Grateful Dead’s 1970 album Workingman’s Dead has gotten a high fidelity upgrade.

Rhino High Fidelity has just released limited-edition audiophile editions of the album on reel-to-reel and vinyl. The vinyl reissue, cut from the original master tapes, is limited to 5,000 copies pressed on 180-gram vinyl, while the reel-to-reel, which was duplicated in real time from the original flat analog master tape, is limited to only 300 copies. 

But that’s not all. A Dolby Atmos mix of the album, created by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart in 2023, is now available on Blu-ray for the first time. According to the press release, Hart's mix "expands the sonic depth of the original recording while preserving its essential character."

All formats are available now.

Released June 14, 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the Grateful Dead’s fourth studio album and was considered a breakthrough for the band. It featured future Dead classics like “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones” and “High Time.”

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Ringo Starr has released a new video for the title track of his just-released new album, Long Long Road, his second with producer T Bone Burnett.

The song features vocals from Sheryl Crow and Daniel Tashian. The video, directed by Ringo’s stepdaughter, Francesca Gregorini, follows the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as he drives through scenes from his life, sharing some personal and previously unseen images with the public.

“We're talking about this Long Long Road I’ve been on - and I’ve been thinking about the road I’ve taken,” Ringo says. “I could have taken another path but I took this one and ended up here, still on this Long Long Road. I loved making this record with T Bone and I hope you enjoy listening to it.”

Ringo and his All Starr Band — Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men At Work’s Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette and Buck Johnson — are getting ready to hit the road again. Their next show is May 28 in Temecula, California, with dates confirmed through June 14 in Los Angeles. A complete schedule can be found at RingoStarr.com.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band took time out of their latest show to pay tribute to late Traffic co-founder Dave Mason, who passed away April 19 at the age of 79.

The group was headlining their Sun, Sand and Soul Festival 2026 in Miramar Beach, Florida, on Thursday when they decided to cover Traffic’s “Feelin’ Alright?,” which was written by Mason.

“I’m just going to have to dedicate this one to an amazing musician, an amazing songwriter, who just passed recently who was a dear friend of ours, for Dave Mason,” Susan Tedeschi told the crowd, as shown in fan-shot footage posted to YouTube. “This is one of his songs. Just gonna send it out to him, up there in heaven, jamming with all the cool guys.”

Tedeschi Trucks Band have performed the tune in the past, with Susan and Derek Trucks most recently performing it in November with Teddy Swims as part of Joe Cocker’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“Feelin’ Alright?” appeared on Traffic’s 1968 sophomore album. The song has gone on to be covered by a variety of artists, most notably Cocker, who left off the question mark in the title and made it a hit.

Also paying tribute to Mason is Mick Fleetwood, who posted a carousel of photos of them together, including one of Mason during his brief tenure with Fleetwood Mac. He also wrote of his friendship with Mason, ending the post with, “I love the friend I have lost," before sending his love to Mason's wife, Winifred Wilson.

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Foo Fighters have premiered the video for "Window," a track off their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy.

The clip stars English actor Craig Parkinson as the window cleaner for a high-rise building, inadvertently giving him a view into the lives of the residents, including one who's watching the "Everlong" video on a TV.

The "Window" video is now streaming on YouTube.

Your Favorite Toy is out now. It's the follow-up to 2023's But Here We Are and is the first Foo Fighters album to feature new drummer Ilan Rubin.

Foo Fighters will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They'll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

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Sharon Osbourne says that a settlement has been reached over Black Sabbath's early recordings when their band name was Earth.

In 2025, news surfaced that the label Big Bear Recordings, founded by early Sabbath manager Jim Simpson, was set to release an album of Earth recordings. Sharon, the widow and manager of late Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, later posted a statement along with emails to Simpson saying that the band members agreed that they did not want the Earth recordings to be released.

In the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Sharon says, "We settled with Jim Simpson and the band now have their demos back."

"All four of them own it, which is where it should be," Sharon adds, presumably referring to the Sabbath members. "All of that stuff should be theirs."

As for what will happen with the recordings, Sharon says, "We're gonna talk about what everybody wants to do with it, and we'll go from there."

"Thank you to Jim, he did the right thing," Sharon continues. "At the end of the day he did the right thing for the band."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Sharon says that tickets for the return of Ozzfest, which is expected to happen in 2027, are set to go on sale in November.

The long-running festival was last held on New Year's Eve 2018, which marked Ozzy's final full-live performance before the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, during which he performed solo and reunited with Sabbath. Ozzy died just over two weeks after Back to the Beginning at age 76.

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Metallica has shared a tribute to late conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who passed away on Wednesday.

The metal legends had collaborated with Thomas on their 2019 S&M2 concerts, which featured them performing alongside the Thomas-conducted San Francisco Symphony.

"It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of legendary conductor Michael Tilson Thomas," Metallica writes in a Facebook post. "A towering figure in classical music, many of you became familiar with the man known as MTT when he worked with us as a major driving force in the development and live performances of the S&M2 shows in San Francisco in September of 2019."

"We cherished our time with MTT and learned so much working with him to prepare the S&M2 performances," the post continues. "It was a very high honor to have him on the podium for our shows. He will be sorely missed."

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In a recent post on his website, Neil Young let fans know that a live album with his band The Chrome Hearts was "ready to go." Well, now we know the details.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is set to release as time explodes on May 29. The 13-track album, recorded during The Love Earth Tour 2025 that hit Europe, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada, features live performances of such classic tracks as “Harvest Moon,” “Cortez the Killer,” “After the Gold Rush,” “Ohio” and “Like a Hurricane,” along with Young's more recent track “Big Crime."

As time explodes will be released digitally, and on black vinyl and CD. It was previously released on double clear vinyl for Record Store Day on April 18. It is available for preorder now, and digital and CD preorders come with an instant download of the live performance of “Silver Eagle.”

Young and The Chrome Hearts — Spooner Oldham, Micah Nelson, Corey McCormick and Anthony LoGerfo — launched The Love Earth Tour 2025 in Sweden in June. They were supposed to tour Europe again in 2026, but in February Young announced he was canceling the tour, saying he “decided to take a break” from touring.

Here is the track list for as time explodes:
"Daddy Went Walking"
"Looking Forward"
"Harvest Moon"
"Ohio"
"Name of Love"
"Be The Rain"
"Big Crime"
"Long Walk Home"
"Vampire Blues"
"Cortez The Killer"
"After The Gold Rush"
"Like A Hurricane"
"Silver Eagle"

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R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe debuted an unreleased song off his upcoming debut solo album Thursday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The track is called "The Rest of Ever." Stipe sang lead vocals while backed by the Colbert house band, Louis Cato and The Great Big Joy Machine. 

Stipe also sat down with Colbert for an interview and revealed that the long in-the-works album, which he's been teasing since at least 2022, is finally set to be released at the end of 2026. He described one song on the record as "the sound of a tree hearing itself for the first time," which apparently sounds like Daft Punk.

Elsewhere in the interview, Colbert asked Stipe who should play him if R.E.M. ever got their own biopic. After first replying, "Someone really hot," Stipe thought about it for a bit before suggesting, "Maybe Billie Eilish could do it."

"She held a door open for me once at a restaurant in Manhattan," Stipe said of the alt-pop star. "I don't know if she knew who I was. She's incredibly polite and sweet, but I didn't know who she was until she was down the street."

Colbert then offered to introduce Stipe to Eilish and her brother and collaborator, FINNEAS.

Stipe also released a new song called "I Played the Fool" in March, which is the theme to the HBO series Rooster.

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On This Day, April 24, 1976…

Following rumors of a possible Beatles reunion, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels used a segment of the show to try and make that happen.

Michaels directly addressed Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, noting that a reunion would be “great” and offered them $3,000 to reunite, holding up a check made out to The Beatles, noting they’d have to perform three songs.

Michaels joked about the check, "You divide it any way you want: if you want to give Ringo less that’s up to you. I’d rather not get involved."

While the reunion never happened, it turns out McCartney and Lennon watched the segment together at Lennon’s New York apartment the Dakota, and thought about the offer, but in the end decided against it.

In the book All We Are Saying, by David Sheff, Lennon said they almost went to the studio but in the end decided they were too tired.

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No need to ask a friend, we can tell you that the new Foo Fighters album is here.

Your Favorite Toy, the 12th studio effort from the "Everlong" outfit, is out now. It's the follow-up to 2023's But Here We Are, and arrives after a couple tumultuous years for Dave Grohl and company.

In September 2024, Grohl shared that he'd fathered a child outside his marriage, and the Foos canceled their remaining scheduled show. Then in May 2025, drummer Josh Freese, who'd joined Foo Fighters in 2023 following the 2022 death of Taylor Hawkins, announced that he'd been fired from the band.

The Foos officially reemerged in July 2025 with the single "Today's Song." They returned to the live stage in September 2025, which marked the debut of their new drummer, Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails.

Another new song, "Asking for a Friend," arrived in October 2025, before the Foos finally announced Your Favorite Toy in February and released its shouty title track. Two more songs, "Caught in the Echo" and "Of All People," followed.

In addition to working through the tumult in new music, Grohl says he started going to therapy.

"I've been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks," Grohl told The Guardian in an interview published in March. "I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions."

Foo Fighters will celebrate the arrival of Your Favorite Toy on Saturday with a performance on Saturday Night Live UK. They will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They'll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

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Ringo Starr’s new album, Long Long Road, which has roots in country and Americana, is out today.

It's the second straight album he’s done with producer T Bone Burnett. At a recent listening party in Los Angeles, Ringo said Burnett made making the album easy, noting, "There's a lot of great players in Nashville, and he knows most of them."

Ringo said Burnett would send him "tracks with some meat on" them, and he would send back his drum and singing parts. Then Burnett would "complete the deal," which Ringo describes as “a great way of working."

And it was just as easy for Burnett, who said he’s been listening to Ringo play drums for so long that “his feel is in my DNA at this point. It's in my cells, you know.”

“I've always thought of him as a Texas musician because he played so Texas," he added. "He's the swinginest drummer in the history of the United Kingdom. I can tell you that.”

Ringo said the title of the album represents "the road I’ve taken," adding, “You know all of those stop marks on your walk of life, it’s so far out."

He said that the title track "is me going through my things about my life." And while he said some of it may have been bad, most of it wasn’t.

"I've been a lucky human being," he said. "I got to do what I love to do."

Long Long Road is the follow-up to Ringo’s 2025 country-inspired album, Look Up. It features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz.

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More than 300 Grateful Dead-related instruments and memorabilia went up for auction Thursday in San Francisco, with a custom acoustic guitar one of the tops sellers.

Treasures From The Golden Road Featuring Property From “Big Steve,” “Ram Rod” & Trixie Garcia featured instruments, keepsakes and more from the personal archives of members of the Grateful Dead’s inner circle, including crew chief and Jerry Garcia Band manager “Big Steve” Parish, Jerry Garcia’s daughter Trixie Garcia and Grateful Dead head roadie Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff.

The top seller was an Alvarez Yairi acoustic guitar, custom made for Jerry Garcia in 1988, which brought in $256,000, three-times more than the estimated price. Another guitar, Garcia’s 1939 Gibson Super 400 N Archtop, also sold for $256,000, two-times more than the estimate.

Other sale highlights include a Grateful Dead signed 1993 New Year’s Eve concert poster, which sold for $35,200; a Jerry Garcia handwritten set list from a 1989 Jerry Garcia Band show, which sold for $22,400; and a Winterland Grateful Dead dressing room plaque, which sold for $19,200.

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We’re getting our first look at a new documentary about legendary Allman Brothers Band founder Gregg Allman.

A new teaser for Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul, from Grammy- and Golden Globe award-winning filmmaker James Keach, has just been released. The clip opens with Cher, who married Allman in 1975,  introducing him on what appears to be her variety show. It’s followed by archival photos and footage of the rocker throughout his career, including snippets of old interviews.

The film is described as “a profound portrait of Gregg Allman, a luminous figure whose life and songs mirror his struggles and salvation,” told through archival recordings, interviews and live performances. The description notes that the film includes some rarely seen footage of the Allman Brothers Band “at their creative peak.”

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul will premiere in New York on June 9, and feature an acoustic performance by Devon Allman and Duane Betts, sons of Greg and fellow Allman Brothers Band member Dickey Betts. That will be followed by a June 11 premiere in Macon, Georgia, which will include an appearance by Allman Brothers Band member Chuck Leavell. Both premieres will feature a Q&A with the filmmakers.

The film will also have one-week exclusive engagements in Los Angeles and New York, before its full theatrical release on June 17.

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Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Ramones' self-titled debut album, and the milestone will be celebrated throughout the year.

One of those celebrations is the July 4 world premiere of the only authorized exhibition dedicated to the Ramones at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. The exhibit was organized and curated by the museum in collaboration with Linda Ramone, wife of the late Johnny Ramone, and Ramones Productions Inc. It will include performances, artist conversations and interactive experiences.

According to a press release, the exhibit "connects audiences to the Ramones' legacy, cultural impact, and continuing aftershock across music, art, design, and public memory."

The upcoming year will also include physical Ramones releases and reissues from Rhino. In addition, newly remastered videos for “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Rock N Roll High School,” “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and more have now been released on the Ramones' official YouTube page.

Released April 23, 1976, Ramones was recorded in one week, opening with what would become a Ramones classic: “Blitzkrieg Bop.” While Ramones wasn't a commercial success, only making it to #111 on the Billboard charts, it was a hit with critics and went on to be considered one of the most influential punk records in the U.S. It has also landed on several best-of lists, including Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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David Lee Roth has revealed that he’s sold his publishing.

In an interview with The Associated Press at the Coachella Festival, which was just published to YouTube, the former Van Halen frontman reveals he sold his publishing catalog “eight months ago.” He didn’t reveal who he sold it to.

He then told the reporter, “Ask me how I feel." When they did, he replied with a laugh, “Rich,” noting, “For the first time in my life I can rub two coins together and create a little interest. No, really."

Roth was the surprise guest during both weekends off Coachella, coming out to perform “Jump” with Teddy Swims.

Roth is currently on a U.S. tour, where he’s been performing a set filled with Van Halen classics. He’s even been performing the track “Little Dreamer” from Van Halen’s 1978 self-titled debut, which is the first time he’s performed the song since 2003.

Roth's Don’t Love Me, Rent Me tour hits Austin, Texas, on April 29. A complete list of dates can be found at DavidLeeRoth.com.

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KISS recently announced the dates for the 2026 KISS Kruise: Landlocked in Vegas, and now Gene Simmons has revealed details of this year’s lineup.

This year’s convention will be held Nov. 13-15 at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. In addition to two unmasked KISS shows featuring Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, the weekend will feature an all-star tribute to KISS founding member Ace Frehley, who passed away in 2025. According to the announcement, the tribute will include "sit-ins from members of KISS & guests."

The weekend will also include performances by Night Ranger, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick, Slaughter and Faster Pussycat. There will also be a pre-party on Nov. 12 featuring the Ace Frehley Band, Enuff Z’Nuff and others.

In addition to performances, the weekend will include a whole host of activities, like Q&A artist panels, a KISS lookalike contest, KISS karaoke and artist meet-and-greets.

Folks can register now at KissKruiseVegas.com to get the first info on when reservations open.

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Live Nation is once again giving fans a way to enjoy live music this summer without breaking the bank.

The concert promoter is set to launch what they're calling the Summer of Live, offering $30 all-in concert tickets to over 4,000 shows.

The promotion includes tickets for artists like John Mellencamp, Rod Stewart, John Fogerty, Paul Simon, The Black Crowes, James Taylor, Chicago and Styx, Deep Purple, Sammy Hagar, Santana and The Doobie Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner, The Guess Who, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and more.

The promotion runs from April 29 to May 5 at LiveNation.com/SummerofLive. After picking a show, there will be the option for tickets labeled "Summer of Live Promotion," to add to your cart.

There’s also an option for early access for Live Nation All Access members starting Thursday, April 23, and T-Mobile members starting Tuesday, April 28, at 10 a.m. local time.

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On This Day, April 23, 1976…

The Rolling Stones released their 13th studio album, Black and Blue, which was their first following the departure of guitarist Mick Taylor.

His eventual replacement, Ronnie Wood, is featured on three songs on the album. The Stones used the recording sessions as auditions for Taylor’s replacement, with other guitarists like Jeff Beck, Robert A. Johnson and Wayne Perkins taking part.

The album went to #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, where it spent four weeks.

In November, ahead of the album’s 50th anniversary, The Stones reissued the album as a five-LP or four-CD super-deluxe box set, featuring an album of outtakes and jams, and a recording of a 1976 concert at Earls Court in London, which was part of a six-night residency at the venue.

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New on Netflix in April is Sitting Bull, a two-part History Channel documentary about the legendary leader of the Lakota people. But rock fans may not be aware that its main title theme is one of the last things Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Robbie Robertson worked on before his 2023 death.

The theme was created by Robbie and his son, Sebastian Robertson, drawing from their Native American heritage. Earlier this year, it won both of them a CLIO Award.

"The idea was, I was going make the piece of music, get it into a pretty good place and share it with my dad, and then we were gonna build it together," Sebastian told ABC Audio.

"He was really happy with the first demo I did ... and that's, like, an impossible thing to have happen with my dad. He's very picky and very detail-oriented."

Sebastian and Robbie then joined forces. "We sat down in his studio with it. We batted back and forth some guitar ideas," he explains. He also incorporated a melody that Robbie began humming.

"I made it into something that I thought worked for the theme. And I said, 'I think we should send this in' ... and they loved it," he said.

Robbie passed away during the production of documentary, and while Sebastian finished the theme for broadcast, he said he continued to feel his dad's presence.

"My dad was still there working with me," he recalled. "And we were just kind of working on a mystic level at that point. And by the end of it, you know, I felt incredibly proud of the music."

"It probably will always be the most memorable and important thing that I do," he added. "Because it will be the last thing that I ever did with my dad." 
 

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Eagles will be reissuing their 1975 album, One of These Nights, on May 1, and they’ve just shared another bonus track from the release.

One of These Nights (Deluxe Edition) includes a previously unreleased concert, recorded Sept. 28, 1975, at Anaheim Stadium in California. They're previewing the concert with the digital release of a live performance of the On the Border track “Best of My Love.”

The concert features Eagles members Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, Bernie Leadon and Don Felder performing tracks from One of These Nights, as well as other hits. The show, Leadon’s final performance with the band, features his eventual replacement, Joe Walsh, joining them for the encore to perform his track “Rocky Mountain Way.”

One of These Nights (Deluxe Edition) will be released as a three-CD/Blu-ray set, featuring a new mix of the album and the 1975 concert. The Blu-ray features Dolby Atmos and high-res stereo mixes of both the album and concert. It will also be available digitally and as a three-LP set featuring the new album mix and the concert. All formats are available for preorder now.

The deluxe reissue is coming out just one day before the Eagles headline New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2. They also have May shows in Atlanta; Nashville; Arlington, Texas; and Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.

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