(L-R) Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick perform onstage during the 2025 Backyard Concert supporting Teen Cancer America and the UCLA Health Center October 03, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for BC)
Cheap Trick has added more dates to their All Washed Up Tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band has extended their tour through November, with new dates starting Nov. 11 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The additions include stops in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Ohio before wrapping Nov. 22 in Detroit, Michigan.
A presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Cheap Trick is touring in support of their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, which came out in November 2025. Their next show is Aug. 2 in Minnedosa, Canada.
A complete list of dates can be found at CheapTrick.com.
Whitey Houston Legacy Foundation Auction 2026 (Marc Bryan Brown – Courtesy of The Estate of Whitney E. Houston)
Go ahead: We know you wanna bid with somebody who loves you.
Julien’s Auctions has announced that The Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation 2026 Auction will go live Aug. 11 in LA and online at 10 a.m. PT, marking the second year the auction is being held. Proceeds will go to the foundation’s work supporting youth from underprivileged backgrounds via scholarships and grants. You can register to bid now.
Among the items up for grabs: Whitney’s gold-plated Social Security card, her 9-times RIAA Platinum sales award for “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” her luggage, various lots of jewelry and multiple outfits that Whitney either wore onstage, in photo shoots or to special events.
Some of the items will be on display during the Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation’s 5th Annual Legacy of Love Gala, scheduled to take place in Atlanta on Aug. 8, which would have been her 63rd birthday. Babyface will be the headlining performer at the charity event.
‘Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend’ (Ten Speed Press)
Carlos Santana, Patti Smith and Phil Lesh are among the artists contributing essays to a new photo book about American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend, dropping Sept. 1, is described as a “photographic celebration” of Coltrane’s life, featuring dozens of never-before-seen photos from throughout Coltrane’s career. It includes photos in the studio, on tour and at home.
Others contributing essays include The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes.
The book, edited and overseen by John’s son, Ravi Coltrane, is part of a yearlong celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of John’s Sept. 23, 1926, birth.
Ozzy Osbourne and Jack Osbourne visit the Tribeca Film Festival 2011 portrait studio on April 25, 2011 in New York City. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne’s death, and his son, Jack Osbourne, has a request for fans who wish to honor the milestone.
“I want to fill the entire day, July 22, with just awesome Ozzy stories,” Jack says in a video posted to Instagram.
Jack suggests sharing a remembrance of seeing Ozzy live or what his music has meant to you, and asks that you tag posts with #OzzyDay so that he’ll see it.
“Please, get thinking, get posting, spread the love. That’s what my dad would want,” Jack says. “He would not want us to all be sat around, shedding tears, because that’s not his vibe. He did not like people crying in front of him. So, yeah, spread the love that way.”
Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, at age 76. He’d just performed for the last time alongside the original Black Sabbath lineup at the Back to the Beginning concert, which happened two weeks earlier on July 5.
Corey Beaulieu and Matt Heafy of Trivium perform at The Rooftop at Pier 17 on May 07, 2025 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Trivium has announced a fall U.S. tour.
The headlining outing kicks off Nov. 5 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and will conclude Dec. 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Flames will also be on the bill, as well as Orbit Culture, Fit for an Autopsy and Frozen Soul.
According to a press release, the tour “marks the somewhat unofficial start of Trivium’s next era” and will feature the debut of new music.
Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Trivium.org.
Trivium’s most recent release is their 2025 EP, Struck Dead, which followed their 2021 album, In the Court of the Dragon. Longtime drummer Alex Bent left the group in 2025, and was first replaced by Greyson Nekrutman and then by Alex Rüdinger, who will be the band’s drummer going forward.
Warren Zeiders is going all-in on his third studio album, No Brakes, which is set to arrive Sept. 25.
Keeping with that philosophy, the 12-song project was made “primarily in a two day, twelve hour work session.”
“Life is inevitable,” Warren says. “Good things, bad things, it’s all coming at you – and you have to power on. There’s not really a choice, but why would you want one? That’s why the idea, all gas, no brakes really seemed like the right name for this album.”
The title track follows the previously released “Days of My Life” and “Drinking Game,” with the rest of the songs still to be revealed.
Zeiders hit #1 with his double-Platinum “Pretty Little Poison” in early 2024.
Paul McCartney on May 21, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)
Fans on a Beatles tour of Liverpool got quite a surprise when they had a chance encounter with Paul McCartney.
Neil Morton, who drives the Magical Mystery Tour Bus around Liverpool, tells the BBC that during a recent tour, the bus pulled up to find McCartney at a traffic light. It happened at the very moment McCartney was on a video call with his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr.
“It was surreal,” said Morton. “I had pulled up at the traffic lights on Hope Street when who should I see – Sir Paul with Ringo on Facetime. He waved to us and everybody took photos. The passengers could not believe it.”
Unfortunately for fans, Morton said, “Nobody really got chance to speak with him.”
According to the BBC, McCartney was back in Liverpool to honor Adolescence actor Stephen Graham with a companionship from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the school he co-founded.
When Morgan Wallen releases his new song, “Been by Now,” on Friday, it’ll be his first new solo recording since he put out “Graveyard Whistling” in October.
Of course, his latest album is I’m the Problem, which came out in May 2025, and its latest hit, “Don’t We,” currently sits at #2 on the charts, just ahead of his duet with Ella Langley.
And while “I Can’t Love You Anymore” finds the pair longing for a love gone wrong, Morgan says “Been by Now” paints a picture of a current relationship destined to end.
“You just don’t really see it progressing any further and you start noticing things that let you know that,” he reflects. “And it’s a little bit of a bittersweet-feeling song. You know, the music feels a little happy, but the message is overwhelmingly sad, which is something that’s kind of a go-to for me.”
Morgan debuted “Been by Now” over the weekend in Baltimore, having previously shared both acoustic and studio snippets on his socials.
Photo of Queen: L-R Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)
Queen is looking back at the past for a new series of posters.
The band is releasing a new collection of replica vintage Queen posters, with the first installment in the series featuring four posters.
The first set includes Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You and Queen Are Coming posters. There’s also a 1980 concert poster with an image of the band, and frontman Freddie Mercury in a jumping position that makes it appear as though he’s floating onstage.
All posters feature an official Queen embossed stamp and cost $50. They are available for preorder now, with shipping set for Aug. 15. More info can be found at QueenOnlineStore.com.
This isn’t the first time Queen has released a vintage replica poster. In 2025 they released a replica Queen Live Aid poster for the 40th anniversary of the all-star benefit concert. Proceeds from that poster were split between The Band Aid Trust and The Mercury Phoenix Trust.
Emily Haines of Metric performs at The Greek Theatre on June 09, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Metric’s All the Feelings tour in support of their new album, Romanticize the Dive, resumes Friday in Chicago. During the first leg of the tour in June, Emily Haines and company closed each show with their 2010 song “Black Sheep,” which, despite never being on a Metric album, has become one of the band’s most beloved tracks.
As Haines tells ABC Audio, “Black Sheep” was originally written around the sessions for Metric’s 2009 album, Fantasies, but it didn’t make the cut.
“This is something that I had brought in, lyrically, they’re just like, ‘What the f*** are you talking about?'” Haines recalls of the band’s initial “Black Sheep” thoughts.
As fate would have it though, a new movie called Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, adapted from the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley, was in the works. The books feature a fictional band called The Clash at Demonhead, which O’Malley based on Metric, though Haines laughs that she’s “sweeter” than The Clash at Demonhead’s singer, Envy Adams.
Naturally, the film’s director, Edgar Wright, reached out to Metric, who volunteered “Black Sheep” for the project.
“When [Wright] heard it, he was just like, ‘This sounds like it was written for the scene,'” Haines says. “And I completely agree, and I don’t know why.”
In the movie, a pre-Captain Marvel Brie Larson plays Envy Adams and sings “Black Sheep,” which adds another level to its legacy. Beyond that, though, Haines feels the success of “Black Sheep” reinforces one of her beliefs on life.
“I love that stuff, because it just confirms my belief that we’re basically powerless,” Haines says. “You just have to truck along and, like, do your best, follow some instinct, but you have really no idea what’s gonna happen next.”
