The Canadian power trio Triumph announced their reunion tour, something that didn't happen since 2008, when the classic line-up reunited for two shows at the Sweden Rock Festival. In 2019 they played together in Toronto, but only three songs. The band formed by Rik Emmett (Guitar and vocals), Mike Levine (Bass) and Gil Moore (Drums) will play next April, May and June in Canada and United States. April Wine will be their opening act. Triumph was formed back in 1975 in Mississauga, Ontario and released 9 studio albums with the classic formation and one with Phil X on vocals and guitar. They are best known for songs like "Lay It On The Line", "Magic Power", "Fight the Good Fight" and "Hold On". Triumph 2026 reunion tour dates April 22 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON – GFL Memorial Gardens 24 - Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena 25 - Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum 28 - Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre 29 - Moncton, NB – Avenir Centre May 1 - Laval, QC – Place Bell (Montreal) 2 - Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre 5 - Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre 7 - Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place 8 - Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome 13 - Rosemont, IL – Rosemont Theatre (Chicago) 14 - Milwaukee, WI – Miller High Life Theatre 16 - Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre 17 - St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 20 - Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory (Dallas) 21 - San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center 22 - Houston, TX – Smart Financial Center at Sugar Land 24 - Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 26 - Atlanta, GA – Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park 28 - Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion (Philadelphia) 30 - Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill (Detroit) June 3 - Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater 5 - Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater (New York) 6 - Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xevc7-7Tk-Q&list=RDXevc7-7Tk-Q&start_radio=1&pp=ygUNdHJpdW1waCBiYW5kIKAHAQ%3D%3DThe post Triumph announces 2026 reunion tour dates appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The Texan Blues power trio ZZ Top continues on the road in 2026 with Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Elwood Francis. They already have a big schedule for next year and announced more tour dates, which was in the United States. Since Dusty Hill's death, the band is formed by Billy Gibbons (Guitar and vocals), Frank Beard (Drums) and Elwood Francis (Bass). ZZ Top announces new 2026 tour dates March 21 - Abilene, TX – Back Porch 22 - Amarillo, TX – Civic Center 24 - Greeley, CO – Union Colony Civic Center 26 - Brookings, SD – Dacotah Bank Center 27 - Grand Island, NE – Heartland Events Center 28 - Wichita, KS – INTRUST Arena 31- Clarksville, TN – F&M Bank Center April 2 - Alexandria, LA – Laborde Earles Coliseum 3 - Lake Charles, LA – Golden Nugget 4 – Batesville, MS – Civic Center 6 - New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre 7 - New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre 9 - San Antonio, TX- Majestic Theatre 10 - San Antonio, TX – Majestic Theatre 11 -Thackerville, OK – WinStar World Casino 17 - Little Rock, AR – Simmons Bank Arena 18 - Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater 19 - Lexington, KY – Gatton Park Amphitheater 23 - Fort Wayne, IN – Allen County Coliseum 24 - Peoria, IL – Peoria Civic Center Arena 25 - Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheater 30 - Oxford, AL -Oxford Performing Arts Center May 1 - Cherokee, NC – Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort 2 -Valdosta, GA – Wild Adventure 5 - Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater 7 - Des Moines, IA – Lauridsen Amphitheater 8 - Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater 9 - El Reno, OK – Lucky Star Amphitheater 14 - Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s 15 - Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino 19 - Greensburg, PA – Palace Theatre 21 - North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum 22 - Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheater 23 - Huntington, WV – Marshall Health Network Arena June 22 - Tartu, Estonia 23 - Helsinki, Finland 26 - Rättvik, Sweden 28 - Trondheim, Norway 30 - Malmö, Sweden July 2 - Hamburg, Germany 3 - Friedberg, Germany 4 - Waltheim, Germany 6 - Pardubice, Czech Republic 7 - St. Pölten, Austria 9 - Brussels, Belgium 10 - Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 11 - Bospop Festival – Weert, Netherlands 13 - Regensburg, Germany 14 - Zurich, Switzerland 15 - Paris, France 16 - Saint-Malo-du-Bois, France 18 - Pamplona, Spain 19 - Barcelona, Spain 20 - TBA 22 - Valencia, Spain 23 - Murcia, Spain 25 - Cádiz, Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHSv8OfffU&pp=ygULenogdG9wIDIwMjU%3DThe post ZZ Top announces new 2026 tour dates appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Robert Plant changed the course of Hard Rock music alongside John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones through the incredible work they did in Led Zeppelin. In just over a decade of existence, the band became one of the best selling groups of all time, releasing nine studio albums filled with classic songs. Besides singing Led Zeppelin’s material during their tours, Robert Plant also performed those songs over the decades with the Page and Plant project and in his solo career. He already talked about their vast catalog and revealed which song he loved to sing and which one he hated to perform. The Led Zeppelin songs Robert Plant liked and hated to sing "The Wanton Song" (Liked) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnVYcVIqwk&pp=ygUPdGhlIHdhbnRvbiBzb25n "As far as Zeppelin material goes, I always liked doing The 'Wanton Song'. That was something that came right from the groin. I enjoyed playing it each night," Robert Plant told Hit Parader magazine in 1988. Plant already mentioned that track as one of the highlights of his work in Led Zeppelin. “Things like ‘The Wanton Song’. I remember recording it, the whole session. It was so electric, so quick and so fruitful. ‘Trampled Underfoot’ was another one." "The more impromptu numbers are the ones that really come to mind, rather than the time-consuming things that were worked out and constructed,” Robert Plant told Record magazine in 1983. He mentioned the song when asked which tracks he considered his highlights with Led Zeppelin. The second track of the fourth side of Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffitti" (1975), it was overshadowed by other more famous songs on that record. According to Setlist.fm, the track was performed by the legendary band only 8 times back in 1975. However, in the 1990s, when Page & Plant got together, it became one of the tracks they played the most live, 171 times. As a solo artist, Plant played the track 16 times back in 1975, when the album celebrated its 40th anniversary. Like most Zeppelin songs, it was also written by Robert and Jimmy. It is one of the hidden gems on "Physical Graffiti", which is usually remembered more for tracks like “In My Time of Dying”, “Houses of the Holy”, “Ten Years Gone” and “Kashmir”. "Stairway to Heaven" (Didn't like) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxqDg4akqwc&pp=ygUXc3RhaXJ3YXkgdG8gaGVhdmVuIDIwMDc%3D "Surprisingly, one I would not look forward to doing would be Stairway To Heaven. I remember the night Page and I brought it to life, and we knew we had written something really special. But singing it every night as I did for years made it become almost insignificant. We used to rehearse it as a reggae song, and I wanted to try it onstage that way. But Page never wanted to," Robert Plant told Hit Parader. It is not a surprise that Robert Plant is tired of Zeppelin's biggest hits and he is not the only one. Many fans of the band also do not like to hear the track that much anymore. Especially because it was overplayed everywhere over the decades. In fact, the singer has already said that he would like to be remembered more for songs like "Kashmir" than "Stairway to Heaven". “I wish we were remembered for Kashmir more than Stairway To Heaven,” he told Mick Wall. "It's not about being my favorite or not. It's nothing to do with that really, it's just that it belongs to a particular time. If had been involved in the instrumentation I would feel that it's a magnificent piece of music. (One) which has its own character and personality. It even speeds up in a way to some pieces of more highbrow music. But my contribution was to write lyrics and sing a song about faith and something very British, almost abstract." Robert Plant continued: "But it was coming out of the mind of a 23 year-old guy, you know. It landed in the years and the era of 23 year-old guys. I think as time goes on, you find that you may find another period of your life has got a little bit more substance. Or it was more relative later on down the line. As much as I like it, I'm not wedded to that whole deal now," he told Dan Rather in 2018. It was one of the songs which Robert Plant performed the most with Led Zeppelin, since it was their most famous track. They performed the song until the end of the original line-up in 1980. Also on three other reunions: Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary in 1988 and their final show, the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute concert in 2007. During the Page & Plant era only the intro of the track used to be played. After the final Zeppelin show, Plant performed the song again only in 2023 in a charity show in England. Since their final reunion, Plant has been asked in almost every interview if there is a chance they might reunite again. He has always said there is no possibility. The frontman he feels he is on a different musical journey in his life now. It is a very different one from when he was in his twenties. As for Page and Jones, after the Ahmet tribute show they even considered bringing in another singer. However, after testing a few names, they decided to abandon the idea. Plant remains the only member who continues to consistently tour and release new albums.The post The Led Zeppelin songs Robert Plant liked and hated to sing appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

At 7:24 p.m. ET Tuesday in the Poconos, President Donald Trump signaled that he didn't really want to talk about what his speech was supposed to be about: affordability. "By the way, if I read what's on the teleprompter, you'd all be falling asleep right now," Trump said. The rest of the speech made it abundantly clear – for the umpteenth time – that he'd prefer to pretend that this very real and very politically problematic issue simply didn't exist, rather than offer prescriptions. Within just two hours of that remark, though, Republicans got two new reminders of the potential cost of Trump's disinterest.

President Donald Trump touted the effects of his immigration and economic policies on the American worker on Tuesday. Trump spoke at a rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania, the first stop on a tour touting his administration's record on the economy as Washington prepares for the fight over midterm elections. At one point, the president highlighted net new job creation numbers and a nexus of his economic and immigration policies. "Before I entered office, 100% of all new net jobs were going to migrant workers," said Trump. "Migrant workers and illegal aliens got 100%. But since I took office, 100% of all net job creation has gone to American citizens. How about that?"

President Donald Trump hit the road Tuesday night to tout his economic successes during a rally in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that could prove key to Republicans holding the House in the 2026 midterm elections. "I have no higher priority than making America affordable again," said Trump, who spoke in front of a banner reading "Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks." "And again, they caused high prices, and we're bringing them down. … But that's our message. They gave you high prices. They gave you the highest inflation in history. And we're bringing those prices down rapidly.

President Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania Tuesday night touting his administration's economic success, after Democrats swept a series of elections in 2025 while mainly campaigning on platforms focused on "affordability." "They caused the high prices, and we're bringing them down," Trump told the crowd in attendance at a casino resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, whom he spoke to for nearly two hours. "Lower prices, bigger paychecks – you're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks, we're getting inflation – we're crushing it – and you're getting much higher wages. The only thing that is really going up big – it's called the stock market and your 401ks." Affordability has become a flashpoint heading into the midterms, with Republicans now fine-tuning their messaging on the economy after a slew of Democrats won elections in 2025 running on a platform focused on lowering costs. Prior to Tuesday night's address in Pennsylvania, Trump told Politico in an interview that he would give…

Trump claimed prices are declining "very substantially," adding, "They always have a hoax. Their new word is affordability." Trump did not elaborate who he was talking about, though in recent weeks he has pinned the term on Democrats, who campaigned on affordability ahead of a string of election victories across multiple states in November. "I can't say 'affordability hoax' because I agree the prices were too high," Trump said, before claiming the word "affordability" makes people believe "Trump has high prices."

President Trump on Tuesday night gave the first of a series of speeches intended to alleviate Americans' concerns about the cost of living, but spent most of the time mocking the term "affordability" and insisting that Americans were doing better than they had ever done before. Speaking to an enthusiastic group of supporters in a casino in Mt. Pocono, Pa., Mr. Trump plunged immediately into the case that Americans, and Pennsylvanians in particular, were actually doing very well, gliding by the evidence about reduced spending power for the middle class. In a winding presentation that ran for 90 minutes, he episodically talked about economic initiatives, but also wandered into discussions of shutting down immigration, at one point comparing the country's sealed borders to North Korea's.