Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen released his October 13th, 1986, acoustic set at the Bridge School Benefit as an official live download. The hotly anticipated set was his first major performance since the end of the Born in the U.S.A. tour a year earlier. With Springsteen backed only by guitarist …
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Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash and other rock architects reflect on the creative explosion of mid-Sixties Los Angeles in a new trailer for upcoming documentary Echo in the Canyon. Andrew Slater — a former music journalist, record producer and label executive — helmed the film, …
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Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their legendary supergroup’s debut album,The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, with a picture disc vinyl reissue out November 2nd via Craft Recordings.The limited-edition 12-inch is available for pre-order. The A-side image features the band’s logo, and the B-side includes an …
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The Lumineers unveiled a stripped-down cover of Tom Petty‘s “Walls” to mark the one-year anniversary of the rocker’s death. The track finds the Lumineers deftly transforming Petty’s ramshackle 1996 rocker into a simple folk-stomper, bolstered by acoustic guitar, accordion and tambourine. Lumineers singer and guitarist Wesley Schultz cloaks his vocals …
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Kesha honored Tom Petty with a stripped-down cover of “Into the Great Wide Open” during her concert in Boston Wednesday. Petty died Monday at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. “I’m not trying to be a downer, but I just think this is one of the most …
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