Classic Rock News

Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour has attracted some celebrity fans.

The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer shared photos on Instagram from recent tour stops in San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta and Nashville, with pop star Sabrina Carpenter making a cameo in one of the photos. She even commented on the post, “best show ever,” with three heart emojis.

According to the McCartney tour blog on his website, Carpenter attended the rocker’s show in Nashville on Nov. 6. And she wasn’t the only celeb in attendance, with the blog noting that former Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars, Kacey Musgraves, Robyn Hitchcock and Wilco’s Pat Sansone were spotted at the show.

McCartney kicked off this leg of his Got Back tour back in September. He’s set to wrap the tour on Tuesday with his second night at Chicago’s United Center.

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Flea is finally ready to see what the fuss with this whole YouTube thing is all about.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has launched his own channel on the video sharing platform. His first video is called “thinkin” and contains a minute of him playing a trumpet for a delighted toddler.

In addition to being known for his bass skills, Flea is adept at the trumpet. In fact, according to Nick Cave, Flea has a trumpet album in the works and the two collaborated on a song together for the project.

Along with playing trumpet for a variety of audiences, Flea played the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Nov. 8 in honor of the late Sly Stone. Highlights from ceremony will air during an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.

The Chili Peppers, meanwhile, had a relatively quiet 2025 after a whirlwind few years touring in support of their two 2022 albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen. They did, however, perform at the FireAid benefit concert in January.

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Joni Mitchell is set to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Juno Awards, happening March 29 at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The 82-year-old singing legend is being celebrated for her “outstanding artistic contributions and enduring impact on global music culture,” according to a press release.

Mitchell is already a four-time Juno Award winner. The Junos, handed out by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, are the Canadian equivalent to the Grammys.

The Lifetime Achievement Award adds to the many honors Mitchell has already received over the course of her career. In her native Canada, she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and received Canada’s highest honor, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement, in 1991. She was also named Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2002 and was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

In the U.S., Mitchell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. She also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2021 and the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2023.

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Lindsey Buckingham fans can look forward to a new album that’s on the way.

The former Fleetwood Mac star revealed the news in a post on Instagram, which featured a video of him describing what inspired the record.

“This new album is just representative of the culmination of everything that I’ve learned from making solo records over the last 25 years,” he says in the clip. “I feel like this particular album is the culmination of holding a certain line ethically and idealistically that I’ve managed to maintain for many years.”

“So I’m really excited about this piece of work,” he adds.

Buckingham didn’t reveal any other details about this new album, such as a title or a release date.

Whenever it is released, it will be Buckingham’s first solo album since his 2021 self-titled release, which was the first album he released after undergoing open heart surgery in 2019.

Back in September, Buckingham and his former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks reissued their only studio album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks, marking the first-ever reissue of the album, which has been unavailable for decades.

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Foo Fighters have premiered a new animated video for their cover of Chuck Berry‘s seasonal classic “Run Rudolph Run.”

The clip features a cartoon Santa and his reindeer jamming guitars. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.

The Foos originally released their “Run Rudolph Run” in 2020 exclusively for Amazon Music. It was then released wide in 2021.

In other Foos news, Dave Grohl and company are set to headline the 2026 Pinkpop festival, taking place June 19-21 in the Netherlands. The bill also includes headliners Twenty One Pilots and The Cure.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit Pinkpop.nl.

Foo Fighters’ 2026 schedule also includes a U.S. stadium tour kicking off in August.

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It sounds like we may one day see an ABBA-type hologram show devoted to the band Queen.

In the latest edition of Big Issue, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor discuss whether they’d be open to continuing the band’s legacy with such a production. They seem open to the idea, with May noting that the band has “so many opportunities” to keep Queen and its music alive for fans.

“I mean things that are immersive, like The Sphere in Las Vegas, it will be possible to give people the experience very closely of what things were like for us when we were Freddie, John, Brian and Roger. And that really appeals to me,” he says, referring to their late frontman, Freddie Mercury, and drummer John Deacon, who retired in 1997.

“In our Queen shows for a very long time I’ve been doing ‘Love of My Life.’ And in the end, Freddie comes in and joins me as on video. It was just quite simply done, but it’s a way of involving Freddie, and I think we can basically take that a lot further,” May continues. “It wouldn’t be just playing old footage or whatever. It would be creating Queen as if we were creating it today.”

He adds, “I’m very taken with the idea that we can be the original Queen again.”

And while Taylor says he enjoyed the ABBA show, Voyages, he did have some issues with it, although that hasn’t turned him off to the idea.

“I didn’t find the actual projections that convincing,” he says of Voyages. “I do think technology now has come so much further since the ABBA show started, I think a lot more can be done.”

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Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter have announced a run of U.K. shows for 2026.

The dates will take place July 11, July 12 and Aug. 2 in Halifax, Manchester and Scarborough, England, respectively, with a stop in Cardiff, Wales, in between on Aug. 1.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For all ticket info, visit SexPistolsFeaturingFrankCarter.com.

The current incarnation of the Pistols features original members Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, plus Carter on vocals in place of frontman John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon.

The Pistols and Carter were set to launch a U.S. tour in September, but the outing was postponed due to Jones breaking his wrist. Rescheduled dates have yet to be announced.

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R&B/funk group Labelle, best known for their iconic hit “Lady Marmalade,” is the subject of a new rock opera now in development.

The show, titled Labelle, is being written by band member Nona Hendryx and Tony Award winner Lynn Nottage. It will follow the group — which also included Patti LaBelle and Sarah Dash — from their beginnings as a doo-wop group in the 1960s to their reinvention in the 1970s.

According to the description, the show plans to capture “how Labelle broke barriers of race, gender, and genre— blending rock, funk, soul, and glam to forge a bold new sound that transformed the music industry and inspired generations of artists to follow.”

“This rock opera will be an immersive celebration of artistic liberation, cultural defiance, and the timeless power of women who refused to be contained,” Hendryx says. “I cannot wait to bring our story to life in a way that honors our legacy while pushing the boundaries of what theatrical storytelling can be.”

Labelle, the first Black vocal group ever to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, released “Lady Marmalade” in 1974. The song went on to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. They also had hits with such tracks as “What Can I Do for You?” and “Nightbirds.”

“Lady Marmalade” has been covered several times, most notably in 2001 by Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mya and Lil’ Kim for the soundtrack to Moulin Rouge. Their version also went to #1.

In 2021 the Labelle version was chosen by the Library of Congress for induction in the National Recording Registry.

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Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers is featured in the new video for rock band Halestorm’s cover of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s classic track “Shooting Star.”

The song is one of several covers that appear on the Bad Company tribute album Can’t Get Enough, and the clip features Halestorm and Rodgers recording their parts from their respective studios.

“Rock n’ Roll with a soul wouldn’t exist without Paul Rodgers,” Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale says. “We grew up on the songs and sounds he gifted to the world, and we are honored to be on this record paying tribute to one of the greatest singers of all time.”

Can’t Get Enough was released in October. It also includes contributions from Def Leppard, The Pretty Reckless, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, The Struts, Dirty Honey and Black Stone Cherry.

Bad Company, meanwhile, was among the 2025 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rodgers did not attend the Nov. 8 ceremony due to health issues, but he recorded a video message that played following the Bad Company induction.

Highlights from the 2025 Rock Hall induction ceremony will air as an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.

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With Soundgarden now joining Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, three-quarters of the “big four” of grunge have officially been inducted. The odd one out is Alice in Chains, which Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready thinks is an oversight that should soon be corrected.

“Alice is one of the bands that came up with all of us,” McCready told ABC Audio on the red carpet of the 2025 induction ceremony on Nov. 8. “They … kinda hit first out of everyone.”

Indeed, Alice in Chains’ 1990 debut album, Facelift, was the first grunge record to be certified Gold by the RIAA, earning the distinction before Nirvana’s Nevermind or Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger were even released.

“We went on tour with them early on opening up for [Alice] and down the West Coast and had all sorts of crazy stuff going on,” McCready laughed. “It was fun.”

The ultimate argument for Alice’s induction into the Rock Hall is, as McCready put it, that “they’re a f****** great band.” 

Both McCready and Alice’s Jerry Cantrell performed with Soundgarden during the 2025 Rock Hall induction ceremony. Highlights from the event will air as an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.

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