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Lawyers for Taylor Swift are asking a federal judge to toss a copyright lawsuit claiming she stole aspects of a self-published book of poetry when she created a companion book for her album, Lover.

Billboard reports that attorneys for the singer call the case, filed by Teresa La Dart, "legally and factually baseless."

The lawsuit, filed in August 2022, claims that Swift's book copied her use of "pastel pins and blues," an image of the author "photographed in a downward pose," and the books overall format, among other things.

Attorney Doug Baldrige wrote, "These allegedly-infringing elements, each a generic design format, are not subject to copyright protection. Thus, defendants could not possibly have infringed plaintiff's copyright."

Brendon Urie is a dad!

A source told Page Six Monday (February 6th) that the Panic! At the Disco front man and his wife, Sarah Urie, have welcomed their first baby.

The singer first broke the news of Sarah's pregnancy in January while announcing the breakup of his band on social media.

At the time, he wrote, "We've been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard.. Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon! The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure."

Jay Z has opened up about Beyonce's Album of the Year Grammy loss. He told TIDAL, "I remove myself from the process and hope they just get it right. It got to the point where I was like, it's just a marketing thing. You go, you got an album out and it could help the sales go up."

He added that Renaissance should have won based on how it impacted the culture, saying, "Look how the energy of the world moved. They play her whole album in the club. I don't know if I've ever seen that. The whole entire joint — like, everything?! Every remix is amazing. Everyone's inspired. It has inspired the world."

Jay Z also opened up about his "God Did" Grammy performance with DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fridayy and John Legend, revealing why he decided to rap his entire verse. He explained, "I thought about it, I was in my head and I just broke down and said, ‘You know, it's a four-minute verse.' Again, for the culture, for Hip Hop, we got to do that.This ain't your traditional song. … It's not your traditional structure of what you think a song that would be nominated for Song of the Year would sound like. It's not what you expect. And for the culture and for Hip Hop, we got to do that."

He continued, "We owe that. This thing that changed our lives. We got to do that. A four-minute verse performed at the Grammys. We owe it to the culture, and it ain't even a burden. It's a blessing. It's easy and fun."

Miley Cyrus shared outtakes from the video for "Flowers" on Instagram to celebrate the single's third week at No. 1.

She captioned the clip, "'Flowers' is spending it's 3rd week at #1 & as magical as this moment feels I know it doesn't happen by chance. This song & it's success represents the power of YOU! This is your moment & it's my honor to be the messenger. It's fun to dance like nobody is watching but it's a lot better when you all are dancing with me. I love you. Gratitude, Miley"

Paul Stanley's rumored used of pre-recorded vocal tracks has long been the subject of many conversations in the Kiss fan community. Blabbermouth transcribed a chat with Kiss manager Doc McGhee, who spoke with the Syncin' Stanley YouTube page and explained, "He sings every track. So he sings to it. So he's not lip syncing. He fully sings. It's enhanced. It's just part of the process to make sure that everybody hears the songs the way they should be sang to begin with. Nobody wants to hear people do stuff that's not real, that's not what they came to hear."

Syncin' Stanley then pushed McGhee to clarify if he's, "actually saying there are backing tracks that (Stanley is) singing to," to which McGhee said: "He'll sing to tracks. It's all part of a process. Because everybody wants to hear everybody sing. But he fully sings to every song."

When we last caught up with Paul Stanley, he explained that if a fan shells out their hard earned cash to see Kiss in concert, they're getting a massive show by seasoned vets who know exactly what it takes to deliver the goods -- be it in an open air stadium or a smoke-filled, hole in the wall club: "There's absolutely no substitute for working your way up. Bands today that are starting out -- they don't have a clue. Most of these bands go from obscurity to selling a million albums, two million albums -- they couldn't entertain a phone booth and that's why (laughter) they don't sell tickets. You learn the craft by doing it. You start in the clubs, you work your way up to being third on a bill in an auditorium, then you get to headlining there, then you get to work your way into arenas. By the time you're in arenas, you damn well know how to do it."

E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt has sold his publishing and creative assets to Primary Wave. The deal includes Van Zandt's production stake in such Bruce Springsteen albums as The River, Born In The U.S.A., Tracks, and The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, as well as his work with Southside Johnny & The Jukes.

Musicbusinessworld.com reported, "Highlights of the deal include some of the artist's biggest hits, among them Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes' 'I Don't Want To Go Home' and 'This Time It's For Real,' and 'I Am A Patriot' -- famously covered by Jackson Browne, Pearl Jam, and others -- and the theme song for his 2019 Netflix series, Lilyhammer, and Darlene Love's holiday hit, 'All Alone On Christmas' -- the latter of which, was featured in such films as Home Alone 2: Lost In New York and Love Actually."

Among the artists that have covered Van Zandt's song over the years are Nancy Sinatra, Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector, Damian Marley, Brian Setzer, Gary U.S. Bonds, and Jimmy Barnes, among others.

Van Zandt was quoted in the announcement as saying about Primary Wave: "They have an incredible track record for being creative and proactive. Looking forward to seeing what kind of fun we can have with these songs I'm still really proud of."

Steve Van Zandt told us that he's always considered himself successful in music because he's spent his career making exactly the kind of music he loves: "In this business, the truth is you're either big or you don't exist, pretty much. There's very little in the middle. So, I basically found another way to make a living, which is what I always wanted to do, and put out records and whoever buys 'em, buys 'em. It doesn't matter how many people buy 'em, y'know?"

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band perform tonight (February 7th) at Hollywood, Florida's Hard Rock Live.

It was 59 years ago today (February 7th, 1964) that the Beatles landed at New York's JFK Airport launching what has become known as the "British Invasion" and forever changing the face of popular music -- along with literally everything that came after -- arguably marking the modern world's cultural "big bang." The group's trip took in three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show -- one being pre-taped prior to their first live appearance, and two full-scale concerts: the first at Washington, D.C.'s Washington Coliseum on February 11th -- one year to the day of recording their debut UK album, Please Please Me -- and a second show on February 12th at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall.

Once in New York, George Harrison fell ill with a 102-degree temperature and missed the following day's photo shoot in and around Central Park and a camera blocking session at the midtown CBS studio. He was well enough to recover for the show without incident.

Prior to the visit, on January 20th, 1964, the album Meet The Beatles was released. Although, it wasn't the first Beatles record released in America; Vee-Jay's Introducing The Beatles beat the band's Capitol Records debut by just short of six months, it was Meet The Beatles, with its hit chart-topper "I Want To Hold Your Hand" that kick started the post-Kennedy '60s, the British Invasion, and completely revolutionized how music was written, played, sung, and produced. On February 1st, 1964, Meet The Beatles entered Billboard's Top 100 LP listings at Number 92, jumping the next week to Number Three, and the following week -- February 15th, 1964 -- hitting Number One for the first of 11 weeks.

Despite Paul McCartney's claims, the Beatles did not wait until topping the U.S. charts to come to America. The logistics of waiting until February 1st, 1964 to plan the group's entire itinerary -- including lodging, travel, security, and numerous contracts -- would be nothing short of ridiculous. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" knocked Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" out from the top spot and stayed at Number One for a whopping seven straight weeks, before being toppled by the Beatles' own "She Loves You," which after two weeks was overturned on April 4th, 1964 by the band's official new single, "Can't Buy Me Love" -- the same week that "Fab Four" made history by holding down the Top Five positions in the Billboard singles chart.

Wednesday night, February 9th, marks the 59th anniversary of the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Seen by over 73 million viewers, the show has gone on to become one of TV's most iconic moments, much like Neil Armstrong's 1969 walk on the moon. The Beatles performed twice, both opening and closing the program.

Here's Ed Sullivan's legendary introduction from that night's show: "Now yesterday and today, our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, and these veterans agreed with me that the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool who call themselves the Beatles. Now tonight, you're gonna twice be entertained by them -- right now, and again in the second half of our show. Ladies and gentlemen -- the Beatles! (screams)"

The group performed a total of five songs that night: "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and their then-current Number One hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand." One of the more memorable parts of the show was during "Till There Was You," when the screen dimmed as each Beatle was highlighted with his name appearing on the screen. John Lennon didn't know it at the time, but an additional caption saying "Sorry Girls -- He's Married" was added under his name.

What many people don't know is that their legendary Sullivan appearance was actually their second of the day. Prior to the live February 9th broadcast, the Beatles taped a future segment for Sullivan's February 23rd show. After that, the audience was cleared for the live broadcast.

Up until the group's break-up in 1970, they continued to send promo clips of their latest singles to be aired on The Ed Sullivan Show -- including "Paperback Writer," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Hello, Goodbye," and "Let It Be."

Ringo Starr recalled that the group was sweating over getting the sound right for the show --- right up to the last minute: "The main thing I was aware of when we did the first Ed Sullivan Show was that we rehearsed all afternoon. Y'know, TV was such bad sound, so we would have 'em, like, tape our rehearsals, and we'd go up and we'd mess with the dials, y'know, that they had in the control booth. So we'd sort of got it all set with the engineer there, and we went off for a break, and -- the story has it, 'cause we didn't see it -- but the cleaner came in (laughs) while we were out, and she came to clean the room and the console, and thought, 'What are all these chalk marks?', and wiped them all off. So then we had a real hasty time trying to get some sound."

George Harrison said the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show even kept the streets safe for the hour that the show was on: "Later, they said that there was the least reported, or there was no reported crime. Even the criminals had a rest for, like, 10 minutes, while we were on."

Paul McCartney said that after all these years, the Beatles' Sullivan Show appearance is usually the first thing fans bring up: "I still get people talking to me about it now. Y'know, it's like, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Saying, 'Oh, yeah man, I remember -- Sunday night. We didn't know what had hit us.'"

During his last TV interview in April 1975, John Lennon told Tomorrow Show host Tom Snyder that the entire "Beatlemania" era was as confusing and disconcerting to the group as one would imagine: "It was like being in the eye of a hurricane, and you thought -- 'What's going on?' That was about as deep as it got: 'What is happening?' You'd suddenly wake up in the middle of one -- a concert or a happening -- and (think) 'How did I get here? Last thing I remember was playing music in a club and the next minute this."

Mick Jagger admitted that the Beatles opened all the doors for the Rolling Stones by recreating the music business in the early-'60s: "They were both rivals and they were also, I mean, they were also showing the way, 'cause they were the first at this kind of. . . They were kind of trailblazers in a lot of ways, and they went to the United States first, y'know, they showed the way, they were big international stars -- because in England, most people have never really been stars outside of England. You had your little patch and that was it. And the Beatles kind of showed you could be big internationally."

During Bruce Springsteen's 2012 keynote address at Austin's South By Southwest festival, "The Boss" explained what a cataclysmic event the Beatles hitting America in 1964 was: "This was different. 'Shifted the lay of the land; four guys, playing and singing, writing their own material. There was no longer going to be a music producer apart from the singer, a singer who didn't write, a writer that didn't sing. It changed the way things were done. The Beatles were cool, they were classical, they were formal and created the idea of an independent unit where everything could come out of your garage."

In 2010, The 4 Complete 'Ed Sullivan Shows' Starring The Beatles was reissued on DVD. The collection includes the full uncut shows from February 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 1964 as well as the Beatles' September 12th, 1965 return appearance, which was actually taped on August 14th, 1965 -- the day before their historic first concert at Shea Stadium.

Paul McCartney's initial post-Beatles solo career will be the basis of a new major documentary, tentatively titled Man On The Run. The film, which is being spearheaded by McCartney's own MPL Communications, will be directed by Morgan Neville -- best known for his work on such critically acclaimed docs as the Rolling Stones' Crossfire Hurricane; 20 Feet From Stardom; Keith Richards: Under The Influence; Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; and Won't You Be My Neighbor?, among others. No release date nor outlet has been announced.

According to the announcement, Man On The Run, which spotlights McCartney's decade leading his solo band Wings, "Draws on unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda's home videos and photos, as well as new interviews and is fully financed by MPL & Polygram Entertainment and presented and produced by MPL, Polygram Entertainment and Tremolo Productions."

Morgan Neville said in a statement: "As a lifelong obsessive of all things McCartney, I've always felt that the 1970's were the great under-examined part of his story. I'm thrilled to have the chance to explore and reappraise this crucial moment in a great artist's life and work."

Back in 2001 Paul McCartney released his Wingspan documentary chronicling the group's career. As he replayed the band's time together, he said that Wings was first and foremost a lesson in overcoming the impossible: "The great thing about this story is it's got a lot of human drama because it was a struggle trying to put it together after the Beatles. I mean, the Beatles career itself was a struggle, but then having reached those heights, to try and do it over and at the same time bring up a, a young family was quite an interesting human interest story. And that comes over."

IN OTHER McCARTNEY NEWS

Surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were caught on camera dancing last Thursday (February 2nd) at L.A.'s Henson Studios.

The "Fabs" were celebrating at Stella McCartney's new collaboration with Adidas and seen bopping along to Candi Staton's 1976 Top 20 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free."

Adele may not be a football fan, but she's not about to miss Super Bowl LVII.

The "Hello" singer told attendees of her Las Vegas residency Friday (February 3rd), "I'm just going for Rihanna. I don't give a flying F**k."

Her announcement was captured by an audience member who shared the clip on YouTube.

It's the end of an era for Bruce Springsteen fans with the announcement that the magazine/website Backstreets -- a cornerstone in not just Springsteen but of all rock fandom -- is coming to an end after 43 years. The reason for the magazine, which is essentially now just a very active news and message board-based website, coming to a halt is due to Springsteen's recent ticket on-sales via Ticketmaster, which due to the company's pricing structure made some of the events' choice seats completely unaffordable.

Fans were shut out of great seats due to the company's "Dynamic Pricing" -- also called "Platinum Seats" -- which forced the sales into super-competitive market-based pricing. Due to the surge in supply and demand, the prices of some of the seats easily soared past the $5,000 mark -- a situation that was begrudgingly addressed by Springsteen and his management -- but not changed nor amended in any way.

Editor-in-chief Christopher Phillips, who took over Backstreets in 1993 from founder Charles R. Cross, posted a long explanation for the publication to wind down, writing in part:

A key reason something as gonzo as Backstreets has been able to exist, and for so long -- since 1980 -- is that it has consistently sprung from a place of genuine passion, rooted in a heartfelt belief in the man and his music. As difficult as it is to call this the end, it's even harder to imagine continuing without my whole heart in it.

If you read the editorial Backstreets published last summer in the aftermath of the U.S. ticket sales, you have a sense of where our heads and hearts have been: dispirited, downhearted and, yes, disillusioned. It's not a feeling we're at all accustomed to while anticipating a new Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band tour.

We're not alone in struggling with the sea change. Judging by the letters we've received over recent months, the friends and longtimers we've been checking in with and the response to our editorial, disappointment is a common feeling among hardcore fans in the Backstreets community.

With every reason to believe that there will be changes to the pricing and ticket-buying experience when the next round of shows go on sale. . . we simply realized that we would not be able to cover this tour with the drive and sense of purpose with which we've operated continuously since 1980. That determination came with a quickening sense that we'd reached the end of an era.

Bruce Springsteen has long maintained that his live performances are the backbone of his career, which connects him not only to the audience and his bandmates, but ultimately to himself: "I knew that the most important thing to me was when I walked out -- whether it was in a little bar on any stage, how it made me feel. Because I wanna do -- find some way in. Some way to be a part of, I guess, a community that was either really there or that I imagined. That I dreamt of."

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band next perform on February 7th at Hollywood, Florida's Hard Rock Live.

Jeff Beck, one of the most important and beloved guitarists of the 20th century, was laid to rest on Friday (February 3rd). Britain's Daily Mail reported Beck was buried in Beddington, England at St. Mary's Church. Beck died on January 11th at 78, after contracting bacterial meningitis.

Among the famed friends and mourners was the man he replaced in the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, former-Jeff Beck Group bandmates Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, along with Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Chrissie Hynde, Bob Geldof, Tom Jones, recent collaborator Johnny Depp, and director Tim Burton.

Jeff Beck worked with numerous music legends throughout his career, but unlike the other Yardbirds guitarists -- Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page -- he never found the right combination of bandmates to spur him into wider popularity. He said that he didn't mind being thought of as a music snob for having very specific tastes: "People will tend to think that really, really, trashy, awful music is music if they're not exposed to anything else and that's bad. I come from a whole different era long before all this stuff was about so I have to tread very carefully not to look as if we're a push button brigade, which we're not at all. My band are very highly skilled players and we wouldn't trade that for the world."

Billie Eilish has been named the inaugural recipient of Universal Music Group x Reverb Amplifier Award, recognizing the artist "best exemplifying the commitment to, and achievement of, measurable steps to reduce their environmental footprint and support nonprofit causes through direct fan engagement at shows, online and beyond."

Variety reports she was honored at Universal Music's Grammy Week showcase Saturday (February 4th).

According to an announcement, "Eilish utilized her platform to magnify and bring attention to the work of nonprofit organizations around the globe while engaging her fans and the music industry in meaningful climate action."

Donna Summer's life and career will be chronicled in the new documentary, Love To Love You, Donna Summer, which will run on HBO and stream on HBO Max starting in May. Best Classic Bands reported, Love To Love You, "Is directed by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Summer's daughter, Brooklyn Sudano. Described as an 'unexpected and intimate portrait,' the documentary will have its theatrical world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival."

Donna Summer died on May 17th, 2012 of lung cancer at age 63. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

Back in 1978, Donna Summer admitted that she wasn't sure if she was viewed as a serious artist beyond her massive chart success: "I really couldn't tell you. I hope I stand in the light of legitimacy, in a place where people will respect what I do, and understand that any songs that I do I choose to -- and not because that is my limitation. And I think before, that was a problem. They thought that was my limitation."

Former-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is returning full throttle with some new metal music. Ultimate-Guitar.com reported he's just wrapped production on his debut album from his longtime group, the Chophouse Band.

During a chat with Gator 98.7 FM's Gator Garage, Newsted revealed, "Actually, I spent six months of last year putting together The Chophouse Band Volume 1 (album). The Chophouse Band has been together (and) making music since 1992. So it was our first album after 30 years. I spent a lot of time on that. And then, once I got that under my belt, I'm kind of stepping back into the heavy now."

Newsted went on to say, "So the last couple of weeks I've been auditioning guitar players for a heavy project. I'm back on bass and singing with a metal drummer -- double bass, y'know; gettin' loud again. So I've got a couple of irons in the fire. I'm putting two new projects together right now -- but loud."

Jason Newsted chose to split with Metallica after leader James Hetfield gave him an ultimatum between playing with Metallica or spending his downtime with his own solo project, Echobrain. Newsted told us a while back that he never saw how Echobrain could have interfered with Metallica: "I never felt that it was going to affect Metallica in any way. There was no way that it could. The monster and the integrity and the legend that Metallica's built, it would take a lot more than that to ever affect it."

Elton John is certainly finishing big with his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour" now officially named the biggest selling tour of all time. Billboard Boxscore posted, "(Elton) has grossed $817.9 million across 278 shows so far -- more than any tour in Boxscore history. Bypassing Ed Sheeran's "The Divide Tour" ($776.4 million), it is the first tour in Billboard's archives to cross the $800 million benchmark."

Sheeran had earned the biggest tour honors back in 2019 for his 258-show run, trumping U2's "The 360 Tour," which had snagged a cool $736.4 million.

Upon announcing his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour back in 2018, Elton John was asked why the trek needed to be such a long and major outing: "My fans have always turned up to my concerts. It means a lot to me. I've been touring since 1970 -- that's 48 years, and I've always managed to sell out concerts. So, it's a way of saying thank you, and it's a way of going out with a bang. I don't wanna go out with a whimper -- I wanna go out with a big bang." SOUNDCUE

Elton John will next perform on March 23rd and 24th at Liverpool, England's M&S Bank Arena.

The ongoing "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour, which began in 2018, is set to run through July 2023 with Elton performing his final European dates.

The nominees have been announced for the 2023 Juno Awards and The Weeknd leads with six nods. He's up for artist of the year, single of the year ("Sacrifice"), album of the year, songwriter of the year, fan choice, as well as Pop album of the year.

Avril Lavigne and Tate McRae follow with five. Also of note, Nickelback, who's nominated for best rock album, will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the show and will perform.

Often referred to as Canada's Grammy Awards, the Juno's will be held March 13 in Edmonton, Alberta.

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In an interview with the Toronto City News, lead singer, Chris Martin revealed that Coldplay is finishing up their 10^th studio album. This will be volume two of Music Of The Spheres album. They've titled it, Moon Music. He didn't give a release date, but said that it won't be anytime soon.

He did give hope on hearing some of it quicker, acknowledging they plan to play some of the songs on their upcoming tour.

Earlier this week, the band added more North American dates for later this year. And just a few days ago, revealed that Coldplay will be on NBC's Saturday Night Live this weekend on February 4.

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just rolled out two-dozen spring and summer dates in support of their 2021 album, Raise The Roof. As it stands now, the pair will kick off the trek on April 25th in Shreveport, Louisiana at Shreveport Municipal Auditorium and will wind things down on July 5th in Toronto, Ontario at the Budweiser Stage.

Robert Plant told us that the success he found with his and Krauss' first album -- 2007's Raising Sand -- both liberated and centered him creatively: "Following the work with Alison Krauss, which was a spectacular revival of my spirit in a way, I felt I could do more or less anything, I could sink and swim. There was no real big partnership moment. I don't have to ask anybody anything. I just stood there a little bit like I did when I was about 17."

JUST ANNOUNCED: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss tour dates (subject to change):

April 25 - Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Municipal Auditorium
April 26 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
April 28 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
April 29 - Pelham, AL - Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
April 30 - Huntsville, AL - The Orion Amphitheater
May 2 - Louisville, KY - Louisville, Palace Theatre
May 3 - Huber Heights, OH - Rose Music Center at The Heights
May 5 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
May 9 - Asheville, NC - ExploreAsheville.com Arena
May 10 - Wilmington, NC - Live Oak Bank Pavilion
May 13 - Chattanooga, TN - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
May 15 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
May 18 - Charlottesville, VA - Ting Pavilion
June 14 - Las Vegas, NV - The Peart Concert Theater
June 15 - Tucson, AZ - Centennial Hall at University of Arizona
June 17 - Taos, NM - Kit Carson Park
June 18 - Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 20 - Bonner, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater
June 28 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
June 29 - Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap
July 1 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Center For the Arts
July 2 - Lenox, MA - Tanglewood
July 3 - Portland, ME - Thompson's Point
July 5 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage

The Kid Laroi has announced a college tour and plans to stop at university towns across the United States this spring.

The Bleed For You Tour kicks off March 22 in Syracuse, New York and will include stops throughout the East Coast, the Midwest and the South. Laroi posted the full schedule on his Instagram account. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 3.

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In support of their upcoming album, So Much (For) Stardust, Fall Out Boy will hit the road for a North American tour this year.

Shows kick off with a hometown gig at Chicago's iconic, Wrigley Field on June 21.

The 29-date tour includes headlining concerts at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City, Fenway Park in Boston, and Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.

Pre-sale takes place Thursday, February 2nd and tickets to the general public will go on-sale Friday.

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• Fall Out Boy will hit the road for a North American tour this year.
• First show will be in Chicago, at Wrigley Field on June 21.
• Tickets to the general public will go on-sale Friday.

Louise Harrison, George Harrison's sister and eldest sibling, died on January 29th at age 91, according to The Daily Mail. Louise, who spent her final days in assisted living, was known to a generation of Beatles fans for her participation in countless fan convention across the U.S. and England, and even managed her own Beatles tribute band -- the Liverpool Legends. Her younger brother, 89-year-old Harry -- who like their late-brother Peter -- worked for George until his retirement, remains the sole-surviving member of the original Liverpool Harrison clan.

Louise and her husband, Scottish mining engineer Gordon Caldwell, emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950's, eventually settling in Illinois. In 1963 as "Beatlemania" was blossoming across Britain, a still-unknown George and Peter Harrison visited their sister -- marking George the first Beatles to visit the States -- including Manhattan -- months before his bandmates. Louise played an early role trying to get the Beatles played on U.S. radio.

In the 2000's, a reported falling out between George's widow Olivia and Louise ended her $2,000 monthly pension from the Harrison estate, which George had set up for her in the 1980's. According to inside sources, the pair had fallen out due to Louise's overt exploitation of their relationship for Beatles-inspired attractions and money-making ventures. She last saw George in Staten Island, New York 14 days before his 2001 death.

George Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd told us she was amazed at what a loving and supportive family George had away from the madness of "Beatlemania": "They were so warm as a family and really were most inviting and kind to me, and I was very fond of them. And I'm still in touch with Harry, George's eldest brother. And so I had spent a lot of time with him and his wife Irene, and with (his brother) Pete and his wife and their children. So. . . we all grew up together."

Jane's Addiction posted a message to fans on social media explaining that former-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer will join them on tour. The band is forging ahead with a string of domestic and foreign March dates without guitarist Dave Navarro, who's been suffering from long covid.

The band -- Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins posted a message on Facebook, which reads:

We'd like to address the questions surrounding Dave and the upcoming Jane's shows. As a band we are in a great place, writing new music, and the bond is tighter than ever. We all hope Dave can be out playing with us; when he feels healthy and ready.

For the near future, our brother Josh Klinghoffer will jump in for the upcoming shows on the West Coast, South America and some additional international shows to be announced soon. We want to thank you for being there with us over these thirty some odd odd years. You know, we're going to keep throwing down for you.

Perry, Eric, and Stephen

Not too long ago, Perry Farrell told us that he counts himself lucky to have found his place in the world through Jane's Addiction: "Well, y'know, I still cherish being in Jane's Addiction, as hard as it is, y'know? I can't say that my band and I are friends, and there was a time we didn't like each other at all, but I would say that I love being in Jane's Addiction so much, it overrides any kind of like shortcomings I might see in them and they might see in me."