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Foo Fighters. (ABC/ABC) Foo Fighters made their debut on Saturday Night Live UK over the weekend.Dave Grohl and company performed two songs off their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy: "Child Actor" and "Caught in the Echo."The show featured the return of guitarist Pat Smear to the live Foo Fighters lineup. He'd missed performances earlier in 2026 after he was injured in what the band called a "bizarre gardening accident."SNL UK, the British spinoff […]

David Lee Roth and Teddy Swims at Stagecoach Festival (Photo Credit: C Wadsworth David Lee Roth made his third trip to the desert this weekend.After joining Teddy Swims to perform Van Halen’s “Jump” for both weekends of Coachella, on Saturday Roth once again joined Swims for the song, this time during Swims’ Stagecoach Festival performance.Like Coachella, Stagecoach took place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.Prior to the performance, Swims […]

Lindsey Buckingham performs at The Brown Theatre on October 27, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images) Lindsey Buckingham is giving fans a little insight into what inspires him to continue to create new music. The rocker broached the subject in a video posted to Instagram, captioned, “Remember, you always have choices.”“The thing about new music or about continuing to make any music at all is that […]

Grateful Dead's 'Workingman's Dead' (Rhino) Grateful Dead’s 1970 album Workingman’s Dead has gotten a high fidelity upgrade.Rhino High Fidelity has just released limited-edition audiophile editions of the album on reel-to-reel and vinyl. The vinyl reissue, cut from the original master tapes, is limited to 5,000 copies pressed on 180-gram vinyl, while the reel-to-reel, which was duplicated in real time from the original flat analog master tape, is limited to only 300 copies. But […]

Ringo Starr on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (Disney/Randy Holmes) Ringo Starr has released a new video for the title track of his just-released new album, Long Long Road, his second with producer T Bone Burnett.The song features vocals from Sheryl Crow and Daniel Tashian. The video, directed by Ringo’s stepdaughter, Francesca Gregorini, follows the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as he drives through scenes from his life, sharing some personal and previously unseen images with […]

Tedeschi Trucks Band on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (Disney/Randy Holmes) Tedeschi Trucks Band took time out of their latest show to pay tribute to late Traffic co-founder Dave Mason, who passed away April 19 at the age of 79.The group was headlining their Sun, Sand and Soul Festival 2026 in Miramar Beach, Florida, on Thursday when they decided to cover Traffic’s “Feelin’ Alright?,” which was written by Mason.“I’m just going to have […]

Foo Fighters. (ABC/ABC) Foo Fighters have premiered the video for "Window," a track off their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy.The clip stars English actor Craig Parkinson as the window cleaner for a high-rise building, inadvertently giving him a view into the lives of the residents, including one who's watching the "Everlong" video on a TV.The "Window" video is now streaming on YouTube.Your Favorite Toy is out now. It's the follow-up to 2023's But […]

Ozzy Osbourne & Tony Iommi performing live onstage as 'Earth' on August 1, 1969. (Ellen Poppinga - K & K/Redferns) Sharon Osbourne says that a settlement has been reached over Black Sabbath's early recordings when their band name was Earth.In 2025, news surfaced that the label Big Bear Recordings, founded by early Sabbath manager Jim Simpson, was set to release an album of Earth recordings. Sharon, the widow and manager […]

Metallica's Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, and Michael Tilson Thomas (center) speak on stage on Monday March 18, 2019. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Metallica has shared a tribute to late conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who passed away on Wednesday.The metal legends had collaborated with Thomas on their 2019 S&M2 concerts, which featured them performing alongside the Thomas-conducted San Francisco Symphony."It is with great sadness that we learned of […]