Mötley Crüe is one of several artists set to perform on the season finale of American Idol.
The three-hour episode airs May 11 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and will stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.
Other artists set for the show include Shinedown, Clay Aiken, Jason Mraz, Nelly, En Vogue and Tori Kelly, as well as ’90s bands Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms, who are launching a tour together in the summer.
Mötley Crüe is set to hit the road this summer on The Return of the Carnival of Sins tour, celebrating both the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour. The trek will kick off July 17 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and wrap Sept. 26 in Ridgefield, Washington. A complete list of dates can be found at Motley.com.
Foo Fighters stopped by CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday to perform songs off their new album, Your Favorite Toy.
Dave Grohl and company rocked the track “Caught in the Echo” on the broadcast, and stuck around for a bonus rendition of “Window.”
Grohl also sat down with Colbert for an interview and discussed forming Foo Fighters after the end of Nirvana, reuniting the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” outfit for two performances in 2025 and his advice for his daughter Violet Grohl, who’s releasing her debut album.
Foo Fighters will headline the Welcome to Rockville festival on Friday and will play BottleRock Napa Valley later in May. They’ll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’ (Capitol Records)
After weeks of teasing fans, The Rolling Stones have finally spilled the beans about their new music.
The band has revealed that their next album, Foreign Tongues, will be released July 10. They also dropped the album’s first single, “In the Stars,” which is available now via digital outlets.
While “In the Stars” is the first single, it’s actually not the first taste fans have gotten of the album. The opening track, “Rough and Twisted,” was released in April as a white label vinyl under the name The Cockroaches. It has now been released digitally.
Like their last album, 2023’s Grammy Award-winning Hackney Diamonds, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood worked with producer Andrew Watt on the 14-track Foreign Tongues. It was recorded in under a month at London’s Metropolis Studios and is described as a “dynamic and forward-looking record that captures the band’s unmistakable sound while pushing into new sonic and lyrical territory, further cementing their unparalleled legacy.”
Foreign Tongues features an appearance by the band’s late drummer, Charlie Watts, taken from one of his final recording sessions before his death in 2021. It also features guest appearances by such A-list artists as Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
Foreign Tongues will be released in a variety of formats and is available for preorder now.
The Who has dropped another performance from their upcoming album, Live at Eden Project. It’s a recording of their July 2023 concert at Cornwall’s Eden Project, the home of a sustainable network of biomes in the English countryside.
The latest is a live performance of “You Better You Bet,” the hit single from The Who’s 1981 album Face Dances, which is now available on YouTube.
The Who’s Eden Project concert was part of their The Who Hits Back! tour, which saw Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend backed by the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra. It featured performances of “Pinball Wizard,” which the band previously released, as well as “Who Are You,” “My Generation,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Baba O’Riley” and more.
Sabrina Carpenter and Stevie Nicks perform during the 2026 Met Gala celebrating ‘Costume Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York City. (Kevin Mazur/MG26/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks was one of the special musical guests at Monday night’s Met Gala in New York, where she shared the stage with pop star Sabrina Carpenter.
According to Vogue, Stevie and Sabrina, one of the co-chairs of the Gala, opened up the performance with a collaboration on Stevie’s iconic Fleetwood Mac song “Landslide,” before Stevie performed the Fleetwood Mac hit “Gypsy” and her solo classic “Edge of Seventeen,” on her own. Stevie then closed the night with another Fleetwood Mac classic — “Don’t Stop” — joined by Sabrina and a 12-person choir.
The “Don’t Stop” performance comes a little over a week after she performed the tune at New Orleans Jazz Fest, which was her first performance of the track in 15 years. The song is normally sung by Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie.
Stevie’s appearance at the high-profile New York event marked her Met Gala debut. On the red carpet, she wore a custom midnight blue and black Zara gown designed by John Galliano, as per People. The gown featured an enormously wide skirt, topped with a velvet and silk taffeta jacket. She crowned the look with one of her signature top hats.
Vogue reports that for her performance, Stevie wore a vintage Morgane LeFay dress and Margi Kent jacket.
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)
Rolling Stone is highlighting iconic guitar solos in its latest staff-curated list.
The mag has just released its picks for the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time, with tunes by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, the Eagles and more making the cut. The mag says criteria for songs making the list are that the solo “makes the song; can be sung or hummed; doesn’t repeat the main melody.”
Prince’s iconic tune “Purple Rain” tops the list, with Hendrix’s “Machine Gun” landing at #2. The mag writes that the Hendrix solo is “Hendrix at his most Hendrix,” noting it’s “the most ambitious, raw, soulful, go-for-broke expression of his musical genius.”
Coming in at #3 are the dueling guitar solos of the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” followed by David Gilmour’s solo in Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” at #4 and Eddie Van Halen’s solo on Van Halen’s “Eruption” at #5.
Rounding out the top 10 are Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” at #6, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” at #7, Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne” at #8, Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” at #9 and The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at #10.
And while Rolling Stone may think these are the greatest guitar solos, they aren’t necessarily what your average guitar fan likes to play.
According to the mag, Guitar Center recently conducted a poll to find the most-played guitar riffs at its stores, with Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” landing at #1.
Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” comes in just behind Metallica at #2, with The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and John Mayer’s “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” rounding out the top five.
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Foo Fighters appear on the latest episode of the viral online show Track Star, in which host Jack Coyne challenges guests to identify different songs.
For the Foos, represented by frontman Dave Grohl, guitarist Chris Shiflett and bassist Nate Mendel, Coyne picks songs by artists including The Clash, Van Halen, Minor Threat and NOFX, which they all recognized almost immediately.
A couple songs did trip them up, though, including a track by the Finnish band Hanoi Rocks, which was played for Grohl.
“I don’t know, I don’t like it, though,” Grohl said as he removed his headphones.
In other Foos news, the band will be performing on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday. Grohl will also sit down for an interview with Colbert.
The new Foo Fighters album, Your Favorite Toy, is out now. The band is headlining two festivals in May, Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa, before launching a full North American stadium tour in August.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed on November 2, 1980 – the first time in five years that Lennon had been photographed professionally and the last comprehensive photo shoot of his life. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh will premiere his new John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 12-23.
The film, John Lennon: The Last Interview, centers on Lennon’s final interview, which he and Ono sat for just hours before he was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980. The interview took place at the couple’s New York apartment, The Dakota, and was tied to the release of their album Double Fantasy.
Much has been made about Soderbergh’s use of AI in making the film, but in a new interview with Deadline, he insists it wasn’t used “to fool somebody or manipulate them” into thinking something’s real. Instead, he says, it was used like “VFX or CGI or any sort of non-photographic technology.”
“I think people, when they heard about this project and that I was using AI tech, jumped to the absolute worst conclusion, which is, ‘He’s going to try and bring John Lennon back to life,'” he says. “And all I can say is, have we met? Do I look like somebody that would do that?”
Soderbergh says he felt a “moral obligation” to himself, Ono, Lennon’s son Sean Lennon and the audience to make “the best version of this film, period,” noting, “And we were able — luckily, through good timing — to get our hands on some tools that I know resulted in the best version of this film.”
When it comes to the actual Lennon and Ono interview, Soderbergh says he was surprised by “how excited they were to talk about everything and anything.” He notes, “You’d think listening to them that they’d never been interviewed before. They had like no filter at all.”
(L-R) Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of the band Rush, and Matt Stone perform during South Park The 25th Anniversary Concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 10, 2022 in Morrison, Colorado. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy Central)
Rush will launch their Fifty Something tour in June, their first since the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020. In a new interview with TheNew York Times, frontman Geddy Lee explains why they felt the need to do so.
“In the back of my mind and in the back of my heart, it’s felt like unfinished business, like we owed him a proper thank you and a celebration,” Lee says. “Not a morbid, funereal type of thing. We want to celebrate the wonderful music the three of us spent almost 50 years writing together.”
Sitting behind the drum kit for the tour will be Anika Nilles, who says when she first started working with Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson they gave her insight into working with Peart.
“I got a really good idea of what Neil was to the guys as a band member, but also as a friend. So you cannot replace that, you know?” she says. “I’m basically here to help them to get their music back onstage and make it feel right for them and make it feel right for the fans.”
Lee and Lifeson have credited their participation in the 2022 Taylor Hawkins tribute shows with planting the idea of them returning to the road without Peart. Lee notes the shows “taught us something really important about music. A band can end, but the music lives on.”
“I think for a while we put Rush in a box and put that box in our closet, and it’s almost like we felt weird to open the closet and open that box,” Lee says, noting after the Hawkins shows, “It’s like we had taken the box out of the cupboard and we had opened it up. And you know what? It was OK.”
‘I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol’ documentary artwork. (Courtesy of VMI Worldwide)
Founding Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has announced the U.S. release of his documentary, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol.
The film will be available to rent and buy on digital platforms on May 26, and will be available to preorder May 12.
“It tells the tale of my contribution to the band, which I think without it the group wouldn’t have had the success it had,” Matlock says in a statement. “For anybody interested in the birth of British punk and its effect on the then wider music scene, I’d suggest it’s essential viewing — but then I would say that!”
The doc includes interviews with Matlock, and fellow Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, as well as Debby Harry, Chris Stein and the late Clem Burke of Blondie, Billy Idol and the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.
Matlock formed Sex Pistols alongside Jones, Cook and vocalist John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, and co-wrote most of the songs on the band’s one and only album, 1977’s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. However, Matlock parted ways with the band during the recording process and was replaced by Sid Vicious, who died in 1979.
After various on-and-off reunions over the years, Sex Pistols got back together in 2024 with Matlock, Jones and Cook alongside vocalist Frank Carter in place of Lydon.
