Green Day has shared a live recording of their song “Blood, Sex and Booze,” featured on the band’s upcoming 25th anniversary Warning reissue.
The performance was captured during Green Day’s performance in Tokyo in March 2001.
The Warning reissue, due out Nov. 14, includes a 21-track recording of the Tokyo show, along with the original album remastered and a collection of rarities, demos and B-sides.
Warning was first released on Oct. 3, 2000, and spawned one of Green Day’s most-played live songs in the single “Minority.”
The Rockabilly band — made up of original members Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom — has released two new tracks, “Stampede” and a cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Teenage Heaven,” both of which mark the first new music they’ve released in six years.
“Jim and I cut both songs in Minneapolis at Terrarium Studios,” Setzer says. “‘Stampede’ was an instrumental that I wrote lyrics for. I basically copied the guitar part, which was pretty ahead of its time to begin with, and ‘Teenage Heaven’ is one of the few Eddie Cochran songs that has not been covered to death.”
The new tunes come as The Stray Cats get ready to launch a new fall tour. The trek begins Saturday in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and wraps Nov. 23 in Wheatland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at StrayCats.com.
Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Bryan Adams are the latest artists added to the upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
They join a previously announced list of performers and presenters that include Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Fleetwood Mac‘s Mick Fleetwood, Nathaniel Rateliff, Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, Elton John, Beck,Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea, David Letterman, Tedeschi TrucksBand and more.
While the Rock Hall hasn’t revealed who McCready and Adams will honor during the festivities, both have connections to members of the 2025 class.
McCready and Pearl Jam are part of the same Seattle scene that produced inductee Soundgarden. McCready was also a member of the supergroup Temple of the Dog alongside Soundgarden members Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron.
Meanwhile, Adams co-wrote the song “When the Night Comes” with Jim Vallance and Diane Warren, which became a hit for inductee Joe Cocker.
This year’s other inductees include Bad Company, The White Stripes, Salt-N-Pepa, Cyndi Lauper, Chubby Checker and Outkast. In addition, Warren Zevon is being inducted in the Musical Influence category, while producer Thom Bell, pianist/organist Nicky Hopkins and bassist Carole Kaye will be inducted for Musical Excellence.
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Nov. 8 in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. ABC will also air a highlights special on Jan. 1, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.
Phil Collen of Def Leppard performs onstage during Radio 2 In The Park at Hylands Park on September 7, 2025 in Chelmsford, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Getty Images)
Phil Collen is the latest member of Def Leppard to reveal his most memorable moment of being in the band.
In a clip posted to Instagram, the guitarist says that while he’s not someone who tends to love awards, the time they got their first Diamond award for their 1987 album, Hysteria, stands out as a highlight of his career.
“We went to this party in New York … there’s us, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Billy Joel, Elton John and blah blah blah, everyone in the same room,” he explained. “And it didn’t really occur to me, the magnitude of everything we’ve been doing, because it was the first break we’d had in years, because we’d been touring, album touring, album touring and then we stopped.”
“I remember going up to this podium, and literally you would see Elton and Billy Joel and Jimmy Page and Dave Gilmour and all of these people, and it was like, it kind of hit home,” he continued. “So that was kind of special, not because it was an award, but it was because of where we’d come and how hard we’d worked.”
He notes the evening “was the first time I actually kind of sat down and was like, kind of realized what we’d actually achieved, so that was pretty cool.”
Collen’s recollection is part of a series of posts Def Leppard has been sharing since receiving their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Oct. 10. Joe Elliott, Viv Campbell and Rick Allen previously shared their most memorable moments.
Cover of ‘The Best of The Band’/(Capitol Records/UMe)
The Band’s 1976 greatest hits collection is getting the reissue treatment.
The Best of the Band features 11 classic tunes from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group, made up of Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm and Rick Danko. The newly remastered album features such classic tunes as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and more.
The collection will be released Dec. 12 on standard black vinyl, its first time on vinyl since the ‘80s. It will also be released on CD and super high material CD.
Originally released in July 1976, the album came out as The Band was preparing for their farewell concert, which took place Nov. 25, 1976, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The concert featured a host of special guests, including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan, and was captured in the iconic concert film The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Bruce Springsteen on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(Disney/Randy Holmes)
The Bruce Springsteen movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is in theaters now, and it sounds like the rocker may be open to revisiting his life on screen once again.
At the AFI Fest opening night screening of the film, director Scott Cooper told Variety that another Springsteen movie isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
“I suppose if you can make four Beatles movies, you can make a couple of Bruce Springsteen movies,” he said, a reference to Sam Mendes’ upcoming project, The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event, due out in April 2028.
“There’s so many chapters in Bruce’s life, in all seriousness, that are quite right for cinematic treatment,” Cooper said. “That’s something quite honestly that Bruce and I have discussed. I think he really loves this film. He’s loved the experience.”
He added, “I think he feels incredibly comfortable with someone telling a very painful chapter in his life. You’d have to ask him, but I think he’s ready for more.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere stars Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as his manager, Jon Landau. It follows the rocker as he makes his 1982 solo album, Nebraska.
The song is one of 13 previously unreleased recordings that will appear on Anthology 4, the new compilation that’s part of the upcoming Anthology Collection box set, dropping Nov. 21. The set, featuring the original three Anthology albums, plus the new fourth installment, will be released digitally and as a 12-LP or eight-CD collection.
Anthology 4 will also be released on its own, as a three-LP or two-CD set, featuring 36 tracks, including the 13 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
‘One More Time’ EP artwork. (Capitol Records. Artwork by Joe Foti/Chrome Hearts)
The Aerosmith/Yungblud collaboration now has even more star power from an unexpected source.
The two acts have released a new version of their joint single “My Only Angel” featuring actor and comedian Steve Martin, who is also an accomplished banjo player.
“My Only Angel (Desert Road Version)” is an acoustic-driven version of the song that closes with a banjo riff courtesy of Martin.
According to a press release, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is a “longtime admirer” of Martin, and reached out to him to be a part of the track. Martin’s also posted a screenshot of a text exchange between him and Tyler of them setting up the collaboration, with the wholesomeness you might expect from a 77-year-old and 80-year-old man figuring out technology together.
You can watch the video for “My Only Angel (Desert Road Version)” streaming now on YouTube.
The original “My Only Angel” appears on the forthcoming Aerosmith/Yungblud collaborative EP, One More Time, due out Nov. 21.
Pat Benatar performs at the Seventh Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC Benefit, March, 2023 (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Love Rocks NYC/God’s Love We Deliver); Bryan Adams performs in Poland, New Year’s Eve, Dec 31, 2024 (Grzegorz Wajda/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Two ’80s pop music icons who’ve never worked together before are joining forces for a U.S tour kicking off Saturday in Connecticut. Bryan Adams is launching the U.S. leg of his current world tour with opening act Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.
While the tour’s in support of Bryan’s latest album, Roll With the Punches, he explains that he’s not one of those artists who’ll make you sit through a lot of the new stuff.
“I play all the songs everybody knows and loves, and then I pepper it with a couple of new songs,” he tells ABC Audio. How does he keep songs he’s been playing for decades, like “Summer of ’69,” fresh for him and his band? It’s all about the crowd, he says.
“There’s that old great adage, ‘There ain’t no audience, there ain’t no show,'” Bryan says. “So much hinges on the connection between people and the music. And that’s why we do what we do … because we love that connection and we try to make that connection.”
While Bryan and Pat had never met prior to the tour, they do have a connection: He originally wrote his 1981 song “Lonely Nights” for her to record.
“We submitted it to her, but we never heard anything back,” Bryan recalls. “So when it came time for me to make an album, I still had that song, so I recorded it and it became one of my [first] … songs on American rock radio.”
And while Pat and Neil are usually headliners, Pat says teaming with Bryan gives them exposure to a whole new audience. Plus, as Pat explains, “We’re not performing in massive stadiums anymore. … So when you have an opportunity to go back out and do the Forum and do the Madison Square Garden, it is fun to pay the big places.”
Cover of ‘Can’t Get Enough: The Music of Bad Company’ /(Primary Wave Music)
Soon-to-be Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Bad Company are the focus of a new tribute album, Can’t Get Enough: The Music of Bad Company, which is out now. It features guests like Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, Slashfeaturing Myles Kennedy andThe Conspirators, The Struts and more covering iconic Bad Company tunes.
BadCo drummer Simon Kirke tells ABC Audio they’re “honored that these artists have taken the time to record” their songs, noting, “It’s wonderful.”
He does say, however, that while he’s familiar with artists like Slash and Elliott, he’s not familiar with “half” of the musicians who took part in the album. He does heap praise on the covers, though: “They actually were not that far removed from our originals.”
Kirke and BadCo frontman Paul Rodgers also contributed to the project; Kirke plays drums and Rodgers adds backing vocals on Elliott and Collen’s rendition of “Seagull,” while Rodgers also contributed backing vocals to “Run With The Pack,” covered by Blackberry Smoke, and “Shooting Star,” covered by Halestorm.
Kirke says doing it “was kind of like a hats off” to the artists who took part in the release.
Before Kirke and Rodgers formed Bad Company with guitarist Mick Ralphs and bassist Boz Burrell, they were both in the band Free, and the album includes a cover of Free’s biggest hit, “All Right Now.” Kirke says it makes sense the tune would be included on the album.
“It’s one of those songs that just will not die, and it’ll be around long after I’ve gone,” he says. “It’s an iconic song, always has been and always will be.”
Bad Company will inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. The ceremony will stream live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET.
