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On This Day, April 24, 1989… Tom Petty released his first solo album, Full Moon Fever. Although it wasn’t billed as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers record, most of the Heartbreakers were on the album, as were Petty’s Traveling Wilburys bandmates Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Roy Orbison, who passed away before the album’s release. Petty’s label MCA Records and leader Irving Azoff originally refused to release the Full Moon …

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Jimi Hendrix’s music will be celebrated with a new tour launching this fall. The Experience Hendrix Tour is set to return for the first time in five years, featuring an all-star lineup of guitarists that includes Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Zakk Wylde, Taj Mahal, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. It will also feature singer Henri Brown and …

L-R: Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks; Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser If Sheryl Crow thought that asking Peter Frampton to join her for her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance in 2023 would help the powers that be realize that Frampton deserved to be in the Hall of Fame, well, it worked. Frampton, whose bestselling 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive is …

Pete Still/Redferns Def Leppard is paying tribute to their late guitarist Steve Clark on what would have been the rocker’s 64th birthday.  The band shared on Instagram a montage of pictures and videos of Clark performing, captioning the post, “Remembering Steve Clark today. Happy birthday, you are missed dearly.”  Clark, born April 23, 1960, joined Def Leppard in 1978 and appeared on their 1980 debut album, On …

Scott Legato/Getty Images Michael Anthony was back playing Van Halen music over the weekend, but with a totally different band. The rocker was the surprise guest at the Saturday, April 20, club show put on by The Coverups, the covers side project of Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt. Fan-shot footage from the concert at Tiki Bar in …

Jo Hale/WireImage Jon Bon Jovi is set to sit down with Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan for an in depth interview, and we are getting our first preview. A new trailer has just been released for Michael Strahan & Jon Bon Jovi: Halfway There, set to premiere Sunday, April 28, at 10 p.m. on ABC. “I feel a bunch of emotions,” Jon is heard …

Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Fans of ’80s new wave music will be able to get their dance on at a new tour designed just for them. Variety reports that ’80s MTV staples Howard Jones, ABC and Haircut 100 are teaming up for a summer tour kicking off August 14 in Redmond, Washington, and wrapping September 6 in Huntington, New York.  “I’m very excited to be …

Courtesy of Ohana Festival Neil Young & Crazy Horse are set to play Ohana Festival, the Dana Point, California, festival curated by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. The festival, at Doheny State Beach, is happening September 27-29, with Neil headlining the Saturday, September 28, show, and Pearl Jam headlining the other two nights.  The bill also features Crowded House, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, The …

UMe An often-bootlegged live album from Paul McCartney & Wings is finally getting an official release 50 years after it was recorded.  One Hand Clapping was recorded at Abbey Road studios in August 1974 as a video documentary and possible live album, although it never officially came out. Parts of it have come out on bootlegs, but on June 14, it will finally get …

Created by Roger Dean, commissioned by QEDG Management. Asia is ready to hit the road again. The band, led by keyboardist and original member Geoff Downes, just announced dates for The Heat of the Moment tour.  Downes says the idea for the tour came after performing at August’s tribute concert to Asia’s late lead singer John Wetton, who passed away in 2017. There, …