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The Doobie Brothers are set to drop their new album, Walk This Road, in June, and they are hitting the road to support it.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just announced dates for the Walk This Road tour, featuring special guests The Coral Reefer Band, the late Jimmy Buffett’s backing band, who continue to celebrate his music.

The tour kicks off Aug. 4 in Detroit, with dates currently confirmed through Sept. 18 in Toronto. More shows are expected to be announced.

“We’re so looking forward to the 2025 Summer tour!” founding Doobie Brothers member Patrick Simmons shares. “We’ll be celebrating the release of our new album Walk This Road and we’re excited to be performing new songs from the record.”

He adds, “Having The Coral Reefer Band on board with us at these shows really makes this a special experience for the audience and all of us. Doobies and Reefers, hmm… sounds like a perfect match!”

A presale for tickets kicks off Tuesday 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 thedoobiebrothers.com.

Walk This Road, dropping June 6, features the reunited lineup of Simmons, Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald. It will be the first new release from The Doobies since 2021’s Liberté and the first full album of original material with McDonald since 1980’s One Step Closer.

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On This Day, Feb. 10, 1979…

Rod Stewart hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy,” the first single off his ninth studio album, Blondes Have More Fun.

The song spent four weeks at #1 in the U.S.

“Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” was Stewart’s third #1, following 1971’s “Maggie Mae,” and 1976’s “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright).” His only other #1 came in 1994 with “All for Love,” which also featured Bryan Adams and Sting.

In January of 1979, Stewart performed the song at the United Nations General Assembly at the Music for UNICEF concert. He wound up donating all the royalties from the song to UNICEF.

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Legendary New York Dolls frontman David Johansen is battling cancer.

The musician revealed that since 2020 he has been privately battling an aggressive form of cancer and a brain tumor, and has been dealing with several complications. In addition, he fell over Thanksgiving, breaking his back in two places; even with surgery, he has been confined to his bed ever since. 

After keeping his health issues private for years, Johansen is now sharing his condition due to the financial burden his health care has put on his family, especially since he now needs round-the-clock care. Because of this, on Monday Sweet Relief launched the David Johansen Fund to help raise money for his immediate needs, including full-time nursing and physical therapy.

“We’ve been living with my illness for a long time, still having fun, seeing friends & family, carrying on, but this tumble the day after Thanksgiving really brought us to a whole new level of debilitation,” Johansen shared. “This is the worst pain I’ve ever experienced in my entire life. I’ve never been one to ask for help but this is an emergency. Thank you.”

Johansen rose to fame as the lead singer and songwriter of the legendary punk band New York Dolls. He also had a hit in the ’80s with “Hot Hot Hot” under the name Buster Poindexter.

In 2023 he was the subject of a documentary called Personality Crisis: One Night Only, directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, which featured footage of a January 2020 performance of his cabaret show at the Café Carlyle in New York.

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Midas Man, about The Beatles‘ manager Brian Epstein, is now streaming. Epstein, a gay man from an immigrant Jewish family, died of an accidental drug overdose at age 32 after shepherding the Fab Four and other music acts to worldwide fame. Queen’s Gambit actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who plays Epstein, says he initially didn’t know much about Epstein — or even The Beatles’ music.

“There was so many songs that I really hadn’t heard properly before. … So, yeah, I spent a lot of time listening,” he tells ABC Audio. “It was like a real perk of the job. I mean, I felt like, ‘I’m listening to albums. That’s my work for the day. … Lucky me.’ But … somehow being familiar [with the songs] felt important.”

Fortune-Lloyd also studied up on Epstein, who died in 1967, and he concludes that Epstein was the “perfect manager” for The Beatles because he “understood what artists needed to create.”

He says, “When people talk about The Beatles and the extraordinary things they were doing … I think without someone like Brian looking after things, being the adult in the room, giving them the space to create and not have to worry about anything else — I don’t think they could do that.”

Midas Man is a sympathetic portrait of a troubled man, and Fortune-Lloyd said he’d “love” for Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to see it, though he suggests it might be “difficult to watch,” seeing as how they were “so close” to Epstein.

“I’ve been made aware that they know about the film, and I really hope that they get to see it,” he says. “I hope they recognize and appreciate that we tried to honor the man and their relationship, and we created a loving portrayal of their friend. So, it’d be beautiful to share it with them.”

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Timothée Chalamet has landed on the Billboard Album chart for the first time, thanks to the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

The album, which features Chalamet performing 17 tracks, has debuted at #17 on the Billboard soundtracks chart. It is also at #44 on the Top Album Sales chart and at #29 on the Top Current Album Sales chart, as well as #23 on the Indie Store Album Sales chart.

While this marks Chalamet’s Album chart debut, he did hit the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart in 2023 with his Wonka performance of “Pure Imagination.” It landed at #27.

The A Complete Unknown soundtrack has Chalamet covering a variety of Dylan classics, including “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Like A Rolling Stone.” His co-stars Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook and Edward Norton appear on the album, as well.

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Donny Osmond is getting ready to share the stage … with himself.

The singer revealed on social media that his show at Harrah’s in Las Vegas will now have him performing with an avatar of himself at 14.

“We are going to be making history together,” Osmond says in a video posted to Instagram. “Can you imagine sharing the stage with your 14-year-old self? Well, it’s happening.”

“Thanks to some mind-blowing AI and CGI technology, I’m going to be singing with Donny Osmond — you know, the one from 1972,” he adds.

He then gave fans a sneak peek of what to expect, with footage of him interviewing the avatar and asking him what it’s like performing with himself 50 years in the future. The avatar replies, “Well, it’s kind of like singing with my grandpa.”

“It’s incredible. This is something you don’t want to miss,” Donny shares.

Donny’s next show at Harrah’s is happening on Tuesday. More info can be found at Donny.com.

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Def Leppard has released a new music video for their cover of Ben E. King’s classic “Stand By Me,” which is helping to raise money for those affected by the California wildfires.

The video features footage of the band performing the song, cut with clips of them shooting their cameo in the Netflix movie Bank of Dave 2: The Lone Ranger. The band recorded the song for the movie. 

Proceeds from “Stand By Me” will be donated to FireAid, with money being used for those affected by the California wildfires and to support efforts to keep such disasters from happening again.

Bank of Dave 2 is the sequel to the 2023 Netflix film Bank of Dave, which told the real-life story of working-class, self-made millionaire Dave Fishwick, played by actor Rory Kinnear, who set up a community bank to help his town’s local businesses survive.

Def Leppard also had a cameo in the original film, playing themselves performing at a charity fundraiser for the bank. The sequel follows Dave as he takes on payday loan companies.

The sequel debuted in the U.K. in early January. Netflix has yet to reveal when it will begin streaming in the U.S.

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Bruce Springsteen’s iconic anthem “Born to Run,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has been reimagined for a new Dove Super Bowl commercial, which focuses on the impact negative body talk can have on girls in sports.

The new version of the track is recorded by R&B star H.E.R. and serves to promote the company’s Body Confident Sport program. The press release notes the song will “serve as an anthem for the next generation of young girls in sports and amplify the commitment to #KeepHerConfident.”

“It’s been an honor to do a version of this iconic song, 50 years after its release,” said H.E.R. “Partnering with Dove on this project means the world to me because I feel like part of my purpose is to empower young girls to go against the grain and hold onto their confidence.”

She adds, “I hope this movement inspires young girls to continue to love what they see in the mirror, stay in sports, and believe in themselves and realize they are truly unstoppable.”

Dove’s 30-second spot will air during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 59, which airs Sunday on Fox.

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Bob Dylan is in the news a lot lately thanks to the biopic A Complete Unknown, and now his music is being celebrated again, this time by Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart.

Stewart is set to release the limited-edition vinyl Dave Does Dylan on April 12 for Record Store Day.

The album features 14 “pure and unedited” live covers of Dylan classics, including “Forever Young,” “Make You Feel My Love,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.”

Stewart and Dylan have become friends over the years, and Stewart notes, “I’m so, so grateful for getting to know him personally and to now record this album of songs after years of singing them to friends and to myself.”

“It’s been a long road and these lyrics and melodies have kept me company through the best and the worst of times,” he adds. “I hope my album can do the same for Dylan fans out there—who understand the mastery and the mystery Bob has bestowed on us, and still does to this day.”

And Stewart is planning to play some of those covers live when he tapes an episode of Recorded Live at Analog on March 22 at Analog inside The Hutton Hotel in Nashville. The show will air on PBS in July. 

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Bryan Adams is back with new music.

The rocker has just released the new single “Roll With the Punches,” the title track to his upcoming new studio album, expected later this year.

“‘Roll With the Punches’ is a song about resilience and the spirit of getting back up no matter how hard you’ve been knocked down,” Adams shares. “This song is for everyone who’s ever felt defeated but chose to fight another day.”

He adds, “I believe the song captures the idea of getting through things when confronted with challenges and disappointment by simply rocking out!”

“Roll With the Punches,” co-written by Mutt Lange, is out now via digital outlets. Adams also released a video for the tune that has him and his band performing in an airplane hangar.

Adams is also releasing the song as a picture sleeve 7-inch single, which is available for preorder now.

Roll With the Punches will be Adams’ 16th studio album and his first new release since 2022’s So Happy It Hurts.

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