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Michael Putland/Getty Images Thin Lizzy is back with their first new album in over four decades.The rockers announced plans to release the new album, Acoustic Sessions, featuring reimagined versions of tracks from their first three albums, including the first-ever acoustic version of their classic “Whiskey In The Jar.”The album combines guitar work from founding member Eric Bell, and the original drum takes of Brian Downey, with previously unheard vocal recordings from Thin Lizzy's late co-founder […]

Rhino Talking Heads have shared a previously unreleased track from their upcoming box set celebrating the band’s debut album, Talking Heads: 77.The latest is “Pulled Up (Alternate Pop Version),” a new take on the album’s closing track.Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition), dropping Nov. 8, will be made up of four LPs, one of which is a remaster of the original album. There’s also an LP of unreleased demos and outtakes, along […]

On This Day, Nov. 1, 1969 ...The Beatles topped the Billboard 200 album chart with Abbey Road. The album spent 11 weeks at #1 and a total of 490 weeks on the chart.Abbey Road was the last album The Beatles recorded, although Let It Be was the last album they finished and released before their 1970 breakup. It featured the iconic cover of the band walking across the street in single file.The album featured such classic Beatles […]

Courtesy of Disney Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band spent Halloween night rocking Montreal, Quebec, but only acknowledged the festive day with one musical moment.Taking the stage to scary-sounding music, Bruce and the band launched into a cover of Ray Parker Jr.'s 1984 #1 hit "Ghostbusters," much to the delight of the crowd, who shouted the call-and-response "Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!" part at the top of their lungs.But […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Metallica's Lars Ulrich has announced a new signature drum kit with the company TAMA.The kit celebrates the 40th anniversary of the relationship between Ulrich and TAMA, which began in 1984 thanks to a recommendation from Rush's Neil Peart.The anniversary model is a replica of Ulrich's current setup on Metallica's M72 tour supporting their latest album, 2023's 72 Seasons. Fittingly, only 72 sets will be sold.For more info, visit TAMA.com.You can […]

Fantasy Records Warren Haynes’ new solo album, Million Voices Whisper, is out now, and it’s his first solo record in more than 10 years.The Gov’t Mule frontman tells ABC Audio that one of the reasons he decided to make another solo record after all this time was because he’d been writing so much since the pandemic, noting that most of the songs on the album "were written in the past two or three years.”“Usually […]

ABC/Heidi Gutman In honor of Halloween, Paul McCartney is talking spooky encounters — and apparently he hasn’t had any, at least in his everyday life. “My dreams are very supernatural, I can go anywhere there. But not in real life,” he shares in a Q&A on his website. “I've never actually seen a ghost or a spirit, and I'm not a great believer in all that.”Sir Paul says having kids kept him […]

Rhino Entertainment Company Graham Nash recently told Rolling Stone that he didn’t think he’d ever perform with his former bandmates Stephen Stills and Neil Young again now that David Crosby is gone, and it sounds like Stills kind of agrees.While promoting the new Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young archival live release, Live at the Fillmore East, 1969, Variety asked whether the three of them would reunite, and he suggested that he didn’t think it would be right.“Well, […]

Kscope Envy of None, featuring Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, has dropped a new song timed to coincide with Halloween.The band, which also features bassist Andy Curran, guitarist/keyboardist Alfio Annibalini and singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne, released the track “Not Dead Yet,” along with an animated Dia De Los Muertos aka Day of the Dead inspired video.The song was written by Wynne, and the video description notes that she describes the tune as “a cathartic anthem, one that embodies resilience and defiance against the forces […]