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The third annual Bon’s Birthday Bash will take place Thursday, July 9, at The Cutting Room in New York City, the only U.S. tribute event officially authorized by the Bon Scott estate. The event falls during Bon‘s 80th birthday week — the late AC/DC frontman was born July 9, 1946, in Forfar, Scotland.

Performing on the night are Corey Glover of Living Colour, Constantine Maroulis, Steve Brown of Trixter, Jimmy Kunes of Cactus, and additional vocalists to be announced. The house band features Paul McGilloway on lead guitar, John Jackson on rhythm guitar, Ivan Bodley on bass, and Kenny Soule on drums. Rock radio personality Terrie Carr will host the evening.

The show will also feature a Morrison Hotel Gallery pop-up presenting never-before-seen photographs of Bon Scott by rock photographer Steve Joester, with prints available for purchase. Tickets are on sale here.

The Birthday Bash arrives on the heels of Bonfest 2026, which took over Bon‘s hometown of Kirriemuir, Scotland from May 1–3. Now in its 20th year, the festival drew fans from across Europe and around the world for a weekend of music, processions, and tributes. Among the weekend’s defining moments was the traditional “It’s a Long Way to the Top” procession — a callback to AC/DC‘s 1976 Melbourne flatbed truck performance — during which Bon‘s friend Gabby, who was present for the original filming, joined the march through Kirriemuir.

AC/DC‘s 2026 North American “Power Up” tour launches July 11 — just two days after the Birthday Bash — at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., giving fans a natural run of Bon-adjacent celebration across that week.

Scott spent his childhood in Kirriemuir before the family emigrated to Australia in 1952. He played drums in the Fremantle Pipe Band before fronting early acts The Spektors, The Valentines, and progressive rock outfit Fraternity. He joined AC/DC in 1974 and recorded six studio albums with the band before his death in February 1980.

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Wild Pink seem ready to follow up 2024’s phenomenal Dulling The Horns. As noted on r/indieheads today, the rootsy, dreamy rock band mailed postcards to fans with a QR code for pre-ordering a new album called Still Coming Down.

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“Essence Of Existence”, the third and final advance single from Sarcasm‘s oncoming Lifeforce Omnibound record, has premiered online.
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Cedric Bixler-Zavala, vocalist for The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In, went after Spotify on Instagram this week after Backline — a mental health and crisis support service for music industry workers — announced a partnership with the streaming platform for a mental health and songwriter summit in Nashville, Tennessee.

In a post shared via his Instagram story, Bixler-Zavala addressed Backline directly: “With Spotify? How are we supposed to take you fucking serious? Ain’t nobody at Spotify give a fuck about mental health. Fuck outta hear with this shitty propaganda. This is like forced religious arbitrations with your gremlin abusers. Wake. The. Fuck. Up. While they sit there listening to your humanity, Spotify contributes financially to death of children via military war applications they invest in.”

The anger is rooted in a controversy that flared in 2025, when it emerged that Spotify co-founder and executive chairman Daniel Ek had led a $693.6 million funding round for Helsing through his venture capital firm Prima Materia. Helsing develops AI-based military applications, and that association prompted a wave of artists to pull their music from the platform in protest. Bixler-Zavala‘s remarks are among the latest to connect Spotify‘s ownership ties to those military investments.

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Seven years after their last album Necessary Excess Of Violence, Swedish death metal purveyors Sorcery are now located in studio where they are recording new music for the successor. More info at a later date.
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When Mitski released her stunning new album Nothing’s About To Happen To Me in February, some fans noticed the lyrics to “Rules” feature the numerical sequence “6-7.” Yes, those numbers arrive when Mitski is literally counting up to 11, but any mention of “6” and “7” together is bound to spark memories of last year’s endlessly popular meme/verbal compulsion, in which “6-7” became a meaningless, all-consuming refrain among young people. Thus, “Rules” has been gaining attention on TikTok in recent weeks, leading up to one concertgoer shouting the phrase indiscriminately during a recent Mitski tour stop.

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Green Lung have announced a UK and Europe tour this winter called the Dance to the Grave Tour MMXXVI. The fifteen-date tour starts in Belgium on December 3rd and includes five days in British cities, beginning on December 16th at The Roundhouse in London.

Riding high after an emotional homecoming show at Desertfest London this weekend, Green Lung are excited about announcing their long-awaited fourth studio album, Necropolitan (to be released on Friday September 11th 2026) .Special guests on this tour will be High On Fire,  alongside support from Gnome. The tour poster was designed by the band’s frequent collaborator, Richard Wells.

Necropolitan will be released on Friday September 11th 2026. A monumental portrait of the power of nature over the dreams and dominion of humankind, Necropolitan is also a grand celebration of the occult lore and heavy music scene of the band’s birthplace, the city of London.  

With producer Tom Dalgety (Opeth, Ghost) at the helm, this time handling everything from recording to mixing, the band decamped to Rockfield Studios in January 2026, following in the muddy footprints of some of Green Lung‘s key inspirations, from Black Sabbath to Queen to Judas Priest. Sonically, they were set on capturing their megalithic live sound more accurately than ever – stripping back their usual dense, multilayered arrangements to their rawest, leanest form and recording much of the album live to capture their Sabbathian heaviness, frenzied Hammonds and haunting Mellotrons as faithfully as possible.

A cult band in every sense of the word, Green Lung emerged from London’s heavy rock scene with self-released debut EP Free the Witch (2018).

Drawing on a host of peculiarly British musical influences, from doomy hard rock to pastoral prog and psych to the Hammer Horror theatrics of the NWOBHM, the band have swiftly risen to the forefront of the UK metal scene.

Lyrically celebrating the folklore, myths and legends of Britain, they conjure the wild and witchy spirit of their forebears for a new generation.

Green Lung have released three critically acclaimed albums, Woodland Rites (2019), Black Harvest (2021) and This Heathen Land (2023). They have toured internationally with Clutch, Opeth and Unto Others, and performed on festival stages from Roadburn to Download. Their latest album This Heathen Land landed at #1 on the UK’s Official Rock and Metal Album Chart.

Necropolitan – tracklisting
OUT: September 11th 2026

01. Open the Hellmouth
02. Dance to the Grave
03. Black Magick Radio
04. Necropolitan Line
05. Evil in this House
06. Together in Death
07. Ozymandias
08. Alostrael (Be My Babalon)
09. To the Gallows Born

Pre-order Necropolitan here: 
https://greenlung.bfan.link/necropolitan

Stream lead single ‘Evil in this House’ here: 
https://greenlung.bfan.link/evil-in-this-house

Watch the video for ‘Evil in this House’ here: 

Please find more details about the tour dates and tickets below
Tickets will go on general sale: Friday, May 22nd @ 09:00 AM BST
Pre-sales will be running from: Tuesday, May 19th & Wednesday, May 20th

GREEN LUNG – DANCE TO THE GRAVE TOUR MMXXVI
w/ High On Fire & Gnome

03-Dec   BE  Antwerp @ Trix
04-Dec   DE  Frankfurt am Main @ Batschkapp
05-Dec   DE  Munich @ Backstage
07-Dec   AT  Vienna @ Arena
08-Dec   DE  Leipzig @ Anker
10-Dec   DE  Hamburg @ Große Freiheit 36
11-Dec   DE  Berlin @ Astra Kulturhaus
12-Dec   DE  Cologne @ Carlswerk Victoria
13-Dec   NL  Tilburg @ O13
14-Dec   FR  Paris @ Bataclan
16-Dec   UK  London @ The Roundhouse
17-Dec   UK  Bristol @ Bristol Electric
18-Dec   UK  Manchester @ Manchester Academy
19-Dec   IE  Dublin @ The Academy
20-Dec   UK  Glasgow @ SWG3 Galvanizers

For more information and tickets head to: https://www.greenlung.co.uk/

Green Lung: Summer 2026 Live Dates

25 June – UK  Manchester, Manchester Academy* 

*supporting Acid Bath 

Spain’s High Court has acquitted Shakira of tax fraud, ordering the government to reimburse her for a wrongly imposed 2021 fine equalling over $64 million. The ruling is in regards to a case alleging that Shakira had spent more than 183 days in Spain ​in 2011 — the minimum number of days required to be considered a tax resident of the country — without paying taxes.

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