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PRPhotos.comEric Clapton and Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir are featured on the upcoming Stephen Marley album, Old Soul. Clapton plays lead guitar riffs over an acoustic version of Bob Marley’s classic, “I Shot The Sheriff.” The album closes with legend guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir on a song called “Winding Roads”. Other artists on the record…

PRPhotos.comThe Rolling Stones will release a new album next month. They cleverly teased it for days through a fake ad for a glass-repair business, placed in a London newspaper. Last week’s cryptic ad, in the east London-based Hackney Gazette looked to be a promotion for the new business, Hackney Diamonds. Lines in the ad included:…

PRPhotos.comRingo Starr has announced a new EP titled Rewind Forward, to be release on October 13. The former Beatle will preview the four-song set with the title track on Friday. About that, he said, “Rewind Forward, was something I said out of the blue. It’s just one of those lines like ‘A Hard Day’s Night’.…

PRPhotos.comEric Clapton and Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir are featured on the upcoming Stephen Marley album, Old Soul. Clapton plays lead guitar riffs over an acoustic version of Bob Marley’s classic, “I Shot The Sheriff.” The album closes with legend guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir on a song called “Winding Roads”. Other artists on the record…

PRPhotos.comPretenders’ singer Chrissie Hynde joined Guns N’ Roses on stage Monday night (August 21) at Fenway Park in Boston to add harmonica to “Bad Obsession”. The bands are touring North America together. The GNR tour visits historic venues across the country such as Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 24. Pretenders will release their new…

Over the weekend, Patty Smith joined The National on stage as they played a sold-out Madison Square Garden concert. Not only opening the show, but also coming back to sing a song with the band that she unknowingly inspired. Frontman Matt Berninger noted a comment she made on Instagram: “Try to remember the best of…

PRPhotos.comAnn Wilson of Heart will be this year’s headliner at Women Who Rock. The 6th annual benefit concert supports and funds women-centric health research. All proceeds will go to the nation’s largest research institute dedicated solely to life-saving women’s health research. Over a span of five decades, Heart has sold more than 35 million records…

PRPhotos.comDisturbed’s pyro display once again set off the venue’s emergency sprinkler system. Frontman David Draiman shared a video posted by a fan. By the end of their closing song, “Inside The Fire” at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey it looked like a rain storm on stage. The same thing happened at a…

PRPhotos.comOut Friday, Aug. 25, Road, Alice Cooper’s 29th studio album. The 13-song set was produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin and recorded with Cooper’s current road band — in order, he tells us, to show the world how good the ensemble is: “I went to Bob Ezrin, I said, ‘I want to do an album…