Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 performs onstage during the 2025 JUNO Awards at Rogers Arena on March 30, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
The sun may have set on Sum 41, but frontman Deryck Whibley isn’t letting go of his old band entirely.
Whibley tells Rock Sound that he’s recorded an album of acoustic Sum 41 songs.
“I’d like to do an acoustic tour of Sum 41 songs,” Whibley shares. “I have an acoustic record that I recorded, and it is done, of Sum 41 songs. That may come out sometime soon.”
Whibley cautions, however, that there aren’t currently any concrete plans for such a tour.
Sum 41 played their last concert in January before officially hanging it up for good after a performance at the 2025 Juno Awards in March, during which they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Whibley, meanwhile, released a memoir called Walking Disaster in 2024. He’s also just launched a clothing line also called Walking Disaster.
Artwork for ‘The Beatles Anthology’/ (courtesy of Disney+)
Disney+ is bringing back The Beatles’ Anthology series in November, and now, they are giving fans a look at the project.
The streaming service has released a trailer for The Beatles Anthology, a restored and remastered version of ABC’s 1995 documentary that featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr telling stories of their life and career as The Beatles. The original series was made up of eight parts, but the new version has been expanded to include a ninth installment that features previously unseen footage of McCartney, Harrison and Starr in the ’90s as they created the original Anthology series and albums.
Episodes 1-2 of The Beatles Anthology will debut Nov. 27, with episodes 7-9 debuting Nov. 28.
The Beatles are also revisiting The Beatles Anthology music with the Nov. 21 release of the Anthology Collection, featuring the original three Anthology albums plus a new fourth installment, Anthology 4. It will be released digitally and as a 12-LP or eight-CD collection.
The collection includes “Free as a Bird,” which was part of Anthology 1, and “Real Love,” which was part of Anthology 2. Both tracks, which at the time were the first new songs from The Beatles in 25 years, have been remixed by original producer Jeff Lynne. The new set also includes the band’s 2023 release, “Now and Then.”
Anthology 4 will also be released on its own as a three-LP or two-CD set featuring 36 tracks, including 13 previously unreleased demos and session recordings, and other rare recordings.
59th CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson (ABC/Country Music Association)
The CMA Awards has added more performers and presenters to its already stacked bill.
Keith Urban and Little Big Town have joined the lineup of artists who’ll take the stage at Country Music’s Biggest Night, airing Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. They join previously announced performers Kenny Chesney, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Kelsea Ballerini, Megan Moroney, Old Dominion, Shaboozey, Chris Stapleton, Zach Top, Lainey Wilson and Tucker Wetmore.
Meanwhile, presenters and special guests for the event include Lady A, Billy Ray Cyrus, Brandon Lake, Cody Johnson, Jordan Davis, LeAnn Rimes and Bailey Zimmerman, and actors Jessica Capshaw, Chris O’Donnell, Alan Ritchson, Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Martin.
Lainey Wilson hosts the 59th CMA Awards, which will stream on Hulu the next day. She, along with Ella and Megan, are this year’s leading nominees, with six nods apiece.
Cody Johnson will be vying for four trophies at Wednesday’s CMA Awards, competing for entertainer and male vocalist of the year, plus musical event and music video for “I’m Gonna Love You” with Carrie Underwood.
Should Cody add to his collection, he has quite an impressive place to display his new accolades — thanks to an extensive home renovation and the fact that his wife asked him to keep his hunting trophies elsewhere.
“I redid my rodeo arena at my house,” he explains. “At the end of the arena, there’s a 4,000-square-foot trophy lodge and it has given me a place to put all my stuff.”
“Because I’ve been in athletes’ houses before where it looks like a shrine to them,” Cody continues. “It’s like, ‘There’s not even a damn family photo in here.’ And with this forever home, I want [my kids] to have a place where it feels like home. It is this big, nice, beautiful home that dad went to work and provided for, and I want family pictures, and I want it to be about them.”
Cody confesses there’s obviously an upside for “dad” as well.
“If I condense all these trophies, when you walk into the trophy lodge, then you think, ‘Wow, this is all really cool,'” he says.
Tune in to the 59th CMA Awards Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC to see how Cody fares.
Robbie Robertson‘s final solo album, 2019’s Sinematic, features “Beautiful Madness,” a song inspired by the two years he and Martin Scorsese lived together after their respective marriages collapsed. That “madness” is now detailed in The Band guitarist’s brutally honest new bookInsomnia, the sequel to his memoir, Testimony.
In Insomnia, Robertson and Scorsese are creatively on fire. As The Band dissolves, they work on The Last Waltz and Raging Bull; hang with Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Warren Beatty; travel the world; bed beautiful women and do ridiculous amounts of drugs, stopping only after Scorsese nearly dies. Their creative partnership, though, continued for decades.
“I think they both admired each other greatly … Robbie thought Marty was a genius filmmaker, and I think Marty thought Robbie was an amazing writer and an amazing storyteller,” Robertson’s longtime manager, Jared Levine, says of their relationship.
Levine says Robertson had wanted to tell the “origin story” of his friendship with Scorsese for years, but in the form of a movie, which David Fincher planned to direct. Dissatisfied with the screenplay, Levine says, “Robbie was like, ‘You know what? I need to write the story for this to be done properly.'”
While Robertson completed Insomnia’s first draft prior to his unexpected 2023 death, Levine says, “We didn’t rush to release it” — in part because Robertson’s family was “ambivalent” about it. “They weren’t prepared for what this book was,” Levine notes.
“It’s so irreverent and so much about being a bad boy,” Levine says, noting the guitarist’s descriptions of his affairs with actresses and models “aren’t things that Robbie ever talked to his kids about.” He continues, “To read it after he had passed, it was even more so a difficult thing.”
Consequently, Insomnia includes an afterward by Robertson’s ex-wife and lifelong friend, Dominique Robertson, providing context for that period.
Filmworks: Insomnia, an LP collecting Robertson’s music for The Last Waltz,Raging Bull andhis acting debut, Carny, arrives on Record Store Day Black Friday, happening Nov. 28.
Soundgarden at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Soundgarden has been working on a new album featuring frontman Chris Cornell‘s final recordings since his death in 2017. Speaking with ABC Audio on the red carpet of the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, guitarist Kim Thayil shared an update on the record’s progress.
“We’re missing a member in making these judgements,” Thayil said, referring to Cornell. “We need to spend time to learn the material, reacquaint with it and think about the direction in which the material can go in order to make it the best that it can possibly be.”
Thayil is making those decisions alongside drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd, as well as in collaboration with the producers the three are working with.
“We always think, ‘What would Chris like, what would he do, what do we like?'” Thayil said. “The producers’ input on that regard, ’cause they all have worked with Chris before, is very helpful.”
Thayil, Cameron and Shepherd performed together at the Rock Hall ceremony in honor of Soundgarden’s induction. They were joined by Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, Americana artist Brandi Carlile and original Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
Highlights from the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air as an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.
Teddy Swims and Raiche Wright attend the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November 8, 2025 (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Teddy Swims‘ son is only 5 months old, but he’s already teaching his old man a thing or two.
Teddy and his partner, Raiche Wright, welcomed their first child on June 23, although they have not yet revealed his name. On the red carpet at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Teddy told ABC Audio the biggest lesson he’s learned now that he’s a dad.
“I think for me, the biggest thing would be presence,” he said. “So many times in my life, I was always like, ‘I gotta go get it … somebody else’s gettin’ it, I gotta be working all the time.'”
“And nowadays … even yesterday, I’m sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, watching TV with him and knowing that this is the most productive thing I could do is just nothing with him, and just being present. And I think it’s changed my life a lot on just being present with things.”
Days where Teddy can sit on the couch with the baby and do nothing are becoming few and far between: After going to LA for the Rock Hall induction, he’s now in Asia. He’ll perform in South Korea and Singapore before heading to Dubai, and then coming back to the U.S. for some holiday shows. But he’ll be slowing down a bit and focusing on new music in 2026.
“We’re getting ready to write. We’re taking a little bit less of touring next year, and writing and writing and writing. And I’m writing now, so we’re going to see where it goes, you know?”
New Edition, Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men on GMA (Paula Lobo)
The New Edition Way tour kicks off in 2026, bringing New Edition onstage with Boyz II Men, a group Michael Bivins helped to launch and manage. After years of learning from the stars and succeeding on their own merit, Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men tells ABC Audio “now is the time” for them to come together.
“This is long overdue,” he says of sharing the stage with New Edition. “I mean Boyz II Men and New Edition, we’ve been grafted in each other’s lives by Michael Bivins bringing us in, and putting us in a position where we were able to express our talents and our abilities.”
Though they were inspired by many different groups, Wanya says the members of N.E. were “the ones that really put hands on us and helped us get to that next level,” which is why he’s honored “to be sharing the stage with those guys.”
He says, “We’ve always wanted to do it, and now is the time.”
N.E.’s Ricky Bell agrees that the timing is right, as it aligns with where they all are in multiple aspects of their lives.
“Just the timing of everything … not even just with our careers, I just think where we are as men, as a community, where we are spiritually and even mentally, this is just the perfect time to make this happen,” he says.
“It feels like something that is just supposed to happen in the grand scheme of things,” Ricky adds. “We always try to bring our fans something special, something that’s unique, a unique experience that you don’t get to see it all the time.”
The New Edition tour, also featuring Toni Braxton, launches in January at the Oakland Arena in California. Tickets are currently on sale.
Jack White at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Jack White is returning home to Detroit for Thanksgiving.
The “Seven Nation Army” rocker, who was born in the Motor City in 1975, will perform during halftime of the Detroit Lions’ annual T-Day game.
The Lions will host the visiting Green Bay Packers on Nov. 27, airing at 1 p.m. ET on Fox.
White’s halftime performance follows his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The White Stripes. While bandmate Meg White wasn’t in attendance, Jack delivered a speech during the Nov. 8 ceremony, which also featured tribute performances from Twenty One Pilots, Olivia Rodrigo and Feist.
Highlights from the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air as a primetime ABC special on Jan. 1.
Yungblud on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Yungblud has canceled the remainder of his 2025 tour dates.
The English rocker writes in an Instagram Story that he had recently undergone voice and blood tests that “have raised some concerns.”
“I have been ordered by my doctor to take a break from touring until the end of the year,” Yungblud says. “It is in my nature to run and run until I run myself to the ground without giving a f*** about anything apart from the music and you guys but this time I’ve been told I have to take it seriously and I can’t f*** around.”
The affected U.S. dates include shows in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Cleveland. Yungblud has also dropped off the bill for Limp Bizkit‘s upcoming Latin American tour, and has been replaced by Bullet for My Valentine.
“My heart is broken,” Yungblud says. “I don’t want to do any lasting damage to myself, we are on a journey that I want to last forever. I understand that some of you will be frustrated. I just want you to know that this is so hard for me to do but I promise I will make it up to you.”
He also tells fans that if they sign up at the address at the link with their ticket number, he will send them “a gift.”
Yungblud is scheduled to return to the road in January for a tour of Australia. His next North American tour is set to kick off in May.
