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Rush had yet another surprise in store for fans at their third KIA Forum show in Los Angeles Thursday night.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have been changing things up from night to night since kicking off their Fifty Something tour on June 7. According to setlist.fm, during Thursday’s show they used the second set to perform their 1981 studio album, Moving Pictures, in its entirety.

Not only did they perform every track, they played them in order, starting with their iconic hit “Tom Sawyer” and wrapping with “Vital Signs.”

This marked the first time they’ve played Moving Pictures, Rush’s eighth studio album, in its entirety since July 2011.

Also new to the set, Rush added “New World Man,” from the 1982 album Signals, making it their first performance of the song since 2002.

Rush is set to wrap their four-night stand at the KIA Forum on Saturday. A complete list of show dates can be found at Rush.com.

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Rush had yet another surprise in store for fans at their third KIA Forum show in Los Angeles Thursday night.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have been changing things up from night to night since kicking off their Fifty Something tour on June 7. According to setlist.fm, during Thursday’s show they used the second set to perform their 1981 studio album, Moving Pictures, in its entirety.

Not only did they perform every track, they played them in order, starting with their iconic hit “Tom Sawyer” and wrapping with “Vital Signs.”

This marked the first time they’ve played Moving Pictures, Rush’s eighth studio album, in its entirety since July 2011.

Also new to the set, Rush added “New World Man,” from the 1982 album Signals, making it their first performance of the song since 2002.

Rush is set to wrap their four-night stand at the KIA Forum on Saturday. A complete list of show dates can be found at Rush.com.

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On This Day, June 12, 2003…

Phil Collins, Van Morrison and the members of Queen — Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and the late Freddie Mercury — were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a gala in New York City.

Little Richard was also inducted, and Jimmy Webb was awarded the Johnny Mercer Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s highest honor.

Among the night’s performances, Queen teamed with up Wynonna to perform “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” The band also performed “We Will Rock You,” with May on lead vocals.

Both Collins and Van Morrison would later receive the Johnny Mercer Award as well — Collins in 2010 and Van Morrison in 2015.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame’s 2026 class was inducted on Thursday. This year’s performer inductees included Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, Taylor Swift and Kenny Loggins. John Fogerty, who was inducted into the SHOF in 2005, received the Johnny Mercer Award.

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Carly Simon is back with new music.

The “You’re So Vain” singer/songwriter is set to release the new album, Comes in Waves, on Aug. 14. The record is Simon’s first album of original music since 2008.

Fans are getting their first taste of her new music with the release of the album’s opening track “Howl,” which she co-wrote with songwriter David Spencer.

“‘Howl’ lives in that space between betrayal and forgiveness, where anger has to be voiced before it can be released,” says Simon. “It’s about letting the frustration out so it doesn’t sit and simmer. The song begins in anger, but it moves toward forgiveness, and speaks to any situation where trust has been broken.”

“Howl” is available now via digital outlets.

Simon wrote and recorded much of Comes in Waves at her home in Martha’s Vineyard. It features contributions from his son, Ben Taylor, and her daughter, Sally Taylor, whose dad is singer James Taylor.

Simon’s last album of new material was 2008’s This Kind of Love. In 2009, she released Never Been Gone,  featuring acoustic versions of her previous material.

Comes in Waves is available for preorder now.

Here is the Comes In Waves track list:

“Howl”
“Maybe I Never Loved You”
“Peaches”
“Love Has No Ending”
“Mother Of Pearl”
“Slowly”
“Four In The Morning”
“The More I Look For You”
“Love The Way I Do”
“The Father Daughter Dance”
“Share the End”
“Do It Anyway”

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The 50th anniversary of the Eagles’ iconic album Hotel California is being celebrated in a new book.

Eagles and Hotel California: 50 Years is described as a “visual and narrative journey” exploring “the creation, legacy, and lasting cultural power of one of rock’s most iconic albums.”

It includes more than 200 photos and images, including rare studio shots, tour photography and band memorabilia. In book, rock historian Sean Egan delves into the “tumultuous” recording sessions for the album, as well as the record’s iconic songs, including the title track, “New Kid in Town” and “Life in the Fast Lane.” He also explores the band’s internal struggles and the album’s 50-year legacy.

The book will be released Sept. 8 and is available for preorder now.

Released in December 1976, Hotel California was the Eagles’ fifth studio album and their third #1. The album, their first with guitarist Joe Walsh, spent eight nonconsecutive weeks in the top spot and went on to become one of the bestselling albums of all time, selling over 32 million records and being certified 26-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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The 50th anniversary of ABBA’s iconic track “Dancing Queen” will be marked with the release of two new vinyl variants.

The single, remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, will be reissued on 10-inch black vinyl and 10-inch sparkling vinyl on Aug. 13. The song “La Reina Del Baile” is featured on the B-side.

Both formats are available for preorder now.

Originally released in August 1976, “Dancing Queen” was the lead single off the Swedish band’s fourth studio album, Arrival. A huge hit across the world, the song became ABBA’s only #1 hit in the U.S. and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

The video for the track, which reached 1 billion views on YouTube in June 2025, was directed by Lasse Hallström, who went on to direct such films as What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat.

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R.E.M. fans now have a new website to share personal stories about how the band and their music has affected their lives.

According to a post on the band’s social media, the site, R.E.M. Stories, is “dedicated to collecting and preserving personal stories about R.E.M. and the ways the band’s music has intersected with people’s lives for more than four decades.”

The fan-driven project, created by Justin Bass, will feature all sorts of stories — as the website says, “Some are funny. Some are profound. All are true. Together they form an oral history of what the band and its music have meant to people.”

There are currently three stories live on the site, with new ones planned for the 1st and 15th of every month.

Fans can submit their stories about R.E.M. and check out other fans’ stories at remstories.net.

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The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine is paying tribute to his late bandmate Brian Wilson on the one-year anniversary of the music legend’s death.

“It’s hard to believe a whole year has already passed since we lost Brian but to be honest, I don’t feel like he’s gone,” Jardine writes in a social media post on Thursday, which included a photo of him and Brian Wilson together. “His music keeps him alive and we certainly feel his presence at every show we do.”

Jardine adds, “We love you Brian and always will.” He then tells him to “say hi to Carl and Dennis,” meaning Brian’s brothers and Beach Boys bandmates Carl Wilson, who died in 1998, and Dennis Wilson, who died in 1983.

Brian Wilson was 82 when he passed.

Brian Wilson’s daughter Carnie Wilson also pays tribute to the Beach Boys legend on social media, writing, “There’s not a day that goes by or maybe even a few hours that go by when I’m not thinking of you and missing you. You know how much I love you. I know you can feel that up there in heaven.”

The post was accompanied by a photo of Brian Wilson onstage with Carnie Wilson and her sister and Wilson Philips bandmate Wendy Wilson.

She adds, “Singing with you was always one of the great gifts that we shared together. I hope you can see this picture from wherever you are. It sure fills my heart.”

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This summer’s Totally Tubular festival has made some changes to the lineup.

The music fest, celebrating the music of the ’80s, has announced that The Motels will no longer be on the bill, in order to give lead singer Martha Davies time to heal from a recent medical procedure.

“It breaks my heart to have to cancel The Motels part in the Totally Tubular tour this summer,” says Davies. “The band and I were looking forward to it big time! But the doctors have some unfinished business with me, so I must comply.”

“But don’t worry, ‘I’ll be back!'” she adds. “I love you all. It will be a great show, so go, have fun, and I’ll meet up with you later.”

In place of The Motels, Totally Tubular has added two acts: Bow Wow Wow, best known for the 1982 hit “I Want Candy,” and Men Without Hats, who hit it big with 1982’s “The Safety Dance.” Bow Wow Wow will perform on the tour’s July dates, with Men Without Hats booked for the August shows.

Totally Tubular Festival returns for a third year starting July 17 in Phoenix, with dates running through Aug. 16 in Aurora, Illinois. The lineup also features Thomas Dolby & The Lost Toy People, A Flock Of Seagulls, Animotion, The Escape Club, Tommy Tutone and The Producers.

A complete schedule can be found at TotallyTubularFestival.com.

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Grateful Dead is offering up another preview of their upcoming live album, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (7/3/66).

The band has just released a performance of the track “Viola Lee Blues,” from The Dead’s 1967 self-titled debut album. This is the second song they’ve released from the Fillmore concert, following “Cold Rain and Snow.”

“The Grateful Dead’s first big jamming vehicle, ‘Viola Lee Blues’ is heard here in one of its first live performances,” says Dead archivist David Lemieux. “The song only stuck around from 1966 to 1970, but it always hit several intensely psychedelic peaks, as you’ll hear here.”

Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (7/3/66) will be released digitally and as a two-CD set on July 3, on the 60th anniversary of the concert, which took place seven months after the band changed their name from the Warlocks. It will also be released as a three-LP set, its first time ever on vinyl, limited to 6,600 copies. The vinyl release is available exclusively at Dead.net.

The Fillmore performance was part of legendary promoter Bill Graham’s Independence Ball, with the band at the time made up of Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir.

The concert was previously available in 2015 as part of the 50th anniversary boxed set, 30 Trips Around the Sun.

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