R.E.M. played “Losing My Religion” at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in New York on Thursday (June 13), performing live for the first time in more than 15 years.

In a recent interview with CBS This Morning, R.E.M. had said it would take a comet for the Georgia foursome – Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Peter Buck – to reunite.

Jason Isbell, who inducted R.E.M. into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, said, “The songs they created served a real purpose for kids like me growing up in a small southern town. Somebody out there reluctantly clawing their way into the mainstream who was just as strange and out of place and time as I was. R.E.M. was greater than the sum of its parts. R.E.M. moved like a single instrument.”

Isbell also paid tribute to the band by covering “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

“Writing songs and having a catalog of work that we’re all proud of that is out there for the rest of the world for all time is hands-down the most important aspect of what we did. Second to that is that we managed to do so all those decades and remain friends. And not just friends, dear friends,” Stipe said.

“We are four people that very early on decided that we would own our own masters and we would split our royalties and songwriting credits equally,” he continued. “All for one and one for all.”

The band’s last full concert was in November 2008 in Mexico City.

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The Eagles have announced a residency at Sphere in Las Vegas featuring eight shows over four exclusive weekends from Friday, September 20, through Saturday, October 19.

Presale registration is available now at https://eagles.com/pages/tour

The presale begins on June 18 at 10 AM PT at https://www.eagles.com.

Vibee Hotel & Experience Packages presale packages go on sale beginning June 14 at 10 AM PT.

The general on-sale will begin on June 21 at 10 AM PT.

Dead & Company were the last band to play at the 18,000-seat 160,000-square-foot venue; on May 16.

Eagles – Live In Concert at Sphere Dates:

Friday, September 20
Saturday, September 21
Friday, September 27
Saturday, September 28
Friday, October 11
Saturday, October 12
Friday, October 18
Saturday, October 19

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Foghat recently shared a new video for the track “Black Days & Blue Nights” from their latest album, Sonic Mojo.

The clip features a live performance of the track, which is about the late Rod Price, the band’s original lead guitarist, who passed away in 2005.

“This song is our Ode to Rod Price,” founding member/drummer Roger Earl shares. “Rod was a complicated man. He was a beautiful soul, and we were good friends when he joined the band.”

Sonic Mojo is Foghat’s seventeenth studio album and was released on November 10, 2023. It features both cover songs and original compositions, including the last compositions by Kim Simmonds before his 2022 death.

The album was the band’s first release since 2016’s Under the Influence.

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss recently shared a new version of “When The Levee Breaks.”

The new version of “When the Levee Breaks” is the first release from Plant and Krauss since their 2021 album Raise the Roof.

“When the Levee Breaks” is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

Later, Led Zeppelin covered the song as the last track of their untitled fourth album. Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin.

The single arrives just days after Plant and Krauss launched their “Can’t Let Go Tour” with a performance in Oklahoma. From there, they’ll play shows in cities across the country, making stops in North Carolina, New York, California, Canada, and more.

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