadiums in cities like Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others.

The two iconic 80s bands, who previously toured together in 2018, bring along fellow classic rock legends Cheap Trick, Heart and the Steve Miller Band for select dates.

Def Leppard, known for hits like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Love Bites,” are fresh off a successful 2023 tour with fellow heavy metal icons Mötley Crüe. This time, they’ll take the stage alongside Journey, the powerhouse band behind the classic anthems “Don’t Stop Believin'” and “Faithfully.

A Jeopardy four-day champ’s reign is over after a big final bet didn’t pay off. The player bet so highly, he ended his fifth game with just $1. Playing in the May 28, 2024 game was returning champ Amar Kakirde, a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, with a total winnings of $55,899; Abby Mann, a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, Illinois; and Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon. Miller staged an impressive comeback throughout the game, bringing himself back from -200 at the first break to a first-place lead heading into Final Jeopardy. This was made possible in part by two successful Daily Double answers, but just like Kakirde, Miller was foiled by a risky wager in the final round. Mann was in third place for most of the game, but she proved to have made the best bet of the night when gambling only $3,000 on the “European Scientists” Final Jeopardy clue.

In the Tuesday May 28 episode of Jeopardy!, three contestants brought their A-game to the table. Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon, Abby Mann, a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, Illinois, and Amar Kakirde, a four-day champion graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, all vied for the top spot. Amar entered […]

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Naboo's democracy allows for young elected monarchs, like Padm Amidala, who became queen at just 14 years old. The elected monarchy system in Naboo has a unique history, with terms limited to two four-year periods per ruler. Despite being a puppet ruler for the Empire, Queen Kylantha of Naboo secretly supported the Rebel Alliance and democratic values.

Padm Amidala is the Queen of Naboo, whose human government is explicitly a democracy in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. Constitutional and/or elected monarchies do exist in reality, yet Naboos human government is particularly strange, as Queen Amidala is only a teenager in The Phantom Menace - and Padm reveals she was not Naboos youngest monarch in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Star Wars lore reveals the intricacies of Naboos political system as well as its history, explaining why the humans of the Mid Rim planet have such an odd system of government.

Ross Valory has dreamed of making a solo album ever since he started gigging around San Francisco in the late Sixties, but other projects kept getting in the way. He was in the process of amassing original songs in 1971 when the Steve Miller Band brought him into the fold to play bass on Rock Love. Later, he teamed up with ex-members of Santana to form the Golden Gate Rhythm Section. Within a few months, they changed their name to Journey.

Valory was a near-constant presence over the past 50 years of Journey,...

From the out-of-step psychedelic rock of 2010’s Congratulations and 2013’s Mgmt to their surprisingly somber return to form in 2018’s Little Dark Age, Mgmt has seemingly been on a career-long quest to confound critics and fans alike. On their fifth studio album, Loss of Life, the band discovers a delectable sweet spot between the psych-pop promise of their early work and their noble, albeit stubborn, determination to deliver something more sophisticated.

That’s not to say that Mgmt has outgrown their prankster ways. The album opens, perhaps counterintuitively, with “Loss of Life, Part 2,” which warps the music of the closing title song into a backing track for a reading of “I Am Taliesin. I Sing Perfect Metre,” a medieval poem celebrating the interconnectedness of all things. It’s a weird and trippy intro to Loss of Life that effectively speaks to the album’s sound and ethos.

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Iconic bands Journey and Def Leppard are back together again for the summer.

Beginning in July, the two bands will hit the North American roads for a summer stadium tour. They’re scheduled to start in St. Louis on July 6 and end in Denver on September 8.

Joining them will be the Steve Miller Band, Cheap Trick and Heart.

The summer tour will be a reunion of sorts, as this will not be the first the two bands share the stage. In 2006 and 2018, Journey and Def Leppard toured in North America together.

“We are thrilled to be back on the road in 2024 with so many good friends as part of this tour,” Journey said on their website. “No matter which city you come to this will be an amazing night of music!”

Last year, Def Leppard co-headlined a concert tour with Motley Crue. Journey, on the other hand, will be celebrating...

Don’t stop believin’ in the hysteria.

Megaplatinum rock stalwarts Def Leppard and Journey are gearing up to hit the road for a North American summer stadium tour starting July 6 in St. Louis. The 23-show jaunt runs through September 8 in Denver and will feature fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steve Miller and his band on the bulk of the dates, with Cheap Trick or Heart on the others.

The trek will hit Citi Field in metro New York on August 7 and SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on August 25, both featuring Miller. See the full itinerary below.

The two headliners have toured together over the decades, but this is their first co-starring stadium affair. Def Leppard hit the huge U.S. and Canadian venues in 2022 for a Covid-delayed tour with Mötley Crüe in 2022.

San Francisco-based Journey has moved more than 49 million albums in the U.S. alone, paced by their 15 million-selling 1988 Greatest Hits.

Def Leppard and Journey are teaming up for a co-headlining North American tour in Summer 2024. The outing will feature select support from fellow legendary rock acts Steve Miller Band, Heart, and Cheap Trick.

The 23-date tour kicks off July 6th in St. Louis, and runs through a September 8th show in Denver, primarily hitting Major League Baseball stadiums along the way. Cheap Trick will open four shows; Heart will support three concerts; and Steve Miller Band will be on board for 16 of the dates.

A Ticketmaster pre-sale starts next Thursday, December 14th, at 10 a.m. local time using the code Crew, while the general onsale begins a day later on December 15th via Ticketmaster. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott stated, “Def Leppard and Journey...

Call it blood on the Deep Tracks.

This week, SiriusXM announced a series of changes to its lineup of music channels. The additions include channels devoted exclusively to the oeuvres of Kelly Clarkson and John Mayer, one made up of old-school Latin music, and one each focusing on R&b and hip-hop hits from the 2000s and 2010s. To make room, some pre-existing channels were moved to new slots up and down the dial.

Although these types of tweaks happen every so often at SiriusXM, tell that to the devoted followers of Deep Tracks,...

Steely Dan vocalist Donald Fagen is no longer in the hospital and expects to return to the road soon, a source close to the situation tells Consequence.

The news comes after Steely Dan missed the last three shows of their tour with The Eagles (grab tickets for upcoming dates here) in Denver on October 5th and 6th, as well as Monday, October 9th in Indianapolis. According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Fagen was hospitalized due to an undisclosed illness.

In the interim, Sheryl Crow opened for The Eagles in Denver, while the Steve Miller Band stepped in beginning with the Indianapolis date and will play upcoming shows in Detroit and Cleveland. After that, current Eagles’ touring member Vince Gill will pull double duty and play a solo set to open the October 15th date in Pittsburgh.

Per Steely Dan’s website, the band is listed as rejoining the...

John Mayer has kicked off the fall 2023 leg of his “Solo” tour, in which he is taking the stage in arenas around the country and playing shows all by himself.

The solo acoustic tour began in the spring and was such a success that John added a second leg to the tour.

The show featured John leaning heavily on his acoustic guitar work along with special performances on piano and electric guitar.

After wrapping the U.S. tour in November, John will head to Europe in March 2024 for two weeks of shows. Jp Saxe is serving as his support in the U.S. while Madison Cunningham will join him on tour in Europe.

The set list for nights one and two, both at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, were completely different. You can expect the sets to change up at every show, but these lists might give you...

Daniel Seavey will have to stick to Dancing in the Dark from home for a bit longer.

On Wednesday, Seavey announced the cancelation of his upcoming solo tour, explaining that he has to stand as a witness in a trial for the lawsuit his former management company Signature Entertainment brought against his Why Don’t We bandmates.

The members of Why Don’t We were sued for breach of contract and defamation in August 2021. In return, the group counter-sued Signature shortly after, alleging financial and emotional abuse and that their...

Carlos Santana’s definition of magic is simple: “Magic is when you command the elements to capture people’s hearts,” he says in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Carlos. The film, which is set for a general theatrical release on Sept. 29, shows that the legendary musician doesn’t just believe in magic — he creates it.

In the brief preview, Santana remembers the pivotal moment when he was invited to perform at the Fillmore in San Fransisco. “Bill Graham came to me, and he said, ‘You’re gonna open up for the Who,...

Daniel Seavey is delivering on his promise of new music. On Friday, the former Why Don’t We member surprise-released his debut EP, Dancing in the Dark, featuring seven songs, most of which he self-wrote and produced.

The EP features previously released singles “I Tried,” “Runaway,” and “Can We Pretend That We’re Good?” It also includes the airy “Give It a Week,” guitar-driven “Nothing Compares,” along with EP opener “Fall Into You.”

In a letter he posted to social media shortly after the EP dropped, Seavey addressed the legal...

Nick Cave has teamed up with the Miraculous Love Kids of Afghanistan — a musical group of girl refugees — for their new single “Breathless/Beautiful.” Listen to it below.

Based on “Wife With Eyes Closed,” a poem Cave wrote about his wife Susie for Issue #60 of his The Red Hand Files, “Breathless/Beautiful” is a resonant number heightened by the children’s saccharine harmonies. Group founder Lanny Cordola intros the track with gravelly vocals backed by slow acoustic guitar before Cave’s gruffness enters the picture.

“The words resonated deeply in my soul and it struck me how even in loss, grief, and the harsh agonies of the world, we can create a sacred chamber in the heart to keep our loved ones,” Cordola said in a press release. It was his idea to expand on the poem, having first read it just two days after losing his brother. “Then the...

There is a reason for the Carlos Santana documentary, “Carlos,” to take its title not from the guitar legend’s last name and that of his eponymous band. The film, which received a gala world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, focuses more on Santana’s biographical details recounted previously in his 2014 memoir, “The Universal Tone,” than his illustrious career. Of course, music is inseparable from the life of a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer born into a musical family, but the documentary is more about wrestling with success, spirituality, addiction and childhood trauma from sexual abuse.

Filmmaker Rudy Valdez unfurls a chronological narrative, from Santana’s formative years in Tijuana, Mexico, to his triumphant 1999 “Supernatural” album, employing archives of photos, concert footage, talk-show appearances, home videos and a few newly conducted interviews, including a roundtable of Santana’s immediate family members. But amid the narrative progression Valdez has occasionally...

Music permeates every element of the Guardians of the Galaxy series, from the songs that offer insight and emotion at key moments of the movie, to the songs that scored the trailers used to promote the movie. It’s important to remember that the original trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy was set to Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling”, and that trailer, along with the song, did so much to set the tone and expectations for audiences.

With the new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 fueling speculation with its mournful rendition of "In the Meantime" by Spacehog, fans of the Guardians are keen to see how this iteration of the team’s final adventure plays out. Audiences are eagerly awaiting what songs James Gunn will use to tell his third, and final, story in the Guardians of the Galaxy series. Fans on Reddit have been...

Exclusive: Watch Steve Miller Band Play “Fly Like an Eagle” in 1976...

Steve Miller has led many musical lives. First he was the guitar-wielding Space Cowboy who blew minds with the blues in the psychedelic San Fransisco of the late ’60s. Then he morphed into the laid-back Joker, crackin’ wise amid the slightly more self-serious singer/songwriters of the early ’70s. He graduated to full scale arena rocker in the middle of the decade with amped-up hits like “Rock ‘N Me” and “Take the Money and Run,” and by the ’80s songs like “Abracadabra” made him a video star on a nascent MTV. Now the icon is looking back on his remarkable musical journey with Ultimate Hits,...

A Peter Frampton show took a turn for the worse on Sunday night, leaving fans confused and angry with the British rocker.

Concertgoers took to social media to recount a “meltdown” Frampton had while opening for The Steve Miller Band at the Treasure Island Resort and Casino in Red Wing, Minnesota.

According to the accounts, the performer halted the show when a cameraman focused on a fan holding up a Frampton Comes Alive album instead of Frampton himself as he played a solo.

“He went over to the cameraman and tried to yank the camera out of his hands,” Jeffrey Borg,...

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Av Club‘s Jesse Hassenger on how Noah Baumbach helped Greta Gerwig become a brilliant soloist:

Baumbach, working with the late cinematographer Harris Savides, shoots Gerwig with a kind of watchful affection, getting in close as she drives around doing work errands, a hazy Los Angeles sun hitting the windows and Steve Miller Band’s “Jet Airliner” playing. “Are you going to let me in?” she asks another driver in talking-to-herself tones. This is one of the first shots of the movie, which follows Florence for a full eight minutes before introducing Stiller’s title character. In retrospect, it seems like Baumbach is tipping his hand about his interest in Gerwig. His instincts are dead-on; putting Gerwig at the front of the movie allows a hesitant character to make a vivid impression before smashing her into Stiller’s prickly garden of hang-ups and neuroses. Their romantic scrabbling, including a profoundly unsexy sort of sex scene, maintains the uncertainty of mumblecore but with a more articulate form of mumbling.

Listen to a one-hour talk with Jonny Greenwood on his Paul Thomas Anderson collaborations and more:

New York Times‘ Nina Siegal on how Robby Müller created the look of indie film classics, plus watch a masterclass from the director:

For Mr. McQueen, Mr. Müller developed a visual language to capture what appear to be men falling to their deaths in slow motion — a reference to the 1651 suicides of Carib Indians who leapt off a cliff rather than submit to their French colonizers on the island of Grenada, where Mr. McQueen’s parents were born. “Caribs’ Leap’’ is included in the exhibition.

The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody lists his 50 favorite foreign language films of the 21st century:

Ultimately, the movies on the list point forward to the future of the art, even if some of that future has already slipped into the past. The Chinese cinema has experienced, in this century, an outpouring of creative energy, thanks to the films of Jia Zhangke and other independent filmmakers there. I hope that the independent Chinese cinema will survive the government’s current wave of censorship and repression. In the Portuguese cinema, the baton has passed from Manoel de Oliveira and João César Monteiro to Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes; the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, a one-man wave, has been followed by Jafar Panahi and Samira Makhmalbaf. It remains to be seen whether Romania’s one great filmmaker, Corneliu Porumboiu, will be able to coax that country’s rising industry away from its run of script-bound, Euro-generic social realism; whether Hong Sang-soo, currently the subject of a complete retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, will inspire other filmmakers in South Korea; whether the Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako (who has worked often in Mali as well) and the Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will inspire a younger generation of filmmakers in those countries; and whether Germany, which saw its modern tradition broken by the death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the emigration of Werner Herzog, and the self-diminution-through-cultural-ambassadorship of Wim Wenders, will again become a spawning ground for daring young filmmakers.

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The much-discussed Space Jam 2 now has a director (Justin Lin) to go along with its star (LeBron James), and fans of the original (well, me, anyway) have just one question: How will the sequel's soundtrack ever live up to the original? You know, the Space Jam soundtrack. The one that gave the world "I Believe I Can Fly" and eventually went platinum six times over? That soundtrack. Released on Nov. 12, 1996, below please find a celebration of the singular piece of art that is the Space Jam soundtrack. "Fly Like an Eagle" In 1996, Seal had just won three Grammys for "Kiss From a Rose,...

Friday night’s Rock and Roll started amid controversy. Members of the bands being inducted, like Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple) and Peter Cetera (Chicago) blatantly skipped the Brooklyn Barclays Center event while N.W.A, despite a memorable acceptance speech, decided not to perform. Furthermore, the inclusion of Steve Miller Band over genre-changing acts like Sonic Youth and The Pixies were skipped over, many […]

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Steve Miller says the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, like the stoner robbers of his hit “Take the Money and Run,” are trying to rip people off. During his induction to the Hall on Friday in Brooklyn, Miller gently critiqued the organization’s nomination process and slowness to induct women artists. Backstage, though, he really brought the heat. Because you know what other women he thinks the Hall is disrespecting? The wives of the guys in his band: The Steve Miller Band. “When they told me I was inducted they said, ‘You have two tickets — one for your wife and one.

28 years ago today, “The Princess Bride” opened in theaters. The beloved comedy adventure was not an immediate hit. It was a modest success at the box office, but home video is where it really gained an audience and became a majorly quotable cult classic. Other notable Sept. 25 happenings in pop culture history: • 1953: Liberace made his Carnegie Hall debut for a sold-out crowd. • 1967: The Doors’ second studio album, “Strange Days,” was released. It went on to reach No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. • 1976: 14-year-old Larry Mullen, Jr. posted a note on his school’s notice board that read, “Drummer seeks musicians to form band.” Later that day, in Mullen’s kitchen, there gathered a group that would come to be known as U2. • 1979: The musical “Evita” opened on Broadway following previews. Among the cast was Mandy Patinkin. • 1970: “The Partridge Family” premiered on ABC. • 1980: Led Zeppelin...

Bob Dylan, Jack White and the late B.B. King are among the scores of musicians featured in the new documentary, Born in Chicago, which chronicles the remarkable transformation and evolution of the blues that took place in the city during the 1950s and 1960s.

Directed by John Anderson — who helmed the concert portion of Brian Wilson's Smile — the film recently launched a PledgeMusic campaign to raise money to secure the rights for the music and archival footage used in the documentary. Born in Chicago is otherwise finished, and has...

Many will find it up for dispute, but I believe a review of legendary rock musician Ace Frehley’s newest album Space Invader fits in perfectly here. The former Kiss guitarist made a name for himself onstage as he stalked around in his interstellar costume while his instrument smoked and he fired off rockets into the sky as strobe lights flashed and flames jumped around him. His Spaceman persona grew to even more epic proportions in a sci-fi fantasy movie, video games, and through the pages of Marvel Comics and other publications. The larger-than-life cosmic super hero delivered humanity from the clutches of evil just like the Avengers, Justice League, or Fantastic Four.

You can take the makeup off his face, but you can’t remove the spirit of the Spaceman from Ace Frehley’s heart. The former Kiss lead guitarist is back and better than ever with the impeccably titled Space Invader.