Cheap Trick announces dates for the All Washed Up tour

: Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick perform at Ascend Amphitheater on August 14, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)Cheap Trick released their latest studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and now they’ve announced tour dates in support of the release.The band will hit the road on the All Washed Up Tour starting Jan. 24, 2026, in Madison, Wisconsin. The tour includes stops in Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut and more, with cities confirmed through […]

November 17, 2025

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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic extends Bigger & Weirder tour into 2026

'Weird Al' Yankovic tour admat (courtesy of Live Nation)“Weird Al” Yankovic has added a new 2026 leg to his successful Bigger & Weirder tour.Originally launched in 2025, the tour had Weird Al playing 75 shows across 67 cities to over 500,000 fans. The new leg has him playing 90 North American cities, beginning May 26 in Hollywood, Florida, and wrapping Oct. 17 in Milwaukee.“We did 75 shows this year, and the fans weren’t sick of us yet,” Weird Al explained, “so we’re just […]

November 17, 2025

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Warren Haynes announces 2026 solo shows

Picture of Warren Haynes (Photo credit: Shervin Lainez)Warren Haynes has announced dates for a new 2026 solo tour.The trek will feature just Haynes and his guitar, and will have him playing stripped down shows that will feature two sets each night. He plans to play songs from his catalog, including solo recordings, and Gov’t Mule and Allman Brothers Band tunes, plus music that has influenced his career.“Although I have done a few solo dates here and there, I’ve never afforded myself the opportunity […]

November 17, 2025

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Cheap Trick to play iconic live album ‘Cheap Trick at Budukon’ in Vegas

'Cheap Trick at Budokan – Live in Las Vegas' admat/(courtesy of Live Nation)Cheap Trick is revisiting their iconic live album Cheap Trick at Budukon, but fans won’t have to travel to Japan to experience it.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced two shows in Las Vegas where they will play the 1978 live record in its entirety, along with their other hits. Cheap Trick at Budokan – Live in Las Vegas will take place April 17 and 18, 2026, at The Venetian Theatre […]

November 17, 2025

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Cher to be musical guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’ for first time in almost 40 years

Cher performs during the 2025 Love Rocks NYC Benefit for God's Love We Deliver at Beacon Theatre on March 06, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)Cher is headed to Saturday Night Live for the first time in almost 40 years.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is confirmed as musical guest on the Dec. 20 episode of the NBC late-night sketch show, with host Ariana Grande.This will be Cher’s second time as musical guest on SNL, and her […]

November 17, 2025

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Lynyrd Skynyrd & Foreigner team up for 2026 Double Trouble Double Vision Tour

Lynyrd Skynyrd & Foreigner tour admat (Courtesy of Live Nation)Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner are teaming up for a 2026 tour.The Double Trouble Double Vision Tour will consist of 19 co-headlining dates next summer, kicking off July 23 in Atlanta and wrapping Aug 29 in Rogers, Arkansas.“The energy the band has felt knowing we'll be touring with Skynyrd this coming summer has been electric!” Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson says. “Two bands with plenty of iconic songs, dueling guitars, double trouble and double […]

November 17, 2025

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On This Day, Nov. 17, 2010: Patti Smith wins National Book Award for ‘Just Kids’

On This Day, Nov. 17, 2010…Rocker Patti Smith was awarded the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.The book documented Smith's relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late '60s and early '70s New York art scene. The book was a New York Times bestseller and won several other awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award.Patti released her second memoir, Bread of Angels, on Nov. 4. Described as "the most intimate" of Smith’s memoirs, the book follows […]

November 17, 2025

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KISS pays tribute to Ace Frehley at first show since 2023

(L-R) Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of KISS pose as they light the Empire State Building in celebration of the band's final show at The Empire State Building on November 30, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)KISS returned to the stage for the first time since their final End of the Road World Tour concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden in December 2023. They performed Friday […]

November 17, 2025

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Movies, music, madness: Robbie Robertson’s ‘Insomnia’ tells ‘origin story’ of his partnership with Martin Scorsese

Robbie Robertson, 'Insomnia' (Crown Publishing)Robbie Robertson's final solo album, 2019's Sinematic, features "Beautiful Madness," a song inspired by the two years he and Martin Scorsese lived together after their respective marriages collapsed. That "madness" is now detailed in The Band guitarist's brutally honest new book Insomnia, the sequel to his memoir, Testimony.In Insomnia, Robertson and Scorsese are creatively on fire. As The Band dissolves, they work on The Last Waltz and Raging Bull; hang with Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Warren Beatty; travel the world; bed beautiful […]

November 17, 2025