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Styx Releases New Album as 2021 Tour Begins
“Hello friends… Man, have we missed you all!” says Styx’s Tommy Shaw. The summer run is a welcome sign for music fans. Listen to “Crash of the Crown”
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Queensrÿche’s ‘Mindcrime,’ ‘Empire’ Get Expanded
The band’s landmark progressive metal albums, newly mastered at Abbey Road Studios, are being celebrated with plenty of concert performances from the era
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David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ Sets Broadway Return
“New York is back,” said Byrne, “and given all we’ve witnessed, felt and experienced, we have an opportunity for a new world here”
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Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin Set 2021 Tour
The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriters will be on stage together for several dozen shows this fall, performing songs and sharing stories
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Eric Clapton Announces 2021 U.S. Tour
The concerts will be Slowhand’s only North American dates for 2021 and will precede his European tour, which was rescheduled to Spring of 2022
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King Crimson Announce 2021 Tour
This marks the seventh year that the band has toured since returning to performing live in 2014, a run only interrupted by the lockdown in 2020
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Rick Wakeman, Alan Parsons on Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours List
The longtime Yes keyboardist said he was “stunned and genuinely very proud” and had to read the letter three times before the news sunk in
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Asia Reunion Albums Box Set Arrives: Listen
The English supergroup formed in London in 1981, are celebrating their 40th anniversary by releasing a 5-CD set, The Reunion Albums: 2007 – 2012
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Ten Years After Plans Concert Livestream
The June 17 livestream event will include original drummer Ric Lee, who is still a member, along with original keyboardist Chick Churchill.
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Ambrosia Keyboardist David Cutler Lewis Dies
He was a member of the group in the late ’70s/early ’80s, and played on their 1980 pop hit, “Biggest Part of Me.” He later won a Grammy with another band
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