The new Gregg Allman documentary Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul is hitting the road.

After opening in theaters in June, the film is getting over 40 one-night-only screenings in music venues across the country, giving fans a chance to experience the film on a big screen with high quality sound. Some of the screenings will also feature Q&As with the film’s director, James Keach, and/or producer Michael Lehman.

"It is incredibly rewarding to bring Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul to audiences around the country,” says Lehman, who was also Allman’s longtime manager. “Having the opportunity to share stories about making the film and my years managing Gregg will make the evening especially meaningful.”

He adds, “I hope the attendees leave with an even deeper appreciation for Gregg’s extraordinary music, his remarkable life, and the legacy he continues to inspire."

The special screenings will kick off Sept. 1 in Seattle, with dates confirmed through March 18, 2027, in San Francisco. Additional screenings will be announced, with the run expected to wrap Dec. 8, 2027, on what would have been Allman’s 80th birthday.

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Bruce Springsteen has revealed that his wife, E Street Band member Patti Scialfa, is in remission after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, in 2018.

Springsteen’s revelation came in recorded video played at an event ahead of Saturday’s Pan-Mass Challenge bike ride in Boston, which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

In the video, posted to the Springsteen fan account Spring-Nuts, The Boss first addressed Pan-Mass founder and chairman Billy Starr, and the “whole PMC family.”

“Since 1980, you have inspired a community that has done something remarkable,” he said. “You’ve never stopped believing that ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference. And because of that countless lives have been saved.”

Springsteen then talked about his wife’s cancer battle.

“As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years, but now, thankfully, she is in remission,” he said. 

“Patti’s journey has taught us something I hope every one of us and every American can understand. Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget,” Springsteen added. “It’s the reason families find hope when hope seems hardest to find. When we lose sight of that we lose sight of one another and that’s too high a price for anyone to pay.”

The video also featured Springsteen performing an acoustic version of “Born to Run,” which he called “one of my best riding songs.”

Scialfa opened up about her cancer diagnosis in the 2024 Springsteen documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. She shared the news while explaining why she had not been performing with the E Street Band during Springsteen's 2024 tour.

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The music, art and cultural influences of Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia will be celebrated with a new immersive exhibition.

Eyes of the World: The Jerry Garcia Experience, from producer Cary Granat, is described as an “ever-evolving, technologically enhanced exhibition built from Garcia’s own voice, music, and musings.” Fans will walk through eight different immersive rooms, with each exploring a different aspect of the rocker’s life and artistry. It ends with a performance space, featuring live music from Jerry Garcia tribute bands.

"My father began creating this exhibit with Cary more than 30 years ago," Jerry's daughter Keelin Garcia, co-founder of Jerry Garcia Music Arts LLC, says. "It was his dream project. Bringing it to life as he imagined is a deeply meaningful experience. We are honored to work with the people he trusted creatively. We look forward to bringing Eyes of the World: The Jerry Garcia Experience to the fans he loved."

"Jerry's artistic genius contributed to one of the most inspired movements in music and culture, built on openness, community and connection to one another," Garcia's former partner Manasha Garcia, co-founder of the Jerry Garcia Foundation, adds. "We hope those who visit Eyes of the World find a little of that inspiration and joy in this experience."

The 40,000-square-foot touring experiential event is set to open in San Francisco in early 2027, followed by stops in Chicago, Nashville, New York and Los Angeles.

Ticket information will be announced at a later date. More info can be found at Eyesofthe.World.

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Ronnie Wood is going country … sort of.

The Rolling Stones rocker has stepped in to headline The Long Road Festival, a U.K. festival of country, Americana and roots music. He replaces previously announced headliner Bailey Zimmerman, who recently called off his U.K./European tour “to focus on important family matters.”

Wood and his band will headline the festival’s main stage on Aug. 29, with special guest Imelda May.

The lineup for the festival, taking place Aug. 27-30 at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire, England, also includes Maren Morris, The Shires, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and more.

Wood kicked off a European tour in July and will next play a show in London on Aug. 21. He also has upcoming shows in Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at RonnieWood.com.

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Phil Collins has been dealing with health issues for years, but in a new interview with the U.K.'s The Times, he reveals just how bad things got.

The 75-year-old Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, tells the paper that in November 2023 he was hospitalized in Switzerland because of his drinking. While he was discharged just before Christmas, a few weeks later he found himself back in the hospital, where he was unconscious in the ICU.

“My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up,” he says. “People were coming to say goodbye. But I don’t remember them coming. I didn’t have no idea this was going on. They were all worried that they wouldn’t see me again. It could all have gone so terribly wrong.”

Among those people who came to say goodbye were his five children, with Collins noting, “There were some decisions to be made about ‘Do we keep Phil on life support?’ kind of thing.”

Collins wound up spending seven months in the hospital.

“I was very lucky to have come out of that,” he says. “Needless to say, I haven’t had a drink since.”

Collins also discussed his often rocky love life in the interview. Despite three marriages ending in divorce, it sounds like he'd like to find someone to share his life with again.

“I’d love to be in love again,” he tells the paper. “I would love a relationship. Kissing somebody, for example. You know, pretty basic stuff.”

But he doesn't sound too hopeful that it would happen.

“I think it’s probably too late for that," he says. "I’m not a very social person. I don’t, you know, I don’t go out.”

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Pink Floyd is once again sharing some live footage from their archives.

The band just released video of a performance of The Dark Side of the Moon track “The Great Gig in the Sky,” recorded at their iconic 1989 concert in Venice, Italy.

“Filmed in 1989, this unforgettable concert took place on a floating stage in the heart of Venice,” reads a post on Instagram. “The performance remains renowned not only for the music, but also for its extraordinary setting and ambitious production.”

This isn’t the first archival performance Pink Floyd has shared from the Live in Venice concert, which was a stop on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Over the past several weeks they’ve posted videos for such tracks as “Time,” “The Dogs of War,” “On the Turning Away” and “Learning to Fly."

The original concert was filmed for Italian TV and broadcast worldwide.

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Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde doesn’t seem to be the biggest fan of the hug. In a recent post on social media, she seemed to question why "hugs" suddenly became a go-to salutation in emails.

“Question: When did everyone get so touchy-feely?” she wrote. “It seems like a new thing where people sign their emails: 'Hugs.' Hate to be a spoil sport, but I’m wondering if there’s anyone else out there who isn’t huggy. Surely, it’s not just me.”

"Has this come from the therapy culture? The Grammy culture? Over-sharing?" she questioned.

“I guess we’re like dogs. Some are Lone wolves (me) and others are lap dogs who like a lot of pampering (hugs),” she noted. “( btw …I’m not confusing touchy-feely-huggy people with out-and- out sexy beasts. Two totally different things).”

Hynde also questioned email sign-offs that read “Stay safe,” simply asking “Seriously?" before signing off with, “OK well that’s my thought for the day.”

Hynde later clarified her comments in a second post.

“Suddenly, I seem to be getting a lot of messages signed: ‘Hugs.’ Maybe I was wrong. Maybe everyone really does need a hug,” she wrote. “That was probably mean spirited of me and so I would like to now say, ‘Have a nice day… Hugs.’”

She added, “I’ll write another riveting blog next time I have something unimportant to say In the meantime, Hugs.”

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Former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman is giving fans a preview of his upcoming album, Return to the Red Planet, with the release of the new song "The Jezero Crater."

Return to the Red Planet, dropping Oct. 16, is the second time Wakeman has released an album inspired by Mars. The first, The Red Planet, was released in 2020.

The new album is described as "a sweeping new progressive work that fuses science, imagination, and musical virtuosity." The description adds that it's inspired by "the remarkable images and research that have transformed our understanding of Mars in recent years."

"Once I started looking at the new data and photographs, I realised there was an entirely new album waiting to be written," Wakeman explained when the album was announced. "There was simply too much more to say about Mars - musically and spiritually - not to return."

On the album, Wakeman is backed by The English Rock Ensemble, made up of bassist Lee Pomeroy, guitarist Dave Colquhoun, drummer Adam Falkner and vocalist Mollie Marriott, daughter of English musician Steve Marriott.

Return to the Red Planet is available for preorder now.

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Carly Simon is offering up another preview of her upcoming album, Comes in Waves.

The latest is the single "Peaches," which is now available via digital outlets. It is the second song she’s released from the album, following "Howl."

"One day, I turned on the drum function and improvised 'Peaches' on the spot, which is the opposite way I usually compose music," Simon said of the song’s origins. "The lesson here may be that underthinking a song can sometimes guide you down a strange, fearless road."

According to Simon, "Peaches" is about "getting what you always wanted... and realizing you'd rather be home under the covers dreaming about these things."

Comes in Waves, Simon’s first album of original music in 18 years, is due out Aug. 14. Her last album of new material was 2008’s This Kind of Love. 

Comes in Waves is available for preorder now.

The song release comes just days after Simon announced that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

“So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing,” she said on July 27. “The truth is, I've been learning how to live with Parkinson's disease.”

"Parkinson's is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable," she added. "Some days I’m so tired I can’t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself."

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Musician, poet and author Patti Smith met with Pope Leo at the Vatican on Friday.

Video posted by Vatican News shows the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer almost speechless as she shakes the Pope’s hand. Later in the clip she sits down with him at his desk, and he asks her first if she speaks English and then if she speaks Italian.

“No, I’m sorry,” she says about speaking Italian. “I’m pure American.” 

“The agenda of #PapaLeãoXIV begins to pick up the pace again after the rest period,” read the caption of the post. “On the morning of this Friday, July 31, the Pontiff received, in the Vatican, the American singer, songwriter, and writer #PattiSmith.”

Father Antonio Spadaro, who accompanied Smith, also posted video of the meeting on X.

"There are unforgettable moments in life. Today I lived one of these. With #PattiSmith, with whom for years I have shared a simple and deep friendship, and #PapaLeone, the Holy Father, today an indispensable reference for anyone who still wants to hope in this world," he wrote. "Together. Today. For 40 minutes. When every single word had its own weight and its own lightness."

Smith wrapped a European tour on Wednesday in Milan, Italy. She’ll next play the CBGB Festival in Brooklyn on Sept. 26.

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Rod Stewart headlined a special charity event Thursday night in Southhampton, New York.

The rocker performed for more 200 guests at the home of philanthropists Bob and Lauren Day Roberts, with the night raising more than $1.7 million for E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt’s national education non-profit TeachRock.

The performance included a collaboration between Stewart and Van Zandt on "We're Having a Party" and "Stay With Me."

"When I started TeachRock, I hoped we'd build a community of artists who believe music belongs in every classroom,” Van Zandt says. “To see someone I've admired for so long lend his talent to this mission and to watch people come together to support teachers, students, and the next generation through music is incredibly moving.”

He adds, “Rod didn't just give us an unforgettable performance this evening, he gave our mission a tremendous boost. Every dollar raised helps us put free arts education into more classrooms, and that's something worth celebrating."

“Playing alongside the legend that is Stevie Van Zandt for TeachRock — what a night,” adds Stewart. “Music changed my life, and TeachRock is making sure it can change theirs too.”

The TeachRock curriculum aims to bring arts-integrated education into classrooms across the country. 
More than 80,000 educators across all 50 states have used TeachRock to help bring core subjects to life with the help of music and popular culture.

Stewart is set to kick off a new set of North American tour dates on Friday in Wantagh, New York. A complete list of dates can be found atRodStewart.com.

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Billy Idol will launch a new leg of the It’s A Nice Day To…Tour Again! tour in August. He’s getting fans excited for the trek with a funny new promo video, titled “Everybody’s About To Get Their S*** Rocked.”

“Rock icon Billy announces the next leg of his tour with the signature wit, swagger, and attitude that have defined his career for more than four decades,” reads the video’s description. “Along the way, he dishes out a mix of real history, rock 'n' roll wisdom, and a few tongue-in-cheek 'facts' as he spotlights the cities on his upcoming tour—proving that no one announces tour dates quite like Billy Idol.”

After sharing some not-so-well-known facts about the cities he'll hit on the tour, Idol notes, "While all these cities are so different and unique in their own way, there's one thing that unifies them together. They're all about to get their s*** rocked when I come through.”

Billy Idol launched the It’s A Nice Day To…Tour Again! tour in 2025. The latest leg, featuring special guests Devo and Susanna Hoffs, kicks off Aug. 7 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and runs through Sept. 27 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A complete list of dates can be found at BillyIdol.net.

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Graham Nash has always stood up for causes he believes in, and in the latest case it has forced him to cancel an upcoming concert.

“We are disappointed to let you know that the July 31st Graham Nash show at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Henrico, VA has been canceled in solidarity with the workers on strike at the Botanical Garden,” reads a post on Nash's Instagram account. “We truly appreciate the loyalty of our audience and will work on a Richmond-area return to the stage in 2027.”

Ticket holders will receive refunds for purchased tickets.

According to the Henrico Citizen, unionized workers at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge back in April as they attempted to negotiate higher wages. They put on a one-day "unfair labor practice" strike on Wednesday, the workers' eighth this year.

Nash is currently on a summer tour that includes some co-headlining dates with Emmylou Harris. His next scheduled show is Saturday in Wilmington, North Carolina. A complete list of dates can be found at GrahamNash.com.

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President Barack Obama is letting folks know what music he’s been into this summer.

Obama just released his 2026 summer playlist, which features such classic tracks as The Police’s “Message in a Bottle,” David Bowie’s “Modern Love,” The Beatles’ “Revolution” and Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.”

He also included “Song of Good Hope,” by Irish singer Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday in a motorcycle accident in Dublin.

“Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer,” Obama writes on social media. “It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.”

Other songs on the list include: “Can’t Hide Love” by Earth, Wind & Fire; “Anyone Who Had a Heart” by Luther Vandross; “Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan; “Let’s Get it On” by Marvin Gaye; “Hold On I’m Coming” by Sam & Dave; “The Book” by Sheryl Crow; and “(I Know) I’m Losing You” by The Temptations.

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The Grateful Dead has shared another preview of their upcoming live box set celebrating the summer of 1985.

The band has released a performance of "The Other One," recorded during their June 30, 1985, concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. It is available now via digital outlets.

"Dating back to 1967, 'The Other One' was the most consistently played psychedelic-era song in the Grateful Dead's repertoire, played straight through 1967-1995,” Dead legacy manager and audio archivist David Lemiuex writes in the video description. “This is the song that welcomes everyone, to this day, to get on the bus.”

The Merriweather Post Pavilion show is one of seven previously unreleased full concerts that make up the 20-CD box set Summer Magic 1985, dropping Sept. 18. The set celebrates the band’s 20th anniversary tour and includes their three 20th anniversary shows at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California, June 14-16.

Summer Magic 1985 is limited to just 10,000 numbered copies and is available for preorder now on Dead.net.

In addition to the box set, the Merriweather Post Pavilion show will be released as a standalone three-CD or four-CD set. It is also available for preorder now.

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Paul McCartney’s latest album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, has been nominated for the 2026 Mercury Prize, which recognizes the best albums from a British or Irish artist.

“What a brilliant and exciting surprise to be part of such an incredible list @mercuryprize,” McCartney writes on Instagram. “To have ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ recognised alongside so many brilliant artists and albums is a huge honour for me.”

“Thank you to everyone who continues to support and enjoy the album,” he adds. “We have been having so much fun along the way. From making it with @thisiswatt to getting it out there for people to hear. I must say the reaction has been really special. So this news has just totally blown me away.”

The Boys of Dungeon Lane is one of 12 records shortlisted for the 2026 Mercury Prize. Also nominated is Florence + The Machine’s Everybody Scream and the charity compilation HELP(2), as well as albums by RAYE, Olivia Dean, Suede and more.

The 2026 Mercury Prize will be presented Oct. 22 at a ceremony held at Utilita Arena in Newcastle, U.K. The winner receives a trophy and a cash prize of about $33,000.

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Queen has had another video reach 1 billion views on YouTube.

The latest is the performance video for the track “Don’t Stop Me Now,” from their 1978 album Jazz. The song, written by frontman Freddie Mercury, also appeared on the band’s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation.

The clip is Queen’s second video to join the Billion Views Club. The first was 1975's “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which went on to reach 2 billion views back in December 2025, making it the oldest song to ever reach such a milestone.

In other Queen news … The new Freddy Mercury book A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddy Mercury is now available for preorder. The book is described as “the definitive creative record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.”

A Life in Lyrics features material from Mercury's notebooks, some of which has never been published before. It will be released Sept. 1, four days ahead of what would have been the late Queen frontman's 80th birthday.

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Bono and Bruce Springsteen are among the artists paying tribute to Oscar-winning Irish singer Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday in a motorcycle accident in Dublin. He was 56.

Bono would often take part in Hansard’s Christmas Eve Busk in Dublin, which raised money for the homeless community. He shared his thoughts on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a video of him performing “Invisible” with Hansard.

“Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed,” Bono wrote. “Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence… A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces.”

Bono ended his lengthy post with, "[A]nd I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case. May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.”

“Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard,” Springsteen wrote in his tribute on Instagram. “We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones.”

The day before his death, Hansard’s social media posted a video of him performing “Drive All Night” with Springsteen in Ireland.

“This week in 2013 Glen had the honor of joining Bruce @springsteen & the E Street Band on stage in Kilkenny for 'Drive All Night', which Glen released his own version of later that year,” the post read. “Were you there?”

Hansard’s version, which featured backing vocals by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and saxophone from The E Street Band’s Jake Clemons, appeared on Hansard's 2013 EP, also titled Drive All Night.

Others paying tribute to Hansard include Ed Sheeran, Finneas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, actress Rachel Zegler, and The War and Treaty.

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Bon Jovi wrapped their nine-show Forever Tour stint at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, and frontman Jon Bon Jovi is reflecting on what he calls the “imperfectly perfect” experience.

The shows were the band’s first since 2022 and the first since Jon underwent vocal cord surgery that same year.

“First, I can not thank you all enough for your friendship, your kindness and your support,” Jon writes on Instagram. “We all shared in a very special experience, something unique to this moment but that’s been building for a decade.”

“Second, I woke up thinking these two words, IMPERFECTLY PERFECT. 9 nights, it was beautiful. It was real, it was human,” he continues. “I looked at each of my bandmates and at as many of you as I could see and I felt that resonance. That connection that can’t be described or felt unless it was experienced in person – to be written about or viewed. I know what happened. If you were there, so do you. It was special.”

“I’ll sleep tonight knowing that a decade of our journey, the highs and the lows, led me to these 9 nights,” he adds. “My reward is that I know I get to shine a light on so many people. All human in their existence, all just looking to find something in common, some connection… I know what it is. It’s light, it’s love. Imperfectly perfect… And I have figured out that somehow I’m lucky enough to still work here.”

Jon ends the post, “I couldn’t be more grateful.”

Bon Jovi next brings their Forever Tour to Edinburgh, Scotland, on Aug. 28. After a show in Dublin on Aug. 30, the tour wraps with three nights at London’s Wembley Stadium Sept. 4-9.

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Peter Gabriel has released yet another track from his upcoming album, o/i.

The latest is the song “One by One,” which Gabriel says is part of a side project he's talked about in the past, a show “with the brain as the central core.”

The song features a character called Mozo, which Gabriel says he introduced several years ago. He notes, "I thought, well, let’s give him another blast here. He’s been brought back from the dead."

“One by One (Bright-Side Remix)” is available now via digital outlets.

As he did with his 2023 album i/o, Gabriel is releasing a new song from o/i with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026, along with Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes handled by Tchad Blake and Mark "Spike" Stent, respectively.

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