Sirius XM will broadcast live from a number of shows this New Year’s Eve, including PhilRAD at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, Widespread Panic at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC and Willie Nelson at the Moody Theatre in Austin, TX. The shows, which are all set to take place on December 31, will air on a variety of Sirius XM stations. 
Just over a month after Bruce Springsteen launched his archival concert project live.brucespringsteen.net, the E Street Band rocker has updated the download service with one of the most in-demand gigs from his legendary Darkness on the Edge of Town jaunt: An August 9th, 1978 performance from Cleveland, Ohio's Agora Theatre and Ballroom. 
Alive 2007 is a live album by French house duo Daft Punk, first released on 19 November 2007. It is the second album recorded live by the duo, following Alive 1997. Alive 2007 features their performance at Bercy in Paris from 14 June 2007. 
Joe Cocker‘s recording career was in a bit of a lull in 1976, with his most recent release, ‘Stingray,’ stalled at No. 70 on the U.S. charts. But he was still one of the most eagerly anticipated musical guests in ‘Saturday Night Live‘ history when he booked an Oct. 2, 1976 appearance as the show’s musical guest — and all because of John Belushi. 
Cue up a Jimmy Page record, and you expect to enjoy a feast for the ears. For his next project, the ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist might also be going after a few of your other body parts.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Green Day and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band have all been elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2015. 
Joe Cocker, one of rock music’s most distinctive performers, has died of lung cancer. He was 70 years old.
"I haven’t had too many reflective moments in the past eight months," Dave Grohl tells Rolling Stone a day before the finale of his musical travelogue series Sonic Highways. 
The best songs of 2014 find rock’s biggest names successfully treading the difficult line between revisiting past glories and keeping things fresh. It’s a tricky balance: if you go too far one way you’ll be labeled a derivative nostalgia act, and if you reach too far in the other direction you’ll notice a whole lot of people suddenly heading to the beer lines when you break out the new songs in concert.
Widespread Panic recently announced their Spring Tour dates for 2015. The band also confirmed a two night stand in Brooklyn, NY at the soon-to-be-opened Kings Theatre on April 24th and 25th. 
The 11th annual Mountain Jam Festival will take place June 4-7, 2015 at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Hunter, NY. Today, it was announced that the Black Keys and Moe will be two of the weekend’s four headliners, and that Gov’t Mule will once again be appearing at the festival.
Nearly 8 million old-fashioned vinyl records have been sold this year, up 49% from the same period last year, industry data show. Younger people, especially indie-rock fans, are buying records in greater numbers, attracted to the perceived superior sound quality of vinyl and the ritual of putting needle to groove. 
Rush‘s first 14 albums are returning to vinyl in 2015 — and they’re getting hi-def audio upgrades too.
Dave Grohl didn't need his manager to contact Paul Stanley to ask him to appear in Foo Fighters' HBO music documentary series Sonic Highways; he simply had to drive his kids to school. "I've seen Dave almost every day for the past three years," says Kiss' singer and guitarist, whose children attend the same school as Grohl's. "Every year we actually do concerts, separately, but the same nights as a fundraiser for the school. He asked me if I would be involved with the [HBO] show, and I said absolutely." 
Some mean-spirited pranksters tried to dupe readers into believing we’d lost Axl Rose during the same week that’s seen the deaths of Bobby Keys and Ian McLagan, but not to worry — the Guns N’ Roses frontman is still very much alive. 
A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra is a Christmas album by American singer Frank Sinatra, originally released by Capitol Records in 1957. 
Apparently, when people think about comets, they also think about Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck and Aerosmith.
For the thousands of people crammed into the center of Times Square on a rainy Monday evening, it must have seemed like a surreal dream inspired by a night gorging on junk food, Born to Run and The Joshua Tree. U2's the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. played the familiar opening notes of "Where the Streets Have No Name," but Bono was nowhere in sight. Instead, out walked Bruce Springsteen in a leather jacket. Needless to say, the crowd – which didn't pay a dime for the show or have any clue it was even happening until about 2:30 this afternoon – went into complete hysterics. 
Robert Plant has taken some slings and arrows recently for refusing to reunite with Led Zeppelin, but he says his restless need to try new things actually traces back to before he ever met Jimmy Page.
This week on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Foo Fighters will both perform on select nights. Yusuf will play on Wednesday, December 3 in support of his latest Tell ‘Em I’m Gone while the Foos will take the stage on Thursday night to perform a track from their recently released, Sonic Highways. 
At first, Bono seemed taken aback by the outrage generated by U2‘s placement of their new album into the iTunes libraries of 700 million users. He even apologized.
Dave Grohl briefly started smoking weed again, but has sworn it off thanks to one of reality television’s most recognizable names, the Kardashians. 
Now that they’ve finished taking their year-long vacation, what’s next for the guys in Rush? 
Dave Matthews Band will reissue their iconic 1994 album Under the Table and Dreaming later this month. One of the bonus items on the first ever vinyl pressing is a previously unreleased studio recording of “Granny,” taken from the UTTAD sessions. 
For all the publicity that has surrounded Foo Fighters‘ ‘Sonic Highways,’ which includes an HBO documentary series, it appears that it will come in second to Pink Floyd‘s ‘The Endless River‘ at the top of the U.K. chart this week. But frontman Dave Grohl doesn’t seem to mind too much. 
The first bad sign came even before AC/DC started recording their new album, Rock or Bust, in Vancouver last May: The group's longtime drummer, Phil Rudd, was 10 days late for the sessions. "One minute he was coming, then he wasn't, then he was," lead guitarist Angus Young recalls. 
The Grateful Dead are an American institution, one of very few bands that did exactly what it wanted and still managed to be incredibly successful. Over the years, and through countless live shows, the band stayed true to its creative vision. 
Ryan Adams returned to Carnegie Hall in New York on Saturday night for a rare solo acoustic show as the singer-songwriter supports his latest self-titled release. 
Countless albums have been written after the passing of a loved one. Albums written after the death of a bandmate come about less often, but they happen. Some of these rage and seethe, tearing at the concept of death, while others wallow in sadness, filling the room with tears. 
Pink Floyd have released a striking video for ‘Louder Than Words,’ just as the song begins arriving worldwide on ‘The Endless River‘ today. The track is the only one with a vocal on the band’s new album, which will most likely be the final Pink Floyd studio project.
Led Zeppelin III is the third studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded between January and August 1970 and released on 5 October by Atlantic Records. Composed largely at a remote cottage in Wales known as Bron-Yr-Aur, this work represented a maturing of the band's music towards a greater emphasis on folk and acoustic sounds. This surprised many fans and critics, and upon its release the album received rather indifferent reviews. 
Umphrey’s McGee celebrated their 2000th show together at the Orpheum in Madison, WI, their second of two shows at the Midwest venue. 
"I don't intend to revisit the vaults for awhile," Jimmy Page says with a smile, sitting in the opulent library of a Victorian hotel in London. The ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist, 70, has spent much of the last decade in a retrospective frenzy: collating the images for his lavish, photographic memoir, Jimmy Page, first published in a collectors' edition in 2010 and now widely available; and curating acclaimed, deluxe reissues of his band's historic studio LPs. Rarity-laden editions of 1971's Led Zeppelin IV and '73's Houses of the Holy come out on October 28th, and Page has finished preparing the rest of the catalog for release. 
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant reportedly turned down £500 million (approximately $795 million) to reunite Led Zeppelin. According to The Mirror, Plant was offered a contract for 35 dates in three cities--London, Berlin and New Jersey--by Sir Richard Branson and ripped it up in front of surprised promoters. The other members of the group all agreed to the deal. 
As the Grateful Dead‘s 50th anniversary approaches, Furthur, the band formed by the Dead’s Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, have called it quits. And the news is fueling rumors that the Dead may reunite next year to celebrate their golden anniversary. 
The story of Sonic Highways is both admirable and flawed in its conception. Foo Fighters, now nearing 20 years into their career as a rock band, decide to push themselves in new directions, traveling to eight American cities, recording with local legends in famed studios, leaving Dave Grohl to wait until the last minute to write the lyrics for each song, so as to be inspired by the surroundings, the experience. 
If the rumors are true — and there is now some serious doubt — then we may be hearing a new Van Halen album sometime real soon. 
The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, was released on 8 November 1971 on Atlantic Records. Produced by guitarist Jimmy Page, it was recorded between December 1970 and March 1971 at several locations, most prominently the Victorian house Headley Grange. 
