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Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres tour was recently named as the biggest rock tour of all time, grossing over $1 billion over the course of its two and a half year run. But the British rock legends aren’t done yet, just announcing a series of stadium shows in the U.K. in August of 2025. The eight shows will take place at London’s Wembley Stadium and Craven Park in Hull, and will be Coldplay’s only European dates next year. The band will play Hull on August 18 and 19, before settling in for a six-night residency at Wembley Stadium on August 22-23, 26-27, and 30-31. Coldplay have partnered with  Music Venue Trust for these shows, with 10% of all revenue generated from the tour going to support “small U.K. venues and upcoming acts.” In addition to the new tour dates, Coldplay are preparing to release their new album, Moon Music, on October 4. (Billboard)

Deftones just announced details of their 2025 North American arena tour. The dates will be the alt-metal legends first headlining tour since 2022. The 24-date run gets started at Portland’s Moda Center on February 25, and will cross the country while hitting up legendary American arenas like the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden in New York over the month and a half jaunt, before the tour finishes up at Boston’s TD Garden on April 8. Deftones announced their tour with an Instagram video post shared on Tuesday (September 17), where they also disclosed that the opening acts for their tour will be the Mars Volta and Fleshwater. In addition to their upcoming tour, Deftones yearly celebration of music and culture Dia De Los Deftones returns to San Diego on November 2 for its fifth annual gathering, with the hosts being joined by Idles, Sunny Day Real Estate, Health, and more. (Billboard)

Talking Heads have just announced on Instagram that they are releasing an expansive 4xLP box set reissue of their groundbreaking 1977 debut album, Talking Heads: 77, on November 8. The sprawling collection features a remastered version of the original album on one LP, with another LP filled with rare and previously-unreleased demos and outtakes. The jewel of the box set is a 2-LP live set featuring a previously unreleased performance from that era, Live at CBGB’s, New York, NY, Oct. 10, 1977, which the band says is a “live recording of the final gig at CBGB’s.” The set also includes four 7-inch singles, highlighted by a newly-released acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” featuring Arthur Russell, along with an 80-page hardcover book featuring photos, memorabilia, and liner notes handwritten by band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison. (Consequence of Sound)

Following Morrissey’s recent claims about the Smiths’ trademark status and rejected reunion offers, the band’s former guitarist Johnny Marr issued a response of his own on Instagram on Tuesday (September 17). Marr released a statement, “In the interests of accuracy and clarity,” because “recent statements made by Morrissey…are incorrect.” Apparently, in 2008 a third party attempted to use the Smiths name and Marr discovered that the trademark was not owned by the band. Marr secured the trademark himself after not hearing from Morrissey, but the assignment of joint ownership is still awaiting Moz’s signature. Marr dispels Morrissey’s claims that he will tour as the Smiths with a new lead singer, while going on to state, “To prevent third parties from profiting from the band’s name, it was left to me to protect the legacy. This I have done on behalf of both myself and my former bandmates. As for the offer to tour, I didn’t ignore the offer – I said no.” (Variety)

Jack White has just unveiled his new Fender Artist Signature Series collection. The musician’s branded partnership with Fender includes the Jack White Pano Verb Amplifier, the Jack White TripleCaster Telecaster, and the Jack White TripleSonic Acoustasonic guitar. Each of the items were designed in collaboration with White, and the collection seeks to “embody White's unique vision and Fender's commitment to craftsmanship.” In a promotional product video for the Pano Verb Amplifier, White says, “We found the best of the old, with the best of the new and mixed innovation with the history of Fender to do something that we think Leo Fender would have been very proud of if he was alive today.” Justin Norvell, Executive Vice President of Product at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, shares, “Jack is regarded as a true visionary in the music world, and it has been an incredible journey working with him on developing these products.” (Consequence of Sound)

On Monday (September 16), Morrissey shared a statement on his website titled, “THE PLOT THICKENS,” which claims that his former bandmate, guitarist Johnny Marr, has “successfully applied for 100% trademark rights / Intellectual Property ownership of The Smiths name.” Morrissey disclosed that the move frees up Marr to “tour as The Smiths using the vocalist of his choice” while also “denying Morrissey considerable financial livelihood.” The statement also alleges that, “This action was done without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection.’”

In the last few weeks, Morrissey has claimed that after he accepted a “lucrative offer” to reunite the Smiths, Marr turned it down. Morrissey also says that Marr apparently stood in the way of a potential greatest hits album from the Smiths, as well as a deluxe box set reissue of their debut album. Marr hasn’t released a public statement regarding any of Morrissey’s recent claims. (Consequence of Sound)  

In an Instagram statement on Monday (September 16), REO Speedwagon made the surprising announcement that the band will stop touring due to infighting within the group. The disagreement stems from bassist Bruce Hall’s extended absence from the group following his recent back surgery, with frontman Kevin Cronin continuing to tour as Speedwagon in Hall’s absence as Matt Bissonette filled in on bass on their run of summer shows. The group’s statement says that, “Due to this complex situation, irreconcilable differences arose between Bruce and Kevin. So, it is with great sadness that we announce REO Speedwagon will cease touring effective January 1, 2025.”

The band’s co-founding keyboardist Neal Doughty had already decided to stop touring with the group back in 2023. The three Speedwagon members paid tribute to their fans while ending their statement, “Neal, Kevin, and Bruce thank their fans for all their years of loyal support and for giving back to the band such wonderful memories that will remain with each of them forever.” (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Styx has announced that they will be playing a week-long residency at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas that will take place in early 2025. As part of those series of shows, the Chicago rock veterans will be performing their multi-platinum, Billboard Top 10-charting 1977 album, The Grand Illusion, in its entirety, along with other hits from the group’s celebrated 50-year career. Styx’s five-show Vegas residency will take place on January 24th, 25th, 29th, 31st, and February 1st. Styx announced their upcoming Vegas residency with a post on Instagram on Monday (September 16), which features The Grand Illusion’s Rene Magritte-inspired album art. The group captioned the post, “Styx is coming back to VEGAS! And this time, we’re playing The Grand Illusion in full PLUS your favorite hits! Let’s rock Vegas, Styx World! See you at The Venetian!” (Consequence of Sound)

Jane’s Addiction announced on Monday (September 16) that they were canceling all remaining dates on their current North American tour. The move follows an onstage altercation in Boston on Friday (Sept. 13) where frontman Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro. The group’s Instagram statement reads, “The band have made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group. As such they will be cancelling the remainder of the tour.” Bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins released a joint statement with Navarro that says the tour cancellation is, “Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell.”

They go on to write, “Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs. Our hearts are broken.” Farrell wrote in a statement of his own, “It is only right that I apologize to my bandmates, especially Dave Navarro. Unfortunately, my breaking point resulted in inexcusable behavior, and I take full accountability for how I chose to handle the situation.” (Consequence of Sound)

Blink-182 bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus has announced that his new memoir, Fahrenheit-182, will be released on April 8, 2025. The book was co-authored by Dan Ozzi, and according to the press release, “This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate.”

Ozzi says that the book, “Doubles as the definitive history of blink, seeing as how Mark is, as he once put it to me, the only person on earth who has been to all of their shows.” Hoppus also shared a humorous promotional video in an Instagram post on Monday (September 16), where the cancer survivor jokes, “Pre-order now and we’ll throw in with no extra cost to you: Anxiety! Depression! Band breakups! And of course everyone’s favorite: cancer! This sh*t gets dark.” (Consequence of Sound)

During the first show of the Killers two-night stand at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York, on Saturday night (September 14), the Vegas group honored another famous band that played the same venue almost exactly 60 years earlier. “Some of you might know the history of the place,” frontman Brandon Flowers told the crowd. “In 1964, 60 years ago, the Beatles did two nights here at Forest Hills. We thought that we would pay our respects. I don’t think there’s a person here that wasn’t influenced by them in some way or another. Here you go.”

The Killers then played a spirited rendition of the Beatles first American Billboard No.1 hit, “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” which topped the charts in 1964, the same year the Fab Four played Forrest Hills on August 28 and 29,. This wasn’t the first time that the Killers had covered the Beatles, playing live renditions of “Helter Skelter,” “Get Back,” “In My Life,” “Michelle,” and “When I’m Sixty-Four” in their past sets. (Rolling Stone)

During the past week, the Cure sent out mysterious postcards to fans that seem to indicate that their long-awaited new album, Songs of a Lost World, will finally get released on November 1st, 2024. The release date perfectly suits the band’s goth aesthetic, coinciding with both All Saints’ Day and Day of the Dead. The record would mark the first new full-length release from the Cure in 16 years, dating back to their 2008 release, 4:13 Dream. In addition to the postcard teasers, the Cure also put up a stark black poster promoting the album outside The Railway bar in Crawley, West Sussex, the same venue where Robert Smith's band played their very first show back in 1978. Shortly before the postcards were sent out and the poster was spotted, the Cure also wiped their entire website clean, leaving only the band’s name in a stylish new script and an email sign-up link. (Consequence of Sound) 

Billy Joel is currently touring the country performing co-headlining stadium gigs with fellow music legends like Sting and Stevie Nicks. On Friday night in Cleveland, the Piano Man was sharing the bill with Rod Stewart, and the two icons joined forces to perform a classic Faces’ song together. Stewart joined Joel and his band for a rousing rendition of Faces' 1971 Billboard Top 20 single, “Stay With Me.” Joel’s concert in Cleveland was the 75-year-old musician's first show in over a month, and only his second concert since he finished up his historic 10-year residency at Madison Square Garden in July. Joel’s 2024 tour continues with another co-headlining show with Sting in St. Louis on September 27, followed by a solo performance at Los Angeles’ new Intuit Dome on October 12. Rod Stewart has a few more live dates left in 2024, before he begins his final Las Vegas residency in March of 2025. (Rolling Stone)

Jane’s Addiction’s concert in Boston ended early on Friday (September 13) after frontman Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro in an onstage altercation. The group took to social media on Saturday to issue a public apology for the incident while also announcing the cancellation of their Sunday show in Connecticut. In an Instagram story, the group wrote: “We want to extend a heartfelt apology to our fans for the events that unfolded last night. As a result we will be cancelling tomorrow night’s show in Bridgeport.”

The singer’s wife, Etty Lau Farrell, shared her personal account of the fracas on Instagram, saying Perry was a “crazed beast” after the fight, before he suffered a “breakdown and cried and cried.” Navarro caused fans to question the future of the group after he shared an Instagram post on Sunday where he is holding his guitar emblazoned with Jane’s Addiction on the back, simply captioning his post, “Goodnight…” Jane’s Addiction’s next show is in Toronto on September 18, which is still set to go on as scheduled at press time. (Billboard)

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet notches its third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Short n’ Sweet is only the second album to spend its first three weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart in 2024, joining Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which also spent its first three weeks at No. 1 back in April and May on its way to a total of 15 nonconsecutive weeks on top of the charts. The rest of the Billboard 200 Top 5 remains the same as last week, with Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion at No. 2, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess at No. 3, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time at No. 4, and Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department at No. 5. The only debut appearance in this week’s Top 10 is former Pink Floyd member David Gilmour’s first studio album in nine years, Luck and Strange, coming in at No. 10. (Billboard)

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic arrival in the United States in 1964, the band will rekindle Beatlemania by releasing a vinyl box set called, The Beatles: 1964 US Albums In Mono, on November 22. Seven Beatles’ albums that were originally released in the U.S. between January 1964 and March 1965 will be included in the box set. Each record is cut from the original mono master tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl, and includes faithfully replicated artwork along with new four-panel inserts containing liner notes written by U.S. Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. “Sixty years on, Beatlemania is timeless,” reads a press release on the collection. “The Beatles’ beacon is alight evermore, renewed with the wonder of each generation’s joyful discovery and in creative exploration of the band’s music and cultural eminence by musicians, filmmakers, writers, and other fans of all stripes.” (Louder Sound)

After finishing up a co-headlining tour together, Mastodon and Lamb Of God have just shared a new studio collaboration, “Floods of Triton.” Mastodon and Lamb Of God’s recent run of shows were joint celebrations of the 20th anniversaries of their respective breakthrough albums, Leviathan and Ashes of the Wake. And to mark the success of their tour together, the metal giants recorded this fiery joint track that melds the potent musical styles of each band, with Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe handling a majority of the vocals. The track was recorded at Mastodon’s own West End Sound studio in Atlanta and was produced by Mastodon and Tyler Bates. Both Mastodon and Lamb of God are set to play Riot Fest in Chicago on September 22nd, so perhaps the two bands can join forces for a live rendition of their new song. “Floods of Triton” is available digitally and on a 12-inch picture disc vinyl through Loma Vista Recordings. (Consequence of Sound)

Wilco have announced a brief winter tour featuring a series of multiple-night stands in a trio of cities. The Chicago rock group is reviving their Winterlude residency concept for the first time in five years, but instead of playing multiple gigs in their hometown, Wilco are hitting the road for a series of “FKA Winterlude" shows. The Winterlude tradition continues with no repeat songs between shows and no opening acts, just an evening with Wilco. The run starts with a three-night stand in Austin, Texas on December 5-7, followed by two shows in Tulsa, Oklahoma on December 10-11, before finishing up with three nights in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 13-15. Wilco announced the tour with an Instagram post they captioned, “The shows FKA "Winterlude" are getting out of Chicago. ❄️ Wind down the year with Wilco in Austin, Tulsa and St. Paul. For a special evening (or two, or three) with the band featuring no opener and no repeats.” (Consequence of Sound)

Tears For Fears revealed that they are releasing their first live album, Songs For A Nervous Planet, via Concord Music on October 25. The live recordings are drawn from the UK synth-pop legends’ recent tour supporting their 2022 Billboard Top 10 record, The Tipping Point. "We’ve never released an official live album, so you could say this is an album forty years in the making," says the band’s guitarist and singer Roland Orzabal. Songs For A Nervous Planet includes live renditions of celebrated hits like, "Shout," "Head Over Heels" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," along with four brand new studio recordings, “Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad,” “Emily Said,” “Astronaut,” and new single, “The Girl That I Call Home.” The band will also be releasing, Tears For Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film), a concert movie shot during their 2023 performance at Graystone Quarry in Franklin, Tennessee, which will premiere in theaters worldwide on October 24 and October 26. (Louder Sound)

In a recent interview with Sylvia of the Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, Jerry Cantrell shared details about his forthcoming solo album, I Want Blood, which is set to be released on October 18. Cantrell revealed that the title of his new record was partially inspired by Australian hard rock legends AC/DC. "One of my favorite records is If You Want Blood You've Got It by AC/DC,” Cantrell shared. “So if you want some blood, I got it.” Cantrell also disclosed that his approach to songwriting hasn’t changed much since his early days with the legendary alt-rock group Alice In Chains. “There are habits that I instilled in myself and also by being a member of Alice,” Cantrell revealed. “We never pulled any punches. We didn't varnish anything. We didn't sand any rough edges off — 'warts and all' was our approach. And so I kind of carry that wherever I go.” (Blabbermouth)