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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s still an empty slot on Kamala Harris‘ dance card for her rally Wednesday night in western Wisconsin — that would be her pick for running mate, which will be revealed Tuesday — but the band that they or their supporters will be dancing to has been revealed. Bon Iver will be performing during the event.

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Aerosmith Announces Retirement From Touring, Saying Steven Tyler’s ‘Recovery From His Vocal Injury Is Not Possible’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Aerosmith has played its final gigs. The band announced Friday that they have canceled all remaining concert dates and are officially retired from touring, because singer Steven Tyler‘s “recovery from his vocal injury is not possible.” “It has been the honor of our lives to have our music become part of yours,” the group declared in a social media post that reads like a farewell statement. The group had already been on what was billed as a final outing — the “Peace Out… Farewell Tour” — when their road trips came to a halt after what turned out to be a final gig in Elmont, NY on Sept.

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Maren Morris Says Muna, ‘the Professors of Gay,’ Helped Quell Her ‘Bi-Panic’ — and Offered Advice About Dating a Woman While Collaborating on Sexy New Song, ‘Push Me Over’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The sexiest song by far on Maren Morris‘s just-released EP is titled “Push Me Over.” Her collaborators on the tune are the members of the group Muna, whom Maren refers to as “the Professors of Gay” — and that does offer a hint as to what Morris is being pushed over into the lyrics of the song: giving in to the joys of finally dating a woman. Morris discussed the new tune in an interview with Billboard, where the singer said that her real life was being reflected throughout the songs on the new EP, “Intermission” — both in the more sorrowful songs that deal with her recent divorce and in the far more saucy “Push Me Over,” her first real musical expression of her recently revealed bisexuality.

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Mariah Carey Returning With 2024 Christmas Tour in 20 Cities

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Mariah Carey will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her “Merry Christmas” album — and the classic single that came wrapped up inside it, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — with a 20-city Christmas tour this fall, under the banner of “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time.” The Live Nation-produced tour will kick off in early November with three shows in southern California and wrap up with a trio of concerts in the New York/New Jersey area in mid-December. In the Los Angeles region and environs, she’ll be doing a tour premiere Nov. 6 at Highland’s Yaamava Theater, an intimate teaser for a much bigger show she’ll be doing Nov.

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Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan Treat Their Canons With Pomp and Playfulness in a Delightful Hollywood Bowl Tour Stop: Concert Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Mount Rushmore is a movable thing. Two of the greats of musical granite are out on tour together, co-headlining the traveling Outlaw Music Festival and reminding everyone of that old maxim: “Any day above ground in which Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan are also above ground is a good day.” On July 31, their 26-city joint outing touched down at the Hollywood Bowl for a show that did justice to the stone-faced legacies of both greats, while also, thankfully, paying testimony to their shared, enduring playfulness as performers.

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Eric Gardner, Manager Who Steered Careers of Todd Rundgren, Cassandra Peterson, Paul Shaffer and Other Stars, Dies at 74

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Eric Gardner, a producer and talent manager whose famous clients included Todd Rundgren, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson, Paul Shaffer and many others, died July 19 at age 74. Family members said he died in his sleep at home in Camarillo, Calif., from complications of pneumonia. Gardner was the chairman-CEO of Panacea Entertainment, which most recently had been representing Shaffer, the former “Late Night” band leader, and Gardner’s client of many decades, Rundgren, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (despite the artist’s own indifference to the honor) in 2021.

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Video of Toby Keith’s Final Recording Session Unveiled in Emotional Moment During Tribute Special Taping in Nashville

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Of all the performances at “Toby Keith: American Icon,” a tribute show held at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Monday night, the most surprising was an unexpected appearance by Keith himself — on the overhead video screens, filmed during what was described as his final recording session. The emotional kicker came near the end of the all-star concert, as Keith was seen in a recording studio singing a cover of “Ships That Don’t Come In,” recorded in 1992 by Joe Diffie, who died of complications from COVID in 2020.

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Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert at L.A.’s Forum to Feature Noah Kahan, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Eric Church, Van Morrison and More

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Some of the most illustrious names in rock — and other genres — will pay tribute to Robbie Robertson in a celebratory concert at the L.A.-area Kia Forum on Oct. 17, with the musician’s longtime friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese among the executive producers. The lineup for “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” includes some contemporaries who came up with the Band‘s late songwriter-guitarist in the ’60s.

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Three Members of Gospel Group the Nelons Die in Plane Crash

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Three members of one of the top acts in the gospel vocal group genre, the Nelons, died in a plane crash Friday in Wyoming. The members of the award-winning family group were on their way to perform on the annual Gaither Homecoming Alaska Cruise, which was scheduled to set out from Seattle.

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With Taylor, Beyoncé and Billie Likely to Lead 2025 Grammys, Will Men Be Shut Out of Album of the Year for the First Time?

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Even this far ahead of the 2025 Grammys, one thing can be said with virtually no shadow of a doubt: It won’t be a male artist picking up the album of the year trophy. The bigger question is whether a man has a shot at even getting nominated among the eight slots open.

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Blow Into L.A. With Powerful ‘Weathervanes’ Songs at the Hollywood Bowl: Concert Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If you could think of albums as like magazines, Jason Isbell might offer the most reliable subscription in the music business. Every three years (formerly two, but who’s counting), he issues a record almost exactly as world-class as the last, to the point that it almost feels predictable to pile on accolades, for either the recordings or the tours that follow. An album like 2023’s “Weathervanes,” and the shows behind them, qualify as pure inspiration, delivered with workmanlike reliability — the healthy flow that a rarefied combination of journeyman-ship and genius will bring you.

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Beyoncé OKs Kamala Harris’ Use of ‘Freedom’ as an Official Campaign Song

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Kamala Harris is feeling her “Freedom,” with an official nod from Beyoncé. The presumed Democratic candidate for the presidency entered her campaign headquarters Monday night to the tune of that rousing anthem from Beyoncé’s 2016 “Lemonade” album, and CNN later reported that Harris had gotten the superstar’s express permission to use the song on the campaign trail just hours earlier.

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Jerry Miller, Moby Grape Lead Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dies at 81

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Jerry Miller, greatly admired lead guitarist of the 1960s group Moby Grape and one of the architects of that era’s San Francisco sound, died Sunday at 81 in his hometown of Tacoma, Wash. News of the death was shared by friends and family on social media. No cause was given.

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Jerry Fuller, Songwriter-Producer Whose Dozens of Hits Include ‘Young Girl,’ ‘Travelin’ Man’ and ‘Show and Tell,’ Dies at 85

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Jerry Fuller, a songwriter and producer whose No. 1 hits included Ricky Nelson’s “Travelin’ Man,” Gary Puckett & the Union Gap’s “Young Girl,” Al Wilson’s “Show and Tell” and the U.K. Knickerbockers chart-topper “Lies,” has died at 85.

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Why Merle Haggard Wrote ‘America First,’ the Song Suddenly Getting a Revival as JD Vance’s Campaign Theme

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer’s anthems as his walk-up music during the Republican convention this week. It’s not one of Haggard’s better-known classic songs the VP pick has adopted, but a later composition that was released in 2005 and didn’t really get a lot of subsequent pickup until now: “America First.” The Haggard tune played on a loop several times as Vance made his way through the convention floor Monday night, then appeared again Wednesday as walk-up music as the Ohio senator took the stage to deliver his speech.

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How Dead & Company Got Their Sphere Splendor: Treatment Studio Head on Creating Spectacular Visuals for the Band’s Vegas Residency

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If you like what you see when you check into Las Vegas’ Sphere for the residency by Dead & Company — and most attendees have come away raving, Deadheads and newbies alike — you can credit much of that to the efforts of Treatment Studio, the creative agency charged with executing the visuals for the venue’s 160,000- square-foot wrap-around screen for the three-month run. Treatment’s Sam Pattinson is the show’s executive producer but, above and beyond that, shares creative director credit with Dead & Company band member John Mayer, after a decade’s worth of collaborations with Mayer on the singer-guitarist’s solo tours.

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Ingrid Andress Says ‘I Was Drunk’ During Home Run Derby National Anthem Performance, Is Checking Into Rehab

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country star Ingrid Andress has made a startling revelation on her social accounts, admitting that she was intoxicated while singing the National Anthem before baseball’s annual Home Run Derby on Monday night, and saying she is planning to check into a rehab facility in the wake of the tumult over her disastrous performance. “I’m not gonna bullshit y’all, I was drunk last night,” she wrote on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). “I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need.

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Sean Ono Lennon on Celebrating John Lennon’s Underrated ‘Mind Games’ With New Mixes and Deluxe Editions: ‘I Wanted to Represent It in a Way That Gave It a Second Chance’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Sean Ono Lennon — born to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1975 — was being exposed to his father’s solo canon as a young person, he was hearing it all at once, not sequentially. So he was hearing 1973’s “Mind Games” as one fine album among many, with no need to learn that it was actually an underdog in his dad’s catalog.

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Megan Moroney Proves She’s a Country Music Keeper With Her Candid and Accomplished Second Record, ‘Am I Okay?’: Album Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic That “Tennessee Orange” gal is in the black, as far as her country music currency goes. Megan Moroney‘s second album proves that she’s a country keeper, if there was any concern — and there shouldn’t have been — that her 2023 debut album, “Lucky,” was a fluke. Coming just 14 months after that record’s arrival, “Am I Okay?” is more than just all right: It establishes that she’s one of traditional-leaning country’s best and brightest new standard-bearers, upholding the most essential of the old values in a broadly beguiling new package.

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Taylor Swift Fends Off Zach Bryan to Spend 12th Week Atop Album Chart, Breaking an Old Whitney Houston Record and Tying Recent One Set by Morgan Wallen

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift‘s streak at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “The Tortured Poets Department” continues unabated, as the album fended off a strong challenge from a new Zach Bryan release to spend its 12th consecutive week atop that chart, breaking or tying a couple of records in the process. With the latest No.

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Dave Loggins, Singer Known for ’70s Smash ‘Please Come to Boston,’ and Composer of Golf’s Masters Theme, Dies at 76

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Dave Loggins, a singer-songwriter who had a memorable chart-topper with “Please Come to Boston” in 1974, died Wednesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville. He was 76; no cause of death was given. With “Please Come to Boston” being the sole hit in his solo discography, Loggins — the second cousin of pop star Kenny Loggins — was sometimes branded a one-hit wonder.

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