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Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is sharing another preview of his upcoming live album, The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall, which will be released July 11.

The album is a live recording from Hackett’s U.K. tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. He just released a video featuring a live performance of the track “Fly on a Windshield,” featuring a guest appearance from Marillion’s Steve Rothery.

Hackett calls the performance “one of my favorite moments on the album,” noting, “I very much enjoyed creating my guitar contribution for this track, and on this release is also Steve Rothery’s fabulous contribution, as we exchange licks.”

The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall will be released as a special-edition two-CD and Blu-ray set, as well as on vinyl as a deluxe four-LP set. Both are available for preorder now.

Hackett is set to revisit The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway once again this fall when he brings his Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights and Solo tour to North America. The trek kicks off Oct. 4 in Ithaca, New York, and wraps Nov. 22 in Portland, Oregon. A complete list of dates can be found at hackettsongs.com.

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Bruce Springsteen fans can look forward to a new album next year. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, The Boss gave an update on what he’s been working on, sharing, “I have a record finished.”

Although he didn’t offer up too many details, he says, “It’s a solo record … I would imagine it will come out in ’26 sometime.”

The Boss also reconfirmed previous reports that he’s recorded a follow-up to 2022’s Only the Strong Survive, which was filled with classic soul and R&B covers.

“It’s been finished for quite a while,” he says. “The covers records are things I make for my own amusement and entertainment when I’m not writing. It was just a project that I had a lot of fun doing. And I love all that music, I love all those songs and those singers.”

He adds, “So I do have another one, and there’s other covers things I’ve done that were not necessarily soul-related, so it’s another project.”

Springsteen also set the record straight about the long-rumored all-band version of his 1982 solo album Nebraska, first insisting to the mag “it doesn’t exist.”

“We tried to do a few songs with the band for a few minor electric versions of Nebraska, maybe something else, I’m not sure,” he says. “But that record simply doesn’t exist.”

But he later corrected himself, leaving a voice message for the journalist he talked to: “I checked our vault and there IS an electric Nebraska record, though it does not have the full album of songs.”

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Looks like we can expect to hear some new music from ASIA soon.

The band – whose current lineup includes founding member Geoff Downes, drummer Virgil Donati, guitarist John Mitchell and vocalist and bassist Harry Whitley – has just signed a new record deal with Frontiers Music Srl.

“ASIA is thrilled to have recently signed a new deal with Frontiers Music Srl,” Downes shares, noting they are “now entering an exciting new chapter in the band’s 45-year history with a sequence of live albums, DVDs and a brand new studio album scheduled for a 2026 release.”

He adds of the label, “It’s very much a homecoming for the band, and so we are greatly looking forward to a long and fruitful partnership with them in the future. Watch this space!”

Formed in 1981, ASIA was made up of  John Wetton, Steve Howe, Downes, and Carl Palmer, all members of well known prog rock groups.  Their 1982 self-titled debut hit #1 in the U.S., thanks to songs like “Heat of the Moment” and “Only Time Will Tell.”

The band has gone through multiple lineup changes over the years, with the original four reuniting in 2006, until Howe retired from the band in 2013. Wetton passed away in 2016. Different lineups continued to tour over the years, with the new lineup launching their first tour in 2024.

ASIA released their last album, Gravitas, in 2014.

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Neil Young launched his love earth tour with his new band The Chrome Hearts in Rättvik, Sweden, on Wednesday, treating fans to some classic hits, as well as tunes he hasn’t played in a while.

According to setlist.fm, Young kicked things off with a solo performance of “Sugar Mountain,” sprinkling the 15-song set with fan favorites like “Harvest Moon,” “Cinnamon Girl,” “F*****’ Up,” “Old Man,” “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” and “Like a Hurricane.”

He also performed a solo version of “The Needle and the Damage Done” for the first time since 2019; the Greendale tracks “Sun Green” for the first time since 2004 and “Be the Rain” for the first time since 2014; and the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Looking Forward” for the first time since 2000.

Young ended the night with his iconic track “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

Missing from the set were any songs from Talkin To the Trees, Young’s recently released album with The Chrome Hearts.

Young’s love earth tour hits Bergen, Norway, on Friday. He is set to play the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival on June 28. The tour comes to North America Aug. 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A complete list of dates can be found at NeilYoungArchives.com.

The tour is Young’s first trek since cancelling his 2024 tour with Crazy Horse due to health issues. Prior to that he went on a small West Coast tour in summer 2023, which was his first since 2019.

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KISS’ Paul Stanley says he felt a bit betrayed by his bandmate Gene Simmons in the ’80s when Simmons went off to pursue other projects when he should have been concentrating on the next KISS album.

“I felt betrayed. No secret, I felt that he was leaving me to do the heavy work but continued to get paid. So, you know, trying to have the best of both worlds,” Stanley said on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast. “Go off and do your own thing, and have the success at any level that there was success, and the monetary compensation, which I’m not sharing in, but you’re abandoning ship and you’re still my partner.”

Simmons dabbled in acting in the ’80s, nabbing parts in TV and movies, including an appearance on Miami Vice. Stanley says at the time he felt “very resentful and hurt,” but it forced him to commit even more to KISS.

“Gene’s my brother, he’s been with me since I was 17. So that was difficult, really difficult,” he said. “But again it was, ‘Well screw it, I’m not gonna let this band fall apart.’ If it’s my band in that sense, then so be it. … But yeah, I felt that he was selling the band short. … I thought he wasn’t playing fair.”

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Bruce Springsteen was often seen on the New Jersey set of the upcoming movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and he tells Rolling Stone that while he enjoyed his time there, it wasn’t always easy seeing his life acted out in front of him.

Springsteen is played by Jeremy Allen White in the film, and Bruce says of being on set, “I’m sure it was  much worse for the actor than for me.”

“Jeremy Allen White was very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set,” he shares. “I said to him, ‘Look, anytime I’m in the way, just give me the look and I’m on my way home.’ So the days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there. And it was just fun. It was enjoyable.”

Bruce does say there was “some unusualness” watching the film being made “because the movie involves, in some ways, some of the most painful days of my life. But it was a great project.”

He says White and Jeremy Strong, who plays his manager, Jon Landau, are “both fantastic, terrific in it as were all the other actors.” Springsteen adds that Stephen Graham, who plays his dad, is “out of this world” and that everyone involved in the film “were all tremendous.”

But Springsteen wasn’t always around for the more emotional scenes. He says, “If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn’t want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home.”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere follows The Boss’ efforts to make his 1982 solo album Nebraska. It hits theaters Oct. 24.

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Queen has contributed a unique piece of music history to an upcoming auction.

The band announced that an original white label 7-inch test pressing of their 1975 classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” will be part of the upcoming White Label Auction to benefit the Brit Trust on Oct. 7.

“With just a handful produced ahead of a release so artists, managers and labels can check the audio is just as it should be, these white label test pressings can be highly collectible, and, as the past five editions of the auction have shown, there is demand for them from collectors around the world,” White Label Auction founder and organizer Johnny Chandler shares. “As ever, I’m excited for this next auction, not least as we have an incredibly rare gem in the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ 7” single to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release.”

Full details of the auction have yet to be announced, but Queen notes in a post on Instagram that “hundreds of rare lots” will be up for grabs.

The Brit Trust is a music industry charity established in 1989 to “improve lives through the power of music and the creative arts.” The annual White Label Auction has raised over $215,000 for the charity.

“Bohemian Rhapsody,” written by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, was featured on their album A Night at the Opera. It hit #1 in the U.K. and was Queen’s first chart-topper. The song was rereleased in 1991 following Mercury’s death and returned to the #1 spot.

In 1992, after it was included in the comedy blockbuster Wayne’s World, “Bohemian Rhapsody” returned to the chart again and peaked at #2 in the U.S.

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Mötley Crüe is looking to kickstart your weekend with some news.

The metal vets have shared an Instagram post teasing an announcement happening Friday. The accompanying photo features only what appears to be the letters Y and C in “Mötley Crüe” lit up on a billboard, while the caption is tagged #whoscominghome.

Things have been fairly quiet in the Mötley world since the band postponed their Las Vegas residency due to frontman Vince Neil undergoing an unspecified medical procedure. The Vegas shows, which were originally scheduled to begin in March, are currently set to kick off in September.

Mötley is also set to perform at the inaugural Rock the Tides festival in Mexico in November.

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Deep Purple is revisiting their 1972 live album Made in Japan, which featured performances from two shows in Osaka and one in Tokyo.

The band is set to release a new super deluxe edition of the record on Aug. 15: a five-CD/Blu-Ray set that includes new stereo and Dolby ATMOS mixes of the original album by producer Steven Wilson, as well as newly remixed versions of all three concerts and three rare single edits.

“It’s all completely as it happened on the night,” Wilson says of the new mix. “The album has a power and sense of abandon that they never quite captured in the studio. Hopefully this new mix makes it feel even more like you’re there.”

As a preview of the new set, Deep Purple has released a performance of “Highway Star,” recorded in Osaka, to digital services.

The set will also be released digitally and as a 10-LP black vinyl edition, which will be exclusively available on DeepPurple.com and Rhino.com. There will also be a two-LP vinyl edition featuring the Wilson remix, available in the U.S. on Oct. 3.

Live in Japan featured performances of songs from Deep Purple’s recently released album Machine Head, including their now-classic “Smoke on the Water,” as well as songs like “Child in Time” and “Strange Kind of Woman.”

The double LP was supposed to come out only in Japan, but eventually got a wider release. It was released in America that December and was a huge success. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Made in Japan (Super Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

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