(L-R) Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick perform onstage during the 2025 Backyard Concert supporting Teen Cancer America and the UCLA Health Center October 03, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for BC)
Cheap Trick has added more dates to their All Washed Up Tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band has extended their tour through November, with new dates starting Nov. 11 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The additions include stops in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Ohio before wrapping Nov. 22 in Detroit, Michigan.
A presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Cheap Trick is touring in support of their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, which came out in November 2025. Their next show is Aug. 2 in Minnedosa, Canada.
A complete list of dates can be found at CheapTrick.com.
‘Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend’ (Ten Speed Press)
Carlos Santana, Patti Smith and Phil Lesh are among the artists contributing essays to a new photo book about American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend, dropping Sept. 1, is described as a “photographic celebration” of Coltrane’s life, featuring dozens of never-before-seen photos from throughout Coltrane’s career. It includes photos in the studio, on tour and at home.
Others contributing essays include The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes.
The book, edited and overseen by John’s son, Ravi Coltrane, is part of a yearlong celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of John’s Sept. 23, 1926, birth.
Ozzy Osbourne and Jack Osbourne visit the Tribeca Film Festival 2011 portrait studio on April 25, 2011 in New York City. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne’s death, and his son, Jack Osbourne, has a request for fans who wish to honor the milestone.
“I want to fill the entire day, July 22, with just awesome Ozzy stories,” Jack says in a video posted to Instagram.
Jack suggests sharing a remembrance of seeing Ozzy live or what his music has meant to you, and asks that you tag posts with #OzzyDay so that he’ll see it.
“Please, get thinking, get posting, spread the love. That’s what my dad would want,” Jack says. “He would not want us to all be sat around, shedding tears, because that’s not his vibe. He did not like people crying in front of him. So, yeah, spread the love that way.”
Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, at age 76. He’d just performed for the last time alongside the original Black Sabbath lineup at the Back to the Beginning concert, which happened two weeks earlier on July 5.
Paul McCartney on May 21, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)
Fans on a Beatles tour of Liverpool got quite a surprise when they had a chance encounter with Paul McCartney.
Neil Morton, who drives the Magical Mystery Tour Bus around Liverpool, tells the BBC that during a recent tour, the bus pulled up to find McCartney at a traffic light. It happened at the very moment McCartney was on a video call with his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr.
“It was surreal,” said Morton. “I had pulled up at the traffic lights on Hope Street when who should I see – Sir Paul with Ringo on Facetime. He waved to us and everybody took photos. The passengers could not believe it.”
Unfortunately for fans, Morton said, “Nobody really got chance to speak with him.”
According to the BBC, McCartney was back in Liverpool to honor Adolescence actor Stephen Graham with a companionship from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the school he co-founded.
Photo of Queen: L-R Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)
Queen is looking back at the past for a new series of posters.
The band is releasing a new collection of replica vintage Queen posters, with the first installment in the series featuring four posters.
The first set includes Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You and Queen Are Coming posters. There’s also a 1980 concert poster with an image of the band, and frontman Freddie Mercury in a jumping position that makes it appear as though he’s floating onstage.
All posters feature an official Queen embossed stamp and cost $50. They are available for preorder now, with shipping set for Aug. 15. More info can be found at QueenOnlineStore.com.
This isn’t the first time Queen has released a vintage replica poster. In 2025 they released a replica Queen Live Aid poster for the 40th anniversary of the all-star benefit concert. Proceeds from that poster were split between The Band Aid Trust and The Mercury Phoenix Trust.
Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Friends: Live from the Gulf Coast, July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for CMT)
Jimmy Buffett passed away in 2023, but his music lives on.
Mac McAnally, longtime member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, tells Billboard that he and his Coral Reefer bandmate Michael Utley have been working on a posthumous Buffett release.
McAnally tells Billboard the album will include songs that are “for the most part, things that have never been out,” or they were “cut for a one-off purpose, a TV episode or a movie.”
“The oldest of these tracks is, like, 2003, and the newest is maybe four years ago or so,” McAnally says. “None of those things have ever been on a Jimmy Buffett album. We’re pretty excited.”
This won’t be the first Buffett album released since his death from skin cancer at 76. McAnally and Utley produced his final album, Equal Strain on All Parts, which was released in November 2023, two months after his passing.
There’s currently no release date or title for the posthumous album, which McAnally says is “really good.”
“When you hear Jimmy sing you can tell that he’s smiling; you can hear that smile, and I’ve been listening to that smile for three months finishing this record, so I’m almost sore from smiling — but I ain’t gonna quit,” he adds.
Phil Collins performs during a stop of his Not Dead Yet Tour at MGM Grand Garden Arena on October 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Phil Collins hasn’t put out a new album since 2010’s Going Back, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be new music in the future.
During an appearance on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast, Collins sounds hopeful about making music again.
“Oh I’ve got some things that are finished. Well, a couple of things that are finished,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of ideas. I know what they are, but I haven’t approached them since the health issues.”
“But I’ve got a studio downstairs in my basement. I’m now not taking the long way around to avoid going in it,” he adds.
Collins has been dealing with health issues since 2007, including neck problems and nerve issues that left him unable to play the drums.
This isn’t the first time Collins has talked about possibly making new music. In a January BBC interview he said, “I’ve got some things that are half-formed or were never finished, and a couple of things that were finished which I like. So, you know, maybe life in the old dog yet.”
Collins’ appearance on the Sodajerker podcast is promoting the upcoming expanded edition of his debut solo album, Face Value, dropping Sept. 18.
One of the bonus tracks in the box set is a demo of the hit ballad “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” which Collins says didn’t make Face Value because “bizarrely I didn’t think it was kind of good enough.”
The song was eventually used for Taylor Hackford’s 1984 movie Against All Odds and went on to become the first of seven #1 songs for Collins. It was also nominated for an Academy Award.
Chris Cornell performs on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Soundgarden has posted a birthday tribute to the band’s late frontman, Chris Cornell, who would’ve turned 62 on Monday.
“Happy Birthday, brother Chris,” the post reads. “We’re thinking of you today and everyday. We miss your friendship, your beautiful soul, and your massive heart. The music world isn’t the same without you, but your voice still echoes through everything we do.”
It concludes, “Louder than love, always,” referencing the title of Soundgarden’s 1989 album, Louder than Love.
Cornell’s widow, Vicky Cornell, also posted a tribute, which begins, “Happy Birthday to the most extraordinary man I have ever known.”
“A husband and father who loved us with his whole soul,” Vicky writes. “A poet whose voice transformed music forever and continues to echo through time. My best friend.”
“There will never be another you,” she continues. “Today is a celebration of your life, your heart, your brilliance, and the endless love you gave so freely. The world is better because you were in it, and your music and lyrics continue to not only touch but guide so many of us every single day.”
Cornell died in May 2017 at age 52. A posthumous solo covers album, No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1, was released in 2020, and the surviving Soundgarden members have been working on completing the band’s final album.
Cornell was inducted with Soundgarden into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025.
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trucks Band at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Tedeschi Trucks Band has been forced to cancel some upcoming appearances as Susan Tedeschi undergoes surgery to have her appendix removed.
“I had an appendix scare and I’ve been told I need surgery to have it removed,” Tedeschi writes on Instagram. “It’s a very common procedure, or course, and I’ll be okay, but sadly it does mean we have to cancel our appearances at Newport Folk and Floyd Fest.”
“I’m incredibly disappointed. I never cancel shows and I don’t like inconveniencing our fans, band and crew,” she continues. “So I need to take care of this now so it doesn’t become something more serious later.”
Finally she writes, “Thank you for your understanding and support. We promise we’ll make it up to y’all as soon as we can. I’ll be back on my feet before you know it, and we’ll see you out there soon.”
Tedeschi Trucks Band was due to play FloydFest in Check, Virginia, on July 24 and Newport Folk Festival, in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 26.
Their next scheduled shows are July 31 and Aug. 1 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.
Ahead of the release of his third studio album, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen launched a new tour at the Palace Theater in Providence, Rhode Island.
The show marked Steve Van Zandt’s first official gig as a member of The E Street Band and also the live debut of the future classic “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” Other songs in the set included “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “Rosalita” and more.
Born to Run was released August 25, 1975, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It has gone on to be considered one of the greatest albums of all time and has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Van Zandt is still a member of The E Street Band, although he left in 1984 shortly before the Born in the U.S.A. tour. He returned when Springsteen reunited the group in 1995 after a six-year breakup.
