Bryan Adams is returning to London’s Royal Albert Hall next year with a trio of special shows.
The three-night stand will have Adams playing a full album each night, plus other songs. It kicks off May 13 with Adams playing his 1996 album, 18 ‘Til I Die, followed on May 14 by a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of his 1984 hit, Reckless, andwrapping May 15 with his 2022 release, So Happy It Hurts.
Tickets for all three shows go on sale Friday, October 13, at 9 a.m. local time.
This isn’t the first time Adams has played full albums at Royal Albert Hall. In fact, he’s releasing a new box set of his 2022 three-night stand, where he played 1983’s Cuts Like a Knife, 1987’s Into the Fire and 1991’s Waking Up the Neighbors. It’s due out December 8 and available for preorder now.
As part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebration of Pink Floyd‘s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon, the band is releasing a new 30-minute documentary, Eclipse, giving fans a look at the special Dark Side event they held in Australia that coincided with a rare solar eclipse.
The once-in-a-lifetime event took place at a secluded beach at Ningaloo (Nyinggulu) Marine Park in Exmouth, Western Australia, on April 20. A handful of fans won a trip to the beach, where they listened to Dark Side in full — timed so that the closing line, “but the sun is eclipsed by the moon,” would play at the exact moment of the eclipse.
Fans will be able to check out the documentary on Pink Floyd’s YouTube channel starting Friday, October 13, as part of Pink Floyd Fridays. A preview clip is available now on YouTube.
And the band hopes fans will continue the celebration with the upcoming annular solar eclipse, which will be visible in America on October 14. They are urging fans to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon while it’s happening, then share video and photos of the experience to social media using #pfeclipse. Pink Floyd will then share some of those posts on their social media accounts.
Pink Floyd kicked off the 50th anniversary celebration of The Dark Side of the Moon earlier this year with the release of a new box set, featuring a remaster of the classic album and a whole host of extras. A stand-alone version of the newly remastered album will be released on CD, LP and Blu-ray on October 13.
Five Finger Death Punch is sitting on an unreleased song recorded during the sessions for the band’s latest album, 2022’s AfterLife. As guitarist Zoltan Bathory tells ABC Audio, the track is set to feature an unnamed guest artist, but it’s been held up due to music industry-related legal issues that often come up in regard to collaborations.
“There were some unsolved or unresolved legalities around the track,” Bathory says. “Right now, it seems like it’s resolving and we’re gonna be able to put out the song.”
Had those issues been resolved ahead of AfterLife‘s release, Bathory says the original plan was to put out the song as the album’s lead single before deciding to shelve it.
“Because it is so difficult to deal with this giant infrastructure of various artists that we were like, ‘You know what? Let’s just not risk it,'” Bathory recalls. “‘Let’s wait for all the paperwork to be done, and then we put it out.'”
A year after AfterLife dropped, Bathory hopes that the song will finally see the light of day.
“Then, it that case, we will amend [Afterlife] and put [the song] out as a single,” he says.
In the meantime, you can listen to the original AfterLife and its singles “Welcome to the Circus,” “Times Like These” and “AfterLife,” all of which hit #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
FFDP’s also set to resume opening for Metallica‘s M72 tour on November 5 in St. Louis.
Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley is back and ready to rock following a bout with pneumonia that landed him in the hospital in September.
In a video update posted to Facebook on Monday, October 9, Whibley declares, “I feel fantastic, I feel great.”
“I wanna thank you guys for all the love and support and the messages and the comments,” Whibley says. “I feel amazing, I feel back to normal … I’m excited to get back onstage, and I feel ready.”
Whibley also shares more details about what he went through, explaining that he wasn’t feeling well toward the end of Sum 41’s tour with The Offspring and during the filming of the video for the band’s new single, “Landmines.” He eventually tested positive for COVID-19, which he says “hit me really hard.”
“I got worse and worse, and then by the sixth day, I guess, God gave me pneumonia,” Whibley says. “I ended up in the hospital for a few days. That was a little scary, but I got out.”
Whibley’s first show back will be during Sum 41’s set at the upcoming When We Were Young festival, taking place October 21-22 in Las Vegas.
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recently announced he’ll be dropping his new solo album, The Mandrake Project, next year and in a new video he’s giving fans a little more insight into what to expect.
“It’s called The Mandrake Project and, of course, it’s music. But it’s also much, much more,” he shares in the clip. “More than that I’m not gonna reveal for now ’cause it will become self-explanatory and self-evident as we go through and reveal more layers of the onion for you all.”
Dickinson says he’s been working on the album since 2014, although it previously had a different name.
“And it’s had time to grow and mature. And, oh my God, has it ever,” he says. “I think you will be really, really excited. And I hope you love everything that we’ve created for you.”
The Mandrake Project is Dickinson’s first solo album since 2005’s Tyranny of Souls. While it doesn’t have a release date yet, he has already announced some shows in Mexico and Brazil in support of the album. Dates kick off April 18 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Garth Brooks is throwing a party in celebration of his new bar.
On Monday, the 61-year-old country music superstar announced a Dive Bar concert to toast the opening of his Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk in Nashville, Tennessee.
The concert will be held on Black Friday, November 24, and will be the first time patrons will get to experience the bar.
“How do you open a Friends in Low Places bar??? With a Garth concert!” Brooks said in a press release. “This is going to be off the chain. Black Friday, brand new bar, in the home of Country Music … Hollywood couldn’t write a better script. I can NOT wait!”
The only way for fans to get tickets is by listening to The BIG 615, a station on Brooks’ SEVENS Radio Network, which is on TuneIn.
Britney Spears constantly posts videos of herself dancing to random songs, but she seems to really be feeling her latest tune.
She posted twovideos of herself wearing an extremely skimpy purple bodysuit, dancing suggestively to the Beyoncé song “Daddy Lessons” from her 2016 album, Lemonade. In a third video Britney danced to the same song while wearing animal-print bikini bottoms and a midriff-bearing top with cutouts.
In the caption on the third video, she wrote, “So many people have done remixes to my songs without my knowledge … so I guess it’s safe to say I will be redoing this song eventually !!! Just need to meet Jay-Z and add a rap to it … what’s up ???”
Notably, “Daddy Lessons” is thought to be about Beyoncé’s complicated relationship with her father, Matthew Knowles. She sings, “Daddy made a soldier out of me/ Daddy made me dance … tough girl is what I had to be.”
Considering Britney’s fraught relationship with her own father, Jamie Spears, who she accuses of enriching himself through her hard work, it’s somewhat believable that Britney would want to record the song.
While there are rumors that Britney is working on new music, the only thing she definitely has planned is releasing her memoir, The Woman In Me, later this month.
Monday, October 9, would have been the late John Lennon’s 83rd birthday, and in honor of the occasion a new deluxe and expanded version of Imagine (The Ultimate Collection) has just been released to stream and download.
The new release features the entire collection on Hi-Res Stereo and Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos, with each of the five sets of songs – Ultimate, Elements, Evolution, Raw Studio and Out-Takes – released as separate albums instead of one long playlist.
Imagine: The Ultimate Collection was originally released in October 2018. It featured four CDs and two Blu-ray discs and included previously unheard demos, rare studio outtakes and more.
And that’s not the only way Lennon was remembered on his birthday. His former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney marked the occasion on social media, sharing a photo of himself onstage, with Lennon’s image projected behind him, writing, “Celebrating the birthday of my wonderful friend and collaborator, @johnlennon.”
The late George Harrison’s estate also remembered Lennon, sharing a short video featuring pictures of both Harrison and Lennon, along with some drawings, captioning the clip, “Remembering John on his Birthday.”
And Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, marked both John and their son Sean Lennon’s birthday on social media, sharing a photo of them together with the caption, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN! i ii iii i love you.”
Lennon’s birthday is also being remembered with the new video “Dear John” from singer Sepp Osley. The track features Peter Frampton on guitar and British singer Mollie Marriott, with the video featuring cameos from the likes of Peter Gabriel, Matt Sorum, Geddy Lee, actor Martin Freeman, comedian Matt Lucas and more.
Rapper 21Savage will return home to the U.K. this fall for his first show since becoming a permanent U.S. resident and being given the freedom to travel internationally.
The special homecoming concert will take place at London’s O2 arena on Thursday, November 30.
The rapper announced the upcoming performance with a video montage shared to Instagram that features a collection of images of his younger self, concert footage, red carpet footage, studio sessions and other clips.
His post was captioned with three pleading-face emojis.
The news follows 21’s citizenship update and his official announcement — made during Drake’s It’s All a Blur Toronto stop on October 10 — that he can now travel outside the U.S.
After being introduced by his legal name, Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, 21 joined Drake onstage in Canada for his first international show since obtaining a green card.
“Performing for the first time outside of America in his life; make some noise for the brother, 21!” Drake said to the crowd.
Presale tickets will be available on October 11, with the general sale starting October 13.
Madonna posted a reaction to the war in Israel over the weekend, writing on her Instagram page, in part, “Conflicts can never be resolved with violence. Unfortunately Humanity does not understand this Universal truth. Has Never Understood it. We live in a World Ravaged by Hate. My heart goes out to Israel. To Families and Homes that have been destroyed. To children who are lost.”
Jordin Sparkshas announced her new single, “Call My Name,” will be dropping Friday, October 13. She describes it as “an ode to a love so full, effortless and pure—there’s a peace and contentment within it.”
Train is giving fans a very merry Christmas. The band has announced a string of acoustic holiday shows, set to kick off December 1 in San Jose, California, and wrap December 9 in Chesterfield, Missouri. Tickets are available now at SaveMeSanFrancisco.com.
