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Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard has "imagined and curated" a Yoko Ono tribute album set to be released on Ono's 89th birthday, February 18, 2022. The album, called "Ocean Child" Songs of Yoko Ono" is a compilation tribute album. 

Adele, Ed Sheeran and Olivia Rodrigo are among the artists who top the UK’s year-end charts for 2021.

B.J. Thomas passed away in May but his music will live on. A new Thomas posthumous release, “In Remembrance – Love Songs & Lost Treasures” is set to drop on February 4^th.

Cher may be 75 but don’t expect her to look her age anytime soon. While some women have started to embrace their gray hair over the past few years, Cher isn’t one of them.

Rick Astley is once again teaming with Frito-Lay for their “New Year, New You” campaign. This is the second year Rick has taken part in the campaign, with his hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” reminding folks not to give up their favorite things in order to fulfil New Year’s resolutions. 

It looks like David Lee Roth is going out with a whimper. As we previously told you, Roth was forced to cancel his New Year’s Eve and Day shows in Las Vegas due to the recent COVID surge. Well, now he’s canceled his whole residency. 

Cheap Trick is headed to Las Vegas. The band just announced dates for a new Las Vegas residency at The STRAT Hotel, Casino & SkyPod.

It looks like your favorite artists are going to have to wait a little longer to find out if they win GRAMMY Awards this year. “Billboard” reports that the 64th annual GRAMMY Awards are likely to be postponed this year due to the increase in COVID cases due to the Omicron variant. 

If you follow Mick Jagger on Instagram, you've definitely seen him post tons of pics from unique, local spots while touring with the Rolling Stones. He's now sharing how he picks the places to visit while he's on the road. “Each town has something of great interest, whether it’s a beautiful park, or a lovely picture, or a museum that’s interesting to you, or some odd thing that you never thought of”, he explained. He also added that it's important to plan ahead since their time in each city is limited.

David Bowie's is the latest artist catalog to be sold. The late singer’s estate has sold the rights to his catalog to Warner Chappell, the publishing arm of Warner Music Group.

If you’re one of the many who plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve tomorrow from the comfort of your couch, there will be plenty of celebrations on TV to help you ring in the 2022.

As we told you, David Byrne’s “America Utopia” is going on despite several members of the cast testing positive for COVID. The new show, “American Utopia: Unchained,” debuted earlier this week, and it included some new additions to the set.

• ABBA’s greatest hits album, “Gold,” which was released in 1992, was BRIT Certified 20x Platinum status in the UK, which represents six million copies sold.

Mark Knopfler is the newest ambassador for "Streets of London," a charity that raises awareness about homelessness and funds specialist support for London's Homeless. Ellie Goulding, Dan Smith of Bastille, Justin Young of the Vaccines and Ralph McTell are all already ambassadors for the charity. 

David Byrne’s Broadway show “American Utopia” is one of the many productions hit by COVID, but instead of cancelling his production, he’s tweaking the show.

Christmas basically takes over this week’s “Billboard” Hot 100, with eight of the Top 10 songs Christmas tunes.

Mayor Bill de Blasio bestowed quite an honor on Patti Smith earlier this week - a key to New York City. And to say she was honored is an understatement.

Madonna celebrated Christmas with her girls. The singer shared video of her with daughters, 15-year-old Mercy James, and nine-year-old twins Stella and Estere as they opened their presents on Christmas.

One of Joni Mitchell’s classic songs has gotten its first-ever video. Just ahead of Christmas, an animated video for “River,” from Joni’s classic album “Blue,” was released.

U2’s Bono was one of the many Irish artists who took part in the annual charity busking event in Dublin, Ireland on Christmas Eve, although this year due to COVID, the event took place at Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral instead of out on Grafton Street as is tradition.