Todd Rundgren: Last News

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticIn recent times Todd Rundgren has just wanted to hang on the phone all day — or at least call people intermittently, over a period of a few years — asking well-regarded friends in music or even famous strangers and ask them to take part in a musical experiment. The results of this reaching-out, long spoken-of but only officially announced today, arrive in the form of “Space Force,” which has the legendary artist-producer teaming up for collabs with Sparks, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Neil Finn, the Lemon Twigs, the Roots, Rick Nielsen and more.The lead track, “Puzzle,” with Adrian Belew, premieres today (see below).

Roy Trakin Creem magazine started publishing as a regional monthly in Detroit in 1969, but didn’t go national until 1971, with a firmly anti-establishment bias that took aim at the likes of Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone and Paul Williams’ Crawdaddy for eminence in the heady early days of rock criticism. Among its earliest writers were certified pioneers like Dave Marsh, the dark rumblings of the late Lester Bangs and Nick Tosches, and rock-crit icons Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, John Mendelsohn, Lisa Robinson, Lenny Kaye, Wayne Robins, Ben Edmonds and Sylvie Simmons.

Todd Rundgren and King Crimson’s Adrian Belew have shared details of a ‘Celebrating David Bowie‘ tribute tour that’s due to hit North America this autumn.The celebrated guitarist and ex-King Crimson axeman will be joined by Spacehog’s Royston Langdon, Fishbone’s Angelo Moore and Jeffrey Gaines on the 15-date tour to pay tribute to the late, influential British musician.Bassist Angeline Saris, drummer Michael Urbano, saxophonist Ron Dziubla, and guitarist Scrote (Angelo Bundini), who put together the first Celebrating David Bowie tour in 2017, are in the tour’s backing band. Scrote is producing the tour alongside Miles Copeland.Langdon said in a statement [via Rolling Stone]: “David Bowie was a master.

A.D. Amorosi Start a conversation with Todd Rundgren about his sudden wealth of needle drops within the last 10 months —  including the multiple interpretations of his 1973 hit “Hello It’s Me” as performed throughout the first season of HBO Max’s “And Just Like That…,” or the use of “I Saw the Light” in “Ozark” — and before the question is out, Rundgren is laughing.“I find it as unusual as everyone else does,” says Rundgren from Denver, before another night of playing with friend Daryl Hall during that latter’s current solo tour.

took herself out of the running to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year — “I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” she said in an Instagram post— she revealed that she hopes to one day be “worthy” of another nomination.“This has … inspired me to put out a hopefully great rock ’n’ roll album at some point in the future, which I have always wanted to do!” she said.And if Johnny Cash could work with Rick Rubin and Loretta Lynn could collaborate with Jack White, then certainly Parton could get some rock love.Rundgren — who in addition to being inducted into the RRHOF last year as an artist, has produced everyone from Badfinger and the New York Dolls to Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” — would love to collaborate with Parton behind the boards. “Who wouldn’t?” Rundgren, 73, said.“She’s made so many records, has so much experience, you know there’s not going to be any sort of funny business about doing it.

Daryl Hall – one half of 80s pop duo Hall & Oates – has confirmed a long-standing rumour that he was once asked to replace David Lee Roth as frontman of Van Halen.The singer was being interviewed on New York radio station Q104.3 to promote an upcoming solo tour with Todd Rundgren and a new archival album entitled ‘BeforeAfter’. Jim Kerr, a DJ at the station, claimed that he came across the rumour while doing research online for his interview with Hall, before asking the singer if it was true.Hall laughed at the question, before clarifying the situation between himself and Van Halen. “I knew those guys really well,” he said.

Jonathan Cohen On paper, the prominent use of sensitive American singer-songwriter music from the 1970s and ‘80s in a modern Norwegian romantic comedy might seem rather incongruous, if not downright anachronistic. But five decades on from some of their biggest successes, Art Garfunkel, Todd Rundgren, Harry Nilsson and Christopher Cross are back on the big screen helping soundtrack Danish/Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s acclaimed “The Worst Person in the World,” which is nominated for best original screenplay and best international feature film at the upcoming Academy Awards.Co-written by Trier and longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, “Worst Person” has already won best foreign language film from the New York Film Critics Circle and garnered Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes.

Jonathan Cohen Daryl Hall will put the spotlight on his 40-plus-year solo career outside of Hall and Oates with the release of a new compilation and a solo tour with special guest Todd Rundgren this spring. The 30-track “BeforeAfter” will arrive via Legacy Recordings on April 1, the same day Hall returns to the live stage at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre.“I picked the songs I thought were right and significant and meaningful throughout this whole body of work,” Hall tells Variety of “BeforeAfter,” which spans his 1980 Robert Fripp-produced solo debut “Sacred Songs” up through 2011’s “Laughing Down Crying,” which was co-produced by Hall and Oates’ longtime associate, the late T-Bone Wolk.

Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his Bat Out of Hell album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”, and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, has died. He was 74.

Todd Rundgren will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this month, but fans won't see him anywhere at the ceremony.The 73-year-old rock legend shared with TMZon Thursday that he's planning to sit out the ceremony and accompanying performances in Cleveland as he doesn't think the institution should even exist.But the I Saw The Light singer's fans won't necessarily miss out, as he'll be playing a concert the same night in Cincinnati.

Todd Rundgren gives NO f**ks!

Legendary rocker/producer Todd Rundgren is known for such hits as “Hello It’s Me” as well as producing albums for the likes of Cheap Trick, XTC, Patti Smith and Meatloaf’s classic Bat Out of Hell.

Chris Willman Music WriterTodd Rundgren, who’s about to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, doesn’t sound like he hopes to ever see Kanye West joining him there. “I’m one of the few artists not on Kanye’s album,” Rundgren says in a new interview — but it wasn’t for lack of being asked.

Todd Rundgren has vented his frustration over working with Kanye West on his recent album ‘DONDA’.According to Rundgren he contributed to the record over a year and amassed “three albums worth of Kanye stems on my computer.”He said he was initially put in touch with West via the rapper’s longtime collaborator, 88-Keys.“I didn’t mind working on his gospel stuff. If you want to sing about Jesus, go ahead, I don’t care.

Todd Rundgren will not be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Cleveland next month, where he’s set to be inducted alongside the likes of Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Tina Turner and more.Rundgren – who has acknowledged in a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock that his relationship with the Hall of Fame has been “obviously… not copacetic” – will instead be performing a show a few hours away in Cincinnati on the evening of October 30.“I have offered to do something live for them from my venue. I will stop my show and acknowledge the award and mostly acknowledge my fans, because it’s for them,” Rundgren told Ultimate Classic Rock.“They’re the ones who wanted it.

Foo Fighters, Tina Turner and Carole King are among the acts who have shared their reaction to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 

Tina Turner, JAY-Z and Carole King are among its 2021 class.Other inductees in the performer category, which honors bands and solo artists who have created music whose originality, impact and influence has changed the course of rock & roll, include The Go-Go's, Foo Fighters and Todd Rundgren.This marks Turner's second spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as she was inducted in 1991 as part of Ike & Tina Turner.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has pulled the curtain back on six inductees who’ll be formally ushered in as the class of 2021, with Jay-Z, the Go-Go’s, Tina Turner, Todd Rundgren, Carole King and Foo Fighters all invited to make the trip to Cleveland this October.Notably, the hall will also welcome several other artists that did not appear on the general ballot this year but are being inducted in other categories, including two artists that have been repeatedly nominated in the past without being voted in, Kraftwerk and LL Cool J.Among the main crop of performer inductees, women were voted into three of six slots — representation that’s likely to be welcomed after years of complaints that rock’s female pioneers

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame has revealed the list of nominees up for induction in 2021.

The Vaccines keyboardist Timothy Lanham has shared his second solo single under his T Truman moniker – listen to ‘Rock ’n’ Roll’ below.It comes as part of an announcement that Lanham will release his debut EP ‘Born To Be Right’ in September.Describing his alter-ego as his “very own writing scapegoat,” T Truman bridges the gap between 70s pop rock and modern indie while channeling his piano-pop heroes Todd Rundgren and Elton John.His new single, which follows debut track ‘Holiday’, is a love letter to rock and roll, a genre he feels is dying.