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'Life’s Been Good: Joe Walsh' auction artwork (Courtesy of Julien's Auctions) Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh has donated over 800 personal items, including over 400 guitars, to an upcoming Julian’s Auction. But the rocker admits it wasn’t easy to part with all the things he collected over the years.“It was traumatic,” he tells ABC Audio. “We all have stuff. Other people's stuff, that's their junk. My stuff, to them, is my […]

Cover of Freddie Mercury's 'Mr Bad Guy'/(Hollywood Records) Freddie Mercury’s debut solo album, Mr. Bad Guy, has just been reissued for its 40th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Mercury’s official YouTube channel has debuted the first in a three-part series dedicated to the release.Each episode in the Mr. Bad Guy series includes clips from music videos for the album's singles, along with excerpts from a 1985 interview Mercury gave to promote the […]

Gene Simmons on 'Dancing with the Stars'/(Disney/Eric McCandless) Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Gene Simmons is headed to Washington.The KISS founding member is set to testify on Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intellectual Property Subcommittee in support of the American Music Fairness Act. The bipartisan bill aims to ensure radio corporations pay performers for playing their music."Having spent my career in the music and entertainment industry, I understand the vital […]

Cover of Squeeze's 'Trixies'/(BMG) Squeeze has shared another track from their upcoming album, Trixies, which features some of the first songs the band's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook ever wrote together.After previously releasing the first song, "Trixies Pt. 1," they have now released “Trixies Pt. 2” to digital outlets.The songs on Trixies, Squeeze's first album in eight years, are described as a "collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies." They were written […]

The Beatles 'Anthology 4' cover/(Capitol Records) The Beatles are back on the Billboard charts thanks to Anthology 4, the new addition to the band’s Anthology series, which was recently reissued.Anthology 4 features 36 tracks, including 13 previously unreleased demos, session recordings and more. It debuted in the top 10 on five Billboard charts, including both the Top Albums Sales and Top Current Album Sales charts, where it landed at #9.The album is also at […]

Cover of Tom Petty 'The Live Anthology'/(Shoreline Gold/Reprise Records) The Tom Petty estate has released a new ultra-limited edition vinyl of The Live Anthology – From The Vaults Vol. 1.The new “Cool Blue” pressing of the album is limited to 2,000 individually numbered copies and is available now at TomPetty.com.This colored variant follows the recent Record Store Day Black Friday release of a special turquoise version, which was limited to 11,000 copies.The […]

On This Day, Dec. 5, 1974…Paul McCartney and Wings released their third album, Band on the Run, which became a huge hit and remains McCartney’s most successful non-Beatles album.The album produced two hits, the title track and “Jet,” and went to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K.The cover featured McCartney, his wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine posing as escaped convicts alongside actors James Coburn and Christopher Lee, British boxer John Conteh, U.K. broadcasters Michael Parkinson and Clement Freud, and English entertainer Kenny Lynch.To […]

Yungblud, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry perform during a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for MTV) Aerosmith and Yungblud have released a new version of the One More Time track “Wild Woman” featuring country star Lainey Wilson.Steven Tyler and Yungblud decided to ask Lainey to add her vocals to […]

Cover of Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here 50'/ (Sony Music) Pink Floyd has announced a set of pop-ups to celebrate the upcoming release of Wish You Were Here 50, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their iconic ninth studio album.Starting Dec. 12, the day of Wish You Were Here 50’s release, the Pink Floyd x News & Coffee Studio pop-up stores will open in London, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Paris, […]