Maynard James Keenan attends the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan is launching a new restaurant.
Queen B Sushi is set to open its doors on Sept. 4 in Cottonwood, Arizona, where Keenan's Queen B Vinyl Café is also located.
"Led by Chef Brett Vibber, Queen B Sushi's opening lineup brings together Chefs Thomas Kato and Sher Chase to deliver world-class artistry from day one," Keenan writes in an Instagram post.
Queen B Sushi joins Keenan's long list of non-musical ventures, which also includes winemaking and jiujitsu.
Keenan's most recent musical project is the Puscifer album Normal Isn't, which dropped in February.
'Shooting Up and Making Out: A Memoir of My Life in LA and L7' book cover. (Da Capo)
The memoir of late L7 bassist Jennifer Finch will be published on Jan. 19, 2027.
The book, titled Shooting Up and Making Out: A Memoir of My Life in LA and L7, was completed before Finch's death on July 18 following a diagnosis of brain cancer. She was 59.
"Jennifer's memoir was the last major project she completed before she passed away," says the book's co-writer Jeff Alulis. "She and I worked together for two years to make sure she was happy with every word of it, and with someone as intentional and thoughtful as Jennifer that was no small task!"
Alulis adds, "I'm heartbroken that she won't get to see it published, but I'm thrilled to share her life and legacy with the world."
Along with the memoir announcement, Rolling Stone has published a piece featuring L7's Donita Sparks, Hole's Courtney Love and Melissa Auf der Maur, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan sharing their remembrances of Finch.
Unlike in previous years, the nominations list does not include a best rock category.
The 2026 MTV VMAs will air live on Sept. 27 starting at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBS, simulcast on MTV and streaming on Paramount+. Voting is open through Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. ET via Vote.MTV.com.
'Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger' film poster. (Magna Studios/Sony Music Vision)
A new trailer for the upcoming Oasis documentary Don't Look Back in Anger is out now.
As previously reported, the film follows the "Wonderwall" outfit's 2025 reunion tour, which marked the first time the formerly feuding brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher had shared the live stage in 16 years.
"The songs are one thing, but I'd forgotten what he means to people," Noel says in a voiceover, presumably referring to Liam. "I certainly wasn't prepared for the intense outpouring."
Don't Look Back in Anger is set to hit theaters and IMAX on Sept. 11. Limited IMAX early access screenings will take place Sept. 9. Tickets are on sale now.
The doc will be available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ later in 2026.
Disney is the parent company of Hulu and ABC News.
Fontaines D.C. has announced the details of their upcoming album, Dopamine Chamber.
The Irish outfit's fifth studio effort is due out Oct. 16. It's the follow-up to 2024's Romance, which spawned the single "Starburster."
"The album itself is a dopamine chamber," says frontman Grian Chatten. "You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you."
The record's first single is called "Marianne" and is out now.
Fontaines D.C. will be performing at the upcoming Shaky Knees, Sea.Hear.Now and Ohana festivals.
Billy Corgan performs onstage during the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at The New York Marriott Marquis on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for for Songwriters Hall of Fame)
The Smashing Pumpkins will launch their Rats in a Cage tour in September. Each show will feature one set dedicated to the 1995 Pumpkins album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in honor of its 30th anniversary, as well as a second, career-spanning set.
"The Rats in a Cage tour is interesting, because I've made the choice that we're gonna play the Mellon Collie set first," frontman Billy Corgan tells ABC Audio. "Which means you're gonna have 15-18,000 people in a room wondering, 'OK, now what are they gonna do?'"
Indeed, the RIAA Diamond-certified Mellon Collie has some of the biggest Pumpkins hits, including "1979," "Tonight, Tonight," "Zero" and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," which spawned the famed lyric that inspired the tour's name.
"We're planning something sort of different," Corgan says. "It'll be interesting 'cause some people will take the journey and other people will think, 'What are they doing? Because I came here to celebrate, and they're taking me through a funeral.'"
The Rats in a Cage tour kicks off Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio.
Phoebe Bridgers' new album, Lost Weekend, earned a coveted Best New Music distinction from Pitchfork, but it's also received a glowing review from perhaps an even more impressive source: Taylor Swift.
The pop superstar and 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee shared her thoughts on Lost Weekend Monday in an Instagram Story celebrating Bridgers' 32nd birthday.
"It's [Bridgers'] birthday but she gave us a gift," Swift wrote. "Haven't been able to stop listening."
"This album is an absolute triumph in every way," the "Shake It Off" singer continued. "To write about grief with such vulnerability and detail, and to trust the listener with this much honesty."
You may recall that Bridgers opened for select dates on Swift's massive Eras Tour.
Bridgers will launch a sold-out arena tour in support of Lost Weekend in September.
Mike Patton from Faith No More performs at 2015 Rock in Rio on September 25, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Raphael Dias/Getty Images)
The reunited Faith No More has added a show in Brazil as part of their 2027 live comeback.
The concert will take place Jan. 15, 2027, in Rio de Janeiro. System of a Down will also be on the bill.
Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. Brasilia Time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at noon Brasilia Time. For all ticket info, visit FNM.com.
Faith No More announced in July that they were reforming, ending the band's 10-year hiatus. The "Epic" rockers haven't performed live in 2016, and subsequent attempts at returning to the live stage were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health issues affecting frontman Mike Patton.
Faith No More's 2027 plans also include January and February dates in Australia and New Zealand, which will feature System of a Down, as well.
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age performs at The Forum on February 17, 2018 in Inglewood, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Multiple artists shared updates on their upcoming albums over the weekend.
Queens of the Stone Age revealed that their next record, the follow-up to 2023's In Times New Roman..., is called Perfecth.
In a video skit posted to the band's Facebook, frontman Josh Homme says that the record will arrive Sept. 30 before then accidentally stabbing his band with a knife, causing blood to shoot out everywhere. The video ends with the date Sept. 30 crossed out and a voiceover teasing that the album is "coming soon sometime."
Meanwhile, Courtney Love announced that her long in-the-works solo album is done.
"It's kinda been done," Love said in a video posted to her Instagram. "It's a really good record, I put a lot into it."
Also in the video, Love said that she got really sick when she traveled to England in 2019.
"My body just exploded," she said. "I was in hospitals a lot, and almost died."
Love said that she's better and healthy now. In the post's caption, she writes, "When I made [the album] i believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make. I was in the hospital mostly but when I wasn't all I did was write & record it."
She also thanked Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and her former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf der Maur for their support.
Finally, Fontaines D.C. announced the title of their next album: Dopamine Chamber. The follow-up to 2024's Romance is due out later in 2026, and a new song called "Marianne" will premiere Tuesday.
Death Cab for Cutie performs on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Death Cab for Cutie is opening for Twenty One Pilots for an Oct. 17 show at Ohio Stadium in the "Stressed Out" duo's hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Frontman Ben Gibbard tells ABC Audio that the gig came together thanks to mutual admiration between the two bands.
"They've been big fans of our band for quite awhile, and they're great dudes, they're really great people," Gibbard says of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. "They asked us to play with them, and we were like, 'Yeah, hell yeah! Let's do it.'"
In opening for a band that came after them, Gibbard feels that Death Cab is continuing "part of a tradition of music."
"We're getting to that point in our lives where by the sheer fact of having been around for a long time, we're starting to see bands that grew up on our music the same way that we grew up on, like, The Cure and Fugazi and Built to Spill and that kind of stuff," Gibbard says.
As for how he thinks the Twenty One Pilots audience will receive Death Cab's set, Gibbard laughs, "I don't know how it'll go over."
"But those guys [Joseph and Dun] are happy, so that's all that matters to me," Gibbard says.
Death Cab for Cutie recently wrapped a U.S. tour of their own in support of their new album, I Built You a Tower.
Fontaines D.C. at The GRAMMY Museum on September 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
It seems there's a new Fontaines D.C. album on the way.
The Irish band has posted a photo on Instagram captioned simply with the number 5, suggesting that they're working on their fifth studio effort.
Fontaines has also shared a clip of a new song called "Marianne," which they premiered live during a show in Spain earlier in August.
The most recent Fontaines D.C. album is 2024's Romance, which includes the single "Starburster." They followed that with a song called "It's Amazing to Be Young" in 2025.
'Stadium Arcadium' album artwork. (Warner Records)
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced a vinyl reissue of the band's 2006 album, Stadium Arcadium, in honor of its 20th anniversary.
The four-LP set is due out Oct. 2. It'll be available in canary yellow and apple red vinyl at all retailers, brown smoke and orange smoke vinyl in independent record stores, and blue marble and ruby red marble exclusively through the RHCP webstore.
The original Stadium Arcadium marked the ninth Chili Peppers studio effort and spawned the hit singles "Dani California," "Snow (Hey Oh)" and "Tell Me Baby." It also marked their last album before guitarist John Frusciante's departure from the group in 2009.
Frusciante later returned to RHCP in 2019, and they put out two new albums in 2022: Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen.
Photo of EMF; Posed group portrait L-R Ian Dench, Derry Brownson, Mark De Cloedt (back), James Atkin and Zac Foley (Michel Linssen/Redferns)
Derran "Derry" Brownson, keyboardist and sampler of "Unbelievable" band EMF, has died. He was 55.
"Late last night we started to hear the news that we have lost our Brother In Arms Derran Brownson," EMF writes in a Facebook post published Friday. "We are devastated, the only solace we can find is that we are eternally grateful Derry was able to join us on stage a couple times just a few short months back."
The bands adds, "Nothing will ever be the same again without our band mate and friend, fly high brother Derry."
Brownson was a founding member of EMF, which formed in 1989 in Gloucestershire, England. The band's debut album, 1991's Schubert Dip, spawned the hit "Unbelievable," which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
EMF put out two more albums in the '90s before going on hiatus. The band reformed several times over the years before finally putting out their fourth album, Go Go Sapiens, in 2022.
The most recent EMF release is the 2025 EP Reach for Something Higher.
'Unshatter' film poster. (CJ 4DPLEX/Trafalgar Releasing)
Linkin Park has shared a new clip from the band's upcoming documentary, Unshatter.
The clip, streaming on YouTube, features Mike Shinoda sitting in a studio alongside blink-182's Mark Hoppus as they listen to a recording of the song "Unshatter," which is featured on the deluxe version of LP's 2024 comeback album, From Zero. At one point, Hoppus shows Shinoda his arm covered in goosebumps.
"I was moved by that," Shinoda says. "Goosebumps, you can't fake."
Unshatter hits theaters on Sept. 30. The film follows Linkin Park's journey in reforming the band with new vocalist Emily Armstrong following the 2017 death of frontman Chester Bennington, featuring footage spanning from their 2022 studio sessions to 2024's From Zero album release concert in São Paulo.
An accompanying soundtrack will be released on Sept. 25.
Dave Grohl attends the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year at Los Angeles Convention Center on January 30, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Dave Grohl has been all around the world touring with Foo Fighters and Nirvana, but he's somehow never been inside a Bass Pro Shops. Well, that's now changed thanks to Josh Homme.
The Queens of the Stone Age frontman brought Grohl to a Bass Pro Shops for the first time in between shows on Foo Fighters' ongoing North American stadium tour, which also features the "No One Knows" rockers on the bill.
A video of the visit, which is posted to QotSA's Facebook, shows Grohl and Homme excitedly making noises as they inspect all sorts of fishing and fish-themed products.
There's also a reference to the iconic Them Crooked Vultures "Fresh Pots" video.
Foo Fighters' tour with Queens continues Thursday in Philadelphia.
Royal Blood has announced a new album called Dead Company.
The fifth studio effort from the "Figure It Out" outfit is due out Nov. 13. It's the follow-up to 2023's Back to the Water Below.
"After putting the Royal Blood engine in neutral for a couple of years, we've been building up the revs and are playing faster and harder than ever with this album," the band says. "Written and recorded with the stage in mind, we cannot wait to play it live for years to come."
The lead Dead Company single is called "Ten Over Ten." You can watch its accompanying video, which begins with an advisory for those with photosensitive epilepsy, on YouTube.
Hayley Williams of Paramore performs onstage during The 2023 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall on October 06, 2023 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New Yorker)
Paramore's Hayley Williams has released a new EP with her Power Snatch side project.
The four-track collection, called EP2, is out now via Power Snatch's Bandcamp. A visual accompaniment combining all four songs into a single video is streaming on YouTube.
EP2 is the aptly titled follow-up to Power Snatch's debut EP, EP1, which dropped in February. The outfit has also released a number of one-off singles, the most recent of which being June's "Great" and "Training."
Williams officially launched Power Snatch in January, though online sleuths uncovered an Instagram profile relating to the project dating back to summer 2025. Power Snatch also features songwriter/producer Daniel James, who worked with Williams on her 2025 solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party.
Williams will launch her "Hayley Williams Show" solo tour in September.
"Beaches in Tennessee" single artwork. (Big Loud Rock)
Cage the Elephant has premiered the video for the band's new single, "Beaches in Tennessee."
The clip, directed by frontman Matt Shultz, features the "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" outfit jamming together on a basketball court. You can watch it on YouTube.
The song "Beaches in Tennessee" premiered in July and marks the first new Cage material to follow their 2024 album, Neon Pill. It currently sits in the top five on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.
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