Singer Roger Daltrey (L) and guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who perform on the first night of the band's residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on July 29, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The Who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their Who Put the Boot In tour with a set of limited-edition soccer jerseys, or football jerseys as they say in the U.K.
Why soccer jerseys? Well, the tour had the rockers playing three different U.K. football stadiums, and the merch line will consist of three different limited-edition collectible jerseys.
The first jersey to be released is inspired by the Charlton Football Club. The Who headlined a sold-out show at their home grounds, The Valley, on May 31, 1976.
In addition to the jersey, the set comes with a Who Put The Boot In tour pin, a tour poster, a replica ticket and a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity.
While the other two jerseys have yet to be revealed, the other two stadiums The Who played on that tour were Celtic Park, home of the Celtic Football Club, in Glasgow, Scotland, and Vetch Field, home of Swansea City A.F.C., in Swansea, South Wales.
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden launches Trooper beer at National Army Museum on March 12, 2013 in London, England. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
What could be cooler than being a roadie on Iron Maiden's Run for Your Lives tour? Maybe being a beer roadie on the tour.
The Lagunitas Brewing Company, which makes Iron Maiden's line of signature beers, is offering fans the chance at an all-expenses-paid but limited-time job when the U.S. leg of the Run for Your Lives tour starts Sept. 5 in New Jersey.
The winning candidate will be trained by Lagunitas brewers and educators in the brewing, handling and serving of Iron Maiden's Trooper West Coast IPA. Then they'll hit the road as an ambassador for the brews at the Eddie's Dive Bar pop-up events that will be held during select tour stops.
If you want to apply for the job, submit a 30-second video to BeerRoadie.com answering the question, "What would make you the ideal candidate as the Trooper Beer Roadie?” The applicants will be narrowed down to three finalists, who will be interviewed by the Lagunitas selection committee.
The winner will then go on to receive their training at Lagunitas' headquarters before the tour starts. You've got to get your videos uploaded by the end of the day on July 7.
A rare Pink Floyd track has gotten its first-ever digital release.
The full version of “Pigs on the Wing,” which prior to this was only available on the eight-track release of 1977’s Animals, is now available via digital outlets and on YouTube.
The original song was cut into two parts for Animals, with the full version linking them by a guitar solo performed by Snowy White.
The song is featured on the just-released Pink Floyd compilation album 8-Tracks, which, as the name suggests, features eight curated classic tracks from the 1971-1979 era of Pink Floyd.
Other songs on the album include hits “Money,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” “Time” and “Comfortably Numb,” along with early Pink Floyd tracks “One of These Days” and “Wot’s… Uh the Deal.”
In addition to the digital release, 8-Tracks was released on vinyl and CD.
Paul McCartney's 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane' (MPL/Capitol Records)
Paul McCartney is #1 in the U.K. yet again.
The legendary Beatle’s latest solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, has debuted on top of the U.K. Official Chart.
"Guess what? Our album is Number 1! Can't get much higher. And we are well chuffed,” said McCartney. "My team and the whole gang of people who worked on this thing, they have done a fantastic job, so thank you to all of them. And thank you to all of YOU who bought it! And thank you to me!"
This is McCartney’s 24th career #1 in the U.K. Over the course of his career he's had 15 chart-toppers as a member of The Beatles, six solo number ones, two number ones with Wings, and one #1 credited to him and wife Linda McCartney.
The Boys of Dungeon Lane also tops the Official Vinyl Albums chart.
The album, produced by Andrew Watt, features songs about McCartney’s childhood in Liverpool, early adventures with future Beatles bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon, and more. It also includes his first-ever duet with Ringo Starr, "Home to Us."
Deep Purple is offering up another preview of their upcoming album, SPLAT!
The band has dropped the new single “Diablo,” which features country star Keith Urban on guitar.
“It is all about taking chances,” frontman Ian Gillan says of the song. “Just for once in your life, do something exciting, step out of the mold, take that curious bend in the road instead of sticking to the highway and do something that will, for the rest of your life, either guide or warn you.”
“Diablo” is now available via digital outlets. A live performance video is set to debut Sunday on YouTube, with the band’s Roger Glover planning to chat with fans during the premiere.
SPLAT!, dropping July 3, explores the idea of the end of humanity as a transformation rather than a destruction, with the album’s description noting it sees the end “not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.”
Deep Purple kicks off a European tour on June 11 in Finland. They launch a North American tour Aug. 4 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
A complete list of dates can be found at DeepPurple.com.
Stevie Nicks performs at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, November, 2023 (Disney/Michael J. LeBrecht II)
Stevie Nicks is honoring the doctor who helps keep her voice in tip-top shape.
The singer has made a major donation to University of Southern California to help complete a $3 million fundraising goal for an endowed chair at the Keck School of Medicine at USC within the Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
The chair honors Dr. Joseph Sugerman, Nick’s longtime ear, nose and throat specialist.
“Through late nights on the road, years of touring, hours in the recording studio, I always knew I could count on Dr. Sugerman to be there to help keep my voice healthy, just as he does for his other patients,” said Nicks. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity to acknowledge his talent and insights and mark his many years of outstanding practice.”
The first holder of the endowed chair will be Dr. Michael M. Johns, director of the USC Voice Center, which was established in 2017.
“I am touched and humbled by the support of my patients who have extended themselves to create this endowed chair, which will be dedicated to advancing vocal medicine,” said Dr. Sugerman. “I’m especially excited that this will strengthen the outstanding programs at the USC Voice Center.”
Talking Heads -- David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz -- made their live debut at the New York club CBGB, where they opened for the Ramones.
The set consisted of songs like "Psycho Killer," "The Girls Want to Be With the Girls," "I Want to Live" and more.
Jerry Harrison joined the group in 1977, the same year they released their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, which included "Psycho Killer," which went on to be one of their signature tunes. Their commercial breakthrough came in 1983, thanks to the top 10 hit "Burning Down the House," which appeared on their fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues.
Talking Heads released eight studio albums over the course of their career, their final being 1988’s Naked. They stopped touring in 1984, with their final show happening in February at Sweetwaters South Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
(L-R) Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush attend the 2026 JUNO Awards at TD Coliseum on March 29, 2026 in Hamilton, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremy Chan/Getty Images)
Rush’s highly anticipated Fifty Something tour finally kicks off Sunday in Los Angeles, something fans of the Canadian rockers have been waiting for for more than a decade.
The tour will be Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson’s first outing since wrapping the R40 tour in 2015. It will also be their first tour since the 2020 death of their drummer and friend Neil Peart.
Playing drums on the tour will be Anika Nilles, who previously worked with the late Jeff Beck. Of course, filling Peart’s shoes won’t be easy.
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, who was a friend of Peart’s, tells ABC Audio Nilles’ biggest challenge will likely be “Rush fans who have memorized every detail of Dr. Peart’s performance." Still, he believes “she has the chops” to succeed.
“I think she's gonna do fine,” he says. “I think, you know, the sense that I get is that everyone is very curious. Nobody resents her.”
As for Rush’s return to the road, Copeland notes, “Rush waited a very respectable amount of time. There's no doubt that it's all in honor of Neil.”
If you were wondering, Peart will be honored throughout the tour. The band plans to play two sets each night, with a different set list at every show, along with a tribute to their late bandmate. In an April interview with Brazilian TV show Fantástico, Lee said they’ll dedicate two songs per night to Peart, with each performance featuring a visual tribute.
Lifeson described the tribute as “a celebration of who he was as a person and a drummer, not so sad anymore.”
Rush’s Fifty Something tour begins with four nights at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles. The North American run continues through Dec. 17. A complete list of dates can be found at Rush.com.
Warren Haynes 'Shakedown Street' (Evil Teen Records)
Warren Haynes takes on a Grateful Dead classic in the latest preview of his upcoming symphonic album, Dreams & Songs.
The Gov’t Mule frontman has released a cover of The Dead’s “Shakedown Street,” recorded at his 2019 Dreams & Songs symphonic show in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. For the show he was backed by the 64-piece Asheville Symphony Orchestra, as well as Oteil Burbridge, John Medeski, Jeff Sipe and Greg Osby.
“‘Shakedown Street’ is a really powerful orchestrated arrangement that enhances the power of the original, which I played and sang a ton of times with those guys through the years, especially with Phil Lesh and Friends, but with The Dead as well,” Haynes says. “It’s a very danceable song. A lot of people just focus on the groove and get lost in the rhythmic quality of it. The orchestra forces you to pay attention to it in a different way. It’s very dark and powerful and, I think, very effective.”
Details on when Dreams & Songs will be released will be revealed at a later date.
Haynes will once again perform with an orchestra next year when he brings his Dreams & Songs Symphonic Experience to Nashville on March 11 and 12. Tickets are on sale now.
Below is the track list for Dreams & Songs: “Dreams and Songs (Part One)” “Dreams” “Banks of the Deep End” “Spots of Time” “Broken Promised Land” “Thorazine Shuffle” “Makes No Difference” “Terrapin Station” “Raven Black Night” “Just Another Rider” “Black Peter” “Instrumental Illness” “One” “Shakedown Street” “Whipping Post” “Dreams and Songs (Reprise)”
The Rolling Stones' 'Foreign Tongues' (Capitol Records)
The Rolling Stones have announced a new collaboration with FIFA to coincide with the upcoming World Cup tournament.
The Rolling Stones x FIFA - Foreign Tongues collab is made up of limited-edition vinyl variants of their upcoming album, Foreign Tongues.
The variants are the Host Nation Edition, featuring artwork inspired by the colors, iconography and cultural identity of host countries, the U.S., Mexico and Canada; the FIFA World Cup 2026 Edition, which celebrates the tournament with multi-colored artwork that surrounds the band’s iconic tongue and lips logo; and the Winners’ Circle Edition, which reimagines the logo inspired by the World Cup trophy and highlights past winners.
The Rolling Stones are also one of the many artists appearing on the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Album. The album features 18 tracks, with The Stones contributing a remix of the Foreign Tongues single “In the Stars.”
Foreign Tongues, The Stones’ first album since 2024’s Hackney Diamonds, drops July 10.
Metallica on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Metallica has broken another attendance record.
The band's concert Wednesday night at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna, Italy, broke an attendance record with over 47,000 fans in attendance.
According to Metallica's post on Instagram, it was actually the sixth record-breaking crowd on the current leg of their M72 World tour.
“With five record-breaking crowds already on this leg of #M72, the Italian branch of the #MetallicaFamily knew what was at stake… and they definitely delivered,” the band wrote. “Thank you so much for making #M72Bologna a night to remember!"
Metallica next brings their M72 world tour to Budapest on June 11. The European/U.K. leg of the trek wraps with a no repeat weekend, July 3 and 5 in London.
The band will then return to the U.S. to kick off their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere on Oct. 1.
A complete list of dates can be found at Metallica.com.
'Paul SimonLL The Quiet Celebration Concert' (Hulu)
Paul Simon fans will now get to enjoy his A Quiet Celebration tour from the comfort of their own home.
Paul Simon: The Quiet Celebration Concert, an almost two-hour concert film, will air on Hulu and Disney+ starting June 26.
The film was recorded live at McCaw Hall in Seattle back in August. It features performances of songs from his most recent album, Seven Psalms, as well as new renditions of classic hits. The tour, which he launched in April 2025, was Simon’s first after dealing with the loss of hearing in his left ear.
“This tour has enabled me to play with musicians again. I really missed it,” says Simon. “Everybody has enjoyed the experience so much. There’s been a feeling of camaraderie and elation that we were playing this piece of music that we were really interested in, and that had a significant effect on me.”
“It made for one of the most extraordinary tours I’ve done — maybe the most joyous,” he adds.
In addition to the concert film, a companion album will be released Oct. 9 digitally and as a three-LP or two-CD set.
Simon kicked off a new leg of the tour on Wednesday in Stanford, California, and will play there again on Thursday. A complete list of dates can be found at PaulSimon.com.
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Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer performs at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on March 12, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Image
Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has shared his thoughts about the Red Hot Chili Peppers rarely playing songs from the albums he appeared on.
Klinghoffer joined the Peppers in 2011, replacing John Frusciante, who took over on guitar in 1988 following the death of founding guitarist Hillel Slovak. Frusciante appeared on many of their hit albums, including 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999's Californication.
Klinghoffer was with the group until 2019, when Frusciante returned, and appeared on 2011’s I’m With You and 2016’s The Getaway. In an interview with Guitar World, he was asked whether it bothered him that those albums are “ignored by the band."
“Not really," he replied. "It’s a funny thing. I guess it’s particular to the way John views the band when he’s not in it, and it makes sense to me. They have enough music that they don’t need to look to some of the other records."
"I guess it’s just something unique to that band, you know? Having such a revolving door there, and such a strong presence in John," he added. “He’s kind of the preeminent guitar player, you know? He’s the one who made the work with them where they experienced their global fame."
Frusciante acknowledged that there seems to be “a little bit of a slight disrespect to the records that aren’t the John records. Once John’s back in the picture, it’s like the other records don’t exist.”
“That’s the only weird thing to me, because those records were important at the time, you know?” he said. “They were important enough to go and play them around the world.”
Klinghoffer's solo project, Pluralone, will release the new album A Drop in the Ocean on June 12.
The Beatles’ message of “All You Need is Love” will once again be celebrated June 25 on Global Beatles Day, and this year it's gotten the official support of The Beatles.
The fan initiative was launched in 2009 by lifelong fan Faith Cohen. It celebrates the anniversary of the legendary band’s 1967 live performance of “All You Need is Love” on the BBC’s Our World special, which marked the first international satellite television broadcast of the song.
Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by The Beatles, has now officially recognized the fan celebration. To mark the occasion, on June 25 it will release a colorized version of the Our World performance to YouTube for the first time.
“More than ever, the message of The Beatles, and of ‘All You Need Is Love’ speaks to something vital for community, connection, and the power of bringing people together,” Apple Corps CEO Tom Greene wrote in a recent letter to Cohen. “That is what makes Global Beatles Day so special. It asks nothing more than for people, wherever they are, to stop, listen, and share a little joy.”
Bruce Springsteen released what would become one of his most successful albums, Born in the U.S.A.
The album, recorded with The E Street Band, spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and produced seven top-10 singles: the title track, "Dancing in the Dark," "Cover Me," "Glory Days," "I’m on Fire," "I’m Goin’ Down" and "My Hometown."
The Boss released his first music videos to promote the album, kicking things off with “Dancing in the Dark," directed by Brian De Palma and featuring a then-unknown Courteney Cox, well before her Friends fame.
With Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen became a global superstar, selling over 30 million copies of the album worldwide. The album was certified 17-times Platinum by the RIAA and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.
Billy Joel attends MSG Entertainment and Billy Joel special franchise announcement at Chase Square at Madison Square Garden on June 1, 2023 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Billy Joel spent 10 years performing at New York's Madison Square Garden, and now he's lent the title of one of his signature songs to a collection of merch that celebrates the Garden's other residents -- The Knicks -- making it to the NBA Finals.
Called the New York State of Mind collection, the collab with the Sportiqe brand is now available online, and inside New York City's NBA Store. It includes a hoodie and a tee, each one sporting the Knicks logo and the words "New York State of Mind."
The collection is the start of future Sportiqe Billy Joel merch collabs, which will tie in with other New York teams and venues through 2026. The brand did something similar in 2025 with Frank Sinatra and the New York Yankees.
Sportiqe co-founder Jason Franklin says in a statement, "I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 years old because I loved Billy Joel – the first song I ever learned to play was one of his songs. Thirty-six years later, it’s incredibly meaningful to launch this collaboration during the Knicks’ long-awaited return to the Finals."
The Knicks will play the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden during games 2, 4 and, if necessary, 6.
Frampton, a documentary about Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Peter Frampton, will premiere Thursday night at New York City's Tribeca Festival, and Frampton himself will make an appearance at the screening.
The documentary covers Frampton's entire life and career, and features commentary from Bill Wyman, Roger Daltrey, Tom Morello, Cameron Crowe, Sheryl Crow, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Alice Cooper and Ringo Starr. While there are plenty of high points -- like Frampton Comes Alive! becoming, at one point, the best-selling album of all time -- the doc covers many low points as well, like the car crash that nearly killed him, the period when he was flat broke, and his life today, living with a degenerative muscle disease.
Frampton jokes that he was "exhausted" after seeing his whole life onscreen.
"When you see it all in one hour and 50 minutes ... it's a lot of stuff," he tells ABC Audio. "Y'know, it's 60 years' worth, basically, of career and life, and so yeah, it was quite amazing to see it all in one go."
At one point in the film, Cameron Crowe describes one of Peter's Frampton Comes Alive! concerts as "the peak of rock." Frampton says that wasn't necessarily good thing.
"I knew it was the peak of rock for me," he laughs. "You can't get much higher." But, he admits, "It just got too big for me. The #1 in the charts, the stadium shows -- so exciting. But when you become the biggest record in history -- I'll take #2, not #1, in anything, because there's so much pressure on the #1. And so for me, it was very hard at that point."
Seeing the results of that pressure is one of the things Frampton wants fans to take away from the documentary.
"I've always wanted people to know exactly what was happening at various times when they were just [putting] that album on and [playing] it over and over and again," he says.
"And also how it affected me, as opposed to them. I think it gives everybody a really good sense of how the business was back then."
Europe's 'Come This Madness' (Silver Lining Music / Hell & Back Recordings)
Europe has released a second single from their upcoming album, Come This Madness, their first new album in nine years.
The Swedish rockers, best known for their 1986 hit “The Final Countdown,” have dropped the song “The Cult of Ignorance,” along with a star-studded video featuring appearances by The Hives’ Howling Pellet, Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, actress Malin Akerman, tennis champ Stefan Edberg and others.
“I love this track! It’s a straightforward rock anthem with lyrics reflecting the times we live in, written slightly tongue in cheek,” says Europe’s founding member and frontman Joey Tempest. “The title was inspired by a phrase coined by author and biochemist Isaac Asimov. It reflects some of the negative tendencies emerging in our world today, though it is written in a slightly light-hearted tone.”
Come This Madness, Europe’s first album since 2017’s Walk the Earth, will be released Sept. 25.
Ace Frehley’s Les Paul guitar (Courtesy of Julien's Auctions)
Ace Frehley’s most-played guitar brought in big bucks at auction.
The late KISS guitarist’s 1975 Les Paul sold for $512,000 at Julien's Auctions' Music Icons auction, which took place May 29-30 at the Hard Rock Café Times Square.
The guitar was described in a press release as Frehley's "constant companion" from the beginning of his career and was used "more than any other guitar in his arsenal."
Other Frehley items that sold at auction include: a 1997 Gibson signature Les Paul, which he played at Super Bowl 33, for $57,600; a custom Gibson Les Paul Jr, which he played during the 1996 KISS reunion tour, for $57,600; a life-size stage-worn Destroyer mannequin, which sold for $51,200; and a stage-worn purple jumpsuit, which sold for $11,520.
Other big sellers at the auction include: Eddie Van Halen’s autographed Charvel art series guitar from his last performance with Sammy Hagar, which sold for $115,200 and a belt worn by The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger at their 1969 Hyde Park concert, which sold for $51,200.
William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain performs in concert, May 25, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. (Mariano Regidor/Redferns); Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performs during the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on May 17, 2015 in Las Vegas (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
You can say a lot of things about the late Eddie Van Halen, but you can't deny that he was an incredible guitar player, right? Or maybe you can, if you're The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Speaking to Stereogum, Jim Reid of the Scottish alt-rock duo talked about how, when it comes to playing guitar, sometimes simpler is better. "I can play guitar, but only just. It’s kinda deliberate. I play guitar to the level that I need to play guitar," he said. "And sometimes knowing too much about making music gets in the way, and it ends up back to Eddie Van Halen again, do you know what I mean?”
Jim's older brother and bandmate William Reid then chimed in.
"I think guitar players should never learn scales. I think the worst guitar players in the world, like Eddie Van Halen -- I can’t stand Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing," said William. "I think he ruined rock guitar all through the ’80s and ’90s ’cause so many people copied him."
“And I just couldn’t get any of that playing as fast as you f****** can and cramming as many notes in one second as you could," William went on.
So whose playing does he admire?
"I listen to Peter Hook's bass riffs, and I think that’s a thousand times better than anything Eddie Van Halen could ever conjure up," said William. He was referring to the New Order and Joy Division bass player, who'll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year.
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