Coming on the heels of last month’s vinyl release of his enigmatic Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Frank Zappa’s stylistically diverse and subversive 1970 album Chunga’s Revenge will be the next classic Zappa album to be reissued on vinyl as part of the Zappa Family Trust and UMe’s ongoing initiative to restore the iconoclast’s iconic catalog. The record will receive a 180-gram audiophile repressing on black vinyl on July 20 via Zappa […]
School of Rock, the leader in performance-based music education, is hitting the road this summer. After a nationwide search for the top students in School of Rock’s more than 200 schools and more than 30,000 students, seven AllStars bands have been chosen to tour the country and play a full-band show at top music venues throughout […]
With notable collaborations and fresh arrangements, Paul Simon revisits and lends new perspective to ten of his personal favorites from his body of work “This album consists of songs that I thought were almost right, or were odd enough to be overlooked the first time around. Re-doing arrangements, harmonic structures, and lyrics that didn’t make […]
A breathtaking archive of photographs of the iconic musician Johnny Cash taken by legendary photographer Jim Marshall will be on exhibit at the San Francisco Art Exchange from July 1 through August 8. Titled “Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” the exhibit coincides with the publication of a book of the same name that documents the late singer’s historic performances […]
NOW That’s What I Call Music!, the world’s best-selling multiple-artist album series, presents today’s biggest hits on NOW That’s What I Call Music! 67, set for digital and CD release on Friday, August 3. Also coming August 3, NOW That’s What I Call Party Anthems 4, the NOW brand’s fourth collection of classic chart-topping non-stop party hits. Pre-order NOW That’s What […]
Amid the hottest days of summer, crews at Gaylord Opryland Resort are beginning to hang more than 3 million holiday lights for the hotel’s 35th annual A Country Christmas. Presented by Pepsi, A Country Christmas takes place November 9 through January 1. “This year’s lineup of holiday shows and attractions may just be our best yet,” said Gaylord Opryland […]
