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• They’ve been around for decades, but the Beach Boys are staying as busy as ever with a new tour
• The band’s announced “The Endless Summer Gold Tour,” which will kick off February 21st and travel the US
• The Beach Boys have added former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Dave Mason and will hop around the country into the fall
• Source: Ultimate Classic Rock

• After seventeen long years, Billy Joel has released new music
• The song, "Turn The Lights Back On," was written by Joel and Freddy Wexler
• Joel says of Wexler's lyrics, "I’ve chewed on these words and I’ve thought of these words, and I’ve said these words before. It was all kind of falling into place - and who am I to fight that"
• Joel will perform the song live for the first time on Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards broadcast 
• Source: Billboard

• WalletHub is out with their list of the best places in the U.S. for Valentine’s Day.
• They compared the 100 biggest cities in the country on 25 key metrics, from the cost of a three-course dinner for two to the number of florists per capita.
• This year’s best place to celebrate Valentine’s Day is San Francisco, while the worst is Hialeah, Florida.
• Honolulu comes in 8th for Top Ten Best
• Source: WalletHub

• OpenTable has just come out with their annual list of the Top 100 Romantic Restaurants in America.
• To come up with the list, they analyze more than 12-million reviews from OpenTable diners, as well as rate the restaurants on other metrics.
• The 2024 list includes 33 states and Washington, D.C., and California is home to the most with 12.
• Hawaii makes the list with: Michel’s at the Colony Surf – Honolulu, HI & Tidepools – Grand Hyatt Kauai – Poipu, HI
• Source: OpenTable

• It’s been rare to see singer Huey Lewis since he suffered a condition that robbed him of his hearing
• The “Power Of Love” star was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, which also gives him vertigo
• But the singer calls his new Broadway musical, “The Heart of Rock And Roll,” “a salvation for me personally”
• Source: People

• Brian Wilson Announces Death Of Wife Melinda 
• Joni Mitchell To Headline Hollywood Bowl

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Joni Mitchell To Perform At The GRAMMYs: When someone is the owner of nine GRAMMY Awards, you might think that they would have performed at the ceremony at least once, right?

A Devo Documentary Is In The Works: “Whip It” hitmakers Devo reportedly got their own documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 

• A new documentary that premiered at Sundance Film Festival shares why Prince and Madonna weren't at the 1985 recording of “We Are The World”
• “The Greatest Night In Pop" reveals that Huey Lewis subbed in for Prince when his requirement to be given a his own studio to record a guitar solo was denied
• As for Madonna, she was passed over for the gig in favor of Cyndi Lauper, who was a bigger sell at  the time
• The doc will be available for streaming on Netflix starting Monday
• Source: NY Post

• Billy Joel will be joining the stable of performers at the GRAMMYs this year
• He has  been nominated 23 times and has won five of the awards
• Joel will be joined by Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo
• Meanwhile, as we’ve previously reported, the Piano Man announced his latest song, “Turn The Lights Back On" after not writing an original song since 1993
• Source: Pitchfork

• Yelp has just come out with their top 100 restaurants in the U.S. for 2024, which includes everything from fine dining to food trucks.
• The list is created by the crowd-sourced review site’s team of data scientists, who start with data from ratings on the platform, then narrow it down with expertise from their community managers and Trend Expert.
• Tumerico, a vegetarian and vegan Mexican restaurant in Tucson, takes the top spot this year.
• Adela’s Country Eatery – Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii comes in 7th
• Three other Hawaii restaurants make the list
• Source: Yelp

• Days after Coachella dropped their 2024 line-up, the New Orleans Bass & Heritage Festival entered the chat
• The two-weekend music fest announced headliners The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Killers, Chris Stapleton, Jon Batiste and Queen Latifah
• The event’s other acts cover pretty much all genres, with acts like Heart, Vampire Weekend, Anderson.Paak & The Free Nationals, Earth, Wind & Fire and Greta Vane Fleet confirmed
• Source: Consequence

• Any music fans who plan on attending The GRAMMY Museum in the future will now be able to visit the Ray Charles rooftop terrace
• The organization announced its plans to name the area after the late legend following the Ray Charles Foundations’ $2 million gift
• The terrace is said to have 180-degree views of LA’s skyline and host over 150 events per year
• Source: Music Row

• The people that sing, play in and enjoy the spotlight couldn't do what they do, or enjoy the success that they do, without songwriters. Sometimes the performer and the songwriter are one and the same, other times songwriters are the anonymous superstars of music
• Yesterday the 2024 inductees into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame were announced, and the names are both those that write and perform the songs, and songwriters whose work is made popular by others
• The names cross multiple genres: R.E.M. and Steely Dan, along with Non-Performer inductees Hillary Lindsey, Timbaland and Dean Pitchford
• Inductees will be honored during the 53rd Annual Induction and Awards Gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on June 13
• Source: AmericanSongwriter

• Historic Las Vegas headliner Tony Orlando is calling it a career after 62 years
• The “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” GRAMMY-nominee announced he would bring down the curtain one last time this March
• The singer hit #1 on the Billboard charts with the above song, which brought him his one nomination and became his anthem
• Source: The Music Universe

• Bruce Hornsby has announced a new collab with experimental chamber group yMusic entitled BrhyM
• The new project revealed they’ll drop their debut album, “Deep Sea Vents,” on March 1st
• Ahead of that date, BrhyM has unveiled the lead single “Deep Blue,” which Hornsby says was inspired by Stephen Crane
• Source: Consequence

• Whoever said older women can’t be the spokesperson for one of fashion’s top lines obviously didn’t count on Diana Ross
• The 79-year-old music legend was announced as the official face of the Anthony Vaccarello campaign by St. Laurent
• As the first images were released of the former leader of Diana Ross & The Supremes, the internet, including the singer’s own daughter, went wild
• Source: People

• Boy George is letting the world know in his new book, “Karma: My Autobiography,” that Janet Jackson needs to be nicer to people, even if she doesn't recognize them
• George recalls a story from the 1980s when the two met backstage on the show "Solid Gold"
• However, the Culture Club singer was out of his signature makeup so he says Jackson wasn’t friendly and didn’t try to be"
• When Jackson later realized her mistake, she invited him to her dressing room where George quipped, “‘Are you saying you would have been nice to me if you knew who I was?’ We parted on awkward terms"
• Source: Billboard

• Prince left us back in 2016, but his music lives on… and he’s still conquering new frontiers in entertainment
• It’s been confirmed that a stage adaptation of his iconic 80s film “Purple Rain” is headed to Broadway
• Pulitzer Prize-finalist Branden Jacob-Jenkins is confirmed to adapt the book from the movie, which was a box office hit and won an Oscar for Best Original Score
• Source: The Hollywood Reporter