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DEVO has announced a new set of tour dates for 2025.

The band will hit the road on their 50 Years of Devolution … Continued tour, starting May 1 in Philadelphia, hitting such cities as Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati, Oakland and Seattle before wrapping the tour Aug. 29 in Chicago.

“Join us as we celebrate five decades of de-evolution with a mind-melting live experience,” reads a message on the band’s Instagram. “Expect high-energy performances, iconic visuals, and all your favorite anthems of de-evolution!”

Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Next up, DEVO is set to play SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, taking place Feb. 14 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. It will stream live on Peacock starting at 8 p.m. ET.

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R.E.M. has contributed a song to a 90-track compilation album raising money for those affected by the California wildfires.

Good Music to Lift Up Los Angeles will feature previously unreleased recordings, including covers, remixes, live versions and unreleased demos, and will be available on Bandcamp for only 24 hours starting Friday at noon PT.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers revealed on Instagram that their contribution to the album is a previously unreleased live recording of the New Adventures in Hi-Fi track “Electrolite,” from the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 6, 1999.

Other artists contributing to the compilation include Soul Asylum, Dawes, The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie, Jeff Tweedy, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Modest Mouse and Tenacious D.

Proceeds from the album will go to California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the LA Food Bank. 

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Bonnie Raitt has made her summer plans.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has just added August and September shows to her current tour schedule, with the new dates featuring special guest Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band.

“I’m looking forward to having my longtime pal and one of my favorite artists, blues legend Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band be our special guests for the late Summer tour,” Bonnie shares. “We’ve shared many gigs and duets over the years but never as a ‘double trouble’ co-bill. Bound to be some good blues rockin’ going on – can’t wait to hit the road together!”

Vaughan adds, “Thrilled to play some shows with my talented friend Bonnie Raitt and her band! It’s been a long time coming! Myself and The Tilt-A-Whirl Band are excited to be part of this great tour.”

The shows kick off Aug. 20 in Port Chester, New York, and wrap Sept. 28 in Morrison, Colorado, at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

A Bonnie Raitt fan club presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at bonnieraitt.com.

Next up for Raitt, she’ll play the Sweet Relief Presents A Night to Honor Joan Baez concert on Saturday in San Francisco and is booked for the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 14. She also kicks off a new leg of tour dates March 5 in Temecula, California.

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Elton John recently received an Oscar nomination for best original song for “Not Too Late,” which he co-wrote and sings with his pal Brandi Carlile. Now it appears the two have teamed up for yet another song.

Called “Who Believes In Angels?,” it’s currently posted on YouTube with a countdown timer that shows that it will debut Feb. 5 around noon ET.

It’s not clear if this song is a brand-new track or a single from an upcoming album. In November 2024, when asked what happened to the album that he had announced in November 2023, Elton told Good Morning America that losing his eyesight in his right eye had impeded his ability to go into the studio and record.

But in December 2023, Elton John’s pal The Who‘s Pete Townshend told ClashMusic.com that Elton had “just gone over to LA to make an album with Brandi Carlile,” adding, “He says it’s one of the best things they’ve ever done.” So perhaps this song is from that project — we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Cheap Trick is set to headline the 2025 Pure Imagination Festival, taking place May 17 at Watson Lake in Prescott, Arizona.

The festival will also feature a lineup that includes Arrested Development, The English Beat and Matisyahu.

This is the fourth edition of Pure Imagination, founded by Candace Devine, frontwoman of the band Ponderosa Grove, which is also playing the festival. Attendees can not only enjoy live music, but interactive art and nature-driven adventures, as well.

“Pure Imagination is about more than just music,” says Candace, “it’s about creating an unforgettable experience where people can connect, be inspired, and celebrate the power of art in one of the most beautiful places in the world.”

Tickets for the festival are on sale now at pureimaginationfestival.com.

Cheap Trick is currently on tour and will pay Coachella, California, on Friday. They are also set to join Heart on their Royal Flush tour, starting March 20 in Calgary, Canada. A complete list of dates can be found at cheaptrick.com.

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Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have always had a volatile relationship, but their bandmate Mick Fleetwood would love to see that change.

Nicks and Buckingham dated in the ’70s, but broke up in 1976 while they were in the band. Their relationship has been tense over the years, and they had a final falling out in 2018, the same year Buckingham was fired from the band. But Mick shares in a new interview that he would love to see them be friends again one day.

“I always have a fantasy that [Stevie] and Lindsey would pal up a bit more and just say everything’s OK for them both,” Mick told Us Weekly at the Janie’s Fund Grammys viewing party on Sunday. “But we’ve had such an incredible career.”

As for the future of Fleetwood Mac, Mick seems to agree with previous comments Nicks made that she didn’t see a future for the band after Christine McVie’s 2022 passing. But he’s hoping to keep playing music, even if it’s with someone new.

“I miss playing as much as we used to. I’m hoping next year, one way or another, some band somewhere will say, come and play with drums or something,” he said. “So I always love to do whatever I can do working on an album that next year we may tour with it. I don’t know, [but] not Fleetwood Mac.”

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The Police’s Andy Summers and King Crimson’s Robert Fripp joined forces to make music together in the ’80s, and now a new box set is celebrating that collaboration.

The Complete Recordings 1981 – 1984, dropping March 28, is a three-CD/Blu-ray set that includes their two released albums, 1982’s I Advance Masked and 1984’s Bewitched, along with a third album, Mother Hold the Candle Steady, featuring previously unreleased or unheard material.

The Blu-ray will feature high quality mixes of the three albums, along with the original mixes of the two original albums and audio commentary, titled Can We Record Tony?, taken from Fripp’s archival cassettes that feature the duo’s exploratory improvisations. The package comes with a 16-page booklet with photos and interview notes from both guitarists.

Also on March 28, a 2024 stereo mix of I Advance Masked will be released on 200-gram audiophile vinyl. The release includes two unreleased tracks, “Skyline” and “Entropy Pulse.”

Both The Complete Recordings and the I Advance Masked vinyl are available for preorder now.

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On This Day, Feb. 4, 1977…

Fleetwood Mac released their 11th studio album Rumours, which became a huge commercial success for the band.

The album topped Billboard 200 Albums chart and would go on to spend 31 nonconsecutive weeks at #1, thanks to four top-10 hits: “Dreams,” their only #1 song; “Go Your Own Way”; “Don’t Stop”; and “You Make Loving Fun.”

Rumours won Album of the Year at the Grammys in 1978 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003. It was also selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2017.

The album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and has been certified 21-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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Dave Grohl has been added to the lineup of Saturday Night Live‘s upcoming 50th anniversary music special, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert.

ABC Audio has confirmed the Foo Fighters frontman’s involvement in the show after he was included in a promo circulating online.

Grohl, of course, is no stranger to SNL, having long been a member of the Five-Timers Club with the Foos. He also played the show twice with Nirvana, as well as with the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures and played drums with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert will stream live on Peacock on Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. ET. The lineup also includes Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire, Coldplay‘s Chris Martin, David Byrne and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, among others.

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Grateful Dead was honored for their philanthropy on Friday by the Recording Academy, which named them MusiCares Person of the Year. Now the band’s offshoot, Dead & Company, is giving back to the organization.

The band just launched a new auction in which the lucky winner will nab a Dead & Company Sphere Experience package for four in Las Vegas.

The package includes tickets to any Friday and Saturday show of their Dead Forever Sphere residency, including either front row 200 section seats or general admission tickets, plus two hotel suites for three nights at The Venetian, which is connected to the Sphere. The winner will also get priority entry to the show and commemorative gifts. 

The auction runs until Feb. 11 on Charity Buzz, with the package estimated to sell for $15,000.

Proceeds from the package will benefit MusiCares’ The Person of the Year Charity Relief Auction. The organization raises essential funds that help music professionals recover from crises.

Dead & Company launched their Dead Forever residency in May, wrapping the first run in August. Their 2025 run kicks off March 20 and runs through May 17. A complete list of dates can be found at deadandcompany.com.

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