Classic Rock News

Foo Fighters are up to something, and they’re certainly not Wasting Light.

Dave Grohl and company have shared a Facebook post featuring four photos of the band seemingly in the recording studio. We say seemingly, since the photos are all very dark and barely lit.

A fan writes in the comments, “You need a decent photographer!!,” to which the Foos responded, “We aren’t known for our photography skills.”

The post’s caption doesn’t offer to much info, either — it only includes the year 2025 and #FF30. Notably, the Foos’ 1995 self-titled album turns 30 on Friday.

Foo Fighters also just put out a cover of a Minor Threat song on Monday, marking the first new release to follow their 2023 album, But Here We Are. Since then, the band has gone through a fair amount of turmoil between Grohl’s 2024 infidelity scandal and the May firing of drummer Josh Freese.

Foo Fighters are set to return to the live stage in October for a tour of Asia.

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Zak Starkey has been through a lot since April, when he was fired, then rehired, then fired again from The Who. 

Despite losing the gig, he tells the U.K.’s The Independent that Roger Daltrey has told him to leave his drum kit in The Who’s storage — just in case. And Starkey doesn’t seem surprised by all the drama.

“The thing is, this is The Who, man. The most unpredictable, aggressive, arrogant people, lovely people who are my family, but you never know what’s gonna happen, and that’s why it’s The Who,” he says. “They have an addiction to friction.”

Starkey calls The Who “the oddest, maddest group there is,” but doesn’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.

“If you look at The Who through the years, all the way back, there’s four completely opposite people. One of them writes all the songs and thinks the other three are an art installation. And they don’t know what that means,” he tells the paper. “They are the craziest, weirdest group there’s ever been. That’s what’s great, isn’t it, that they’re so untraditional with everything that they’ve ever done.”

Problems arose between The Who and Starkey during The Who’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March, with Daltrey calling out Starkey’s playing during “The Song is Over.” He was fired in April, but then rehired by the band, only for The Who to announce in May he was once again let go.

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Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, which features Bob Dylan as one of the headliners, has canceled its Tuesday show in El Reno, Oklahoma, due to what’s being described as “unforeseen circumstances.”

“An extreme weather event on the evening of June 29th in Ridgedale, MO at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena produced heavy rains and high winds forcing the crowd to evacuate,” reads a post on the festival’s Instagram page. It notes that “much of the Outlaw Music Festival’s equipment and artists’ instruments were damaged and waterlogged.”

The post shares that organizers aren’t sure there’s enough time to figure out whether it will be safe to use the equipment for the Oklahoma show.

“The potential damage has halted the festival production as they recover and replace what’s necessary for the tour to resume,” the post says. “The tour looks forward to resuming in Austin on July 4.”

The promoters apologized to fans for the cancellation, sharing that those with tickets will be receiving full refunds.

In addition to Nelson and Dylan, performers for this year’s Outlaw Music Festival include Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers and Lucinda Williams.

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Something unpredictable happened during Green Day‘s concert in Luxembourg Monday, but in the end, Billie Joe Armstrong decided it wasn’t right.

As seen in fan-shot footage, Armstrong invited a fan onstage to play acoustic guitar for a rendition of “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” However, instead of playing the recognizable picked opening to “Good Riddance,” the fan started strumming the chords to Oasis‘ “Wonderwall.”

When Armstrong realized what the fan was doing, he took the guitar away from them and they were ushered off stage.

“Nice try,” Armstrong said.

Hopefully for the fan, they felt like they had the time of their life during their brief time onstage.

Oasis, meanwhile, is set to launch their much-anticipated reunion tour in the U.K. on Friday. The trek will come to the U.S. in August.

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ZZ Top’s first four albums were released as a high fidelity vinyl box set in 2024, and now their next five albums are getting the same treatment.

Rhino is set to release From the Top (1979–1990) on Friday, featuring 1979’s Degüello, 1981’s Loco, 1983’s Diamond-certified Eliminator, 1985’s Afterburner and 1990’s Recycler. All copies are cut from the original stereo master tapes and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.

Only 3,000 individually numbered copies of From the Top: 1979-1990 will be available and can be preordered now exclusively at rhino.com.

Last year’s box set, From the Top: 1971-1976, included vinyl reissues of 1971’s ZZ Top’s First Album, 1972’s Rio Grande Mud, 1973’s Tres Hombres, 1975’s Fandango! and 1976’s Tejas. It was a sellout.

ZZ Top is set to hit the road this summer for more dates of their Elevation tour. After a performance at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, Idaho, on Aug. 1, the tour kicks off Aug. 2 in Sioux City, Iowa. A complete list of dates can be found at ZZTop.com.

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On This Day, July 1, 1967 …

The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, “With a Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “When I’m Sixty Four,” “Lovely Rita” and “A Day in the Life.”

Sgt. Pepper’s was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts in the U.S. It went on to win the Grammy for album of the year, the first rock album to ever win the top award, and was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003.

A critical and commercial success, Sgt. Pepper’s has been certified 11-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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Celebrations are in order as Blondie‘s iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.

Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like “Heart of Glass,” their first #1 single, “One Way or Another” and “Hanging on the Telephone.”

The band went on to have four #1 singles, have sold over 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. And they’re still making music, with Stein revealing that a new album’s expected out sometime this year.

Harry also launched a solo career in 1981 with the album KooKoo and dabbled in acting, appearing in such movies as 1988’s Hairspray and 2002’s Deuces Wild.

She’s also been a fashion icon throughout her career; in a new interview with Vanity Fair she discussed the pressure she’s felt to look good, sharing she’s had plastic surgery because it “made me feel better about myself.”

“Maybe it made me feel happy, or more confident. It was just something that I felt necessary at the time,” she explains. “I wanted to work, and so much of women being attractive, and being a selling point, is clearly showbiz. If you’re going to be in the business, be in it.”

As for how Harry plans to celebrate 80, back in January she told the U.K. paper The Times, “I’m going to have a whopping great party with everyone there. Though one of the bad things about aging is everyone’s gone already.”

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Pearl Jam is marking the 25th anniversary of their tragic Roskilde Festival 2000 set with a live “Love Boat Captain” video.

Nine people died in a crowd crush during the band’s performance during the Danish festival. “Love Boat Captain,” which appears on PJ’s 2002 album, Riot Act, references Roskilde with the lyric, “Lost nine friends we’ll never know/ Two years ago today.”

In the new live “Love Boat Captain” video, which was recorded at Pearl Jam’s 2024 concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, frontman Eddie Vedder sings, “Lost nine friends we’ll never know/ So many years ago today.”

You can watch the performance on YouTube.

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Deep Purple has shared another preview of the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of their 18th studio album, Rapture of the Deep.

The band has released a newly remixed and remastered version of the track “Clearly Quite Absurd,” along with a B-side, “MTV (2005 Studio Jam),” which is a previously unheard instrumental take from a rehearsal session.

Both songs are available now via digital outlets.

“‘Clearly Quite Absurd’ is a very unusual Deep Purple song, which I like. We’ve always liked being unusual,” Deep Purple’s Roger Glover shares. “We don’t follow traditions, really. We are just who we are at a specific time.”

Rapture of the Deep 20th Anniversary Remix, dropping Aug. 29, will feature a remixed version of the original album along with bonus material made up of never-before-heard instrumental takes and studio rehearsal recordings.

It will be available on CD, as a three-LP black vinyl and as a limited-edition three-LP transparent sky blue vinyl, available for preorder now.

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AC/DC recently announced they were bringing their Power Up tour to Australia, and their hometown fans were certainly eager to snap up tickets.

Ticketek, which handled ticket sales for the tour, reports that AC/DC moved over 320,000 tickets in a single day, breaking a record for the most concert tickets sold in one day on the platform. The previous record for the most concert tickets sold was set in 2009, also by AC/DC.

AC/DC initially announced only five total Aussie shows, in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. After tickets went on sale they added second nights in four cities. The tour is set to kick off Nov. 12 in Melbourne and wrap Dec. 18 in Brisbane.

Next up, AC/DC brings the tour to Berlin, Germany, on Monday. A complete list of dates can be found at ac/dc.com.

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