“Songwriting is my way of navigating the world. It makes me feel free and fulfilled,” says Capps. “When I make a record, it’s on my own terms and at my own pace.” Co-produced by Ryan Avinger and Capps’ longtime guitarist Corky Hughes at Dauphin Street Sound in Mobile, AL, among the album’s nine songs is “News,” a five-minute blast of psychedelic swamp rock calling out the fear-centric disinformation propagated in today’s media. It’s one of two tracks reflecting on the harrowing state of the times; the other, “My Body,” previously released as a standalone single in 2025, is an evocative rock ‘n’ roll anthem for women’s rights that doubles as a battle cry for an impending revolution.

Capps has good reason for the years away from the studio. After a prolific run of solo albums from 2005 through 2017, he and his partner, Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Trina Shoemaker, entered the homestretch of raising children and seeing them out from the nest. “The fledglings have all flown off,” as he sings on the title track. Simultaneously, he was caring for his father whose health was slowly deteriorating.

Jan 19, 2027

Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI

Mar 11, 2027 with The Truth

Nashville, TN

Mar 12, 2027 with The Truth

Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN

Mar 14, 2027 with The Truth

The Eastern, Atlanta, GA

Mar 15, 2027 with The Truth

The Eastern, Atlanta, GA

Mar 17, 2027 with The Truth

The St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL

Mar 18, 2027 with The Truth

The Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater, Miami Beach, FL

Mar 20, 2027 with The Truth

Hard Rock Live Orlando, Orlando, FL

Mar 22, 2027 with The Truth

713 Music Hall, Houston, TX

Mar 23, 2027 with The Truth

Venue TBA, Austin, TX

Mar 24, 2027 with The Truth

The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX

Mar 26, 2027 with The Truth

Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA

Mar 27, 2027 with The Truth

The Orion Amphitheater, Huntsville, AL

Mar 30, 2027

Citizens Live at The Wylie, Pittsburgh, PA

Apr 1, 2027

Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI

Apr 3, 2027

OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls, ON

Apr 4, 2027

HISTORY Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Apr 5, 2027

MTELUS, Montreal, QC

Apr 7, 2027

MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA

Apr 8, 2027

MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA

Apr 9, 2027

Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT

Apr 11, 2027

State Theatre, Portland, ME

Apr 13, 2027

Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY

Apr 16, 2027

ExploreAsheville.com Arena, Asheville, NC

Tickets

A statement from the city of Santa Monica stated that the festival “has been canceled after storm surf generated by Hurricane Marie and runoff from a storm drain outfall eroded a large portion of the festival site over Labor Day weekend. The beach can no longer safely accommodate the festival production and audience capacity, and with construction and load-in set to begin next week, the city determined that cancellation was the only responsible option. Plans are already underway to bring the Ocean Way Festival back to Santa Monica in 2027.” The two-day festival was hoping to draw up to 45,000 fans to the beach each day, but fans will have to wait at least another year to hit the sand and see the shows. Single-day passes were being sold along with two-day entry, and the lineup seemed designed to possibly draw a somewhat different audience each day, with rock acts like the Killers, Jack White and Sublime topping the bill on Saturday.

If you bought passes, the statement sent out to ticketholders said that refunds, which had been sold in a range from $249 to $2,250, will be processed automatically in the next 5-7 business days, so you won’t have to wait too long to get your money back.

Potter will begin a string of 11 shows with Zac Brown Band on their Love and Fear Tour. She kicks off her stretch of the tour at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City. For more information and tickets, please visit https://www.gracepotter.com/tour/. 

This past weekend, Potter performed a selection of songs from the album on CBS Saturday Morning – watch her performances of lead single “Love Me Not” HERE“Mainstreet U.S.A.” HERE, and “Run Baby Run” HERE. “Love Me Not” is currently Top 5 and climbing at Americana Radio and Top 10 and climbing at Triple A Radio.

Earlier this summer, she performed the “Love Me Not,” on Live with Kelly & Mark – watch the electric performance HERE. She also performed a few songs and discussed the album and its inspirations on WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart – listen HERE.

Next month, Potter’s beloved Grand Point North Festival will return to  Waterfront Park in her native Burlington, VT. The festival, which will take place on September 18, 19, and 20, will feature a variety of heavy hitters from the music industry, including Jackson Browne, who will make his second appearance at the annual festival, Portugal. The Man, Dawes, Dark Star Orchestra, Trampled By Turtles, The Devil Makes Three, andPotter’s most recent Grammy-nominated collaborator Maggie Rose.

Profits will go towards Potter’s Grant Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting the arts in Vermont. For more information and tickets, please visit https://www.grandpointnorth.com/.

Ten Live is available on three-sided black vinyl and clear vinyl (the latter for Ten Club members only), and is available for pre-order now. It’ll be released on November 29.

On April 29, 2016, Pearl Jam played their 10th sold-out show in South Philadelphia. To mark the occasion, the venue had a special surprise for the band: a banner reading “Pearl Jam 10 South Philadelphia Sellouts” made to hang in the rafters of the Wells Fargo Center.

Seeing the banner, Eddie knew there was another way to celebrate.“I saw that number and I was like, I think we gotta do it,” Eddie told the Philadelphia crowd from the stage that night.What followed was Pearl Jam performing Ten all the way through, track-by-track.“Philly gives back, they just give back,” Eddie told the crowd that night. “We just tried to figure out something that we could get for you. Something that we could wrap and unwrap with you.”

Parton’s nephew, Brian Seaver, announced the news in a video posted on her Instagram. No details about her death were given.

Seaver added that Dolly “lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others.”

#RIPDolly

Parton recently shared an update on her health on Friday, Aug. 21, in a video on social media acknowledging her recent decline after the March 2025 death of her husband, Carl Dean.

Parton told People Magazine, “As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl. You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to manage something like this. Back in the early ’80s, I was down for several months with female issues, and I was struggling with my weight at the time too, so it’s not like I haven’t been through hard times with my health, but I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’! You know me — as I’ve often said — I’ve dreamed myself into a corner and I still have so many things I want to achieve, so I’m gonna keep on working as long as I can to see everything come to life.”

If you are reading this here on the ZEW website thinking to yourself “Why is ZEW posting this news, the answer is simple. Whether it’s Country music or her movies, or theme parks, or humanitarian and charity crusades, Parton is the best-selling female country music artist of all time, having sold more than 160 million albums worldwide.

St. Paul & the Broken Bones Tour Dates

Aug 14, 2026            Deer Valley Concert Series                        Park City, UT &

Aug 16, 2026            Green Music Center                                    Rohnert Park, CA &

Aug 19, 2026            Marymoor Live                                              Seattle, WA &

Aug 20, 2026            The Cuthbert Amphitheater                        Eugene, OR &

Aug 22, 2026            Thunder Valley Casino Resort                   Lincoln, CA &

Aug 23, 2026            Vina Robles Amphitheatre                          Paso Robles, CA &

Aug 25, 2026            The Observatory                                          Santa Ana, CA*

Aug 26, 2026            La Rosa                                                         Tucson, AZ*

Aug 28, 2026            Santa Fe Railyard Plaza                             Santa Fe, NM*

Aug 30, 2026            Mishawaka Amphitheatre                           Bellvue, CO*

Sep 4- 6, 2026          Rhythm & Roots                                           Charlestown, RI

Sep 11, 2026            Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion           Bristol, TN

Sep 18, 2026            NC Folk Festival                                           Greensboro, NC

Sep 19, 2026            XPoNential Music Festival                          Camden, NJ

Sep 20, 2026            Borderland Music Festival                          East Aurora, NY

Sep 22, 2026            The State Theatre                                        State College, PA^

Sep 23, 2026            Globe Iron                                                     Cleveland, OH^

Sep 25, 2026            Bourbon & Beyond                                      Louisville, KY

Sep 26, 2026            Mighty Roots Music Festival                      Stovall, MS

Oct 5, 2026               Scotiabank Arena                                        Toronto, ON^

Oct 7, 2026               Bell Centre                                                    Montreal, QC^

Oct 9, 2026               TD Garden                                                    Boston, MA^

Oct 10, 2026             Xfinity Mobile Arena                                    Philadelphia, PA^

Oct 13, 2026             Capital One Arena                                       Washington, D.C.^

Oct 16, 2026             Bridgestone Arena                                       Nashville, TN^

Oct 18, 2026             Spectrum Center                                          Charlotte, NC^

Oct 20, 2026             State Farm Arena                                        Atlanta, GA^

Oct 22, 2026             Academy                                                       Dublin, Ireland

“They’ve been big fans of our band for quite awhile, and they’re great dudes, they’re really great people,” Gibbard says of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. “They asked us to play with them, and we were like, ‘Yeah, hell yeah! Let’s do it.'”

In opening for a band that came after them, Gibbard feels that Death Cab is continuing “part of a tradition of music.”

“We’re getting to that point in our lives where by the sheer fact of having been around for a long time, we’re starting to see bands that grew up on our music the same way that we grew up on, like, The Cure and Fugazi and Built to Spill and that kind of stuff,” Gibbard says.

As for how he thinks the Twenty One Pilots audience will receive Death Cab’s set, Gibbard laughs, “I don’t know how it’ll go over.”

“But those guys [Joseph and Dun] are happy, so that’s all that matters to me,” Gibbard says.

Death Cab for Cutie recently wrapped a U.S. tour of their own in support of their new album, I Built You a Tower.

Tickets are currently sold out. but you can check the link here if you want to keep checking back.

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