Foo Fighters confirm more 2025 tour dates
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“The amount of phone use nowadays diminishes enjoyment, particularly for the band who are onstage”: Iron Maiden urge fans to keep their phones in their pockets during upcoming Run For Your Lives tour
Iron Maiden's Run For Your Life tour will begin in Budapest on May 27 and will include 31 shows across Europe to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary. Fans are encouraged to limit their use of mobile phones during the gigs to fully enjoy the experience. Additional tickets for some UK and Ireland shows may become available closer to the event date. The tour will feature support from The Raven Age and Halestorm at select dates. Tickets can be purchased through the Iron Maiden website.
"They are bigger than the Ramones. Their influence is greater, their reach is greater, and certainly their success is greater." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the punk band he believes has eclipse
Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins recently praised Green Day, stating that the band has surpassed the Ramones in terms of influence. Corgan toured with Green Day in 2024 and had a positive experience, noting the band's graciousness and the great crowds. He described the tour as one of his favorites and highlighted the camaraderie among the bands on the tour. Corgan has known the Green Day members since their Lollapalooza days in 1994 and shared fond memories of their interactions.
Sleep Token Tops The Album Charts With Debut
Hard rock is having a moment. Sleep Token hit number one on the Billboard 200 with their album “Even in Arcadia,” selling 127-thousand units in its first week. This is their first chart-topping album, and “Even in Arcadia” also broke records with the biggest streaming week for a hard rock album, and for the most vinyl copies sold by a hard rock band with 47-thousand copies sold in one week, a record that was set two weeks ago by Ghost with 44-thousand vinyl copies of “Skeleta.”
Soundgarden's Ben Shepherd Teases Unreleased Album
Soundgarden's Ben Shepherd is teasing an upcoming album in a tribute post to his late bandmate Chris Cornell. Taking to Instagram, Shepherd reflected on Cornell's legacy, saying he had been thinking about an unheard song that was written by the late musician and drummer Matt Cameron. It's titled "The Road Less Traveled" and he revealed it was for a new album that has yet to be named. Shepherd didn't share when exactly fans could expect the unreleased single and album.
Jerry Cantrell Announces Summer U.S. Tour Dates With Filter
Jerry Cantrell is announcing a new round of U.S. tour dates in support of his latest solo album "I Want Blood." The trek kicks off in San Diego on August 16th and will wrap up in Kansas City, Missouri on
September 14th. Filter will join Cantrell on the road as support. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Thursday.
My Chemical Romance have announced a 65,000-capacity Mexico City show for 2026
My Chemical Romance has announced their first live date of 2026, a show entitled THE BLACK PARADE – ALIVE! in Mexico City on February 13. The band will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Black Parade and tickets go on sale this Friday. They are also focusing on Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge with a deluxe edition of the record due out on June 6. Fans are hoping for more tour dates to be announced in the future.
System Of A Down Rocks Crowd
System Of A Down recently wrapped up a South American tour with incredible footage showing their passionate fanbase in action. Videos from shows in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil went viral on social media, showcasing massive crowds moshing, crowd-surfing, and lighting flares while singing along to metal classics. Guitarist Daron Malakian shared impressive drone videos from their show in São Paulo, Brazil, with over 75,000 fans in attendance. Despite lacking pyrotechnics on stage, the fans brought the energy with flares and circle pits, creating a memorable concert experience. System Of A Down will play six late summer shows in North America before wrapping up their live schedule for the year.
Alter Bridge Announce Album / Tour
Alter Bridge, fronted by Myles Kennedy, will release their new album ABIII in September, following up on 2007's Blackbird. The tracklist includes songs like "Isolation" and "Ghost Of Days Gone By." The band will tour the UK in October, with shows in cities like Glasgow, Manchester, and London. Tickets are available for purchase now.
THE WHO: Choose Some Decent Opening Acts
The Who have announced the opening acts for their final North American run, The Song Is Over tour. Billy Idol, who was part of their 1996 Quadrophenia tour, as well as Pete Townshend's 2017 Classic Quadrophenia outing, will open the last show on September 28th in Las Vegas.
The Joe Perry Project -- featuring Brad Whitford from Aerosmith, Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes, and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz from Stone Temple Pilots -- will open in Boston at Fenway Park and Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl. The other special guests are Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters, Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Candlebox, Feist, Joe Bonamassa, Tom Cochrane, and ZZ Ward.
The Song Is Over tour starts on August 16th in Sunrise, Florida.
8/16 – Sunrise, FL – Amerant Bank Arena - w/Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters
8/19 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center - w/Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters
8/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center - w/ZZ Ward
8/23 – Atlantic City, NJ – Boardwalk Hall - w/Booker T. Jones
8/26 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park - w/Joe Perry Project
8/28 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Theater - w/Feist
8/30 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden - w/Feist
9/2+4 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage - w/Tom Cochrane
9/7+9 – Chicago, IL – United Center - w/Joe Bonamassa
9/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl - w/Joe Perry Project
9/19 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl - TBD
9/21 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre - w/Candlebox
9/23 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena - w/Candlebox
9/25 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena - w/Candlebox
9/28 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena - w/Billy Idol
JIM MORRISON: Gets His Head Back
The marble graffiti-covered bust of Jim Morrison that sat atop his tombstone until it was stolen in 1988 has been recovered by French police while investigating an unrelated fraud case. It's still not known who stole it or whether it will be returned to the grave at Paris’ Père-Lachaise. A spokesperson for Morrison's estate says they're "happy to hear the news,” adding that it's "a piece of history, and one Jim’s family wanted there on his grave, so it’s gratifying to see that it’s been recovered.” The sculpture was done by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin and unveiled in 1981 on the 10th anniversary of Morrison's death. Morrison died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27.
Today (Tuesday), May 20th, marks the 12th anniversary of the death of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek from bile duct cancer. He was 74.
SOUNDGARDEN: Shepherd Talks Unreleased Album
Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd paid tribute to his late bandmate Chris Cornell on the eighth anniversary on the singer's death -- and talked about their final album. Shepherd posted an essay on the band's Instagram account about how he'd been listening to “The Road Less Traveled,” a song Cornell and Matt Cameron wrote “for our album that has yet to be named.” That group of songs was the subject of legal battles between the band and Cornell's widow Vicky, but all of those issues were settled in 2023.
Shephard wrote, "Just hearing Chris’ voice helps. I know he did that for everyone he knew. He did for me, filled with self-doubt and indebtedness. In just his tone, [he] knew what I was going through and forgave me like he always did, even when he was older. It’s at this point of recording all of our previous albums I’d get this overwhelming hit of awe, camaraderie, power of creativity — majesty even — and love, from the music, and my bandmates, and I guess just pure life force. "I am very blessed by my loved ones and very honored to have known or worked with each of my brothers Kim [Thayil], Matt and Chris in this path of music and life, of loves and losses, righteousness and folly, but I can tell you, it feels good and invigorating to hear Chris singing from over that horizon and hear the mighty, mighty life of souls sharing… To hear, as a fan and band member, a song or two Chris brought in a few years ago turn before my very ears and finger blisters into a full blown Soundgarden tune is like feeling a glacier fall away off your chest."
GUNS N' ROSES: Sweet Falls o' Mine
Apparently, Axl Rose's fall on stage during Guns n' Roses show in Mumbai, India Saturday inspired the folks running their social media to poke fun at the frontman. A new video on their Instagram captioned "Guns n' Roses Greatest Hits" is a montage of Rose slipping and falling on stage 14 different times over the years, with the last one being the fall in Mumbai, all set to the band's "Welcome to the Jungle."
U2: Latest on Next Album
Bono was in the South of France last week at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere Friday of his new documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender, which will start streaming on Apple TV+ on May 30th. While there he took time out to tell Rolling Stone about how U2 are progressing on their new album. He said, “Nostalgia is not to be tolerated for too long, but sometimes you’ve got to deal with the past in order to get to the future and to the present. To get back to now is our desire. Get back to this moment we’re in.” But he adds that it "sounds like future to me. We had to go through some stuff, and we’re at the other end of it.” When complete, it will be U2's first album of new songs since 2017's Songs of Experience.
As for the documentary's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it received a seven-minute standing ovation at its conclusion. Once the applause died down he said, “I’m not a Frenchman. I’m an Irishman. I’m not even a self-made man. You wrote this story. The Edge wrote this story. Adam [Clayton] and Larry [Mullen] wrote this story. [U2 manager Paul] McGuinness wrote this story.”
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Trump Threatens Him
President Trump has responded to Bruce Springsteen's negative comments about him and his administration Wednesday at the opening of his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Taking the stage by himself, Springsteen said, "The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.”
This was followed by two other statements on Trump, who took to his Truth Social platform Friday to say, "I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country. If I wasn’t elected, it would have been GONE by now! Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is 'dumb as a rock,' and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)?" And Trump ended his rant with what appears to be a thinly veiled threat: "This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just 'standard fare.' Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!"
Springsteen is on tour in the U.K. and Europe through July 3rd in Milan, Italy.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Doubles Down on Trump Criticism
Bruce Springsteen is not deterred by President Trump telling him to "keep his mouth shut" after ripping into him last Wednesday in Manchester, England during the first show of his Land of Hopes and Dreams Tour. He opened the show by saying America is "in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. We ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.” Trump reacted by saying Springsteen is "highly overrated,” “dumb as a rock” and a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!)” in a post on Truth Social.
Springsteen made his dissatisfaction with Trump the centerpiece of his second show on Saturday in Manchester, by once again saying, "Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy, and they’re too important to ignore.
“In my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. That’s happening now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. That’s happening now. In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers.
“They are removing residents off American streets without due process of law and deploying them to foreign detention centers as prisoners. That’s happening now. The majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American. “The America I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its many faults, it’s a great country with a great people, and we will survive this moment. Well, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin
said. He said, ‘In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’ Springsteen does his third and final show in Manchester tonight (Tuesday.)
In other Springsteen news, Deliver Me From Nowhere, the bio-pic that focuses on the time when he made the Nebraska album, will open in theaters on October 24th.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Being Investigated By His "Unfit President"
President Trump's latest salvo in his war of words with Bruce Springsteen is an investigation into his association with Vice President Kamala Harris. Taking to Truth Social, he writes, "How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor performance during her campaign for president? Why did he accept that money if he's such a fan of hers? Isn't that a major and illegal campaign contribution? What about Beyonce? And how much went to Oprah and Bono?
"I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.”
While the financial records for Kamala's campaign show that she spent a significant amount of money on rallies and events that included celebrity endorsers, The New York Times reports that the celebrities weren't paid and that the funds were directed toward support staff and production costs. There's been no comment on this matter from Kamala, Springsteen or the others on Trump's hit list.
JERRY CANTRELL Announces August/September 2025 U.S. Tour
Jerry Cantrell announced a new round of U.S. tour dates in support of his latest solo album, "I Want Blood," starting August 16 in San Diego and ending September 14 in Kansas City, Missouri. Filter will provide support for the tour. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Thursday. Cantrell describes "I Want Blood" as a heavier and darker album compared to his previous work, showcasing his best songwriting and playing. Alice in Chains recently canceled their 2025 tour dates due to drummer Sean Kinney's undisclosed health issue, prioritizing his well-being.
FOO FIGHTERS: Freese's Joke Reasons He Was Booted
On Friday ex-Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese joked about posting a list of reasons he got booted from the band. And now he's come up with an actual David Letterman-like Top 10 list.
It includes references to The Offspring -- one of his former employers -- plus the subject of many of his Instagram posts, his poodles.
"Top 10 possible reasons Freese got booted from the Foos."
10) Once whistled "My Hero" for a week solid on tour.
9) Could only name one Fugazi song.
8) Two words: polyrhythms.
7) Metronome-like precision behind the kit deemed "soulless."
6) Demanded starting every rehearsal with a 20-minute cowbell sound bath.
5) Never even once tried growing a beard
4) Didn't show up to studio because Mercury was in retrograde.
3) Promised Noodles he could be 4th guitarist.
2) Refused to perform unless he was guaranteed a Ouija board and nunchucks after every show.
1) The whole poodle thing was getting to be a bit much.
NINE INCH NAILS: Trent Talks Future Ruins Fest
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has opened up about the planning for his new Future Ruins
festival, which will focus on film and TV composers performing live. Reznor did an interview for the fest's website and said that the goal when booking it was "take the energy and feel of a modern music festival and book composers on a stacked lineup with three overlapping stages. So you've got to make a choice: do I want to see this or that. We’re trying to make it a day that's fun. The goal is to present this music in a way that's digestible and exciting for the super hardcore fan and also for the toe-dipper who wants to experience something different."
Reznor said that he and Atticus Ross were surprised how many of the composers on their initial list said yes. "Of the first 15 or 16 we reached out to, 12 were yes, right off the bat. That was a lot higher than we thought it would be. And then everybody was like, hey, that's a good idea and that response felt genuine, so that validation was nice to have." The Future Ruins fest is set for November 8th at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.
IN OTHER NEWS
The Elton John AIDS Foundation Rose will debut this Tuesday at London’s Chelsea Flower Show. It’s a hybrid tea rose with a pearly pink hue that intensifies to a cherry color. Just under seven dollars from each rose bush sold will be donated to the Foundation.
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band have announced another Las Vegas residency in the fall. They’ll do six nights at The Venetian on September 17th, 18th, 20th, 24th, 26th and 27th, plus shows in Chicago, Milwaukee and Louisville beforehand, and Murphys, California in between. Ringo starts his spring tour on June 12th in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This year’s line-up once again includes Steve Lukather from Toto, Colin Hay from Men at Work, and Hamish Stuart from the Average White Band, as well as a stint in Paul McCartney's band.
The Beach Boys will do three shows at The Venetian Theater in Las Vegas on October 1st, 3rd and 4th.
Living Colour frontman Corey Glover will be among the musicians paying tribute to late AC/DC singer Bon Scott at the second annual Official Bon Scott Birthday Bash at the Bowery Electric in New York City on July 9th. Scott would have been 79 on July 9th.
The Ozzy Osbourne documentary, The Nine Lives of Ozzy, which aired on A&E in 2020, will be shown at the Millennium Point theater in Black Sabbath‘s hometown of Birmingham, England on July 4th to raise money for Cure Parkinson’s, Acorns Children’s Hospice and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Those are the same charities that will benefit from the Back to the Beginning concert the next day.
Pearl Jam did "Hunger Strike" by Temple of the Dog Sunday night in Pittsburgh and dedicated it to the late Chris Cornell. Sunday was the eighth anniversary of Cornell's death.