Fleetwood Mac released their self-titled 10th studio album, often referred to as The White Album. The record was the band’s first release with Lindsey Buckingham on guitar and Stevie Nicks on vocals.
The album, their second self-titled release following their 1968 debut, went to #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart but took a long time to get there, peaking in the top spot 58 weeks after it first entered the chart.
It featured three hit singles: “Over My Head,” and the future classics “Rhiannon” and “Say You Love Me,” with the latter two just narrowly missing the Top 10.
The White Album went on to be certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Halestorm has shared a new song called “Rain Your Blood on Me,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Everest.
Lzzy Hale and company previously premiered “Rain Your Blood on Me” during their performance at Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne‘s Back to the Beginning farewell concert. Their set also included a rendition of their song “Love Bites (So Do I)” and a cover of Ozzy’s track “Perry Mason.”
You can listen to the official studio version of “Rain Your Blood on Me” now via digital outlets.
Everest, the follow-up to 2022’s Back from the Dead, drops Aug. 8. It also includes the lead single “Darkness Always Wins.”
Halestorm will launch a U.S. tour alongside Volbeat July 17 in Denver.
Rockers 38 Special are set to release their first new album in over two decades.
The band, known for such hits songs as “Hold on Loosely” and “Caught up in You,” will release the new album Milestone on Sept. 19. The first single, “All I Haven’t Said,” is out now.
“That’s my throwback to the ’60s, inspired by bands like the Searchers,” frontman and co-founder Don Barnes, who co-produced the album, says of the song. “I’ve always loved that jangling guitar sound and what’s old is new again. We just inject more power guitars to it.”
The album features songs co-written by Train’s Pat Monahan, Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Randy Bachman and the band’s longtime collaborator Jim Peterik, who also co-produced the record.
Milestone is the first new music from 38 Special since their 2004 release, Drivetrain.
“After all this time, we wanted to create a more modern 38 Special album,” Barnes shares. “This is a fresh, updated approach to the sound we’ve been making together for so long. Why not make a big statement after all these years? When you’re reintroducing yourself to the world, ‘good enough’ doesn’t work anymore. If you’re gonna do it, you might as well go big.”
38 Special is currently on the road with Kansas. Their next show is Friday in Prior Lake, Minnesota. A complete list of dates can be found at 38special.com.
Forty years ago Sunday — July 13, 1985 — the all-star Live Aid charity concerts took place in London and Philadelphia. Bob Geldof, who put together the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas” to raise money for African famine relief, organized Live Aid to raise even more money for the cause. Many of the acts featured on the single performed that day, including Sting, U2 and Duran Duran, but one glaring omission was Culture Club.
“We were the first band to be asked to do it, because of the nature of the band,” Culture Club bass player Mikey Craig tells ABC Audio. “Because the band was multiracial, and it had to do with a charity for Africa. And we were the biggest band in the world at the time.”
So why didn’t they play? Singer Boy George has said he doubted his ability to perform at the time, and Craig acknowledges he was probably right.
“Yeah, the performance probably wouldn’t have been good enough, because George, at the time, unbeknown to all of us, was not in a good place mentally,” Craig says. “I mean, he was probably using [heroin] at the time. And I think that was why he kept saying, ‘Yes, we’ll do it. No, we won’t do it. Yes, we’ll do it. No, we won’t do it,’ until Bob Geldof just kind of gave up on us completely.”
Craig says missing Live Aid was one of his biggest career regrets.
“I very much wanted to be a part of anything that was helping somebody in the world,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it resonated heavily with me when we could not do it. And yeah, it was tremendously sad for me, but at the same time, I have to remember that George probably wasn’t in a great place himself.”
The Doobie Brothers released their album Walk This Road in June, their first collection of original material with Michael McDonald since 1980. The group — including McDonald, and founding members Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons —are launching their tour in the U.K. before heading to the U.S. in August. Johnston says he can’t wait to see their fans.
“The people. They’re what make it all just amazing for me,” he tells ABC Audio. “They make it magical because they show up and they’re so enthusiastic. They sing, they dance. … It makes us feel like we’re about 16 again.”
“The other part of it is they’re happy,” Johnston adds. “To me, one of our big jobs is to elevate people’s mood. And when they’re are happy, we’re happy. And right now, that’s at a premium.”
And McDonald, who rejoined the band in 2021 for touring and is now back in the fold creatively as a songwriter, says they’re all getting along.
“You know, we all have a lot more in common than we do in differences, even musical styles, and so that keeps us together,” he tells ABC Audio. “But we all have something different to offer, which is great. And we don’t always agree, but friendship first, and we work it out.”
The Doobies’ first gig is July 11 in Glasgow, Scotland; they’ll be in the U.K. and Ireland through July 21. When they start up the U.S. leg of their tour Aug. 4 in Clarkson, Mississippi, their opening act will be the Coral Reefer Band, which backed the late Jimmy Buffett for many years.
Justin Bieber is standing on business with new music.
The singer released his new album, Swag, on Friday, which features 21 new songs.
“Inspired by his devotion as a husband and father, this new era of music has fueled a deeper perspective and more reflective sound, resulting in some of his most personal music yet,” according to a press release from his label, Def Jam Recordings.
The album is Bieber’s seventh studio album. It follows his 2021 album, Justice, which featured the songs “Peaches” and “Holy.”
Leading up to the new album, Bieber had teased the new project on several billboards across Times Square, Atlanta and Iceland, where he allegedly recorded the album.
In May, Travel + Leisure reported that Bieber was recording new music at Eleven Deplar Farm’s recording space called Flòki Studios.
Bieber shared a post about his Icelandic adventure and captioned it, “the best trip of my life.”
See the full tracklist below:
“All I Can Take” “Daisies” “Yukon” “Go Baby” “Things You Do” “Butterflies” “Way It Is” “First Place” “Soulful” “Walking Away” “Glory Voice Memo” “Devotion” “Dadz Love” “Therapy Session” “Sweet Spot” “Standing on Business” “405” “Swag” “Zuma House” “Too Long” “Forgiveness”
Even though Lainey Wilson got engaged to boyfriend Devlin “Duck” Hodges back in February, there aren’t any elaborate wedding plans underway yet — or perhaps ever, as she explains.
“I’m so excited,” the ACM entertainer of the year says. “He made me wait four years, so I’m gonna make him wait four years for the planning.”
“I’m just playing, but I’m so happy. We haven’t started planning yet, but whenever we do, I think it’s gonna be just something very simple,” Lainey reveals. “You know, everything else in our life is a big old to-do, so who knows? We might have to run to the courthouse.”
There’s no doubt Lainey’s life remains a Whirlwind, just like the title of her album. The deluxe edition arrives Aug. 22.
After a couple shows in Canada, she’ll have a bit of a break before kicking things off again Aug. 14 in Phoenix.
Forty years ago Sunday — July 13, 1985 — Live Aid, the massive all-star charity concerts, took place in London and Philadelphia. Organized by Bob Geldof to raise money for African famine relief, the shows featured anyone who was anyone in music at that time, from legends like Bob Dylan, Elton John, Queen, Tina Turner and David Bowie to younger acts like Madonna, U2, Bryan Adams and Duran Duran. Sting performed at the London show, both solo and with Dire Straits and Phil Collins.
“I can’t believe it’s 40 years. It just seems like yesterday, but it was an important moment,” Sting tells ABC Audio. “It really was almost a spontaneous moment, but really because of Bob Geldof. … Without Bob, it simply wouldn’t have happened. And he stuck with the idea, all this 40 years, and what we achieved on that day has propagated up till now.”
Bryan Adams performed in Philadelphia, between Judas Priest and The Beach Boys.
“I do remember Jack Nicholson introducing me,” Adams recalls. “It was definitely something special. There was no question about it. I didn’t get to hang around unfortunately because I had a gig that night. So we did that and then we just got back in the bus and left for the next town.”
Nile Rodgers of Chic performed with Madonna and The Thompson Twins that day. “Oh my God, it was one of the greatest days of my life because Joan Baez knew who I was,” Rodgers laughs. “I couldn’t believe it.”
But Rodgers, who produced Madonna’s Like a Virgin album, says she pulled a diva move at the end.
“What happened was, Madonna wasn’t invited to sing on the record ‘We Are the World,'” he recalls. “So when it came to do the finale, she split.”
Deftones embarked on a North American tour earlier in the year from February to April. They’ll kick off a summer leg in August.
Here’s the private music track list:
“my mind is a mountain” “locked club” “ecdysis” “infinite source” “souvenir” “cXz” “i think about you all the time” “milk of the madonna” “cut hands” “~metal dream” “departing the body”
Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello has released a new solo song called “Pretend You Remember Me.”
The track is accompanied by a video that opens with long incarcerated Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who says, “No human being is illegal.”
“This song is dedicated to all the families torn apart by state violence and injustice,” Morello previously said.
You can listen to “Pretend You Remember Me” via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video on YouTube.
“Pretend You Remember Me” follows Morello’s 2024 single, “Solider in the Army of Love,” which he recorded with his son Roman Morello.
Morello also just served as the musical director for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne‘s Back to the Beginning farewell concert, which took place July 5.
