AEROSMITH: Five-Song EP With Yungblud

Aerosmith have collaborated with Yungblud on a five-song EP. Titled One More Time, the five songs are:

1."My Only Angel"

2."Problems"

3."Wild Woman"

4."A Thousand Days"

5."Back in the Saddle" (2025 Mix)

The first single they've been teasing is "My Only Angel," which will be released Friday.

This EP marks the band's first new music since their last album, 2012's Music From Another Dimension! What we don't know is if the band's Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer joined Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on the recording of these songs. Tyler, Perry and Yungblud took part in a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne last week at the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York.

Hear a snippet of the new song at the bottom of the page!

Tyler Jams With JPP

On the first of two nights of the Who’s “The Song Is Over” Farewell Tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last night, much of the excitement and drama was focused not on Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend but the opening act, the Joe Perry Project. JPP included Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford on guitar, Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo, ex-Smash Mouth drummer Jason Sutter and Black Crowes backing vocalist Mackenzie Adams. Late in the band’s set, Tyler joined Perry and company for Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” and a rousing version of “Train Kept A-Rollin,” complete with Tyler playing train whistle in the intro. Tyler sounded strong in voice, and all seemed to be enjoying his presence, including Robinson, who remained on stage and provided backing vocals. Tyler wasn’t the only guest to appear with Perry and company -- Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash made an appearance early in the set on the vintage Aerosmith blues rocker “Mama Kin,” trading riffs with Perry and Whitford. Youtube video

OZZY: He's Back

The trailer for the new two-hour Ozzy Osbourne documentary, Ozzy: No Escape From Now, has been released and you can watch it on YouTube. Production began in 2022, documenting his recovery from a fall at home in 2019, his battle with Parkinson's disease, the recording of his last album, 2022's Patient Number 9, up through his final show, the all-day Back to the Beginning on July 5th in his hometown of Birmingham, England.

The film features interviews with Ozzy, his wife Sharon, their children Aimee, Kelly and Jack, plus Tony Iommi, Duff McKagan, Slash, James Hetfield, Billy Idol, Chad Smith, Zakk Wylde, Tom Morello, Billy Corgan and more.

Of course, trailers are meant to draw you in and among the clips used to hook you are: Ozzy saying, "I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive." "I’m not good at being sick. I belong up there [on stage], you know. If I’m going to go up there, I want to be up there the old Ozzy.” And, "If my life’s coming to an end, I really can’t complain. “I had a great life.”

Ozzy: No Escape From Now will stream exclusively on Paramount+ starting October 7th.

Ozzy was 76 when he died of a heart attack at his Buckinghamshire estate on July 22nd.

SLASH: Live Blues Album and Film This Fall

Slash is releasing a live album and concert film recorded at his 2024 traveling blues festival

Live at The S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival is due out on November 7th as a two-CD and DVD or Blu-ray set, a three-LP set and digitally. It was recorded at Denver's Mission Ballroom on July 17th, 2024. Slash and his blues band cover songs by Bob Dylan, The Temptations, Howling Wolf,

Robert Johnson and more during the show. The first single and video is a take on Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well." Check it out on YouTube.

DAVID GILMOUR: Between a Father and Daughter

With David Gilmour's new concert film, ‘Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome,’ opening today (Wednesday) in theaters and on IMAX screens around the world, he's released another performance from it. This time it's the cover of The Montgolfier Brothers' 1999 song "Between Two Points" featuring his 23-year old daughter Romany on vocals, which he recorded on his last studio album, 2024's Luck and Strange.

Proud papa Gilmour says, "I’ve had that song on my playlist since it was released... I assumed that it had been a hit, but no one knew it. I asked Romany to give it a go..."I realized that Romany has exactly the right sort of vulnerability and youth for the song. In fact, she was halfway through an essay with a train to catch when we asked her: ‘OK, I'll sing it once, put the mic on’ and that is 90% of the finished vocal.” Prior to joining her dad on his Luck and Strange Tour, the most people Romany performed in front of was less than 100. You can watch the performance from ‘Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome’ on YouTube. ‘Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome’ will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 17th, the same day as the album from that tour, The Luck and Strange Concerts.

FOO FIGHTERS: Joke Around With AI

Foo Fighters have posted a hysterical AI made video to welcome drummer Ilan Rubin into the band. The clip gives Rubin seven arms and adds extra fingers to the hands of keyboardist Rami Jaffee. And it promises more to come, which either means more shows or more funny videos.

Watch it on YouTube.

Sammy Hagar Recaps "Back To The Beginning" Concert

Sammy Hagar was on “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" and gave his thoughts on July's "Back To The Beginning" Black Sabbath farewell event. During the interview he mentioned one performance he loved (Yungblud) and one he was disappointed by (his own). About Yungblud, Hagar said, "That dude is a bad, bad young boy. He is the man. That guy is gonna be the next big superstar, if he isn't already. I mean, he's frickin' huge, but he's Mick Jagger and Freddie Mercury reincarnated. Man, this guy is just - he was so good. I was so blown away [by] his performance." He also had high praise for Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, saying Nuno "played with almost everyone, and he killed it. Every song that he played, he brought it." The performance he was not that fond of? His own. He explained, "I'm talking to people. All of a sudden I hear 'em announce me, and I was 50 yards from the stage. And [my wife] Kari's going, 'Oh, my God. They just announced you.' ...And they start the song…I missed that whole thing. And I'm running back looking for the fricking teleprompter. And, of course, the lyrics are moving faster than I'm singing them. But I got it together after that. But, man, if you wanna talk about having your private parts shrink up in front that crowd, that opportunity. And I choked."

Alice Cooper/Judas Priest Kick Off Tour

Fans in Biloxi, Mississippi might have ringing in their ears for a few days. Alice Cooper and Judas Priest kicked off their co-headlining tour this week at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in the Gulf Coast city. Cooper broke out a number of songs he hadn't performed live in decades. He played "Spark in the Dark" for the first time since 1990 and played "Second Coming" for the first time since 1971. Judas Priest played two songs off their most recent album "Invincible Shield," along with classics such as "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Breaking the Law." Priest performed "Living After Midnight" for their final encore. The 22-city tour continues tonight in Alpharetta, Georgia and runs through October 26th.

BOB DYLAN: Boots of 139 Tracks

Bob Dylan is releasing another installment in his Bootleg Series. Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 focuses on the early days of his career -- from his home state of Minnesota through New York's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. The deluxe set contains 139 tracks spread over eight CDs -- 48 of which have never been released -- plus 38 "super-rare cuts," a hardcover book with extensive liner notes, and over 100 rare photographs. There are rare studio outtakes, plus recordings made at club dates, in tiny informal gatherings, in friends’ apartments, and at jam sessions in long-gone musicians’ hangouts. And the deluxe edition contains the previously unreleased recording of his concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on October 26th, 1963, which marked the end of the beginning of his long career. There are also two-CD and four-LP versions, each with 42 tracks.

In the liner notes, author and historian Sean Wilentz writes, "Of that time and those places, this collection is just a fragment. Even so, as an aural record of an artist becoming himself—or in Dylan’s case, his first of many artistic selves—the collection aims to collapse time and space, not as a nostalgic reverie but as a living connection between the past and the present, the old and the new, which are never as distinct as we might think.” The earliest recording is "Let the Good Times Roll" from 1956 at the Terlinde Music Shop in St. Paul, Minnesota. There are also tracks featuring the late Danny Kalb, the guitarist who went onto form The Blues Project, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Big Joe Williams and others. And there are also performances of some of Dylan's signature songs, including "Blowin’ in the Wind," "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall," "Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right," "Masters of War," and "The Times They Are A-Changin’."

The collection's first track is out now, "Rocks and Gravel (Solid Road)." Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 will be released on October 31st.

BOB DYLAN: Working on Willie's Farm

Bob Dylan has been added to Farm Aid this Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. He joins Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson -- whose Outlaw Festival tour he's currently part of -- for the fourth time. He performed at the inaugural one in 1985, returned via satellite in '86, and did his last performance there in 2023.

In addition Nelson and Dylan, this year's line-up also includes Farm Aid board members Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price, along with Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Trampled by Turtles, Waxahatchee, Eric Burton of Black Pumas, Jesse Welles, Madeline Edwards and others.

It was Dylan who put the idea for the show in Nelson's head. When Dylan performed at Live Aid on July 13th, 1985 he said, “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa, maybe they can just take a little bit of it — maybe one or two million, maybe — and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms that the farmers here owe to the banks.”

Willie Nelson was watching on TV, and, as he told Billboard in 2015, “The question hit me like a ton of bricks. “Farming was my first job. I picked cotton. I pulled corn. I knew firsthand what it meant to farm. I knew damn well how tough it was. My farm roots are deep-seated in the soil of my personal story.”

In August of 1985, Nelson was performing at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield when he told his agent, Tony Conway, "I want to do a concert for the American farmers. I want to see if we can do it here in Illinois, just someplace where we can get a stadium." Conway says, “Willie asked me, ‘Do you think you can get a hold of the governor?’ I made a few calls and got a call back saying Governor Jim Thompson was on his way to the bus.” Thompson liked the idea and helped to secure the football stadium at the University of Illinois in Champaign for a show on September 22nd, 1985. Nelson then recruited Neil Young and John Mellencamp, who eventually became the first fellow members of the Farm Aid board, and numerous other artists signed on for that first show, including Dylan backed by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffett, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, John Denver,

John Fogerty, Foreigner, Vince Gill, Sammy Hagar with Eddie Van Halen, Merle Haggard, Daryl Hall, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, George Jones, B.B. King, Carole King, Kris Kristofferson, Huey Lewis, Loretta Lynn, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison and many others.

Bruce Dickinson Sings National Anthem At Steelers-Seahawks Game

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson says there's one simple trick to properly sing "The Star Spangled Banner." Speaking on "The Charismatic Voice" podcast, Dickinson said "as long as you start at the right place, you're good to go." Dickinson sang the National Anthem on Sunday prior to the start of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Seattle Seahawks game at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. Dickinson might have brought more luck to the visiting team.The Seahawks won 31-17.

IN OTHER NEWS

Eric Clapton was joined on stage Tuesday in Boston by blues harmonica player Jerry Portnoy for "Drifting” and “Kind Hearted Woman.” The two first met in 1978 when Muddy Waters, whose band Portnoy was a member of, opened Clapton’’s tour. Portnoy was also in Clapton’s band from 1993 to 1996. Clapton does the last two shows on his brief U.S. tour this Friday at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Saturday at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Steve Winwood joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band last Friday in Bridgeport, Connecticut for a medley of Sly & the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” and “I Want to Take You Higher.” Winwood, who opened the show, takes his tour to Port Chester, New York tonight (Wednesday) and Red Bank, New Jersey on Friday.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor presented Bob Geldof with the Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of organizing Live Aid, on Tuesday at the Sky Arts Awards in London. The awards celebrate incredible achievements across the entire spectrum of the arts. Queen performed at the 1985 global concert, but ironically Geldof initially didn't want them on the bill.

Sammy Hagar is releasing his version of Van Halen’s “Best of Both Worlds” this Friday. It’s off his new album, Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band - The Residency, which will be out on October 10th, three days before his 78th birthday on the 13th.

David Byrne did the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" for the first time since 2006 at his tour-opening show Tuesday in Pittsburgh. He also covered Paramore's "Hard Times." Byrne's tour continues tonight (Wednesday) in Columbus, Ohio.

Peter Buck of R.E.M. will hit the road next year with his latest project, Drink the Sea. The group's first U.S. tour starts January 30th in Seattle and wraps up February 21st in Boston. Drink the Sea also features ex-Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, and they promise to play "a few songs from their former bands."

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