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The Brooklyn Mirage music venue is set to welcome ravers again this June after another nightlife company has stepped in to save the troubled spot, which was not allowed to reopen because of numerous safety issues. The gargantuan indoor- and outdoor-venue will be renamed Pacha New York, with Pacha Group parent company FIVE Holdings to take over the Brooklyn Mirage.

Musician and visual artist Dan Reeder is one of the longest signees to Oh Boy Records (which John Prine signed him to), and more recently artists like boygenius (who covered his song "Stay Down, Man"), Jeff Tweedy and Wilco, and Joshua Ray Walker have revealed themselves as fans; he also performed during the first ever Newport Folk Festival edition of Jack Antonoff's Ally Coalition Talent Show last year, where he was joined onstage by Waxahatchee, Weyes Blood, and Bleachers.

Last summer, she was one of the interpreters at his 30-date concert residency in Puerto Rico, No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí (I Don't Want to Leave Here), which injected hundreds of millions of dollars into Puerto Rico's economy. With lyrics that capture the grief and alienation of Puerto Ricans forced to leave home in search of opportunities, Bad Bunny's 2025 album Debí Tirar Más Fotos became a global phenomenon that continues to resonate across cultures.

Sarah McLachlan's secret to caring for her voice on the road? "Lots of warm water with honey and lemon, lots of sleep, humidifiers in the hotel and dressing rooms, exercise, and healthy food," she listed, which honestly sounds like a fine recipe for surviving the winter, too. McLachlan had a major 2025, releasing her tenth album, Better Broken, in September, with a tour across the United States.

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TOMORA, the duo of Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands & AURORA, have announced their debut album, COME CLOSER, which will be out April 17 via Capitol Records. "It is everything we dreamt of," TOMORA say. "We made it without obligation or expectation, just a joy in creation. It's the sound where we meet, the landing zone of our musical escape pods. It is a special place to us. We hope you dig it as much as we do."

Celebrated Pink Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd have expanded their 2026 North American tour to 89 shows. The previously announced trek ran from February 9th through March 29th, but has now been bolstered by spring and summer legs that stretch into August. The band picks back up on April 28th in Melbourne, Florida, hitting smaller markets as well as major music hubs such as Nashville, Los Angeles, and Austin.

The Black Keys are keeping up their loose pattern of releasing an album every year; their newest, the enthusiastically titled , arrives May 1 via East Eye Sound/Warner. Leading the blues rock band's return is the single "You Got to Lose" and its music video directed by E.J. McLeavey-Fisher, in which the duo plays a surprise show at Memphis juke joint Hernando's Hide-A-Way. Check it out below.

Barring a further dramatic turn of events, the 30th anniversary tour of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance will kick off tonight at ­Dublin's 3Arena.

Each had one of the letters of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) painted on their chest a committee led by the wives of American politicians that advocated censoring song lyrics because they believed rock music supported and glorified violence, drug use, and suicide. The musicians remained impassive and as naked as the day they were born for 15 minutes.

Come celebrate dictatorships and bolster the regimeWhile abusing helpless immigrants, a bully's wet dreamYou've joined the traitor's ranks to play the hand of GodIn a scumbag grifters kidnapping squad Now they've poorly trained an army for our kids to fear todayThe gave 'em masks and weapons and sent them on their wayThey're knee-deep in proud boys, yeah, thе party never stopsToo scared to join thе military, too dumb to be a cop

Last month, LaRussell announced his signing of a "project deal" with San Francisco label EMPIRE, one of the music industry's largest and most powerful independent labels and distributors. In 2023, he announced a deal with Live Nation for select concert dates. Both deals, LaRussell indicated, allowed him to make decisions on his own terms. The Roc Nation announcement comes after images of a late January meeting between LaRussell and Jay-Z were shared online.

The Bad Plus have expanded their farewell tour, including stops in Seattle, Boise, NYC, DC, Albany, Montreal, Northampton, and more. All dates are listed below. The NYC show is at Sony Hall on June 19, and tickets for all just-announced dates go on sale Friday, February 6 at 10 AM local time. In addition to the farewell dates, The Bad Plus' Chris Potter and Craig Taborn will be touring a tribute to Keith Jarrett's American Quartet, and those dates are below.

Footballhead by Calla Flanagan Footballhead by Calla Flanagan If you like emo, grunge, and other rock subgenres of the '90s and early 2000s, you should be getting excited for Chicago band Footballheads upcoming sophomore album Weight of the Truth, which arrives March 20 via Tiny Engines (pre-order). Three singles are out from it now, including Used To Be (which we named one of the best punk & emo songs of November) and the newly-released Diversion, which you can listen to below.