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Photo from Official Dave Davies Facebook page.

Happy Birthday to Dave Davies of The Kinks, easily one of rock and roll’s most influential guitarists. Dave, Ray Davies, Pete Quaife, and Mick Avory consistently explored new directions in rock music that still resonate and influence today. Dave also has also succeeded as a solo artist.

Solo artist and New Pornographers band member Neko Case’s 2025 book tour for The Harder I Fight The More I Love You memoir will include a stop at the Studebaker Theater (in partnership with Exile In Bookville) in Chicago tomorrow. It’s an in-conversation event with South African journalist Lior Phillips.

Dot Dash, an inventive Washington, D.C. band that’s succeeded with a variety of indie rock styles across eight full-length albums since 2011, has an all-ages show coming up at the Quarry House Tavern in Silver Spring, MD on February 27. 

Chicago’s long-running free paper The Reader is sponsoring a The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1 and 2 screening on February 23 at Thalia Hall. In addition to viewing those punk documentaries by Penelope Spheeris, attendees can watch music videos by local artists and have an opportunity to win admission to a Thalia Hall show of their choice. There will also be a pop-up market and free books by local authors, including journalist Jessica Hopper. Tickets for this 17 and older gathering are $20 and $30.

The WXRT Live From The XRT Concert Archives series this Friday night will feature a performance by The Cure at The Vic Theatre in Chicago back in the year 2000. The concert will be available at 93.1FM; 93XRT.com; and on the Audacy app.

Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy and friends will take their 40th Anniversary R.E.M.’s Fables Of The Reconstruction tribute tour across the pond for six concerts in the UK this summer. They’ll have two gigs in London, along with one each in Manchester, Glasgow, Nottingham, and Bristol. The band appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last month.

Jack White is in the midst of his massive No Name Tour and has sold out every date except for the five scheduled for Japan and one of the two in Nashville,TN. And most of those exceptions have a Low Ticket Warning. The new single “Archbishop Harold Holmes” is following in the successful path of the previously released “That’s How I’m Felling.”