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Sparks have announced a North American tour for next year. The tour will be taking place predominantly across March.

The tour follows the release of the band’s 24th studio album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, in May last year. Following on from their previously announced shows at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, the duo will make stops in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago and New York, among other cities.

In May, Sparks released the track ‘So May We Start’, featuring vocals from Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and Simon Helberg. The track comes from Annette, the new musical film directed by Leos Carax, who co-wrote the script with Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael. A  video for ‘So May We Start’ arrived this month, also featuring Cotillard and Driver.

Annette opened the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival last week, and is being followed by a theatrical release on August 6.

The pair were also the subject of the 2021 Edgar Wright documentary The Sparks Brothers, which explored the Mael brothers’ decades-long career. NME gave the film a four-star review, writing that “Wright has done a great job in assembling interesting, enthusiastic contributors with something worthwhile to say”.

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Sparks 2022 North American Tour Dates

Show date and time: February 7 – April 2, 2022

Show location: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto

Pixies have announced a short U.S. tour for this September.

The 11-date trek will launch September 10th at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, and wrap September 26th at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The run will also include sets at Summerfest in Milwaukee and Riot Fest in Chicago, as well as two shows opening for Nine Inch Nails at Jacobs Pavilion in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 21st and 23rd. Nine Inch Nails said upon the announcement of the two Cleveland shows that the gigs would be their only headline shows of 2021.

Per a press release, Pixies will fill their setlists with songs drawn from their entire catalog. Each show will feature a different setlist, which the band will settle on right before taking the stage.

“Over the past year, it’s been wonderful to spend so much time with our families,” guitarist Joey Santiago said in a statement. “I’ve been doing a lot of cycling and playing music, Paz has been working on art projects, music, film, and surfing, Charles has been raising chickens and doing a lot of painting, and Dave has been playing drums, doing magic, and investing time in metal detecting and mineral collecting. But we’re ready to get back to playing live shows, and are looking forward to seeing you all.”

Pixies are touring behind their 2019 album Beneath The Eyrie. This is their seventh album and it was produced by Tom Dalgety, and preceded by the singles “On Graveyard Hill” and “Catfish Kate”. The album was recorded in Dreamland Recording Studios, a remote, converted church in upstate New York. The band were influenced by their Gothic surroundings during the writing and recording process, with vocalist and guitarist Black Francis stating: “I wanted to intermingle with the spirit world, with life and death and with the mystical and a more surreal landscape.”

Info about the Pixies’ tour dates can be found here.

Pixies Tour Dates

Show date and time: September 10, 2021 – September 26, 2021

Show location: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY – Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK

Lindsey Buckingham announced on Tuesday that he’ll be releasing a self-titled album — his first solo LP in a decade — on September 17th via Reprise.

Alongside the announcement, Buckingham shared the album’s first single, “I Don’t Mind.”

“‘I Don’t Mind’, like many of the songs on my new album, is about the challenges couples face in long-term relationships,” Buckingham says. “Over time, two people inevitably find the need to augment their initial dynamic with one of flexibility, an acceptance of each others’ flaws, and a willingness to continually work on issues; it is the essence of a good long-term relationship. This song celebrates that spirit and discipline.”

Lindsey Buckingham will be the singer-songwriter’s first solo album since 2011’s Seeds We Sow, and his first since his departure from Fleetwood Mac. The album will feature new original songs as well as a cover of Sixties folk group the Pozo-Seco Singers’ hit single “Time.”

“I wanted to make a pop album, but I also wanted to make stops along the way with songs that resemble art more than pop,” he says. “As you age, hopefully, you keep getting a little more grounded in the craft of what you’re doing. For me, getting older has probably helped to reinforce the innocence and the idealism that hopefully was always there.”

Buckingham will embark on a U.S. tour in support of the album, marking his first in-person shows both since the pandemic and since undergoing open-heart surgery in 2019. The tour kicks off at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre on September 18th and wraps in Boulder, Colorado, on December 20th. 

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Lindsey Buckingham 2021 Tour Dates

Show date and time: September 1, 202 – December 20, 2021

Show location: The Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI – Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO

Judas Priest have announced the rescheduled dates for their 50th-anniversary tour, which they’ve christened 50 Heavy Metal Years Tour.

The North American tour kicks off September 8th in Reading, Pennsylvania, and concludes November 5th in Hamilton, Ontario. Judas Priest will be joined by Sabaton as openers.

“Defending the heavy metal faith for 50 years, the Priest is back!” lead vocalist Rob Halford said.

Lead guitarist Glenn Tipton added: “Time to don the leather and studs and roll out the Priest Machine — celebrating our 50 Heavy Metal Years!!”

Bassist Ian Hill also said: “After the horrific year of restrictions we’ve all had to endure, what better place to break free, than the land of the free — the USA!”

Judas Priest released their last album, Firepower, in 2018, although a new album is currently in the works.

“We’ve got a bunch of great new ideas for tracks, lots of really strong demos,” Rob Halford told Brazilian radio station Kazagastão. ​“It’s gonna be a very potent record, ​’cause we know we have to follow Firepower. But I’ve gotta tell you, Firepower turned the metal up for all of us in the band; it really gave us a tremendous boost this far on. And so, as a result of that, we carried all the energy from Firepower, we carried all the energy from the shows, and we took that with us when we went into the writing sessions last March – not this March, but last March – and you can sense it in the writing. So we already have some extremely potent, strong material.”

Halford also released his memoir Confess last September.

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Judas Priest 2021 Tour Dates

Show date and time: September 8, 2021 – November 5, 2021

Show location: Santander Arena, Reading, PA – First Ontario Centre, Hamilton, ONT 

Indie rockers Spoon have announced a U.S. tour set to take place in early fall.

The trek is split loosely into a West Coast and East Coast leg, with the former starting September 3rd at the Ogden Twilight Series in Ogden, Utah, and wrapping September 25th with a set at the Ohana Fest in Dana Point, California. On October 17th, the group will kick off another leg at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont, and that run will wrap on October 24th at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Nicole Atkins will provide support during all of Spoon’s headlining dates, although the band is also playing a handful of previously announced shows in California in late September with St. Vincent.

Britt Daniel and company released a greatest-hits compilation, Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, in 2019.

They have released nine studio albums with the latest one being 2017’s Hot Thoughts.  It is also the first Spoon album since 2002’s Kill the Moonlight to not feature multi-instrumentalist Eric Harvey, who quietly left the band after finishing a world tour in support of 2014’s They Want My Soul.

Hot Thoughts received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 30 reviews.

Jillian Mapes of Pitchfork wrote, “Spoon stay in their well-earned lane but tweak the formula just enough on their ninth album, keeping their reliably great songwriting and adding new, electronic textures.” 

Last September, frontman Britt Daniel said the group was aiming to release a new record in 2021. While official news of the album has yet to arrive, earlier this year Spoon shared a pair of Tom Petty covers, while they also celebrated the 20th anniversary of Girls Can Tell by releasing a demo, “Lines in the Suit.”

Spoon 2021 Tour Dates

Show date and time: September 3, 2021 – October 24, 2021

Show location:  Ogden Twilight Series, Ogden, UT – White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, NJ