Dennis DeYoung has shared a new single "There's No Turning Back Time," which dropped along with the former Styx singer's final studio album, 26 East, Vol. 2.

Dennis DeYoung has shared a new single "There's No Turning Back Time," which dropped along with the former Styx singer's final studio album, 26 East, Vol. 2.

26 East, Volume 2, a sequel to 2020's 26 East, Volume 1, features 12 tracks, four of which were co-written by Ides of March and ex-Survivor member Jim Peterik.

"I want people to put on the headphones and judge Volume 1 and 2 like the old days. It's a listening experience," DeYoung said during a recent interview.

"The songs were listed in an order which I thought would make the listening experience to an album more enjoyable," he added. "I know a lot of people these days have got in that habit of front-loading where they put the three best songs at 1 and 2, and since I didn't have any great songs, I oh wait a minute. I'm sorry. So, I just I decided to give everyone an entire listening experience."

Actually, DeYoung had thought that 26 East, Vol. 1 would be his final recording, but his label Frontier Records convinced him to release a second album.

"The last album was supposed to be my final album, but there were so many songs written that Serafino of Frontiers suggested dividing it into two albums rather than one," DeYoung said.

26 East, Volume 2 track list:

"Hello Goodbye" "Land of the Living" "The Last Guitar Hero" "Your Saving Grace" "Proof of Heaven" "Made for Each Other" "There's No Turning Back Time" "St. Quarantine" "So Little Did We Know" "Always Time" "The Isle of Misanthrope" "Grand Finale"

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ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons recently released a video for his solo single "She's On Fire" from his third album Hardware.

ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons recently released a video for his solo single "She's On Fire" from his third album Hardware.

The visual was shot at Pioneertown in California's high desert. The temperature at the location of the shoot, Rimroch Ranch, reportedly hovered above 115 degrees.

Hardware features drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Austin Hanks. Gibbons produced the album, assisted by Sorum, Mike Fiorention and engineer Chad Shlosser.

Gibbons recorded the album at Escape Studio in California's high desert, near Palm Springs.

"We holed up in the desert for a few weeks in the heat of the summer and that in itself was pretty intense," said Gibbons. "To let off steam we just 'let it rock' and that's what 'Hardware' is really all about. For the most part, it's a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert's implicit mystery."

He added, "The desert settings, replete with shifting sands, cacti and rattlesnakes makes for the kind of backdrop that lends an element of intrigue reflected in the sounds created out there."

(Photo: Tilly Antoine)

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Bruce Springsteen has revealed an upcoming collaboration with The Killers.

Bruce Springsteen has revealed an upcoming collaboration with The Killers.

The iconic musician revealed the new news during an appearance on Sirius XM's "E Street Radio." He confirmed the collaboration, called "Dustland," will drop very soon.

"It's Brandon [Flowers] and I with the band, we have done something that is going to come out soon, in a week or so," he said. "I've been staying busy."

The Killers, who had previously teased about a "killer collab" with a mystery artist, posted a short clip of the collaboration to their social media accounts.

"Dustland" appears to be a new version of the band's 2008 track "A Dustland Fairytale," which featured on the album Day & Age.

"Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized," frontman Brandon Flowers and Springsteen sing in the clip. "We're drawbridges closing."

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