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PRPhotos.comOut today (November 19th) is, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ long-awaited second album, Raise The Roof. The record, which reunites them with producer T-Bone Burnett, marks the followup to the duo’s 2007 Grammy Award-winning Raising Sand collection that helped bring Americana music into millions of new households. Plant & Krauss are rolling out a string…

Getty ImagesOut today (November 19th) is Bruce Springsteen’s The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts. The set is available in HD on physical formats — including on two CDs with DVD, two CDs with Blu-Ray, and as a double-LP. The film will be available as a digital rental starting on November 23rd. Back in 2019, as…

Getty ImagesKiss manager Doc McGhee says that the band pulling out of its 2021/2022 Las Vegas residency dates had nothing to do with reported “soft” ticket sales — but rather, health concerns for traveling fans. Loudwire reported McGhee appeared on The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn podcast and shed light on the scrapped dates at…

Getty ImagesAerosmith has posted rehearsal audio to “Movin’ Out” — one of the band’s earliest recordings from 1971. The tune, along with seven other tracks, will finally see release on Record Store Day — November 26th. The new set, titled 1971: The Road Starts Hear, features the pre-fame version of the group in its Boston…

PRPhotos.comPete Townshend is hard at work on the delayed 50th anniversary Who’s Next box set. Townshend took to Instagram to spotlight his new studio space and reveal he had been up for three straight nights sifting through Who’s Next and Lifehouse demos. No release date has been set for the collection, which will be released…

Getty ImagesIt was 30 years ago today, November 18th, 1991, that U2 released its seventh album, the groundbreaking Achtung Baby. The collection, which debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200, followed the band’s 1988 stop-gap live and studio soundtrack to the Rattle And Hum movie, and served as the creative followup to the band’s…

Getty ImagesThe extended Beatles clan was in attendance on November 16th in London for the UK premiere of director Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back at Cineworld Empire. The 100-minute edit of the six-hour mini-series brought out Paul McCartney and daughter Mary; George Harrison’s first wife, Pattie Boyd; the “Quiet Beatle’s” son Dhani Harrison; Ringo…

PRPhotos.comEpiphone has released the new Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, which is available worldwide. The instrument features Billie Joe’s autograph as an emblem on the back of the headstock and comes with a deluxe leopard, faux fur-lined custom hardshell case. The Les Paul Junior Player Pack is also available, but only in the U.S.…

PRPhotos.comMetallica fans are in luck with the announcement of the band’s just-announced ongoing archival project, named “The Metallica Black Box,” which will house “an array of artifacts, memorabilia, and rare vault content from throughout their career.” Rolling Stone reported the website https://metallicablackbox.com/collections/video-audio has already launched with The Black Album Exhibition, “which features a variety of…