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Micky Dolenz Hits the Road for 60 Years of The Monkees While ‘Good Times!’ Gets a 10th Anniversary Reissue

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Micky Dolenz is currently on his 60 Years of The Monkees tour, a 27-date run across the United States marking six decades since The Monkees first captured the world’s attention, and arriving alongside the 10th anniversary reissue of ‘Good Times!’, the 2016 studio album that reunited Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork under the guidance of producer Adam Schlesinger for one of the most celebrated late-career records in rock history.

‘Good Times!’ followed the same collaborative blueprint that defined The Monkees’ early catalog, with tracks written specifically for the group by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Andy Partridge of XTC, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, and Paul Weller of The Jam, alongside original contributions from Nesmith and Tork. The album debuted in the Top 20, nearly 50 years after their last such entry.

“None of us could have imagined that nearly 50 years after our last Top 20 record, we’d be back there again with a new Monkees album,” says Dolenz. “It was also a joy to work with the incredibly talented Adam Schlesinger, who understood exactly how to honor our history while still making something fresh.” Schlesinger passed in 2020, adding real weight to this anniversary look back.

The deluxe reissue expands the original 13-track album with bonus tracks and a full disc of instrumentals, giving fans the most complete version of ‘Good Times!’ yet. The tour runs through November, with dates across the country from Orlando to Milwaukee.

60 Years of The Monkees Tour Dates:

June 26 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando

June 28 – Clearwater, FL @ Capitol Theatre

June 30 – Atlanta, GA @ City Winery Atlanta

July 2 – Atlanta, GA @ City Winery Atlanta

July 4 – Ellisville, MS @ Jones College

July 9 – Kettering, OH @ Fraze Pavilion

July 11 – Lakeside, OH @ Hoover Auditorium

July 19 – Napa, CA @ Uptown Theatre Napa

September 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway

September 29 – Myrtle Beach, SC @ Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre

October 1 – Hopewell, VA @ The Historic Beacon Theatre

October 3 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Music Box

October 15 – Greensburg, PA @ The Palace Theatre

October 17 – North Tonawanda, NY @ Riviera Theatre and Performing Arts Center

November 1 – Joliet, IL @ Rialto Square Theatre

November 4 – Shipshewana, IN @ Blue Gate PAC

November 6 – Northfield, OH @ MGM Northfield Park, Center Stage

November 8 – Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place

November 11 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater

November 13 – St. Charles, MO @ Family Arena

Billy Idol Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the AMAs and Delivers His First Ever Performance at the Show

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Billy Idol accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd American Music Awards this past weekend, marking the moment with his first ever AMA performance alongside longtime collaborator and guitarist Steve Stevens. The two played a medley of his biggest hits, including “Eyes Without A Face” and “Dancing With Myself,” in front of an audience that has known those songs for decades.

In his acceptance speech, Idol traced the line from 1976 punk rock to 50 years of a life fully committed to music. “When I started out in punk rock back in 1976, we didn’t know if what we were doing would last six months, let alone 50 years,” he said. “But we were doing it for the love.” He closed with a direct message to anyone inspired to pursue art: “Pick up an instrument, find out who you are, and be it.”

The award and the performance arrive during a genuinely landmark period for Idol, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2026 alongside Iron Maiden and Oasis. His world tour, “It’s A Nice Day To…Tour Again!,” has already sold out venues across the US, Europe, and Latin America over the past year.

The next leg kicks off August 7 at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA, with Devo, Susanna Hoffs, Villanelle, and Grocery Bag supporting on select dates. The run hits arenas and amphitheatres across the country, produced by Live Nation.

Video: Beyoncé’s 2011 Glastonbury Set Made History and Still Ranks Among the Festival’s Greatest Nights

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On June 26, 2011, Beyoncé took the Pyramid Stage and became the first solo Black woman to headline Glastonbury Festival, delivering a 90-minute spectacle in front of over 175,000 people that broke television viewing records and generated universal critical acclaim. Backed by her all-female band, she opened with “Crazy in Love,” moved through “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and “Halo,” introduced tracks from her then-new album ‘4’, and covered Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” and Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” with the kind of command that made a massive festival crowd feel like an intimate room. More than a decade later, it remains the benchmark for what a Glastonbury headline set can be.

Video: Turnstile’s Rock en Seine 2023 Set Proves Why They’re the Most Vital Live Band in Modern Rock

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Turnstile’s 2023 performance at Rock en Seine, captured at the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud during the festival’s 20th-anniversary edition, is exactly the kind of set that reminds you what a great live band can do to a massive crowd. Frontman Brendan Yates led the French audience through a whirlwind of mosh pits and singalongs, pulling from ‘Glow On’ with fan favorites “MYSTERY,” “BLACKOUT,” and the anthemic “HOLIDAY,” before singer-songwriter Julien Baker joined for a moving rendition of “UNDERWATER BOI” that shifted the entire energy of the room. Hardcore, dream pop, alternative rock, raw intensity, and genuine melody, Turnstile held all of it together without losing a single person in that crowd.

Kehlani Brings The Kehlani World Tour to Europe and the UK This Winter

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Kehlani has announced the European and UK leg of The Kehlani World Tour, a 7-night run presented by Live Nation kicking off November 29th in Berlin and closing December 10th in Manchester. Special guests Odeal and Waseel join as support across all dates.

The tour arrives on the back of one of the strongest album launches in R&B this year. Kehlani’s self-titled album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 69,000 equivalent album units, securing the biggest debut for an R&B album by a woman in 2026. It landed at No. 1 on R&B Albums, No. 2 on Top Albums, No. 2 on Vinyl Albums, and Top 5 on both the Top Streaming Albums and Indie Stores charts simultaneously.

The album’s engine is “Folded,” which earned Kehlani 2 Grammy Awards this year for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song. The track holds the record as the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart history, topping the chart for over 17 weeks and counting, with a double platinum certification to match.

The European run follows the North American leg, which kicks off August 6th in Minneapolis at The Armory and moves through Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, and more. The European dates hit Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London’s O2, and Manchester’s Co-op Live.

Kehlani has partnered with PLUS1 so that £1/€1 per ticket goes toward The Kehlani Fund via Live Nation. Presales open Monday, June 1st, with general on-sale Wednesday, June 3rd at 10 am local time.

The Kehlani World Tour: Europe/UK:

November 29 – Berlin, DE @ Velodrom

December 1 – Brussels, BE @ Forest National

December 3 – Paris, FR @ Adidas Arena

December 5 – Düsseldorf, DE @ PSD Bank Dome

December 6 – Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome

December 8 – London, UK @ The O2

December 10 – Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live

Riley Green Announces ‘That’s Just Me’ and Honors Toby Keith With New Single “Think As You Drunk”

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Riley Green has announced his 4th studio album, ‘That’s Just Me’, arriving September 18th via Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment. Produced by Dann Huff and Green, the record was written and recorded during the biggest tour of his career, and the circumstances shaped everything about it.

The album moves across a wide range of territory. Tender ballads sit alongside rowdy drinking songs, beachy anthems run into moments of real heartbreak, and brooding western-rooted storytelling connects all of it. Green frames the scope of it plainly: “I never wanted it to feel like one thing; I wanted it to feel like me, and all the different sides that come with that.”

Alongside the announcement, Green releases “Think As You Drunk,” the album’s second track and one of its most loaded. A high-energy summer anthem with real emotional depth underneath, the song pays tribute to country legend Toby Keith and features a cameo from Keith himself. Written by Green, Jessi Alexander, Erik Dylan, Wyatt McCubbin, Scotty Emerick, and the late Toby Keith posthumously, it carries the weight of that collaboration with grace. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Toby Keith Foundation.

“Think As You Drunk” follows the previously released ballad “My Way” and showcases exactly the range ‘That’s Just Me’ promises across its full run. Rowdy and heartfelt in equal measure, it’s Green operating at the intersection of classic country storytelling and genuine personal momentum.

The year surrounding this album announcement has been extraordinary by any measure. Green made his acting debut on CBS’s hit drama Marshals, was announced as a coach on the upcoming 30th season of NBC’s The Voice, and will co-host CMA Fest Presented by SoFi on ABC on June 24th. He also launched his spirits brand Duck Club Bourbon and sold out arenas worldwide, including a career-highlight performance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Green is currently on the road for his headlining Cowboy As It Gets Tour, hitting major cities and arenas across the country. ‘That’s Just Me’ arrives September 18th.

Hilary Duff’s ‘Mine’ EP Brings Seven Reimagined Classics to Streaming for the First Time

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Hilary Duff’s ‘Mine’ EP is out now via Atlantic Records, and the story behind it is as good as the music. 7 newly re-recorded versions of her greatest hits, originally scattered across limited vinyl variants of her sixth studio album ‘Luck…or Something’, are now gathered in one place and available on all streaming platforms.

The tracks first appeared as Record Store Day 2026 exclusives pressed on silver vinyl, limited to 10,000 copies. That release landed on the upper reaches of multiple Billboard charts and became one of the year’s biggest RSD successes. The demand made the path to a wider streaming release obvious.

The highlights here are real. “Come Clean (Mine)” and “What Dreams Are Made Of (Mine)” are career-defining tracks, and hearing them re-recorded with the perspective Duff brings now adds genuine dimension to songs that already meant a great deal to a generation of fans. “What Dreams Are Made Of (Mine)” served as the closing anthem on her sold-out Small Rooms, Big Nerves tour dates, performed live for the first time.

“From hunting down the Record Store Day vinyl to hearing you sing these songs back to me live, the response has felt really special,” Duff shared on Instagram. “I’m so grateful for all of it.”

‘Mine’ follows the momentum of ‘Luck…or Something’, Duff’s first full-length studio release since 2015. That album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, her highest chart position since 2007 and sixth career Top 5 entry. It hit No. 1 in both Canada and Australia and landed Top 5 debuts in 6 countries. Co-written by Duff and produced by her husband, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Matthew Koma, alongside Brian Phillips, it re-established her as a genuine force in pop.

‘Mine’ is the right follow-up at the right time, giving a much wider audience access to re-recorded versions of songs that shaped a generation.

Track Listing:

Wake Up (Mine)

So Yesterday (Mine)

What Dreams Are Made Of (Mine)

Sparks (Mine)

Come Clean (Mine)

Why Not (Mine)

With Love (Mine)

Paul McCartney Reveals the Charming Story Behind His First-Ever Duet With Ringo Starr, “Home to Us”

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“Home to Us,” the Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr duet on ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’, marks the first time the two former Beatles have recorded a duet together, and the story of how it came to be is as warm as the song itself. McCartney told the full tale to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in a wide-ranging interview.

It started with a drumming session. Ringo had visited producer Andrew Watt after learning McCartney had worked with him on the album’s opening track “As You Lie There.” McCartney later heard the recordings and suggested building a song around them. The lyrics he wrote drew directly from shared history: both men grew up poor, McCartney in Speke, Ringo in Dingle, and the song reflects on those early years with clear-eyed affection. “It might have been a bit rough where we live, but it was home to us,” McCartney explains.

The recording process had its own gentle comedy. McCartney sent Ringo a guide vocal expecting him to replace it entirely. Ringo sang only a little on the chorus. McCartney called him back, confused. “Didn’t you want to sing the whole thing?” Ringo’s answer: “I didn’t think you wanted me to.” A quick clarification later, Ringo sang the whole thing, and the two fell naturally into trading lines, one taking a verse, one taking the next.

Lowe’s reaction to the exchange landed perfectly: “These are two guys who have known each other their whole life, still circling one another, trying to figure out how to get it done.” McCartney’s response: “That’s how people do it.”

Garcia Hand Picked Cannabis Returns to California With Emerald Triangle Farm Partners and a Summer Tour

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Garcia Hand Picked, the cannabis brand created by the Garcia Family to honor Jerry Garcia’s enduring legacy, returns to California on June 5, distributed statewide through Kiva Sales & Service. The brand launched in California in 2020 before expanding elsewhere, and this return brings it back to the state that shaped Jerry’s artistic identity and counterculture spirit.

The California line launches with 5-pack pre-rolls, Double Doobies 2-packs, and whole bud flower, all sourced from small, sun-grown legacy farms in the Emerald Triangle. 5 partner farms each contribute a distinct strain: Canna Country Farm’s Lavender Sunrise sativa, Greenshock Farms’ Skunk Gas indica, Galactic Farms’ Under the Stars indica, Rebel Grown’s Rebel Sour sativa and Double OG Chem hybrid, and Sunrise Gardens’ Tropicanna Cherry sativa.

“We’re excited for Garcia Hand Picked to return to its roots,” says Trixie Garcia, daughter of the late Jerry Garcia. “California has always been a special place in our family. It shaped our dad’s artistic inspiration as both a musician and a visual artist. The state’s counterculture fostered community and creativity, often shared with a joint in hand.”

The Summer 2026 CA Tour runs alongside the product launch, bringing free community events to dispensaries and cannabis consumption lounges across the state. Highlights include photography from Jay Blakesberg’s collection, DJ Dark Star Dan spinning Jerry Garcia tributes in San Francisco, and Eric Krasno performing a Jerry Garcia-inspired acoustic set in Los Angeles.

Summer 2026 CA Tour Events:

June 7 – Berkeley @ Chapel of the Flowers / CBCB Berkeley’s Garcia Hand Picked “Shakedown” launch event, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

June 11 – San Francisco @ Urbana (Geary Street), 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

June 18 – Los Angeles @ The Woods, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

June 25 – San Diego @ Sessions by the Bay, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Video: Underworld’s 2016 Berlin Show Captured a Creative Rebirth in Full Flight

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Columbiahalle in Berlin on March 17, 2016 became exactly the kind of space Underworld were built for. Captured by Telekom Electronic Beats, the performance landed one day before the release of ‘Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future’, making it one of the first full live outings for new material alongside classics like “Born Slippy (Nuxx)” and “Push Upstairs.” Rick Smith’s precision-engineered beats and soaring synth textures drive the whole thing forward while Karl Hyde works the room as only he can, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and ecstatic movement turning the vast hall into something that feels much more personal than its size suggests.