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PRPhotos.comJudas Priest has rescheduled its 2021 “50 Heavy Metal Years” North American tour dates for next spring. Loudwire posted the band will be supported by Queensryche on the 17-city trek, with the run kicking off on March 7th in West Valley City, Utah at Maverik Center before wrapping on April 11th in Laval, Quebec at…

PRPhotos.com45 years after writing and producing Boston’s mega-platinum self-titled debut, leader Tom Scholz recalls never fitting in. The Boston leader looked back to Rock Candy magazine, and recalled, “I was always an outsider. I wasn’t part of a scene, not part of the crowd that recorded or played in L.A. or New York. I wasn’t…

Getty ImagesBob Dylan’s first U.S. art exhibition, titled Retrospectrum, is now running at Florida International University. The university’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum features more than 120 of Dylan’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning six decades. The exhibit includes 180 acrylics, watercolors, drawings and ironwork sculptures — along with interactive exhibits for fans. The…

Getty ImagesThe Who will screen their legendary March 10th, 1973 show from the Netherlands on Saturday (December 4th) to salute the 11 fans that tragically died in 1979. The 12th Annual P.E.M. Memorial honors the 11 fans who perished on December 3rd, 1979 while entering Cincinnati’s Riverfront Colliseum prior to the Who’s concert that night.…

Getty ImagesFor Beatles fans who watched Peter Jackson’s brilliant three-part, nearly-eight hour Get Back documentary on Disney+, two improbable scene stealers are the two British police offices tasked with shutting the Beatles down. The sight of the two very young English bobbies trying to ascertain where the noise complete are stemming from as the Beatles…

Getty ImagesDave Grohl is continuing his holiday tradition of covering Jewish artists during Hannukah. The Foo Fighers frontman and producer Greg Kurstin kicked off the ‘Hanukkah Sessions’ series with Lisa Loeb’s hit “Stay (I Missed You).” Last year the duo covered songs by the Beastie Boys, Drake, Mountain, Peaches, Bob Dylan, Elastica, The Knack B…

PRPhotos.comBlack Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is back with his first new music since 2017 with the “theme” to his new signature cologne, “Scent Of The Dark.” Rolling Stone reported the new track is Iommi’s first new music since his acclaimed classic work for the Birmingham Cathedral and marks his first return to rock since Black Sabbath’s…

Getty ImagesPaul McCartney is but one of the legendary musicians donating iconic instruments for auction for the Music Rising charity. The auction takes Music Rising “back to its roots and will help restore the livelihood of musicians of New Orleans and surrounding regions who have suffered through the pandemic.” On December 11th, McCartney is offering…

Getty ImagesIt was 20 years ago today (November 29th, 2001) that George Harrison died after a long battle with cancer, at age 58. Harrison, the first of the Beatles to embrace Eastern philosophies and culture, will also be remembered for his humanitarian efforts, such as his 1971 Concert For Bangladesh for famine relief. November 29th…