The Zac Brown Band added a very special gig to their 2019 tour roster on Wednesday (Feb. 20) when it was announced that they would open for the Rolling Stones.
Brown and company have been added to the bill for the Stones’ Apr. 24 show at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, the second date on the band’s No Filter U.S. tour.
The No Filter Tour kicks off on Apr. 20 with a show at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami and is currently slated to include dates in Houston, New Orleans, Glendale, Pasadena, Seattle, Denver, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago.
The Academy announced the performance by the band that’s the subject of best picture nominee Bohemian Rhapsody, joined by Adam Lambert on vocals, on Twitter on Monday. “Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?” the account quoted from the band’s song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The announcement included a compilation of clips that showed the band and current lead singer Lambert performing as Queen’s hit “We Will Rock You” played.
Queen also shared the news on its Twitter account, while Lambert posted the same video and tweeted, “We will rock The Oscars.”
The 91st annual Academy Awards will take place on Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. The ceremony will be broadcast on ABC at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers shared the previously unreleased song “For Real” to announce a new expansive hits collection on Friday (Feb. 15).
Unearthed from the late rocker’s vault of never-before-heard material, the new track will be featured on Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything, a posthumous compilation of four decades of hits by Petty, who passed away in 2017 just one week after finishing the band’s 40th anniversary tour.
The new collection will serve as a fitting complement to last year’s career-spanning box set, An American Treasure, and was compiled by Petty’s family and bandmates to fulfill the “American Girl” singer’s long-standing desire to someday release what he believed to be the best hits and strongest deep cuts of his catalog in one package.
Among its 38 songs, The Best Of Everything will also feature another previously unreleased, alternate version of the title track — originally recorded for the band’s 1985 album Southern Accents — as well as a personal essay written by Petty’s longtime close friend, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Cameron Crowe.
Most recently, Petty’s 1989 debut solo album Full Moon Fever was honored as a 2019 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. The rock icon’s seminal album went 5x platinum in the U.S., 6x platinum in Canada and featured now-classic hits like “Free Fallin’” and “I Won’t Back Down.”
