Musician Jackson Browne performs onstage during the Wild Honey tribute to Warren Zevon benefiting the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and the Ed Asner Family Center at The Granada Theatre on September 27, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills and The Killers‘ Brandon Flowers are among the artists performing at an upcoming benefit concert marking the one-year anniversary of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, specifically the Eaton Fire that devastated the town of Altadena.
The show, dubbed A Concert for Altadena, takes place Jan. 7, 2026, at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, California. It’s being put on by the band Dawes, whose members were deeply affected by the fire. Dawes also opened the 2025 Grammys with a performance in honor of LA.
“It’s gonna be a heavy night but it’s going to be a beautiful one too,” Dawes say of A Concert for Altadena.
Other performers include Everclear, Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Mandy Moore. For more info, visit Dawes’ Instagram.
Kim Thayil of Soundgarden performs with MC50 during the Kick Out The Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour at Variety Playhouse on September 7, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Chris McKay/Getty Images)
Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has announced a new memoir.
The book, titled A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond, is due out May 19. As Thayil explains, it “tells my story as an American son of immigrants growing up in Chicago.”
“Then, along with another immigrant’s American son, Hiro Yamamoto, we travel to Seattle as idealistic youths, involve ourselves with underground and independent subcultures, and connect with Chris Cornell to form Soundgarden,” Thayil says. “It follows my experiences, journeys and growth with the band and the building of the Seattle music scene; ultimately, to partner with Matt Cameron and later Ben Shepherd as we worked and played towards our worldwide successes.”
He adds, “I explore the heights, depths and insights gained from my experiences within the unique and special brotherhood we built.”
Meanwhile, Thayil and Soundgarden will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 8. The ceremony takes place in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+.
Bon Jovi Forever Tour admat/(courtesy of Live Nation)
Bon Jovi has added two more dates to their Forever Tour in 2026.
The trek’s only U.S. shows are happening at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Due to overwhelming demand, the New Jersey rockers have added two more dates to the stint, July 16 and 19.
The six-night New York stand will kick off July 9 and will be followed by shows in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland, before wrapping Sept. 4 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
The Forever Tour will be Bon Jovi’s first trek since frontman Jon Bon Jovi underwent vocal cord surgery in 2022.
Registration is now open for a presale for the new New York shows. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. ET.
Kirk Hammett on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Exit electricity, enter Kirk Hammett‘s new limited-edition Gibson acoustic guitar.
The Metallica shredder has announced the launch of the Raven, featuring a design inspired by Hammett’s love of horror and “The Raven” poet himself, Edgar Allan Poe. It’s described as a counterpart to Hammett’s previous Gibson acoustic, the Hummingbird.
The Raven was created with the Gibson Custom shop and is limited to just 100 pieces. It costs $4,999.
Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar and Kenny Aronoff perform during opening night of The Best Of All Worlds Stays In Vegas – The Residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM on April 30, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Live Nation Las Vegas)
Sammy Hagar is bringing his Best of All Worlds Tour to the U.K.
The former Van Halen frontman has announced a four-city tour that will once again have him backed by Van Halen’s Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Kenny Aronoff.
The arena tour, featuring special guest Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, begins July 4, 2026, in Manchester, with stops in Birmingham and Leeds, before wrapping July 9, 2026, at London’s O2 Arena.
The trek is Sammy’s first time playing the U.K. since 1996. “It’s been a long time coming. Let’s rock!” Hagar wrote on Instagram.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Hagar launched the Best of All Worlds Tour back in July 2024. The tour had him celebrating the Van Halen catalog, along with solo hits and more. In May 2025 he launched the Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency at the Dolby Live at Park MGM. He’ll return to the venue in March and September of 2026 for a new round of residency dates.
He also released a live album, Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency, in October.
A complete list of dates can be found at RedRocker.com.
Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here 50’/ (Sony Music)
The U.K.’s poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has released a new poem inspired by Pink Floyd’s iconic album Wish You Were Here.
The poem, Dear Pink Floyd, is part of the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary reissue of the album, dropping Dec. 12. Armitage reads it in a new video posted to YouTube.
“I was thinking about the album and their noise, and what effect that has had on people right across the globe,” Armitage says of the poem. “I didn’t know whether I could put into words what that music sounded like. I only get involved with projects if I think I can’t do them, so this was a natural invitation.”
“I wanted to write something that was album-shaped, that would fit onto the side of an LP and bleed right to the margins of a square,” he adds. “I was trying to mimic the noise of Wish You Were Here – there are no gaps in it. Like a wall of warm sound. I wanted the text to be a physical manifestation of that.”
Finally, he notes, “There aren’t many artistic experiences in the form of noise that send shivers up my spine and make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. But when I put Wish You Were Here on as a record, and it begins, I get that feeling every single time.”
Wish You Were Here 50will be released in a variety of formats, including a digital release that features the original album mixed in Dolby Atmos. It will feature 25 bonus tracks, including six tracks that have never been released before.
The bonus material also includes 16 live bootleg recordings from a concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975, which are getting their first-ever official release.
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana performing in New York City, New York (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
The first-ever Nirvana record played on radio is going up for auction.
Produced by the label Sub Pop, the 7-inch vinyl 1988 test pressing contains Nirvana’s cover of the Shocking Blue song “Love Buzz,” which was released as the future “Smells Like Teen Spirit” band’s debut single. It made its way into the hands of Sub Pop employee Scott Vanderpool, who played it on a local college station.
“While I was working at Sub Pop, any test pressing that came in I immediately took to the radio station to play on that show,” Vanderpool writes in an accompanying certificate of authenticity. “So your Nirvana test pressing … has the distinction of being the first Nirvana studio recording played on the radio anywhere.”
The “Love Buzz” test pressing is part of auction house Goldin’s 2025 Fall Music Auction catalog. For more info, visit Goldin.co.
Nirvana’s “Love Buzz” cover was later included on their 1989 debut album, Bleach. The band released two more albums, 1991’s Nevermind and 1993’s In Utero, before frontman Kurt Cobain‘s death in 1994.
L-R: Slim Jim Phantom, Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker of The Stray Cats/(Photo credit: Suzie Kaplan)
The Stray Cats have canceled their latest tour.
The band was supposed to kick off their a new tour on Oct. 25 in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, but canceled the first two dates due to frontman Brian Setzer suffering a “serious illness.” Now, they’ve scrapped the whole thing.
“I’m heartbroken to share, due to serious illness, I am unable to perform and very regrettably have to cancel our Stray Cats tour,” Setzer shared in a statement. “I know this affects so many people and I am devastated to have to deliver this news.”
He added, “I’ve been trying everything I can to go on and do these shows, but it is just not possible. I’ve been looking forward so much to being on stage with my band mates again and playing for all of our amazing fans, and I’m gutted.”
The tour was to feature original band members Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom, and would have been their first trek since February 2024. It was also supposed to be their first tour since Setzer’s announcement in February that he’d been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and that one of the side effects was that he was no longer able to play guitar, although in September he shared video of him playing guitar again.
Ticketholders will get refunds at the point of purchase.
Blondie‘s reissuing their 1999 comeback album, No Exit, on Friday, and Debbie Harry and Chris Stein are giving fans some insight into the record.
The band just released a new video, the No Exit Interrogation Tapes, in which Harry and Stein are questioned about the record. They reveal things like who came up with the title, their favorite songs, how it felt to reunite and more.
Both Harry and Stein say their late drummer Clem Burke came up with the title, suggesting he was insistent on it. Notes Stein, “It was kinda like, yeah, we’ll call it that, shut up already.”
Both artists also shared their favorite memories of Burke, who passed away in April.
“Clem was, you know, a singular character, but he was great with our kids when they would come on tour, and they remembered him very fondly and he was just really generous with them,” Stein said. Harry recounted a time when Burke came to her rescue.
“I was standing in the front of the bus where there were benches, you know, along the wall and something happened and the driver slammed on the brakes, but I mean slammed on the brakes,” she said. “And I was airborne and Clem caught me. And I was headed right for the windshield. I was going to hit that windshield.”
Harry ends the video by teasing the next Blondie record.
“I can reveal the name of the next Blondie album but … what’s it worth?” she says, with the camera cutting off, followed by “High Noon, 2026” quickly appearing on the screen.
Harry previously revealed the album’s title in a Los Angeles Times interview. Blondie also slipped the news into an announcement for a special edition of the 2023 Z2 Comics graphic novel Blondie: Against the Odds.
Peter Criss attends the 2024 Raven Drum Foundation Benefit Show at The Cutting Room on March 14, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Manny Carabel/Getty Images)
KISS drummer and founding member Peter Criss appears to be teasing some news.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who left KISS in 1980, posted a new black-and-white teaser on YouTube that opens with images of a skyline on a rainy night, and then moves to what appears to be a rundown building with cobwebs on the walls, with crates on the ground that read “Criss.”
As a flash of lightning strikes across the sky, the image of a building that reads “Criss Incorporated” comes into view, with the images of cat eyes in the background, an obvious reference to his KISS Catman persona.
The clip ends with the date “October 31, 2025” on the screen, followed by the logos for two record labels, Flatiron Recordings and Silvercraft Records, Inc.
While Criss didn’t give any other clues as to what he’s teasing, the label logos suggests new music may be on the way. In April he revealed that he was working on a solo album.
If he is indeed teasing a new album, it will be Criss’ first solo album since 2007’s One For All.
