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Credit: Leah SteigerBeing stuck at home separately during the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped Sammy Hagar and the members of his current group, The Circle, from recording a brand-new tune. A video of Hagar, bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson performing the song “Funky Feng Shui” has been posted on Sammy’s official YouTube channel. The quartet used their mobile phones to record their respective parts, which were then combined to create the clip. “Funky Feng Shui” began as a jam that Hagar and The Circle would play…

Courtesy of Wolfson EntertainmentMusic lovers now have another choice when it comes to quarantine viewing: Daryl Hall‘s long-running music series Live from Daryl’s House is finally coming back to television. AXS TV will air 14 past episodes of the award-winning show starting April 19 at 9 p.m. ET.  The series, created in 2007 by the blonder half of Hall & Oates, features Hall chatting and jamming with a variety of musical guests from various genres in a loose, living room-like setting. The 14 episodes include Daryl’s jams with Marchbox Twenty…

Neal Preston/© Queen Productions Ltd.Queen and current lead singer Adam Lambert are among the latest music artists to announce the postponement of their 2020 tour plans because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 27-date U.K. and European leg of the rockers’ The Rhapsody Tour, which was to have kicked off on May 24 in Bologna, Italy, has been pushed back to next year with the new concerts taking place on “matching or similar dates.” The trek now will get underway in Bologna on May 23, 2021, and is plotted out through…

Courtesy of Songwriters Hall of Fame Steve Miller, Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, and members of The Isley Brothers are among the famous music artists that will have to wait until next year for a major honor they originally were supposed to receive in June. Those artists, as well as Mariah Carey and Pharrell Williams, were set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 11 in New York City, but the ceremony has now been postponed to June 10, 2021. In a statement, Hall of…

YouTube OriginalsWhile Coachella 2020 won’t be happening until later this year in the fall, perhaps a sneak peek at two decades’ worth of the California festival will help you make it through the wait. A new trailer for the upcoming documentary Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert is out now. The three-minute clip includes performance footage of Paul McCartney, Madonna, Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC and many other well-known artists. The film, which was produced by YouTube, will premiere on the streaming platform on April 10, the same day Coachella 2020 was supposed to…

FOX Elton John, Mariah Carey, Billie Eilish and other major music stars gathered together for the Fox Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America on Sunday, and raised nearly $8 million to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and salute the strength and resilience of the U.S. people during the health crisis. Highlights included Demi Lovato performing her hit “Skyscaper”; Eilish and her brother Finneas teaming up for an acoustic rendition of “bad guy”; Camilla Cabello and Shawn Mendes joining forces for her song “My Oh My”;…

Epix A new two-part documentary series titled Laurel Canyon, focusing on the fertile music scene that coalesced in the Los Angeles neighborhood of the same name, where many famous artists resided and congregated starting in the late 1960s, will premiere on Epix on May 31 and June 7 at 9 p.m. ET. The program will include music from such legendary artists as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Linda Ronstadt, The Byrds, Eagles, The Mamas & the Papas, Jackson Browne, The Monkees, The Turtles, Buffalo Springfield and…

University of Texas PressGo-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine‘s new autobiography, All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir, gets its release today. The book charts Valentine’s journey from her wild-child early years in Austin, Texas, and her development as a rock ‘n’ roll-loving teenage musician to her relocation to Los Angeles, where she joined what became the most successful all-female rock band in history, and beyond. “It is really a coming-of-age story,” Valentine tells ABC Audio. “It’s about music being with me every step of the way, even before I’m…

Inside RecordingsJackson Browne has released a brand-new song called “A Little Too Soon to Say.” The tune, which will also appear on Browne’s next studio album, due out in October, arrived just a few days after he revealed he’d been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Jackson noted that even though he wrote the song before the start of the coronavirus crisis, he feels it’s timely because it’s about the uncertainty of mankind’s future in this volatile era. “A Little Too Soon to Say” was…

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach Influential singer and songwriter John Prine‘s condition has improved following the announcement that he’d been diagnosed with COVID-19.  John’s wife, Fiona Whealan Prine, turned to Twitter Monday to update fans that John, who’s 73, is in stable condition. “We are humbled by the outpouring of love for me and John and our precious family. He is stabile,” she shares in her message. “Please continue to send your amazing Love and prayers. Sing his songs. Stay home and wash hands. John loves you. I love you.”  The news comes one…