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Rod Stewart continues to battle health issues.

After coming down with the flu, Stewart had to scrap two shows of his Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace: One was rescheduled and the other was canceled. Now, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced that his illness has further impacted his tour schedule.

“I have to cancel and reschedule my next six concerts in June as I continue to recover from the flu,” Stewart shared on Instagram. “So sorry my friends. I am devastated and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to my fans.”

He added, “I’ll be back on stage and will see you soon.”

Canceled shows include his next three concerts at The Colosseum — June 7, 9, and 10 — as well as his June 14 show in Stateline, Nevada. He also moving his June 12 show in Rancho Mirage, California to Sept. 20, and his June 15 Paso Robles, California show to Sept. 21.

Stewart is set to return to the stage to play the Legends slot June 29 at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival. His tour returns to the U.S. on July 5 in Pittsburgh. A complete list of dates can be found at RodStewart.com.

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Talking Heads just released the first-ever music video for “Psycho Killer.” Its director, Mike Mills, who helmed the Ewan McGregor/Christopher Plumber film Beginners, is revealing his thought process behind the concept.

“The last thing you want to do is pin down or reduce what the song is about. The song is so much more than being psychotic or killing,” Mills tells Vulture. “At first, I was totally daunted. I was like, How the f*** do you make a video for ‘Psycho Killer’ for my art heroes? It’s impossible. I can’t think of that idea, it’s too hard.”

“Then walking down my hallway, the idea came to me in a flash,” he adds, sharing that the video’s star, Saoirse Ronan, “isn’t at all a psycho killer or anything. It’s the environment and that life and false normality.”

The video follows Ronan through her daily routine; while the routine doesn’t change, she does, slowly unraveling as each day passes.

Mills explains, “There’s something violent in the banality of it all. It’s psychic violence, but it’s still hostile to me. I don’t think normality actually exists. It’s a construct.”

Mills says the band was totally on board with his concept, noting, “They really liked that it wasn’t reducing the meaning of the song. That’s essential to the way they work.”

Mills says both he and Ronan were nervous about the band’s reaction to the final product, but David Byrne soon sent him an email with “Brilliant” in the subject line.

“I didn’t even open the email for five hours because I was like, That’s enough. That’s a beautiful gift. I’ll just keep it at that, who knows what’s inside,” he says. “My response was, Okay, great, I don’t have to do therapy for at least a year.”

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Former Deep Purple singer/bassist Glenn Hughes is set to release his first new solo album in almost a decade.

The rocker has announced he’ll drop his 15th studio album, Chosen, on Sept. 5. He’s previewing the record with the release of the title track to digital services, along with an accompanying music video.

“Songwriting is deeply personal to me, and l generally write and record when I have something to say,” he shares. “When writing Chosen, I went back to my life drawing board, writing about the human condition, love, hope, faith, and acceptance. I write about how I feel on the inside and not externally.”

He adds, “My life is lived from within, in the present moment. It’s an album of soul food, and I’ve never been so grateful, right here, on planet earth. Music is the healer!”

Chosen, Hughes’ first solo album since 2016’s Resonate, is available for preorder now.

Hughes is set to hit the road in support of the album this fall with a European tour that kicks off Sept. 2 in the Netherlands. A complete list of dates can be found at GlennHughes.com.

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The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood made an appearance at the band’s official store on London’s Carnaby Street Thursday as part of a celebration of his 50 years with the band.

“From memorable stage looks to legendary guitars and iconic art prints, we marked the milestone with a look back at five decades of rock ’n’ roll,” the store wrote on Instagram next to video from the evening, which shows Wood checking out some of the memorabilia on display.

Wood also debuted new artwork, titled 50 – The Portraits, featuring drawings of himself and his bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the late Charlie Watts.

Canvas prints of the collection are now available to purchase online and at the Carnaby Street store. There’s also a limited-edition set of all four prints that comes with a 7-inch never-before-heard demo made by Ronnie. The sets are all individually named, numbered and hand signed.

Following Mick Taylor‘s departure from The Stones, Wood took part in their recording session for their 1975 album Black and Blue and went on to tour with the band that year. He became an official member of The Stones in April 1976.

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Guns N’ Roses are hitting Latin America this fall.

The band just announced 13 new tour dates that will have them playing Mexico, Central America and South America.

The new dates kick off Oct. 1 in San José, Costa Rica, followed by shows in El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru, before wrapping Nov. 8 in Mexico City.

A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at GunNRoses.com.

The “Sweet Child O’ Mine” rockers are currently on the first leg of their 2025 tour, with the trek hitting Coimbra, Portugal, on Friday. The summer dates culminate with a July 31 appearance at the Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany.

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While many Billy Joel fans know that his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, was originally married to his bandmate Jon Small, they may not be aware that Elizabeth and Jon had a son, Sean Weber-Small, who lived with Billy and Elizabeth during their marriage. In the new Billy Joel documentary And So It Goes, part one of which premiered Wednesday at the Tribeca Festival, Sean and Elizabeth open up for the first time about their relationship with The Piano Man.

“My mother and I have been silent about any of our time with Billy since really 1983,” Sean tells People. “Those memories we had, they were ours. So I’ve kind of felt like by talking about them, it would kind of cheapen them somehow, if that makes any weird sense.”

As for why they’re speaking now, Sean says, “My mom didn’t get her due for a long time and kept her mouth shut, and kind of, in my opinion, took the high road. So people are going to get to hear her story and our story.”

While he, his mom and Billy lived together as a family, Sean tells People, “Billy was always really clear that I had a dad. He wasn’t my dad.” He described Billy as more of a “conspiratorial uncle” with whom he was “always getting into trouble.”

Sean says after Billy and Elizabeth split, he would see Billy if they happened to be in the same place at the same time, and also kept in touch via phone and email. He says looking back on his time with Billy via the film has been “healing.”

And So It Goes, which will premiere on HBO in July, also details Billy’s two pre-fame suicide attempts, his drinking and his reckless behavior with motorcycles. 

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Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is back with new music.

Campbell and his band The Dirty Knobs just released the new tune “Heart of a Heartland,” which he says is a song “he’s very proud of.”

“It’s kind of like a travelogue through the middle of America,” Campbell shares on Instagram. “The music is very simple, but the lyrics refer to a lot of American landscapes and sentiments. Many of the images are drawn from things I’ve seen in my travels through the heartland over the years.”

He adds, “It was also really fun to have strings on the song, thanks to Patrick Warren’s arrangement.”

The tune is the first new song from Campbell and The Dirty Knobs since they released the 2024 album Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits. They just kicked off a new tour, which hits Toronto on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at TheDirtyKnobs.com.

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Black Sabbath‘s massive Back to the Beginning reunion and farewell concert will stream online.

The sold-out show will take place July 5 in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham, England, and the stream will begin at 10 a.m. ET. The stream’s site notes that it will “be delayed 2 hours from the in-arena start time.”

“We had such an overwhelming demand from fans from around the globe, who couldn’t get tickets to the show, and they took to social media, pleading with us to broadcast a livestream of the show,” Sharon Osbourne says in a statement. “Being this is such a historic event, we just couldn’t let them down.” 

A ticket to the stream costs $29.99, and you can also purchase a T-shirt/ticket bundle for $64.98. For more info, visit BacktotheBeginning.com.

Back to the Beginning will mark the final Sabbath performance and will feature all the original members — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — playing together live for the first time in 20 years. Ozzy will also perform a solo set in what will be his last-ever concert.

Also on the stacked bill are Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon. Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello will be the show’s musical director.

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A new box set dedicated Rush’s final years with Atlantic Records is out now.

The Albums: 2002-2012 is made up of vinyl copies of four records: 2002’s Vapor Trails, the 2004 EP Feedback, 2007’s Snakes & Arrows and their final album, 2012’s Clockwork Angels.

The Albums: 2002-2012 is available as a limited-edition seven-LP set, with only 3,000 copies being released worldwide. It can be purchased at RushBackstage.com and Rhino.com.

This marks the second box set dedicated to Rush’s years at Atlantic. The first, The Albums: 1989-1996, was made up of their first four studio albums with the label, 1989’s Presto, 1991’s Roll the Bones, 1993’s Counterparts and 1996’s Test the Echo.

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Walk This Road, the Doobie Brothers‘ first album of original material with Michael McDonald since 1980, is out now. It’s named after a song called “Walk This Road,” a track about unity and coexistence that features Mavis Staples. McDonald explains why the song’s theme made it the right album title.

“With titles for records, we were always looking for … something that encapsulates the idea of the whole project, or at least an idea of where you are as an artist at that moment,” he tells ABC Audio. “And I think for us, it checked a few boxes: A. That we’re back together in a form that we haven’t been [before] and kind of trudging this road together once again.”

McDonald, the voice behind Doobie hits like “What a Fool Believes” and “Minute by Minute,” adds that the title “seemed to, in the immediate sense, speak to us as a band, as individuals getting back together to do a record again.” In addition, it represents “where we’re at in the big picture, as a people.”

The Walk This Road lineup also features founding members Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons, plus John McFee, who joined in 1979. McDonald and Johnston previously overlapped for one album — 1976’s Taking It to the Streets — so Simmons says Walk This Road was “an opportunity for those two to connect musically.”

“They’re both real R&B freaks. So being able to employ that on this record really made a difference in terms of just the enjoyment factor,” he says.

And Simmons also appreciates having McDonald back in the mix.

“A lot of people often, rightly so, talk about what a wonderful voice Mike has, and that’s kind of been what gets spotlighted a lot in his music,” says Simmons. “But he is a heck of a keyboard player.”

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