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A previously unreleased live recording of Gregg Allman in concert is set for release in April.

Gregg Allman Band’s Great As Ever: Live In Philadelphia ’86 features a never-before-heard recording from the late rocker’s personal archives. It captures Allman’s Jan. 11, 1986, concert at the intimate Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia.

The 13-song set features an early version of what would become Allman’s hit track “I’m No Angel,” as well as the solo track “Queen of Hearts” and performances of Allman Brothers Band classics like “Midnight Rider,” “It’s Not My Cross To Bear” and “Melissa,” the latter of which was dedicated to his ABB bandmate Dickey Betts, despite their then-estrangement.

The album also features a performance of “Don’t Want You No More,” which is now available via digital outlets.

Gregg Allman Band’s Great As Ever: Live In Philadelphia ’86 will be released April 10 and is available for preorder now.

And Gregg Allman fans have more to look forward to in 2026. The documentary Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul is expected to premiere in theaters this summer. The film, directed by Grammy and Golden Globe award-winning filmmaker James Keach, will feature never-before-seen interviews and rare archival performances.

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Chaka Khan, Men At Work and former Bangles frontwoman Susanna Hoffs are among the acts set to play the annual Sea.Hear.Now festival, happening Sept. 19-20 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The beachside festival will feature over 25 artists, including headliners Mumford & Sons and The Strokes. The lineup also includes Goo Goo Dolls, Shaggy, Ziggy Marley, The Offspring, The All-American Rejects, Pixies and Jarod Clemons, son of the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons.

A presale for tickets begins Thursday at 10 a.m. ET, with tickets going on sale to the general public at 11 a.m. Presale registration is now open.

Sea.Hear.Now launched in 2018 and in the past has featured such artists as Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Lenny Kravitz, Blondie, Stevie Nicks and Billy Idol.

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Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Michael Stipe were among the performers at Democracy Now!’s 30th anniversary event at Riverside Church in New York City Monday night.

Springsteen was a surprise guest and treated the audience to a performance of his new protest song “Streets of Minneapolis.”

“This past winter when federal troops brought death and terror into the streets of Minneapolis they picked the wrong city,” Springsteen said. “The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis was an inspiration to the entire country. Their strength and their commitment told us that this is still America and the reactionary nightmare and the invasion of an American city will not stand,” he added. “Their strength gave us hope. They gave us courage.”

“And for those who gave their lives,” he continued, mentioning Renée Good and Alex Pretti — two Minneapolis residents who were fatally shot by federal agents — “their bravery their sacrifice and their names will not be forgotten.”

Following the song, Springsteen was asked about his upcoming Land of Hope and Dreams American tour, sharing that he’s going to hit cities that “had to deal with ICE.” With the trek ending in Washington, D.C., he added he has a “few words to say to the f***** White House.”

Elsewhere during the evening, Stipe was joined by The National’s Aaron Dessner to perform the track “No Time For Love Like Now,” originally recorded with Big Red Machine and featuring Justin Vernon. Smith, joined by her daughter, Jesse Smith, and guitarist Tony Shanahan, read a passage from her book Bread of Angels and performed “Peaceable Kingdom,” along with a part of her iconic tune “People Have the Power.”

The night ended with all the musicians coming on stage for an encore of Smith’s “People Have The Power.”

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On This Day, March 24, 1986 …

Forty years ago, Van Halen released their seventh studio album, 5150, which was their first record with new lead singer Sammy Hagar, following the departure of original frontman David Lee Roth.

5150 is named after guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s home studio and is also a reference to the California law that allows a mentally disturbed person to be placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold. It went on to become the band’s first #1 album and contained three pop hits: “Dreams,” “Why Can’t This Be Love” and “Love Walks In.”

5150 went on to be certified six-times Platinum by the RIAA.

On Friday, Van Halen will release a special 40th anniversary expanded edition of 5150, featuring a remastered version of the album as well as bonus 7-inch single edits and extended 12-inch tracks.

There’s also a CD featuring unreleased live recordings from Van Halen’s Aug. 27, 1986, concert at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut, and a Blu-ray with the band’s 1986 concert video Live Without a Net, recorded during the same New Haven show, upgraded to HD for the first time.

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Barry Manilow feels lucky to be alive after receiving a diagnosis of stage 1 lung cancer followed by surgery.

In his new People magazine cover story, Manilow reveals that he went to the doctor in November for an unrelated problem, but his doctor ordered an MRI for his lungs after learning that he’d had bronchitis twice recently.

“If he hadn’t done that, man … He saved my life, because there’s no symptoms for what I had. I could go on, nothing hurt — but they found the dot in my lung,” Manilow tells People. “They called me and said, ‘Could be cancer.’ That’s a bad word. ‘Not me. F*** you. I can’t have cancer.’”

But he did.

“They don’t even know how long I had this thing sitting on me. It could have been years,” Manilow says. “If it had gone any further, then I would be up s***’s creek. It just so happened that it hadn’t spread, and boy oh boy, I thought I might be dying.”

Manilow eventually had a lobectomy to remove part of his lung, and then spent a week in the ICU. He tells People, “I don’t remember it, thank goodness, because it was a nightmare.”

But, he adds, “I’m one of the lucky ones; I don’t have to have chemo, radiation and all that stuff.” 

However, Manilow, whose new album is coming out in June, says the experience certainly made him “take stock of my life.”

“This made me stop and think about: Have I done what I wanted to do, and have I made people happy? Have I been a good friend? All of those cornball things that I’ve read for all of my life, I started to think about that, too,” he says.

“And the answers are yes. And as a matter of fact, there are more yeses than I ever thought.”

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The Black Crowes are giving fans some insight into the music that inspired their recently released album, A Pound of Feathers.

The band has released a new Spotify playlist, Feathers and Lead, which they describe on Instagram as “The songs that shaped A Pound of Feathers.”

They add that the playlist highlights the “records that inspired the writing, the feel and the freedom behind this chapter from The Black Crowes.”

The playlist includes such songs as “I’m Not Talking” by The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck on lead guitar; “Popcorn” by Ike & Tina Turner; “Evil” by Howlin’ Wolf; “Knocking ‘Em Down (In the City)” by Iggy Pop; “Girl I Love You” by Eddie Floyd; “Elephant Man” by Bo Diddley; and “I Bet You” by Funkadelic.

A Pound of Feathers, the 10th studio album from The Black Crowes, is the follow-up to their 2023 release, Happiness Bastards, which was their first album of new material since 2009.

The Black Crowes will kick off The Southern Hospitality tour, with country rock band Whiskey Myers, on May 17 in Austin, Texas. Before that they will tour Australia and Japan.

A complete list of dates can be found at TheBlackCrowes.com.

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Eagles have added another show to their upcoming The Long Goodbye Act III tour.

The latest addition to the schedule is a May 13 show at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.

Presale tickets go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

This is now the fourth show the band has confirmed for The Long Goodbye Act III. They previously announced shows in Atlanta on May 5, Nashville on May 9 and Arlington, Texas, on May 16. They are also set to play New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2.

In addition to the tour dates, Eagles still have four shows left of their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere. Their next Sphere show is on Friday.

A complete list of Eagles dates can be found at Eagles.com.

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Earth, Wind & Fire has announced a new set of Las Vegas dates.

The legendary R&B group will headline nine new residency dates at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, running from Oct. 16 to Oct. 31.

A Citi presale for tickets begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, with additional presales taking place throughout the week. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

Earth, Wind & Fire launched their residency at The Venetian Theatre back in 2018. Since then they have sold out more than 50 shows at the venue.

But before they return to Vegas, Earth, Wind & Fire will once again team up with Lionel Richie for a new leg of their Sing a Song All Night Long tour. The tour begins June 24 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and wraps Aug. 14 in Austin, Texas.

The group’s next show is Thursday in Atlanta. A complete list of dates can be found at EarthWindandFire.com.

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Bryan Adams has announced a second U.S. leg of his Roll With The Punches tour, which he launched back in 2025.

The “Run To You” rocker has added 16 new U.S. dates to his schedule. He’ll once again be joined by Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, who were special guests on the first North American leg of the tour.

The new tour kicks off July 24 in St. Louis, Missouri, hitting such cities as Houston, New Orleans, Orlando, Baltimore and Detroit, before wrapping Aug. 16 in Milwaukee.

Citi and Verizon presales for tickets begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

In addition to the new tour dates, Adams will return to the U.S. to headline a set of Bare Bones solo acoustic concerts at the Encore Theatre at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas starting June 2.

Next up for Adams, he’ll bring the Roll With The Punches tour to South Africa, starting April 21 in Cape Town. He will also tour Europe in 2026, and recently announced a second leg of Canadian dates for August and September.

A complete list of tour dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.

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Céline Dion returned to public performance at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, and now she may be making a full-fledged comeback in the same city.

A series of posters has gone up around Paris, each with the title of one of Céline’s songs, such as “The Power of Love” and “My Heart Will Go On.” Meanwhile, the Canadian publication La Presse reported on Sunday that Céline will be doing a series of concerts at the Paris La Défense Arena, which holds 40,000 people.

Specifically, La Presse columnist Hugo Dumas wrote that he’s been given “credible information” that the Canadian superstar will perform two concerts per week during September and October. Nothing has been confirmed, but Dumas notes that the arena’s website doesn’t list any shows at all for the fall season, indicating that dates might be “blocked out” for a special event.

Céline last performed a full concert on March 8, 2020; she was forced to cancel her Courage World Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A planned 2021 residency in Las Vegas never materialized due to her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis, a rare condition that causes debilitating muscle spasms. 

Dumas reported that he’s been told the singer is “doing well and her illness is under control.”

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