Animated Metallica appears in new trailer for upcoming ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ season

Animated Metallica appears in new trailer for upcoming ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ season
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Much like time, Beavis and Butt-Head also march on, as the iconic metal-loving duo is back for another go-round. Fittingly, Beavis’ favorite band Metallica soundtracks the new trailer for the series’ return.

The trailer begins with an animated Metallica performing their song “For Whom the Bell Tolls” as Beavis and Butt-Head fly into the stadium in a helicopter filled with gold.

“Beavis and Butthead, we love you guys!” James Hetfield exclaims from the stage.

“How much to buy Metallica?” Beavis asks, to which Hetfield replies, “One gold bar ought to be enough!” Cut to Hetfield getting hit in the head with said gold bar.

New episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head will air on Comedy Central starting on Sept. 3.

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Guitar owned by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page expected to bring in over $40,00 at auction

Guitar owned by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page expected to bring in over $40,00 at auction
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A guitar that was previously owned by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page is going up for auction in September and is expected to bring in a pretty penny.

The U.K. publication The Standard reports that the guitar up for grabs was originally part of a collaboration between New Music Express magazine and the band over 50 years ago. Back then, the mag ran a sweepstakes with the grand prize being a 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 electric guitar that Page purchased in Nashville for about $270.

In order to enter to sweepstakes, competitors had to match six guitars with their superstar owners; a man named Charles Reid from North London won.

Reid sold the guitar in 1990 to a man named Phil O’Donoghue for under $3,000. Following O’Donoghue’s death earlier this year, the family decided to put it up for auction.

The auction is now scheduled to take place Sept. 9 in England; the guitar is estimated to sell for somewhere between $40,000 and $70,000.

Whoever purchases the guitar will also get original copies of New Music Express, along with receipts and correspondence.

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Kelly Osbourne quotes Black Sabbath’s ‘Changes’ following dad Ozzy’s death

Kelly Osbourne quotes Black Sabbath’s ‘Changes’ following dad Ozzy’s death
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Kelly Osbourne quotes lyrics from the Black Sabbath song “Changes” in her first post since her father, Ozzy Osbourne, passed away.

In her Instagram Story, Kelly writes, “I feel unhappy I am so sad. I lost the best friend I ever had,” which Ozzy sang to open the Vol. 4 ballad.

Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne, and their children announced his death on Tuesday, sharing, “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”

Ozzy, 76, had performed his last concert just over two weeks prior on July 5 with Black Sabbath. That weekend, Kelly got engaged to Slipknot‘s Sid Wilson

In video of Wilson’s proposal, Ozzy can be heard joking, “F*** off, you’re not marrying my daughter!”

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Warren Haynes releases new track from upcoming album ‘The Whisper Sessions’

Warren Haynes releases new track from upcoming album ‘The Whisper Sessions’
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Warren Haynes is sharing another preview of his upcoming release, The Whisper Sessions, which features seven stripped-down versions of songs from his 2024 solo album, Million Voices Whisper.

The latest is a new take on the song “You Ain’t Above Me” and is available now via digital outlets.

“This stripped-down version is actually the only time I’ve ever performed it this way,” Haynes shares. “I played it on my new Signature Gibson Les Paul with P-90 pickups which offers a cleaner and brighter sound than most folks would expect from me, which worked perfectly for the rhythm accompaniment of this kind of soul ballad.”

This is the second song released from the album. Haynes previously shared the track “These Changes,” which features his Allman Brothers bandmate Derek Trucks, who co-wrote the tune with Haynes.

In addition to the new takes on Million Voices Whisper tunes, The Whisper Sessions includes a new version of the Allman Brothers Band classic “Melissa,” featuring Trucks.

The Whisper Sessions is available for preorder now.

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Billy Joel documentary gets 100-track companion digital album, featuring never-before-released songs

Billy Joel documentary gets 100-track companion digital album, featuring never-before-released songs
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If watching the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes makes you want to go back and listen to Billy Joel‘s whole catalog, you’ll soon have an easy way to do so.

A new digital 100-track album, also called Billy Joel: And So It Goes, drops Saturday, July 26, and it’s described as a “companion” piece to the documentary, the second part of which is now streaming. Among those tracks are eight never-before-released songs:

“December Theme (December Song)” from the Cold Spring Harbor sessions

“My Life” from The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden CBS TV special

“An Innocent Man (Live In London)”

A 2025 mix of “Tomorrow Is Today,” from Cold Spring Harbor

“You’re My Home (Live at Sparks)”

An unreleased version of “Everybody Has a Dream” from the Cold Spring Harbor sessions

“Vienna” from a Masterclass Billy gave in Nuremberg, Germany

“No Man’s Land (The Shelter Island Sessions),” an early version of the song from River of Dreams

Over the next year, a bunch of archival rarities that were discovered during the making of the documentary will be released on Billy’s YouTube channel, including the unreleased first-ever performance of the classic hit “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, recorded at CW Post University, and his first TV appearance in 1972.

On Aug. 22, Billy’s original 1985 compilation Greatest Hits Volume I and II will be re-released on black vinyl.

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Watch the first trailer for the ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ sequel, ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’

Watch the first trailer for the ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ sequel, ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’
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We are getting our first real look at the upcoming sequel to the 1984 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

A trailer for the film, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, has just been released, following the band Spinal Tap Michael McKean as lead guitarist David St. Hubbins, Christopher Guest as frontman Nigel Tufnell and Harry Shearer as bassist Derek Smalls – as they attempt to stage a reunion concert 40 years after the first film.

The clip features snippets of the original film, and gives fans a look at what the band members have been doing for the past 40 years, as they’re once again followed by a documentarian, played by the film’s director Rob Reiner.

The trailer also gives us a glimpse of some of the A-list cameos in the film. Paul McCartney turns up to comment on a lyric from Spinal Tap’s song “Big Bottom,” noting the line “I’d like to sink her with my pink torpedo,” is “literature,” while Elton John joins them on stage for a performance of “Stonehenge.”

The band’s bad luck with drummers continues, as the trailer notes they’re short a drummer because their last one “sneezed himself into oblivion.” The band offers Questlove the gig, but he turns them down, sharing, “I don’t want to die,” while they try to assure him they’ve only lost 11 drummers.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues opens in theaters Sept. 12. In addition to McCartney and John, it will feature cameos by Garth Brooks, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich.

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New rings made from Queen drummer Roger Taylor’s cymbals to be released on rocker’s birthday

New rings made from Queen drummer Roger Taylor’s cymbals to be released on rocker’s birthday
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Queen’s Roger Taylor will celebrate his 76th birthday on Saturday, and to mark the occasion a new line of Taylor-inspired jewelry is being released.

Queen announced on Instagram that the rocker’s Taylored of London merch line is set to debut what it’s calling a “Hold Fast” range of limited-edition signet rings inspired by Taylor’s love of sailing. The term hold fast was a command sailors would use during rough weather conditions.

The line will feature two rings, designed by Manuela Gray, each featuring a different tattoo-inspired anchor. They are made from recycled silver, with a bronze disc made out of material taken from a cymbal played by the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

The rings are each individually numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.

Both rings will be available for preorder starting Saturday.

This isn’t the first time Taylor’s cymbals have been turned into jewelry. He previously released Taylored Spinner Pendants and Taylored Spinner Cymbal Rings, both constructed from one of his personal cymbals.

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Actor Paul Walter Hauser’s surprising connection to Bruce Springsteen

Actor Paul Walter Hauser’s surprising connection to Bruce Springsteen
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Actor Paul Walter Hauser has a role in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, and it turns out he also has a surprising connection to the New Jersey rocker.

Hauser plays Springsteen’s guitar tech Mike Batlan, who helped engineer 1982’s Nebraska. While appearing on The Rich Eisen Show, Hauser said he once lived in a home previously owned by Springsteen.

“What’s crazy is I lived in his old house without knowing it,” Hauser said. “I lived there for six months.”

He said that after living there a week, his brother-in-law informed him that The Boss had owned the place for about 25 years.

Asked whether Springsteen left anything behind, Hauser suggested it’s possible some ghosts, sharing, “The speaker system in the home randomly played ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and none of us had it on our Spotify or Apple Music or anything.”

Hauser said he has happy memories of the house, because he and his wife conceived their second child there.

“So when I met Bruce, I said, ‘I used to live in your old house.’ He goes, ‘I heard,'” Hauser said. “And I was like, ‘I conceived a child in your old bedroom.’ He goes, ‘So did I.'”

Hauser added, “And we hugged it out. It was insane. It was the funniest, like, first conversation to have with an icon.”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss hits theaters Oct. 24.

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Drummer Zak Starkey regrets turning down offer to back Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath

Drummer Zak Starkey regrets turning down offer to back Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath
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In the wake of Ozzy Osbourne’s death Tuesday at age 76, drummer Zak Starkey is sharing his regret at turning down an offer to play with the Prince of Darkness.

In a post on Instagram, Starkey, who has worked with The Who and Oasis, shared a message he once got from Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne, offering him a gig backing Black Sabbath.

Sharon wrote at the time that they were looking for a drummer to back the band at Download Festival and Lollapalooza, which Sabbath played in 2012. The message also said they needed a drummer to play on an album they were working on with producer Rick Rubin, a reference to 2013’s 13. It would become Sabbath’s final album, which ended up featuring Rage Against The Machine’s Brad Wilk on drums.

Sharon ended the message by joking, “Also, Ozzy wants to have sex with you while he is singing Iron Man.”

“Regrets I’ve had a few -this is one – (not the sex part!),” Starkey shared in a caption to the post. “Ozzy will always be one of the greatest, natural, brilliant singers of all time. I send much love and strength to his family at this sad sad time.”

He added, “If u aren’t familiar with the never say die record – get into it – it’s so far out – X,” referring to Sabbath’s 1978 album.

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Paul McCartney adds San Antonio date to Got Back tour

Paul McCartney adds San Antonio date to Got Back tour
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Paul McCartney has added another city to the upcoming North American leg of his Got Back tour.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is now set to play the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 25.

A ticket pre-sale starts on July 29 at 10 a.m. local time, although fans will need to pre-register for access. Tickets go on sale to the public Aug. 1.

McCartney will now be headlining 20 dates on this leg of the Got Back tour, which is his first North American tour since 2022. The trek kicks off Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, California, and wraps with a two-night stand in Chicago, Nov. 24 and 25.

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

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