Pat Monahan News

Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert is the concert film and album release from Blackbird Presents Records featuring the collection of legendary singers and superstars who came together for a once-in-a-lifetime concert event taping in New York City at The Theater At Madison Square Garden to celebrate the songs of music icon John Lennon. 

Neil Berg returns to the Van Wezel celebrating a record-breaking decade of annual performances with an exciting, all-new show! 110 YEARS OF BROADWAY recreates the finest moments from the most memorable shows of the century featuring the actual Broadway stars of shows like Jersey Boys, Wicked and Mamma Mia! Backed by an excellent New York-based band, Neil Berg presents skillful arrangements of Broadway classics as well as electrifying numbers from Broadway's freshest hit shows. Don't miss this spectacular performance on Wednesday, January 30 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Reserve your seats today!

Today, after an iconic 20+ years of music, Columbia Records Grammy-winning multi-platinum selling band Train officially releases their highly anticipated Greatest Hits album and simultaneously announces a legendary summer tour with co-headliners and Grammy-nominated rockers, the Goo Goo Dolls. The amphitheater tour will feature special guest Allen Stoneand hit over 39 stops across North America. The tour will stop at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 27th, located at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY. Fans will have a chance to witness Train's extensive and critically-acclaimed catalog of hits over the last two decades.   

Warner Bros. Records collaborated with Netflix for the exclusive music soundtrack of Westside, Netflix's first-ever unscripted music series. The series follows the lives of nine young artists struggling for success in today's high-pressure music industry. Today, the unscripted eight-episode series launches globally on Netflix and the soundtrack WESTSIDE: THE MUSIC is available on Warner Bros. Records.

Stephen Kellogg is set to release Objects in the Mirror on November 23, 2018. Produced by fellow Americana singer-songwriter Will Hoge, the 12-track set was recorded over the course of a single week in Nashville, TN and tracked live, keeping the results intact with minimal overdubs. Ahead of release, American Songwriter featured album track “High Highs, Low Lows” yesterday calling it “a slowly building folk anthem with chiming piano, gentle pedal steel and a raw, vulnerable vocal performance from Kellogg.” Of writing the song, Kellogg offers, “It's is a bit of an ode to perseverance. To finding one's way through hard times (of which there are plenty), and also having the sense to recognize happiness when it's in front of us. Like a lot of people, I'm trying to make sense of some of the fractures that have occurred in my life. Music helps with that.” “High Highs, Low Lows” can be heard/shared at the links below, and Objects in the Mirror is available for pre-order now via the Kellogg Family Store. Kellogg has also announced an extensive U.S. solo tour throughout the rest of 2018, to be followed by a full-band run next spring. 

Warner Bros. Records is collaborating with Netflix for the exclusive music soundtrack of Westside, Netflix's first ever unscripted music series. The series follows the lives of nine young artists struggling for success in today's high-pressure music industry. On November 9th, the unscripted eight-episode series launches globally on Netflix, same day and date as the release of WESTSIDE: THE MUSIC, the official 20-song soundtrack on Warner Bros. Records. Two songs featured in the show's trailer are available now on all DSPs.

Country duo Sugarland dropped their anticipated sixth studio album Bigger on June 8, and they've followed it up with the video for the single 'Babe,' featuring an appearance from the song's co-writer Taylor Swift. Check out the Mad-Men inspired music video below! 

The bold pairing of superstars SUGARLAND and TAYLOR SWIFT gets even BIGGER tonight. For an unprecedented world premiere, CMT will debut the 'Babe' music video trailer during the CMT Music Awards, which will air live at 8/7c.

GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar duo SUGARLAND announced their highly anticipated sixth studio album, titled BIGGER, will be released on June 8 and becomes available for preorder on April 13. Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bushco-wrote nearly all of the songs on the album, which was co-produced by Kristian, Jennifer, and Julian Raymond. The project's lead single, 'Still The Same,' is currently climbing the Country radio charts ahead of the duo's spring-summer STILL THE SAME 2018 TOUR. For tickets and a full list of dates, please visit HERE.

On the episode '110 (Top 24 Celebrity Duets)' - As the pool has been narrowed to the top 24 contestants, 12 of the top 24 finalists perform duets with celebrity partners at Academy LA in Hollywood during this week in the competition, as the search for America's next superstar continues on its new home on America's network, The ABC Television Network, MONDAY, APRIL 9 (8:00p.m.|7:00pm C), streaming and on demand.

It's been quite a start for 2018 for Brooklyn-based songwriter STOLAR. With a new song with buzz-heavy Aloe Blacc ready for release later this month and a collaboration with Hall & Oates with Train's Pat Monahan currently moving up the charts, the “poly-genre multi-instrumentalist” (Village Voice) released his latest single “Suburbia” on Friday, March 30th and gearing up for his EP Raw Emotions: West Village, NY which comes out April 27, 2018.

BWW Review: ROCKTOPIA - A CLASSICAL REVOLUTION at The Broadway Theater

As with the Broadway season's earlier pop concert extravaganza, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, this theatre critic readily admits to not exactly being an ideal arts journalist to authoritatively review the touring rock anthem/classical music fusion concert called Rocktopia that has made a stop at the Broadway Theatre. Though my knowledge of the highbrow oeuvre is perhaps slightly higher than a layperson's, my experience with classic rock power ballads rarely extends further than the snippets heard at baseball and hockey games or during the occasional car commercial.

Broadway has turned up the volume! Last night at the Broadway Theatre, Rocktopia officially opened. An explosive musical concert event that fuses the most iconic 20th-century rock with world-renowned classical masterpieces,ROCKTOPIA features the works of musical innovators across centuries-including Journey, Mozart, Queen, Beethoven, Aerosmith, Handel, Led Zeppelin, Tchaikovsky, U2, Heart, Puccini, The Who and more-performed by an elite lineup of vocalists, a five-piece rock band, a thirty-person choir, and a twenty-piece orchestra. Rocktopia celebrates its opening night on Broadway tomorrow,Tuesday, March 27, running six weeks only, through April 29, 2018. 

Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet and we're taking you inside as the stars arrived. Check out the photos below!

Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld attended the big night and we're taking you inside the opening night after party. Check out photos below!

Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld attended the big night and you can check out photos from the show's opening night finale below!

ROCKTOPIA officially opens on Broadway tonight! Let's see what the critics had to say...

The producers of the Broadway concert ROCKTOPIA are thrilled to announce that rock icon Dee Snider, lead singer of multi-platinum-selling band TWISTED SISTER, will triumphantly return to Broadway as a special guest vocalist in the show for the fourth week of its limited engagement, April 9 - 15, 2018.

ROCKTOPIA has released production photos of its six-week limited engagementat The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). See the new images below!