Jonathan Cain, Todd Jensen, Deen Castronovo, Arnel Pineda, Jason Derlatka, and Journey founder Neal Schon perform during the Journey 50th Anniversary Tour at Moody Center on February 22, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Journey)
Journey has announced their first show of 2026.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to play the 2026 Stagecoach festival, which will be held April 24-26 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Journey is part of the April 25 lineup.
While Stagecoach is predominantly a country festival, it has been branching out in recent years. Other non-country artists on the bill for 2026 include Counting Crows, Bush, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish and The Wallflowers. This year’s headliners include Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone.
Passes for this year’s festival go on sale Oct. 2 at 11 a.m. PT. A complete lineup can be found at Stagecoachfestival.com.
In other Journey news … guitarist Neal Schon was a guest on Wednesday night’s finale of America’s Got Talent. He joined Richard Goodall, who won AGT during 2024’s season 19, for the debut performance of his new song “Long Time Coming.”
Cover of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Black and Blue’/(Interscope/UMe)
The Rolling Stones have released a video for “Shame, Shame, Shame,” a cover of the Shirley & Company track that will appear on their upcoming reissue of their 1976 album Black and Blue.
The clip, directed by Dutch filmmaker Camille Boumans, features a collage of rare archival photos of The Stones, combined with hand-drawn animation.
The track is one of several outtakes and jams that will appear on the super deluxe edition of Black and Blue, dropping Nov. 14. The set also includes a 2025 remix of the album by producer Steven Wilson, and a recording of a 1976 concert at Earls Court in London, which was part of a six-night residency at the venue.
The super-deluxe edition of Black and Blue will be released as a five-LP or four-CD set. Both come with a Blu-ray that includes the Wilson remix and the Earls Court concert in Dolby Atmos, plus an unreleased TV broadcast of the band’s 1976 concert at Les Abattoirs in Paris.
The Black and Blue reissue will also be released in a variety of other formats, including a limited-edition five-LP black and blue marbled vinyl set; two-disc and one-disc formats on both vinyl and CD; and a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl.
Cover of Bruce Springsteens ‘Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition’ /(Sony Music)
Bruce Springsteen has released another track from his upcoming box set, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, dropping Oct. 17.
The latest is a live version of “Open All Night,” recorded inside an empty Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. The song is part of Springsteen’s first-ever performance of Nebraska in its entirety. A film of the performance, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, will be featured on the Blu-ray included in the box set.
“The one thing that we didn’t do on the Nebraska album was we didn’t play it live, so my first thought when we were talking about celebrating the record was there’s got to be a performance, singing these songs from top to bottom,” The Boss shares.
On Instagram he adds, “I knew that the way to do it was no audience and no speaking … You just present the record, play it through, then you’re done.”
Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition will feature a 2025 remaster of the album, as well as lots of previously unreleased material, including the long-rumored “Electric Nebraska.” There are also solo outtakes, including additional songs from Springsteen’s original Nebraska home recordings that didn’t make the album, as well as recordings from a 1982 solo studio session.
Lionel Richie chats with ABC’s Robin Roberts on ‘Good Morning America’ (Matt Petit/ABC)
Lionel Richie‘s new memoir Trulyis out Sept. 30 and he sat down with ABC’s Robin Roberts on Good Morning America on Thursday to talk about the book, his life and career.
Sharing a story he said he has never spoken aloud until now, Lionel Richie revealed that he “grew up totally in fear.” Raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie recalled feeling anxious and uncertain as a child.
“I didn’t know what ADHD was. ‘Can you play baseball?’ ‘Eh.’ ‘Football?’ ‘No.’ ‘Basketball?’ ‘No.’ ‘Tennis?’ ‘Kinda,'” he said. “You know, it was just everything was ‘kinda.’ I was very anxious about everything. And at the same time, I kept tryin’ to fake it. I kind of found some new areas of my life that I didn’t know I had in me.”
Music eventually became his refuge. While his grandmother was classically trained in piano, Lionel himself can’t read music. Asked how this could be, Lionel laughed, “Listen, I don’t know, and I’ve asked God that several times. And it was said to me by Marvin Gaye, ‘There is an answer to this. Don’t go lookin’ for it. Just accept it.'”
Despite early ambitions of being a priest, Lionel instead turned to music, paving the way for one of the most celebrated careers in pop music history, starting with his years in the chart-topping group The Commodores.
Lionel told Roberts that his favorite Commodores song is “Brick House,” even though he jokes that he thought his grandmother would “disown” him over its raunchy lyrics. “I thought it was kinda disgraceful myself,” he laughs. “Until it became a hit.”
After his “painful” split with the band, he launched a solo career, selling over 125 million albums worldwide and winning multiple Grammys, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also been a judge on American Idol for eight seasons.
Lionel says of his memoir, “The stories are great. But what turned me into me was, the world said, ‘Hey, Lionel. I like what you’re doin’. Keep up the good work.'”
You can find more of Lionel Richie’s chat with Roberts on IMPACT x Nightline, streaming now on Hulu.
Bassist Carol Kaye plays an Epiphone hollowbody electric guitar in April 1966 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jasper Dailey/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced earlier this year, Carol Kaye‘s name was on the list in the category of Musical Excellence. But the legendary bassist — who played on The Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds, influenced Paul McCartney and contributed to thousands of pop songs — is boycotting the November ceremony in LA. In a new interview The New York Times, she explains why.
Kaye, who’s 90, tells the paper, “I don’t do things because other people want me to do them. I have to do things the way I see fit.” The way she sees it, she tells the Times, “First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician. And I’m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.”
The “team” who Kaye’s best known for working with is the group of first-call session players known as the Wrecking Crew — a name she finds insulting. The Times speculates that Kaye may be skipping the ceremony because her recognition is overdue: Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine was inducted in 2000, as was fellow bass icon James Jamerson.
Kaye has also been called a crank for criticizing the 2008 Wrecking Crew documentary. She tells the Times, “When you get put on a pedestal, you better say the right things, or else you’re going to be known as nasty. … But I just tell people, listen, this is what happened. This is how I feel. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry.”
Whether she attends or not, Kaye’s legacy is secure. The late Brian Wilson once called Kaye “the best bassist in the world,” while McCartney tells the Times that hearing Carol’s work on Pet Sounds “really changed my style.”
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will stream live on Disney+ Nov. 8.
Sammy Hagar at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction/ Disney/Michael Le Brecht II
Sammy Hagar is looking back at a memorable Van Halen show from 30 years ago.
The band’s former frontman has shared video of the group performing the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge track “Poundcake” at their Sept. 20, 1995, concert at Denver’s Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. What made it particularly memorable was that Van Halen had to play during a blizzard, which dropped 8 inches of snow in the area.
“I’ll never forget looking out and it looked like we were playing for 18,000 snowmen,” Sammy writes in the description of the clip. “Eddie (Van Halen) ended up playing half the show with gloves with the fingertips cut out if you could imagine!”
He adds, “We had giant heaters on stage you name it we did the whole show the craziest thing ever.”
Van Halen’s Michael Anthony adds, “The place was packed and everybody looked like a Q-tip out there. It was no big deal for the audience.”
“Poundcake” is one of the many Van Halen songs Sammy performs on his upcoming live album Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency, dropping Oct. 10. It captures performances from his 2025 Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM.
Cover of Fine Young Cannibals compilation FYC40/(London Records)
English pop group Fine Young Cannibals is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, and the milestone is being marked with a brand-new career-spanning compilation.
FYC40 is described as a “definitive anthology” of the group, made up of Roland Gift, Andy Cox and David Steele. It will be released Nov. 21, featuring plenty of the band’s classic hits, including “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Good Thing,” which both hit #1 in the U.S., as well as their debut single, “Johnny Come Home.”
In addition to 12-track single vinyl and CD editions, FYC40 will be released as an expanded two-LP set with 24 tracks, including six exclusive remixes, and as a two-CD set that features the expanded album, plus a complete disc of remixes.
One of the remixes included on the two-CD release is for their cover of the Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love” by DJ Q, which is now available via digital outlets.
And for the Fine Young Cannibals devotees, there’s also a four-CD/DVD set that includes the band’s 1985 self-titled debut album; 1989’s sophomore release The Raw and The Cooked; discs with new, rare and unreleased remixes; and a DVD with promo videos, their 1989 Live at the Paramount concert and BBC classic performances.
Paul McCartney performs at The O2 Arena on December 18, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jo Hale/Redferns)
Paul McCartney is taking fans behind the scenes at his three February club shows at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City.
The Beatles legend just released Paul McCartney Rocks The Bowery, an 11-minute tour diary of the shows, directed by Charlie Lightening.
The video highlights the frenzy over the three concerts, with interviews from the staff at the venue and fans who waited in line to get tickets. There’s also footage of soundcheck and snippets of McCartney performing such songs as “Get Back,” “Blackbird,” “The End” and “I’ve Just Seen a Face.”
McCartney is just days away from returning to the stage. He’ll play a warm-up show Friday at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California, before kicking off the North American leg of his Got Back tour on Monday in Palm Desert, California. The tour wraps Nov. 25 in Chicago.
Harvest Moon show poster/(courtesy of Harvest Moon concert)
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts are set to headline the Harvest Moon benefit concert in California. This is the second year in a row that Young has performed at the event.
The afternoon concert will take place Oct. 25 at The Painted Turtle camp in Lake Hughes, California. The lineup also includes Beck and Lana Del Rey, with additional artists to be named.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit both The Painted Turtle, which offers the camp experience to children with serious medical conditions, and The Bridge School, an educational institution for children with severe speech and physical disabilities.
“We’re honored to welcome Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Beck, and Lana Del Rey to Harvest Moon this year,” said April Tani, executive director of The Painted Turtle. “This gathering, where music, nature, and purpose come together, is a powerful celebration of hope and community. It’s an opportunity for all of us to support two extraordinary organizations making a real difference in children’s lives.”
Queen on the digital cover for Rolling Stone’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ article/(Courtesy of ‘Rolling Stone’)
Rolling Stone is marking the 50th anniversary of Queen’s iconic song “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a special interview with the band’s Brian May and Roger Taylor.The duo talk about the beginnings of the song, and even touch on what, if anything, Freddie Mercury is singing about.
Regarding their first impressions of the song, Taylor notes, “We thought, ‘Well, this is kind of ridiculous, so let’s go.’ We really enjoyed the silliness of it.” He adds that Mercury wrote “a fairly intense, ruminative song. And then we put all these amazingly daft bits in the middle.”
“So many people have been wondering, ‘What’s the secret meaning?'” he shares. “I’m not sure there is one.”
But the band’s manager, John Reid, doesn’t agree and seems to think Mercury was singing about his sexuality.
“I think that’s the key to it,” Reid says, “and a little bit of self-doubt, and the fact that he could never be that open to his parents.”
Elsewhere in the article, May and Taylor discuss Queen’s future, revealing they’ve tried to make music with current frontman Adam Lambert.
“Nothing really materialized so far,” May tells Rolling Stone. “Some things are meant to be and some things are not.”
But even without new music, Taylor says, “I don’t think we’re done.” He insists they won’t do a farewell tour “’cause it never is, is it?”
And it sounds like Queen’s future may include a Las Vegas residency some day.
“ I’m very keen on the Sphere. It’s got my mind working,” May says. “I sat there watching the Eagles, thinking, ‘We should do this. The stuff that we could bring to this would be stupendous.’ So, yeah, I would like to do it. We’re having conversations.”
