Month: February 2022

Ringo Starr has announced new tour dates, as well as the All-Starr Band line-up, for the forthcoming North American tour taking place this May/June.   The All-Starr band line-up will include Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart, and the return of Edgar Winter.

Starr will launch the tour in Ontario with two shows at Casino Rama on May 27 and 28; the tour continues through New England with shows in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, as well as stops in New York City (for three consecutive nights in June at the Beacon Theater), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland before heading south with shows in Atlanta and Florida.

Said Ringo: “I can’t wait to get back out on the road and play. This is the longest I’ve been off the road in years – up until 2020 I was touring every year with the All Starrs – and I’ve really missed it. Making music in the studio has been great, and it certainly saved me during the pandemic, but nothing beats playing live with great musicians in front of an audience. I love my fans and they love me and it’s going to be wonderful to be peace and loving and playing for them again.”

Tickets are on sale now; head to RingoStarr.com for more information.

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The Who will kick-off a North American tour this April, returning to the U.S. and Canada for The Who Hits Back! tour.   Some shows were originally meant to take place in 2019; however, frontman Roger Daltrey needed to undergo a throat operation at the time, forcing the postponement.

The new tour will take place between April/May, and October/November, and will see the legendary rockers joined by local orchestras at each stop. Pete Townshend spoke to Rolling Stone about the tour, saying: “Roger is of the opinion that he wants to sing until he drops. That’s not my philosophy of life. There are other things that I want to do, still want to do, and will do, I hope. I hope I’ll live long enough to do them. But it’s not a farewell tour. Apart from anything else, we still have people who have tickets for the UK 2019 tour. We’re very, very keen to do that tour and we’ll be doing that tour in 2023, I think. But I’m talking about stuff I don’t really know about. I don’t have any guarantees, like everybody else. I don’t really know for sure what’s going to happen next month.”

Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 11 at 10am local time – here.

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Dave Matthews Band has announce a 50-date North American summer tour, which will kick off May 11 at the recently-opened Moody Center at The University of Texas in Austin, TX, and close with two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 20.

As they have done every year as tradition, Dave Matthews Band will perform a three-day Labor Day weekend celebration at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA; the scenic concert location takes place Sept. 2-4.

The presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is already underway at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com.  Presale for cardmembers of tour sponsor Citi begins Tuesday, Feb. 22 – Thursday, Feb. 24.  Tickets will go on sale to the general public Friday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. local time.

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The Black Keys will hit the road later this year with a 32-date North American tour. supported by Band of Horses for all shows, plus Ceramic Animal, Early James and the Velveteers for select performances.  Billed as the Dropout Boogie Tour, the tour kicks-off July 9 in Las Vegas and concludes on Oct. 18 in Dallas.

The Black Keys, which consists of guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, received their 14th Grammy nomination last year for ‘Delta Kream,’ an album of blues covers originally performed by artists such as John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. In late 2021, they released a deluxe edition of their seventh album El Camino in celebration of the LP’s 10th anniversary.

Tickets for all shows can be purchased at the Black Keys’ website.

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Tori Amos will launch her 2022 North American “Ocean to Ocean” tour on April 27 in Dallas, with stops planned in Austin, Atlanta, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Providence, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and more. The run will wrap up with two Los Angeles dates at the Orpheum Theatre, on June 15 and 16.. The tour takes its name from Tori’s 2021 LP, Ocean to Ocean.

For the full list of Amos’ tour dates, and general tickets info, head to Amos’ website.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers have released a music video for the single “Black Summer.” The band also announced their 12th studio album, Unlimited Love, will drop on April 1st.  You can pre-order Unlimited Love at your streaming service of choice.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers will hit the road in support of Unlimited Love this summer, featuring support from artists including Anderson.Paak & The Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky, Beck, HAIM, King Princess, St. Vincent, the Strokes and Thundercat.  View the full tour schedule and purchase tickets on the band’s website.

Check out the music video for “Black Summer” at the link – here.

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