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RNR News and Notes Archives for 2023-01

Dave Grohl Preps For Super Bowl Commercial By

Dave Grohl is  set to be a part of Super Bowl LVII ... unfortunatley not performing at halftime (c'mon NFL) but in a commercial for Crown Royal  ... the whiskey brand has released a teaser of the commercial - that will air in the thir quarter of the big game - where Dave 'learns something new' ... the internet is buzzing with theories - many of which point to - Dave learns things that were invented in Canada 

 

Check it out below:

 

Listen to U2

This March - U2 will release ‘Songs Of Surrender’  -  an album of “reimagined and re-recorded” songs from across their catalog.  This week - the band has  U2 shared the second song from the set -  a modern spin on their classic hit ‘With Or Without You'  ... The song was initially released in March of 1987 as the lead single from their fifth album, ‘The Joshua Tree’.  

 

Take a listen below: 

 

Jack White

On Jan. 16, Jack White welcomed his 16-year-old daughter, Scarlet, on stage during an intimate show at The Blue Room of Third Man Records in Nashville, Tenn.

 

This was not the first collaboration between the father-daughter duo. Scarlet is credited for playing bass on the track “Into the Twilight,” from Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn album.  

 

Karen Elson - Jack's ex-wife- posted footage of the performance on IG, sayong - “What a sweet moment with her papa bear.” See below

 

 

 

 

Hear Green Day's Cover of Elvis Costello

Ahead of the release of the Nimrod 25 – 25th Anniversary Edition, a retrospective box set celebrating their 1997 album - Green Day have released on of the demos from the set that didn't make the album - a cover of Elvis Costello’s 1977 ballad “Alison.”

 

Billie Joe Armstrong - the Green Day frontman - notably performed “Alison” alongside Elvis Costello during a 2006 taping of the VH1 Classic series Decades Rock Live.