Poster for the Doors’ ‘When You’re Strange’/(Trafalgar Releasing)
The Doors‘ 2009 documentary, When You’re Strange, is returning to theaters as part of the band’s continuing celebration of their 60th anniversary.
The Grammy Award-winning doc, directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, will hit theaters on Dec. 4 and Dec. 6. The release has been remastered in 4K, with a new introduction from surviving Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger.
The showings will include the worldwide debut of a new performance of “Riders on the Storm.” The performance, in partnership with Playing for Change, will feature the pair joined by 20 musicians, including Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson, Sierra Ferrell and Rami Jaffee of the Foo Fighters, as well dancers from eight countries.
Tony Iommi bows at the curtain call during the press night performance of “Black Sabbath – The Ballet” at Sadler’s Wells Theatre on October 18, 2023 in London, England. (Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Tony Iommi is back rocking onstage, this time with ballet dancers.
The Black Sabbath guitarist performed alongside a production of Black Sabbath – The Ballet Wednesday, which is now showing at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.
Black Sabbath – The Ballet, which, as its name suggests, is a ballet based on the music of the metal legends, premiered in 2023. The show features Sabbath songs including “Paranoid” and “Iron Man” along with original orchestral works inspired by the band.
While Iommi was onstage Wednesday, Queen‘s Brian May was in the audience and shared a clip of Iommi shredding during the show on his Instagram.
“The true Father of Heavy Metal making that beautiful axe sing like a bird tonight at Sadler[‘]s Wells,” May wrote in the caption. “Tony Iommi plus a 40 piece orchestra and a cast of 50 dancers – putting the icing on the cake of a great production of Black Sabbath the Ballet. Proud to call this infinitely modest and generous genius my friend.”
Iommi, of course, performed with his original Sabbath bandmates — Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5. Ozzy died just over two weeks later on July 22.
Iron Maiden performs at the Metropolitano Stadium, on July 5, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. (Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Iron Maiden is finally brining their Run for Your Lives world tour stateside.
The metal legends have announced a 2026 North American leg of the trek, running from Aug. 29 in Toronto to Oct. 2 in Mexico City. It also includes a headlining set at the Louder than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
Megadeth will provide support for all non-festival shows as part of their farewell tour, and the bill also includes Anthrax on select dates.
‘We are greatly looking forward to bringing this Run for Your Lives tour to North America and hope the fans enjoy seeing the show and hearing the set list as much as we do playing it,” says bassist Steve Harris. “It’s an added bonus to have a few of our good friends on the tour with us. Megadeth are playing all the shows and it’s an honor to have them join us on their last ever tour.”
“We also have Anthrax with us on the bigger shows, we had a great time with them when they came out with us on Ed Force One around the world in 2016,” Harris continues. “We’re delighted to have both bands with us for this tour and know our fans will enjoy seeing them.”
Members of the Iron Maiden fan club will have access to a presale beginning Oct. 28. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Oct. 31.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit IronMaiden.com.
The Run for Your Lives world tour celebrates Iron Maiden’s 50th anniversary as a band. It first launched in Europe in May.
David Byrne performs at Wang Theatre at Boch Center on October 02, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Lisa Dragani/Getty Images)
David Byrne, and members of KISS and The Guess Who are among the contenders for the 2026 class of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The organization has announced the artists in the running for induction next year, with the Talking Heads frontman, KISS’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and The Guess Who’s Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings all nominated in the performers category.
Other performers nominated this year include: The Go-Go’sCharlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Jane M. Wiedlin; America’s Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell; Kenny Loggins; Taylor Swift; Pink; Sarah McLachlan; LL Cool J; The Carpenters’ Richard Carpenter; HarryWayne Casey aka KC of KC and the Sunshine Band; and Boz Scaggs.
In the non-performing category, the nominees include folks who wrote or co-wrote hits like Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Donna Summers’ “Hot Stuff,” Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” Madonna’s “Like A Prayer,” Starship’s “We Built This City” and Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical.”
Nominees become eligible 20 years after their first commercial release of a song. Voting will run through Dec. 4, and the inductees will be celebrated at a gala event in New York City next year.
Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses perform onstage during the Power Trip music festival at Empire Polo Club on October 06, 2023 in Indio, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Power Trip)
Guns N’ Roses have released a statement regarding frontman Axl Rose‘s onstage behavior during a recent show in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Footage from the concert shows Rose kicking drummer Isaac Carpenter‘s kit and throwing his mic at the bass drum. He’s also seen briefly leaving the stage before returning and telling the crowd, “I’ll just try and wing this.”
GN’R says in their statement that Rose was frustrated by sound issues and was not directing any ire toward Carpenter.
“Axl’s in-ear monitor pack had only the percussion in his ears versus his entire mix,” the statement reads. “The issue was fixed by our tech team by the third song, and we had a great night.”
It concludes, “The situation had nothing to do with Isaac Carpenter’s playing, who is top notch and a great drummer.”
Carpenter was announced as the new Guns N’ Roses drummer in March following the departure of Frank Ferrer, who’d been with the band since 2006.
“Asking for a Friend” single artwork. (RCA Records/Roswell Records)
Happy Foos-day!
Foo Fighters have not only released their previously teased new single called “Asking for a Friend,” they’ve also announced a 2026 North American stadium tour with support from Queens of the Stone Age.
The outing, dubbed the Take Cover tour, launches Aug. 4 in Toronto, and concludes Sept. 26 in Las Vegas. You can register for access to the presale now through Sunday at 11:59 PT. Those who’ve signed up for the Foo Fighters newsletter can grab tickets starting Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. local time, while a presale for those not signed up for the newsletter begin Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. local time.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FooFighters.com.
The tour will mark the first extended live Foos trek in the U.S. since 2024. Since then, they’ve gone through a tumultuous year between the Dave Grohl infidelity scandal and the firing of drummer Josh Freese.
The Foos made their live return in September with a brief run of U.S. pop-up dates and a tour of Asia, which marked their first performances with new drummer Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails.
As for “Asking for a Friend,” it marks the second new Foo Fighters single of 2025, following July’s “Today Song.”
“‘Asking for a Friend’ is a song for those who have waited patiently in the cold, relying on hope and faith for their horizon to appear,” Grohl says. “Searching for ‘proof’ when hanging by a wish until the sun shines again.”
He adds, “One of many songs to come…”
The most recent Foo Fighters album is 2023’s But Here We Are.
Bruce Springsteen released his 12th studio album, Letter To You, his first new studio album with the E Street Band since 2014’s High Hopes.
The album debuted at #2 in the U.S. and topped the charts in the U.K., Italy, Ireland, Australia and several other countries.
The album’s title track was the first single from the record, followed by “Ghosts.” It also featured three tracks — “If I Was the Priest,” “Janey Needs a Shooter” and “Song for Orphans” — that were written prior to Springsteen’s 1973 debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
The album’s release was accompanied by a making-of documentary, which streamed on Apple TV. It was directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator Thom Zimny.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau in ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.’ (20th Century Studios)
Jeremy Allen White had to learn to sing and play guitar to play Bruce Springsteen in the new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and of course by playing and meeting The Boss, he learned a lot about the man himself.
“I think what struck me most about Bruce is how sort of graceful and gentle he is. And his relationship to the world is still so, kind of, kind and pure,” White tells ABC News. The actor says he would “find it difficult to move with such grace” after so many decades as a beloved icon.
And now that filming is over, White says he misses getting to sing like Bruce.
“That was the way … I felt closest to Bruce, in Nashville at RCA recording his music,” he says. “There’s, like, such a preciousness to being in the studio, singing his words.”
A lot has been made of Springsteen and his manager, Jon Landau, being on the film’s set during shooting, and Jeremy Strong, who plays Landau, says it was something that really helped his performance.
“(Springsteen) is just someone who gives so much of himself every time,” Strong says. “So when you’re in the presence of someone who gives that much, the only thing that it actually does is it encourages you to give as much as you possibly can and really put everything on the line.”
And Springsteen being on set resulted in a very special moment for Strong. He says during downtime while filming scenes at the Power Station recording studio in New York, he was just sitting and listening to a Springsteen playlist when the rocker walked in.
“We just sat there talking for a while,” Strong says. “That’s a moment in time that I’ll take to my grave.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hits theaters Friday.
U2’s Bono and The Edge accept the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oct. 21, 2025. (Photo Credit: Jay Blakesberg)
U2 was honored with the Woody Guthrie Prize Tuesday at a ceremony in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hosted by the Woody Guthrie Center.
Bono and The Edge were on hand to accept the award, named after the late folk icon, which recognizes “a recipient who embodies the spirit of Woody Guthrie’s social consciousness and musical legacy.” The event was held at Cain’s Ballroom, a venue U2 headlined in 1981 on their Boy tour.
The pair took part in a conversation about art and activism, with Bono crediting Bob Dylan with introducing him to Guthrie. He noted that Dylan “really did bring us to the place where the song was an instrument to open up worlds.”
“Our favorite protest songs always had a sense of vision, something to aim for … you don’t talk about the darkness, you make the light brighter,” The Edge added. “I believe music can actually change the mood of the room and actually shift a culture.”
The rockers also treated the audience to a surprise performance of six songs: “Running to Stand Still,” which included a bit of Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory”; “Mothers of the Disappeared”; “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; “One”; “Pride (In The Name of Love),” which also featured a bit of Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ”; and “Yahweh.”
Bono also gave fans a preview of what’s on the way for U2, sharing lyrics to a song he’s working on about the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land who was killed in July by an Israeli settler.
The lyrics include: “One father shot/ three children crying/ if there is no law/ is there no crime/ if there is no hope/ what’s there to rhyme/ history is written/ one life at a time/ ONE LIFE AT A TIME.”
Ace Frehley performs in concert at Haute Spot Event Venue on July 13, 2023 in Cedar Park, Texas. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)
The KISS catalog saw a streaming boost following the Oct. 16 death of the band’s founding guitarist, Ace Frehley, at the age of 74.
Billboard reports that, compared to the three days prior to Ace’s death, the three days after his passing saw 4,500 digital songs sold, an increase of 1,664%. The catalog also saw a 187% increase in on-demand streams.
As for the song that got the biggest bump, that was actually Frehley’s 1978 solo recording of “New York Groove,” which was a #13 hit for the rocker. It sold over 700 copies, a 4,217% increase, and had 318,000 streams, a 530% increase.
And fans were apparently looking to listen to more of Frehley’s solo work in the three days following his death, as his solo catalog saw a 2,940% streaming boost and a 5,140% sales boost.
Frehley’s death came just weeks after he canceled the remainder of his 2025 tour dates “due to some ongoing medical issues.” In a statement, his KISS bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley said they were “devastated” by Ace’s death, while drummer Peter Criss said that his heart was “broken” by the news.
