Sammy Hagar Announces "The Residency" Live Album
If you missed Sammy Hagar's Las Vegas residency, no worries: a live album documenting his stay in Sin City is on the way. "Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band - The Residency" will feature songs from all eras of his career, from his stints with Montrose and Van Halen to his lengthy solo career. It also includes Sammy taking David Lee Roth's role on the Van Halen classics "Panama" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love." Joining Hagar as 'The Best Of All Worlds Band" are Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, Kenny Aaronoff and Rai Thistlethwayte. The album comes out October 10th. Check out the track list below. Hear two releases from the album, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight." and "Summer Nights," now on YouTube.
"Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band - The Residency" track listing:
1."Encore, Thank You, Goodnight." (Live)
2."Top Of The World" (Live)
3."Panama" (Live) (physical only)
4."Summer Nights" (Live)
5."There's Only One Way To Rock" (Live)
6."Humans Being" (Live)
7."Right Now" (Live)
8."5150" (Live)
9."Poundcake" (Live)
10."Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" (Live)
11."Eagles Fly" (Live)
12."Best of Both Worlds" (Live)
13."Why Can't This Be Love" (Live)
14."Rock Candy" (Live)
15."Mas Tequila" (Live)
16."Heavy Metal" (Live)
17."I Can't Drive 55" (Live)
18."Love Walks In" (Live)
19."When It's Love" (Live) (digital only)
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators New Album Coming In 2027
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators is putting the final touches on a new studio album scheduled for release next year. Slash shared the news on Instagram, posting a photo with bandmates during "movie night" in Florida. The band has been working with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette, recording bed tracks and music parts. Myles Kennedy still needs to complete his vocal recordings, but has already written melodies and lyrics. This will be their fifth record together, following 2022's "4." The band is currently balancing various projects, with Slash on tour with Guns N' Roses and Kennedy doing solo tours.
Cheap Trick Announces New Album, Drops First Single
Cheap Trick has announced a new album, ironically titled "All Washed Up," will be coming this fall. With that announcement, the band released the first track, "Twelve Gates." It will be the first album of new music from the band since 2021's "In Another World." "All Washed Up" comes out November 14th. “Twelve Gates” is posted on YouTube now.
Prior To North American Leg Of Their Tour, Oasis Releases Live "Wonderwall"
Anyway, here’s a live “Wonderwall.” Oasis has released a live version of "Wonderwall" from their recent Dublin shows and announced limited additional tickets for their North American tour dates. The footage shows Liam Gallagher singing the beloved 1995 single at Croke Park while Noel Gallagher provides acoustic guitar backing. The band also shared a "Postcards from Dublin" compilation video featuring fan excitement and stadium footage. They've been releasing live tracks from their reunion tour, including songs from Cardiff, Manchester, and London. The North American leg of the tour kicked off yesterday at Rogers Stadium in Toronto.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born To Be 50
Bruce Springsteen released his landmark album, Born to Run, 50 years ago today (Monday) -- August 25th, 1975. It was the pivotal album in his career, coming after two albums that hardly sold, despite great reviews -- Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, both released in 1973. The feeling was that if his third album wasn't successful, it might spell the end of him as a recording artist on Columbia Records. He says there was definitely pressure on him. “Even though my first record had got a lot of attention when it came out, shortly thereafter we kinda slipped back under the radar. This particular record you knew that the spotlight was gonna be on you, so you were always — you were aware of that to a certain degree.”
Springsteen says he spent an enormous amount of time composing the album's title track, which became his first Top 40 hit and was a huge breakthrough for him on album rock radio.
"The music was composed very meticulously, so were the words. The amount of time spent honing the lyrics was enormous. The notebook that I wrote 'Born to Run' in, you would take the first page and you would see a line or two -- 50 pages later you know you'd get something close to the finished song. I think it was this thick with different versions and I wrote and I rewrote it and I rewrote it and I rewrote it." Although he co-produced the title track with his then-manager, Mike Appel, Springsteen ended up bringing in onetime music critic and his future manager Jon Landau to finish the rest of the album, which took 14 months to complete.
"I was having problems creatively in the studio. I just was having a hard time making records. It was a long time in between Wild and the Innocent and Born to Run. And we came up against some problems that we couldn't solve and I talked to Jon and he had some answers and eventually he came in and co-produced Born to Run."
Born to Run was the first album to feature E Street Band members Max Weinberg on drums and Roy Bittan on keyboards, and the last with keyboardist David Sancious and drummer
Ernest "Boom" Carter, who left during its sessions. With Columbia Records spending $250,000 to market the album, Born to Run went to number-three on the Billboard 200, and received great reviews from Rolling Stone, The New York Times and The Village Voice. Three of the album's eight songs are among his most played in concert with the title track having been performed 1875 times -- his most-played song -- followed by "Thunder Road" at number-two with 1584. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" is fifth with 1245. The remaining five songs are "Night," "Backstreets," "She's the One," "Meeting Across the River" and "Jungleland."
Springsteen marked the album's 50th anniversary Friday with the release of “Lonely Night in the Park,” an outtake from those sessions. The song, which is available to download or stream, is accompanied by a selection of photos from the Born to Run album cover shoot.
BILLY JOEL: New Healthy State of Mind
Billy Joel’s daughter, Alexa Ray, from his marriage to Christie Brinkley, says her dad has been “incredibly resilient” in his effort to overcome a curable brain disorder, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) – which affects his vision, hearing and balance. She tells FOX News, "He’s so cool about everything. He’s always playing everything down, saying, ‘Oh, I’m fine. Don’t worry.’ He doesn’t want me to worry, and he’s just cool as a cat about everything..." As for his recovery, she says, "He’s doing his physical therapy three to five days a week, which is really, really important for him right now. He’s adjusted his diet. We had dinner the other night. I said, ‘Dad, what are you doing? You’re not getting the steak? You’re getting chicken instead?’ Like, this is a whole new you here. “He’s suddenly eating eggplant and all sorts of vegetables. I said, ‘Dad, you used to hate eggplant. He’s like, ‘Oh, I’ve learned to love it'. “So I’m really proud of him and how he sort of adjusted his habits, and he’s probably his most healthy actually right now in terms of how well he’s taking care of himself and prioritizing his health. Of course, as his eldest daughter, I’m always looking out for him and making sure he stays on the ball with that. So he’s doing great...“As far as I’m concerned, he’s sharp as a tack..."
The NPH diagnosis caused Joel to cancel all his shows through next July.
In other Billy news, Billy Joel – My Life, A Piano Man’s Journey, an exhibit at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook, New York since November 2023, will close on October 26th. The museum will retain many of the items, including the piano he used on his Face 2 Face tour with Elton John.
Rob Halford Wants To Do An Album Of Tony Bennett Songs
Rob Halford singing...Tony Bennett? It's more likely than you think. The Judas Priest frontman told "Ultimate Classic Rock" an album of him performing the songs of the late great singer is something he might want to tackle. "There's so many musical things I want to do...I was singing Tony Bennett in the shower the other day and I listened to my voice and I'm going, 'Do I dare to consider something like this?'" Halford says. "And then I go, 'I'm an old man; I can do what I f*****g want!' And I love Tony Bennett...I love all kinds of singers. My love for what the voice can do is always so attractive to me, the ideas, the imagination...So, yeah, I'd love to do that. I don't know how I would go about it, but I better get a move on if I'm going to do something like that."
SUPERTRAMP: Hodgson Has to Give a Little Bit Back
Supertramp co-founder and former member Roger Hodgson will have to share some of his songwriting royalties after all In February 2024, Hodgson came out victorious in a lawsuit filed against him by three of his former bandmates -- bass player Dougie Thomson, saxophonist John Helliwell and drummer Bob Siebenberg. They claimed he'd reneged on a 1977 agreement that entitled them to a cut of his songwriting royalties in recognition of their contributions on the recordings, but a California federal jury found that Hodgson did not breach the agreement.(Keyboardist and singer Rick Davies, who formed Supertramp with Hodgson in 1969, who was also a defendant in the suit, settled with Hodgson in 2023.) But last Wednesday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Hodgson has to pay a share of songwriting royalties that he stopped paying them in 2018.
U.S. Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote, "Plaintiffs ask that Defendants continue to 'Give a Little Bit' of Supertramp’s songwriting royalties until the band’s songs cease generating revenue. But Defendants believe that 'From Now On,' they are no longer obligated to share royalties." Thomson, Helliwell and Siebenberg were seeking nearly $1.3 million at trial.
The case has been sent back to a lower court for further proceedings. Hodgson left Supertramp in 1983.
IN OTHER NEWS
Message in a Bottle, the dance theatre production set to the music of Sting and The Police, will be released on Blu-ray and TVOD (Transactional Video On Demand) on October 10th. The stage production premiered on London’s West End in 2020 and has since toured the U.K., Europe, and 10 cities in the U.S. last year.
The Joe Perry Project postponed their shows Friday in Mashantucket, Connecticut and Saturday in Port Chester, New York because a “bug has been making its way through the band.” The Port Chester show has been rescheduled for this Wednesday. No word yet on Connecticut. Up next is Boston on Tuesday.
Aerosmith have posted on social media a short clip from their archives of themselves playing Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” with special guest Michael J. Fox on guitar. Fox plays the song in his best known movie, Back to the Future.
The Doors have digitally released Live at Bakersfield for the first time. Captured on August 21st, 1970 at the Bakersfield Civic Center in Bakersfield, California, it’s described as “one of the most sought-after live shows of 1970.” Among the songs they did are “Love Me Two Times,” “Roadhouse Blues,” “The End” and a 13-minute version of “When the Music’s Over.”
Jason Bonham’s son and John Bonham’s grandson, Jager Henry, has released “Heavensent,” a new song with his band Hollow Pact. He says, “The music I was making always felt right to me but releasing it under my name never did. It was never supposed to be about who I was, but more on the emotions of the music and the stories in the songs. Connecting with [my bandmates] helped me realize that fully and it made sense to move towards a band dynamic, and Hollow Pact was born.” Check out the song and video on YouTube.
Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, Jason Mraz and others are featured on Safe, Sensible and Sane, the debut album from banjoists Steve Martin (yes, the comedic actor) and Alison Brown. The first single, “Dear Time” featuring Browne, was filmed at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. Walking in, Martin says, “We have a ton of memories here, don’t we Jackson?” Browne responds, “I don’t remember anything,” to which Martin says, “Neither do I.” Check it out on YouTube. The album will be out on October 17th.
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson performed Maiden’s “Flash of the Blade” Friday at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. That was the first-ever performance of the 1994 song by Dickinson or Maiden.
Patti Smith will release a 50th anniversary edition of her first album, Horses, on October 10th – a month shy of its November 10th release in 1975. It contains nine previously unreleased bonus tracks, with the first one out now. You’ll find “Snowball” on YouTube.
Roxy Music members Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, with special guest Roxy drummer Paul Thompson, have released “No Church in the Wild” from their concert album AM PM SOHO LIVE, which will be out on September 19th. Check it out on YouTube.
Primus Announces New Year's Eve Shows In Oakland Primus will be celebrating the new year in Oakland, California. The band will ring in 2026 with a two-night run on December 30th and 31st at the Fox Theater. The first night will be an evening with two sets, while the second night will feature special guest Puddles Pity Party. Tickets for the two shows are available now.
Warren Haynes has released “From Here on Out,” a second song off his new album The Whisper Sessions, a collection of stripped-down versions of songs off 2024’s Million Voices Whisper. It will be out on September 12th.