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Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images Queen is continuing their celebration of the upcoming 40th anniversary of Live Aid by raising money for charity with a new line of Live Aid merch.The new official limited-edition Live Aid + Queen merchandise includes two T-shirts — one featuring Queen’s Live Aid set list and one with a picture of the band — as well as a poster, all of which were designed and overseen by Brian […]

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Here's something we can't make up: Ozzy Osbourne makeup.The Prince of Darkness has announced a collaboration with the company Jolie Beauty, which is based in Black Sabbath's hometown of Birmingham, England."We're not slowing down, this collab’s a one-way ticket on the Crazy Train," reads a post on the Jolie Beauty Instagram. "No brakes. No rules. Just pure, unfiltered rock 'n' […]

ABC/Travis Bell Foo Fighters are up to something, and they're certainly not Wasting Light.Dave Grohl and company have shared a Facebook post featuring four photos of the band seemingly in the recording studio. We say seemingly, since the photos are all very dark and barely lit.A fan writes in the comments, "You need a decent photographer!!," to which the Foos responded, "We aren't known for our photography skills."The post's caption doesn't offer to much […]

Frank Hoensch/Redferns Zak Starkey has been through a lot since April, when he was fired, then rehired, then fired again from The Who. Despite losing the gig, he tells the U.K.’s The Independent that Roger Daltrey has told him to leave his drum kit in The Who’s storage — just in case. And Starkey doesn’t seem surprised by all the drama."The thing is, this is The Who, man. The most unpredictable, aggressive, […]

Live Nation/Blackbird Presents Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, which features Bob Dylan as one of the headliners, has canceled its Tuesday show in El Reno, Oklahoma, due to what’s being described as "unforeseen circumstances.""An extreme weather event on the evening of June 29th in Ridgedale, MO at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena produced heavy rains and high winds forcing the crowd to evacuate," reads a post on the festival’s Instagram page. It notes […]

ABC/Paula Lobo Something unpredictable happened during Green Day's concert in Luxembourg Monday, but in the end, Billie Joe Armstrong decided it wasn't right.As seen in fan-shot footage, Armstrong invited a fan onstage to play acoustic guitar for a rendition of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." However, instead of playing the recognizable picked opening to "Good Riddance," the fan started strumming the chords to Oasis' "Wonderwall."When Armstrong realized what the […]

Rhino ZZ Top’s first four albums were released as a high fidelity vinyl box set in 2024, and now their next five albums are getting the same treatment.Rhino is set to release From the Top (1979–1990) on Friday, featuring 1979’s Degüello, 1981’s Loco, 1983’s Diamond-certified Eliminator, 1985’s Afterburner and 1990’s Recycler. All copies are cut from the original stereo master tapes and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.Only 3,000 individually numbered copies […]

On This Day, July 1, 1967 …The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "When I’m Sixty Four," "Lovely Rita" and "A Day in the Life."Sgt. Pepper's was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of […]

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Celebrations are in order as Blondie's iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like "Heart of Glass," their first #1 single, "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone."The band went […]