Classic Rock News

The music of Foo Fighters will be celebrated during the Cleveland Browns’ upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame game. 

Huntington Bank Field’s Dawg Pound Drive will feature a Foo-themed stage and branded drinks, and will feature a performance by a classic rock cover band. You’ll also be able to take a photo with a smashed Foo-branded guitar, which nods to the Browns’ pregame guitar smash tradition.

Rapper Big Boi, who’s part of the Rock Hall’s 2025 class of inductees as a member of Outkast, will perform at halftime. 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame game, which will feature the Browns taking on the visiting San Francisco 49ers, takes place Sunday.

Meanwhile, another 2025 Rock Hall inductee, Jack White, will be performing during halftime when his hometown Detroit Lions take on the visiting Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving Day. White was inducted as a member of The White Stripes.

Foo Fighters will perform at Huntington Bank Field in August as part of their 2026 U.S. stadium tour.

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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are set to open for My Chemical Romance on their 2026 European tour that celebrates the 20th anniversary of their 2006 album, The Black Parade.

Each show will feature a different supporting act, depending on the night. Jett and the band have been announced for MCR’s July 10 performance at London’s Wembley Stadium.

The show takes place just one day after Joan Jett and the Blackhearts wrap their opening slot on Sammy Hagar‘s Best of All Worlds U.K. tour, which launches July 4 in Manchester and wraps July 9 at London’s O2 Arena.

Next up for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, they’ll be in New Zealand in January for several shows. They’ll return to the U.S. for a Las Vegas residency at the House of Blues starting Feb. 13. A complete list of dates can be found at JoanJett.com.

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Paul McCartney has released a new live video of a performance of “Live and Let Die,” recorded during one of his two Got Back concerts at New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center in October.

The performance features pyrotechnics that shoot fire into the air, along with laser lights that shine over the crowd.

The video release comes just one day after McCartney wrapped the latest North American leg of his Got Back tour in Chicago on Tuesday.

Released in 1973, “Live and Let Die,” from McCartney and his band Wings, was the theme song to the 1973 James Bond film of the same name. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

McCartney launched the latest leg of his Got Back tour on Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, California. He currently has no other shows on his schedule.

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James Taylor is set to return to Ireland in 2026.

The “Fire and Rain” singer has announced two dates in Ireland, which will be his first shows there since September 2022.

Taylor and his All Star Band are confirmed to play in Cork on July 10 and Dublin on July 12, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

The two shows are additions to Taylor’s previously announced U.K. and European tour. So far the U.K./European shows are the only concerts on Taylor’s 2026 schedule.

A complete list of dates can be found at JamesTaylor.com.
 

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The Gibson SG Custom guitar played by Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett during the massive Back to the Beginning concert has sold at auction for $76,800.

The winning bid dramatically exceeded the estimated price of the guitar, which was set between $4,000 and $6,000.

Kirk played the guitar during Metallica’s Back to the Beginning set for a cover of Black Sabbath‘s “Hole in the Sky.” The concert, which took place July 5, ended with a performance from the original Sabbath lineup: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.

The show was announced as Ozzy’s final live performance ahead of time, and his promise was sadly fulfilled upon his death just over two weeks later on July 22.

Hammett’s guitar was part of Julien’s Auctions’ Played, Worn, & Torn sale, which also included the infamous safe from which the Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson sex tape was stolen. That safe, which was estimated to go for between $5,000 and $7,000, went for $2,560.

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An early demo of the Talking Heads’ classic “Psycho Killer” is part of the band’s Record Store Day Black Friday release, Tentative Decisions: Demos and Live, and drummer Chris Frantz is happy fans are getting to hear it.

The song was recorded in the early ’70s when he and bandmates David Byrne and Tina Weymouth were a cover band, The Artistics, playing on the Rhode Island School of Design campus.

“I think the real fans will recognize the songs in their demo form,” Frantz told The Boston Globe. He notes “it was three amateurs in front of one microphone in a dusty apartment on Benefit Street, so technologically it’s not brilliant or anything like that. Quite the opposite.”

He adds, “But it’s got an excitement to it and it’s got a real, I think, rock ‘n’ spirit. I’m very happy with it.”

The Record Store Day release also includes The Artistics’ demo of the More Songs about Buildings and Food track “Warning Signs,” as well as other tracks recorded by the trio between 1975 and 1976.

“In our early years in New York before we made any records, you can see the songs evolving over time, and they really did evolve as we got better and more refined in our listening and our thinking,” Frantz said. “I’m very happy that this is coming out because it’s, you know, to me, it’s an important cultural artifact.”

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Bryan Adams is getting everyone in the holiday spirit.

The rocker just released the new holiday song “California Christmas,” which he co-wrote with his longtime songwriting partner Jim Vallance.

The tune is described as “a sun-soaked holiday anthem that brings a bright West Coast twist to the season.” It is the first taste of Adams’ upcoming holiday album, Bryan Adams & Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam, and features guest appearances by such Canadian artists as Alessia Cara, Barenaked Ladies, Alan Doyle and The Sheepdogs.

“California Christmas” is available now via digital outlets.

The album also features Adams and friends covering holiday staples like “Little Saint Nick,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Deck the Halls,” “O Christmas Tree” and more.

Bryan Adams & Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam will be released Dec. 8 to coincide with Adams’ Canadian holiday TV special of the same name, which will air on CityTV.

Adams, who earlier this year released the new album Roll With the Punches, is set to wrap his U.S. tour on Wednesday in Minneapolis. He then heads to the U.K. in December. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.

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The Rolling Stones have paid tribute to Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, who passed away Monday at the age of 81. 

Mick Jagger posted a black-and-white photo on social media of him and Cliff laughing together, writing, “So sad to lose the beautiful voice of Jamaica, Jimmy Cliff.”

Both Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood also posted photos with Cliff. While they were different shots, they appear to have been taken around the same time.

Richards covered Cliff’s hit track “The Harder They Come” in 1993 and wrote about seeing the impact of the movie of the same name, which Cliff starred in.

“Farewell Jimmy, I was in Jamaica when the ‘Harder They Come’ was in every cinema on the island. You could feel the pride and and the love for Jimmy everywhere,” he wrote. “The sweetest voice, the sweetest soul. His music will live with us forever! Heartfelt condolences to his family! One love, Keith @jimmycliff.”

And in his tribute, Wood recalled Cliff’s 1982 album, Special, which he appeared on.

“Very sad news, bless @jimmycliff,” he wrote. “I made an album with him Jimmy in Kingston, Jamaica – a song called ‘Peace Officer’ among others xx.”

And those weren’t the only times The Stones and Cliff collaborated. The reggae star contributed backing vocals to the band’s 1986 album, Dirty Work.

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Guns N’ Roses announced a new world tour on Monday, and they celebrated the news in a big way.

The “Paradise City” rockers enlisted Sky Elements Drone Shows to stage a 500-drone display above Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles Tuesday to draw attention to the news.

The 12-minute show lit up the city with images from the band’s career, including song titles like “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” an image of Slash’s iconic hat, a gun with a rose shooting out of it, a guitar and more, ending with drones spelling out “Guns N’ Roses” and “2026 World Tour.”

“Sky Elements was honored to be a part of the Guns N’ Roses World Tour announcement,” said Kyle Pivnick, vice president at Sky Elements Drone Shows. “With 500 drones flying over the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, it was an iconic moment, and symbolic to the band’s return to the world stage.”

Guns N’ Roses’ 2026 World tour includes a U.S. leg that runs from July 23 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Sept. 18 in Atlanta. They’ll also play a one-off show in Hollywood, Florida, on May 5 and the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida, on May 7.

A presale begins Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. local time; you can register for access now through Dec. 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit GunsNRoses.com.

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While some folks will be headed to the mall on Black Friday to find the best deals, plenty of music fans will be headed to their local record store to nab some special releases for the annual Record Store Day Black Friday event.

This year there will be over 170 releases at independent record stores across the country. Here are some to look out for: 

Bob Dylan will be represented with two new releases, including The Original Free Wheelin’ Bob Dylan, which features four songs that Columbia Records execs pulled from the original 1963 album. There will also be a 7-inch single of “Masters of War,” recorded in Alan Lomax’s apartment in 1962, that includes a conversation between Dylan and Lomax on the B-side.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ live collection The Live Anthology – From The Vaults Vol. 1 will be released on turquoise blue vinyl, marking its first-ever vinyl release.

Fleetwood Mac is releasing Fleetwood Mac: Live 1975 on vinyl for the first time. The album features recordings from the band’s 1975 tour and is being released as a limited-edition crystal clear vinyl.

Grateful Dead has three releases, including a recording of their Oct. 4 & 6, 1980, concerts at The Warfield in San Francisco, which will be released on both limited-edition vinyl and CD. They will also release the live album On A Back Porch Vol. 2, a collaboration between The Dead and Dogfish Head Brewery.

RSD Black Friday 2025 will also feature releases from Billy Joel, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Van Halen, Ramones, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Robbie Robertson, Sammy Hagar, Elton John and Brandi Carlile and more.

For the full list of releases and participating stores, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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