Bryan Adams speaks at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November, 2025 (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Looks like Bryan Adams is getting ready to release a very Canada-centric song on Canada Day.
The Canadian rocker revealed on Instagram that he’ll be dropping the tune “The 51st State” on July 1, which marks Canada’s national holiday.
The title appears to be a reference to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Canada should become part of the United States, but don’t think Adams is suggesting he wants that to happen. In the caption of his announcement, he clearly states it’s something “We’ll never be.”
There’s no word on whether the song is part of a future Bryan Adams album or just a standalone single. He released his last studio album, Roll With The Punches, in August.
Adams is currently on a European tour and plays Herceg Novi, Montenegro, on Friday. His tour returns to the North America on July 24 with a show in St. Louis, Missouri. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.
Cover of Ann Wilson and Tripsitter album ‘Concecrated Ground’ (LouJon Records)
Ann Wilson is once again making music with the band Tripsitter.
Wilson and Tripsitter are set to release their second album together, Consecrated Ground, on Aug. 14 and have just released the album’s first single, “I Will Not Be Coming Back,” to digital outlets.
According to a press release, the single “captures themes of liberation, transformation, and unwavering self-determination.”
Wilson and Tripsitter first began working together in 2023. They released their first album, Another Door, in September of that year.
Following the release of Consecrated Ground, Wilson and Tripsitter will be heading out on the road. Their new tour kicks off Sept. 12 in Lady Lake, Florida, and wraps Oct. 9 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A complete list of dates can be found at AnnWilson.com.
“I Will Not Be Coming Back” “Bone Pain” “Me And Comanche” “Hard Fought” “Ruby Rosé (Lady Of The Night)” “Hot Foot” “Dissonance” “Renaissance Kids” “Reverse Chaos”
The Byrds hit #1 on the Billboard singles chart with their debut single, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.” It became the first recording of a Dylan song to reach number one on any pop music chart.
The track would be one of two #1 hits for the group. The other, “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season),” would top the chart six months later.
Dylan’s version of the song appeared on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. The Byrds’ version was released less than a month after Dylan’s, and became the title track of their debut album.
Both versions of the song have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Lead singer Michael Hutchence (back row, left) with INXS band members, clockwise from top right: Andrew Farriss, Tim Farriss, Garry Gary Beers, Kirk Pengilly, and Jon Farriss. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
The music of INXS is going to be the subject of a new ballet opening in the band’s native Australia.
The Queensland Ballet has teamed with HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, for the new contemporary ballet Elegantly Wasted, featuring dance interpretations of the band’s songs.
“INXS have always embraced exploring new ideas and the different ways our music can connect with people,” INXS founding member and composer Andrew Farriss says in a statement. “This ballet is a fresh artistic interpretation that stands in its own space. It’s not about the band’s story but shows how our music can inspire new forms of expression.”
He adds, “It’s exciting to see the work approached from a completely new perspective. … [W]e’re looking forward to seeing how it comes to life.”
The production is described as a “striking contemporary work that charts a compelling shift from artifice to awareness, from surface to soul. It invites us to question what we perform, what we conceal, and what we might rediscover if we dare to be seen without filters.”
Elegantly Wasted was the band’s 10th studio album and its final album recorded with frontman Michael Hutchence before his 1997 death.
Cover of ‘Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album’ (DESTON/BMG)
Songwriter Desmond Child has released a live performance of the KISS classic “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” a song he co-wrote with KISS’ Paul Stanley.
The song is the first track released from Child’s upcoming live album, Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album, a recording of his June 2022 concert at the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece.
The album is filled with performances of songs Child wrote for other artists, like KISS, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and more. The “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” performance features Canadian singer Justin Benlolo, one of several guests who appear on the album. Others include Alice Cooper, Bonnie Tyler, Rita Wilson and Kip Winger.
Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album, dropping July 24, is available for preorder now.
Covers of Whitesnake’s ‘Slide It In,’ ‘Slip of the Tongue’ and ‘Whitesnake'(Craft Recordings)
Whitesnake’s career took off in the ’80s, and now the albums that helped launch the David Coverdale-fronted band to superstardom are set to be reissued on vinyl.
The band’s three mid-’80s albums — 1984’s Slide It In, 1987’s Whitesnake aka 1987 and 1989’s Slip of the Tongue — will be reissued on standard black vinyl on Sept. 18.
Each album will also get color vinyl variants. Whitesnake will get a gold black ice variant, Slide It In will be available as an onyx variant and Slip of the Tongue will be available as a crimson moon variant through CraftRecordings.com.
In addition, Whitesnake will be released on tan smoke vinyl via Walmart and limited-edition stone marble vinyl via Revolver. The album features the band’s biggest hits — “Here I Go Again,” “Is This Love” and “Still of the Night.”
Billy Joel’s iconic track “Piano Man” is back on the Billboard chart.
The rocker’s signature tune, the title track to his 1973 sophomore album, is #1 on the Billboard Top TV Songs chart thanks to its appearance in the Prime Video series The Boys.
The song appeared in the show’s series finale, although Joel has often been referenced throughout the series because he’s the favorite artist of the character Hughie, played by Jack Quaid.
Thanks to its appearance in the show’s final episode, “Piano Man” got a boost of 19.1 official U.S. streams and another 1,000 downloads.
“Piano Man” was Joel’s first major hit, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013 and in 2015 was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Other songs landing in the Top TV Songs chart top 10 this week include: Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” at #3, due to an appearance in Netflix’s The Boroughs; Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” at #5, also because of The Boroughs; Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” at #6, thanks to its appearance in HBO’s Euphoria; and “I Played the Fool,” Michael Stipe and Andrew Watt’s theme song to HBO’s Rooster, at #10.
Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, David Clayton-Thomas of jazz-rock group, Blood Sweat and Tears, 17th March 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears, died Wednesday at 84, the singer’s publicist confirms to ABC News.
According to the publicist, Clayton-Thomas “died peacefully” at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey, England, on September 13, 1941, Clayton-Thomas joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968, following the departure of the band’s original frontman Al Kooper. He landed the gig after folk singer Judy Collins heard him performing and told Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby about him.
With Clayton-Thomas singing lead, Blood, Sweat & Tears’ 1968 self-titled sophomore album became a huge hit, spending seven weeks on top of the Billboard Albums chart and winning the Grammy for album of the year in 1970, beating The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
In 1970, following the album’s success, the band went on the State Department-sponsored Iron Curtain tour visiting countries Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, which drew criticism from fans. The tour was the subject of a 2023 documentary, What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
The band continued to release hit albums, including 1970’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, which spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200, and 1971’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 4, which was a top-10 hit.
Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career, releasing his self-titled solo debut that year. He went on to release nearly a dozen solo albums over the course of his career, his last being 2020’s Say Somethin’.
Clayton-Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and Blood, Sweat & Tears’ iconic track “Spinning Wheel” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. Clayton-Thomas also received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2010.
Clayton-Thomas’ life and music will be celebrated with a memorial concert at a later date. Proceeds will benefit Peacebuilders Canada.
Music legend and Acrisure brand ambassador Lionel Richie headlines the Acrisure Amphitheater Opening Concert on May 15, 2026 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Jeff Schear/Getty Images for Acrisure Amphitheater)
Lionel Richie was not ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ during the opening night of his tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday: He was sitting on the stage.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer cut his set short on the Sing a Song All Night Long Tour with Earth, Wind & Fire after telling the audience he was feeling “dizzy” and “strange,” reports theMinneapolis Star Tribune. While he began singing “Dancing on the Ceiling” standing up, he then stopped and perched on a step on the stage to complete the song. He told fans, “When you’re feeling dizzy, sit your a** down.”
But about 55 minutes into his performance, after sitting behind the piano to sing “Three Times a Lady,” he announced an intermission and left the stage. Forty minutes later, one of Lionel’s bandmembers appeared onstage and said, “Unfortunately, Lionel is not feeling well. He won’t be able to continue. Additional information will be available.”
After the announcement, John Paris, drummer for Earth, Wind & Fire, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Lionel was “a little dehydrated,” but there weren’t any indications prior to the show the he was feeling ill.
Mick Jagger attends 2026 the New York City Ballet Spring Gala at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on May 07, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
The Beatles are getting not one but four biopics, thanks to Sam Mendes’ project The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event, and it sounds like Mick Jagger is open to having a similar thing happen for The Rolling Stones.
In a new interview with British GQ, Jagger was asked about whether he’d like to see that “kind of treatment” for The Stones, to which he replied, “Yeah, it interests me.”
“I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it,” he says of a possible film. “There’s lots of ways of doing biopics.”
Referring to the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, Jagger explains, “So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff. Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric.”
“You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on?” he continues. “And where’s your two years of interest? I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more.” The latter is a reference to 2014’s Get On Up, which starred the late Chadwick Boseman.
So, which portion of The Stones’ career would he like a movie to focus on?
“I don’t know which section, because it’s a long period,” Jagger says.
As for whether he has an idea for someone who could play him in a film, Jagger says, “No.”
As fans wait for a future Rolling Stones film, they can simply enjoy The Stones’ music. They’ll release the new album Foreign Tongues on July 10.
