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This year marks the 40th anniversary of INXS’ Listen Like Thieves, and the milestone is being celebrated with a new deluxe edition of the album.

Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will feature a brand-new remix of the album by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks, along with unreleased outtakes and demos and a newly unearthed BBC recording, Live From The Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986. There will also be a new interview with the band.

“Giles and Paul captured the original raw energy we felt when we first recorded the album and created a sonic depth to give the record an entirely new dimension that we couldn’t be prouder of,” INXS’ Andrew Farriss shares.

“It’s been such an honor to work on this pivotal album from INXS’s career,” Martin adds. “It’s a collection of recordings masterly produced by Chris Thomas, which helped the band define their own style and reach a massive global audience. It’s an iconic rock album of its age.”

In addition to the three-CD/LP deluxe edition, there will be a two-CD extended edition, which includes the new mix and the CD of B-sides, remixes and live recordings, as well as a single LP edition with just the remix.

All versions will be released May 9 and are available for preorder now.

Listen Like Thieves, released Oct. 14, 1985, was INXS’ fifth studio album and was considered to be the band’s international breakthrough. It featured the Aussie rockers’ first top-five single, “What You Need,”
with the album reaching #11 in the U.S.

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Lenny Kravitz and The Black Crowes are set to perform at the 2025 Oceans Calling festival, taking place Sept. 26-28 in Ocean City, Maryland.

Green Day, Noah Kahan and Fall Out Boy will headline the festival, with the lineup also including DEVO, 4 Non Blondes, Train, Spin Doctors, Live, Collective Soul, Weezer and Blind Melon.

A presale begins Friday at 10 a.m. ET before tickets go on sale to the general public at 11 a.m. ET.
For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit OceansCallingFestival.com.

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Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard has released a new song called “The Message” in collaboration with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco.

The track appears on a compilation called House of LSGRV put out by Gossard’s label, Loosegroove Records.

“Luckily for me, not every day at work is the same as the next,” DiFranco says. “One day, [Gossard], myself and some other ner do wells made this song happen. I hope somebody somewhere digs it.”

You can listen to “The Message” now via digital outlets.

Gossard and DiFranco previously collaborated on a 2022 song called “Disorders” in support of abortion access.

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Bad Company is one of the artists nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, and frontman Paul Rodgers is thankful for those he believes made it happen.

“If I were a gambling man, I would wager that Bad Company fans and friends had something to do with this nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” Rodgers tells ABC Audio in a statement. “I’ve been told there has been a movement afoot for some time, and we salute them for their persistence and dedication.”

He adds, “I do hope that the induction happens while Mick Ralphs can experience it too. It would be an honor to join the great company already inducted,” adding a thank-you on behalf of bandmates Ralphs, Simon Kirke and the late Boz Burrell.

Bad Company has been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since 1999. They released their self-titled debut album in 1974. It hit #1 thanks to such classic songs as “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love,” the title track, “Movin’ On” and “Rock Steady.” It went on to be certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA.

This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class will be announced in April. The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction is set to take place in Los Angeles this fall, although an exact date has yet to be announced.

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The complete lineup for Milwaukee Summerfest has been announced, with the additions of artists like Chicago, DEVO, George Thorogood and the Destroyers and more.

Both Def Leppard and James Taylor were previously announced as festival headliners, with both artists playing the first weekend, Def Leppard on June 19 and Taylor on June 21.

Milwaukee Summerfest takes place over three weekends — June 19-21, June 26-28 and July 3-5 — with shows at a variety of venues across the city. Other artists booked for the festival include Foghat, Allman Betts Band, Rick Springfield, The Isley Brothers, Sebastian Bach, Hozier and The Killers.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit Summerfest.com.

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Metallica has announced the high school winners of their 2024 marching band competition.

Taking first place in the large high school category is Sonia Sotomayer High School in San Antonio, Texas. The medium high school winner is Freehold Township High School in Freehold, New Jersey, and the small high school prize went to South Range High School in Canfield, Ohio.

The first-, second- and third-place winners in each category earned a combined $115,000 in music equipment.

The competition also included college divisions, but Metallica notes that “an exciting new partner approached us with an opportunity for our collegiate competitors that we just couldn’t pass up.” It will now be extended through November 2025 for college participants.

For more info, visit Metallica.com.

Metallica launched the first marching band competition in 2023, challenging schools around the country to put their best twist on songs from the metal legends’ discography.

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On This Day, Feb. 12, 2007 …

One day after reuniting for a performance at the 49th annual Grammy Awards, The Police held a press conference at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, where they confirmed rumors they would be reuniting for a world tour.

The band performed at the press conference, which was also billed as a rehearsal. They played such classic tunes as “Message in a Bottle,” “Roxanne,” “Can’t Stand Losing You” and more.

The tour would be The Police’s first tour together in over 20 years years, and it marked the band’s 30th anniversary.

The reunion tour kicked off in Vancouver in May and featured four North American legs, as well as shows in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America.

It wrapped in August 2008 at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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Peter Frampton and The Doobie Brothers’ Michael McDonald are among the artists set to perform at the ninth annual Love Rocks NYC concert, taking place March 6 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

The concert will also feature Beck, Cher, The Struts’ Luke Spiller, Eric Burton of Black Pumas, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart featuring Vanessa Amorosi, Alicia Keys, Mavis Staples, Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Jesse Malin, Kate Hudson, Grace Bowers and more.

All artists will be backed by a house band, led by bassist Will Lee, best known for being a member of the Late Show with David Letterman band.

A ticket presale kicks off Thursday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m.

Love Rocks NYC is a benefit for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to people who are too sick to prepare them themselves. This year the concert will also support Project Angel Food in Los Angeles to help those affected by the recent wildfires in the area.

The Love Rocks concerts first launched in 2017 and have gone on to raise $50 million, enough to fund 5 million meals for New Yorkers in need.

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Dave Grohl has contributed a signed guitar, as well as the cape he wore during a 2023 Crown Royal Super Bowl commercial, to an auction raising funds for Los Angeles fire relief.

The guitar, a Pelham blue model of Grohl’s signature Epiphone DG-335, not only features the Foo Fighters frontman’s signature, but also his handwritten lyrics to the Foos songs “Rescued” and “These Days.”

The cape, meanwhile, is also signed by Grohl alongside an inscription that reads “Please wear responsibly.”

Both items are newly added to the previously announced Give a Frock auction, which also includes pieces donated by Beastie Boys, Garbage‘s Shirley Manson and Paramore‘s Hayley Williams. Bidding is open now through Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. PT via JuliensAuctions.com.

Grohl also helped out with LA fire relief by cooking for affected families, and performing alongside his former Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear at January’s massive FireAid concert.

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Paul McCartney surprised New Yorkers by playing New York City’s 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in on Tuesday, and now he’s doing it again.

The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced he’s returning to the venue on Wednesday, with tickets only available at the Bowery Ballroom box office.

According to setlist.fm, Tuesday night’s show lasted about 90 minutes, with Sir Paul opening with The Beatles’ classic “A Hard Day’s Night.” Other Beatles tunes in the 22-song set included  “Got To Get You Into My Life,” “Blackbird,” the Grammy-winning “Now and Then,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Get Back,” “Lady Madonna,” “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude.”

He closed the show with the portion of the Abbey Road side two medley that comprises “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”

The set also included the Wings tunes “Letting Go,” “Jet,” “Let Me Roll It,” and others, along with McCartney solo tracks “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “My Valentine” and “Come On To Me.”

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