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Berklee Awards Joni Mitchell Honorary Doctorate Degree

SOURCE: RTT MUSIC NEWS Berklee awarded Joni Mitchell an honorary doctorate degree in recognition of her exceptional contribution to music. Known for her complex harmonies and soul-baring lyrics, Mitchell helped shape the sound of not just her own generation, but of those to come. "Since her debut in the late 1960s, Joni has been a force for change in the industry, blazing the trail for women in music with an unwavering commitment to achieving the status rightfully due

Posthumous Roy Orbison Album to be Reissued

SOURCE: RTT MUSIC NEWS The posthumous Roy Orbison album King of Hearts will be reissued in celebration of its 30th anniversary on October 14. The remastered collection will be available on CD, via digital formats and as a limited-edition red-vinyl LP. The 10-track King of Hearts, which originally was released in 1992, is a collection of finished tracks that was "lovingly assembled by his friends and family after his untimely death." It included songs that didn't make it o

Jackson Browne Announces Australia and New Zealand Tour

SOURCE: RTT Music News Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne has announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand in April 2023. The trek will be Browne's first tour of the island continent since 2018 and will be supporting his 2021 Grammy-nominated album Downhill From Everywhere. Browne will be joined by Australian performer Liz Stringer in Melbourne and Sydney. Downhill from Everywhere is the fifteenth studio album by Browne. It was released by Inside Recordings on July

Oldies Variety is Key at Edgewater Gold Radio

As I was scanning the radio dial and internet the other day in search for a station that satisfied my goal of finding other stations that also offer the oldies variety that Edgewater Gold Radio does. Variety meaning music of the 50's 60's 70's 80's and even some 90's plus forgotten favorites and songs you haven't heard in ages. My search wasn't successful. I did find stations playing lots of 70's, mostly 80's some 60's but very little 50's and really little variety. I found s

Todd Rundgren Sets Release Date of His New Album

SOURCE: RTT Music News Todd Rundgren has announced that his new album, Space Force, will drop on October 14 via Cleopatra Records. As a preview, Rundgren has released "Puzzle" featuring Adrian Belew. The new collaborative album will also feature The Roots, Rivers Cuomo, The Lemon Twigs, and more. The 12-track project will also feature contributions from Rick Nielsen, Sparks, Steve Vai, Narcy, Neil Finn, Alfie Templeman, Davey Lane, and Thomas Dolby. "People are so fragile/

Melissa Etheridge Set to Perform a Solo Show

Source: Rtt Music News During a recent concert in Kansas, Grammy and Academy Award-winning rocker/songwriter Melissa Etheridge announced that she will perform a solo show, titled "Melissa Etheridge Off Broadway: My Window — A Journey Through Life." "Melissa Etheridge: My Window - A Journey Through Life" will play 12 performances only starting October 13 at the midtown multi-stage venue New World Stages. "I am incredibly excited and humbled to debut this deeply personal sh

The Eagles Add Six Additional Dates to Their US Tour

Source: RTT Music News T he Eagles have added six additional dates to the U.S. leg of their Hotel California Tour. The iconic band, comprised of Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, and Vince Gill, will now perform for six additional dates, which start from November 15 in St. Louis with stops in Des Moines, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Kansas City before wrapping November 25 in Ft. Worth. Tickets for the November concerts go on sale Friday, August 19 at 10 am local ti

Australia honors Olivia Newton-John

Source: RTT MUSIC NEWS Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria will honor late pop star and actress Olivia Newton-John with a state memorial service. "I'm so pleased that Olivia Newtown John's family have accepted our offer of a State Memorial Service. We're working with Olivia's family on the details, but it will be more of a concert than a funeral - fitting for a Victorian who lived such a rich and generous life," Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews announced on

Scathing Letter From John Lennon to Paul McCartney Up for Auction

SOURCE: RTT Music News A scathing letter that John Lennon wrote to his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney is up for auction. The three-page letter that Lennon wrote in November 1971, a year and a half after the Beatles officially broke up, has been put up for auction at a minimum bid price of $20,000 at the music memorabilia site Gotta Have Rock and Roll. The letter is estimated to fetch up to $40,000. In an interview published in the November 20, 1971 issue of Melody

ABBA To Release 30th Anniversary Editions of their Gold Greatest Hits Collections

SOURCE: RTT MUSIC NEWS A BBA are set to release 30th anniversary editions of their Gold greatest hits collection on September 23 via UMC/Polydor. The special editions will come as a 2LP gold-colored vinyl package as well as a 2LP picture disc and a gold cassette version. The 19-track ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group. It was released on September 21, 1992 through PolyGram. With sales of 30 million, Gold is the best-selling ABBA album a

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