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Ozzy Osbourne‘s son Jack Osbourne has shared a video statement reflecting on the passing of his late father.

In the video, which is titled “A personal note before moving forward on the loss of my father,” Jack details how he found out about Ozzy’s death, which happened on July 22, just over two weeks after the metal legend’s final performance with the original Black Sabbath lineup at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5. 

“One thing that has kind of stuck with me about my father’s exit … there is almost a perfection to it,” Jack says. “He got to say goodbye in such a profound way. He got to thank his fans, he got to see his friends he hadn’t seen in such a long time, he got to perform. There was so much accomplished before the full stop.”

Jack also thanks everyone who reached out or posted tributes for the outpouring of love and support since Ozzy’s passing.

“There will come a time, I think, where you’ll hear from us as a family together, we’ll talk about things in more details,” Jack says. “I’m not gonna share a lot of the personal stuff, the deeply kinda intimate parts of my father’s passing and funeral, I wouldn’t do that without my family present.”

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Robert Plant and the band Saving Grace have released another track off their debut album, Saving Grace, which is due out Sept. 26.

The latest is the album’s opening track, “Chevrolet,” which is the band’s take on Donovan’s 1965 tune “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness).” That tune was itself an adaptation the 1930 Delta blues classic “Can I Do It For You” by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

“Chevrolet” is available now via digital outlets; there’s also a video.

This is the third track released from Saving Grace. Plant and the band previously shared a cover of Low’s “Everybody’s Song” and their take on the African American spiritual “Gospel Plough.”
 

Plant and Saving Grace — drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse Brown and vocalist Suzi Dian — have been touring together since 2019. The album was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025, with Plant describing it as “a song book of the lost and found.” 

Plant and the band will launch their first U.S. tour in support of the album on Oct. 30 in Wheeling, West Virginia, with dates confirmed through Nov. 23 in Valley Center, California.

A complete list of dates can be found at RobertPlant.com. 

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When Pink Floyd co-founder David Gilmour released his 2024 solo album Luck and Strange, it was his first album of new material in nine years. Well, it sounds like fans may not have to wait as long for his next one.

In an interview with Rolling Stone to promote his upcoming concert film, Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome, Gilmour reveals that he’s already started work on his next record.

“I’m slowly building up towards a new album, and I have quite a bit of material that is in some sort of formative stage,” he tells the mag. “That’s what’s keeping me busy at the moment.”

But he’s not ready to head into the studio with his band just yet.

“I put things together so that I can fiddle around for months, adding little bits, taking things away till I think that I’ve got something close to where I want it,” he says. “I then can take it into a studio with a bunch of people and know exactly what I want to do and how I want to get it done and present it to these people for their input.”

As for how long he thinks it will take for him to be ready to release a new album, Gilmour shares, “It’s always my intention to be a bit quicker, and I suspect this one will be a bit quicker. But you never can tell. Within the next year or two.”

Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome captures one of Gilmour’s Luck and Strange concerts at the famed Italian venue set against the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Rome. It hits theaters and IMAX on Sept. 17.

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Gov’t Mule is going to be celebrating Aerosmith this Halloween.

The band just announced the theme for this year’s Mule-O-Ween, sharing artwork inspired by the Aerosmith logo, along with an Instagram post that drops several references to Aerosmith songs.

“Mule-O-Ween returns!” the band writes. “Get ready for two nights filled with Sweet Emotion and plenty of deep cuts from one of rock & roll’s most iconic catalogs — reimagined, stretched out, and Mule-ified in ways only this band can deliver.”

They add, “If you Dream On about the perfect Halloween soundtrack, this is it.”

Gov’t Mule’s two-night Mule-O-Ween festivities are happening Oct. 31 in Washington, DC, and Nov. 1 in Philadelphia.

Tickets for the shows are on sale now. Gov’t Mule notes, “Tickets won’t last long — don’t be Last Child in line!”

The inspiration for this year’s theme may have come from Gov’t Mule’s current tour, dubbed the Back in the Saddle tour. “Back in the Saddle” is a track on Aerosmith’s fourth studio album, 1976’s Rocks.

The Back in the Saddle tour hits Toronto on Wednesday. A complete list of dates can be found at Mule.net.

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Paul Mescal is set to play Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles films, and he revealed in a new interview with IndieWire that he has had a chance to meet the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

“He’s an extraordinary man,” Mescal shares, “like to spend any time — it’s a crazy sentence to say that I’ve spent time with that man, let alone play him.”

Mescal also confirmed that we will be hearing his voice in the films. Asked whether he plans to do his own singing, he replied, “Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.”

Mendes’ Beatles films, titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, will be released in April 2028, with each film being told from a different band member’s point of view.

In addition to Mescal, the movies will star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

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The 50th anniversary of Little Feat’s fifth studio album, The Last Record Album, is being celebrated with a new deluxe reissue.

Dropping Oct. 24, The Last Record Album (Deluxe Edition) will feature a newly remastered version of the original album, along with bonus material that includes previously unreleased tracks, early sketches, raw demos and alternate takes.

The deluxe edition will be released digitally and as a four-CD or two-LP set. The four-CD release will also include a recording of the band’s Oct. 31, 1975, concert at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre, which was recorded just two weeks after the album’s release.

As a preview of the set, Little Feat has released a previously unheard, alternative version of “Long Distance Love” to digital outlets, with a restored video now streaming on YouTube.

The Last Record Album (Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

Also being released on Oct. 24 is a standalone CD of a previously unreleased Little Feat concert, recorded at the Charlton Athletic Football Ground in May 1976. It is available for preorder on Rhino.com.

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Blondie’s Debbie Harry is giving fans some insight into the band’s upcoming album.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Harry confirms that the album’s called High Noon and says fans should expect some variety on the record, which is normal for a Blondie album.

“I think our tradition has always been to cover a lot of different styles and to embody some different moods. So in that respect, it’s a very traditional Blondie album,” she says. “I think the thing that makes people carry on with us is that we’re excited about what we do, and we work hard at it, and it’s not sort of like, oh, well, I guess let’s do [an album].”

She adds, “We write songs. We write stuff that’s about our lives and about today.”

Harry also reveals that Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock, who’s been playing bass with them since 2022, has contributed a song called “Sleepwalking” to the record.

“It’s just a wonderful song, and it really sticks in your head,” she says. “It reminds me of his contribution to the Sex Pistols; it has that feel to it. It’s a great, simple, three-chord, four-chord song with a great feel.”
 

Harry says the album contains “some really great dance music,” noting, “It’s very rock and roll, but yet, we’ve always managed to squeeze in elements of other sounds in music and other styles of music, other moods of music.”

“And Blondie has always done that,” she adds. “We’ve always embodied the present. So it feels like Blondie.”

So far there’s no word on exactly when Blondie will release High Noon. It will be the band’s first album since 2017’s Pollinator.

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Farm Aid is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and if fans can’t make it to Minneapolis to see the concert in person, they’ll be able to enjoy it from the comfort of their own home.

Farm Aid just announced that the annual benefit concert, taking place Sept. 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, will broadcast live on CNN.

The broadcast will feature performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price. Young will be performing with his band Chrome Hearts, while Matthews will perform with frequent collaborator Tim Reynolds. The broadcast will also include behind-the-scenes interviews and stories from local farmers.

The concert will begin at 6 p.m. CT, and will also stream live on nugs.net and FarmAid.org.

The first Farm Aid concert was held on Sept. 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois. Since then, the Farm Aid organization has raised nearly $80 million to help American farmers.

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David Byrne has shared another single from his upcoming solo album, Who is the Sky? The latest is the track “What is the Reason For It?,” a collaboration with Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams.

“When we were finishing up the record, the producer Kid Harpoon and I were wondering, ‘Oh, maybe this song, it’s a love song, or at least it’s asking what is love, what it’s about?'” Byrne told People. “Why do we do this? Why do other people do it? Do we know anything about it?”

Byrne and Williams have stayed in touch since Paramore covered “Burning Down the House” for a 2024 album in celebration of the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. He tells People he simply texted Williams to see if she wanted to sing on “What is the Reason For It?” and she agreed, with Byrne adding, “She killed it.”

“What is the Reason For It?” is available now via digital outlets. A video, which uses AI to animate original drawings by Byrne, is streaming on YouTube.

Who is the Sky?, Byrne’s first solo album since 2018’s American Utopia, drops Friday. 

Byrne is set to kick off a new tour in support of the album on Sept. 14 in Providence, Rhode Island, wrapping with two nights in Miami on Dec. 5 and 6. A complete list of dates can be found at DavidByrne.com.

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Queen‘s Brian May has teamed The Struts for a new version of the U.K. band’s breakout hit “Could Have Been Me.” 

May shreds a guitar solo on the updated track, which also includes an extended outro.

“Working with Luke [Spiller] and The Struts has been a joyous journey for me,” May previously shared. “I became obsessed with this great song ever since I was inspired by the original version and felt an uncontrollable urge to mess with it! It carries a great positive message for rebellious kids of all ages. And, together, WE ROCK!!”

The song is now available via digital outlets. In addition, a video featuring May performing with The Struts is on YouTube.

The original “Could Have Been Me” was released in 2013 in the U.K. before it became a hit in the U.S. in 2015. It appears on the band’s debut album, Everybody Wants, and was later featured in the 2021 animated movie Sing 2.

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