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Warren Haynes has announced a trio of shows, dubbed the Now Is The Time Tour, which will have the Gov’t Mule frontman backed by the Warren Haynes Band and The Dreams and Songs Symphonic Experience.

The shows will consist of three sets: two featuring symphonic music, with Rich Daniels of Chicago’s City Lights Orchestra conducting local orchestras in each market, and a third featuring the new Warren Haynes Band, made up of John Medeski, Govt Mule’s Kevin Scott and previous WHB member Terrence Higgins.

The tour will have Haynes exploring music from his entire career, including his time in Gov’t Mule, his solo work and his associations with the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia.

“I’m really excited to have this opportunity to tour with both my new band and the Symphonic Experience,” Haynes shares. “We will be reinterpreting a lot of different music from the storied ‘songbooks’ of many of the bands I’ve been fortunate to have been a part of over the last three decades or so combined with material from my solo work, including new music.”

He adds, “Many of these aforementioned classic songs will be interpreted by an orchestra for the first time ever and doing sets with both the symphony and the band alone will give us the platform to perform a multi-dimensional show night after night.”

The tour kicks off Friday, June 7, in Bethel, New York, and then hits Boston on Saturday, June 8, and Canandaigua, New York, on June 9.

Various ticket presales begin Wednesday, March 13, at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday, March 15, at 10 am. More info can be found at warrenhaynes.net.

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It was recently announced that Sam Mendes would be directing four different Beatles biopics, one for each member of the group. Sean Ono Lennon has an interesting idea about who he’d like to see play his dad, John Lennon, on the big screen. 

“I’m hoping that Emma Stone might consider it because she did such a good job in ‘Poor Things,’” Lennon joked with Variety on the Oscars red carpet. “I think if you’re gonna reach that as an actor, the next obvious step is to really go for it and be John Lennon.”

Sean, Lennon’s only son, with wife Yoko Ono, does believe that finding someone to play his father won’t exactly be easy. 

“I do think with someone as famous as my dad, it’s very hard to cast a film like that,” he says. “There have been some very successful biopics about music people. ‘La Vie en Rose’ was incredible. ‘Ray’ was amazing. You can pull it off, and I think we’re gonna do a good job, so I’m excited.”

Lennon also joked that he’s up for pitching in with the film any way he can, noting, “I’m the DP. I’m the grip. And I’m also catering, which you wouldn’t expect that, but I’ll be cooking up a storm.”

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John Fogerty has announced some more dates for his Celebration Tour, and this time, he’s bringing George Thorogood & The Destroyers along with him. 

“George and I have done shows together before but for years we’ve talked about doing a full tour together,” Fogerty shares. “This summer we decided time is short, we better do this now!”
 

Thorogood adds, “Celebrating the music of John Fogerty at the same time we celebrate our 50th Anniversary is just about as good as it can get. I’m looking forward to being out there with my friend, John!”

The tour, which also features the rock band Hearty Har, including Fogerty’s sons Shane and Tyler, kicks off June 2 in Simpsonville, South Carolina, and wraps with an appearance at the Utah State fair on September 11 in Salt Lake City.

A ticket presale kicks off Tuesday, March 12, at 10 a.m. with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday, March 15, at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at johnfogerty.com.

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There may be a new female supergroup on the way.

Variety reports that during the 2024 Pop Conference at USC on Friday, March 8, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, best known for being part of Prince’s backing band The Revolution, revealed that they’ve been writing music with Eurythmics frontwoman Annie Lennox. 

They didn’t share too many details about the project but suggested it may turn into a band after Melvoin told the audience, “If you’ve got any good names for a band name for the three of us, that’d be great.”

It’s been a while since fans have heard any new music from either of these artists. The last album of new material from Lennox was 2007’s Songs of Mass Destruction, although she did release a covers album titled Nostalgia in 2014. The last album Wendy and Lisa released was 2008’s White Flags of Winter Chimneys.

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Folks who came out to John Mellencamp’s concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Sunday, March 10, got quite a treat.

While Mellencamp was getting ready to perform his classic tune “Pink Houses,” he surprised fans by bringing out New Jersey’s favorite rocker Bruce Springsteen, who was dressed simply in a T-shirt and jeans.

Mellencamp shared footage of the performance on social media, which sees the two rockers trading off verses of the song and coming together for the chorus.

This certainly isn’t the first time Mellencamp and Springsteen have performed together. In fact, Springsteen appeared on Mellencamp’s 2022 album, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, singing on the tune “Wasted Days.” He also contributed guitar and background vocals on two other songs.

Mellencamp is currently on his Live and In Person tour, which hits Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 11. A complete list of dates can be found at mellencamp.com. 

Springsteen is set to kick off the latest leg of his tour with the E Street Band on March 19 in Phoenix. For tour dates, check out brucespringsteen.net.

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The video for Bon Jovi‘s 1994 hit “Always,” from their album Cross Road, has reached 1 billion views on YouTube, and the band is thanking fans for that milestone.

In a video posted on their socials, Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres express their gratitude, with Jon saying, “This is a humble thank you to everybody who watched the video for the song ‘Always’ a billion times.”

“A billion,” Bryan says.  “Thank you, very very much,” Jon continues.

“Thank you two billion times,” adds Bryan as Torres applauds.

The rest of the post features scenes from the video, which starred Carla Gugino, Keri Russell, Jack Noseworthy and Jason Wiles. There was also a video that only featured the band performing the song.

“Always” reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. To date, it’s the band’s most recent top 10 hit on that chart.

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Legendary rock band 10cc is set to hit the road this summer on what will be their first North American tour in over 30 years. 

The Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour will have the band playing 20 cities starting July 24 in Montclair, New Jersey. The trek hits New York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Nashville, Dallas, Los Angeles and more before wrapping August 17 in San Francisco.

The live band will consist of founding member Graham Gouldman, Rick Fenn, Iain Hornal and Keith Hayman.

As the title suggests, the tour will have the band performing their greatest hits, including such classics like “The Things We Do For Love,” “I’m Not In Love,” which appeared on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack in 2014, and “Dreadlock Holiday,” which was included in 2010’s The Social Network.

“They don’t seem to date,” Gouldman says of the band’s hits. “We never followed any trend we simply wrote for our own pleasure. The fact that the songs are being played as often on the radio as they ever were shows how true that is.”

Ticket info and a complete list of dates can be found at 10cc.world.

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Lily Gladstone did not go home Sunday with an Oscar, but perhaps, a shoutout from Pearl Jam‘s Jeff Ament might be a nice consolation prize.

In a Facebook post paying tribute to the Killers of the Flower Moon star, the bassist and fellow Montana native writes, “Let’s all celebrate Lily Gladstone! So proud to watch a fellow small town Montana artist grow in to such a force of talent, passion and grace.”

“Native stories and storytellers are finally beginning to receive the recognition they deserve,” Ament continues. “Well done Lily and congrats to Blackfeet Nation and Indian Country everywhere.”

Gladstone was nominated for Best Actress and would’ve become the first Native American to win in the category. However, the Oscar went to Poor Things‘ Emma Stone.

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Sting is hitting the road this fall on a brand new tour that will see him performing with a much smaller band in much smaller venues.

The rocker just announced dates for the Sting 3.0 tour, which will have him playing multiple nights in theaters across the country, backed by guitarist and longtime collaborator Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas. 

The tour will kick off with a two-night stand at The Fillmore Detroit on September 17 and 18, and wrap with two nights at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 12 and 13. The tour will also feature multiple night stands in Toronto, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago and San Francisco, plus single nights in several other cities.

A presale for Sting fan club members kicks off Monday, March 11, with a Citi presale starting Tuesday, March 12, at 10 a.m. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, March 15, at 10 a.m.

Next up for Sting, he plays San Diego’s Petco Park with Billy Joel on April 13. He’s also booked to headline California’s Beachlife Festival on May 3. A complete list of Sting dates can be found at sting.com.

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The late Jimmy Buffett will be celebrated with an all-star tribute concert coming to Los Angeles in April.

Keep The Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett will take place April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring performances by several of Buffett’s friends and collaborators, including Paul McCartney, who appeared on Buffet’s final album, Equal Strain on All Parts, the Eagles, Jon Bon Jovi and Jackson Browne.

Buffett’s longtime backing band The Coral Reefer Band is also booked for the special one-night only concert, as are Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, Zac Brown, Jack Johnson, Eric Church, Jake Owen, Pitbull, Mac McAnally and more. The show promises more special guests.

An American Express presale kicks off Wednesday, March 13, at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday, March 15, at 10 a.m. 

Buffett passed away September 1 after a four-year battle with Merkel cell skin cancer, a rare and aggressive form of skin cancer. He was 76. 

He will also be celebrated at this year’s Jazz Fest in New Orleans. The Coral Reefer Band is scheduled to play the festival’s closing night, Sunday, May 5, with their set dubbed Celebrating Jimmy Buffett.

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