The “Fleabag” rocker was set to perform in the English city on Friday, but had to postpone the show due to tonsillitis. To make it up to fans, he opened a tab at Liverpool’s Motel Bar so that anyone who purchased a ticket to the show can get a free drink.
“I’m so sad I can’t be there but at least you can be together and celebrate each other, as that’s what Yungblud is also about,” Yungblud writes in an Instagram Story. “Go to the bar play the tunes and have a good time. I love you.”
Yungblud also postponed a show scheduled for Thursday in Scotland.
Yungblud will launch a U.S. tour in August in support of his new album, Idols.
A new trailer has just been released for the upcoming two-part Billy Joel documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes.
“Sometimes it’s alien to me, this guy Billy Joel. I don’t know who that is or what that is,” the rocker says in a voice-over at the opening of the trailer. “I’m reminded of it when I go walk on the street. Oh right, I’m that guy.”
The clip features archival footage of Joel, as well as snippets of interviews with his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pink and others. Billy also talks about dating supermodel Christie Brinkley, who went on to become his second wife, and about the hardships in his life.
“I think music saved my life. It gave me a reason to live,” he says at the end of the clip. “Everything I’ve done and everything I’ve lived through has somehow found its way into my music.”
Part one of Billy Joel: And So It Goes will debut July 18 on HBO, with part two debuting July 25. Both will be available to stream at the same time on HBO Max.
A street in Harlem will soon be named after hip-hop hypeman Fatman Scoop. A street co-naming ceremony will take place Aug. 9 on the corner of 109th Street and 5th Avenue, which will soon be called Isaac ‘Fatman Scoop’ Freeman III Place. The honor, which comes nearly a year after Fatman’s death on Aug. 30, 2024, will recognize his contribution to music, entertainment and the community. “Scoop has always represented Harlem with pride. This co‑naming is a tribute not just to his artistry, but to his ongoing commitment to uplifting the community that raised him,” his brother Kendell said in a statement, according to The Source.
Saweetie is back, and she’s dropping a new song on July 18. She teased “Boffum” on social media, sharing a clip of her rapping in a white bikini, thigh-high fur boots and a dalmatian-print hat. The song will arrive days before her first-ever tour in Australia, which kicks off July 30.
Travis Scott‘s highly anticipated Jackboys 2 album will be dropping on Sunday. He shared the release date in a post on Instagram that read, “JB2 OUT EVERY WHERE 7 13 SPEAKERS AND SCREAMS AT MAX VOLUME.” There will be 17 tracks on the project, with Bun B serving as the radio host, according to the caption. The news arrives days after Scott released “2000 Excursion” and its accompanying music video.
Tupac Shakur, Damson Idris, Denzel Washington and more are on the Harper’s Bazaar list for the 50 hottest men of all time. Shemar Moore, Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan and A$AP Rocky also made the cut.
The Matchbox Twenty frontman announced his sixth solo effort, All Night Days, and released two new tracks off the album Friday. The lead single “Hard to Be Happy” and the acoustic B-side “Thrill Me” are both out now.
Of “Hard to Be Happy,” Rob says, “The song itself is very no-filler. It shows, ‘It’s alright to be unhappy,’ but it’s wrapped up in a happy tune. The message is, ‘I’m going to be fine, but leave me alone for this second!’”
All Night Days will be released Sept. 5, marking Rob’s first release on Universal Records.
“I hope you see yourself in my music,” Rob says of the album. “The great songs I listen to are the ones where I’m the hero of the story in my head, even if I don’t know the writer. There are a lot of ‘Saturday Night’ and ‘Sunday Morning’ songs on All Night Days. Maybe one of these tunes becomes a part of your life.”
He’ll embark on a headlining tour of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand in support of the album, kicking off Aug. 1 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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All Time Low has announced a new album called Everyone’s Talking!
The milestone 10th studio effort from the “Dear Maria, Count Me In” outfit will arrive Oct. 17. It’s the follow-up to 2023’s Tell Me I’m Alive.
Everyone’s Talking includes the previously released single “SUCKERPUNCH.” A second track from the record, “The Weather,” is out now alongside a video, which you can watch streaming on YouTube.
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.
