Daryl Hall of Daryl Hall & John Oates performs on day 1 of the ALL IN Arts & Music Festival at Indiana State Fairgrounds on Sept. 3, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
If it seems like Daryl Hall’s been “Out of Touch” lately, he has a good excuse.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer wrote on Instagram Wednesday, “Hi everybody! I thought you should know that I recently received a kidney transplant from a very kind and generous living donor.”
“It happened a couple of weeks ago, and I’m already starting to feel better. It was, according to my doctors, a complete success!” he continued. “I should be back to normal in a few months, so get ready for more music and lots of Daryl’s House shows. You all take care!”
Hall, 79, was most recently on tour last year, when he visited the U.S. and the U.K. with special guest Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze. His most recent solo album, D, came out in June 2024.
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‘THANK GOD IT’S ALMOST MONDAY’ album artwork. (Hollywood Records)
Almost monday has announced a U.S. tour in support of the band’s upcoming album, THANK GOD IT’S ALMOST MONDAY.
The headlining trek launches Sept. 27 in Hartford, Connecticut, and wraps up Nov. 21 in Salt Lake City. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit almostmonday.com.
THANK GOD IT’S ALMOST MONDAY, the sophomore follow-up to the group’s 2024 full-length debut, DIVE, is due out Sept. 9. It includes the previously released songs “enjoy the ride,” “skinny dip,” “no more regrets” and “leaving is easy.”
Another track off the record, titled “delicate,” is due out Friday.
You can also catch almost monday on a tour opening for Young the Giant and Cold War Kids, which concludes Saturday in Nashville.
Josh Kiszka and Jake Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet perform live on stage during Lollapalooza Brazil at Autodromo de Interlagos on March 24, 2024 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images,)
Greta Van Fleet is teasing a new song.
The “Highway Tune” rockers have shared a video from the studio on Facebook, jamming a track that begins as a quieter, piano-based tune before the guitar and drums kick in.
“A love song we were born to give,” the post’s caption reads.
The new track will follow the May single “Play Your Games,” which marked the first fresh Greta Van Fleet material to follow their 2023 album, Starcatcher.
“Play Your Games” was released after Greta Van Fleet had posted a video called “Thanks for the Wild Ride,” which had fans worried that the band had broken up. However, they later confirmed they were back in the studio.
Greta Van Fleet also returned to the live stage in May with an underplay show at New York City’s intimate Bowery Ballroom venue.
Could a top-10 album inspire Keith Urban to cut another record of yacht rock tunes?
If so, he’s well on his way to a sequel, as flow state debuts at #7 on Billboard‘s Top Album Sales chart.
With versions of everything from Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze” to Player’s “Baby Come Back,” the record includes 10 covers. There are guest spots by Little Big Town and John Mayer, in addition to Michael McDonald on the album’s sole original track, “We Go Back.”
All the originals covered in flow state were top-20 hits on the Hot 100 between 1972 and 1981.
Earlier, Keith told Billboard if “there’s any reason to do a second (album), I literally have the 10 songs picked out already.”
flow state debuts at #12 on Top Country Albums and #57 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
Ariana Grande, Matt Bennett and Elizabeth Gillies celebrate Nickelodeon’s largest ever Worldwide Day of Play at the Ellipse on September 24, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Ariana Grande welcomed some old pals to her recent string of concerts in the LA area.
Ari posted to Instagram a carousel of photos from her Eternal Sunshine tour, and one of them showed her posing and smiling with Elizabeth Gillies and Matt Bennett, two of her co-stars on the Nickelodeon show Victorious. There were also photos of her posing individually with Elizabeth and Matt.
All three appeared on Victorious from 2010 to 2013, with Ari playing Cat Valentine, Elizabeth playing Jade West and Matt playing Robbie Shapiro. Also in the cast were Leon Thomas III, who’s now a Grammy-winning musician, and Avan Jogia, who’s now engaged to Halsey.
After attending the concert, Elizabeth wrote on Instagram, “You’ve always been a visionary who stayed true to herself and poured herself completely into her art and this tour is no exception. It’s spectacular, visually stunning, deeply immersive and made me feel like I was watching a movie. It also made me feel like I was watching an artist at the top of her game.”
“I’ll never understand how that voice comes out of you so perfectly and effortlessly every night but it definitely does. You were born to do this and nobody does it like you. Nobody could,” she concluded.
Ariana responded in the comments, “oh my f****** goodness liz i am sobbing at this.” She added, “my sweet, my dearest, my dingus, my friend, i love you so much always.”
Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs fall tour admat (Courtesy of Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs)
Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs have announced a new set of fall tour dates.
The new additions to their tour begin Sept. 13 in Wilmington, North Carolina, and include stops in St. Louis, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Beverly, Massachusetts; Wilmington, Delaware; New York City; Durham, North Carolina; New Orleans; and Montgomery, Alabama.
Tickets for all new shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Campbell and The Dirty Knobs are touring in support of their recently released album, Mission of Mercy. They kick off a new tour on July 7 in Minneapolis, with summer dates running through July 24 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Their fall dates include a gig opening for Chris Stapleton in Bristow, Virginia, on Oct. 2.
Campbell is also booked for a special concert on Sept. 12 in Atlanta, where he’ll play Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers hits backed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Country Cruising 2027 (Courtesy Country Cruising/Flying Dutchmen Travel)
Russell Dickerson will be Country Cruising into 2027.
He’s the latest artist to join next year’s voyage through Tampa, Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya, alongside Craig Morgan, Randy Travis, David Nail, Paul Overstreet, Drake White, James Otto, Filmore, Hannah Dasher, Alana Springsteen, Tiera Kennedy and more.
You can find complete details about the April 11-18 trip at CountryCruising.com.
If that’s far too long for you to wait to get your Russell Dickerson fix, you can check out his debut performance of “Boots” with rapper Fetty Wap on Thursday’s CMA Fest special. It starts at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and follows on Hulu on Friday.
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Duran Duran ‘Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes’ cover (Tape Modern)
Duran Duran is set to release a new album of remixes of their latest single, “Free To Love,” featuring Nile Rodgers.
Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes will be released Friday to all streaming platforms. It’s made up of eight different remixes of the song, from Trixie Mattel, Jersey Black Cat, Inner Galactic, ALISSIA and more.
“Sometimes a song simply demands remixes and you have no choice but to obey – this was certainly the case with ‘Free To Love,’” says Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes. “We wanted to collaborate with the best possible contemporary remixers, which is something we have not done for a very long time.”
He adds, “It was a leap of faith, and we had absolutely no idea how the interpretations of our song might turn out, but we could not be more thrilled with the results.”
Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes will also be released on vinyl, CD and cassette later this summer, with physical copies including two additional bonus remixes. There will also be a 7-inch release that includes the original single, along with an exclusive instrumental version.
Duran Duran is currently on a European tour that hits the Czech Republic on Wednesday. They are also set to headline BST Hyde Park in London on July 5. A complete list of concert dates can be found at DuranDuran.com.
Sebastian Bach of Kings Of Chaos performs on stage during 2013 STONE Music Festival at ANZ Stadium on April 20, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
Twisted Sister is adding some new fall tour dates, with former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach handling vocals.
The rockers have confirmed nine fall dates in total, with recent additions of shows in Gary, Indiana, on Oct. 18; Charles Town, West Virginia, on Nov. 14; and St. Petersburg, Florida, on Dec. 11.
The fall tour is set to launch on Sept. 4 in Palmer, Alaska.
A ticket presale for the recently added shows begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda announced in March that Bach would be taking over lead singer duties in Twisted Sister after original frontman Dee Snider backed out of a planned reunion tour due to health concerns. Snider later revealed that he approved of Bach stepping in, noting, “He’s a true fan & will honor what I did with every show!”
Poster for Don Toliver’s Nitrous world tour (Live Nation)
Don Toliver’s Octane tour experience will continue with a second leg. The Nitrous world tour will see Don play 19 dates across North America, before he makes his way to fans in Europe and the U.K.
The tour kicks off on Aug. 4 in Sacramento, with stops also scheduled in Austin, Birmingham, Nashville, Cleveland, Toronto and Brooklyn, where the North American leg ends on Sept. 6. The European and U.K. leg will begin on Oct. 25 in Paris and end Nov. 23 with a show at The 02 in London.
For those attending shows in North America, Don’s Garage VIP presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, followed by the Artist presale at noon ET, which fans can access by signing up at DonToliver.com/tour.
The general sale begins Friday at noon local time via LiveNation.com.
The tour supports Don Toliver’s latest album, Octane. It follows his Octane world tour, which sold out in 31 cities, according to a press release, and saw appearances from Travis Scott, SZA and more.
