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David Lee Roth has released a new recording of Van Halen's mega hit, "Panama." The "studio live" version was recorded on May 3, of this year as part of an extremely fast-paced session. He and his band recorded 14 songs in a span of only two hours.

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, sources say, it's all live and it's Van Halen free. No samples and no autotune. Roth was joined for the session by guitarist Al Estrada, bassist Ryan Wheeler, and drummer Francis Valentino.

There is no word on what other songs were recorded during the session, or when they will ever be made public.

"Panama" originally appeared on the album, 1984 and was one of the band's last hit singles with Roth. You can hear the new version on Youtube.

TL;DR:

• David Lee Roth rerecorded Van Halen's "Panama."
• The "studio live" version was with his band recorded during a special speed session of 14 songs in a span of only two hours.
• No samples and no autotune.
• You can hear the new version on Youtube.

Little by little Taylor Swift has been releasing information about her next album, titled Midnights and has now revealed a trilogy of limited edition covers.

On her Instagram, you see her step into the camera's view holding 3 albums to show off what they look like. The unique various colored vinyl versions will be available to order for one week only, now through September 7.

She has described the music as the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout her life.

The regular version of the new project will be officially released on October 21.

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• Her next album, titled Midnights will have limited edition covers available to buy for
• The regular version of the new project will be officially released on October 21.

Adele revealed that she slipped a disc after a prank by her 9-year-old son, Angelo. She's had a bad back since she was a teen.

In an ELLE magazine cover story she revealed how she slipped her L6 in January of 2021. Her son was playing and jumped out to scare her as she came out of the bathroom. Obviously she's healed since then, but hadn't talked about it publicly.

She was also asked about her son's taste in music and said he's totally obsessed with Billie Eilish.

TL;DR:

• Adele revealed that she slipped a disc after a prank by her 9-year-old son,
• Last year, he was playing and jumped out to scare her as she came out of the bathroom.

Ed Sheeran is collaborating on a new song with death metal band, Cradle of Filth.

The idea for the collaboration came about last year when Sheeran mentioned hopes of one day writing a heavy metal album. He grew up on music from Cradle of Filth and Slipknot.

They started collaborating about the time Sheeran's wife had a baby and then the project took a back seat to his heavy tour schedule.

Cradle of Filth says they're in touch with him often and he assures them, it's going to happen.

TL;DR:

• Ed Sheeran is collaborating on a new song with death metal band, Cradle of Filth.
• They started collaborating about the time Sheeran's wife had a baby and then the project took a back seat to his heavy tour schedule.

It was 40 years ago Sunday (September 4th, 1982) that the Who released their final studio album for 24 years, the ill-fated, It's Hard. The album, which followed Pete Townshend's stint in rehab for alcohol, cocaine, and heroin abuse, also came after the completion of Townshend's third solo album, the critically acclaimed, All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. For the first time in the band's history, Townshend actually pooled Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Kenney Jones over what subjects they were interested in before he wrote the material, with global concerns topping the list. Who producer-engineer Glyn Johns was back behind the boards for the first time since 1978's Who Are You.

The album's lead single, "Athena" peaked at a disappointing Number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. Interestingly, although the Who did perform seven of the 12 tracks from It's Hard over the course of its 1982 Farewell Tour -- "Athena" was only played 10 times during the 42-date trek, and was dropped entirely from the second leg of the tour. Roger Daltrey admitted to us that he was never a fan of how "Athena" turned out on record -- or in concert: "No, I never liked that song. It's a great record. I think what happened with that song, it was originally called 'Teresa' and then Pete was talking to me about Nick Roeg's girlfriend (Theresa Russell) and how he fancied her, and that song was written about her -- but then it changed into 'She's a bomb' and I think I've got a psychological problem with it. I listened to it on the record the other day, and it's a great record; there's so much energy on that thing but I still don't think there's a center to that song. The fact that he changed the title in that and didn't stick to what it was supposed to be lost its center to me."

Pete Townshend told us why after the 1982 tour he decided to finally put the brakes on the Who as an ongoing, permanent recording and touring outfit: "It had almost destroyed me. It had destroyed one of the members of our band, the whole machine around the Who. I actually felt by the time we hit 1982, that there was no point really trying again, because what we would do would be a shadow of what we'd done before."

Roger Daltrey told us that despite never being happy with Kenney Jones as the Who's drummer, the two were actually quite close: "I actually got on very well with Kenney, I just didn't feel ever that he was the right drummer. . . And people didn't ever seem to listen to what I was saying. They'd say 'Well Kenny's a great drummer!' And I'd say 'Yes, I know Kenney's a great drummer, but he's not the right drummer!' (Laughs) He's a great drummer! Could you imagine putting Keith Moon in the Faces -- would he have been the right drummer for the Faces? Of course he wouldn't."

Kenney Jones holds no grudge against Roger Daltrey for forcing him out of the band prior to the band's 1989 25th anniversary reunion tour. Despite Daltrey commenting over the years that Jones was never right for the Who, Jones is quick to point out that he was Townshend and Entwistle's ultimate choice as Keith Moon's immediate replacement: "I think, to be honest, it was a confusing time for him and it was a confusing time for everybody. But, as Pete says, I had the support of Pete and John. I know I fitted, anyways -- not a problem. It's just, y'know, you can't fit in in two seconds flat, you have to find your way around it. Now, obviously I found my way around it. The hardest thing I found when joining the Who, was not actually playing in the Who, it was actually learning the songs in the Who and trying to find my way of playing them."

Despite Who fans regarding tracks like "Eminence Front," "Cry If You Want," and "I've Known No War" as minor masterpieces, Townshend told us that he stopped writing songs for the Who after It's Hard because he felt that he could never match their greatest work: "When the Who stopped making records in 1982, I felt that I just couldn't do it anymore. I felt that what the Who had done was triumphant, huge, innovative, groundbreaking, massive, unsurpassable, and that there was no reason at all, no way that I could ever come close again."

The Who's It's Hard was released on September 4th, 1982 and peaked at Number Eight on the Billboard 200 -- four spots lower than 1981's Face Dances collection. In Britain, It's Hard just missed the Top 10, going so high as Number 11.

Although never a consistent seller or radio favorite, It's Hard was certified Gold in November 1982, and proved to have some legs on the airwaves at the time, with "Athena" hitting Number 28 on the Hot 100 and Number Three on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart -- where the album found its greatest success, with "Cry If You Want" reaching Number 34, the John Entwistle-written "Dangerous" peaking at Number 38, "It's Hard" squeaking into the list's Top 40 at Number 39, and "Eminence Front" topping out with a Number 68 placing on the Hot 100. The tune remains the only song from It's Hard that has remained a standard in the Who's nightly setlists.

Back in April, in celebration of Record Store Day the Who reissued It's Hard. The now-double album release includes a half speed master of the album along with rare and unreleased material, including the Roger Daltrey vocal version of "Eminence Front."

Happy Birthday to Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine, who turns 80 on Sunday (September 3rd)!!! Jardine now permanently tours with Brian Wilson's band, which features fellow Beach Boy Blondie Chaplin. In recent years, Jardine has been receiving raves for his string of acoustic solo dates, dubbed "A Postcard From California - From The Very First Song." Jardine, who's joined by his son Matt Jardine on vocals and keyboardist Debbie Shair, weaves the group's key songs while chatting onstage about the history of the group. In addition to major hits such as "Surfin' Safari," "I Get Around," "California Girls," and "Good Vibrations." During the shows, Jardine thrilled longtime fans with such deep cuts as "Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)," and the first performance of his 1980 fan favorite "Santa Ana Winds" in nearly 40 years.

Jardine also divvies his road dates between his his Endless Summer Band and his group Family & Friends featuring Carnie & Wendy Wilson plus his son Matt.

Released in 2021 was the Beach Boys' long-awaited new box set, Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971. The collection includes an incredible 135 tracks, including 108 previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, radio promos, alternate versions, alternate mixes, isolated backing tracks and a cappella versions, culled from the band's recording sessions.

Jardine began singing with Brian Wilson while the pair were high school football teammates at Hawthorne High School in Southern, California. Jardine played a major role in securing the session for the group's 1961 debut single "Surfin'" on which he sang and played double bass.

Despite all his accolades over the years, Al Jardine will always be best remembered for singing lead on the Beach Boys' second Number One hit, 1965's "Help Me, Rhonda." Jardine recalled the recording session for the song: "Oh, I was delighted. I was honored. But the pressure (laughs), the pressure on me was enormous! Everybody in the band -- everybody was there listening. But I was honored. I was really thrilled to have that opportunity."

In February 2014, Jardine performed a rare unplugged solo show at Manhattan's Rubin Museum of Art with Chaplin appearing as a special guest. The concert, which was billed as Transcendental Music At The Rubin, was in benefit of The Rubin Museum of Art and the David Lynch Foundation, which sponsors TM studies. Jardine thrilled die-hard by playing such Beach Boys deep cuts as "Wake The World," "Cabinessence," "At My Window," and "Transcendental Meditation," among others.

In June 2013, Al Jardine teamed up with Sean Lennon to record a new, mainly a cappella rendition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's global peace anthem, "Give Peace A Chance." The video was among the many works projected on the side of London's Tate Museum. The project, which was spearheaded by Bono's advocacy organization -- the ONE -- was the kickoff to the week-long "agit8," an artistic statement geared to force the world leaders meeting soon after for the G8 World Summit to take a stand against world poverty. Artists were urged to record a new rendition of a notable protest song. Jardine also recorded and submitted his version of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays' folk classic "If I Had A Hammer."

In 2010, Jardine released his first solo album, A Postcard From California. The critically acclaimed collection features appearances by Neil Young, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills, Beach Boys co-founders Brian Wilson, the late Carl Wilson, Mike Love and David Marks. Longtime member Bruce Johnston also appears. Also featured are his sons, Matt and Adam Jardine, Steve Miller, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell from America, the late-Glen Campbell, and the Red Hot Chili Pepper's bassist Flea. The album has just been reissued digitally with a physical release coming soon.

A Postcard From California, deals specifically with the California experience and touches upon the journey Jardine and his family started in the early-'50s after relocating from Lima, Ohio: "We moved to San Francisco. My family moved through the Bay Area. My first impressions of California coming from the Mid-West -- because we're all immigrants -- from the first it was exciting to me. Y'know, seeing my first palm tree, my first mountain, my first set of mountains -- and particularly the ocean -- most importantly the ocean. And my brother and I ran down to the beach and we tasted the water, that was more important to us, because then we knew it was the Pacific Ocean, that we could taste the salt water."

Throughout 1962, Jardine, who had left the band to attend college, would pop back into the lineup to fill in for the road-weary Brian Wilson. When fellow co-founder David Marks quit the band in late 1963 to start up his solo band, David Marks & The Marksmen, Jardine became the band's rhythm guitarist for the next 35 years until inner-band politics finally forced him out of the Beach Boys.

Biographer Jon Stebbins -- who wrote the groundbreaking 1999 book The Real Beach Boy: Dennis Wilson, along with the recently published, The Beach Boys In Concert! - The Complete History Of America's Band On Tour And Onstage with Ian Rusten -- says that although underrated, Al Jardine's decidedly non-flashy guitar work has always been an important element in the Beach Boys live sound: "I think he's a fine guitar player. He's from the accompanist tradition, where your guitar playing is just accompanying your singing."

Stebbins told us that although people refer to Jardine as the band's secret weapon due to his ageless vocals -- he's always been an MVP within the Beach Boys: "He certainly was not invisible on their records. Y'know, in their sound, I think he was a real great texture to their vocals. Just, y'know, another part of the spectrum or their prism of colors that comes through in their harmonies. Y'know, you've got the three brothers and the cousin -- but you add him to it and it just blasts into vividness in their harmonies."

By the late-1960's Jardine had come into his own in the group, contributing flawless harmonies and an ecological theme in his songs which predated most other bands' return to nature-based material.

Throughout the years, Jardine has written and produced many California-themed songs for Beach Boys albums, including the "California Saga" suite with Mike Love from the group's 1973 Holland album, and "Santa Ana Winds" which he co-wrote with Brian Wilson for the group's 1980 Keepin' The Summer Alive album. In 1981 the Beach Boys scored their first Top 20 hit in over five years with a Jardine-produced remake of the Del-Vikings' "Come Go With Me."

Following the death of Carl Wilson in 1998, Jardine was forced out of the Beach Boys by Mike Love. Years of lawsuits followed as Jardine battled for the right to bill himself as a Beach Boy.

David Marks, who remains close with Jardine and often performs with him, absolutely understands why he fought so hard to retain his title of Beach Boy after being forced out of the band in the late '90s: "Because it's a spiritual thing, man. That's why. You're used to being this guy for your whole life, doing one thing and then boom! It's gone. And you're going, 'Well, now what? I've got a beautiful farm in Big Sur which is nice to come home to. . . ' Wouldn't you miss going on the road and playing those songs?"

In 2006, after a decade-long hiatus, Jardine joined Wilson on select concert dates where the pair played a two-hour show including numerous Beach Boys hits and the group's 1966 album Pet Sounds in its entirety.

During the Beach Boys' short-lived 2012 50th anniversary tour, Jardine's vocal spotlights were often singled out as the show's high-points -- including, "Then I Kissed Her," "California Dreamin'," "Cotton Fields," "California," "All This Is That," "Come Go With Me," and "Help Me, Rhonda."

Mike Love, who holds the license to the Beach Boys' name, has chosen not to carry on performing with Wilson and Jardine, instead exercising his option to tour with his usual side musicians under the group's moniker. During 2012's dates, he admitted to being floored by Jardine's pipes and his stage presence: "He sings his ass off. He sounds so good. So, I am really happy to be there with him. His hiatus from the group and all that has made him a better contributor. Yeah, he's more straight-ahead and really does a great job. And this tour, it's fantastic having him with us."

Brian Wilson told us that he's thrilled to have his high school buddy Al Jardine hitting the boards with him every night out on the road: "Well, he's a great singer, one of my favorite singers, and he's always good -- he never ever screws up. He's always good."

For the first time ever, BLACKPINK can now boast of a top 10 on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart. Their new single, "Pink Venom" launched at #9. The South Korean group is also, for the first time, celebrating a #1 on the Billboard Global chart.

Gloria Estefan is now a Barbie doll. Mattel launched the sales on September 1, which was her 65^th birthday. In an interview with People.com, Estefan described herself as "overjoyed." She said, "I've gotten every award that you could possibly imagine. But somehow this was so incredibly special for me, maybe because I played with Barbie since I was a kid." The announcement comes just ahead of Hispanic Heritage Month. Estefan is known for the celebration of her Cuban roots in her music and says it's always important to embrace where you're from. The Gloria Estefan Barbie sells for $50.

Nickelback is set to release a new single called "San Quentin" next week. They've already shot a music video that included hundreds of fans in attendance.

Guitarist, Ryan Peak commented that after some time off, it felt a bit strange just getting back in the swing of things, but said it was "awesome."

This marks the band's first single from their upcoming album which hasn't been given a release date. The video should be out by mid-month and the single will officially be released on September 7^th.

TL;DR:

• Nickelback will release a single called "San Quentin" on September 7^th.
• The video should be out by mid-month.

Lil Nas X jokingly denied that he's a nice guy. When a fan shared on Reddit that she met him at the MTV Video Music Awards. She had gotten off on the wrong floor of an elevator and spotted him and jumped at the chance to introduce herself. She described him as posed and so nice and even made suggestions for their selfie's, which they took several of.

She wrote: I'm an unpaid intern and meet a lot of a–holes in this industry. It was really nice to meet someone I admire and find out they're a genuinely nice person."

After seeing the post, Lil Nas jokingly replied "This is not true. i am very mean in person. i once slapped a fan for singing the lyrics to industry baby wrong."

Later that evening he and Jack Harlow won three VMA's for "Industry Baby."

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At her concert in Washington D.C., you could hear the audience gasp with laughter when Lorde told them that she had been swimming in the Potomac River earlier in the day. Even with the US Clean Water Act, the Potomac is famously filthy.

In videos posted online, from her August 29th concert, Lorde said that she loved to swim in cities where she was playing. It makes her feel like she knows the people better.

After the show, she was briefed on the history of the iconic river and told fans "Now I know why you all were laughing," she said. "I'm happy to be a DC meme, you know."

Lorde is on a short touring break and will be back on the road in mid-September.

TL;DR:

• At her concert in Washington D.C., you could hear the audience gasp with laughter when Lorde told them that she had been swimming in the famously filthy Potomac River.

Drake and NBA superstar LeBron James are among a group of investors looking to purchase Italian soccer team, A.C. Milan.

According to the Financial Times, a deal for the prized Serie A team is approximately $1.2 billion.

Drake is expected to be a passive investor, as are the rest of his high-profile teammates in on the deal. A formal announcement for the contract is expected as at any moment.

TL;DR:

• Drake and NBA superstar LeBron James are among a group of investors looking to purchase Italian soccer team, A.C. Milan.
• Official announcement soon.

Megan Thee Stallion has gone viral with possibly her most revealing twerk video yet.

During a live performance, a London fan threw their already recording phone on stage and the Houston rapper gifted him with a unique point-of-view. The camera shot straight up her legs into her crotch as she twerked.

After seeing it online, she re-posted it herself. One fan wrote: "If only it was my phone!"

Megan Thee Stallion most recent album, Traumazine debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and is her 5^th consecutive Top 10 album.

TL;DR:

• Megan Thee Stallion has gone viral with possibly her most revealing twerk video yet.
• The camera shot straight up her legs into her crotch as she twerked.

In the U.K. the latest album from Muse, Will of the People is outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined. Reported in Billboard, the numbers come mid-week, but it's likely that when all is added up, the trio will have their seventh U.K. #1 album.

Although NFT may be difficult to understand, Muse is set to become the territory's first-ever leader using NFT technology.

Will of the People is the band's ninth studio album.

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