30 years ago today, Yoko Ono and IMA released *Rising*. This iconic work continues to resonate, reminding us that the world has all that you need.
In 2023, to celebrate Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday, Richard Barone shared his insightful reflections on her enduring impact and artistic legacy. Read what he wrote for us and join in honoring a true visionary.
https://magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/07/yoko-ono-ima-released-rising-30-years-ago-today/
Nintendo has announced that the soundtrack for *The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* will receive a vinyl release. This marks a surprise move for the video game company, which rarely puts its original soundtracks (OSTs) on physical media outside of Japan.
The release is part of a new experiment to gauge global audience interest in physical soundtrack releases. Nintendo revealed the *The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* Limited Edition vinyl release earlier today.
The soundtrack will be available in two versions: a 2LP set featuring 34 tracks, and an 8LP box set containing 130 tracks. Each LP is adorned with the iconic Hylian Crest and comes in a sleeve showcasing artwork from the 2017 video game.
In an interview with *Variety*, Nintendo of America’s Vice President of Player & Product Experience, Bill Trinen, explained that the company is using this release to test the demand for physical media outside of Japan.
The *Breath of the Wild* soundtrack is now available for pre-order and is scheduled for release on June 19, 2026. The 2LP set is priced at $49.99, while the comprehensive 8LP box set costs $194.99.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/146565/zelda-botw-soundtrack-vinyl-release
In this web exclusive, the country superstar sits down with Lee Cowan to discuss his new book, *Heart Life Music*.
They dive into the inspiration behind the book and share insights into the stories and experiences that shaped it.
Fans will get an inside look at the journey of creating *Heart Life Music* and what the country star hopes readers will take away from it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-kenny-chesney/
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Even after securing the gig, Rudy Sarzo still sought assurance that he would be truly accepted as the new bass player in Ozzy Osbourne’s band. Recently, Sarzo opened up about how Ozzy helped him feel more comfortable during that uncertain time on an episode of *The Magnificent Others* podcast, hosted by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins.
### What Ozzy Said About Rudy During a Magazine Interview
With the help of former Quiet Riot bandmate Randy Rhoads, Sarzo found himself auditioning for Osbourne’s band in early 1981. The first step involved playing two songs with the band while Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne observed from the front of the stage. Afterward, the group asked Sarzo to play the same two songs again, but this time with Ozzy behind the mic.
“Ozzy turns to me and he says, ‘Hey, man, do you want the gig?’ And I said, yes,” Sarzo recalled during *The Magnificent Others*. “And my life went into Panavision color at that moment. It was like, ‘Wow, I’m in this world now.’”
Despite nailing the audition, Sarzo still wondered if he would truly fit in with the band. This sense of uncertainty was familiar to him, having escaped Cuba with his family to Florida in 1961 when he was just 10 years old.
However, it was an interview Ozzy did with *Circus* magazine that finally reassured Sarzo. The 74-year-old bassist explained that in the 1981 interview, Ozzy was asked who was in his band at the time. Ozzy referred to Sarzo as “Rudy from Cuba.”
“I open [the magazine], and I see ‘Rudy from Cuba,’ and I went, ‘Wow, he doesn’t mind that I am from Cuba,’” Sarzo said. “That is what confirmed it.”
### Ozzy and Sharon Kept Rudy From Sleeping on the Floor
Sarzo also revealed to Corgan that he was still sleeping on the floor after joining Osbourne’s band. That changed when Ozzy and Sharon stepped in. The couple invited Sarzo to move in with them so he would have a comfortable place to sleep.
Ozzy also offered Sarzo some of his own stage clothing.
“We were playing pool. He takes a look at me and he goes, ‘Man, you look like you need some rock and roll clothes,’” Sarzo recalled. Ozzy then left the room and returned with a suitcase full of clothing, which he dumped out in the middle of the pool table.
“He says, ‘Grab whatever you want.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, that’s the jacket from that album cover of this magazine,’” Sarzo said. When he told Ozzy he couldn’t take the clothing, the Prince of Darkness insisted.
“Nobody did that for me before,” Sarzo reflected on Ozzy and Sharon’s hospitality.
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The London rapper Dave might be the single biggest star in the entire UK rap universe. His first two albums, 2019’s *Psychodrama* and 2021’s *We’re All Alone In This Together*, were both platinum-selling #1 hits in the UK. He also won the Mercury Prize for *Psychodrama*.
Dave is a J. Cole type — an insular and expressive serious-thinker rapper who plays piano and does a lot of his own production. But much like Cole, he also makes bangers sometimes, and he’s really good at it.
In 2023, Dave and Central Cee released the all-bangers collaborative EP *Split Decision*, and their song “Sprinter” was a giant hit all across Europe.
Today, Dave releases *The Boy Who Played The Harp*, his third solo album. No bangers on this one.
https://www.stereogum.com/2327700/uk-rap-star-dave-releases-weighty-serious-new-album-the-boy-who-played-the-harp-feat-james-blake-tems-jim-legxacy-more/music/
The Crutchfield crew is up to something exciting. Last week, the interconnected group—twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, and Brad Cook—all shared Polaroids on their respective Instagram accounts.
The photos captured the four of them standing together in front of a wall, followed by a shot of them putting their hands together like a sports team preparing to take the field.
Adding to the intrigue, ANTI- Records commented on all the posts. On Lenderman’s photo, they referred to the quartet as “my Beatles,” hinting at something special in the works.
https://www.stereogum.com/2327701/katie-allison-crutchfield-tease-new-music-with-mj-lenderman-anna-st-louis-brad-cook/news/
What will end up being your standout 2026 rock and metal festival or cruise experiences? There’s typically no better bang for your buck than catching a lot of great acts in one place. While we’re coming to the end of one festival and cruise season, another exciting one is just around the corner.
The rock and metal festivals, along with a number of significant rock and metal cruises, have started rolling out the details for their 2026 adventures. It’s the perfect time to start making plans for the year ahead.
Are you planning to rock out in the spring at Sonic Temple or Welcome to Rockville? Or is something like the more diverse Coachella more your style? Maybe you have a desire to hit the high seas with your favorite bands. Cruises such as ShipRocked, the Monsters of Rock Cruise, and 70,000 Tons of Metal will satisfy your cruise ship cravings early in 2026.
Throughout the year, be sure to check in with this guide regularly, as we’ll be continually updating all the latest rock and metal festival and cruise announcements.
So start dreaming of sunshine, great tunes, and good-time vibes—the 2026 festival and cruise season will be here before you know it.
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Val Gay, Philadelphia’s arts and culture leader, introduces Ravi Coltrane during a celebration of his father, John Coltrane, at The Yard, a public space behind the John Coltrane House on North 33rd Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Tonnetta Graham, executive director of the Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation, welcomes visitors to The Yard on John Coltrane Street, a public space behind the John Coltrane House on North 33rd Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Lovett Hines introduces some of his students in the Philadelphia Clef Club music education program, who performed during a celebration of John Coltrane. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Students in the Lovett Hines Creative Arts Initiative Legacy Ensemble perform during a celebration of John Coltrane held in the backyard of the home where he lived in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Audience members applaud during a musical performance behind the John Coltrane House. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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The house where jazz legend John Coltrane lived in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood is on its way to becoming a public cultural space. It has been the subject of tangled legal ownership for years and is in dire structural disrepair. But its future now seems more secure due to a recent legal settlement and the support of a national preservation fund.
“This is a house that I assumed would always be there,” said Ravi Coltrane, John’s son who used to visit the house as a child to see his father’s cousin, Mary Alexander. “My kids could come, my grandkids could come, and they could see this home,” he said. “But as we all know, without the proper care and the proper people supporting a historic home like that, these homes can vanish.”
The Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation has begun repairing the façade of the John Coltrane House and its immediate neighbors. Repair to the roof and rear wall of the home will begin soon with help from a National Trust for Historic Preservation grant.
“This definitely is a long time coming,” said Ravi.
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### The Home’s Ownership History
In March 2024, the deed to the house at 1511 N. 33rd St. was transferred to the descendants of John Coltrane from Norman Gadson, now deceased. Sons Ravi and Oran Coltrane won a settlement that claimed Gadson did not have legal ownership of the house.
Gadson bought the home in 2004 from Mary Alexander, also known as “Cousin Mary,” with the intention of turning it into a jazz museum. But the Coltrane family said Alexander did not have the right to sell the property, and that Gadson had actually bought an illegal deed from a third party.
With the title now secured, Ravi and Oran Coltrane formed a new nonprofit, Coltrane House Philadelphia. They are in the process of transferring ownership of the house to the organization.
With a nonprofit in place and title to the house on the way, money can finally be released from the National Trust for Historic Preservation toward stabilizing the building.
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### National Trust Grant and Preservation Efforts
In 2024, the trust’s program called the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund launched a special focus on historic Black sites stewarded by direct descendants of prominent Black figures, known as the Descendants and Family Stewardship Initiative.
The first grant of that initiative was directed to the Coltrane house in Philadelphia, amounting to $200,000.
“It’s an important investment, but it’s a modest investment. What we really get from them is their expertise,” said Kathleen Hennessy, Ravi’s wife and vice president of Friends of the Coltrane House, a support organization for the John and Alice Coltrane Home in Deer Park, New York.
“They lend expertise around restoration at which they are pretty much the gold standard,” she said. “They lend support around capacity building, too, which can be a huge obstacle for groups when they’re trying to do this kind of work.”
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### Looking Ahead
Kathleen and Ravi recently attended a celebratory rally in an empty lot behind the Coltrane house that has been transformed into a small public park. Called The Yard, it was opened a year ago by the Strawberry Mansion CDC as part of an effort to support the preservation and programming of the Coltrane house.
“Hardly weeks go by when I don’t hear: What’s going on with the John Coltrane House?” said Tonnetta Graham, Strawberry Mansion CDC president. “In Strawberry Mansion, to have had so much taken away from us and so much disinvestment, to see this revitalization here — and not only to see it but to be part of it and have ownership in it — that’s what I celebrate.”
The 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth is Sept. 23, 2026. Hennessy doubts that building renovations will be completed in time to invite the public in for Coltrane’s birthday, so she’s setting her sights on 2027.
The timeline does not cool enthusiasm for the prospects of a Coltrane historic site in Philadelphia.
Lovett Hines, former artistic director of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts who now leads the Lovett Hines Global Creative Arts Initiative, told the crowd at The Yard he has already assumed bragging rights.
“When I go to New York and I see the Louis Armstrong museum and his house, and somebody asks me, ‘What’s happening in Philadelphia? What about John Coltrane’s house?’” Hines said. “Now I can hold up real hip, wear my dark glasses and say, ‘We have it. Right now. Come to Philadelphia. The house is here. It’s inspiring. It’s functioning. It’s here.’”
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Kennedy Caughell and Maya Drake appear during a performance of the North American Tour of *Hell’s Kitchen*, a musical from Alicia Keys. (Marc J Franklin via AP)
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**FILE —** Singer Alicia Keys appears at the curtain call on the opening night of her Broadway musical *Hell’s Kitchen* at the Shubert Theatre in New York on April 20, 2024. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP, File)
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Maya Drake appears during a performance of the North American Tour of *Hell’s Kitchen*, a musical from Alicia Keys. (Marc J Franklin via AP)
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Kennedy Caughell and Maya Drake appear during a performance of the North American Tour of *Hell’s Kitchen*, a musical from Alicia Keys. (Marc J Franklin via AP)
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**NEW YORK** — Alicia Keys’ semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age Broadway musical is all grown up and leaving the nest. And, like any proud creator, Keys may visit it every once in a while as it embarks on a national tour.
A new *Hell’s Kitchen* cast has assembled in Cleveland for a national tour that will take them across the South, Midwest, and West on a 28-city journey through 2026.
“It feels so good to know that it’s going to go across the country and this cast, let me tell you, is out of control. They’re so good,” Keys says. “Obviously, everybody can’t get to New York City. Everybody can’t go to Broadway.”
Those who catch the musical on the road may also get an extra treat. Keys says she’s liable to appear unexpectedly at some stops as a fairy godmother alongside the cast.
“I love, as an artist, bringing my energy to other artists. That’s really a fulfilling feeling. So, I’ll be fairy godmothering. You never know where you’ll see me,” she adds.
### A Coming-of-Age Story
*Hell’s Kitchen* tells the story of Ali, a 17-year-old New York piano prodigy, fueled by iconic Alicia Keys songs like “Fallin’,” “No One,” “Girl on Fire,” “If I Ain’t Got You,” as well as new originals including “Kaleidoscope.”
The musical centers on Ali, who—like Keys—is the daughter of a white mother and a Black father, growing up in subsidized housing just outside Times Square, in the once-rough neighborhood called Hell’s Kitchen.
Ali’s journey follows her honing her musical talents, experiencing first love, and reconciling with her sometimes overbearing mother.
Keys hopes audiences will be drawn not only to her music and story but also to the musical’s diverse cast.
“It’s really exciting to be able to go somewhere and see yourself on the stage or to see your experience played out,” Keys says.
### Meet Maya Drake: Ali on Tour
The role of Ali on tour is played by 18-year-old Maya Drake, a recent high school graduate from San Jose, California, who underwent a long and rigorous audition process.
Drake was a fan of Alicia Keys long before she auditioned for *Hell’s Kitchen* and cherishes the opportunity to perform the artist’s music.
“The fact that I get to be in a show with somebody else’s music and, of all the people, it gets to be her — I got so lucky with that,” says Drake. “Just to have that connection is so special, and it makes the show feel 10 times more enjoyable.”
As part of her audition process, Drake traveled to New York to watch the Broadway production starring Jade Milan as Ali.
“It’s a lot seeing it for the first time and she never leaves the stage,” Drake recalls. “To be a part of something that big would just be crazy.”
After the tour cast was announced, the performers were invited onstage at the Shubert Theatre to cheers following a performance. Drake met and spoke with veterans like Jessica Vosk and Tony Award winner Kecia Lewis.
“That was a really special moment,” Drake says. “Sharing advice and getting insight from the people that are currently doing the show helped us understand what you’re about to get into and some things that can help.”
### Life on the Road
Following the Cleveland opening, the tour visits Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Diego, and other cities.
Drake is especially looking forward to performing in California, particularly the San Francisco stop, which is the closest to her hometown of San Jose.
She is also excited about the traveling experience itself.
“I really have not traveled a bunch of my life, which is kind of ironic because I’m about to do a lot of traveling,” Drake says. She trained at the Children’s Musical Theater San Jose and is eager to explore new places.
Keys, who celebrated the show’s success with two Tony Awards and the 2025 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, believes *Hell’s Kitchen*’s story transcends its New York roots.
“This is a story inspired by my experiences growing up in New York City, for sure. And, yes, it is a New York story, 1,000%. The thing is, though, the story truly is timeless,” Keys says.
“It’s such an emotional, honest, raw, authentic story that it doesn’t matter if it’s in Cleveland, or if it’s in Detroit, or if it’s in Manhattan or Atlanta.”
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*Hell’s Kitchen: Behind the Dream*, a photo-heavy book documenting the show’s 13-year evolution—from development with book writer Kristoffer Diaz and director Michael Greif to costuming, casting, choreography, and staging—also coincides with the tour.
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