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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band kick off their Land of Hope and Dreams American tour on Tuesday at the Target Center in Minneapolis, and The Boss is giving fans at home a chance to experience at least a part of it.

Springsteen has announced that the first two songs of the show will stream live on YouTube and for subscribers in the nugs.net app. Audio of the full concert will also be available after the show in the nugs app.

“We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour,” Springsteen said in a video announcing the tour in February. “We will be rocking your town in celebration and in defense of America — American democracy, American freedom, our American Constitution and our sacred American dream — all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington, D.C.”

The tour is set to wrap with an outdoor show on May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceSpringsteen.net.

Ahead of the tour, Springsteen was in Minnesota Saturday to perform his new protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” at the No Kings rally at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.

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Traffic co-founder Dave Mason has released his first children’s book, Hole in My Shoe, a reimagining of his 1967 song, which he wrote when he was just 19 years old.

“‘Hole In My Shoe’ was the first song I ever wrote,” says Mason. “Released by Traffic in 1967, it spent 14 weeks on the U.K. charts, climbed to #2, and has carried its charm ever since. Now, it’s been reimagined as a children’s book for all ages.”

He notes, “I’ve had the lyrics beautifully illustrated and re-recorded the song, which is included as a download inside the book—and it’s the only way you can hear it.”

The new version of “Hole in My Shoe” features guitarist John McFee of The Doobie Brothers, with Mason’s wife contributing the spoken word passages to the song. The book includes a QR code for a free download of the updated recording.

“It brings great satisfaction [to] revisit my first creative endeavor,” he says of the book, which features illustrations by Jillian Dister. “A lot of miles and music have happened since then, and that song opened a door to a life bigger and better than I ever imagined.”

The book is available for purchase now at DaveMasonMusic.com.

In September, after more than 60 years in music, the 79-year-old Mason announced that he was retiring from touring due to ongoing health issues. While this is his first children’s book, he previously released his memoir, Only You Know and I Know, in 2024.

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Céline Dion has confirmed what many had already assumed: she’s returning to the concert stage in Paris.

In a video message on Instagram Monday — the Canadian superstar’s birthday — Céline says, “This year, I’m getting the best birthday gift of my life. … I’m getting the chance to see you, to perform for you once again in Paris, beginning in September.”

The video was also shown on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

“I’m feeling good, I’m strong, I’m feeling excited, obviously a little nervous, but most of all, I’m grateful to all of you. I love you all and I’ll see you soon!”

CELINE DION PARIS 2026 will be a five-week engagement at Paris La Défense Arena, which holds 40,000 people, starting Sept. 12. She’ll play a total of 10 nights through Oct. 14. According to a press release, the show will feature the singer’s “most beloved hits in both French and English.”

You can register for the presale on celinedion.com now through Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. The presale starts April 7; tickets go on sale to the general public April 10 at 4 a.m. ET. VIP packages will also be available.

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.

Céline choosing Paris as the city for her engagement is fitting: Her first public performance after revealing her diagnosis took place at the Eiffel Tower during the 2024 Olympics.

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Deep Purple has announced dates for a new North American tour.

The “Smoke on the Water” rockers are set to hit the road this summer joined by special guests Kansas, with Jefferson Starship joining them on select dates.

The tour will take them across the U.S. and Canada, launching Aug. 4 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with stops in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California, and more, before wrapping Sept. 12 in Sparks, Nevada.

A presale for tickets begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Thursday at 10 a.m. local time.

Deep Purple’s next live show is April 11 in Tokyo, Japan. They will also bring their tour to Europe starting June 11 in Finland.

A complete list of Deep Purple tour dates can be found at DeepPurple.com.

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Led Zeppelin celebrated the 50th anniversary of their iconic album Physical Graffiti in 2025, and now guitarist Jimmy Page is giving fans some insight into how one of the songs on the album came to be.

The rocker just released an early home demo of an instrumental piece that would eventually become the track “Ten Years Gone.”

“As a footnote to Physical Graffiti, I thought you might like to hear the original home demo, recorded in my studio at Plumpton Place of a piece of music that was going to surface as Ten Years Gone,” Page wrote on Instagram. “I presented this rough mix to the band at Headley Grange in order to do this for real. Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary and then we arrive at the song Ten Years Gone.”

Physical Graffiti, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s sixth studio album, was released on Feb. 24, 1975. It was a double album and the band’s first to be released under their own label, Swan Song Records.

The album was a critical and commercial hit for the band. It spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and also hit #1 in the U.K. and Canada. It was the first album to go Platinum from preorders alone and has since been certified 16-times Platinum in the U.S.

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On This Day, March 30, 1985 …

Phil Collins hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “One More Night,” the first single from his third studio album, No Jacket Required, which went to #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

The song spent two weeks at #1, before being knocked out by the all-star charity single “We Are the World.”

The track was one of seven solo #1 hits for Collins. Others include: “Another Day in Paradise,” “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” “Two Hearts,” “Groovy Kind of Love,” “Separate Lives” and “Sussudio.”

Collins is currently nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. He was inducted in 2010 as a member of Genesis.

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Eric Clapton is bringing back his Crossroads Guitar Festival yet again.

The three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will hold his seventh annual festival Sept. 26-27 at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, with a lineup that includes the first-ever appearance from The Who’s Pete Townshend.

Clapton will perform both nights of the festival. Other artists on the bill include ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons, John Mayer, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Marcus King, and more, with Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Tommy Emmanuel and Julian Lage also set to make their first Crossroads appearance.

This year’s festival will celebrate the 28th anniversary of the Clapton’s Crossroads Centre Antigua, which provides treatment and education to chemically and alcohol dependent persons and their families.

Tickets for Crossroads Guitar Festival go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. A full list of performers can be found at CrossroadsGuitarFestival.com.

Clapton’s first Crossroads Guitar Festival took place in June 1999 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The last festival took place in September 2023 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

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Rush fans just got a taste of what to expect on their upcoming Fifty Something tour.

The band made a surprise appearance at the 2026 JUNO Awards in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Sunday,  performing “Finding My Way,” the lead-off track from their 1974 self-titled debut album.

The appearance marked Rush’s first-ever performance at the JUNO Awards, and Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson’s first public performance with new Rush drummer Anika Nilles.

Rush is set to kick off their Fifty Something tour on June 7 in Los Angeles with North American dates running through Dec. 17. The tour will also hit Europe and South America.

The trek will be the band’s first tour in over 10 years, and their first since the 2020 death of their drummer Neil Peart. A complete list of date can be found at Rush.com.

Also at the JUNO Awards, Joni Mitchell received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was celebrated by Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell, who performed a medley of Mitchell’s hits. The celebration ended with Joni joining them for an all-star jam of her classic “Big Yellow Taxi.”

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Steve Miller Band’s ninth studio album, Fly Like An Eagle, a milestone that will be marked with a special release.

A limited-edition picture disc pressing of the album will be released on May 15, 50 years to the day of the original album’s release. It will feature the album’s cover on side A, with a rare photo of Miller from the album’s recording sessions on side B.

Fly Like An Eagle (Picture Disc) is available for preorder now.

Fly Like An Eagle was a huge commercial success for Steve Miller Band, thanks to three hit singles: the title track, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100; “Take The Money And Run,” which peaked at #11; and “Rock ‘n Me,” which went to #1, becoming the band’s second chart topper following 1973’s “The Joker.”

The album went on to be certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA. In 2025, it was chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

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The Kinks’ Dave Davies recently defended the band’s iconic song “Lola” after Moby called the song’s lyrics “gross and transphobic” in an interview with The Guardian.

In a new interview with The Telegraph, Dave says he was “shocked and really quite upset” when he heard about Moby’s comments, noting his first thought when he heard about them was “Who is Moby?”

And when he told his brother, bandmate and “Lola” songwriter Ray Davies about them, he had the same reaction, asking Dave, “Who the f*** is Moby?” Dave adds that Ray “wasn’t happy at all.”

Talking about the tune, which was released in 1970, Dave says when Ray first played it for him he thought it was “fun and beautiful.”

“It was about real people and real people’s antics. There is nothing nasty about it,” he says. “People were quite shocked by it. But we loved it, and the world seemed to love it too. No one mentioned the word transphobia then. I don’t think the word existed.”

Dave says of Moby’s comments, “I worried that it could turn people against us because it can feel like people are becoming weirder by the day.” He added, “They are always quick to judge and make assumptions about others. It is very rigid thinking. They don’t know that there is always a backstory. It can be dangerous to smear people.”

But Dave says he doesn’t hold anything against Moby.

“I don’t bear anyone malice. I think he made a clumsy mistake,” says Dave. “All music, all art, should be applauded. It’s not for me or for anyone else to decide what is right or wrong. We should be grateful that we live in a world where people are free to make music and say what they want to say.”

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