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Eagles founding member Bernie Leadon is getting ready to drop Too Late To Be Cool, his first solo album in 20 years, and he’s just shared another track from the record.

The latest single is “Go On Down To Mobile,” which Leadon describes as a song “about a clueless guy having a long-distance relationship” with a gal in Alabama.

This is the third track Leadon has released from Too Late To Be Cool, which is due out Oct. 10. He previously released the emotional song “Too Many Memories,” which Leadon says can be somewhat misunderstood.

While the video is sprinkled with archival footage of his time with the Eagles, Leadon tells ABC Audio the song is about more than just that period of his life.

“I mean, it’s about my entire life. I’ve done a lot of things that weren’t even music necessarily, including family and traveling all over the place,” he says. “And, you know, I’ve had a really wide, varied life.”

He adds, “That’s why the second verse talks about ‘I’ve lived many lifetimes in a single go.'”

Leadon also released the track “Just a Little,” a fun song about being angry, which he says he enjoyed writing.

“I tried to think of every single possible non-profane way to say I’ve been royally messed over,” he shares. “And so it was a lot of fun to do that.” 

Too Late To Be Cool is available for preorder now.

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Foo Fighters returned to the stage Saturday for a show the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California. It marked their first performance with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who previously played with Nine Inch Nails.

In video posted to the band’s Instagram Story, Grohl is seen introducing Rubin to the crowd.

“We get to say, who our f***** drummer is,” Grohl said. “Everybody else has said it. I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome the most bad*** mother*****, Ilan Rubin, is playing drums in the Foo Fighters right now.”

This was the Foo’s first show since August 2024, and the night kicked off with Grohl acknowledging their absence from the stage.

“Oh my f***** God,” Grohl said when he first came walked out. “It’s been a while. It’s f****** been a while, huh”

The band then treated the crowd to 25-song set, featuring Foo favorites like “All My Life,” “My Hero,”  “Times Like These,” “Learn to Fly,” “The Pretender,” “This Is A Call,” “Stacked Actors” and “Monkey Wrench,” ending the night with the classic “Everlong.”

The Foos also performed several songs they haven’t played in a while, including “Have It All,” which, according to setlist.fm, was the first performance of the One by One track since 2015. They also revisited two songs from their 1995 debut album: “Alone + Easy Target” and “Exhausted,” last played since 2018 and 2014, respectively.

In addition, the night included a performance of “Winnebago” — which Grohl recorded under the pseudonym Late! — for the first time since 2014.

Saturday night’s concert, which was announced Friday, was the band’s first since Grohl’s 2024 infidelity scandal.

Foo Fighters are due to kick off a tour of Asia in October.

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Foo Fighters are returning to the stage, and some lucky fans in California won’t have to wait very long to see them.

Dave Grohl and the gang announced on social media that they’ll be playing a surprise show Saturday at the historic Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California.

Tickets for the show will be sold at the box office only, with a two-ticket limit per person. Sales begin at about 8 a.m. PT, with doors opening for the show at 7 p.m. PT.

The news comes about a week after Foo Fighters teased some upcoming news on social media, telling fans “Make sure you’re subscribed to the newsletter for info you won’t want to miss… just sayin’…” They also posted several pictures from the studio.

The Fremont show will be the band’s first with their new drummer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sitting behind the drum kit will be Ilan Rubin, who previously played with Nine Inch Nails, but that hasn’t been confirmed by the Foos.

The previous Foo Fighters drummer, Josh Freese, was let go from the band in May and has since rejoined NIN, with whom he played from 2005 to 2008. The concert will also be the band’s first since Grohl’s 2024 infidelity scandal.

So far, the San Luis Obispo concert is the only U.S. show on the Foo’s schedule for 2025. They are due to kick off a tour of Asia in October.

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The Tom Petty estate has shared another previously unseen clip from his Wildflowers era.

The estate has been dipping into the Wildflowers vault in celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary. The latest clip is a performance of the album’s title track, with a post on Instagram describing it as a “bird’s-eye view of a soundstage rehearsal for the Dogs With Wings Tour in 1995.”

More archival footage is expected to be released in the coming months, and fans can get their first look at it by joining Tom Petty Nation, the rocker’s free, exclusive fan club.

The video’s release coincides with Friday’s Blu-ray release of the documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, directed by Mary Wharton.

The film, originally released on YouTube, follows Petty as he works on Wildflowers with producer Rick Rubin. It features archival footage of the pair in the studio, which was unearthed following Petty’s death in 2017.

Released in November 1994, Wildflowers was the first of three Petty albums produced by Rubin. The album peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200. It featured the singles “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” “You Wreck Me” and the title track.

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Lenny Kravitz’s fourth studio album, Circus, is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, the rocker is set to release a digital deluxe edition of the album.

“Circus was a pivotal and incredibly dynamic time in my life,” says Lenny. “My experiences were expanding in so many directions which directly influenced the music.”

Dropping Sept. 19, Circus (Digital Deluxe Edition) will feature 13 bonus tracks that were previously unavailable for streaming. Included among the bonus material is a previously unreleased acoustic version of the album’s title track and a trio of songs — “Another Life,” “Confused” and “Is It Me, Is It You?” — that were previously only available on a limited-edition 10-inch EP and the 2018 vinyl pressing of the album.

The reissue also features nine live recordings, including performances of non-Circus hits “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” “Let Love Rule” and “Always on the Run.”

Circus (Digital Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

Released Sept. 12, 1995, Circus peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, becoming Kravitz’s first top-10 album in the U.S. It also hit #5 in the U.K.

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While scrolling through Instagram on Friday, you may have gotten upset when you saw a photo of Elton John in a hospital bed with both his legs in casts, as well as a brace around his neck. But don’t worry, it was just movie magic.

In the photo, Elton is lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by flowers, get-well cards and balloons. His husband, David Furnish, is standing next to him, talking to some people. But as Elton explains in the caption, “Rocked too hard… ended up in a cast! Backstage with Spinal Tap.”

He continues, “The new film, Spinal Tap II, and [soundtrack] album are out today, featuring me on ‘Listen To The Flower People’ and ‘Stonehenge’. Thanks for having me be a part of it!” Those two songs were in the original This Is Spinal Tap movie back in 1984, but these are new versions featuring Elton. He also appears in the film, duetting with the fictitious band onstage as they perform “Stonehenge.”

If you scroll through the post, you’ll see close-ups of Elton’s fake casts, which are completely bedazzled with rhinestones, and include motifs like a yellow brick road and piano keys.

Plotwise, it’s not clear how Elton ends up in the hospital; you’ll just have to watch the film to find out. Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks and other famous musicians also appear in it.

Many fans were fooled by the hospital image, though. One wrote in the comments, “i’m at the airport and my heart sank so quickly.” Another wrote, “You scared me for a second. It took me a hot second to realize that this is for spinal tap 2.” Another wrote, “I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK THINKING IT WAS REAL.” Even Elton’s pal Charlie Puth wrote in all caps, “YOU SCARED ME.”

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The Who has added one more date to their The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour, and it will be the last show of the trek.

The new show is scheduled for Oct. 1 at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, California. In a post on Instagram the band calls it “The Final Public Show.”

Tickets for the final date go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time.

In other tour news, The Who announced that The Offspring will be opening their Sept. 19 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour kicked off Aug. 16 in Sunrise, Florida. It hits Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at TheWho.com.

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Mötley Crüe will finally kick off their Las Vegas residency on Friday at the Dolby Live at Park MGM. The residency was supposed to launch in March, but was postponed after frontman Vince Neil had to have an undisclosed medical procedure — and now Neil is opening up about his health issues.

In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Neil reveals that he suffered a stroke the day after Christmas, noting, “My whole left side went out.”

He adds that the stroke happened while he was sleeping.

“I had to learn to walk again, and that was tough,” he says. “The doctors said they didn’t think I’d be able to go back on stage again. I go, ‘No, no, I’m gonna do it. Watch and see.’”

Neil had to undergo months of physical therapy at his home in Nashville, and it wasn’t easy.

“I went from people carrying me to the bathroom, because I couldn’t walk myself, finally to a wheelchair,” Neil says. “I graduated to a walker, and then I had a cane. Now I don’t need anything. But it’s like a full-time job getting back to where you feel good again.”

Mötley Crüe’s 10-show residency runs through Oct. 3. A complete list of dates can be found at motley.com.

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The Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the music education organization cofounded by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, has released a new EP, this time paying tribute to Flea’s own band.

Our Loving Tribute to Red Hot Chili Peppers, produced by Flea and Merck Mercuriadis, features four songs: “Subway to Venus,” from 1989’s Mother’s Milk; “Sick Love,” from 2016’s The Getaway; “Hump de Bump,” from 2006’s Stadium Arcadium; and “Soul to Squeeze,” from their 2003 Greatest Hits album. 

All songs on the EP are performed by the SCM All-Stars, described as the “Conservatory’s ensemble of outstanding student musicians.”

“The kids! I’m so grateful that our music can be a vehicle for their spirits to fly. This is what music is for. I am so proud of them,” Flea says. Frontman Anthony Kiedis adds, “I can’t think of anyone I’d rather be tributized by. Student musicians are the best. Let’s all take a listen to how they interpret these tunes.”

Our Loving Tribute to Red Hot Chili Peppers is available now to stream or download, with proceeds benefiting the Silverlake Conservatory.

The Chili Peppers EP is the third and final EP to be released by the organization this year. Previous EPs paid tribute to the Pretenders and Neil Young.

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Neil Young has announced the four albums that will make up the sixth installment in his Official Release Series.

The latest edition will include discs 26, 27, 28 and 29 in the series, and will feature 1992’s Harvest Moon, featuring the iconic title track; 1993’s Unplugged, recorded for the MTV series; 1994’s Sleep With Angels, which includes the 14-minute song “Change Your Mind”; and 1995’s double album Mirror Ball, which he recorded with Seattle rockers Pearl Jam.

Official Release Series Volume 6, dropping Oct. 24, will be released as a limited-edition numbered vinyl box set, with each album issued as a double vinyl. There will also be a CD box, with one CD for each title.

Both sets will be available at the Greedy Hand Store at the Neil Young Archives, as well as music retailers. The set will also be available in high-res digital audio at Neil Young Archives and on most digital services. All formats are available for preorder now.

Young is currently on his Love Earth tour with his band the Chrome Hearts. The tour hits Mountain View, California, on Friday.

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