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Neil Young has added a major festival date to his upcoming summer run with new band the Chrome Hearts. Young, 79, will headline a July 11 date at the annual BST Hyde Park summer concert series in London, where he will be joined by “Peace Train” singer Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Van Morrison, with more support acts to be announced later.
American Express U.K. card members can grab tickets now through 9 a.m. on March 5, with a BST Hyde Park pre-sale slated to open at 10 a.m. on Monday (March 3) and a general on-sale kicking off at 10 a.m. on March 5; all times GMT.
The gig will be Young’s first at BST Hyde Park since a 2019 co-headlining gig there with Bob Dylan. Young’s show will join a growing roster of 2025 BST Hyde Park headliners, which also include Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan and Jeff Lynne’s ELO.
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The addition of the Hyde Park show expands the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s burgeoning 2025 road roster, after this week’s announcement of the dates for the first leg of the European/North American Love Earth tour, which is slated to kick off in Europe on June 18 at Dalhalla in Rättvik, Sweden before moving on to gigs in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
The tour will then hit the U.S., beginning with an August 8 show at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, N.C., before moving on to Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Denver and Vancouver, with the last currently scheduled date set for Sept. 15 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; a spokesperson said more date will be added to the run later.
Young will be accompanied on all the shows by the Chrome Hearts band, featuring his longtime collaborator keyboardist/organist Spooner Oldham, as well as Promise of the Real members Micah Nelson (guitar/vocals), Corey McCormick (bass) and Anthony LoGerfo (drums). The group released the grungy anthem “Big Change” in January. Young debuted the Chrome Hearts band last year and has said an album from the group is tentatively slated for release in April.
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Garbage are back, announcing their first new album in almost four years.
Dubbed Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, the new LP will be their eighth, and follows on from the release of 2021’s No Gods No Masters and a pair of EPs in recent years. Their new record arrives on May 30 via Stun Volume.
“Our last album was extremely forthright. Born out of frustration and outrage – it had a kind of scorched earth, pissed off quality to it,” singer Shirley Manson explains in a statement. “With this new record however, I felt a compulsion to reach for a different kind of energy. A more constructive one. I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future.
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“Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the good things in the world that seem so thin on the ground right now. That was the over-riding idea during the making of this record for me – that when things feel dark, it’s best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good.
“When I was young, I tended towards the destruction of things,” Manson adds. “Now that I’m older I believe it’s vitally important to build and to create things instead. I still entertain very old romantic ideals about community, society and the world. I don’t want to walk through the world creating havoc, damaging the land and people. I want to do good. I want to do no harm.”
Recorded in a number of locations – including Los Angeles’ Red Razor Sounds, Butch Vig’s Grunge is Dead studio, and Manson’s bedroom – the album’s announcement notably hasn’t been accompanied by a lead single. Rather, the band have promised that a preview will arrive “in the coming weeks”.
The new record also arrives following a few months of downtime for the band, with Garbage announcing in August they were forced to cancel the remainder of their 2024 tour dates due to Manson requiring “surgery and rehabilitation” for an undisclosed injury suffered while on tour in Europe. The group are slated to return to the road in March for a run of South American tour dates.
The impending release of Let All That We Imagine Be the Light will also become Garbage’s fourth album since they resumed activity in earnest in 2010, following a five-year period of hiatus.
Their debut self-titled album, Garbage, released in 1995, achieved double-platinum status and peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard 200. Their follow-up album, Version 2.0, released in 1998, reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and further cemented their reputation as one of the leading bands of the era.
Garbage have remained busy with musical projects in recent years, including 2021’s, No Gods No Masters. The album debuted at No. 95 on the Billboard 200 and included tracks like “The Men Who Rule the World.” They also collaborated with artists like Screaming Females and Brody Dalle on a special edition of the album, and toured with Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill anniversary tour in 2022.
Beabadoobee has used her recent time Down Under to share a cover of a beloved New Zealand classic, covering Bic Runga’s “Sway” for Like a Version, the long-running segment from Australian radio station triple j.
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Recorded during the 24-year-old singer’s latest trip to Australia as part of the Laneway Festival, Beabadoobee offered up two performances for the session, including her original “Beaches” and a take on Runga’s 1997 single “Sway”.
Originally released on Runga’s debut album Drive, “Sway” peaked at No. 7 on the local New Zealand charts and has since gone on to be considered as one of the country’s most beloved songs. In 2001, the track was ranked at No. 6 on APRA’s (the Australasian Performing Right Association) list of the top 100 New Zealand songs of all time.
“ I chose to cover this song because my mum used to play it a lot when I was growing up and I mean, she’s badass,” Beabadoobee explained in a post-performance interview. “It was just really nice seeing an Asian woman kind of playing indie music like that.
“I was scared I wasn’t gonna do it justice,” she added. “But I love this song so much and if anything, I’m doing it for my mum and she doesn’t know that I’m actually covering this song so I’m really excited. Every cover I’ve done in my career has been for my mum, so I hope she likes this one too.”
Indeed, this isn’t the first cover that Beabadoobee has delivered in recent months. Back in October, she joined the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to share her take on Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste,” blended with a little bit of The Corrs’ “Breathless.”
The BBC performance also included a performance of “Beaches,” which was featured on Beabadoobee’s third album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves. The record has been her most successful to date, becoming her first to top the U.K. charts, and even reached No. 34 on the Billboard 200. It also hit No. 6 on the Independent Albums and Top Album Sales charts, and snuck into No. 10 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart.
Beabadoobee is also up for British artist of the year and best alternative/rock act at the Brit Awards, which will be handed out on Saturday (March 1).
In 2025, artists from the indie and pop worlds collaborate and co-mingle regularly enough that it’s almost hard to remember a time when it was ever really that novel. But earlier this century, indie and pop were still isolated enough that in 2009, when Solange took her sister Beyoncé and Bey’s husband Jay-Z to a […]
If you’ve seen A Complete Unknown, or gone to see Bob Dylan in concert over the past few decades, or checked out the the Nobel Prize winner’s social media feeds recently then you know that the rock and roll bard’s factory setting is inscrutable.
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Which, kind of, explains Dylan’s latest inexplicable Instagram missive: a no-context re-post of a 2016 in-store performance by Machine Gun Kelly at Park Ave. CDs in Orlando, FL in 2016. Why MGK? Why this clip? We will never know, but both Kelly and his good pal, singer/producer Mod Sun, were beyond pumped at the unexpected shout-out. (Check out the post here).
“you having a phone is so rad,” Kelly wrote in the comments on the post, with Mod Sun adding, “This is my favorite thing that’s ever happened on the internet.” Other commenters also weighed in with a mix of excitement and confusion, writing, “Bob probably thought this was [A Complete Unknown star] Timothée Chalamet so he reposted it,” “Think MGK has now won against Eminem. The greatest poet of all time has just reposted him,” “I love when Dylan fans get riled ’cause he throws a curveball,” “Bob respectfully what the f–k is this” and “Not a fan of MGK, myself… Genius sees genius. This guy can spit and it seems at least one person named Bob can hear it clearly.”
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While Dylan has posted some on-brand messages lately, including a tribute to his friend and late bandmate Garth Hudson last month following the death of The Band’s longtime keyboardist, the MGK love is in keeping with his out-of-left-field online activity. Earlier this year, the 83-year-old folk rock legend joined TikTok just days before what was slated to be a ban of the app, posting a kind of career retrospective clip, followed by a half dozen other archival videos.
Over on X, the past four months have found Dylan musing about seeing a Nick Cave show in Paris and being impressed by the singer’s moving track “Joy” and giving props to “brilliant actor” Chalamet’s role in A Complete Unknown, predicting that the actor would be “completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
Classic Dylan.
He’s also paid tribute to another old bandmate, late rockin’ blues giant Paul Butterfield, and, last week, posted another tribute, this time to late bluegrass/country great Don Reno.
And if you scroll through the rest of his Instagram feed, over the past two months, mixed in with promos for his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, you’ll see an archival video of Les Paul introducing late Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen at a Les Paul tribute show in 1988, a random Ricky Nelson performance clip, a snippet of director Fritz Lang’s 1952 noir romance Clash By Night starring Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe and a live performance video of beloved guitarist Django Reinhardt.
Mix in a post of the classic Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man” and a reading of the “Last Testament” of the outlaw (and older brother of Jesse) Frank James.
What does it all mean? Who knows? But in the immortal words of Dylan: “don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”
The 30th anniversary run of the Vans Warped Tour has unveiled the (almost) full lineups for the three get-back shows planned for this year. After teasing a few bold names last month, the two-day festivals in Washington, D.C., Long Beach, CA and Orlando, FL have now rolled out just about all the names for this year’s events, with just a few acts still blacked-out on the super-packed event posters.
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With each stop showcasing between 70-100 bands, there is a little something for everyone at the kick-off D.C. show (June 14-15), which includes: 3OH!3, All Time Low, Asking Alexandra, Atmosphere, Avril Lavigne, Blessthefall, Bowling for Soup, Boys Like Girls, Chiodos, Dance Hall Crashers, Escape the Fate, Fishbone, From Ashes to New, Hawthorne Heights, Ice Nine Kills, Knuckle Puck, Less Than Jake, MGK, Miss May I, Mod Sun, Motion City Soundtrack, Pennywise, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Simple Plan, State Champs, Streetlight Manifesto, Sublime, The Aquabats, The Maine, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Suicide Machines, We Came As Romans, Yung Gravy and many more.
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The Long Beach, CA shows (July 26-27) will feature a number of the same acts as well as: Ava Maybee, Aviva, Better Lovers, Black Veil Brides, Blackbear, Body Count, Cartel, CKY, Cobra Starship, Comeback Kid, Destroy Boys, Dexter and the Moonrocks, Drain, Dropkick Murphys, Drug Church, Enter Shikari, Falling in Reverse, Four Year Strong, Girlfriends, Gogol Bordello, Honey Revenge, Hot Milk, Iann Dior, Ice-T, Kennyhoopla, Landon Barker, Magnolia Park, Mariachi El Bronx, Memphis May Fire, Mom Jeans, Nova Twins, Ringpop!, Slaughter to Prevail, The Interrupters, The Vandals, The Wonder Years, Zulu and more.
The final dates in Orlando (Nov. 15-16) will have a number of the same bands, in addition to: A Loss For Words, Amigo the Devil, Angel Dust, Arrows in Action, Atila, Beauty School Dropout, Chained Saint, Charlotte Sands, Crown the Empire, Drain, Fever 333, Flycatcher, Games We Play, Good Riddance, Gym Class Heroes, Hail the Sun, Head Automatica, Holywar, I See Stars, Jager Henry, Jeremy Romance & the Zero Friends Club, Jutes, Koyo, Left to Suffer, Lolo, Movements, Plain White Ts, Royal & the Serpent, Scene Queen, The Expendables, Thursday and Yellowcard, among others.
Warped Tour was founded by Kevin Lyman and toured the country from 1995-2018, spotlighting hundreds of up-and-coming and classic punk, emo, hardcore and pop punk bands over the years. After shutting things down after the 2018 edition, Lyman rebooting it one more time in 2019 for a three-show 25th anniversary run.
In a statement about this year’s shows, Lyman said, “Putting together a lineup is never an easy task, but each act, both new and returning, plays an important role in delivering an unforgettable experience for fans, especially at the price point we’re offer. We collaborated closely with the bands to create some exciting surprises, exclusive content, and more for fans to enjoy. So follow along, soak in the journey, and who knows — you might just discover your next favorite band!”
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Wet Leg, Underworld, Kneecap, TV on The Radio and Beth Gibbons have been announced as headliners for Wales’ Green Man festival this summer (Aug. 14-17). The event, which is already sold-out, will host an array of U.K., Irish and International acts in the Black Mountains in Wales’ Bannau Brycheiniog National Park over four nights in August.
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Kneecap will headline the opening night’s bill, with indie duo Wet Leg following on the Friday, and dance icons Underworld topping the lineup on Saturday. On the final evening, TV On The Radio and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons (solo) will close the festival with co-headline slots.
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Elsewhere there’ll be performances from Wunderhorse, Greentea Peng, CMAT, Perfume Genius, MJ Lenderman, English Teacher, Fat Dog, Yard Act, Nilüfer Yanya, Warmduscher and more. See the full lineup below.
It’s the latest show announced for Wet Leg as they gear up for their highly-anticipated sophomore album. The band’s self-titled 2022 debut was nominated for best alternative album at the Grammys the following year, and saw them support Harry Styles extensively on his most-recent world tour.
Green Man festival was established in 2003 and has been held annually (aside from 2020) ever since. 2024’s edition was headlined by Big Thief, Sampha, Jon Hopkins, Sleaford Mods, while previous headliners across the two decades include Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, The War on Drugs, Father John Misty, Fontaines D.C., Kraftwerk and more.
The 25,000 capacity event will also host comedy and theatre performances, literature discussions, science workshops in its wide-ranging program. An accompanying statement by the festival reports that Green Man generates £28 million into the Welsh economy, and is one of the largest independent festivals in the U.K.
Hatebreed’s longtime bassist Chris Beattie has confirmed his departure from the band, calling the decision “uncalled for” and suggesting that “misleading and wrongful statements” were involved in his exit.
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The news comes just days before Hatebreed is set to take the stage at Knotfest Australia, where Slipknot will headline across three cities. Beattie, who co-founded the hardcore outfit in 1994, addressed fans in a statement on Feb. 27.
“I just want to take the time to let everyone know that I am doing just fine and I sincerely appreciate everyone who has reached out,” Beattie wrote on a social media post.
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“I was under the impression a joint announcement would be agreed upon in advance, but since that was not the case I wanted to address your concerns in my own post,” he added.
Beattie also clarified that he did not choose to leave the band and implied that the circumstances surrounding his departure may not have been transparent.
“At this time I am unable to discuss the specifics surrounding my departure from Hatebreed on November 13, 2024,” he continued. “However, I want to clarify that the decision to leave the band was not mine and that my departure was uncalled for and based on misleading and wrongful statements that will be subject to future actions.”
Hatebreed has not issued an official response to Beattie’s claims. The band is still scheduled to perform at Knotfest Australia, with stops at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse on Friday, Brisbane Showgrounds on Sunday, March 2, and Sydney’s Centennial Park on March 8. The lineup also includes A Day to Remember, Babymetal, Slaughter to Prevail, Polaris, and more.
Beattie, who has been with Hatebreed since their early days in the Connecticut hardcore scene, was a key part of the band’s sound across eight studio albums. While he has not specified what his next move will be, his comments suggest he may not be stepping away from music entirely.
For now, Hatebreed moves forward without one of its longest-standing members, while fans await more details on what led to the split.
Some of rock’s most infamous relics are hitting the auction block.
A new sale from Potter & Potter Auctions, titled Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen: A Countercultural Cross-Section, is offering a selection of music memorabilia that ranges from the iconic to the downright bizarre—including a pair of GG Allin’s blood-signed underwear and strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair.
The Chicago-based auction house will open bidding on March 6, with a catalog featuring dozens of punk and grunge artifacts. Among the standout items is a pair of Allin’s personal underwear, reportedly signed in his own blood.
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According to the listing, the briefs are “Blood-Signed and Inscribed Personal Underwear. N.d. Underwear briefs belonging to GG Allin.”
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It continues: “Signed in blood over the fly and INSCRIBED ‘Suck my a– it smells’ to the reverse side. Stable; one hole near rear inscription; seemingly used; staining.” Infamous for his extreme stage presence and self-destructive performances, Allin’s memorabilia has long been sought after by collectors fascinated with punk’s most chaotic figure.
Cobain’s hair, meanwhile, is making a return to the auction circuit. Back in 2021, six strands of the late Nirvana frontman’s hair were sold for $14,145.
This time, only two strands are available, leading to speculation that the original buyer either retained the remaining pieces or is looking to capitalize on their investment. The listing states that the hair was originally obtained in Birmingham, England, in 1989 by Cobain’s friend Tessa Osbourne while Nirvana was on their Bleach tour.
This isn’t the first time Cobain-related memorabilia has made waves at auction. Items tied to the Nirvana frontman frequently command high prices, with his MTV Unplugged 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar selling for a record-breaking $6 million in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold.
His cardigan from that same Unplugged performance fetched $334,000, while a paper plate with a setlist written on it sold for $22,400. Despite the more unusual nature of this auction, Cobain’s hair is expected to draw significant interest.
Beyond the Allin and Cobain items, the auction will feature an array of punk and rock memorabilia. Fans of New York’s legendary CBGB will find a storefront awning from the club’s defunct gift shop, as well as a piece of the venue’s dressing room wall, as well as signed items from punk icons like The Ramones and Dead Kennedys.
Paul McCartney is taking a trip back to the ‘70s for a new book, with Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run set to look at his post-Beatles band.
Scheduled for release on Nov. 4 via Liveright/W. W. Norton and Allen Lane/Penguin Press, the book is authored by McCartney and edited by historian Ted Widmer, featuring an in-depth personal account of the band, as told by McCartney, key players, and family members.
Wings was formed in 1971 by McCartney following the dissolution of The Beatles the previous year, the release of his self-titled debut album one week later, and the arrival of 1971’s Ram album with wife Linda. Recruiting Moody Blues co-founder Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell, the band would continue until 1981, releasing a total of seven studio albums, including four consecutive records that topped the Billboard 200.
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“I’m so very happy to be transported back to the time that was Wings and relive some of our madcap adventures through this book,” said McCartney in a statement. “Starting from scratch after The Beatles felt crazy at times. There were some very difficult moments and I often questioned my decision. But as we got better I thought, ‘OK this is really good.’
“We proved Wings could be a really good band. To play to huge audiences in the same way The Beatles had and have an impact in a different way. It was a huge buzz.”
A description of the book notes that it is “organized around nine Wings albums,” implying the narrative begins with 1971’s Ram and also includes 1976’s triple live record Wings over America. The volume also contains 150 black-and-white photographs, of which many are unseen, and focuses on many iconic stories of the band’s history, including how they “survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, appear unannounced at various university halls, [and] tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children.”
“Wings was about love, family, friendship and artistic growth, often in the face of tremendous adversity,” adds Widmer. “It was a joy to relive the madcap adventures of a special band, by listening to their stories, and compiling this oral history.”
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run comes following a number of recent happenings for the group, including a 50th anniversary reissue of 1973’s Band on the Run and the long-awaited arrival of the live record and film One Hand Clapping in 2024. A 50th anniversary reissue of 1975’s Venus and Mars is also scheduled to arrive on March 21.