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The Rolling Stones will spend June and July celebrating their 60th Anniversary with concert dates across Europe. The schedule includes Madrid, Munich, Liverpool, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Paris, and Stockholm. I don’t see anything scheduled for July 25, which must mean they’ll be making a quick overseas flight to Chicago to celebrate my birthday with me.

Wolf Alice has announced the cities and dates for their N. American Fall Tour 2022, and it’s nice to see them coming back to Chicago less than a year after rocking the Vic Theatre. This time around, the U.K. band will be at The Riviera for a WXRT show on October 6. Now if only XRT would start playing tracks from Wolf Alice’s superb new album Blue Weekend.

 

The Dropkick Murphys will bring their St. Patrick’s Day celebration to the world tomorrow via a free live stream performance at the House Of Blues Boston. The concert starts at 9:00 pm EST and will find the band entertaining the hometown crowd with songs from their latest album, Turn Up That Dial. My all-time favorite Dropkick Murphys song is the revved up and hilarious “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding,” a tale involving The Clash vocalist-guitarist.

Chicago’s vocal supergroup The Flat Five will be joined by The Total Pro Horns for two nights of fun at City Winery Chicago this Friday and Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19. They’ll likely be showcasing songs from their two lively and inventive albums.

Chicago area musician Gavin Eimerman’s third single “Hail To The Magnetic Moon” will be available as a free download this Friday on the Australian indie label Egomaniac Music website. That’s not such an odd combination considering Gavin’s grandfather Herb Eimerman and Egomaniac founder Joe Algeri have recorded lots of songs together as members of the international power pop band The Britannicas and on other projects over the years. The melodic “Hail To The Magnetic Moon” is an easygoing, romantic song on which Gavin plays guitar and piano while combining his singing with Bianca Algeri’s backing vocals. Herb and Joe also help out. Somehow it’s reassuring to see generations of Yanks and Aussies recording music through the magic of technology.