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The Concert for Carolina benefit show has now added a livestream option for fans across the country who want to support the cause but aren’t able to travel to Charlotte to see the event. The cost for the livestream is $24.99, which will go directly towards Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Those in the areas affected by the storm will be able to stream the event for free due to a geo-targeting procedure set up by Veeps that ensures those in the hardest hit areas will not be charged. The Concert for Carolina music lineup has also been expanded, with new additions Chase Rice, the Avett Brothers, Scotty McCreery, and Parmalee joining headliners Luke Combs, Eric Church, James Taylor, and Billy Strings, along with previously announced artists Keith Urban, Sheryl Crow, and Bailey Zimmerman. The Concert For Carolina is set to take place on Saturday, October 26, at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Holler)

Zach Bryan is taking his music beyond country, as Snoop Dogg disclosed on Thursday’s episode of the Today Show that he and Bryan are collaborating. The reveal came during a segment focused on Bryan’s recent interview with Bruce Springsteen, in which he said doesn’t want to be categorized by only one music style. "I don’t want to be a country musician,” Bryan revealed. “Everyone calls me it. I want to be a songwriter." Snoop then revealed he is working with the country superstar. “Zach sent me a song. I got to put a verse on it,” Snoop Dogg announced. “I’m inspired seeing him with The Boss.” (People)

While the Pretenders are currently touring the UK, the band has warned fans who repeatedly stand in the front row for “multiple nights” that they could possibly be asked to move in order to make room for “local faces.” Singer Chrissie Hynde explained her frustration in an Instagram post on Wednesday (October 16), writing that while it has been a “real pleasure” for the band to play in front of “fantastic audiences,” the “whole point” of touring for the band is “playing to a different audience every night.” Hynde continued, “We look forward to seeing local faces. This is what makes it new for us every night. We appreciate those of you who follow us and buy tickets for multiple nights, so please don’t be offended if we request you to move out of the front row. All we are asking is that you give the local fans a chance.” The Pretenders’ UK tour continues through November 1. (Consequence of Sound)

After being shot near his Las Vegas home early Tuesday (October 13), former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee shared that he is recovering and “doing surprisingly well.” Lee was a victim of a random street shooting that took place about 10 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. The musician was in his driveway after taking his dog for a walk when he was repeatedly hit with gunshots. He was then taken to a nearby hospital where he was placed in an intensive care unit. Lee is “expected to fully recover,” according to a statement from his representative. Lee shared an additional update on Facebook, where he wrote, “I’m tired, but I feel relatively very lucky. One bullet went through my forearm, one through my foot, and one in the back which broke a rib and damaged a lung. Priority now is to keep draining my lung, then we can pull that tube out and concentrate on the more minor injuries.” (Consequence of Sound)

Five weeks after Dave Grohl made the shocking announcement that he fathered a child outside of his 21-year marriage to Jordyn Blum, their relationship is “not in great shape,” according to an inside source. The 48-year-old Blum is apparently still not wearing her wedding ring, while the 55-year-old Foo Fighters frontman has been seen publicly without his as well. According to the source, Blum has significantly “calmed down” following the “initial shock” of the scandal, but the couple are not in a good place. “Their marriage is still not in great shape,” the source says. “She's not happy with Dave. Jordyn's focused on her girls, their schooling and extracurricular activities.” Blum shares three daughters with Grohl: Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10. Grohl apparently retained a divorce attorney before making his announcement, but the source doesn’t know if the couple plans to file for divorce at this time. (People)

Following the success of Nosferatu x Radiohead, the musical pairing of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac with screenings of the silent horror movie Nosferatu, Blue Starlite Entertainment’s Silents Synced series has revealed that their next installment will  feature the music of R.E.M. Beginning in February 2025, the band’s albums Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi will provide the soundtrack to screenings of the 1924 Buster Keaton silent comedy film, Sherlock Jr. The premiere screenings of Sherlock Jr. x R.E.M. will take place on February 1 in the band’s hometown of Athens, Georgia, at the historic Morton Theatre and the Ciné art house cinema. “Buster Keaton is one of my favorite actor/director/writers in movie history,” R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck said in a statement. “I’m honored that in some small way R.E.M. is collaborating with him from beyond the grave.” (Consequence of Sound)

Ahead of its 30th anniversary in 2025, organizers behind Vans Warped Tour announced on Thursday (October 17) that the legendary music festival will make a triumphant return next year. Warped Tour 2025 will launch at the RFK Campus in Washington, D.C. on June 14 and June 15, then head to the Shoreline Waterfront in Long Beach, California, on July 26 and July 27, before closing things down at Camping World Stadium Campus in Orlando, Florida, on November 15 and 16. The festival’s Instagram video announcing its return featured the simple caption, “we missed u, see u next summer. 💛” The lineup for Warped Tour 2025 has yet to be announced, but two-day tickets went on sale on Thursday. Founder Kevin Lyman had this to say about starting up his festival after taking the last five years off, “People start remembering once something’s gone that it was important, it was fun — and I’m hoping to recapture a lot of that again.” (Rolling Stone)

Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee was shot multiple times in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He's currently in a hospital ICU, but is expected to fully recover from the random incident, which occurred while he was taking his dog for a walk early in the morning. Osbourne stated his shock at the incident in a statement Tuesday night. “It’s been 37 years since I’ve seen Jake E. Lee, but that still doesn’t take away from the shock of hearing what happened to him today,” he told TMZ . “It’s just another senseless act of gun violence. I send my thoughts to him and his beautiful daughter, Jade. I just hope he’ll be ok.” Despite a past dispute with Sharon Osbourne and his subsequent dismissal from Ozzy's band in 1987 (after a five-year stint), Osbourne says there's no hard feelings. Lee later went on to form bands Badlands and Red Dragon Cartel. (COS)

During a recent conversation with Bruce Springsteen for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians series, Zach Bryan disclosed that he still has a hard time thinking of himself as a real musician. Springsteen asked him when he first started considering himself a “serious songwriter,” and Bryan admitted that he still doesn’t. “To this day I have really bad imposter syndrome,” he said. “I’d go home and I would write, and I never in a million years thought I would become a songwriter because I never thought I had the talent." Bryan dismissed his own songs in comparison to other music legends, saying “There’s no way people enjoy these like they would enjoy a [Bob] Dylan song or a Springsteen song.” Springsteen went on to praise Bryan’s tunes “Open the Gate” and “Revival,” calling them, “songs you’re gonna be singing till you’re old as me.” (People)

Breaking Benjamin took to Instagram on Tuesday (October 15) to announce that they have released a new single, “Awaken.” The track is the Pennsylvania rock band’s first new song in five years. The group shared their appreciation to their dedicated fanbase for sticking with them all this time with the caption, “AWAKEN is out now on all platforms. Thank you for your patience 🫶🏼” The new music also comes with the announcement that Breaking Benjamin have just signed a new record deal with BMG. “Working on this song has been something new and exciting for all of us I believe,” guitarist Jasen Rauch said in a press release. “We’ve been able to explore more of who we are traditionally, while at the same time push boundaries and try things we haven’t done in the past. Musically we’ve tried hard to stay true to what Breaking Benjamin is, but offer a new take as well.” (Consequence of Sound)

In a new clip for Drumeo, teenage drumming sensation Nandi Bushell performed Foo Fighters‘ “Learn to Fly” with drumsticks that were given to her by the late Taylor Hawkins. The clip recreates Bushell’s celebrated performance of “Learn to Fly” at the tribute for Hawkins at Wembley Stadium back in 2022. In the video, Bushell shared the story of how she originally got the drumsticks, back when Hawkins gave them to her when she was only 11-years-old and she appeared onstage alongside the Foo Fighters at their Los Angeles show in 2021. “Taylor’s amazing, he’s the nicest person,” said the now 14-year-old Bushell. “He gave me these sticks, which are the sticks I performed with at Wembley. It was a bittersweet moment, because of course it’s amazing to play Wembley Stadium, but it was why I was playing there.” (Consequence of Sound) 

On Tuesday night (October 15th), Talking Heads got back together again in order to present a Jeopardy! category dedicated to the band. The clues were rather straightforward for anyone with decent knowledge of the legendary new wave rock band, including the venue where Talking Heads played their first show, the director of Stop Making Sense, and naming the group’s biggest hit. This game show appearance continues a year-long reunion of sorts for the band, with the quartet showing up together at a series of celebratory events tied to the 40th anniversary of their historic concert film, Stop Making Sense, which was released back in 1984. In September of 2023, all four members of Talking Heads appeared onstage together for the first time since 2002 for a Stop Making Sense panel at the Toronto International Film Festival, which led to an unsuccessful attempt by Live Nation to get the band to play a reunion set at Coachella 2024. (Consequence of Sound)

On Tuesday morning (October 15), it was announced that Martin Scorsese will direct the filming of the upcoming Robbie Robertson tribute concert in L.A. on Thursday night for a planned future release. Scorsese’s filming of Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson, will bring his career full circle, as the first movie the legendary filmmaker did with Robertson was directing the concert film The Last Waltz, which commemorated the last concert of the singer-songwriter’s celebrated group the Band back in 1976.

The list of performers paying tribute to Robertson at the Kia Forum on Thursday includes Trey Anastasio, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Jim James, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Mavis Staples, Bobby Weir, and Lucinda Williams. (Variety)

On Tuesday (October 15), the lineup was revealed for the 2025 Sick New World Festival, with Metallica and Linkin Park chosen to headline the stacked one-day Las Vegas music fest. Sick New World 2025 will take place on Saturday, April 12th at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. It will also feature sets from other celebrated hard rock acts like Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Gojira, AFI, Cannibal Corpse, Tomahawk, Ministry, 311, the Flaming Lips, Mastodon, Filter, Refused, Three Days Grace, Testament, the Hives, Quicksand, and many more, including Acid Bath’s first show in nearly 30 years. This year’s iteration of Sick New World Festival  marks the third year of the Vegas hard rock fest, with System of a Down serving as the headliner at both of the first two editions. (Consequence of Sound)

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has just announced details for his I Want Blood 2025 North American Tour. Cantrell revealed the dates for his upcoming jaunt in an Instagram post on Tuesday (October 15), also disclosing that the opening act for his entire tour will be Filter. The 26-date run gets started on January 31st in Niagara Falls, Ontario, then hits major music markets throughout the U.S. over the next month, before finishing up with a hometown show on March 9th at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. The tour announcement comes just days before the release of Cantrell’s highly-anticipated new solo album, I Want Blood, which is set to be released on Friday (October 18). In addition to the just-announced tour, Cantrell has a record release show scheduled on Thursday (October 17th) at Pappy + Harriet’s in Pioneertown, California, along with a brief three-date tour of South America planned for early November. (Consequence of Sound)

Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley made sexual abuse allegations against the band’s former manager, Greig Nori, in his just published memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell. Nori responded to those allegations with a statement shared with the Toronto Star that read, “The accusation that I initiated the relationship is false. I did not initiate it. Whibley initiated it, aggressively.” During what he calls “an extremely heavy week,” Whibley shared an emotional Instagram video on Tuesday (October 15) that slams Nori’s statement. “I take no pleasure in coming out with the truth about what happened between me and my ex-manager,” Whibley said. “I stand behind every word that’s in my book. I’m not a liar. Greig Nori, if you think I’m a liar, there’s only one way to settle this. Under oath, in front of a judge, in front of a jury. Anytime you want. I’m ready. Whenever you are.” (Rolling Stone)

Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets primetime TV special will be broadcast on ABC on Sunday, October 20 at 10 p.m. ET. The hour-long program is hosted by Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos, and features a behind-the-scenes look at Springsteen’s live show along with new interviews with Bruce and the rest of the band. It was filmed during the final weeks of the 75-year-old musician’s ongoing world tour with the E Street Band, and includes footage from their recent shows in Washington, D.C., and Asbury Park’s legendary Stone Pony which Springsteen made famous. In a trailer for the special, Springsteen shares a positive update on the health of his wife/bandmate Patti Scialfa, who was diagnosed with blood cancer back in 2018. “She’s doing good; we caught it early, which was important,” Springsteen says. “It’s a tough disease, it’s very fatiguing.” (Rolling Stone)  

During a new interview with Rolling Stone to promote his forthcoming memoir, Brothers, Alex Van Halen disclosed that both Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Cornell were once considered as possible replacement frontmen for Van Halen. Osbourne was approached to potentially lead the band in 2001, following the end of Gary Cherone’s run in 1999. Alex revealed that he and his brother Eddie discussed a possible Ozzy-fronted Van Halen album with Sharon Osbourne, but the launch of MTV’s The Osbournes reality show dashed those plans.

“Yes, we were discussing it,” Ozzy confirms. “It is something that if it had come to fruition, would have been phenomenal. Eddie and Alex were great friends of mine for a very long time and it’s a regret of mine that we never got it together.” Alex also recalled a jam session involving himself, Eddie, and Cornell shortly before the Soundgarden singer’s tragic death in 2017, when they briefly considered him for the Van Halen frontman role. (Consequence of Sound)

On Tuesday (October 15), Sphere Entertainment Co. announced the location of its second Sphere entertainment venue will be in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi’s Sphere will be a 20,000-capacity venue that will feature the same technological advancements as the original Las Vegas Sphere, which opened in 2022 with a celebrated residency by U2. The Abu Dhabi Sphere plans to host concerts and other special events year-round, much like the Las Vegas Sphere, which has featured high-profile shows by Phish, Dead & Company, and the Eagles.

Sphere Entertainment Co. originally planned to open their second venue in London, but mayor Sadiq Khan shot down those plans due to high energy concerns and the “significant light intrusion” it would bring to the city. “The vision for Sphere has always included a global network of venues, and today’s announcement is a significant milestone toward that goal,” said James L. Dolan, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sphere Entertainment. “We are proud to collaborate with DCT Abu Dhabi to develop Sphere in their city.” (Consequence of Sound)

A new documentary focused on the Beatles historic first trip to the United States in 1964 is set to premiere on Disney+ on November 29. The Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ‘64 will feature never-before-seen footage of the Fab Four and their passionate fans at the height of Beatlemania. Beatles ‘64 is directed by David Tedeschi, and includes brand new interviews with surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The documentary also includes “a more intimate behind the scenes story” of the band’s legendary performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, which was seen by a record-breaking 73-million people, along with rare footage of the Beatles’ first American show at the Washington D.C. Coliseum. A synopsis of the documentary proclaims that “Beatles ’64 presents the spectacle, but also tells a more intimate behind the scenes story, capturing the camaraderie of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they experienced unimaginable fame.” (Billboard)