Lenny Kravitz is getting ready to release a new music video for the track “Let It Ride,” and he’s shared a tease of the clip on Instagram.
The rocker posted a short snippet of the video, which has him sitting in a chair — shirtless, of course — bathed in red light. The caption reveals that the video will be released on Friday.
“Let It Ride” is the latest single Kravitz is releasing from his album Blue Electric Light, which came out last May. Other singles from the album include “TK421,” “Human,” “Paralyzed” and “Honey.”
Lenny is currently on a European tour that hits Bologna, Italy, on Monday. He’s set to play several festival dates in the U.S. this year, starting with the Beachlife Festival in Redondo Beach, California, on May 2. A complete list of dates can be found at LennyKravitz.com.
The outing, which runs from June 7 in Baltimore to June 29 in Minneapolis, will celebrate the respective 30th and 25th anniversaries of the Smashing Pumpkins‘ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Machina/The Machines of God & Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music.
Corgan will also be playing songs off the latest Pumpkins album, 2024’s Aghori Mhori Mei.
Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
In related news, the Pumpkins have announced a remastered and remixed reissue of Machina/The Machines of God & Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music as an 80-song box set, available exclusively at Corgan’s Madame Zuzu’s tea shop in Highland Park, Illinois.
The guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana‘s famed MTV Unplugged performance is going on display.
The 1959 Martin D-18E will be part of an exhibit at London’s Royal College of Music Museum from June 3 to Nov. 18. It will be accompanied by the green cardigan Cobain wore during the Unplugged set, marking the first time both it and the guitar will be displayed together.
Cobain’s Unplugged guitar was auctioned off for $6 million in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. The winning bidder was Peter Freedman, founder of the Australian company Rode Microphones.
Freedman told ABC Audio in 2020 that he hoped to bring the guitar to music education spaces.
Former REO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin wants fans to know he isn’t deliberately skipping out on a planned REO Speedwagon reunion.
The event in question, Honoring the Legacy of REO Speedwagon – A Concert Event – Back Where it All Began, is happening June 14 in the band’s hometown of Champaign, Illinois, and includes REO’s Bruce Hall and Neal Doughty, as well as original drummer Alan Gratzer, guitarist Steve Scorfina, rhythm guitarist Mike Murphy and original frontman Terry Luttrell.
When a fan noted on Facebook he thought it “would be nice” for Cronin to attend the concert, Cronin set the record straight about why he wasn’t going to be there.
“The organizers of the Champaign event could have picked a date when all of the former members of REO were available to participate,” he commented. “Instead they chose June 14, 2025, a date where it was public knowledge that I was previously committed to perform with Styx and Kevin Cronin Band in Bend, Oregon.”
“Bottom line, I am being asked to participate in an event on a date when I can’t possibly be there in-person. And then being falsely accused of turning down the invitation,” he added. “I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this.”
Finally, Cronin noted, “After all I have done to help build the legacy of REO Speedwagon, I feel I have earned and deserve to be included in any event honoring that legacy. Instead, I have been knowingly excluded.”
Hall then responded to Cronin’s comments insisting everyone in REO was invited to participate, and while Kevin says he was “falsely accused” of snubbing the event, Hall notes, “I’ve seen no where it’s been said he turned it down and I know he’s been asked to participate virtually. I truly hope he does.”
John Fogerty is turning 80 this year and he’ll celebrate the milestone on stage.
The Creedence Clearwater Revival rocker has announced he’ll headline a May 28 birthday show at New York’s Beacon Theatre. The show will have Fogerty backed by his sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will treat fans to a set filled with his classic hits.
Local presales for tickets kick off Wednesday at 10 a.m. with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday at 10 a.m.
Fogerty’s birthday show is one of many concerts he has on the schedule this year. He’s set to play New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 24, and will launch a European tour on June 20 in Spain. He’s also confirmed for the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival, taking place June 25-29. It will be his first time performing at Glastonbury in nearly 20 years.
A complete list of Fogerty dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.
Carlos Santana’s new career-spanning album, Sentient, is out now. It features 11 tracks, including three previously unreleased songs.
The album features collaborations with artists like Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Cindy Blackman Santana and more, and Santana tells ABC Audio it wasn’t any one thing, or person, that inspired him to make the album.
“Someone orchestrates all of these things to happen for me and with me,” he says. “All I have to do is listen to that inner voice and be true to it.”
Carlos says the title of the album came from the idea of a sentient being, someone who he says has “graduated from the animal kingdom” and now “thinks more, like, angelic.”
“’Sentient’ to me is a very, very powerful word. I believe that we all have it,” he says. “We have to learn how to manifest it daily.”
The album features new versions of the Jackson songs “Whatever Happens” and “Stranger in Moscow.” While Santana wasn’t in the studio with Michael, there was no way he was turning down the opportunity to be on a Jackson song.
“Like I’m going to say, ‘No, of course not,’” he says. “I’m an absolute thousand percent, million percent Michael Jackson fan. So I’m very honored that Michael would, his spirit would, invite me to partake with his incredible song.”
And Carlos is hoping that with their inclusion on Sentient, “Whatever Happens” and the Smokey tune “Don’t Take Your Love Away” will now reach a wider audience.
“I became the recipient of something that didn’t get the fullest of attention,” he says. “It is now on my album and we’re creating a lot of traction for Michael Jackson and Smokey. And I get to be part of this incredible offering.
Gene Simmons wants KISS fans to know they weren’t lying when they played what they said were their “farewell” shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden in December 2023.
The band recently announcement that Simmons and Paul Stanley will be headlining an “unmasked” KISS performance at November’s KISS Army Storms Vegas event, which will be their first show since those farewell gigs. In a new interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Simmons appears to fire back at critics of the new performance, noting the Vegas gig won’t be a usual KISS production.
“We will not do the makeup. We will hold true to the promise,” Simmons said. “There’s no stage show. There’s no crew. We won’t have 60 people levitating drum sets and all that stuff.”
He adds, “This is [a] more personal gathering of the tribes, where we meet them, greet them, maybe have a Q&A.”
As for what fans should expect from the event, Simmons notes, “There might be some KISS tribute bands, almost like a convention, if you will. So it’s much more personal. And of course, we can’t get by without playing, so we’ll get up and do some tunes. What they are, how long, I don’t know.”
KISS Army Storms Vegas will be held Nov. 14-16 at the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. More info, including ticket information, can be found at kissarmystormsvegas.com.
Back in October 2023, Roger Waters released The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, a reimagined version of Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon. Now one of his former bandmates is revealing what he thought about it.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he thinks many people had the wrong idea about Roger’s motivations behind the release, which coincided with Dark Side‘s 50th anniversary.
“I really liked it,” he says of the album. “There was a lot of talk about whether he’s trying to spoil it for the anniversary and stuff like that, and it was so not that. It was, ‘Let’s have another look at it from a different perspective.’”
He adds, “No one’s going to go, ‘I’m going to buy that one, I’m not going to buy that one.’ They’re interesting enough for everyone to go, ‘I’ll have both.’”
When it comes to Dark Side, Mason says one of his big regrets is that Pink Floyd didn’t spend more time touring on the album and that they didn’t film themselves performing it live.
“If one could play the whole thing back all over again, we probably should have taken longer, we should have spent more time playing Dark Side live and not worried about going back into the studio to make Wish You Were Here,” he says. “We actually spent quite a long time in the studio having not a great time when we could have just actually drawn things out a bit longer, done more live work and filmed it.”
INXS has offered up another preview of their upcoming 40th anniversary deluxe edition of their album Listen Like Thieves.
The latest taste is a previously unreleased studio demo of the song “Kiss the Dirt.” It is the second track released from the deluxe edition, following a live performance of “Biting Bullets.”
Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will feature a brand-new remix of the album by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks, along with unreleased outtakes and demos. There will also be a new interview with the band, plus a newly unearthed BBC recording, Live From The Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986.
In addition to the three-CD/LP deluxe edition, there will be a two-CD extended edition, which includes the new mix and the CD of B-sides, remixes and live recordings, as well as a single LP edition with just the remix.
INXS — Michael Hutchence, brothers Andrew, Jon and Tim Farriss, and Garry Gary Beers — releasedListen Like Thieves on Oct. 14, 1985. It was the band’s fifth studio album and was considered to be their international breakthrough. It featured the Aussie rockers’ first top-five single, “What You Need,” with the album reaching #11 in the U.S.
Ringo Starr has released an all-star rendition of The Beatles’ classic “With A Little Help From My Friends,” with proceeds going to help California wildfire relief efforts.
The song was recorded live during Ringo’s January shows at the Ryman Auditorium. It features the superstar guests who joined him for the concerts, including Sheryl Crow, The White Stripes’ Jack White, Mickey Guyton, Emmylou Harris, Brenda Lee and Billy String.
“With A Little Help My Friends” is available now via digital outlets. Starr will donate 100% of the song’s proceeds from now until March 27, 2026, to the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity ReBUILD LA.
“I love LA and have lived there for many years, and while we were recording this in Nashville, many of us had family and friends who were dealing with the wildfires in Los Angeles,” said Ringo. “It was so great performing this song with these incredible artists and we all wanted to do something to help. I think the song says it all really, ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ and we send it to all those affected by the fires with Peace and Love.”
The two-hour special Ringo & Friends at the Ryman, filmed during his two-night stand in Nashville, aired in early March on CBS. It is now streaming on Paramount+.
Next up, Ringo and his All-Starr Band are set to kick off a new tour on June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They’ll also return to Las Vegas this fall, with dates at the Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort starting Sept. 17 and wrapping Sept. 24.
A complete list of dates can be found at RingoStarr.com.
