Their new EP will be out in October.

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Foreigner is deep into its 50th-anniversary victory lap, and the next stop is a fully overhauled edition of Head Games, the band’s multi-platinum third album. Coming off last year’s deluxe treatment of Foreigner 4, the band has now remixed and remastered the 1979 record for an Oct. 30 release on CD/Blu-ray, black vinyl and DSPs. Kicking things off is a newly unearthed outtake, “Trouble,” available digitally starting today.

Producers Jeff Pilson, Foreigner‘s bassist, and longtime collaborator Wyn Davis oversaw the reissue, which also includes a new liner-notes essay from music journalist Ken Sharp tracing the album’s history. The original Head Games lineup — Lou Gramm on lead vocals and percussion, Mick Jones on guitar, piano and vocals, Ian McDonald on guitars and keyboards, Rick Wills on bass and backing vocals, and Dennis Elliott on drums — delivered hits like “Dirty White Boy” and the title track. It was a record of lasts and firsts: Wills‘s debut with the band, the final appearance from founding members McDonald and Al Greenwood, and the last time Jones sang lead on a Foreigneralbum.

The reissue’s Super Deluxe CD/Blu-ray edition packs in the freshly remixed original 10-track album alongside a full disc of outtakes and alternate takes, plus a previously unreleased live set from the Head Games tour with staples like “Cold as Ice” and “Feels Like the First Time.” A Dolby Atmos Blu-ray mix rounds out the set. Beyond the Super Deluxe package, the album will also land as a standalone 1LP vinyl pressing, an Atmos version of both the full box and the standalone remix, and a Digital Super Deluxe Edition for streaming.

The real find here is “Trouble,” cut in May 1979 at Atlantic Studios in New York during the original Head Gamessessions and co-produced at the time by Roy Thomas Baker. It surfaced during research for the reissue and has now been remixed for its first-ever commercial release, arriving with a newly recorded guitar solo from Peter Frampton, a longtime friend of Jones. The track ships as a seven-inch single backed with fellow Head Games-era rarity “Zalia,” available direct-to-consumer through Rhino.com and the band’s own merch store.

Head Games dropped in September 1979 and cemented Foreigner as one of the defining rock bands of its era, following the massive success of the band’s self-titled 1977 debut and 1978’s Double Vision.

With more Top 10 hits than Journey and matching Fleetwood Mac‘s tally, Foreigner sits high on Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” rankings. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the band’s weekly catalog sales have at times outpaced Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen and Aerosmith. Ten multi-platinum albums, 16 Top 30 hits and more than 80 million records sold back up the band’s status as one of rock’s most enduring acts, with a catalog that still fills arenas and includes staples like “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold as Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” “Feels Like the First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White Boy” and “Long, Long Way From Home.” The band’s chart-topping “I Want to Know What Love Is” also sits in Spotify’s exclusive Billions Club, and Business Insider recently ranked Foreigner among the Top 40 best-selling music artists of all time.

Head Games is available to pre-order here.

Foreigner‘s current lineup is:

Luis Carlos Maldonado / Vocals
Pilson / Bass
Michael Bluestein / Keyboards
Bruce Watson / Lead guitar
Chris Frazier / Drums
John Roth / Guitar

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The supergroup are back to take aim at Christian nationalism and more.

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Arriving October 23 via Season of Mist Underground Activists

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Some more noire.

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A sci-fi concept album at that.

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Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament is taking his upcoming photo memoir on the road. Ament and his brother, designer Barry Ament, will mark the September 25 release of Since Forever with nine book events spanning the United States and London.

The stops include two dates at Ohana Festival in Dana Point, Calif., a pair of Seattle appearances, and single shows in Chicago, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and London. At each stop, the Ament brothers will sit down with a rotating cast of moderators to walk through images from the book and dig into the stories behind them, along with the decades of creative back-and-forth that got them here.

Since Forever runs more than 250 black-and-white photographs deep, and roughly 90 percent of them have never been shown publicly before. Shot mostly between 1990 and 1998, the collection pulls back the curtain on Pearl Jam‘s early years — tour buses, backstage corridors, studio sessions and all the dead time in between — with Ament‘s own commentary filling in the gaps.

The book actually started as a rescue mission. Jeff and Barry began digging through three decades’ worth of decaying negatives just trying to save what was left, and the cleanup job eventually turned into something bigger: a visual diary of friendship, family and life spent on tour.

Tickets for the full run of book events are available now via this link. Since Forever is up for pre-order and will hit select independent bookstores on Sept. 25.

Ament has been Pearl Jam‘s bassist since day one and went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2017. Before that, he was a fixture of Seattle’s music scene through the mid-1980s and early ’90s, playing in Deranged Diction, Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, War Babies, Three Fish, Tres Mts., RNDM, P.E.S.T and Deaf Charlie along the way. His solo catalog includes Tone (2008), While My Heart Beats (2012), Heaven/Hell (2018), American Death Squad (2020) and I Should Be Outside (2021). He also scored FX‘s Under the Banner of Heaven in 2022 and just wrapped a soundtrack for the documentary Montana Grind, and has two Grammy Awards to his name for Best Recording Package.

Born in Havre, Montana, in 1963 and raised in nearby Big Sandy, Ament studied art at the University of Montana before relocating to Seattle in 1983. A skateboarder through and through, he founded Montana Pool Service in 1992, first rebuilding Seattle skateparks before shifting his attention back home. Since then he’s helped fund and build more than 40 skateparks across Montana and the American West, many of them on Native American reservations, giving kids in isolated communities a place to skate and build something of their own.

Barry Ament runs the design side of things. He co-founded Seattle studio Ames Bros with partner Coby Schultz in 1994, and over three decades the shop has produced work for Pearl Jam, Nike, Topps, the Seattle Seahawks, Pagliacci Pizza and plenty of others. Barry started designing in-house for Pearl Jam in the early ’90s — album packaging, posters, T-shirts, even tube socks — and Ames Bros has since put out more than 500 concert posters for the band and other artists.

The Ament brothers’ creative partnership goes back to childhood, long before either of them had a design studio or a band to work for — sketching together, building skate ramps, then mailing artwork cross-country once Jeff left for Seattle. That habit never really stopped.

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The song serves as the first taste of the band’s next chapter

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History is full of people who fought empires with armies and swords, but sometimes the most dangerous thing a person can have is a book. When we look back at the Middle Ages, it is easy to imagine that the people in power controlled everything, including what ordinary people were allowed to think. But in the 13th century, a French writer named Marguerite Porete showed just how frightening one person’s ideas could become when she refused to let anyone else control what she believed.

Marguerite was a Beguine, a woman who devoted herself to spiritual life and deep intellectual study without entering a convent. She lived independently, which alone was enough to make the male-dominated Church uncomfortable. But what really made her dangerous was what she chose to write.

She wrote a brilliant and radical book called The Mirror of Simple Souls. Instead of writing in scholarly Latin, which only educated elites could understand, she wrote in Old French. Her message was simple, but for the time, it was incredibly bold. She believed that a soul filled with divine love did not need the Church standing between it and God. You did not need bishops, strict rules, or people claiming to have control over your relationship with the divine. You just needed yourself.

For the medieval Church, that idea was terrifying. If people believed Marguerite, the institution would lose the power it had spent so much time building.

The Bishop of Cambrai condemned her work, publicly burned her book in the town square right in front of her, and gave her a choice. If she ever shared her ideas again, she would be declared a relapsed heretic, a crime punishable by death. I cannot imagine watching something you poured your mind and heart into being burned in front of you, then being told that speaking about it again could get you killed.

Most people would have watched their life’s work disappear into the fire, lowered their heads, and stayed quiet because staying alive mattered more. Marguerite did the exact opposite.

Instead of giving up, she spread her ideas even further. She made new copies of her book, translated it, and sent it to scholars and readers across Europe. She even sought out opinions from other intellectuals, completely ignoring the local bishop who had tried to silence her. She believed in the value of her work, and she refused to let a man with a title decide whether her thoughts were worth hearing.

Eventually, that defiance caught up with her. She was arrested by the Grand Inquisitor of France, taken to Paris, and thrown into a dungeon for a year and a half. The Inquisition demanded that she take an oath, answer their questions, and apologize for what she had written.

This is the part of Marguerite’s story that stays with me the most. Faced with one of the most terrifying and powerful tribunals in Europe, she chose absolute silence.

She refused to take their oath. She refused to say a single word to her interrogators. She understood that taking part in their trial would give them something they did not deserve, the appearance that they had the right to judge her mind. By remaining silent, she refused to play along. They could imprison her, threaten her, and eventually kill her, but they could not make her participate in her own submission.

Frustrated and unable to make her bend, the Inquisition condemned her. On June 1, 1310, Marguerite was burned at the stake in Paris. Witnesses said that she went to the flames with such quiet dignity and without showing fear that people watching began to cry. There is something deeply heartbreaking about that image. After everything they had done to her, she still had one thing they could not take away from her: the way she faced them.

The Church tried to erase her name from history, but they failed. Her book was powerful enough to survive, passing secretly through Europe for centuries until modern historians finally restored her name to its cover. The people who wanted her ideas forgotten ended up helping create the very story that would keep her remembered.

Marguerite Porete’s story reminds me that sometimes we give too much power to people who have already decided that they do not want to understand us. We feel like we have to explain ourselves perfectly, defend every thought, and convince people who were never listening in the first place. Marguerite did not give them that satisfaction. She knew what she believed, and when they demanded that she surrender it, she simply refused. There is something incredibly powerful about that kind of silence. Sometimes you do not need to win the argument. Sometimes protecting your own mind means refusing to let someone else become the authority over it.

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