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The Year in Music 2021: The Beatles: Get Back docuseries doesn't let down Fab Four fans
Courtesy of Disney+In late November, Beatles fans were treated to the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, a joyous, reverent and lengthy look at the January 1969 recording sessions that yielded the band...
Matt Friedlander Dec 30, 2021

The Go-Go's postpone West Coast tour after band associate tests positive for COVID-19
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of FameThe Go-Go's had five West Coast concerts scheduled for this week and next, spanning from a December 28 show in San Francisco through a Januar...
Matt Friedlander Dec 29, 2021

"American Pie (Taylor's Version)?" Don McLean doesn't rule out a Taylor Swift collab
McLean: Jason Kempin/Getty Images; Taylor: Kevin Mazur/TAS/Getty Images for TASWhen Taylor Swift's 10-minute version of "All Too Well" topped the Billboard Hot 100, it set a new record for the longest...
Andrea Dresdale Dec 29, 2021

The Year in Music 2021: Elton John is still standing -- and charting
InterscopeIn 2021, all those collaborations that Elton John had been doing for the past year or so really paid off, as he returned to the charts for the first time in decades. In August, Elton teamed ...
Andrea Dresdale Dec 29, 2021

The Spirit of Arcade: Watch teaser for new Rush pinball machine
Steve Thorne/WireImageRush is set to be immortalized as a pinball machine. A silver ball game dedicated to the Canadian prog legends is about to be released. Manufacturer Stern Pinball will debut the ...
Josh Johnson Dec 29, 2021

The Year in Rock 2021: The Rolling Stones mount hugely successful tour after drummer Charlie Watts' death
Credit: J.RoseThe Rolling Stones made some very sad and very happy news in 2021. The sad news was that the band lost its beloved drummer, Charlie Watts, who died in August at the age of 80 after playi...
Matt Friedlander Dec 29, 2021

Mariah Carey still #1 with "Christmas," sets yet another record
Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty ImagesMariah Carey has set yet another record, as "All I Want for Christmas Is You" remains at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Because the new Billboard chart ...
Andrea Dresdale Dec 28, 2021

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's tour with Saucerful of Secrets postponed until later in 2022
Jill FurmanovskyPink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's current band, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, has announced that its planned North American tour, scheduled to begin in January, has been postponed. ...
Andrea Dresdale Dec 28, 2021

The Year in Music 2021: The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Carole King among the new Rock Hall inductees
Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of FameAfter the in-person ceremony was replaced by a virtual special in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction gala returned th...
Matt Friedlander, Andrea Dresdale and Matt Wolfe Dec 28, 2021

David Byrne's 'American Utopia' going "unplugged" this week due to COVID-19
David Lee/HBOThe rapidly spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 has forced some Broadway shows to temporarily close, or even shutter for good. However, David Byrne is using the situation to take ...
Andrea Dresdale Dec 27, 2021
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