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The final Megadeth album will include a rerecorded version of the Metallica song “Ride the Lightning,” frontman Dave Mustaine confirms in an interview with Rolling Stone.

“It wasn’t really that I wanted to do my version,” Mustaine says. “I think that we all wanted it to turn out a certain way, and for me, this was about something so much more than how a song turns out. It was about respect.”

Mustaine received a writing credit for “Ride the Lightning,” the title track off Metallica’s 1984 sophomore album, since it uses riffs he had written while he was an early member of the future “Enter Sandman” metallers. However, Mustaine didn’t get to play “Ride the Lightning” on the record, since Metallica fired him in 1983 and replaced him with Kirk Hammett.

“Our intentions were pure,” Mustaine says of rerecording “Ride the Lightning.” “I didn’t have any reason I was going to say, ‘Oh, hey man, this thing that we’ve had for 40 years where you guys will never tour with me, me doing the song is going to change things.’ That wasn’t it at all. It was more about: This is my life going forward. I want to do things that are respectable.”

Mustaine adds that his former Metallica bandmates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich didn’t know about the “Ride the Lighting” rerecord ahead of time, and they haven’t reached out since.

“I think the whole purpose of this was not to try and rekindle relationships or anything,” Mustaine says. “It was about showing respect to a man [Hetfield] that … I don’t believe he thinks I respect him and I wanted to make that clear.”

The final Megadeth album, which is self-titled, is due out Jan. 23, 2026. Lead single “Tipping Point” is out now.

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have been on the outs since a disagreement at their 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year benefit, but it seems like their relationship may be on the mend.

The Fleetwood Mac stars appear on the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast. They were interviewed separately about their track “Frozen Love,” from their recently reissued 1973 solo album Buckingham Nicks. During the episode, Stevie revealed that they are once again talking to each other.

Stevie shared the revelation when asked if she remembered the day she met Lindsey, replying, “I do. Lindsey and I started talking about it last night and it was like, this whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”

Later, while discussing a particular song lyric in “Frozen Love,” she again mentioned talking to Lindsey.

“This is a question that I’ve gone back and forth over the last few days, ‘fate gave you me for a lover.’ I would swear to God, the words I wrote [were] ‘fate gave you me for a lover,’ fate,” she says. “But when I hear myself sing that line, it sounds like I’m saying hate. But I would have never have written ‘hate gave you me for a lover’ because I never felt that way.”

She then adds, “I’m sorry, Lindsey. I’m calling him later.”

Stevie divulged what caused the rift between her and Lindsey in a 2024 interview with Rolling Stone, noting that at the 2018 MusiCares event he “wasn’t very nice to anybody.”

“I could hear my very pragmatic father — and by the way, my mom and dad liked Lindsey a lot — saying, ‘It’s time for you guys to get a divorce,'” she said.

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When Soundgarden is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the grunge icons are hoping to honor their hometown of Seattle.

“We wanted to keep it as Seattle-centric as possible and include some people that were there with us in the beginning,” drummer Matt Cameron tells The Seattle Times of Soundgarden’s plans for the ceremony.

The Seattle musicians taking part include Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Heart‘s Nancy Wilson and Brandi Carlile. Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, a non-Seattleite but noted Soundgarden superfan, will also be involved.

“To have our peers, friends and creative collaborators from [Seattle] share that with us is very important,” says guitarist Kim Thayil. “It’s very important because it’s part of our identity.”

“We’re not simply ‘rock guys’ in this band Soundgarden,” he continues. “We’re rock guys in this band Soundgarden that helped establish the Seattle scene and the sound. The geography is very important to our identity. It’s where we are, it’s where we came from. It’s who we are.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Cameron and Thayil speak on the upcoming final Soundgarden album, which will include recordings frontman Chris Cornell left behind prior to his death in 2017.

“It’s a way to post tribute to our beloved brother,” Thayil says. “All of it just has that much more weight emotionally and creatively, and we don’t take that lightly.”

The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place Nov. 8 in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+. Other inductees include The White Stripes, Bad Company, Joe Cocker, Outkast, Cyndi Lauper and Chubby Checker.

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On This Day, Oct. 30, 2002…

Warren Zevon was the sole guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, with his appearance coming a few months after he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

The “Werewolves of London” singer, a frequent guest on Letterman’s show over the years, was interviewed by the host where they talked about his diagnosis, with Zevon retaining his sense of humor. When Letterman asked him about that the news of his condition, he quipped, “you mean you heard about the flu?”

When asked by Letterman if there was something he now knew about life and death, Zevon said the memorable line, “not unless I know how much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich.”

Zevon performed three songs during the episode, “Mutineer,” “Genius,” and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.” It would be his last public performance.

Zevon died Sept. 7, 2003, at the age of 56.

Zevon is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Influence category. The ceremony is happening Nov. 8 in Los Angeles and Letterman has already been announced as one of the evening’s presenters.

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Foo Fighters are set to rock the Amazon Music Live series Thursday night.

You can tune in to watch Dave Grohl and company’s performance starting at 9 p.m. PT following the Prime Video broadcast of Thursday Night Football. It’ll air on Prime Video, the Amazon Music Twitch channel and in the Amazon Music app.

The set follows an eventful week for the Foos, which saw the release of a new song, “Asking for a Friend,” and the announcement of their 2026 North American stadium tour, which features support from Queens of the Stone Age.

Presales for the tour are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

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Genesis founding member and keyboardist Tony Banks is the subject of a new book coming in 2026.

Tony Banks: Man of Spells – The Magician of Genesis is written by Italian music journalist Mario Giammetti. He has written 15 books about Genesis, including Genesis – 1967 to 1975: The Peter Gabriel Years and Genesis – 1975 to 2025: The Phil Collins Years.

The Banks book is described as a look into the life of “one of rock music’s most gifted and influential writers and performers,” focusing not just on his career with Genesis but on his “frequently overlooked solo career.”

The book is culled from interviews Giammetti conducted with Banks over the years, as well interviews with others in the artist’s inner circle. It will also feature more than 100 images, including rare and previously unpublished photographs.

“While there have been various books written by or about all the other major players in Genesis, there has until now never been one focused exclusively on Tony Banks,” Gregory Spawton, co-owner of Kingmaker Publishing, which is publishing the book, says. “We felt it was important to shine a brighter light on his life and career.”

Tony Banks: Man of Spells – The Magician of Genesis will be released Feb. 19. It is available for preorder now.

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Devo is giving fans a chance to stream their live show from the comfort of their home.

The band just announced the new livestream event Devo: 50 Years of De-Evolution…Continued!, Live from The Mission Ballroom, which will stream live on Nov. 13 from their show in Denver.

Tickets for the livestream are available now, and the concert will be available to rewatch for three days following the premiere.

The announcement coincides with Friday’s release of Energy Dome Frequencies: Songs From The Devo Documentary, a companion album to their documentary, Devo, which debuted on Netflix in August. It is available for preorder now.

Devo is currently on the Cosmic De-evolution tour with The B-52s. They play Austin, Texas, on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at clubdevo.com.

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David Bowie’s latter years are going to be the subject of a new U.K. documentary.

According to Deadline, U.K. Channel 4, Dogwoof and Rogan Productions are behind the film, tentatively titled David Bowie: The Final Act. It will be focused on the rock star’s creativity and artistry during the final decade of his life, including his final album, Blackstar, which was released on his 69th birthday, two days before he death in 2016.

The doc will be directed by Jonathan Stiasny, and will feature interviews with Bowie insiders who knew and worked with him, along with famous celebs who were fans and inspired by his work.

“The traditional music documentary celebrates triumph,” Stiasny says. “What fascinated me most when making this film was how Bowie’s final chapter wasn’t an ending, it was a resurrection. He transformed failure into triumph, silence into revelation, and ultimately, death into art.”

This isn’t the only Bowie doc in the works. BBC Two and BBC iPlayer are working on a new documentary, tentatively titled Bowie in Berlin. It will mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s arrival in Berlin, which resulted in three albums — Low, Heroes and Lodger — that he dubbed his Berlin trilogy.

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Rick Savage is the final member of Def Leppard to share his most memorable moment with the band, and his involves cigarette lighters.

In a new post on Instagram, the bassist says that while their first show at Westfield School in Sheffield, England, and the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in 1993 could qualify as memorable moments, he decided to pick a different one since the others had been “well documented.”

First he joked that one of the more “memorable in a strange way” moments happened with Bryan Adams. He described how he was caught “in a compromising position in the corridor of a tour bus, with Bryan Adams actually laying on top of me, trying to fix a very painful back ailment that I had.”

But then Savage got serious and explained why his most memorable moment was a 1980 concert at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon.

“It’s the very first time we’ve seen cigarette lighters aloft to such a degree,” he said, noting he was particularly amazed during the performance of their track “Rock Brigade.”

“There was 11,000 people in the [Coliseum],” he said. “It was just such a fantastic sight and I swear to God, at least 90% of them held their cigarette lighters up in the air and it’s the first time I’ve ever really experienced that. It was just incredible.”

Savage’s video is part of a series of posts Def Leppard has been sharing since receiving their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Oct. 10. Joe Elliott, Vivian Campbell, Rick Allen and Phil Collen previously shared their most memorable moments.

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Bon Jovi recently announced dates for the new Forever Tour, and while frontman Jon Bon Jovi has had vocal issues over the past few years, he seems confident that this won’t be the last time they’ll be performing live.

The rocker appeared on the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast, where he talked about his fears of not being able to sing again, as well as the future of the band.

Jon underwent vocal cord surgery in 2022. He said while he’s always been resilient, it was “disheartening” when he couldn’t physically go out there and perform.

As for the reason he’s going back out on tour now, he says, “I’m not doing this for the applause, I’m not doing it for the money, I’m not doing it for the fame. I’ve had enough of all of it. But I would like to feel that joy and the resonance, even if it were only one last time.”

But he says he’s doubtful this will actually be the last time.

“I don’t think this is anywhere near a farewell tour or anything like that,” he says, “but if it were, you could trust that these few shows that I’ve announced are going to be joy filled because this gratitude, humility, opportunity to go out there and do it again is all heartfelt.”

Bon Jovi’s Forever Tour kicks off with seven nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, beginning July 7, 2026. It also includes stops in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland, before wrapping Sept. 4 at London’s Wembley Stadium.

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