More than a decade after his death, Scott Weiland’s voice is returning to the stage — at least on record.
Scott Weiland: Live, the late singer’s first official live album, will receive its first widespread release on October 23, 2026, arriving digitally and on CD for the first time alongside a new limited-edition red vinyl pressing.
The collection was previously available exclusively as a limited Record Store Day release, making the October reissue the first opportunity for many fans to hear a newly unearthed document of one of rock’s most unpredictable and magnetic frontmen in his natural environment.
The first preview arrives today with “Interstate Love Song (Live),” a performance of the Stone Temple Pilots classic accompanied by a new visualizer featuring previously unseen footage from Weiland’s live performances.
Recorded while Weiland and his band were touring in 2009 behind his second solo album, Happy in Galoshes, Scott Weiland: Live captures the singer during a particularly interesting chapter of his career. By then, Weiland had already lived several different rock-star lives.
With Stone Temple Pilots, he emerged from the early-Nineties alternative explosion as the swaggering voice behind songs like “Plush,” “Creep,” “Vasoline” and “Interstate Love Song.” A decade later, he reinvented himself as the frontman of Velvet Revolver, joining former Guns N’ Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum and helping propel 2004’s Contraband into one of that decade’s biggest hard-rock records.
His solo work offered another side entirely.
Where STP could move between grunge, glam, psychedelia and hard rock, Weiland’s solo records allowed his stranger instincts more room to breathe. Released in 2008, Happy in Galoshes followed the dissolution of Velvet Revolver and found the singer moving through alternative rock, electronic textures and experimental pop without much concern for the expectations attached to his other bands.
The performances collected on Scott Weiland: Live pull those different identities together.
Featuring previously unreleased recordings discovered through the Scott Weiland estate, the album moves between Weiland’s solo material and songs from his years fronting Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. More importantly, it captures something that studio albums could never completely contain: Weiland as a performer.
At his best, Weiland possessed the increasingly rare ability to make an arena feel dangerous. He could slither across a stage like a glam-rock apparition one minute and stand almost motionless behind a microphone the next, his unmistakable baritone carrying songs that became permanent fixtures of Nineties rock radio.
Weiland died in December 2015 at 48 years old, bringing an abrupt end to a career defined as much by constant reinvention as by its turbulence. In the years since, his influence has only become easier to recognize as another generation has discovered the catalogs of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.
Scott Weiland: Live doesn’t attempt to rewrite that complicated history. Instead, it captures one night from somewhere in the middle of it — Weiland on the road in 2009, moving between the songs he’d written, the bands he’d fronted and whatever came next.
Seventeen years later, the tape is still rolling.
