You’ve experienced the album, more than once. Sung its title track loudly with besties. And how you wished you’d seen it performed live.
Now, Pink Floyd is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here with a sportswear tie-in that you never saw coming.
The prog-rock masters have teamed up with Italian soccer giants FC Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan) and Sony Music Italy for another round of Pink Floyd Football Club (PFFC), with a new capsule inspired by the friendly team founded by the band in the 1970s.
The PFFC collection includes two exclusive, limited-edition goodies, including the “anthem jacket” (priced at $290.10), one of just 400 numbered pieces with exclusive packaging which the Nerazzurri will wear prior to the team’s match again Cagliari at San Siro on Friday, April 17. Fans can also snap-up a bundle consisting of an original T-shirt and an exclusive blue vinyl, limited to 1,908 copies (and priced at $64.70), plus retro PFFC jerseys, scarves, plectrums, drumsticks, tote bags and more.
PFFC kicked off the start of the ‘70s, a squad that played during breaks from touring and featured David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, the late Richard Wright and crew.
The iconic PFFC photo by Kim Gottlieb-Walker “inspires the collection,” reads a statement. Look closely at the groovy blue-and-white retro jersey, which carries the PFFC lettering at its center as a tribute to the shirt worn in the original photograph. The back is emblazoned with 50th anniversary logo of “Wish You Were Here,” adapted for the club, and the sleeves are embellished with the Inter logo and the iconic Pink Floyd burning man handshake symbol.
The PFFC merch is available at the official Inter online store and at Inter Stores Milano, Castello, and San Siro.
Wish You Were Here is here to stay. The album was the U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 last year, five decades after it first hit the top spot. A new digital and physical reissue of the 1975 LP features several previously unreleased alternate versions and demos of songs such as “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” and its title track. It was Floyd’s second No. 1 album of the 2025 after the re-release Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, a live show from 1971, hit the top spot in May.
“Wish You Were Here” is one of eight curated classics from 1971-79 that will appear on Pink Floyd 8-Tracks, a new compilation album due out June 5. The tracklist includes hits “Money,” “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” “Time,” “Comfortably Numb” and an exclusive full version of “Pigs On The Wing,” previously available on the 1977 Animals 8-Track cartridge release.
The music and merch lives on, but Pink Floyd is no longer active. “I’m done with it,” Gilmour told Classic Rock magazine in 2015, a year after the release of what turned out to be the British band’s final album, The Endless River.
KATSEYE’s wild week adds another chapter with the announcement of a visit next month to Australia.
To celebrate what will be the international girl group’s first trip to these parts, fans will have the chance to attend an exclusive fan Q&A experience in Sydney on May 6.
Fan can enter here for the chance at a golden ticket, and by pre-ordering their forthcoming EP WILD. Universal Music Australia is behind the contest, the winner of which will receive flights, accommodation and a double pass to the Q&A in Sydney. Also, 29 runners-up will receive a double pass for the session.
KATSEYE is on the express elevator, going up. After releasing new single “Pinky Up” and delivering an eye-catching performance for the first weekend of Coachella, the pop singers announced WILD would arrive on Aug. 14 via HYBE x Geffen Records.
According to a statement, WILD “leans into something more euphoric and untamed. Rooted in self-discovery and self-determination,” and the group “embraces every version of themselves, resulting in a project that feels open, boundless, and entirely their own.”
Members Daniela, Lara, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae celebrated the new-music announcement by sharing a cute video on Instagram of themselves backstage at Coachella.
The new collection will mark KATSEYE’s first EP since last year’s Beautiful Chaos, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and features Billboard Hot 100 hits “Gnarly” and “Gabriela.” In Australia, “Gabriela,” “Touch” and “Gnarly” are all certified platinum, while “Debut” and “Gameboy” are certified gold.
It’ll also be the group’s first multitrack project since HYBE announced that bandmate Manon would be taking a hiatus to “focus on her health and well-being.” When the “Pinky Up” music video dropped on April 9, Manon was absent from the visual, and she didn’t perform at Coachella (though she was spotted at the festival).
KATSEYE will return to the California desert for weekend two of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, on April 17. Fresh off their main stage spot, KATSEYE dropped a hoodie collection including six styles designed by each member of the group, through an ongoing partnership with Gap.
Jessie Ware is going large with her forthcoming tour in support of Superbloom.
The British pop artist’s trans-Atlantic tour is said to be her biggest to date, and includes her first-ever U.K. arena run. The Superbloom Tour gets underway in Toronto on Oct. 6, and includes stops in Toronto, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, before heading to Mexico City’s Teatro Metropolitan.
Then, in November, the jaunt heads to Continental Europe before culminating in a U.K. arena stretch with a hometown date at London’s The O2 Arena, and concerts in Glasgow and Manchester.
“I am so excited to be performing my biggest shows ever. We made it to arenas,” she comments in a statement. “I am playing iconic venues around the world and I couldn’t be happier. The Superbloom Tour will be filled with celebration, dancing, theatre, cowboys and goddesses and of course a LOT of singing. Can’t wait to step into my garden where we all shall bloom!”
The presale starts next Tuesday, April 21 at 9am local time, and the general on sale follows on Thursday, April 23 at 9am local time.
But first, the release of Superbloom on Friday, April 17 via EMI Records. It’s the followup to 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, both of which peaked at No. 3 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. The London-born singer and songwriter announced her arrival with with her Mercury Prize-nominated debut album from 2012, Devotion, the first of five consecutive U.K. top 10 appearances.
According to a statement, the new collection “erupts into a glittering rush of Studio 54-inflected groove-pop, exploring themes of pleasure, intimacy, connection and transformation,” and houses the previously-released singles “I Could Get Used To This,” “Ride,” and “Automatic.”
Ware personally shaped the sound of the record, “firmly maintaining creative control,” reps say. Collaborators include Ford, Barney Lister, Karma Kid, Jon Shave (Charli XCX), and Stuart Price, while Ben Baptie (Sault, Little Simz, Adele) mixed the album.
“I’ve been trying out this fantasy world and escapism,” she enthuses. I’m not the most by-the-book ‘pop star’, but I do like to play with dress-up, glamor, and fun, While I love dance music, I wanted to dig deeper with this record; to connect with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it.”
Pre-order Superbloom here.
The ‘Superbloom Tour’ 2026
Oct. 6 — HISTORY Toronto, Toronto, ON
Oct. 8 — Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Oct. 10 — The Anthem, Washington, DC
Oct. 11 — The Fillmore Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Oct. 13 — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Oct. 16 — The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Oct. 20 — The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 22 — Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City, MX
Nov. 10 — Casino de Paris, Paris, FR
Nov. 12 — SaSaZu, Prague, CZ
Nov. 13 — Inside Seaside Festival, Gdansk, PL
Nov. 14 — Compensa Concert Hall, Vilnius, LT
Nov. 16 — Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, DE
Nov. 18 – K.B Hallen, Copenhagen, DK
Nov. 20 — Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BE
Nov. 21 — AFAS Live, Amsterdam, NL
Nov. 28 — The O2, London, UK
Dec. 1 — 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin, IE
Dec. 4 — OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Dec. 5 — Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
Is Boards of Canada about to end its 13-year-long hibernation? If a cryptic poster run by Warp Records is anything to go by, maybe.
The beloved British independent label dropped a bombshell for BoC’s long-suffering fanbase, with a string of puzzling images that raise more questions than offer answers.
The posters, which are captured in a post shared on Warp’s official social channels, without comment, depict zombified children, an image that ties in with the artwork for BoC’s magnum opus from 1998, Music Has The Right to Children. And each image is stamped with a brand that invokes the electronic act’s Hexagon Sun logo.
The easter eggs don’t end there. New York and London phone numbers can be seen among the images, the edge of a “City of Westminster” street sign is visible in one, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame can be spotted on another.
What it all means, only time will tell.
Boards of Canada is the Scottish electronic music duo of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin, a universe-building pair that is both enigmatic, secretive and adored by connoisseurs of minimal electronic music.
The siblings rarely give interviews and have performed only a small handful of live shows, mostly in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Their fourth and most recent album release was 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest. That collection peaked at No. 7 in the U.K., for their first top 10 entry, and at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, their first appearance on the all-genres U.S. albums chart, and a top 40 debut on Australia’s ARIA Chart. That release, too, enjoyed a subtle promotional push with a string of clues drip-fed for fans to gobble up.
In 2019, a comeback of sorts with “XYZ,” a previously-unreleased tune from their Peel Session of July 1998, which appeared on a new Warp Records 30th anniversary package, WXAXRXP Sessions.
BoC’s impact, however, can’t be measured in hits, or streams.
Warp’s teaser could allude to a Record Store Day exclusive, appearing just days out from the annual celebration of vinyl record stores. BoC’s most recent Instagram post dropped 34 weeks ago, announcing the 30 years anniversary of their first publicly-available vinyl mini album Twoism and a new batch available on wax.
A book acknowledgement is one of the greatest honors an author can bestow upon a loved one, and Lena Dunham just did so for Taylor Swift.
Actor, producer and author Dunham released her second memoir Famesick on Tuesday, and toward the end of the book, add a list of acknowledgements to the most important people in her life who helped her get the memoir published. Included in the names is Taylor Swift, who Dunham refers to as “TayTay.”
“TayTay — you sing the songs I wrote this book to, the stories that pulled these stories out of me, the music that makes the whole world feel seen,” Dunham writes. “And yet somehow, miraculously, you also pick up every desperate call at every desperate hour.”
Dunham continues the heartfelt message by telling Swift, “I love you so much and forever, for the reasons that everyone does and for reasons all my own.”
The actor-singer duo have been friends for more than a decade. Dunham has taken to social media several times to praise Swift’s music and has spoken about the Grammy winner in interviews. In a 2024 interview with The New Yorker, the Girls creator talked about how, even prior to their friendship, she was a fan of Swift’s music. In the same interview, Dunham also shared that she is ” always very careful to be protective of [Swift] in every single way.”
Swift received another major honor from Dunham when she served as a bridesmaid for the actress in 2021 when Dunham married musician Luis Felber. In the years since, Dunham has continued to express her love for her friend and support her music, including attending The Eras Tour.
Duran Duran is stepping away from the darkness of Halloween and shimmying into disco — with the help of long-time collaborator Nile Rodgers.
The new wave legends tease “Free to Love,” a snippet of which features a glittery disco ball and the musicians wearing their sparkly best. With its thick synth bass line, and Simon le Bon’s vocals heavily manipulated with effects, the new track seems to sit in a lane parallel to the modern disco revival.
Check out the teaser below.
Duran Duran and Rodgers have a special hit-making relationship that dates back to 1984, when the New York City-born guitarist, producer and co-founder of seminal disco-era band Chic sprinkled gold dust on the band’s Seven And The Ragged Tiger opener “The Reflex.” His contribution converted the song into a global smash, giving Duran Duran their first leader on the Billboard Hot 100.
Rodgers was a hero to the members of Duran Duran long before they got to work together, and their connection would stay tight through the years, including collaborations across multiple shows and studio projects, including “Wild Boys,” plus the Notorious, Astronaut, Paper Gods albums and, most recently, 2023’s Halloween-themed collection Danse Macabre.
The Rock Hall-inducted British band is locked in for a run of 2026 shows, including a residency next month at Bleaulive at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, arena and festival spots in North America and across Continental Europe, and a headline date July 5 at BTS Hyde Park.
Rodgers, too, has a busy itinerary in the months ahead with concerts booked for the U.K. and Europe, North America and elsewhere.
Duran Duran is one of the great survivors from the early stages of the ‘80s, a period of music that was scythed by the time grunge made its move. Along the way, the band has collected every conceivable award, including the Brit Awards’ Lifetime Achievement, two Ivor Novellos, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Grammy Awards, and, in 2022, long-overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2024, Le Bon was been named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by King Charles, a salute to his services to music and charity.
Duran Duran’s “Free to Love” featuring Nile Rodgers is due to drop April 23.
American artist and producer Oliver Tree has released a new music video for his track “All You Ever Wanted.” The video was filmed at the Didgori Battle Monument in Georgia.
The track was written, produced and directed by the artist himself. With his signature sense of humor, the artist introduced the clip as an “official unofficial music video.” In the YouTube description, he wrote: “Another $0 budget music video. Filmed at the Didgori Battle Monument in the beautiful country of Georgia.”
Oliver Tree is a multimedia artist from California. He is a singer, songwriter, producer, rapper and director. He gained international fame with hits like “Life Goes On” (2021) and “Miss You” (2022). He has released three studio albums: Ugly Is Beautiful (2020), Cowboy Tears (2022) and Alone in a Crowd (2023).
In 2024, Oliver Tree performed his first concert in Tbilisi, Georgia. Before the show, he expressed his love for the country on social media, saying, “I’m performing in Tbilisi, which is one of my favorite places in the world with the best food. I can’t wait to see you.” He even shared a video of himself “flying” toward Tbilisi’s Mother of Georgia statue while wearing a Georgian flag symbol on his chest.
The location of the music video, the Didgori Battle Monument, is one of the most famous Georgian historic sites. It honors the Battle of Didgori in 1121, where King David the Builder defeated the army of the Seljuk Empire. Historians call this victory the “Miraculous Victory,” as it freed the country and began Georgia’s “Golden Age.” The memorial features a central monument surrounded by massive stone swords, pillars and bells. Every year on Aug. 12, Georgians gather there to celebrate the traditional holiday called “Didgoroba.”
This article originally appeared on Billboard Georgia.
Ye has postponed his upcoming Marseille, France concert “until further notice,” the hip-hop artist confirmed via X, marking the latest disruption to a planned European run.
The announcement arrives just one week after Wireless Festival, where Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — had been slated to top the bill, but was cancelled after the U.K. Home Office denied him entry into the country on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to public good.
Ye had been slated to headline three nights of Wireless in July. Multiple U.K.-based Jewish organizations spoke out against the event’s decision to book the 48-year-old, along with the U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer and London major Sadiq Khan, who criticized the move.
The artist released a statement on April 7 about his goals to bring “unity, peace and love” to London and showed an openness to meet with leaders of the Jewish community in the U.K., but the ban stood. “My only goal is to come to London and present a show of change, bringing unity, peace and love through my music,” he said ahead of the cancellation.
“I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the Jewish community in the U.K. in person, to listen. I know words aren’t enough — I’ll have to show change through my actions. If you’re open, I’m here.”
Per a recent AFP report, French officials had already been weighing action ahead of the June 11 date at Marseille’s Orange VÉLodrome, with French interior minister Laurent Nunez exploring options to block the performance. Nunez had reportedly started the process to block Ye from traveling to France to perform while discussing the matter with the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, during a visit earlier this month.
“After much thought and consideration, it is my sole decision to postpone my show in Marseille, France until further notice,” Ye wrote on X. In a follow-up message, he added, “I take full responsibility for what’s mine but I don’t want to put my fans in the middle of it. My fans are everything to me. Looking forward to the next shows.”
The postponement comes amid ongoing fallout from a series of antisemitic and pro-Nazi remarks made by the rapper on social media and podcasts in recent years, which have sparked widespread backlash and impacted his live appearances. In May 2025, Ye released a song called “Heil Hitler” and sold T-shirts featuring swastikas.
Under French law, Nazi ideology, symbols, and the denial of the Holocaust are illegal.
In January, Ye issued a lengthy apology in The Wall Street Journal, stating, “I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” and attributing past behavior in part to struggles with a brain injury and bipolar disorder.
As of Wednesday (April 15), Ye’s official website still had him listed to perform in several other European countries throughout the summer, including Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He is also scheduled to play in New Delhi, India, in late May.
Ye returned with his Bully album on March 28, which charted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He performed a pair of sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 1 and April 3.
The full lineup for the Billboard U.K. Live takeover at The Great Escape happening May 13-16 in Brighton, England, has been unveiled.
It was confirmed on Feb. 3 that rising rockers Keo will headline The Deep End venue on May 14 as part of the Billboard U.K. Live experience, marking a major moment in the band’s ascent. Now, a fresh wave of names has been added to the bill. Bella Kay, Madra Salach, Adult DVD, Bleech 9:3, Slag and Dolder are all lined up to play, with the event set to spotlight the next generation of indie and alternative talent.
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Kay, who is 20, is currently on a hot streak, as stirring acoustic track “iloveitiloveitiloveit” reaches a new No. 17 high on the Billboard Hot 100 on the cart dated April 11. The viral hit is currently at No. 2 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, and has held strong in the top 10 since the start of March.
Madra Salach, meanwhile, recently wrapped up a headline tour of the U.K. and Ireland, which was entirely sold out. The contemporary folk six-piece is gearing up to release more music later this year.
The group will be joined by fellow Irish act Bleech 9:3, who has previously toured with Keo and drip-fed released a handful of singles this year, including the fan favorite “Ceiling.” Adult DVD is on a similar upward trajectory, having stormed U.K. festivals last summer, while indie outfits Slag and Dolder will perform at The Great Escape for the first time in May.
The Deep End venue is part of The Great Escape’s beach site located on Madeira Drive. Fans can gain access to the show via a TGE wristband subject to the venue’s capacity.
Brighton hosts The Great Escape each May, turning the seaside city into a hub for discovering new music. The festival highlights breakthrough acts from the U.K. and Ireland, alongside other emerging artists from around the world. Across four days, live performances take place in numerous independent venues across the city, accompanied by panels and networking events.
Tickets can be purchased via the festival’s official website, including passes for this year’s spotlight shows with The Kooks, Peaches and Kingfishr.
Among this year’s performers are The Lottery Winners, Lime Garden, The Orchestra (For Now), Little Grandad, Natalie Wildgoose and Lonnie Gunn. Over the years, the festival has also served as an early platform for artists such as Charli xcx, The Last Dinner Party, Fontaines D.C., Sam Fender and Lola Young.
As the band wings out a new Legendary Edition of its self-titled debut album, Joe Perry is hoping the train will still keep a-rollin’ for Aerosmith. He’s just not sure where it might lead.
“The band is still kind of definitely not in touring mode, but there are certainly other options, so we stay in touch,” the guitarist tells Billboard from his home in Florida, noting that he talks most with frontman Steven Tyler, “my brother from another mother,” with whom he remixed 1973’s Aerosmith album for the reissue. It was a vocal cord injury and a fractured larynx Tyler suffered just three shows during Aerosmith’s 2023 farewell run that led to its cancellation and the band’s announced retirement from touring.
Perry and Tyler have since recorded an Aerosmith EP with Yungblud — last November’s One More Time, which hit No. 9 on the Billboard 200 — while Tyler has made periodic singing appearances, including at the annual Grammy Awards benefits for his Janie’s Fund and at last summer’s Back to the Beginning farewell concert for Black Sabbath and the late Ozzy Osbourne. Perry, meanwhile, has been out with his Joe Perry Project and will make a summer swing in Europe with all-star Hollywood Vampires, while bassist Tom Hamilton has started another band, Close Enemies, which released its debut album last month.
“You just never know,” Perry says about future Aerosmith activities. “It’s just been in the last six months that Steven’s started to get comfortable with singing; he literally had to take a year off before he was able to start stretching his vocal cords, and you’re always worried about reinjuring it. I learned a long time ago that everything we do is fragile… so we just take it day by day. You hope for the best. You just have to have the confidence and have that vision of positive in front of you. You can’t do it unless you envision it.”
Getting Their Wings
Perry was happy to have a look in the rearview for Aerosmith (Legendary Edition), which came out March 20. He and Tyler oversaw a remix from the original tapes with project co-producers Zakk Cervini and Steve Berkowitz, creating a deluxe set that includes the original and remastered albums, plus a March 20, 1973 show at Boston’s Paul Mall that was broadcast on WBCN. A selection of outtakes that includes a pre-Get Your Wings rendition of the Yardbirds’ “Train Kept A Rollin’” and an instrumental “Joined At the Hip (Aerojam)” that features elements that would become part of “Sweet Emotion” two years later on Aerosmith’s third album, Toys in the Attic.
“I was like, ‘Do we need to do this?’,” Perry reveals, “because we’d put out remastered (versions of the album) before, and I never really noticed all that much difference. But this was different; going in and actually getting to listen to the multi-tracks… it was great to hear it on modern equipment. When everything was translated down to the vinyl (in 1973) it didn’t sound the same as when you’re standing in the room with the band. But these remixes sound like that to me. It’s the same record, the same performances, but it opens it up.”
Specifically, he adds, “We never liked the way the drums sounded on that first album. Now it’s like, ‘Holy shit, this is what it sounded like when we were first recording. So I think it’s definitely worth it. And the old one isn’t going anywhere. It’s still there.”
Perry says the immersion “brought back a lot of memories” to recording the Aerosmith album during October of 1972 with producer Adrian Barber at Intermedia studio in Boston. “We were trying to find our place… what our goals were, what our options were,” he recalls. “We were learning how to write together and play together. We were listening to all of the incredible second wave English bands; there wasn’t much going on in America at the time, for our ears. All the power was coming from the English bands, so we were drawing on that.
“Considering everything, I think that the record pretty much does what it’s supposed to do. I can remember putting the (headphones) on and listening to the first song, and I took ’em off and I shook my head. When you’re in the middle of it you do it piece-by-piece. Then when you start to hear it finished, it’s like…’Holy shit! I’m glad we did this.”
Aerosmith was, of course, the home of “Dream On,” which was released as a single in June of 1973 and reached No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually growing into a rock radio staple that was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018.
Not bad for a song that wasn’t Perry’s favorite at the time.
“If it didn’t rock out I didn’t have any use for it in general,” he confesses. “I always like the ‘Train Kept A-Rollin” and the upbeat, the energy, the excitement. To me, ballads were just kind of, ‘Eh, time to take a break.’ But there’s something about it. Steven was working on it from the day I met him, and it just grew on us. Now I still love playing it, ’cause I see what it does to the fans. It really stands the test of time.”
More Where That Came From
Perry hopes to take the Legendary Edition approach to more of Aerosmith’s albums and already has his sights set on what’s next.
“I think Toys is the next one, ’cause on that one we were definitely getting our studio legs together,” he says of Aerosmith’s third album, a breakthrough that reached No. 11 on the Billboard 200, has been certified nine-times platinum and gave the band its first top 40 hit with “Sweet Emotion.” “It was definitely a state of mind and we were learning, I was learning everything I could about the recording part of it, like, ‘How come this know does that?’ and that kind of thing. I read about Jimmy Page; at 19 he was one of the most sought-after studio musicians, and he knew what he was doing when he went in to do (Led) Zeppelin. I, on the other hand, just know you put a mic in front of the amp and prayed.
“So Toys is when we started to become recording artists, I think, started to learn how to do that. We wrote some of those songs on the spot, and we were touring all the time, so the band was playing great and finding our own slot.”
The “Joined At the Hip (Aerojam)” outtake, meanwhile, gives fans a listen to both the gestation of “Sweet Emotion” as well as Aerosmith’s creative process in general. “We were pretty much on the road all the time; if we weren’t gigging we were looking for gigs,” Perry says. “When it came time for another record we would slot a month and go into the studio and we’d have maybe two or three songs finished and a batch of riffs we could play, and we would right in the studio. That riff of Tom’s we played it and we jammed on it, and it turned into ‘Sweet Emotion.’ That’s how most of those songs came out in the ’70s.”
Walking His Way
Perry acknowledges that having Aerosmith off the road has opened up space for his other musical adventures. “My solo stuff, I’ve always done it around Aerosmith,” he explains. “I’d put a record out, play one (solo) gig, then be on the road with Aerosmith for six months. So (his albums) never got the kind of push I think they could have. So it feels really good to not have to think about packing my bags tomorrow; I lived like that since I was 15.”
Perry is mulling some sort of compilation of his solo work. “I myself would like to hear 15, 18 of my favorites of my songs, all in one place,” he says. His Joe Perry Project last played dates during the fall of 2025 in conjunction whit his Sweetzerland Manifesto MK II album. Now, however, he, Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Tommy Henriksen are gearing up for the Hollywood Vampires tour, which kicks off Aug. 12 in London, with 19 U.K. and European shows through Sept. 12.
“It’s been awhile since we last toured (2023),” Perry says, “so I think that the set’s going to be maybe two-thirds some of the same songs we played last time, and some new ones.” The Vampires last studio album, Rise, came out during 2019. “It’s more about the vibe, and to just get a kick out of playing together. I’m just hoping we can get a run in the States after this European one.
“So that’s really what’s on the board for me. I know nothing’s going to happen between now and the Vampires tour, but I know next year is wide open, so… we’ll see.”