Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are currently performing across North America for The River Tour, the highest-grossing worldwide tour of 2016. As of July, 1.1 million tickets had been sold. This is the first time Springsteen and the E Street Band have toured in two years. Several new dates have been added to the tour schedule since it was announced in December 2015.

Springsteen and the band are touring in support of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set, which was released in 2015. The box set includes The River, which was originally released in 1980, along with several outtakes from the recording sessions.

Many of the shows on the tour included a full-length performance of The River in honor of its 35th anniversary. The tour also includes songs from other albums and some outtakes from The River. Many of the shows on the tour so far have lasted over three and a half hours.

The lineup for The River tour is smaller than the group that performed on previous tours. It does not include a full horn section or backup vocalists. Patti Scialfa will sing backup for some shows.

The first leg of the River tour began in Pittsburgh in January and included stops across North America. It was followed by a European leg before Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to North America, beginning in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 23.

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Upcoming Bruce Springsteen Tour Dates

August 25 – East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium
August 28 – Chicago, Illinois at United Center
August 30 – East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium
September 1 – Washington, DC at Nationals Park
September 3 – Virginia Beach, Virginia at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
September 7 and 9 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Citizens Bank Park
September 11 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Consol Energy Center
September 14 – Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium

Singer-songwriter Yusuf Islam, who was previously known as Cat Stevens, will be performing on a rare tour this fall to mark 50 years in the music industry. He will perform a series of shows on a North American tour called “A Cat’s Attic.”

The tour will begin with a show at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on September 12. Islam will perform other shows in Philadelphia and Boston before two dates at the Beacon Theatre in New York. He will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC before returning to New York on September 24 for the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. Islam will then perform concerts in Nashville, Chicago, and San Francisco and will finish off the tour with two shows at Hollywood Pantages in October. The New York shows will be his first in the city since 1976.

The tour is intended to be a celebration of music, storytelling, and good will. It coincides with the 50-year anniversary of the release of his first single, “I Love My Dog.” Islam will perform stripped-down versions of many of his classic hits, including “Peace Train” and “Wild World.”

Islam released his latest album, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, in 2014. He released a new track called “He Was Alone” in June. He wrote the song after visiting a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey.

Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens A Cat’s Attic Tour Dates

September 12 – Toronto, Ontario at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
September 15 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Kimmel Center – Verizon Hall
September 17 – Boston, Massachusetts at Citi Performing Arts Center – Wang Theater
September 19 and 20 – New York, New York at Beacon Theatre
September 22 – Washington, DC at Kennedy Center Concert Hall
September 27 – Nashville, Tennessee at Ryman Auditorium
September 30 – Chicago, Illinois at Oriental Theatre – Ford Center for the Performing Arts
October 3 – San Francisco, California at Davies Symphony Hall
October 6 and 7 – Los Angeles, California at Pantages Theatre

Five musicians from Seattle – singer Chris Cornell, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament, and drummer Matt Cameron – got together in 1991 to form a group known as Temple of the Dog. The band released a self-titled LP but never went on tour. Now, in honor of the album’s 25th anniversary, they will embark on a five-date tour planned for this fall. Chris Cornell said in a statement that they decided to reunite to pay homage to the band and to see what it would be like to tour together.

Special Editions of Album to Be Released

UMe will release a 25th anniversary edition of the LP on September 30. It was remixed by Brendan O’Brien, who has collaborated with both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Four versions will be available: a four-CD Super Deluxe package, a double LP, a two-CD set, and a single CD. The CDs are now available for pre-order.

The Super Deluxe and two-CD editions will include five outtakes from the studio, as well as seven demo recordings. The demos include two songs, “Angel of Fire” and “Black Cat,” that did not appear on the album. The Super Deluxe set also includes a DVD with live footage, music videos, and other features.

History of Temple of the Dog

Cornell decided to form Temple of the Dog after his friend and roommate, Andrew Wood, who was the lead singer for Mother Love Bone, died of an overdose. The band included Gossard and Ament, who were also members of Mother Love Bone, McCready, and Cameron, who was a member of Soundgarden along with Cornell. Gossard, Ament, and McCready were also forming a new group at the time that would come to be known as Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam’s lead singer, Eddie Vedder, provided backup vocals for three songs on Temple of the Dog.

Cornell said Temple of the Dog was formed to record an album simply for the band members’ own enjoyment. They were not worried about what anyone except them and their friends would think of it.

Although Temple of the Dog never went on tour in the 1990s, they did perform together several times. They played together in Seattle in November and December 1990. Cornell performed with Pearl Jam for two shows at PJ20 in Wisconsin in 2011 and at Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit show in 2014. Temple of the Dog also played two songs at Benaroya Hall in Seattle last year.

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Temple of the Dog Tour Dates

November 4 – Upper Darby, Pennsylvania at Tower Theatre
November 7 – New York, New York at Madison Square Garden
November 11 – San Francisco, California at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
November 14 – Inglewood, California at The Forum
November 20 – Seattle, Washington at Paramount Theatre

Lynyrd Skynyrd Biopic in the Works

Artimus Pyle, who played drums with Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1991 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is working on a biopic about his time with the band. The film will also explore one of the darkest times in the band’s history: the plane crash that took the lives of six people in 1977, including lead singer and Pyle’s close friend Ronnie Van Zant. The plane crashed after it ran out of fuel following a performance in Greenville, South Carolina.

The film is tentatively called Free Bird. It will be about both the plane crash and Pyle’s relationship with Van Zant, whom he considered a genius and who was like a brother to him. Pyle said he wrote the film because he wanted to tell the story of the band members and their love of music.

He wrote the script for the film with Jared Cohn, who will direct. The biopic will be produced by Cleopatra films and is scheduled to go into production later in 2016.

Free Bird is Pyle’s personal story, not an authorized Lynyrd Skynyrd biopic. The producers have not gotten the rights to use the band’s music and are currently planning to use Pyle’s original music.

Lynyrd Skynyrd continued to release albums and tour in spite of the tragedy, and the band is still going strong. buyTickets.com has tickets for upcoming performances by Lynyrd Skynyrd across the United States. Order tickets today to see this iconic band perform live.

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July 8 – Bonner Springs, Kansas at Providence Medical Center Amphitheater

July 9 – Greenville, Wisconsin at Greenville Lions Park

July 15 – Cincinnati, Ohio at The Shoe at Horseshoe Casino

July 19 – Lewiston, New York at Artpark Amphitheatre

July 21 – Hyannis, Massachusetts at Cape Cod Melody Tent

July 22 – Boston, Massachusetts at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion

July 23 – Big Flats, New York at Budweiser Summer Stage at Tags

July 28 – Clarkston, Michigan at DTE Energy Music Theatre

July 29 – Mount Pleasant, Michigan at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

August 4 – Spring, Texas at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

August 5 – New Orleans, Louisiana at Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square

August 6 – Durant, Oklahoma at Choctaw Casino & Resort

August 9 – Englewood, Colorado at Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre

August 16 – Livermore, California at Wente Vineyards

August 18 – Los Angeles, California at Greek Theatre

August 19 – Las Vegas, Nevada at The Chelsea – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

August 21 – Murphys, California at Ironstone Amphitheatre at Ironstone Vineyards

August 24 – Tacoma, Washington at Emerald Queen Casino

August 26 – Pocatello, Idaho at Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheatre

August 27 – Salt Lake City, Utah at Usana Amphitheatre