Soundgarden has posted a birthday tribute to the band's late frontman, Chris Cornell, who would've turned 62 on Monday.

"Happy Birthday, brother Chris," the post reads. "We’re thinking of you today and everyday. We miss your friendship, your beautiful soul, and your massive heart. The music world isn't the same without you, but your voice still echoes through everything we do."

It concludes, "Louder than love, always," referencing the title of Soundgarden's 1989 album, Louder than Love.

Cornell's widow, Vicky Cornell, also posted a tribute, which begins, "Happy Birthday to the most extraordinary man I have ever known."

"A husband and father who loved us with his whole soul," Vicky writes. "A poet whose voice transformed music forever and continues to echo through time. My best friend."

"There will never be another you," she continues. "Today is a celebration of your life, your heart, your brilliance, and the endless love you gave so freely. The world is better because you were in it, and your music and lyrics continue to not only touch but guide so many of us every single day."

Cornell died in May 2017 at age 52. A posthumous solo covers album, No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1, was released in 2020, and the surviving Soundgarden members have been working on completing the band's final album.

Cornell was inducted with Soundgarden into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025.

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Melissa Auf der Maur has announced a new compilation titled Bass Womb Room: My '90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings.

The set, due out Sept. 4, features unreleased recordings made by the Hole and former Smashing Pumpkins bassist during the '90s "on her 4-track tape recorder alone in her apartment, and experimental recordings captured on tour," according to a press release.

Shortly after the arrival of Bass Womb Room, Auf der Maur's new photo book, My '90s Rock Photographs, will be released on Sept. 8. It's described as a visual companion to Auf der Maur's memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, which was released in March.

Images from My '90s Rock Photographs will be displayed at an exhibit at Canada's Art Gallery of Ontario starting Sept. 2. The gallery will host a book signing with Auf der Maur on Sept. 9.

Meanwhile, the Hole Facebook page is teasing a news announcement coming Friday. Frontwoman Courtney Love already shot down the idea that Hole was reuniting earlier in the year, but did say she and Auf der Maur were planning a tour together.

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Michael "Mike D" Diamond of the Beastie Boys has announced a new run of solo North American tour dates.

The shows span from Sept. 20 in Santa Ana, California, to Oct. 20 in Toronto. Members of Mike's mailing list can access a presale, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit MikeD5D.com.

Mike will be touring in support of his upcoming debut solo album, Thank You, due out Aug. 28. It marks the first full-length effort from a member of the Beastie Boys since the group disbanded in 2012 following the death of Adam "MCA" Yauch.

Mike previously played a batch of U.S. solo shows in May. He also has a previously announced run of headlining dates scheduled from Aug. 30 in Boston to Sept. 9 in New York City.

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Limp Bizkit definitely got into some shenanigans during their performance at the Summer of '99 and Beyond Festival over the weekend.

The set featured a surprise appearance by the cast of Super Troopers 3, the upcoming threequel to the 2001 cult comedy.

As seen in video posted to the Super Troopers Instagram, the cast members showed up onstage in full costume while telling the crowd they were there to shut the show down. While Fred Durst maintains he and the Bizkit haven't broken any laws, a trooper then discovers a comically large bag of weed hidden near the drums. 

Eventually, Limp Bizkit and the Super Troopers come to a truce and decide to rock "Break Stuff" together.

Super Troopers 3 hits theaters Aug. 7.

Limp Bizkit, meanwhile, will be back onstage in the U.S. in September to headline the Louder than Life festival.

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Artists including Hole's Courtney Love, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and Garbage have paid tribute to late L7 bassist Jennifer Finch.

The "Pretend We're Dead" outfit announced late Saturday night that Finch, 59, had died, just days after it was announced she'd been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Love, who previously called Finch "a founder of ... one of the most important bands in history," posted an image of Finch to her Instagram.

Morello left a comment on L7's post announcing Finch's death. It reads, "God bless her. An important fixture of the LA scene, a super cool person, a true artist with a kind and welcoming heart. I loved, respected and admired her greatly. She will be missed."

"Rest in power beautiful Jennifer Finch," reads a post to Garbage's Instagram. "I'm so relieved to know you are no longer suffering. Our sincere condolences to @l7theband and everyone who ever loved you. Family, fans, friends and fellows. This is a terrible loss for music and our musical community."

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A perfect band may not take nearly a decade to release a new song, but then again, Hoobastank never claimed to be perfect.

"The Reason" outfit has returned with "How Do You Sleep?," marking their first fresh material in eight years. As frontman Doug Robb tells ABC Audio, the band members had continued to write following the release of their last album, 2018's Push Pull, but nothing really seemed to jump out at them. Then recently they sent a batch of songs to their former producer, Howard Benson, which included "How Do You Sleep?"

"[Benson] heard it, and he was like, 'Dude, this, this sounds like a modern version of you guys from the early 2000s. ... It's awesome,'" Robb says. "He's like, 'I haven't heard this type of, like, conviction in you guys in years.'" 

Robb feels that the energy of the song stems from Hoobastank's approach of writing music for themselves first and foremost.

"We consciously just said, like, 'Dude, can we just write and do stuff that we really enjoy?'" Robb says. "Like, stuff that I would actually want to listen to and get pumped up listening to, even if nobody ever heard it."

Now that "How Do You Sleep?" is out and people have heard it, though, Robb has been avoiding looking up people's reactions to the song.

"If people love it, fantastic," Robb says. "If they think it's the worst song they've heard in their life, fantastic! ... But I don't want it to affect how I feel about what I've done."

He adds, "Nobody's been throwing tomatoes at us when we play the song, so that's good." 

Hoobastank will be playing the Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, California, on Saturday.

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L7 bassist and founding member Jennifer Finch has died. She was 59.

The news comes less than a week after the "Pretend We're Dead" rockers announced that Finch had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

"We are shattered by the loss of our beloved bandmate, sister and friend Jennifer Finch, whose fierce spirit, humor and boundless creativity helped shape L7 and changed all of our lives forever," L7 said in a statement. "Jennifer was a true original who lived entirely on her own terms, and the impact she made on music, art and everyone lucky enough to know her cannot be measured."

The band added, "We love her beyond words and will carry her with us always. Rest in power our dear friend."

Finch formed L7 with guitarists and vocalists Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner and drummer Roy Koutsky in 1985. In 1989, Koutsky was replaced by Demetra Plakas, solidifying the classic L7 lineup.

Primarily influenced by punk and hailing from Los Angeles, L7 brought their own spin to the grunge sound, which exploded in Seattle in the early '90s. Their breakout album was 1992's Bricks Are Heavy, recorded with Nirvana's Nevermind producer, Butch Vig.

L7 followed Bricks Are Heavy with 1994's Hungry for Stink; Finch left the band in 1996. They put out two more albums before going on hiatus in 2001.

The lineup of Finch, Sparks, Gardner and and Plakas then reunited in 2014 and premiered a documentary, Pretend We're Dead, in 2016. They released the album Scatter the Rats in 2019. 

L7 announced in May that they were embarking on a farewell tour, dubbed the Last Hurrah, starting in October. When announcing Finch's diagnosis, the band said that Finch would not be joining the tour.

"The Last Hurrah Tour was planned along with Jennifer when all four of us were in good health and spirits," L7 said. "Although she will not be able to join us for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked us to continue with the tour as planned. We will honor her request while making her care and well-being our immediate priority."

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While Poppy's band took the stage for their set at the Upheaval Festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Friday as scheduled, the "new way out" singer herself did not.

Instead, the band played an instrumental set without Poppy, who later posted in an Instagram Story that she was unable to perform due to the poor air quality conditions caused by wildfires in Canada.

"Due to 'hazardous' AQI reaching 350+ around our set time I was unable to join my band on stage," Poppy wrote. "I was unable to breathe in those conditions. You might've noticed our set was instrumental only."

She added, "For those who braved the conditions - I applaud you."

"AQI" stands for "air quality index." A level of 350+ signals a health emergency.

As previously reported, on Thursday, air quality issues forced bands including The Black Keys and Creed to postpone their outdoor concerts.

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Former I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser has released a new song with his solo project, Scatterbrain.

The track is called "Bitter," and its accompanying video is now available on YouTube.

"Can't take my identity/ It starts with me/ It dies with me," Burkheiser sings.

Burkheiser, who parted ways with I Prevail in May 2025, launched Scatterbrain in December with a cover of the Taylor Swift song "Look What You Made Me Do." He's since put out the original songs "Phases" and "Fast Lane."

I Prevail put out their first record without Burkheiser with 2025's Violent Nature. They released a new single called "Paradise" in June.

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Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday has launched a new solo project called HOL1D4Y.

As Holiday explains in a press release, he originally envisioned the project as an instrumental one.

"What surprised me was that they stopped feeling like instrumental pieces," Holiday says. "They seemed prepped for a story. Once I realized that, the words came quickly. That's when I knew it was time to step into this new role — I needed to be the one to tell these stories."

The debut HOL1D4Y album is titled TOPOLOGY and will be released Sept. 25. The first single, "Veridream," is out now.

Holiday's Rival Sons bandmate Jay Buchanan released his debut solo album, Weapons of Beauty, in February.

All the Rival Sons will get back together for a U.S. tour kicking off in October.

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Nine Inch Nails have confirmed the physical release of their Nine Inch Noize album, which they teased earlier in the week.

The record, which the "Closer" outfit recorded in collaboration with producer Boys Noize, is now available to preorder on vinyl, CD and cassette via the NIN webstore. The ship date is Oct. 30.

Nine Inch Noize first dropped on digital platforms in April. It includes reworked, electronic-driven versions of past NIN songs such as "Closer," "Copy of A" and "Came Back Haunted."

NIN's Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross previously worked with Boys Noize on the [MIXED] version of their 2024 Challengers score and then again on their 2025 Tron: Ares soundtrack.

Boys Noize also opened for NIN's 2025-2026 Peel It Back tour, during which he joined Reznor and Ross onstage for a section of the set each night. They made their live debut as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella 2026 in April.

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Theory of a Deadman has released a new song called "Funeral Song," a track off the band's upcoming upcoming EP, Part 1: Funeral Songs.

If you thought "Funeral Song" might be a bit of a bummer given its title, think again: the lyrics open with the line, "This is your funeral song/ Hate to say it but I'm glad you're gone."

"Unleash your inner petty with this one, cause we don't hold back!!!" Theory says.

Part 1: Funeral Songs is due out Sept. 4. It also includes the songs "Barricade" and "Winnebago (Lay Low)."

Theory of a Deadman will hit the road alongside Sevendust on the Dead/Seven tour in August.

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Motionless in White has released a cover of the '80s hit "Sunglasses at Night," originally by Corey Hart.

The track is included on the metalcore outfit's new album, Decades, which dropped Friday.

In case you don't know all the words to "Sunglasses at Night," or maybe only know the "I wear my sunglasses at night" part, you can watch Motionless in White's lyric video for the cover on YouTube.

Motionless in White previously referenced another '80s hit, Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me," on "Werewolf," a song off their 2022 album, Scoring the End of the World.

Decades, the follow-up to Scoring the End of the World, also includes the single "R.I.P" featuring Skylar Grey and a collaboration with Slipknot's Corey Taylor.

Motionless in White is currently on a U.S. tour in support of Decades.

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Marilyn Manson has premiered a new song called "Front Toward Enemy," a track off his upcoming album, One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2.

"What the world needs now is a savaging," Manson says of the song.

One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2, which includes the previously released single "Exit Wound," is due out Aug. 14. It's the follow-up to 2024's One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1, which marked Manson's first album since his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood accused him of abuse in 2021. 

Several other women came forward with allegations against Manson, and he's currently facing a lawsuit filed by his former assistant Ashley Walters.

Manson has denied all allegations, and an investigation into him was dropped by the Los Angeles County district attorney in 2025.

Manson will launch a U.S. tour alongside Rob Zombie in August. He's playing a pair of LA shows in the fall to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his 1996 album, Antichrist Superstar.

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Michael "Mike D" Diamond has released a new song called "Crypto," which will appear on the Beastie Boy's upcoming debut solo album, Thank You. 

"Have we got what we need/ Never stops indeed/ Bring you down on your knees/ Where'd you go with that greed," Mike sings in the chorus.

Thank You is due out Aug. 28 and also includes the previously released songs "Switch Up," "What We Got" and "True Colors." It marks the first full-length release from the Beastie Boy since the group disbanded in 2012 following the death of Adam "MCA" Yauch.

Mike will launch a run of U.S. solo shows Aug. 30 in Boston.

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The Black Keys and Creed were forced to postpone their outdoor concerts Thursday due to poor air quality caused by wildfires in Canada.

The "Lonely Boy" outfit was set to headline a show at the Salt Shed in Chicago, while the "Higher" rockers were supposed to play the Mystic Lake Amphitheater in Shakopee, Minnesota.

"Upon advisement from the city of Chicago and for the safety of our fans, we are postponing tonight’s show due to the increasing wildfire smoke in the city," The Black Keys wrote in a Facebook post Thursday.

The Keys concert has been rescheduled to two nights at an indoor venue on Oct. 20 and 21. Previously purchased tickets will be honored.

The Creed show, meanwhile, will now take place Sept. 5 and will similarly honor previously purchased tickets.

A post to Creed's Facebook reads, "[The Creed members] were incredibly excited to perform for the sold-out crowd but given the environmental conditions and the challenges they create for the band, crew, venue, staff and attendees, the decision has been made to move the performance."

The bill for the Creed show also included Bush, who unfortunately will not be able to make the rescheduled date. Refund info will be available at the point of purchase.

"We appreciate everyone's understanding and look forward to making our way back to Shakopee as soon as possible," Bush says.

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In This Moment has announced a new album called Witch.

The ninth studio effort from Maria Brink and company is due out Aug. 28. It's the follow-up to 2023's Godmode.

"Witch is my declaration of inner transformation," Brink says in a statement. "It's about embracing the duality within — taking pain, persecution, and struggle — and alchemizing them into strength and power."

She adds, "The album reflects both ancient trials and my own journey — where being a 'witch' means being a creator, connected to the universe, manifesting my own reality."

Witch includes the previously released songs "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "Heretic." A third cut, titled "Crawl," is out now alongside a video, which you can watch streaming on YouTube.

The album also features a collaboration with Dayseeker and a cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" alongside famed tattoo artist Kat Von D.

In This Moment will launch their Taste of Chaos U.S. tour alongside Hollywood Undead in September.

Here's the Witch track list:
"Shame"
"I Want to Believe" feat. Dayseeker
"Crawl"
"Into the Dark"
"Sleeping With the Enemy"
"Wrapped Around Your Finger"
"Heretic" feat. Kim Dracula
"Father"
"Without Me There's No You"
"Another Brick in the Wall" feat. Kat Von D
"Something I Can Never Have"

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The Limp Bizkit resurgence continues as the band headlines a trio of U.S. summer festivals starting Friday at the Wisconsin Rock Fest.

As for what's continuing to drive fans to see the Bizkit live, especially since their viral performance at the 2021 Lollapalooza, guitarist Wes Borland feels that his wife sums it up best.

"She always goes, 'You guys just f*** with people and you're having fun and people can tell that you're having fun,'" Borland tells ABC Audio.

That carefree attitude, though, follows years of a different vibe in the Bizkit camp.

"I think we've been through so much tragedy that we just stopped taking it so seriously, I guess," Borland says. "You have enough bad shows or things go south enough times where it doesn't really bother you anymore. Like, if the guitar rig goes out, I just go, 'OK. This has happened before.'"

While they may not be taking themselves so seriously, the passion among the Limp Bizkit members is still there.

"I ended up spending the first third of the year in my shop just working on new stage costumes," Borland says.

Plus, performing live means Limp Bizkit gets to play "Break Stuff" again, which Borland calls "the world's most dangerous song."

"It's always fun to whip it out and see people's reaction to it, 'cause they lose their minds," Borland says.

Following Rock Fest, Limp Bizkit will headline the Summer of '99 and Beyond Festival Saturday and Inkcarceration Sunday. Later in the year, they'll headline Louder than Life in September and Aftershock in October.

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PAC-MAN knows a thing or two about "All the Small Things," having spent his life collecting tiny dots in a maze. Perhaps that's why the influential arcade game is teaming up with blink-182.

Blink-182 x PAC-MAN will make its debut at the San Diego Comic-Con, taking place July 23-26. The collaboration will include exclusive merch, such as a limited-edition vinyl record and a blink-themed version of the PAC-MAN shirt Mark Hoppus wore during the band's comeback show at Coachella 2023.

Comic-Con will also feature a dedicated blink-182 x PAC-MAN booth that includes a "stylized animated depiction of the band along with co-branded arcade cabinets and a claw machine with PAC-MAN plush and other blink-182 items as prizes."

In addition to uniting with PAC-MAN, blink-182 has been celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 2001 album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. A deluxe reissue was released in June.

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The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen has shared a statement mourning the death of her bodyguard, Mason Haynes.

"Mason Haynes was my family, my protector, my confidant and one of my closest friends," Momsen writes in an Instagram post. "When someone knows every dark secret about you and never judges, spends 24 hours a day with you seven days a week, you form a bond that is hard to explain." 

"He was a powerful giant with the softest heart of anyone I knew," Momsen continues. "Smart as a whip, artistic and most importantly he was always putting others needs first. His advocacy against bullying ran deep within him. I will miss him in a way I can't explain." 

Momsen also sends her love to Haynes' family and asks anyone who can help to donate to a GoFundMe honoring his memory. According to the GoFundMe, Haynes died in a traffic accident at age 52.

"I love you Mason, I can't believe I'll never hear your voice again," Momsen writes. "You were truly one of a kind."

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