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Judas Priest is offering up another single from their upcoming album Invincible Shield, which is set to drop March 8.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just dropped the tune “Crown of Horns,” the third single from the record following “Panic Attack” and “Trial By Fire”

You can listen to “Crown of Horns” now via streaming services and on YouTube.

Judas Priest first announced they’d be releasing Invincible Shield during their October performance at Power Trip in Indio, California. The record will be their first new album since 2018’s Firepower. 

Invincible Shield is available for preorder now.

Fans will soon get a chance to see Judas Priest perform some of these songs live. They kick off a U.K. and European tour starting in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 11, with the tour hitting the U.S. on April 18 in Wallingford, Connecticut. A complete list of dates can be found at judaspriest.com.

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Van Halen’s David Lee Roth has fired some shots at his replacement Sammy Hagar in a new post shared to his Instagram.

In the clip titled “The Ballad of Popsicle Sam,” Roth uses Hagar’s 2011 claim that he was visited by aliens to try and explain some of Hagar’s behavior toward him over the years. He suggests Hagar’s conduct is a result of him being sex probed.

Hagar has said some disparaging things about Roth over the years. In a 2023 interview on Steve-O’s Wild Ride podcast, Hagar said Roth didn’t care about his voice and called his singing embarrassing.

Despite “a constant fart gas aimed” in his direction, Roth insisted he’s never “said a single syllable about” Sammy. “I think we’ve arrived at both the technical and the medical answer that may explain some of Sammy Hagar’s conduct and his constant spew of diarrhea vitriol in our direction,” he wrote, revealing, “Sammy Hagar was abducted by aliens and he was sex probed. Sex probed.” 

Roth then questioned what sex probing entails, before offering, “What I do know with absolute accuracy is that if you take a half of a popsicle and you jam it into a cassette tape player, no matter how carefully you extract it, that tape player will never play the same again, no matter how carefully you try and fix those delicate little parts. And it’ll get worse and it’ll seem like the singer that you used to [be] will stop making sense whatsoever. A lot like Sam.”

Hagar’s set to launch his The Best of All World Tours on July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he plans to celebrate Van Halen’s music. He’s invited Roth to stop by, but after these comments, who knows what the chances of that happening will be.

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Dolly Parton turned 78 on Friday, January 19, and she celebrated by giving her fans a gift.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just dropped a deluxe digital version of her latest album, Rockstar, featuring nine additional tracks, five of which were retailer exclusives and four that have never been released before. 

“It’s my Birthday so I’m going to give you a present!…” Parton shared on social media regarding the new songs. “I hope you enjoy them, and I hope you all have a happy birthday for me! LOL.”

The new tracks include covers of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets to Paradise,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Billy Joel‘s “The Entertainer” and Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” 

There’s also a new take on Dolly’s classic track “Jolene,” which features Italian rockers Måneskin; the track “Mama Never Said”; a live version of her original tune “Rockin’ It”; and her version of “Stay Out Of My Bedroom,” which she recorded with Sylvester Stallone for their 1984 movie, Rhinestone.

Dolly Parton’s Rockstar (Deluxe) is available now via digital outlets.

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On This Day, January 19, 1993…

The classic Fleetwood Mac lineup of Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and John McVie reunited for the first time in six years to perform at President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration gala.  

The band performed their classic Rumours track “Don’t Stop,” which had been used as Clinton’s campaign song.

Other performers at the gala included Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin. 

The classic Fleetwood Mac lineup would wind up reuniting again in 1997 for a live filmed concert, The Dance. It spawned a live album of the same name, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, and an arena tour followed. The lineup continued to work together until 2018, when Lindsey Buckingham was fired from the group.

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Queen continues to delve into the live performances from the 21st century, highlighting a Roger Taylor-penned ballad in the latest episode of their weekly YouTube series, Queen the Greatest Live.

This week’s clip features footage of a 2005 performance of Taylor’s “These Are the Days of Our Lives,” from a Queen + Paul Rodgers show. 

Taylor wrote the song in the late ’80s as frontman Freddie Mercury was ill, something only those in the Queen camp knew. He previously shared that the song was inspired by the adventures he and Mercury had experienced when they were young men. 

“I was sitting at home in a rather reflective mood and I did know that Freddie was ill, and I think it came out of that slightly melancholic mood,” Taylor previously told Absolute Radio. “I guess I was trying to put an optimistic slant on it in a way –those were the days then. And these are the days of our lives – today is more important than yesterday.”

“These Are The Days Of Our Lives” appeared on Queen’s 1991 album, Innuendo, and the video for the song wound up being the last one Freddie made before his death in November of that year.

Queen fans can catch another classic live performance by the band on screens this weekend. Queen Rock Montreal, a concert film featuring a show from their November 1981 stand at the Montreal Forum, is in IMAX theaters from now until January 21. A complete list of theaters and ticket information can be found at queeninimax.com.

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Earlier this week, fans spotted Green Day in disguise busking at a New York City Subway station alongside Jimmy Fallon. The bit officially aired during NBC’s The Tonight Show on Thursday, January 18.

The performance began with Fallon and Billie Joe Armstrong duetting on a cover of Bad Company‘s “Feel Like Makin’ Love.” They then removed their cartoonish wigs and fake mustaches and beards to reveal their true identities and launched into the Green Day classic “Basket Case.”

The Tonight Show also shared a YouTube exclusive video with extra songs from the subway set, including “Look Ma, No Brains!” and “Dilemma” — songs off the new Green Day album, Saviors — as well as “American Idiot.”

Saviors, Green Day’s first album since 2020’s Father of All…, is out now. It also includes the lead single “The American Dream Is Killing Me.”

Along with releasing Saviors, Green Day has premiered the video for the album cut “Bobby Sox,” which you can watch streaming now on YouTube.

Green Day will support Saviors on a massive world tour. The U.S. leg, which will also feature The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas on the bill, launches in July.

Along with songs from Saviors, Green Day will be playing their albums Dookie and American Idiot in full on each night of the tour. Dookie is celebrating its 30th anniversary, while American Idiot is turning 20.

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The last time Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox performed together was at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, but music fans now have another chance to hear their iconic songs live: Stewart’s Eurythmics Songbook, which is set to open for Bryan Adams on his So Happy It Hurts tour. 

Stewart tells ABC Audio the idea to take the band’s catalog on the road was sparked by Chic’s Nile Rodgers after he invited Stewart to perform Eurythmics songs in London with a series of special guests.

Stewart says he thought, “Why not have some fun and do that?” But adds, “I didn’t know how the audience was going to react.” Luckily, they “went nuts,” and he had so much fun he decided to expand on the idea. 

Stewart is joined by three female singers for the shows, and while you’d think Lennox’s voice wouldn’t be easy to replace, Stewart says it wasn’t much of a challenge.

“Fortunately for me, we made all different styles,” he says of Eurythmics. “We were like chameleons.”

Fans who see the shows can expect to hear some different reinterpretations of Eurythmics songs, but Stewart says he and Annie used to do that, as well. Regardless, “the song always comes through.” 

But playing all his old songs does make him feel weird sometimes, with Dave sharing it’s because “part of me is like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is like from all that time ago.’ And the other part of me is … totally in the moment with all these new players.” 

Dave Stewart’s Eurythmics Songbook’s stint on Adams’ tour begins Saturday, January 20, in Billings, Montana. For a complete list of dates go to davestewartent.com.

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The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger is one of the executive producers behind an upcoming two-part documentary on the Godfather of Soul James Brown, which is set to debut in February on A&E.

James Brown: Say it Loud, which also counts The Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter as executive producers, delves into the life, career and legacy of Brown, featuring exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival footage.

Jagger and Questlove are both interviewed in the doc, along with Brown’s children Deanna, Yamma and Larry Brown, plus Bootsy Collins, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, LL Cool J, Chuck D and others.

“He was brilliant,” Jagger says in a preview of the doc. “He took all these influences and combined them and then he created, almost singlehandedly, this other groove.”

James Brown: Say it Loud, directed by Deborah Riley Draper, airs Monday, February 19, and Tuesday, February 20, at 8 p.m. on A&E.

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Joe Walsh’s annual VetsAid charity concert took place last November, and it raised a lot of money to help veterans organizations based in, or with operations on the ground in, Southern California.

The Eagles guitarist announced that VetsAid has handed out a total of $260,000 in grants, including $30,000 grants to six organizations: CreatiVets, Children of the Fallen Patriots, TAPS, Foundation for Women Warriors, Veterans Legal Institute and Veterans Village of San Diego.

In addition, $15,000 grants went to Shelter to Soldier and Vets Community Connections, while $10,000 grants went to Fisher House Southern California, HunterSeven Foundation, Honor Flight San Diego and Cal-Diego PVA, and $5,000 grants went to Zero8Hundred and Navy Marine Corps P.R.O.U.D. Foundation.

The 2023 VetsAid took place November 12 in San Diego, California, featuring performances by Walsh, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Stephen Stills, The War on Drugs, The Flaming Lips and Lucius.

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Graham Nash is remembering his late Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby on the first anniversary of his death. 

“Hard to believe it’s been a year since David passed. It feels like a long time and no time at all,” Nash writes on Instagram. “Today I’ll be thinking of all of the good times we shared together. The not-so-good too because it was all part of being human with each other and loving one another.”

“I miss you, David. We all do,” he added.

Crosby passed away on January 18, 2023, at the age of 81. Although no official cause of death was ever announced, Nash revealed in an interview that Crosby died while battling COVID-19.

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