Month: June 2025

Bryan Adams will launch an expansive 2025 North American tour in support of his upcoming studio album, Roll with the Punches. The album serves as the follow-up to Adams’ 2022 studio effort, So Happy It Hurts; a release date has yet to be announced.

The 40-date trek will start with a 19-show run through Adams’ home country of Canada, followed by a series of 21 concerts in the U.S. Adams said in a statement: “I’m so thrilled to be announcing the North American leg of the Roll with the Punches Tour. We’ll be playing all the classics, some deep cuts, and sharing some brand-new tracks from the forthcoming album.”

The North American Roll with the Punches Tour will kick off September 11 with a concert in Kamloops, British Columbia. The U.S. leg begins October 25 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and concludes with a November 26 show in Minneapolis.

Opening for Bryan on the U.S. portion of the tour will be Pat Benatar and her husband/longtime musical collaborator Neil Giraldo. Supporting Adams on most of the Canadian leg of the trek will be Juno Award-winning Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs. Another Juno-winning artist, Canadian pop-rock singer/songwriter Amanda Marshall, will open for Adams on September 24 in Kelowna, British Columbia, and September 26 in Calgary, Alberta.

Visit BryanAdams.com for more information.

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The Soundside Music Festival has officially unveiled the full artist lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place at Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Seaside Park on Sept. 27-28.  Soundside Fest. will host 20 performers throughout the weekend, headlined by The Killers, Hozier and Weezer.

Soundside’s first-day lineup on Sept 27 will be headlined by The Killers, as well as rockers Weezer, Joe Keery’s garage-psych project DJO and Japanese Breakfast. The Last Dinner Party, Inhaler, Rachel Chinouriri, Wild Rivers, Hollow Coves and Dipsea Flowers will round out the bill.

On Sunday, Sept. 28, Hozier will headline day two, also featuring Vampire Weekend and up-and-comers The Backseat Lovers, Remi Wolf Chelsea Cutler, Alex Warren, Gigi Perez, Brenn!, Vundabar and Happy Landing.

The festival will follow a single-stage format, so concertgoers will have a chance to catch each act in its entirety without competing set-times. Bridgeport, CT residents in six different zip codes will be eligible for a 15% discount on tickets.

For more information, visit soundsidemusicfestival.com.

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Heart is hitting the road again this August for a brand-new run of shows, with the legendary Todd Rundgren joining them for select dates.

Heart just wrapped their 2025 Royal Flush Tour, and will follow that up with An Evening With Heart, a special tour featuring Ann and Nancy Wilson playing two sets each night. Those dates start on May 31st in New Jersey with stops in Detroit, St. Louis, Orlando and others, before wrapping on June 28th in Hollywood, Florida.

The  new 14-date summer trek kicks off on August 8 in Quincy, Washington, and wraps up on August 30 in Bethel, New York.  Rundgren will appear at select performances, with additional special guests expected to be announced soon. Ahead of the tour with Heart, Rundgren will also be hitting the road on his “Still Me, (Still We) Tour,” extending his 2024 “Me/We Tour.” Those upcoming performances run through June/July.

Tickets for all shows are available at Heart-Music.com.

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Wolfgang Van Halen and his band, Mammoth have dropped the video for their new single “The End.”

Van Halen says of the track, “I’ve had the tapping idea on the intro for ‘The End’ since before Mammoth. I was able to fit it into this world. It’s still over-the-top and shreddy, but it’s also melodic and controlled. Overall, I was doing some different things on the record, and I knew this was going to be a big step. Once we finished ‘The End,’ it felt really special to me.”

The star-studded video for “The End” is directed by Robert Rodriguez, and shows Van Halen’s take on Rodriguez’s 1996 action-horror film From Dusk Till Dawn. The video features a number of cameos, including Danny Trejo, Slash, Myles Kennedy, Van Halen’s mother, Valerie Bertinelli as well as his wife, Andraia Allsop.

Van Halen shared in a statement: “I’ve had the tapping idea on the intro for ‘The End’ since before Mammoth. I was able to fit it into this world. It’s still over-the-top and shreddy, but it’s also melodic and controlled. Overall, I was doing some different things on the record, and I knew this was going to be a big step. Once we finished ‘The End,’ it felt really special to me.”

See the video for ‘The End’ – HERE.

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Brian Wilson, legendary co-founder and chief songwriter for The Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82.

Wilson’s family announced his passing on social media on Wednesday, June 11, featuring a recent photo of Wilson smiling on a bench. Their statement read: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”

Wilson co-founded the Beach Boys in 1961 and played a huge role in developing the popular “California sound” that became a signature of the era. Hits include “Surfin’ USA,” “In My Room,” “Little Deuce Coupe,” “Surfer Girl,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Good Vibrations,” “God Only Knows” and more. He served as the rock band’s songwriter and co-lead vocalist and also played bass guitar and keyboard alongside brothers, Dennis and Carl Wilson, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, as part of the group’s original lineup (per PEOPLE).

The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and were honored in 2001 with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Wilson won two Grammy Awards for his solo work, one for “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” in 2005 and another for “The Smile Sessions” in 2013. He was also recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007 and earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2016 for writing an original song featured on the soundtrack of the biopic, Love & Mercy.

Wilson was married twice, first to Marilyn Rovell, from 1964 to 1979, and then to Melinda Kae Ledbetter, whom he married in 1995. Wilson’s family announced in May 2024 that he was dealing with “major neurocognitive disorder”-  the term used to describe what was previously known as dementia — and was placed under a conservatorship following the passing of his wife, Melinda, earlier that year.

Wilson is survived by his two daughters, Carnie and Wendy, whom he shares with his first wife; as well as five children he adopted with Ledbetter: Daria, Delanie, Dylan, Dash and Dakota Rose.

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