Howard Jones and ABC are returning to the U.S. for more shows next year.
The two artists teamed up for a tour last summer with Haircut 100, and now they’ll return for a co-headlining trek that kicks off Feb. 6 in San Francisco. The tour will hit such cities as Denver, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Brooklyn and Washington, D.C., before wrapping Feb. 28 in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
“So excited to be teaming up with the excellent ABC once again for another run of dates in the USA,” Jones shares. ABC frontman Martin Fry adds, “This tour’s gonna be unmissable.”
A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at howardjones.com.
Jethro Tull is getting ready to reissue their 2003 holiday album, and they’ve just shared a track from the record.
The band has just released a new mix of “Jack Frost and Hooded Crow,” which will appear on the now-titled The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow at Christmas. The album will be released Dec. 6, featuring the new mix, along with 40 minutes of previously unreleased recordings.
It is being released as a limited-edition four-CD + Blu-ray set, which includes the new mix by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord, as well as the original mix, along with live recordings from two charity concerts at London’s St. Bride’s church to benefit the homeless: Christmas Live at St. Bride’s 2008 and a previously unreleased recording, The Ian Anderson Band Live At St. Brides 2006.
The Blu-ray will feature Dolby Atmos 5.1 mixes of the album, as well as high resolution audio mixes of the two live albums.
The remixed version of the album will also be released as a two-LP vinyl set, the very first time it’s been available on vinyl.
Dean Martin’s take on the classic holiday single “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas” has made its Billboard chart debut.
Billboard reports that 73 years after the song was recorded the track has debuted on the Adult Contemporary chart at #30. The song, from a 1952 episode of The Martin and Lewis Show, was released for the first time back in October, followed by an animated video on Nov. 14.
That new Adult Contemporary chart hit comes 60 years, four months and three weeks after Martin’s first time on the chart, with the #1 track “Everybody Loves Somebody” in 1964. Nat King Cole is the only artist with a longer span on the AC chart, at 60 years, five months and two weeks.
But “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas” isn’t Martin’s only popular holiday song. His take on “Let it Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” reached a new high of #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023.
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Bonnie Raitt has announced a new set of tour dates for 2025.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s newest tour will launch March 5 in Temecula, California, hitting such cities as Phoenix, Albuquerque, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Memphis and more before wrapping May 10 in Louisville, Kentucky, although more dates are expected to be announced.
Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
But Bonnie still has some shows left in her 2024 schedule. On Wednesday she’ll bring her tour to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a benefit concert supporting communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. A complete list of dates can be found at bonnieraitt.com.
Genesis‘ sixth studio album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and to mark the occasion a new remastered version of the album is being released, with plenty of extras.
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, created with input from the band’s members — Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford — will be released March 28 in a variety of formats, including five-LP/Blu-ray audio, four-CD/Blu-ray audio and digitally, with Dolby Atmos.
The set includes the remastered album, done at Abbey Road Studios; a Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos mixes, done under the supervision of Gabriel and Banks; never-before-released demos; and a 60-page coffee table book, featuring interviews with all five band members, said to be the only time they’ve all been interviewed about the album since its original release. The book also includes previously unseen photos, a poster and a replica concert ticket.
The set also includes The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Live At The Shrine Auditorium, recorded Jan. 24, 1975. While most of the concert was previously released as part of the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set, this version includes two additional encore tracks, making it the first time the full concert and complete encore is being released.
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition is available for preorder now.
Released Nov. 22, 1974, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a concept album based on an idea by Gabriel, about a Puerto Rican youth named Rael who goes on a journey of self-discovery. During the tour for the album, Gabriel announced to the band he was leaving Genesis once the tour was over.
Memorabilia from Roger Daltrey and The Who are among the items up for auction at the annual Teenage Cancer Trust Star Boot Sale.
Some of the items available include a signed Daltrey photograph, taken as part of the Love Music Love Food book; a Teenage Cancer Trust guitar man T-shirt, signed by Daltrey; a signed poster from Daltrey and WilkoJohnson’s one-off show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on Feb. 25, 2014; a Daltrey-signed set list from The Who’s 2015 Glastonbury appearance; and a pair of artist proofs from The Who’s 2024 Royal Albert Hall concerts, autographed by Daltrey and Pete Townshend.
In addition to The Who items, there’s a guitar signed by Queen’s Brian May and a photo of Amy Winehouse taken by Bryan Adams, plus items from Noel Gallagher, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and more.
The Star Boot Sale runs until Dec. 2 at 10 a.m., with proceeds benefiting Teenage Cancer Trust and the work it does providing care and support to young people facing cancer across the U.K.
Gov’t Mule frontman Warren Haynes is heading out on the road next year in support of his recently released solo album, Million Voices Whisper.
Haynes just announced dates for the Million Voices Whisper tour, which will have him backed by the Warren Haynes Band: drummer Terence Higgins, Gov’t Mule bassist Kevin Scott, Matt Slocum on keys and Greg Osby on sax. The tour kicks off Feb. 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and wraps Feb. 22 in Buffalo, New York. He’ll also play an April 5 show in Columbia, South Carolina, which is a rescheduled show from September.
Following a fan club presale on Wednesday, local presales will kick off Thursday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. Haynes will donate $1 from each ticket to help with hurricane relief.
And speaking of hurricane relief, Haynes is set to perform at the upcoming Soulshine benefit concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Nov. 24. If you can’t make it to the Big Apple you can still enjoy the show. The concert, which also features Dave Matthews Band, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Goose, will stream live at 7 p.m. ET via SoulshineMSG.com.
Additional special guests include Phish‘s Trey Anastasio, Mavis Staples, Robert Randolph, Joe Russo, Trombone Shorty, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.
Soulshine will raise money in support of Hurricane Helene and Milton relief efforts.
Nov. 19 marks the 40th anniversary of Don Henley’s sophomore solo album, Building the Perfect Beast, the follow-up to his 1982 solo debut, I Can’t Stand Still.
The album, which had the Eagles rocker working with guitarist Danny Kortchmar, as well as Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench and Stan Lynch of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, peaked at #13 on the Billboard 200 chart. It spawned four top-40 singles, including “The Boys of Summer,” which hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned Henley a Grammy.
The song’s success can be partially credited to its video, featuring Henley singing on the back of a truck, which got a huge amount of play on MTV.
Craig Marks, co-author of I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, tells ABC Audio that despite the video’s success — it won Video of the Year at the 1985 MTV VMAs — Henley was “a reluctant participant in the music video revolution.”
“I think Hanley said something in his acceptance speech like, ‘I just was on the back of a flatbed pickup truck, lip-synching, and I really didn’t do anything else.’ And it’s true, he didn’t,” Marks shares. “But it managed to turn Don Henley into a pop star, which is the power that MTV had in 1984 and onwards.”
Thanks to “The Boys of Summer” and the album’s other hits — “All She Wants To Do Is Dance,” which went to #9, “Not Enough Love in the World” and “Sunset Grill” — the record was a huge commercial success for Henley and has been certified three-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Henley recently celebrated Building the Perfect Beast’s anniversary with a new remastered edition of the album, available digitally and as a two-LP set.
The Luther Vandross documentary by Dawn Porter now has a release date. Luther: Never Too Much will debut on CNN New Year’s Day at 8 p.m. ET.
The documentary will chronicle Vandross’ musical journey, from his years in an Apollo Theater house band to his “ascendance to become the indisputable master of the love song,” according to CNN. Archival clips of Luther speaking will be used to tell his story, as will interviews with Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Roberta Flack and more.
“We combed through hundreds of hours of interviews, concert footage and images to develop this one-of-a-kind portrait,” said Porter of Luther: Never Too Much.
The update arrives a year after the doc’s premiere at Sundance Film Festival and its fall release by Giant Pictures. Luther: Never Too Much will air on Max and OWN in 2025.
Ahead of the documentary’s CNN debut, a best-of compilation titled Never Too Much: Greatest Hits will come out on Dec. 13. It will feature Vandross’ rendition of “Michelle” by The Beatles, which just debuted at #27 on Billboard‘s Adult R&B Airplay chart.
Want your house to smell like a mansion in the English countryside this Christmas? Elton John‘s got you covered.
He’s partnered with Slatkin + Co. to create a line of holiday candles inspired by the scenes and vibes of Woodside, his country home. There are 24 custom scents in all, which Elton tells People are “all inspired by my personal holiday memories.”
“The collection will transport you through scent to my English estate,” he adds, noting that the different smells evoke things like the plants growing on the property, the holiday marmalade his family makes from their fruit trees and even his favorite holiday dessert, gingerbread pudding.
For example, he says, “I walked into my gardens at Woodside and we magically created a scent that captured the white flowers all in bloom.”
However, his favorite candle is the English Oak and Amber candle. He says, “It is inspired by a beautiful tradition between my friends and I. Each year we gift each other trees to plant on our property, creating lasting beauty for years to come. This candle was inspired by an English Oak I was gifted by a dear friend.”
The first selection of candles, for which Elton says he “smelled and tested every oil,” is now available on QVC. There will eventually be 37 items in the collection; more will be unveiled Nov. 23.
