Axl Rose To Star In New Appetite For Destruction Graphic Novel
Axl Rose is branching out from music. In collaboration with Sumerian Comics the Guns N' Roses frontman will be the star of a new, multi-volume graphic novel series titled "Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction." The storyline was created by Rose alongside Sumerian Comics co-founder and president
Nathan Yocum. In a statement, Yocum said the comic is a "raw, neon-noir fever dream, part rock anthem, part cyberpunk prophecy. "Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction" is available to pre order now on the Sumerian Comics website. It will ship in January 2026.
Farm unveils fantastic Halloween tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
A pumpkin mosaic inspired by Ozzy Osbourne has been created using 10,000 squashes at Sunnyfields Farm in Hampshire. It took 16 people four-and-a-half hours to complete the artwork, which marks the start of the farm's Pumpkin Time event. The Prince of Darkness was chosen as this year's muse by the public, with the farm showcasing its pyramid display for the past 10 years. The farm entered the record books in 2023 for the largest squash mosaic and aims to reflect national pride or cultural figures in its creations. Despite initial concerns, the Ozzy Osbourne mosaic turned out better than expected, with the farm's director expressing relief at the outcome.
Rockabye Baby! Release Lullaby Renditions of Linkin Park
Rockabye Baby! is releasing Lullaby Renditions of Linkin Park, featuring 13 of the band's biggest songs transformed into soothing tracks for the whole family. With gentle instruments like bells and xylophones replacing the original rock elements, these lullabies are perfect for bedtime. The album offers a softer introduction to Linkin Park's music for young listeners.
Def Leppard to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame: Here’s the Date
Legendary rock band Def Leppard will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 9, 2022, next to the Capitol Recordings building. The event will feature guest speakers Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Resnikoff, and the CEO of Universal Music Enterprises, with English radio personality Bob Buchmann as the emcee. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the Walk of Fame's website, and the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 was also highlighted. Def Leppard has achieved two Diamond albums in the US with 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania'.
Ghost's 2026 "Skeletour" Announced
The Skeletour must go on…into next year. Ghost has added 20 new North American dates to its Skeletour World Tour for early 2026. The second leg of the tour kicks off January 21st in Orlando and wraps up February 23rd in Los Angeles. Tickets go on presale today and general sale starts Friday. The tour supports their sixth album "Skeleta," which became their first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 when it came out in April. It was the first hard rock album to top the US charts since 2020. The Skeletour has already sold over half a million tickets and included Ghost's first sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in July.
Eddie Van Halen’s 1982 Kramer Guitar expected to fetch over $2M at Sotheby’s NY auction
Eddie Van Halen's iconic 1982 Kramer electric guitar, played during his tours and later by Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars, will be auctioned by Sotheby's New York during Grails Week. The custom-built guitar, with a black and white-striped design based on Van Halen's 'Frankenstrat,' is expected to fetch between $2 million-$3 million. The instrument was gifted by Van Halen to a friend and later sold to Mars, who used it during the recording of the hit Dr. Feelgood album. The auction will also feature memorabilia from other music legends like Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles.
Neil Young, Lana Del Rey And Beck To Headline Harvest Moon Benefit Concert
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Beck, and Lana Del Rey are set to headline the Harvest Moon benefit concert. The benefit concert will take place on October 25th in Lake Hughes, California. All proceeds
benefit The Painted Turtle, a non-profit organization that provides children living with serious medical conditions a traditional camp experience for free. Additional artists will be announced at a later date.
Weezer Bassist Wife Granted Mental Health Diversion After Shooting At Police
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner's wife Jilian Lauren is being granted a mental health diversions after firing a gun at Los Angeles Police Department officers earlier this year. Lauren was charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing a gun at officers while they were pursuing three hit-and-run suspects in April. She reportedly fired a gun when they entered her property. She was ruled to be "eligible and suitable" for a mental health diversion, which will allow her to undergo community based treatment instead of serving time. Lauren's mental health diversion was granted under the condition that she must not own firearms, avoid using drugs and alcohol, and attend therapy.
Neon City Festival announces lineup with Good Charlotte, Two Friends as headliners
Neon City Festival is set to return to downtown Las Vegas from November 21-23, 2025, featuring headliners such as Good Charlotte, deadmau5, and Breaking Benjamin. The free event will offer a diverse lineup of music, food, art, and entertainment across the Fremont Street Experience and Downtown Las Vegas Events Center. Attendees can expect food and drink specials, laser shows, art activations, and immersive experiences throughout the festival. Created by Derek Stevens and supported by the LVCVA, Neon City Festival aims to celebrate the vibrancy of downtown Las Vegas with a weekend of unforgettable experiences.
Lola Young Collapses Onstage At All Things Go Festival
Lola Young says she's doing okay after collapsing on stage during a performance over the weekend. On Saturday, she was at New York City's All Things Go festival performing songs off her new album. While singing the 2023 single "Conceited," Young paused to say something to her keyboardist before she suddenly collapsed. She was down for about 30-to-45-seconds and then carried off stage. After the incident, the singer took to Instagram to say she's doing okay now and thanked fans for their support. Young ended up canceling her Sunday performance at the All Things Go festival in Washington, D.C.
REO SPEEDWAGON: Marching the Way Forward?
It was another homecoming for REO Speedwagon on Saturday when four of the five members of the band's classic line-up came together at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where they formed in 1967. Singer and guitarist Kevin Cronin, keyboardist Neal Doughty, drummer Alan Gratzer and bassist Bruce Hall collaborated with the Marching Illini during halftime of the Illinois-USC game for a one-of-a-kind REO-themed performance that featured three of their songs -- "Ridin' the Storm Out," "Roll With the Changes" and "157 Riverside Avenue." Doughty, Gratzer and Hall performed, and Cronin didn't sing - he introduced each song. This marked their first performance since December 31st, 1988 -- guitarist Gary Richrath died in 2015 -- and the first time that Cronin and Hall came together since REO hung up their wings last year after Cronin wanted to continue without Hall, who was sidelined with a back injury that required surgery. Doughty and Hall voted against Cronin's continuing under the REO banner unless Hall was part of the lineup.
While Cronin has found touring as The Kevin Cronin Band to be difficult, despite it being the last touring line-up of REO minus Hall, he said in a TV interview Friday that this reunion was for their fans. "To me it's the fans all around the country. They know that we're going to be together for the first time in a long time. And, REO Speedwagon has always stood for 'we ride the storm out. We roll with the changes. We keep pushing.' We're a positive energy source, and that's what the institution of REO Speedwagon has always stood for. So for the four of us to be here together, I think it sends a message to the fans that you overcome whatever you got to overcome in the service of them, the fans." Asked if there could be more to come, Doughy said, "You never know," with Gratzer adding, "We don't know. We can't read the future, the magic ball." Cronin toured this past summer as part of the Brotherhood of Rock
tour with Styx and Don Felder, and he will be part of the Rock Legends Cruise in February.
PAUL McCARTNEY: Look What He Got Back
Paul McCartney just received a priceless gift. This past March we reported on the discovery of a reel-to-reel demo tape The Beatles had recorded at Decca Studios in London on January 1st, 1962. Labeled "Beatles 60s demos," it was found by Rob Frith, owner of Neptoon Records in Vancouver. He played it thinking it was a bootleg, only to discover it's a direct copy of an early audition recording. Frith was contacted by McCartney's lawyer, and on September 18th Frith and his wife met McCartney during his tour rehearsals in Los Angeles -- and gave him the tape. He tells the Vancouver Sun, “We hung out with him for like, 40 minutes. He’s an absolute sweetheart of a guy. If you’re a Beatles fan and you thought he was a really cool person, he was even nicer than you could imagine, just such a down-to-earth, nice, sweet guy.” He adds that McCartney kept saying how “wonderful” it was that he just gave him the tape, but Firth says meeting him was worth more than any money he could have made off of it. “I told Paul, ‘You changed my life as far as music. Basically, that’s why I have a record store, because of the influence from you guys.'" A bootleg of these recordings was released in the late '70s.
McCartney officially started his Got Back tour last night (Monday) in Palm Desert, California after a warm-up show on Friday in Santa Barbara, California.
GEDDY LEE: Two-For-Tuesday
Rush singer and bassist Geddy Lee has two books being published today (September 30th).
The first is his third book, 72 Stories From the Baseball Collection of Geddy Lee. It was originally a limited-edition book given to those who bought items from his massive collection of baseball memorabilia when he auctioned them in July 2024. But he was convinced by his publisher, HarperCollins, to turn it into a coffee table book along the lines of his first one, 2018's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.
With so many prized pieces of memorabilia, we asked Geddy how he went about choosing what items to write about. "Sometimes I chose a story where just the acquisition was kind of fun. Sometimes it was what that player represented to me and what that player represented to the history of the game and the impact that player had on the game. And sometimes it was purely emotional, like keepsakes that reminded me of the old [Montreal] Expos for example who were my first baseball love really. So, I just looked for stories that were meaningful to me, or ones that I thought would be meaningful to other people -- fans of the game -- or stories that were just about the fun of collecting."
Also being published today is the paperback edition of his 2023 memoir, My Effin' Life, which contains an appendix. "We did it in the form of a Q&A and then I can tell the stories that didn't make it in the book and I can tell the stories about the book tour and of course the story about playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute [in 2022 in London and Los Angeles], which was a huge event in my life and Alex's [Lifeson] life. It was also one of the few times Alex and I had gotten together to play Rush music since the band had ended [in 2015]." Both books are available at leading bookstores, Amazon or HarperCollins.com.
GEDDY LEE: Fourplay
Geddy Lee of Rush, who for many years has moonlighted as our baseball analyst, sat down to discuss this year's playoffs, starting with the best two-out-of-three Wild Card round, which gets under way Tuesday. Starting in the American League, the Cleveland Guardians host the Detroit Tigers at 1:08 p.m. ET, and Geddy says, "I think that's gonna be a really tough series."
"Cleveland seems to be a team made up of good pitching and unsung heroes. And the Tigers have a lot of great hitters in their line-up. So, I think it's gonna be really exciting. But I would not be surprised if Cleveland broke Detroit's heart. But I think it's gonna be close."
The second game in the American League has the New York Yankees hosting the Boston Red Sox at 6:08 p.m. ET. "You've got [pitcher] Garrett Crochet and a whole line-up of good hitters for the Boston Red Sox. And on the Yankees side you have the undeniable [Aaron] Judge, Max Fried and a whole host of others. Defense might play a part of it. The Yankees have not played great defense this year, and under pressure we'll see if that's a difference maker. But I think they're pretty evenly matched, but I give the Yankees the edge."
In the National League, the first game is at 3:08 p.m. ET with the Chicago Cubs hosting the San Diego Padres, and Geddy was quick to say he's pulling for the Cubs. And the final game of the day has last year's World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers hosting the Cincinnati Reds at 9:08 p.m. ET. "I got to stick with the Dodgers. The pitching is so deep. And just when you thought they couldn't score runs anymore, their veterans like [Freddie] Freeman and [Mookie] Betts and all those guys woke up."
GUNS N' ROSES Singer AXL ROSE And SUMERIAN COMICS Announce 'Axl Rose: Appetite For Destruction' Graphic Novel
Axl Rose has teamed up with Sumerian Comics to launch a new graphic novel series titled Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction. The series is set in a neon-drenched Paradise City where humans and robots co-exist, following Axl Rose, a half-human, half-robot on a quest to find a missing lounge singer. The graphic novel is described as a raw, neon-noir fever dream that combines rock anthems and cyberpunk elements. The series features art by Frank Mazzoli, colors by Antonio Antro, and lettering by Micah Myers. Pre-orders for the graphic novel are available in various tiers, including a limited super deluxe edition signed by Rose.
OASIS: Coming Back Next Year?
It looks like Oasis fans might get their wish for the band's reunion to continue. At the end of Sunday night's show in London -- their last in the U.K. before the tour heads to Japan, Australia and South America throughout the fall -- Liam Gallagher told the audience before I wanna thank you lot for keeping the faith and putting this band back on the map....see you next year.” And while a live album from this tour hasn't been announced yet (even though a handful of songs have been released to streaming), the band's 2000 live album Familiar to Millions will be reissued as a two CD or three LP set on November 14th.
Brit Floyd Announces "The Moon, The Wall, and Beyond" 2026 North American Tour
Brit Floyd has announced a 2026 North American tour titled "The Moon, The Wall, and Beyond," featuring Pink Floyd classics The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. The tour kicks off February 9th in Hamilton, Ontario, and concludes March 29th in Boca Raton, Florida, with shows mainly on the East Coast. Tickets go on sale starting this Friday October 3rd, with a pre-sale on October 1st using the code ECLIPSE. The tribute act, led by Damian Darlington and Ian Cattell, will also perform fan favorites from albums like Wish You Were Here and Animals.
NINE INCH NAILS: "Alive" Can Keep You Alive
Nine Inch Nails' "As Alive As You Want Me To Be" might actually help keep someone alive.
The American Heart Association announced that since the song is 107 beats per minute, it's the right tempo to perform hands-only CPR on someone who's stopped breathing or heart has stopped. “The new #TronAres soundtrack from @nineinchnails could help you save a life. If you see a teen or adult collapse, call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest.”
Neil Young, Lana Del Rey And Beck To Headline Harvest Moon Benefit Concert
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Beck, and Lana Del Rey are set to headline the Harvest Moon benefit concert. The benefit concert will take place on October 25th in Lake Hughes, California. All proceeds benefit The Painted Turtle, a non-profit organization that provides children living with serious medical conditions a traditional camp experience for free. Additional artists will be announced at a later date.
IN OTHER NEWS
John Oates and Richie Sambora have joined the lineup of From L.A. With Love, which is set for Thursday at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. Proceeds from the show go to The Midnight Mission, which helps the homeless.
Steve Miller, a board member of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will play two shows there on November 14th and 15th. The shows will celebrate two late legends -- saxophonist Eddie Harris and drummer Chico Hamilton.
Yardbirds drummer and Renaissance co-founder Jim McCarty will play four dates with Renaissance singer Annie Haslam in November – two in Edwardsville, Illinois on the 21st and 22nd, followed by Newtown, New Jersey on the 28th and Landsdowne, Pennsylvania on the 29th.
Pete Townshend says he’s “distraught” over the death last Friday of choreographer Paul Roberts from cancer at age 52. He was the choreographer for Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet, which runs at the New York City Center in Manhattan from November 14th to the 16th.
John Mellencamp inducted blues legend Robert Johnson into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame last Thursday, and he posted a video on Instagram of his performance of “Stones in My Passway” at the ceremony. Mellencamp says he was “honored” to induct Johnson.
Eric Clapton has posted on Instagram a video of Cream rehearsing “Sunshine of Your Love” at London's Revolution Club in 1968 for French TV. The performance was never broadcast.
Rod Stewart has added six dates next year to his Las Vegas residency, The Encore Shows, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace -- May 27th, 29th and 30th, and June 2nd, 4th and 6th. Stewart has three more shows there this year – this Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Rick Wakeman has released a video for “Melancholia,” the title track to his new album, which will be out on October 17th.