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RATT frontman Stephen Pearcy and lead guitarist Warren DeMartini have added another show to their upcoming reunion.

The duo is already set to headline the annual M3 Rock Festival, which takes place May 2-4 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Now they’ve added a show ahead of the festival.

They’ll now headline the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on April 5. Ticket go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

These shows are the first time in eight years Pearcy and DeMartini have performed together. When M3 was first announced, Pearcy joked, “Never say never, right? I guess hell does freeze over.”

“There was no question when the idea was brought up to me about doing something with Warren again. It wasn’t even a thought,” Pearcy added. “F*** yeh it’s time, let’s do this. Pearcy / De Martini back in the cellar, let’s go!”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of RATT’s album Invasion of Privacy, which peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.

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Elton John‘s concert at LA’s Dodger Stadium in 2022 was billed as his final North American show — except for the fact that he’ll be rocking a different stadium in California this spring.

Elton will do a one-night-only benefit concert at San Diego’s Petco Park on May 9; tickets for the show go on sale March 7. It’s the latest installment of an annual event called Concert for Cures, which since 2022 has raised more than $8.5 million to support adult and pediatric cancer research in Southern California.

In the past, Alicia Keys and Ed Sheeran have played the Concert for Cures.

While Elton said that Farewell Yellow Brick Road was his final tour, he didn’t rule out playing the odd show here and there; since the tour wrapped up he’s done several one-offs, though not quite on this scale.

His next live performance takes place at the London Palladium on March 26, with one of the stars who joined him at this Dodger Stadium show: his pal Brandi Carlile. The exclusive show is to promote their new joint album, Who Believes In Angels?

By the way, if you want to hear more from Brandi, she’s contributed a song called “Wandering” to the new 10-part NBC series The Americas, narrated by Tom Hanks.

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Bachman Turner-Overdrive has announced dates for their new Roll On Down The Highway 2025 tour.

The tour will consist of nine co-headlining shows with The Marshall Tucker Band, with Jefferson Starship as special guest, and another nine shows with the “Taking Care of Business” rockers as the sole headliner.

The tour kicks off July 18 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with their final show with The Marshall Tucker Band Aug. 3 in Amarillo, Texas. They will then continue the tour through Aug. 23 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Next up, BTO will headline a tour of Canada, which kicks off April 1 in Victoria, British Columbia. A complete list of dates and ticket on sale information can be found at btoband.com.

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The Beatles‘ Ringo Starr made his Grand Ole Opry debut over the weekend.

The rocker performed at the Nashville institution on Friday, coming onto the stage in a big white cowboy hat, like the one he wears on the cover of his recently released country album, Look Up.

“As you may have noticed I’m dressed up a bit tonight,” Ringo told the audience, as seen in fan-shot video posted to YouTube. “I’m a cowboy inside and this is a great honor and an incredible moment for me.” He talked about growing up loving country music, noting, “This would just be a dream to end up here.”

Ringo performed three songs at the Opry: the Look Up tune “Time on My Hands” and “Act Naturally,” both with Molly Tuttle, and his iconic Beatles hit “With a Little Help From My Friends.”

Friday’s show was the second time Ringo’s performed in Nashville this year. In January he played two nights at the Ryman Auditorium joined by special guests Sheryl Crow, Jack White, Brenda Lee, Mickey Guyton, Emmylou Harris and more. A CBS special recorded at the concerts, Ringo & Friends at the Ryman, is set to air March 10 at 8 p.m. ET.

Ringo is also set to kick off another tour with his All-Starr Band on June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has dates confirmed through June 25 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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U2 has marked the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the release of a reading set to a piano piece.

In a post on Instagram, Bono shares that the song and reading of the poem, “My Friendly Epistle” by 19th century poet Taras Shevchenko, is one he and The Edge sent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just after the invasion began. He notes that Shevchenko is a poet who “defined ‘Ukrainian-ness’ for so many.”

“All who believe in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now find ourselves in are not sleeping easily on this, the third anniversary of the invasion,” Bono writes. “More to say about this and other bewilderments later.”

The post includes the entire poem written out. It ends with the line, “Then in your own house you will see
True justice, strength, and liberty!”

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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer neil young and his new band the chrome hearts are hitting the road this summer.

They just announced dates for the love earth world tour, which will hit Europe, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.

The tour kicks off June 18 in Rättvik, Sweden. It hits the U.S. Aug. 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the tour wrapping with a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Sept. 15.

Neil Young Archives members will get a first crack at tickets starting Tuesday at 10 a.m. for U.S. shows. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at neilyoungarchives.com.

Young and the chrome hearts – made up of Micah Nelson on guitar and vocals, Spooner Oldham on Farfisa organ, Corey McCormick on bass and vocals and Anthony LoGerfo on drums – released their first song together, “big change,” in January. In early February Young announced that their first album is complete, sharing that he hopes to have it out in April.

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R.E.M.’s Peter Buck made a surprise appearance at Friday’s Seattle show of Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, who are on tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction.

According to setlist.fm, Buck joined the duo for the second set of the show, once they finished performing Fables of the Reconstruction in its entirety. Buck played on the Reckoning tracks “Time After Time (AnnElise),” “Harborcoat,” “Pretty Persuasion,” “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” and “Second Guessing,” the Life’s Rich Pageant track “Cuyahoga,” and the Murmur song “Sitting Still.”

“It was incredibly moving to sit in on a few songs with the band. And kinda strange too” Peter shared on Instagram. “It’s amazing the power of music to transport you through time.”

This is the second time Buck has joined Shannon and Narducy at an R.E.M.-themed show. He previously took the stage with them in 2024 in R.E.M.’s home city of Athens, Georgia, for the duo’s Murmur tour. At that show, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Michael Stipe also joined the duo on stage, although Stipe did not perform.

Shannon and Narducy’s next show is happening Monday in Indianapolis. The tour runs through March 14 in Chicago.

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Scott Weiland‘s son Noah Weiland sings his late father’s words in a newly released cover of the Stone Temples Pilots song “Sex Type Thing.”

The recording is accompanied by a video that Noah says he “filmed … about a dream I had long ago about seeing my father again.”

“It’s hard for me to stay in the moment sometimes, but I try,” Noah writes in an Instagram post.

You can watch Noah’s “Sex Type Thing” video streaming now on YouTube.

Noah has released a number of solo singles over the years, including a duet with Scott, “Time Will Tell,” which was recorded before the elder Weiland’s death in 2015. He’s been working on an album titled Call Jesus.

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On This Day, Feb. 24, 1982…

John Lennon and Yoko Ono won album of the year at the 24th annual Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles. The pair won the award for Double Fantasy, the final album Lennon recorded before his death in December 1980.

The Police took home two awards that evening, best rock vocal performance by a duo or group for “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and best rock instrumental for “Behind the Camera.”

Other winners included Pat Benatar, for best female rock vocal performance for “Fire and Ice,” Rick Springfield, for best male rock vocal performance for “Jesse’s Girl” and the track “Bette Davis Eyes,” by Kim Carnes, which took home both song and record of the year.

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Over the course of their career, Led Zeppelin released six #1 albums — and one of those is turning 50 on Monday.

Physical Graffiti, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s fifth studio album, was released on Feb. 24, 1975. It was a double album and the band’s first to be released under their own label, Swan Song Records.

The album, produced by guitarist Jimmy Page, contained eight songs written and recorded specifically for the record, along with unreleased tracks recorded during sessions for 1970’s Led Zeppelin III, 1971’s Led Zeppelin IV and 1973’s Houses of the Holy.

The iconic cover depicted two buildings on St. Marks Street in Manhattan, with cutouts in the windows. The internal sleeves could be seen through the openings, and depending on which side was facing out, it showed either the album’s title or pictures of iconic figures.

Physical Graffiti was a critical and commercial hit for the band. It spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and also hit #1 in the U.K. and Canada. It was the first album to go Platinum from preorders alone and has since been certified 16-times Platinum in the U.S.

Notable songs on the record include “Houses of the Holy,” which despite being the title of the previous record was left off because the band felt it didn’t fit with the other songs on that album, and another future Led Zeppelin classic, “Kashmir,” known for its classic opening riff. The tune went on to become a staple at Led Zeppelin live shows.

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