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Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but his unmistakable voice now lives on … for a good cause.

A charity version of the Black Sabbath classic “War Pigs” has been released: It’s a collaboration between Judas Priest and the late Prince of Darkness. Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton, who suffers from Parkinson’s as Ozzy did, performed on the track, and all proceeds will go to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s.

Judas Priest usually uses “War Pigs” as their walk-on song, and they released their own version of it on July 2 as a tribute to Black Sabbath, because they weren’t able to perform at the band’s final Back to the Beginning show in Birmingham due to previous touring commitments.

Priest frontman Rob Halford later said in an interview that Sharon Osbourne liked their version of the song so much that she suggested Ozzy be added to the recording. When Priest suggested the song be released to raise money for Parkinson’s, the Osbournes approved.

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The inaugural CBGB Festival is taking place Saturday at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York, but if you can’t make it, you can watch it online.

The event features Iggy Pop — doing his first New York show in more than a decade — as well as Jack White, Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, The Damned, Melvins, Lunachicks and Marky Ramone, plus current acts like The Linda Lindas.

The streaming platform Veeps will livestream the festivities Saturday starting around 4:30 p.m. CT, and it’ll be free for fans worldwide. The only catch? You’ll have to watch it live, because there won’t be a replay option. Claim your free ticket now at Veeps.com/cbgb.

If you decide you want to attend in person, tickets are still available at CBGBFest.com.

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Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe are among the artists contributing original artwork to an upcoming benefit for Housing Works NYC.

The Turn it Up art benefit will take place at Housing Works’ Crosby Street location on Oct. 9, with donated pieces auctioned off to benefit the organization’s mission to provide housing, health care, and other services to people living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions.

Other musicians contributing pieces to the benefit include Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Sean Lennon, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Interpol’s Paul Banks and Chappell Roan, with more artists expected to join.

Information on tickets can be found at housingworks.org/events.

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The much-anticipated Bruce Springsteen film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens Oct. 24, and while some folks may have been surprised The Boss gave his OK to the project, he tells Time magazine there was a simple reason why he finally said yes.

“I’m old. I don’t give a f*** what I do anymore!” he says. “As you get older, you feel a lot freer.”

But getting older is not slowing the 76-year-old Springsteen down. Asked whether he plans to continue touring with the E Street Band, he says, “Of course!”

“I just want to keep going,” he tells Time. “I want to make records that deal with subjects people haven’t heard me deal with yet.”

Springsteen also opens up to Time about his decision to call out President Donald Trump while onstage during his 2025 European tour.

“If I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be, I can’t give these guys a free pass,” he says. “A lot of people bought into his lies. He doesn’t care about the forgotten anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on inauguration day.”

“You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” he adds.

Asked how he felt about being called “highly overrated” by Trump, Bruce notes, “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me.”

“He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” he argues. “If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

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Journey has announced their first show of 2026.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to play the 2026 Stagecoach festival, which will be held April 24-26 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Journey is part of the April 25 lineup.

While Stagecoach is predominantly a country festival, it has been branching out in recent years. Other non-country artists on the bill for 2026 include Counting Crows, Bush, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish and The Wallflowers. This year’s headliners include Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone.

Passes for this year’s festival go on sale Oct. 2 at 11 a.m. PT. A complete lineup can be found at Stagecoachfestival.com.

In other Journey news … guitarist Neal Schon was a guest on Wednesday night’s finale of America’s Got Talent. He joined Richard Goodall, who won AGT during 2024’s season 19, for the debut performance of his new song “Long Time Coming.”

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The Rolling Stones have released a video for “Shame, Shame, Shame,” a cover of the Shirley & Company track that will appear on their upcoming reissue of their 1976 album Black and Blue.

The clip, directed by Dutch filmmaker Camille Boumans, features a collage of rare archival photos of The Stones, combined with hand-drawn animation.

The track is one of several outtakes and jams that will appear on the super deluxe edition of Black and Blue, dropping Nov. 14. The set also includes a 2025 remix of the album by producer Steven Wilson, and a recording of a 1976 concert at Earls Court in London, which was part of a six-night residency at the venue.

The super-deluxe edition of Black and Blue will be released as a five-LP or four-CD set. Both come with a Blu-ray that includes the Wilson remix and the Earls Court concert in Dolby Atmos, plus an unreleased TV broadcast of the band’s 1976 concert at Les Abattoirs in Paris.

The Black and Blue reissue will also be released in a variety of other formats, including a limited-edition five-LP black and blue marbled vinyl set; two-disc and one-disc formats on both vinyl and CD; and a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl.

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Bruce Springsteen has released another track from his upcoming box set, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, dropping Oct. 17.

The latest is a live version of “Open All Night,” recorded inside an empty Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. The song is part of Springsteen’s first-ever performance of Nebraska in its entirety. A film of the performance, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, will be featured on the Blu-ray included in the box set.

“The one thing that we didn’t do on the Nebraska album was we didn’t play it live, so my first thought when we were talking about celebrating the record was there’s got to be a performance, singing these songs from top to bottom,” The Boss shares.

On Instagram he adds, “I knew that the way to do it was no audience and no speaking … You just present the record, play it through, then you’re done.”

Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition will feature a 2025 remaster of the album, as well as lots of previously unreleased material, including the long-rumored “Electric Nebraska.” There are also solo outtakes, including additional songs from Springsteen’s original Nebraska home recordings that didn’t make the album, as well as recordings from a 1982 solo studio session.

Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition is available for preorder now. 

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When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced earlier this year, Carol Kaye‘s name was on the list in the category of Musical Excellence. But the legendary bassist — who played on The Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds, influenced Paul McCartney and contributed to thousands of pop songs — is boycotting the November ceremony in LA. In a new interview The New York Times, she explains why.

Kaye, who’s 90, tells the paper, “I don’t do things because other people want me to do them. I have to do things the way I see fit.” The way she sees it, she tells the Times, “First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician. And I’m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.”

The “team” who Kaye’s best known for working with is the group of first-call session players known as the Wrecking Crew — a name she finds insulting. The Times speculates that Kaye may be skipping the ceremony because her recognition is overdue: Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine was inducted in 2000, as was fellow bass icon James Jamerson.

Kaye has also been called a crank for criticizing the 2008 Wrecking Crew documentary. She tells the Times, “When you get put on a pedestal, you better say the right things, or else you’re going to be known as nasty. … But I just tell people, listen, this is what happened. This is how I feel. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry.”

Whether she attends or not, Kaye’s legacy is secure. The late Brian Wilson once called Kaye “the best bassist in the world,” while McCartney tells the Times that hearing Carol’s work on Pet Sounds “really changed my style.” 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will stream live on Disney+ Nov. 8. 

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Sammy Hagar is looking back at a memorable Van Halen show from 30 years ago.

The band’s former frontman has shared video of the group performing the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge track “Poundcake” at their Sept. 20, 1995, concert at Denver’s Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. What made it particularly memorable was that Van Halen had to play during a blizzard, which dropped 8 inches of snow in the area.

“I’ll never forget looking out and it looked like we were playing for 18,000 snowmen,” Sammy writes in the description of the clip. “Eddie (Van Halen) ended up playing half the show with gloves with the fingertips cut out if you could imagine!”

He adds, “We had giant heaters on stage you name it we did the whole show the craziest thing ever.”

Van Halen’s Michael Anthony adds, “The place was packed and everybody looked like a Q-tip out there. It was no big deal for the audience.”

“Poundcake” is one of the many Van Halen songs Sammy performs on his upcoming live album Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency, dropping Oct. 10. It captures performances from his 2025 Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM.

(Video includes uncensored profanity.)

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Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has shared another track from Lighthouse: Live From London, his upcoming live album and concert film highlighting a show from his Lighthouse Tour ’24.

The latest is a performance of “Fallen Ones,” a track that appears on his third solo album, 2023’s Lighthouse. It is available now via digital outlets.

The album and film capture McKagan’s Oct. 25, 2024, concert at London’s Islington Assembly Hall and feature 19 tracks, including songs from Lighthouse, as well as covers and other songs from McKagan’s career. 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 Oct. 31 digitally, 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.

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