Month: February 2025

Rock legend Billy Idol is returning to the road and will embark on the It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again! with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

In anticipation of the upcoming tour, Idol starred in a short video featuring his iconic catalog, which also stars comedian Matt Rife, as well as cameos from longtime Idol collaborator and guitar player Steve Stevens and tourmate Joan Jett.

The run of arenas and amphitheaters will kick-off with a first run of shows beginning at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, Arizona on April 30th through May 23rd in Toronto. The second leg kicks off August 16th in Philadelphia and runs through September 25th in Los Angeles

Five dollars from every ticket sold to the Los Angeles show at Kia Forum will be donated to the American Red Cross to support Southern California Wildfire Relief. Billy Idol will also personally match this donation.

Tickets are on sale; head to Ticketmaster for more information.

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ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has released “Livin’ It Up Down in Texas,” a new track previewed in an episode of the hit Paramount+ series Landman, created by Taylor Sheridan.

Gibbons wrote the single along with Landman stars Billy Bob Thornton (Tommy Norris) and Mark Collie (Sherriff Walt Joeberg).“  “Livin’ It Up Down In Texas was produced by Gibbons at Level14 Studios in Nashville.

Gibbons shared of the song: “A hard-hitting, hard rock bombast of sonic Texas soulfulness! It seemed really natural to team up with Billy Bob and Mark to write a song for Landman. ‘Livin’ It Up Down In Texas’ isn’t, per se, autobiographical, but does encapsulate the oil-stained Lone Star lifestyle as seen each week in the series.”

The release of the track also coincides with a solo tour by Gibbons and his band The BFG, including Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chris “Whipper” Layton and Austin music stalwart Mike “The Drifter” Flanigin. A complete list of dates can be found at billygibbons.com.

Take a listen to Livin’ It Up Down In Texas – HERE.

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The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival announced its music lineup for 2025, with Pearl Jam, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Wayne with the Roots, Luke Combs, and Dave Matthews Band among this year’s headliners.

This year’s festival is set to take place from April 24 to May 4 at the Fair Grounds, with additional artists set to perform including: Haim, Lenny Kravitz, Santana, John Fogerty, Burna Boy, Cage the Elephant, and My Morning Jacket.

The festival is split into two four-day-long weekends, with the first weekend (April 24-27) featuring Dave Matthews Band, Lil Wayne & the Roots, Musgraves, Fogerty, Burna Boy, Haim, Harry Connick Jr., Goose, Gladys Knight, Cheap Trick, Babyface, Diana Krall, Irma Thomas, the Revivalists, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, PJ Morton, Youssou N’Dour, and Big Freedia, with dozens more.

The May 1-4 weekend will feature headliners Pearl Jam, Luke Combs, Kravitz, Santana, Cage the Elephant, Laufey, Bryson Tiller, Patti LaBelle, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, My Morning Jacket, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Banda MS, Kamasi Washington, the Wailers featuring Julian Marley, Ledisi Sings Nina, Galactic featuring Jelly Joseph, the Radiators, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Morris Day and the Time, Dumpstaphunk, and many more.

Head to the New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival website for ticket information.

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Spin Doctors have announced their first album in 12 years, titled Face Full of Cake — which will also be the band’s first album for Capitol Records. The band also debuted the first single off the album, “Still a Gorilla”, alongside the lyric video for the track, which you can listen to – HERE.

Set for release on April 11, Face Full of Cake finds vocalist Chris Barron, guitarist Eric Schenkman and drummer Aaron Comess collaborating with Jack Daley (who replaced longtime bass player Mark White in 2021). The band recorded Face Full of Cake at Daley’s studio in Asbury Park and some of the material has its origins in the early days of the pandemic.

Drummer Comess said in an official statement: “We weren’t really thinking of it as a record. We’ve gone through a lot of phases in our 35 years, and sometimes things really gel and sometimes they’re just extremely difficult. When we made this record, we captured a moment where it felt effortless. There’s a really fresh energy in the tracks [and] a sense of us discovering the songs as we played them.”

Spin Doctors will celebrate Face Full of Cake with a special release show on April 12 at Brooklyn Bowl in New York, and then hit the road for additional tour dates throughout 2025.

Pre-save ‘Face Full of Cake‘ – HERE.

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My Morning Jacket announced their 10th studio album, Is, will be released March 21. Produced by Grammy-winner Brendan O’Brien, the LP marks the group’s first new full-length LP in more than three years.

Lead singer/guitarist Jim James said in a statement that their interest in working with acclaimed producer O’Brien came from a “newfound willingness to open up their process and involve an outside creative force .. Up until now I’ve never been able to let go and allow someone else to steer the ship. It almost felt like an out-of-body experience to step back and give control over to someone who’s far more accomplished and made so many more records than us, but in the end I was able to enjoy the process maybe more than I ever have before.”

My Morning Jacket also shared the lead single from the upcoming LP, “Time Waited,” along with a video directed by a Danny Clinch. The visual features a mix of performance footage and floating flowers with archival photos from throughout the band’s quarter-century-plus history.

See the video for ‘Time Waited’ HERE.
Pre-save ‘IS’ – HERE.

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