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CheapTrick’s Rick Nielsen and Daxx Nielsen, Toto’s Steve Porcaro and The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin are among the artists taking part in the upcoming Freezing Man concerts, raising support for epilepsy research and education.

The concerts, put on by the nonprofit Joey’s Song, will take place Jan. 9 and 10 at The Sylvee in Madison, Wisconsin, and will feature all-star collaborations from over 35 artists.

Other artists on this year’s bill include The Bangles‘ Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson, Garbage’s Butch Vig and Duke Erikson, and members of such bands as Silversun Pickups, Belly, Letters To Cleo, Portugal. The Man and Eve 6.

Freezing Man will consist of two different shows, an unplugged night on Jan. 9 and an electric show on Jan. 10, with Vig acting as musical director and his covers group The Know-It-All Boyfriends acting as the house band.

Tickets for the shows go on sale Friday at JoeysSong.org.

The organization Joey’s Song was founded 15 years ago in memory of a young boy named Joey Gomoll (Gum-ahl), who passed away before turning 5 after a battle with a severe form of epilepsy. Previous benefit concerts have raised more than $1.5 million for epilepsy research and education.

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Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan is giving fans at home a taste of his live show. The rocker is set to drop Lighthouse: Live From London, a new live album and concert film highlighting a show from his Lighthouse Tour ’24, on Oct. 31.

The concert is a recording of McKagan’s Oct. 25, 2024, concert at London’s Islington Assembly Hall and features performances of songs from his third solo album, 2023’s Lighthouse, including the track “Longfeather,” which is out now.

The album also features other songs from McKagan’s career, a performance of the Guns track “You’re So Crazy” and several covers. There’s also an appearance by Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones on covers of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and Johnny Thunder’s “Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory.”

Lighthouse: Live From London will be released digitally, and on CD and as a CD+Blu-ray set that includes the complete Live From London concert film. It will also be released as a two-LP black vinyl set that comes with a replica concert ticket signed by McKagan.

Lighthouse: Live From London is available for preorder now.

McKagan and his Guns N’ Roses bandmates are getting ready to hit the road again. They kick off a fall Latin American tour on Oct. 1 in San Jose, Costa Rica. 

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John Fogerty will be kicking off the new year in Las Vegas.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has announced a new set of Las Vegas dates, including a special New Year’s Eve show.

John Fogerty, Live in Las Vegas at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will consist of six dates: the special Dec. 31 show, followed by performances on Jan. 2 and 3, and March 18, 20 and 21.

A ticket presale begins Wednesday at 9 a.m. PT, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 9 a.m. PT.

Fogerty recently released the new album Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years,, which had him recording new versions of his classic Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes. He has several more U.S. shows on his schedule for the year, including stops in Nashville, Atlanta and Boston. A complete list of dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.

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It’s been a week since Michael Stipe took to social media to clarify some of the lyrics to R.E.M.‘s iconic tune “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” but apparently he’s not done schooling folks.

In his original posts on Bluesky, Stipe clarified two particular lines in the song. He wrote, “It’s ‘Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck,'” before correcting the following line, “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then.”

In another series of posts on Bluesky, Stipe has highlighted two more sets of lyrics folks may be getting wrong.

“Ok, its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site,’” he wrote in one post. Another clarified the lyric, “Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right.”

On the second post he also commented about his writing style, joking, “And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so.”

“It’s the End of the World” appears on R.E.M.’s 1987 album, Document, which celebrated its 38th anniversary on Sept. 1. The track was the second single from the record, peaking at #69 on the Hot 100, although it went on to be one of the band’s signature tracks.

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The Eagles are having an extremely long run in Las Vegas.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will return to the Sphere in Sin City in 2026 for four shows: Jan. 23, 24, 30 and 31. The Eagles are also set to perform in 2025 on Sept. 12; Oct. 3, 10 and 31; and Nov. 7. With those newly announced shows, the band’s residency now comprises 48 shows since they started playing the massive venue in 2024.

The general sale for the new shows starts Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. PT via eagles.com. Artist presale registration is open now at eagles.com; it starts Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, followed by several other presales on Sept. 18.

The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is also hosting the Eagles Third Encore experience, which is free and open to the public. It includes a Hotel California immersive experience, memorabilia display and merch store. If you have VIP tickets, you can also visit a replica of the legendary LA club The Troubadour, where the band played early in its career.

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Bruce Springsteen and members of The E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music’s Born to Run 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, the Asbury Park Press reports.

Bruce and the band performed two Born to Run songs at the event, “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run.” Bruce was joined by current E Streeters Max Weinberg, Steven Van Zandt, Garry Tallent, Roy Bittan and Eddie Manion, as well as former keyboardist David Sancious and former drummer Ernest “Boom” Carter, who appeared on the album.

The Born to Run symposium, which ran Sept. 4-7 at the Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University, featured a variety of panels, with Springsteen participating in three of them.

Released Aug. 25, 1975, Born to Run became a breakthrough hit for Springsteen, propelling him to mainstream success. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.

In other Springsteen news, The Boss attended the U.S. Open Men’s Championship in Queens on Sunday with his daughter, Jessica Springsteen, and was reunited with one of his famous video co-stars. Courteney Cox, who starred in Bruce’s video for “Dancing in the Dark” before she became famous on Friends, was also there, and video shared on social media shows the actress coming over and giving Bruce a kiss hello.

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On This Day, Sept. 8, 1990…

Jon Bon Jovi landed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his debut solo single, “Blaze of Glory.”

The power ballad, which features Jeff Beck on guitar, was featured in the Emilio Estevez western Young Guns II, although Estevez originally wanted to use the Bon Jovi song “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Feeling that the song didn’t fit the theme of the movie, Jon decided to write the new tune.

“Blaze of Glory” would go on to earn Jon Bon Jovi a best original song nomination at the Oscars, although he lost to the Dick Tracy song “Sooner or Later,” which was written by Stephen Sondheim.

The tune did win a Golden Globe award for best original song and an American Music Award for best pop song.

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The late Ozzy Osbourne was remembered at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night with a musical tribute featuring Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, along with rocker Yungblud and Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt..

The tribute was introduced with a videotaped message from Ozzy’s son Jack Osbourne and his kids.

“I wish we could be here with you all tonight as you celebrate my dad’s amazing musical journey,” Jack shared. “I know for sure it would make him incredibly happy to see these great musicians carry on his legacy and help inspire the next generation of rockers.”

The kids then chimed in, saying, “In the words of our papa, let’s go crazy.”

After a video montage featuring performance and interview footage of Ozzy, the musical tribute began, kicking off with Yungblud performing “Crazy Train” and “Changes,” and then Tyler and Perry following with “Mama I’m Coming Home,” with Yungblud joining them at the end.

The performance ended with them shouting “Ozzy Osbourne forever,” before cutting to footage of Ozzy telling an audience, “Thank you, good night, God bless you.”

This isn’t the first time some of these artists have been involved in an Ozzy celebration. Yungblud, Tyler and Bettencourt all performed at the massive Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, which was the final live performance by Ozzy and the original Black Sabbath lineup. Ozzy died just over two weeks later on July 22.

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Rick Davies, founding member of the group Supertramp, died Saturday at the age of 81.

A statement shared with ABC Audio revealed that Davies passed away “after battling multiple myeloma for over 10 years.”

“As a co-writer, along with partner Roger Hodgson, he was the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” read the statement.  “Rick’s music and legacy continue to inspire many and bears testament to the fact that great songs never die, they live on.”

Davies, born in Swindon, England, founded Supertramp with Hodgson, and they released their self-titled debut album in 1970. They had their first commercial breakthrough with 1974’s Crime of the Century, which was their first album to hit the top 40 in the U.S.

Their biggest success was with the 1979 album Breakfast in America, which went to #1 and spawned three hits, including the top-20 hit “Goodbye Stranger,” which Davies wrote and sings lead on. Hodgson wrote and sang the album’s two other hits, “The Logical Song” and “Take the Long Way Home.”

Other Supertramp songs written by Davies include the top-40 hits “Bloody Well Right,” “My Kind of Lady,” and “Cannonball.”

Davies and Hodgson released seven albums together before Hodgson left the band in 1983. Davies continued on with the group, and they released four more albums, their last being 2002’s Slow Motion.

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Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott revealed in August that the band was working on a new studio album, and now he’s shared a bit more information about when fans can expect to hear new music.

During a chat with Plant Rock’s Breakfast with Paul Anthony, Elliott revealed that the group is hoping to get music out before their live shows in 2026, which include a Las Vegas residency in February and a U.K./European tour that kicks off in June.

“We’re working through a new album right now, which won’t be out next year, but we may – and probably will – release a new song in time for Vegas and then release another one again for the British tour,” Joe said. “That’s the plan that we have right now.”

He added, “So, we’re gonna kind of drip feed songs from the album and then it’ll come out late ‘26, early ’27 maybe. Hopefully. So, it gives us a great opportunity to do that.”

The new album will be Def Leppard’s first studio album since 2022’s Diamond Star Halos.

Def Leppard’s Las Vegas residency, Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace The Las Vegas Residency consists of 12 shows, starting Feb. 3. Their U.K. and European tour kicks off June 13 in Rättvik, Sweden. A complete list of Def Leppard dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.

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