The Vintage Series: Wearing the History of American Live Music

Not every collection needs a new tour or a new release to earn a spot in the shop. The Vintage Series leans the other way entirely, digging into the venues, labels, and eras that built American live music culture in the first place. Think legendary arenas, iconic festival runs, and the kind of concertwear silhouettes that only get better with age.

A few names anchor the collection: Philadelphia’s own Spectrum, the venue that defined a generation of Northeast concertgoing; the Valley Forge Music Fair, a touring institution in its own right; and a deep run of Grateful Dead pieces built around specific, storied moments, including the Stanford “Dead 1988” shows and the Watkins Glen Raceway run, one of the biggest gatherings in live music history.

These aren’t costume-y reprints. The cuts and construction lean into the actual concertwear look of the era, so they read as lived-in rather than manufactured nostalgia. If any of these names mean something to you, or you’re just partial to the raglan-sleeve, road-worn look of vintage touring merch, this is the collection to dig through.

This Week in Music, Movies, and Everything Else Worth Talking About

Music

Linkin Park’s Comeback Story Is Headed to Theaters

Linkin Park is closing out the summer with a new documentary rather than a new tour leg. “Unshatter,” directed by the band’s Joe Hahn, opens in theaters worldwide on September 30, tracing the group’s path from their return in 2022 through the making of “From Zero” and a pair of packed live shows in São Paulo. A companion live album, “Unshatter (Live From São Paulo),” lands five days earlier on September 25, giving longtime fans a full-catalog set with co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, both now well into their second year with the band.

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Awards Season

Taylor Swift Is One Win Away From VMA History

The 2026 MTV Video Music Award nominations are out, and Taylor Swift landed nine nods, including Video of the Year and Artist of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia.” She’s currently tied with Beyoncé for the most VMA wins in history at 30, which means a single win at the September 27 ceremony would make her the outright record holder. Madonna actually leads the field this year with 11 nominations of her own, so it’s shaping up to be a real showdown between two generations of pop royalty.

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Live Music

Oasis 2027 Rumors Keep Getting Louder

Nothing’s confirmed, but Noel Gallagher isn’t exactly putting the rumors to rest either. In a radio chat this week, he pointed out there’s no major football tournament next summer, so the band has “got to do something.” Speculation has centered on a possible return to Knebworth and an extended homecoming stand at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium, following up on last year’s sold-out “Live ’25” reunion run that wrapped in São Paulo this past November. Take it as early smoke rather than a confirmed fire for now.

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Film

Beetlejuice 3 Is Officially Brewing

Warner Bros. has confirmed a third Beetlejuice film is in active development, building on “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s” massive $451 million worldwide haul back in 2024. Details are still thin, and Tim Burton has been cagey in interviews about whether he’s even attached, while star Jenna Ortega has said flatly she won’t sign on without him behind the camera. No script, cast, or release date locked in yet, so consider this one still simmering in the Netherworld.

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Television

The Rings of Power Gears Up for Season 3

Middle-earth fans got a fresh trailer at Comic-Con, and now the wait is almost over. “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 3 premieres on Prime Video November 11 with an unusual rollout: four episodes drop together, two more follow a week later, and a two-episode finale closes it out on November 25. The story picks up five years after the fall of Eregion, with Sauron’s armies overrunning most of Middle-earth and only a handful of strongholds, including Khazad-dûm and Rivendell, still holding the line.

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AC/DC Is Cruising Through American Stadiums, and Tonight It’s South Bend’s Turn to Get Thunderstruck

Tonight, roughly 60,000 fans will pack into Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, for a band that first plugged in more than fifty years ago and still shows no sign of unplugging. AC/DC brings its Power Up World Tour to “The House That Rockne Built” this evening, September 4, with The Pretty Reckless opening, and doors set to open around 6 p.m. ahead of a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. It is one more stop on a run that has already crossed Europe, Australia, the UK, and South America since launching in Germany back in May 2024, and it is nowhere near finished.

The current North American leg picked back up on July 11 in Charlotte and has been steadily working its way through NFL and MLB stadiums ever since, hitting cities like San Antonio, Denver, Vancouver, Santa Clara, Edmonton, and Atlanta along the way. After tonight’s stop in South Bend, the tour heads to St. Louis on September 8, then Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg before crossing back into the U.S. for a pair of marquee closing shows: MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on September 25, and Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on September 29, which is set to close out the tour’s North American run entirely.

The band’s lineup for this run pairs the two names most fans associate with AC/DC’s classic era, guitarist Angus Young and vocalist Brian Johnson, alongside rhythm guitarist Stevie Young, with bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Matt Laug rounding out the touring band. Together they’ve been delivering a set that leans heavily on the catalog everyone shows up for, while still making room for cuts from 2020’s “Power Up,” the album that gave this whole tour its name.

What South Bend Can Expect Tonight

Fans who’ve caught the tour earlier this summer describe a show built for a stadium: full pyrotechnics, a giant inflatable set piece for one of the encore numbers, and a setlist that has stayed remarkably consistent from city to city all summer long. Openers The Pretty Reckless have been on the bill for every North American date, giving early arrivals a strong warmup act before the headliners take over.

Fifty years in and they’re still filling stadiums with the same handful of chords that started it all.

A Tour That Just Keeps Rolling

What makes this run notable isn’t just the size of the crowds, it’s the stamina behind it. The Power Up World Tour has now stretched across six legs and roughly ninety shows since 2024, working its way through Europe, Australia, the UK, and a South American run earlier this year before three Mexico City dates in April set up the current U.S. and Canada leg. Very few bands from AC/DC’s era are still capable of headlining stadiums at this pace, and the ticket demand this summer suggests the appetite for it hasn’t slowed down one bit.

With just a handful of dates left before the Philadelphia finale on September 29, this stretch of shows has the feel of a victory lap for a band that’s been doing this since 1973. Whether you’re catching the show in South Bend tonight or just watching the tour roll through your city’s stadium on the schedule, it’s a rare chance to see a genuine rock institution still operating at full volume.

Gearing up for tonight’s show or just riding the wave of Power Up Tour excitement from home? The AC/DC gear in our merch stand is a good place to start.

Power Up Your Collection

A few ways to bring the tour home before the encore ends.

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AC/DC T.N.T. Puzzle (120/252/500-Piece)

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Ted Lasso Is Finally Coming Home, and This Time He’s Coaching the Team Nobody Expected

Three years is a long time to miss a fictional football club, longer still when nobody at Apple gave a real reason for the wait beyond vague talk of a new creative direction. Ted Lasso went quiet in 2023 carrying a shelf of Emmys and a reputation as the one comfort watch nobody felt embarrassed to recommend at a dinner party, and it returns worldwide on August 5 with a twist the marketing team clearly wanted kept under wraps for as long as humanly possible. Ted is not coaching AFC Richmond’s men anymore. He is coaching a second division women’s club that barely existed in the show’s universe a year ago, and the entire fourth season is betting on that pivot landing.

The rollout started for real on July 27, when Apple staged the season’s official premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, a venue choice that tells you the studio still believes in this show’s cultural weight even after a long, unexplained gap. From there, the release follows the format longtime viewers already know. One episode arrives on launch day, and nine more follow it weekly every Wednesday, wrapping up on October 7. Apple has a habit of quietly dropping episodes the evening before at nine Eastern, so anyone who picked up on that pattern during earlier seasons already knows to check the app around dinnertime on Tuesdays rather than waiting for an official Wednesday morning.

Here is my honestly biased take before we go any further: moving Ted away from the men’s team is the right call, and not because women’s football needs a fictional American mascot to legitimize it, but because the original premise had nowhere left to go. Ted had already won over Roy Kent. He had already helped mend Rebecca’s heartbreak. He had already turned a mediocre men’s squad into promotion contenders. Repeating that exact arc with a few new faces in the same locker room would have felt like a victory lap dressed up as a fourth season. Handing him a second division women’s team, underfunded and overlooked in almost the same way the men’s side once was, gives the show an actual reason to exist again instead of just a contractual reason to air.

The Reunion, and the Absence That Still Stings

The returning names read like a reunion nobody had to fight for. Hannah Waddingham comes back as Rebecca Welton, Juno Temple returns as Keeley Jones, Brett Goldstein is still Roy Kent, Brendan Hunt keeps his post as Coach Beard, and Jeremy Swift remains the club’s endlessly put-upon Director of Football Operations, Leslie Higgins. None of that was ever really in doubt, and it shouldn’t have been. What was less certain, and what still stings a little for longtime fans, is who did not make the trip back to Richmond this time.

Phil Dunster is not on the call sheet this season. His character, Jamie Tartt, carried one of the show’s better redemption arcs across the first three seasons, and his absence traces back to a scheduling conflict tied to a new HBO comedy rather than any creative falling out, though the door has reportedly been left open for a limited cameo somewhere down the line. Dani Rojas and Sam Obisanya step back into supporting roles at best, since the men’s side of AFC Richmond is no longer where the cameras are pointed. That is a real loss, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. But it also tells you how serious the show is about the reset. You cannot claim a genuine fresh start while keeping every familiar face crowded into the frame.

Filling that space is a roster built specifically for this version of the story. Tanya Reynolds joins as Alice Chilton, the co-coach who will presumably spend the season teaching Ted things about the women’s game he doesn’t already know, while Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Abbie Hern, and twin performers Aisling Sharkey and Rex Hayes round out the new squad, known within the show as the Lady Greyhounds. None of these names arrive with the built-in goodwill of a Roy Kent or a Rebecca Welton, which means the first two or three episodes are doing real work introducing a locker room from scratch. That is a much harder sell than a returning-favorites victory lap, and it is exactly why this season interests me more than a fourth run at the same men’s team story ever could have.

A show that already made audiences cry over a dart game does not need the same locker room to pull that off a second time.

There is also talk, not yet fully confirmed by Apple itself but circulating with enough consistency to take seriously, that Jason Sudeikis has mapped out a full three-season arc for this new era of the show, with a writers’ room for season five reportedly set to open before the end of August. If that timeline holds, it suggests Apple isn’t treating the Lady Greyhounds as a one-off experiment to gauge audience appetite. It’s treating them as the show’s actual future, which reads as either a bold vote of confidence or a genuinely expensive bet, depending entirely on how the ratings settle over the next ten weeks.

Why I Think This Version Wins

What ultimately makes me optimistic, and I’ll admit this is closer to hope than hard analysis at this point, is that Ted Lasso earned its reputation by refusing to be cynical about people trying their best inside a system stacked against them. That description fits an underfunded second division women’s club far better than it ever fit a Premier League men’s side with money and history behind it. If the writers trust that instinct instead of chasing the exact emotional beats that worked the first time around, this season has a real shot at becoming the version of the show that finally lives up to everything people claimed it was back in 2020, rather than a nostalgic rerun with a new sponsor stitched onto the kit.

Ten weeks from now we’ll know whether the bet paid off. Until then, Richmond’s most devoted supporters have plenty of ways to show up for the Lady Greyhounds before episode one even airs, and the kind of gear that’s followed this fandom since the beginning is a good place to start.

Show Your Colors

A few ways to back the Greyhounds before kickoff.

Ted Lasso Organic Sparker Long Sleeve Shirt

AFC Richmond Spectator Scarf, Home Colors

AFC Richmond Spectator Scarf, Away Colors