Rod Stewart One Last Time tour artwork (Courtesy Live Nation)
Rod Stewart is extending his One Last Time tour with new dates in 2026.
The newly added shows kick off March 13, in Uncasville, Connecticut, and include stops in Houston, Phoenix, Cincinnati, Hollywood and more, before concluding in Kansas City on Aug. 15.
Howard Jones and Richard Marx will join Rod on the trek for select dates.
An artist presale begins Monday at 10 a.m. local time, with additional presales running throughout the week. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.com.
In between the tour, Rod will also be returning to Las Vegas for another round of his residency, The Encore Shows. He has dates mapped out from May 27 through June 6.
His One Last Time world tour initially kicked off in 2024, with shows throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America.
‘Alice in Chains’ album artwork. (Sony Music Entertainment)
Alice in Chains has announced a deluxe reissue of their 1995 self-titled album in honor of its 30th anniversary.
The package includes the original record across two vinyl LPs, plus three 7-inch singles, posters, art prints and a hardcover cover book, among other memorabilia.
You can preorder your copy now via the Alice in Chains web store.
The album Alice in Chains is certified double-Platinum by the RIAA and spawned the singles “Grind,” “Heaven Beside You” and “Again.” It marks the band’s final studio effort with frontman Layne Staley, who died in 2002.
Alice in Chains reformed in 2005 with new vocalist William DuVall.
‘Live at the Roxy Theatre’ album artwork. (Oglio Records)
The late Brian Wilson‘s performance of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows” from his Live at the Roxy Theatre live album now has a lyric video.
Live at the Roxy Theatre was recorded over two nights at the famed West Hollywood venue in April 2000. The set is now being reissued in honor of its 25th anniversary.
You can watch the new “God Only Knows” lyric video on YouTube.
The Live at the Roxy Theatre reissue, which was released Friday, includes the original track list, plus never-before-heard performances and tour recordings from between 2000 and 2009.
Elton John is among the nominees for the 2026 Grammys.
The Rocket Man’s collaboration with Brandi Carlile, “Never Too Late,” recorded for his documentary of the same name, is up for best song written for visual media. The pair’s collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels?, is nominated in the best traditional pop vocal album category.
Other Grammy nominees include the Devo documentary Devo for best music film and Joni Mitchell‘s Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) for best historical album.
The 2026 Grammys will air Feb. 1 on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Carlos Santana has teamed up with Mexican musician Carín León for a new song called “Velas.”
“This song is about something that both God and humans love; it’s called romance,” Santana says. “Romance is a bridge between humans and God. We all pray for something, to God or the universe.”
“What I hope people will feel when they hear this song is that they want to give each other a hug,” he adds. “There’s so much negativity in the world right now that we need a hug of light.”
You can watch the “Velas” video, which features both Santana and León, on YouTube.
Santana will resume his Las Vegas residence on Saturday. The 2025 leg concludes Nov. 16; a 2026 leg kicks off in January.
KISS has announced a reissue of their famed 1975 Alive! live album in honor of its 50th anniversary.
The super-deluxe edition boasts eight vinyl LPs featuring the original record remastered, rehearsal tracks, and bonus live recordings from 1975 shows in Davenport, Iowa; Wildwood, New Jersey; and Cleveland.
The package also includes various memorabilia, such as tour poster and programs, photos and ticket stubs.
Preorders are currently open exclusively to members of the KISS Army fan club. For more info, visit KISS’ web store.
After developing a cult following with their first three records, Alive! helped KISS truly break into the mainstream. The album turned “Rock and Roll All Nite” into KISS’ signature hit, and also introduced songs including “Strutter” and “Black Diamond” to wider audiences.
Bruce Springsteen topped the Billboard 200 chart with Tunnel of Love, his eighth studio album.
The album was inspired by changes in Springsteen’s personal life, as his marriage to actress Julianne Phillips was in trouble. Phillips would file for divorce in August 1988.
Springsteen recorded most of the album by himself, although some members of the E Street Band appeared on songs. It is not considered to be a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band release.
Singles released from the album include “Brilliant Disguise,” which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the title track, which went to #9.
Tunnel of Love would go on to be certified triple Platinum by the RIAA.
Cyndi Lauper will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Chappell Roan on Saturday. In that moment, she’ll be thinking of all the female artists who’ve proceeded her, and those who’ll follow her.
Cyndi shouted out her heroes, including Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Joni Mitchell, on Instagram when her induction was announced in April and added, “Women have made so many important contributions to music and to rock n roll and a win for one of us is a win for all of us.”
“For a long, long time, we weren’t included, or very few of us were included,” Cyndi told ABC Audio of that post. “So, of course, I stand on the shoulders of the women that came before us.”
As the accolades piled up throughout her career — including two Grammys, an Emmy and a Tony — Cyndi’s kept this mind.
“Every award I got, I said the same thing. I said, ‘Thank you for all of the people that came before me, the women whose shoulders I stand on and the women that will come after me,'” she recalled. “Because you’re just a chain in a line of history — or ‘herstory.’ I like that word.”
Pat Benatar, a fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and friend of Cyndi’s, couldn’t agree more.
Until recently, Benatar told ABC Audio, “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it wasn’t really balanced about how many women were going in. It was mostly men. It took us 22 years to get in ourselves.”
“So it’s great to see her finally get in too because she deserves to be there,” added Benatar. “She’s such a great artist. … She has so many facets to what she does.”
“It’s just the more the merrier!” Benatar said. “Every time another woman gets in there, I’m really happy.”
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will stream live on Disney+ Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. ABC will air a highlights special on Jan. 1, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.
Soundgarden at the World Music Theater in Tinley Park, Illinois, August 2, 1992. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Soundgarden will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during Saturday’s ceremony in Los Angeles, streaming live on Disney+.
Formed in 1984 in Seattle, Soundgarden helped pioneer the grunge sound that dominated the rock scene in the early ’90s.
The original Soundgarden lineup consisted of vocalist and drummer Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. When Cornell switched to guitar, drummer Matt Cameron joined. Yamamoto left in 1989 and was replaced by Ben Shepherd, who completed the classic Soundgarden lineup.
After building a following with their first two albums, Soundgarden began to reach wider audiences with their 1991 record, Badmotorfinger. As grunge exploded, Soundgarden made their true mainstream breakthrough with 1994’s Superunknown, which spawned the singles “Spoonman,” “Fell on Black Days” and their signature song, “Black Hole Sun.”
Soundgarden released one more album, Down on the Upside, in 1996, before breaking up in 1997. They reunited in 2010 and released a comeback record, King Animal, in 2012.
“I’ve looked up to Soundgarden my entire musical career,” The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen, who will take part in the induction ceremony, told ABC Audio in 2021.
Momsen recorded with Thayil and Cameron on a song off the last Pretty Reckless album, and the experience of performing with her heroes felt “surreal.”
“Even though we’re friends it still blows my mind,” she laughed.
Sadly, Soundgarden’s induction moment will be missing Cornell, who died in 2017. Momsen was among the performers at the 2019 Cornell tribute concert.
“I finally got to a place where I could listen to Soundgarden and have it bring me joy again, ’cause there was a time period where it was too much … it was too emotional,” Momsen said. “And that was a very refreshing day.”
The U2 frontman’s rendition of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” in his Stories of Surrender documentary is up for the song – onscreen performance (film) prize, while the Talking Heads singer’s collaboration with Paramore‘s Hayley Williams for the film The Twits, “Open the Door,” is nominated in the song – animated film category.
Additionally, Stories of Surrender, the Billy Idol documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead and the Jeff Buckley documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley are nominated for music documentary – special program, and the Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, is up for music themed film or musical.
