The Doobie Brothers are reuniting with Michael McDonald for their first album together in more than four decades.

Founding member of the rock band Pat Simmons broke the news in a Facebook post.

“We are very close to finishing up an album’s worth of new songs,” Simmons revealed. “We’re lucky once again to have John Shanks producing and Michael McDonald joining in with us on this one! Tom [Johnston], Michael, John and myself have composed a great bunch of songs that we’re really proud of and John McFee is really a stand out on the tracks.”

He added, “It’s the first time in 40 years that Michael has recorded a whole album with the band and in my humble opinion it’s turning out to be some of the best music we’ve ever made together!”

Simmons said the band hopes to debut some of the songs from the upcoming album during their nationwide tour, beginning in June.

“There’s some really high energy stuff that will be fun for us to play and hopefully work well with our better known tunes,” he said.  “We’ll keep you posted and let you know how that’s workin’ out.”

Simmons said besides him, Tom Johnston, McDonald as well as guitarist John McFee have actively participated in the recording of the new album.

Produced by John Shanks, the untitled album will be The Doobie Brothers’ first project with McDonald since One Step Closer, released in 1980.

Source: RTT Music News

Following the overwhelming success of their 2023 tour, Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks have announced the first 22 shows of the 2024 YES Epics, Classics, and More tour.

The tour begins on May 30 at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jsery. Like the 2023 tour, the set list will contain numerous YES songs from all stages of the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career that featured Jon as their lead vocalist and songwriter.

The tour also promises the introduction of new material created by Jon and The Band Geeks.

Jon and the Band Geeks are currently putting the finishing touches on a brand new nine-track cd set for release in late summer with a first single and video targeted for release in late June.

Tour dates:

5/30/2024 – Thursday – New Brunswick, NJ – State Theatre
6/1/2024 – Saturday – Englewood, NJ – Bergen PAC
6/3/2024 – Monday – Rochester, NY – Kodak Center Theatre
6/6/2024 – Thursday – Albany, NY – Hart Theatre
6/8/2024 – Saturday – Hammondsport, NY – Point of The Bluff Concert Pavilion
6/13/2024 – Thursday – Chicago, IL – Copernicus
6/15/2024 – Saturday – St. Louis, MO
6/18/2024 – Tuesday – Greensburg, PA – Palace Theater
6/20/2024 – Thursday – Hershey, PA – Hershey Theatre
6/22/2024 – Saturday – Concord, NH – Capitol Center for the Arts
6/25/2024 – Tuesday – Boston, MA – Shubert Theatre
6/27/2024 – Thursday – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
7/21/2024 – Sunday – Patchogue, NY – Great South Bay Music Festival
7/24/2024 – Wednesday – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
7/27/2024 – Saturday – Peachtree City, GA – Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre
7/30/2024 – Tuesday – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater
8/2/2024 – Friday – Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheater
8/4/2024 – Sunday – La Vista, NE – The Astro Outdoors
8/7/2024 – Wednesday – Waite Park, MN – The Ledge Amphitheater
8/10/2024 – Saturday – Denver, CO – Paramount
8/14/2024 – Wednesday – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre
8/16/2024 – Friday – Thousand Oaks, CA – Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center

Source: RTT Music News

The Portland Art Museum has announced a Paul McCartney photography exhibit opening later this.

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm is an exhibition revealing extraordinary photographs taken by McCartney at the height of Beatlemania.

Organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the exhibition will open at the Portland Art Museum on September 14, 2024, and run through January 19, 2025.

The exhibit will include more than 250 recently rediscovered photographs from McCartney’s personal archive, video clips and archival material. At a time when so many camera lenses were turned toward them, McCartney’s perspective from the inside out brings fresh insight into the band, their experiences, the fans, and the Beatlemania phenomenon.

Captured by McCartney during a pivotal three-month period for The Beatles in late 1963 and early 1964, the photographs evoke an affectionate family album, picturing his fellow band members John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

“Looking at these photos now, decades after they were taken, I find there’s a sort of innocence about them,” said McCartney. “Everything was new to us at this point. But I like to think I wouldn’t take them any differently today. They now bring back so many stories, a flood of special memories, which is one of the many reasons I love them all, and know that they will always fire my imagination.”

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm is curated by McCartney with Sarah Brown.

Source: RTT Music News

Sony Music will release a new Bruce Springsteen greatest hits album on April 19.

The collection of original songs will span Springsteen’s 50-year recording career, from 1973’s Greeting from Asbury Park, NJ to 2020’s Letter To You.

Best Of Bruce Springsteen will be available in physical formats as an 18-track set across 2 LPs or 1 CD – and digitally as an expanded 31-song package.

The collection will include early-career favorites like “Growin’ Up” and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”; staples of Springsteen’s live shows from “Dancing In The Dark” to “The Rising”; best-selling breakouts like “Born To Run” and “Hungry Heart”; as well as recent releases “Hello Sunshine” and “Letter To You.”

Best Of Bruce Springsteen arrives with an album cover shot by Eric Meola during the Born To Run sessions, as well as new liner notes by Erik Flannigan.

Best Of Bruce Springsteen can be pre-ordered at https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/BestOfBruce

Before the release of Best Of Bruce Springsteen, he will return to the road with the E Street Band later this month. A series of 51 shows across North America and Europe will begin with a concert in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 19.

Source: RTT Music News