The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band just announced a set of summer dates that kick off June 13 in Waite Park, Minnesota, with stops in St. Louis, Milwaukee, New York, Boston, Denver and more before wrapping Sept. 10 in San Diego.
Tickets for most newly announced shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
Next up, Chicago is set to stop by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Jan. 24 before heading out on the first leg of their 2025 tour. They kick things off Jan. 16 in Melbourne, Florida, with the first leg running through April 19 in Durham, North Carolina.
Ringo Starr is setting out on another tour with his All-Star Band this summer, and it doesn’t sound like he has plans to stop anytime soon.
“What else am I going to do?” Ringo tells the U.K. paper The Times. “The band sounds great. We have a fun time and we just do it.”
Ringo and his All-Starr Band — Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men at Work‘s Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette and Buck Johnson — will hit the road starting June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
And Ringo has a perfectly good explanation for why he likes to surround himself with such A-list musicians.
“I only want to be in a band. I don’t want to be out on my own, ” he explains. “There’s no way you can go out there and do ‘Yesterday’ just on drums.”
Ringo just released the new country album Look Up, but he wants fans to know he doesn’t plan to fill his set with predominantly new songs.
“In the late ’90s, I would put in, like, two or three from the new album, and you could feel the room empty,” he says. “It happens to everybody.”
He then recalled seeing that happen at Elton John’s 1975 Wembley Stadium show supporting his then-new album Captain Fantastic. “I was with his mother. He came on and said, ‘I’m only going to do the new album,’” Starr shares. “Me and his mother left after three tracks because we didn’t know them.”
A complete list of Ringo dates can be found at RingoStarr.com.
After much speculation, the Grammys, scheduled for Feb. 2, will proceed as scheduled despite the deadly LA wildfires.
In a letter sent out to Recording Academy members on Jan. 13, Academy executives confirmed that the awards show telecast on CBS will “proceed as planned.” However, the letter notes that the telecast will “carry a renewed sense of purpose: raising additional funds to support wildfire relief efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who risk their lives to protect ours.”
The Academy has donated $1 million to support music creatives and professionals affected by the fires, and with additional contributions, it has already distributed $2 million in emergency aid.
The 67th annual Grammy Awards will be hosted by Trevor Noah. The leading nominee is Beyoncé, with 11 nods.
The Doors guitarist Robby Kreiger and 4 Non Blondes are among the acts booked to play the 2025 BottleRock Napa Valley festival, taking place May 23-25 in Napa, California.
The 4 Non Blondes appearance marks a reunion of the “What’s Up?” outfit. They last performed together in 2014 after initially breaking up 20 years earlier.
As for the rest of the BottleRock lineup, it includes headliners Green Day, Justin Timberlake and Noah Kahan, as well as Sublime, Cage the Elephant and Benson Boone.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT. You can get access to a presale beginning Tuesday at 8 a.m. PT by signing up for the BottleRock texting list.
Neil Young has shared his thoughts on the new Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown, and it turns out he’s a big fan.
“I love Bob Dylan and his music. Always have. He’s a great artist,” Neil wrote on his Archives website. “Once he was on my bus and I didn’t recognize him and threw him off but that’s another story.”
As for the film, which stars Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, Neil writes, “This movie is a great tribute to his life and music. I think if you love Bob’s music you should see this great movie. I loved it.”
While Neil gave the film a thumbs-up after seeing the flick, Dylan also threw his support behind the film without having seen it. In December he posted his thoughts on social media, sharing, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
A Complete Unknown, which is in theaters now, follows a 19-year-old Dylan as he arrives in New York from Minnesota and tracks his rise as a folk singer during the ’60s, ending with his electric rock ‘n’ roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Eric Clapton’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance is coming to the big screen.
Eric Clapton Unplugged … Over 30 Years Later is set to debut in select U.S. and U.K. theaters on Jan. 27 and Jan. 28. The 90-minute special will then stream on Paramount+ starting Feb. 12.
In addition to the original Unplugged special, the new release will feature new content, including commentary from Clapton about the inspiration behind the songs and footage of performances shot for the crew before he took the stage.
Clapton recorded his episode of MTV Unplugged on Jan. 16, 1992, in front of a small audience at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England.
The taping featured performances of such songs as “Tears in Heaven,” about the death of his 4-year-old son, Conor, and an acoustic version of “Layla.”
A live album of the special was released in August 1992 and went to #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It also won three Grammy Awards, including Record and Song of the Year for “Tears In Heaven,” and sold 26 million copies worldwide to become the bestselling live album of all time.
Tickets for Eric Clapton Unplugged … Over 30 Years Later are on sale now.
Eric Clapton returned to the stage after a two-year hiatus with two back-to-back shows at the Rainbow Theatre in London. During that two-year break Clapton battled a heroin addiction and recorded his second solo album, 461 Ocean Boulevard.
An all-star lineup of guest stars supported Clapton at the show, including The Who’s Pete Townshend, who organized the concert, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi.
A live album of the concert was released that September, with an expanded edition released in 1995 to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the concert.
Legendary musician Tony Levin, best known for working with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, is giving fans a glimpse of his life on the road with the video for “Road Dogs,” a track from his latest solo album, Bringing It Down to the Bass, which dropped in September.
The black-and-white comic book-style clip features personal photos and video from Tony’s career on the road, including his recent BEAT tour, which featured Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Danny Carey celebrating the 1980s era of King Crimson, as well as from his time working with King Crimson, Gabriel and more. It also pays tribute to the crew that handles all the behind-the-scenes of a tour.
“We road dogs who tour all the time aren’t just the players onstage – as the lyrics say, there’s trucking & rigging and loading and gigging,” Tony shares. “[M]any of my photos of the crews in action seemed right for the video.”
Bringing It Down to the Bass is available now on double vinyl, CD, Blu-ray and digital streaming.
Timothée Chalamet does his own singing and guitar playing in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, and it looks like he’s getting ready to do it live.
The actor has been booked to not only be the host of the Jan. 25 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, he’s going to be the musical guest, as well.
While it’s unknown if Chalamet will sing as Dylan during the broadcast, the announcement comes after he was nominated for a Golden Globe and SAG Award for playing Dylan in the film, which is in theaters now.
And Chalamet certainly has plenty of Dylan songs to pick from. In a November interview with Entertainment Weekly, the film’s producer Fred Berger revealed that Chalamet performs 40 Dylan songs in A Complete Unknown.
This will be Chalamet’s third time hosting SNL and his first time as musical guest.
Elton John has landed another #1 album in the U.K., but it sure took him a long time to get there.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s 2017 best-of, Diamonds, tops the U.K. Official Chart after spending 374 weeks on the chart. When the album was first released it debuted at #5 and eventually peaked at #2 — until now.
Diamonds now holds the record for having both the most weeks in the top 40 and the most consecutive weeks in the top 40 before hitting #1. And after not dropping out of the top 100 since its release, the album is now the Elton record to spend the most time in the top 100.
“I’m so happy to have a UK #1 album with Diamonds,” Elton wrote on social media. “It came out in 2017, which feels like a lifetime ago. This is the first time it’s topped the charts since its release, I’m blessed that so many incredible things have happened with my career during that time. I’m overjoyed and want to sincerely thank all my incredible fans for their constant love and support.”
“What a great start to the year,” he said in an accompanying video. “I could not be happier. Yesss!!!!”
Elton’s husband and manager, David Furnish, told Music Week that the #1 is “a testament to the ongoing relevance of the hardest working artist there is.”
Diamonds’ recent resurgence is thanks to the release of a super-deluxe Blu-ray edition and a limited-edition vinyl version of the album.
The album is now Elton’s ninth #1 in the U.K. His previous chart-toppers include 1973’s Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; 1974’s Caribou and Elton John’s Greatest Hits;and 2021’s The Lockdown Sessions.
