Joan Jett & the Blackhearts are the latest act heading to Las Vegas.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to headline five dates at the House of Blues Las Vegas in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The shows are happening June 13, 14, 18, 20 and 21.
A Joan Jett fan club presale will launch Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT.
The Vegas shows are the first dates Joan Jett & the Blackhearts have announced for 2025. The last time they played Vegas was in September 2022, opening for Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe at Allegiant Stadium.
Elvis Costello will be highlighting his early catalog on a new tour.
The rocker just announced dates for the new Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello tour, which will have him performing songs from 1977’s My Aim is True to 1986’s Blood & Chocolate, plus “other surprises.”
The tour is set to kick off June 12 in Seattle and wrap July 12 in Miami Beach.
“For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to fifty years ago,” Elvis shares. “You can expect the unexpected and the faithful in equal measure.”
For the tour, Costello will be backed by The Imposters, made up of Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, with the addition of guitarist Charlie Sexton.
An artist presale kicks off Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.
Before the Radio Soul! tour, Elvis and Nieve will hit the road on a separate trek that kicks off Feb. 19 in Easton, Pennsylvania. A complete list of all of Elvis’ dates can be found at elviscostello.com.
Santana is returning to the road, announcing a 2025 leg of his Oneness tour.
The trek is set to kick off April 16 in Highland, California, with dates in Phoenix, Albuquerque, Tulsa and more before wrapping in the U.S. on April 29 in Nashville. He’ll then bring the tour to Europe, starting June 9 in Lodz, Poland, and wrapping Aug. 11 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
A fan club presale begins Wednesday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at Santana.com.
Santana is set to take the stage again on Jan. 22 for the first show in his 2025 residency at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. He has Vegas dates booked through Feb. 2.
A new documentary about Phil Collins is set to debut on the online platform Drumeo, and now fans are getting their first look at it.
A trailer for Phil Collins: Drummer First has just been released and features clips of Collins being interviewed by his son Nic Collins.
“I’m not a singer who plays the drums,” the Genesis frontman says in the clip. “I’m more of a drummer who sings a bit.”
There are also testimonials about Collins’ drumming talent from such famous drummers as Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith, Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy and more.
“Phil Collins, his drumming has such a unique sound and style that you know immediately when you hear it, that’s that guy,” Smith shares. Portnoy adds, “He’s really criminally underrated as a prog icon.”
The trailer also includes a clip of Collins behind a drum kit for the first time in years, although he’s not seen playing.
“If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks then I will have a crack at it,” he says. “I just feel like I’ve used up my air miles.”
Collins revealed in 2021 that due to health problems, he could “barely hold a stick.” During Genesis’ The Last Domino tour, Collins’ son Nic played drums for the band.
Phil Collins: Drummer First debuts Dec. 18 on Drumeo.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – reunited for their first concert together in 19 years at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at London’s O2 Arena. They were backed by Jason Bonham, son of their late drummer, John Bonnham.
The band headlined the show with a 16-song set that included such songs as “Ramble On,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “The Song Remains The Same,” “Kashmir,” “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
Celebration Day, a concert film documenting the performance, was released in October 2012, with highlights airing on the BBC that December.
Eighties staples Toto, Christoper Cross and Men At Work are set to hit the road together this summer.
The three acts have announced a set of North American tour dates, kicking off July 18 in Palm Beach, Florida, hitting such cities as Tampa, Boston, Nashville and Las Vegas before wrapping Aug. 30 in Ridgefield, Washington.
“I am thrilled about this tour … This is a tour that musically works, and brings a fresh new summer tour package to the circuit,” Toto’s Steve Lukather shares. “I could not be more thrilled an idea that germinated months ago was able to take flight and become a reality.”
Men at Work’s Colin Hay adds, “The mix of Christopher, Steve with Toto, and Men At Work rings true to me. I think it will make for an exciting night of music for old and new fans alike. Let’s go!!”
Finally, Cross shares, “I’m honored to be sharing the stage during the summer of 2025 with my dear friends Toto and Men At Work.”
A Citi presale for all shows kicks off 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 totoofficial.com.
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Timothée Chalamet took vocal lessons in order to play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, and his vocal coach, Eric Vetro, is revealing what it took to get him there.
Vetro, who also worked with Austin Butler for Elvis, tells Rolling Stone that the key was figuring out, “what is the essence of this person? What makes their voice stand out?”
“In Timothée Chalamet’s case, he’s probably the definition of charismatic. I swear he has some kind of energy field around him,” he says. “When he walks in the room, everything just changes … I guess you would say it’s that elusive It factor that everyone always talks about, but his wattage is just off the charts.”
Vetro notes that as they continued to work on the character, “I would see Timmy morphing into Bob more and more. Then he started, when he would come in, he would just start talking like Bob and there was no need to acknowledge it — it would just happen very naturally.”
“I remember the first day he walked in with a guitar and he had the harmonica holder around his neck. And I was struck by how natural it all looked,” Vetro shares. “It looked like he had been doing this forever. Like it would with Bob Dylan.”
And with A Complete Unknown opening Dec. 25, Vetro is now tackling another iconic rocker, working with Jeremy Allen White on his portrayal of Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Us From Nowhere.
“It’s going absolutely great. He’s fantastic. I love working with him and he’s really capturing it beautifully,” Vetro says. “That’s another case where we have to work on getting a safe rasp—you don’t want to actually damage your voice to get that sound.”
The 2024 Bowl for Ronnie bowling tournament celebrating the life of the late Ronnie James Dio raised over $70,000 for the Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.
Among those participating in the event, which took place in November in Studio City, California, were Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, original Dio drummer Vinny Appice, System of a Down‘s Shavo Odadjian, Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal and Megadeth‘s Dirk Verbeuren.
You can watch the 2024 Bowl for Ronnie highlight video streaming now on YouTube.
The Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund was founded in honor of Dio, who died in 2010 of stomach cancer.
Guitar greats Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have teamed up to start a new band and will be hitting the road together this summer.
The artists have announced they will tour Europe as the SATCHVAI Band. The Surfing with Hydra tour will kick off June 13 in York, England, with stops in London, Paris, Manchester, Munich, Prague and more before wrapping July 21 in Sofia, Bulgaria. More shows are expected to be announced.
“I’m so looking forward to sharing the stage with Steve again,” Satriani said. “Every time we play together, it takes me back to when we were teenagers, eating and breathing music every second of the day, pushing, challenging, and helping each other to be the best we could be. I guess we’ve never stopped!”
“Touring with Joe is always a pleasure and an honor,” Vai added. “He is my favorite guitarist to jam with, and now we have another opportunity to take it to the stage. I feel as though we are both at the top of our game, and the show will be a powerful celebration of the coolest instrument in the world, the electric guitar!”
Satriani and Vai’s relationship has lasted nearly five decades, starting out in their teenage years when Satriani was Vai’s guitar teacher. They went on to tour together frequently on the G3 tours, which launched in 1996 with Eric Johnson as the third guitarist. This will be their first tour together as part of the same band.
Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton is headed out on tour in 2025 with his new band, Close Enemies.
The band has booked five dates on the East Coast, although they promise more to come in the future. The tour kicks off Jan. 8 in Philadelphia, with stops in New York City on Jan. 9; Boston on Jan. 10; Manchester, New Hampshire, on Jan. 14; and Pawling, New York, on Jan. 23.
Aerosmith announced their retirement in August after canceling their Peace Out tour due to frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal issues. Hamilton revealed the next chapter in his career in September, with Close Enemies hitting the stage for their first show in October in Nashville.
