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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder is sharing another track off his upcoming solo album, The Vault – Fifty Years of Music.

The latest is the single “I Like the Things You Do,” which he wrote as a tribute to his partner Jaden. The track is the third single Felder has released from the album, following “Free At Last” and “Hollywood Victim.”

The Vault – Fifty Years of Music, dropping May 23, will feature a collection of newly recorded versions of songs Felder’s demoed over the past five decades. It’s his first album since 2019’s American Rock ‘n’ Roll, which featured such special guests as Slash, Joe Satriani, Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar and Chad Smith.

The Vault – Fifty Years of Music is available for preorder now.

Felder is set to join Styx and REO Speedwagon‘s Kevin Cronin on their upcoming Brotherhood of Rock tour, which kicks off May 28 in Greenville, South Carolina. A complete list of dates can be found at DonFelder.com.

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are going to be working together again, just not on music.

Variety has revealed the voice cast for the the 3D animated film High in the Clouds, based on McCartney’s children’s novel, and Starr is on board for the film.

Others lending their voices to the film include Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Hannah Waddingham, Idris Elba, Jimmy Fallon, Clémence Poésy, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pom Klementieff, French actor Alain Chabat and Himesh Patel, who starred in the Beatles-themed film Yesterday.

High in the Clouds, which McCartney wrote with Philip Ardagh in 2005, follows a teenage squirrel named Wirral in his quest to overthrow an owl named Gretsch who banned music in their city of Gretschville in an attempt to be the town’s only singer. 

Toby Genkel, who directed the 2022 film The Amazing Maurice, is on board to helm the project, which will feature original songs written and composed by McCartney. In addition, Michael Giacchino, who did the music for Coco, is writing the score and Paddington 2’s Jon Croker is writing the script.

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On This Day, May 5, 1981 …

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their fourth studio album, Hard Promises.

The album featured the future Petty classic “The Waiting,” as well as “Insider,” a duet with Stevie Nicks. It was recorded around the same time Petty and Nicks recorded her hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” which Petty and Mike Campbell wrote. It eventually appeared on Nicks’ debut solo album, Bella Donna, and went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Hard Promises‘ release was delayed when Petty and his label, MCA, went to war over the album’s list price. MCA wanted to sell it for $9.98, a dollar more than its other releases. After Petty threatened to call the album Eight Ninety-Eight, MCA backed down.

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On Saturday, while Sammy Hagar was in Las Vegas performing Van Halen classics during his The Best of All Worlds residency, the band’s original lead singer, David Lee Roth, was performing them also — in Maryland.

Roth hit the stage Saturday for the first time since 2020, during his headlining show at the annual M3 Rock Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Roth treated crowds to a 16-song set filled with Van Halen tunes.

According to setlist.fm, Roth kicked things off with “Panama,” and went on to perform such classic Van Halen tracks as “Dance the Night Away,” “Running with the Devil,” “Jamie’s Cryin'” “Hot for Teacher” and “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love,” along with the band’s Kinks cover, “You Really Got Me,” “And The Cradle Will Rock,” “Everybody Wants Some” and more.

He ended the night with “Jump,”  Van Halen’s only #1 single.

The M3 Rock Festival set was the singer’s first public performance since March 2020, when he opened for KISS in Lubbock, Texas. A Las Vegas residency that was supposed to begin in December 2021 was billed as his final shows, but it was subsequently canceled.

Roth has one other show booked for this year: He’s set to play The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California, on Sept. 12.

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The Rolling Stones are set to release their iconic album Exile on Main St. on limited-edition red vinyl.

The reissue is part of The Stones’ #StonesRed series, with only 2,000 copies on double red vinyl available worldwide. The release will be available starting Friday at 9 a.m. at The Stones’ RS No. 9 Carnaby Street store in London and online starting at 5 p.m. GMT.

“Rolling back to where rebellion began,” reads a post about the release on Instagram, calling the album an “essential piece of @therollingstones history, remastered and ready to spin again over 50 years since its original release.”

The Stones have released several albums as part of their #StonesRed series, including 2016’s Blue and Lonesome, 1973’s Goats Head Soup, 1971’s Sticky Fingers and 1976’s Black and Blue.

Released in 1972, Exile on Main St. was a #1 album for The Stones and featured such classic songs as “Happy” featuring Keith Richards on vocals, “Tumbling Dice,” “Rocks Off,” “Rip This Joint” and “All Down the Line.”

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Bruce Springsteen is apparently not the biggest fan of his famous nickname.

“‘The Boss’, which dogged me my whole life, still does,” he shared on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. “I’ve gotten used to it. I’ve given up and gotten used to it, I suppose.”

Bruce added that he got the name after someone heard his crew calling him that when they got paid.

“‘Hey, boss.’ You know? ‘Are we getting paid this week?’ ‘Sure,'” he recalled. “And then some DJ heard it and started using it on the radio and it, you know, went viral, as they say. And so there it is.”

During the discussion, Springsteen also talked about the history of mental illness in his family.

Springsteen said his childhood had been “difficult,” noting it was “exacerbated by the fact that my father was plagued by mental illness most of his life.”

He said he also had a “pretty good breakdown” when he was 32, explaining, “By the time I came out of Born in the U.S.A., I’d been in two years of analysis.”

“And my family was filled with mental illness, my aunts, my uncles, my pop, and it just was in our blood, so I had to deal with it, too,” he shared. “And thankfully, (his manager) Mr. [Jon] Landau had some experience with it and directed me in to get some help, which I did.”

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Christopher Cross’ iconic debut album has just gotten an update.

An expanded edition of Cross’ Grammy-winning self-titled debut is out now on digital services, featuring previously unreleased demos, as well as bonus tracks, all of which were recorded during the original sessions for the album.

Some of the bonus material includes early takes on the hit single “Ride Like The Wind,” as well as three songs that have never been released before — “What Am I Supposed To Believe,” “Smiles Of Angels” and “Passengers.”

In addition, double vinyl and CD versions of the expanded edition will be released on June 20 and are available for preorder now.

Originally released in December 1979, Christopher Cross took home five Grammys, among them album of the year, record and song of the year for “Sailing,” and best new artist for Cross. No other artist won all four major categories until Billie Eilish repeated the feat in 2020.

The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard Albums chart, with “Sailing” hitting #1 on the singles chart. The album went on to be certified five-times Platinum.

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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were back onstage together Wednesday night for a San Francisco show benefiting Tyler’s organization Janie’s Fund.

Photos from the evening were posted to Aerosmith’s Instagram with the caption, “The #ToxicTwins back in the saddle for a great night benefitting Janie’s Fund in San Francisco!”

The post also thanked the night’s other performers: Cheap Trick’s Robin Zanders, The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, bassist James Lomenzo, guitarist Phil X, singer Suzie McNeil and keyboardist Buck Johnson.

According to the set list shared on Aerosmith’s Instagram Story, Tyler and Perry teamed up for Aerosmith classics “Toys in the Attic,” “Same Old Song And Dance,” “Sweet Emotion,” “Dream On” and “Walk This Way,” with all of the performers joining for the encores of “Train Kept A Rollin’” and The Beatles classic “Come Together.”

This marks the first time Tyler and Perry have performed together since September 2023, when Tyler fractured his larynx onstage during Aerosmith’s Peace Out tour. After rescheduling the dates, Aerosmith canceled the tour in 2024 and announced their retirement from the road.

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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were back onstage together Wednesday night for a San Francisco show benefiting Tyler’s organization Janie’s Fund.

Photos from the evening were posted to Aerosmith’s Instagram with the caption, “The #ToxicTwins back in the saddle for a great night benefitting Janie’s Fund in San Francisco!”

The post also thanked the night’s other performers: Cheap Trick’s Robin Zanders, The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, bassist James Lomenzo, guitarist Phil X, singer Suzie McNeil and keyboardist Buck Johnson.

According to the set list shared on Aerosmith’s Instagram Story, Tyler and Perry teamed up for Aerosmith classics “Toys in the Attic,” “Same Old Song And Dance,” “Sweet Emotion,” “Dream On” and “Walk This Way,” with all of the performers joining for the encores of “Train Kept A Rollin’” and The Beatles classic “Come Together.”

This marks the first time Tyler and Perry have performed together since September 2023, when Tyler fractured his larynx onstage during Aerosmith’s Peace Out tour. After rescheduling the dates, Aerosmith canceled the tour in 2024 and announced their retirement from the road.

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R.E.M. has released a new EP to help support a free press.

The Athens rockers, who broke up in 2011, just released the five-track benefit EP Radio Free Europe 2025. The release coincides with World Press Freedom Day, which is Saturday.

The EP includes a never-before-released 2025 remix of the title track from the band’s longtime collaborator Jacknife Lee, as well as the original 1981 mix of the song and one other mix by producer Mitch Easter. It also features the never-before-released demo “Wh. Tornado” and the B-side “Sitting Still.”

The release also celebrates the 75th anniversary of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which currently broadcasts news and information in 27 languages to 23 countries.

“Whether it’s music or a free press – censorship anywhere is a threat to the truth everywhere,” frontman Michael Stipe says. “On World Press Freedom Day, I’m sending a shout-out to the brave journalists at Radio Free Europe.”

“Radio Free Europe’s journalists have been pissing off dictators for 75 years. You know you’re doing your job when you make the right enemies,” bassist Mike Mills adds. “Happy World Press Freedom Day to the ‘OG’ Radio Free Europe.”

Radio Free Europe 2025 is available now via digital outlets. It will also be released as a limited-edition orange vinyl on Sept. 12 via the band’s official store and at independent record stores. Proceeds from the vinyl sales will benefit RFE/RL.

Released in July 1981, “Radio Free Europe” was the first single released by R.E.M. It eventually appeared on their 1983 debut album, Murmur.

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