Roger Wink, VVN Music, Author at Noise11.com

David Crosby’s new album, Lighthouse, is due on October 21 via GroundUP Music/Verve Label Group and, on Friday, he released the second song from the album.

Aretha Franklin pulled out of the Tony Bennett 90th birthday salute due to unspecified health issues earlier this week.

Jethro Tull’s second album, Stand Up, will be reissued in a two-CD/one-DVD set on November 18 via Warner UK.

R.E.M.’s biggest album, Out of Time, is about to get the deluxe reissue treatment on November 18 via Concord/Bicycle Music.

There’s new music coming in 2017 from George Clinton and it will be on a new label.

The second wave of reissued Emerson, Lake and Palmer albums are ready to go on September 30 with Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery and Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends: Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

In the past, Liam Gallagher has said that he wouldn’t release a solo album because “I’m not a c**t.”

Elton John and Robbie Williams are among the artists set for this year’s Apple Music Festival at London’s Roundhouse.

Herb Alpert has had one of the most successful careers of the last fifty years between his own hit recordings and his record label, A&M Records.

Dolly Parton’s second movie for NBC, Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, is set to premiere on November 30. The film will, once again, star Alyvia Alyn Lind as a young Parton and Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroeder as her parents.

Burt Bacharach, 88, has been forced to cancel at least two live appearances due to a broken arm.

Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet has a Christmas album on the way.

Fans of Stoner Rock, rejoice! Cleopatra Records has released a potent, heavy groovin’ box featuring 6-CDs of the stickiest, dankest stoner rock from around the globe.

Christian metal band Stryper is going to jump back thirty years to play their breakthrough album, To Hell With the Devil, in its entirety during their fall tour.

Bob Egan, who has been a member of both Wilco and Blue Rodeo, is retiring from music to enter the public sector.

Barry Gibb will release his first solo album since 1984’s ‘Now Voyager’ ‘In The Now’ in October.

Michael Nesmith is playing with the Monkees again, possibly for the last time.

Pink Floyd Records in continuing their reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalog on vinyl with the release of Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Obscured by Clouds. All three will be released on September 23.

Every two to three months, it becomes necessary for there to be discussions of an Oasis reunion.

James Wooley, who played keyboards with Nine Inch Nails during the first half of the 90’s, died last weekend at the age of 50. No cause of death has been released.

Things have come full circle for Paul McCartney as far as record companies are concerned.

It’s been quite a couple of years for former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd.

R&B singer Usher had to bust a move like his life depended on it while ‘battle-dancing’ with President Barack Obama.

Tony Orlando & Dawn, with singers Joyce Vincent and Thelma Hopkins, performed together last Wednesday and Thursday night at The Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Pennsylvania.

The Goo Goo Dolls will continue to promote their latest album, Boxes, this fall with an additional twenty five dates around the U.S.

The Go-Go’s are in the midst of their “Going Going Gone, The Final Tour” playing last Thursday night at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) was performing with his band Public Image Ltd. (PiL) in Santiago, Chile on Sunday night when a concert goer hit him in the head with a thrown glass bottle.