Concerts
MOTLEY CRUE AT RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER
THE RETURN OF THE CARNIVAL OF SINS!
MÖTLEY CRÜE CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF
‘CARNIVAL OF SINS’ TOUR & BAND’S 45TH ANNIVERSARY WITH MASSIVE 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER
AUGUST 25
Tickets On Sale Friday – November 21 at 10AM at Ticketmaster.com
CINCINNATI, OH (11/18/25) — Today, iconic rock band Mötley Crüe announce THE RETURN OF THE CARNIVAL OF SINS, a major 2026 North American tour celebrating two milestones: the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking 2005-2006 Carnival of Sins tour and the 45th anniversary of the band.
The run will bring Mötley Crüe’s high-impact live show — renowned for its explosive production, unforgettable visuals, and decades-spanning catalog — to fans across the U.S. and Canada next summer. The tour will stop in 33 cities across North America and will include a performance in Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center on Tuesday, August 25. The tour will feature performances by very special guests Tesla and Extreme.
Tickets to the general public will go on sale Friday, November 21 at 9AM. VIP packages will be available for purchase starting Wednesday, November 19 at 9AM. More information can be found at motley.com.
When the Carnival of Sins Tour first hit the road in 2005, it wasn’t just a concert — it was a full-scale production that pushed the limits of live shows. It combined grit, humor, and high-voltage energy with elaborate staging and a sense of chaos that only Mötley Crüe could pull off. Two decades later, fans will have the chance to experience The Return Of The Carnival Of Sins as Mötley Crüe revisits one of the most memorable live tours of their storied career with a reimagined show and updated setlist.
“Bringing back the spirit of Carnival of Sins has been a blast, and we wanted to take it even further for its 20th anniversary. This new show is for the Crüeheads who’ve been with us through it all and for the new Crüeheads who didn’t get to experience Carnival of Sins last time around. Get ready — we’re coming your way, and we can’t wait to see you next summer,” Mötley Crüe said in a joint statement.
Through the Mötley Crüe Giveback Initiative, $1 from every ticket will be donated to ASAP! (After School Arts Program), a cause close to the hearts of the band members. With federal grants to music programs in schools being cut, millions of children across the U.S. risk losing access to creative, life-changing education and experiences in the arts. ASAP!’s mission is to nurture resilient, empathetic young people through hands-on programs in music, art, writing, theater, and play.
Coinciding with today’s tour announcement, Mötley Crüe’s Theatre Of Pain 40th Anniversary Deluxe box set is out now and available HERE. A must-have for fans and collectors alike, the box set features reimagined artwork, the newly remastered album on color vinyl, a never-before-released 1985 Long Beach live concert (2LP), rare demo recordings (1LP), and a 76-page hardcover book packed with never-before-seen photos and memories from Mötley Crüe’s Theatre of Pain era. This definitive set captures the raw energy and spirit of the band and is available only for a limited time.
ABOUT MÖTLEY CRÜE
Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mötley Crüe has commandeered the rock pantheon for 40+ years. The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, garnered 7 USA Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums, 22 Top 40 mainstream rock hits, 6 Top 20 pop singles, 3 GRAMMY® nominations, 5 New York Times Best Selling books, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a hit Netflix movie. The quartet has amassed nearly 10 billion streams and has over 9.5 million followers on social media. Known for their iconic live performances, Mötley Crüe has sold out countless tours around the world in front of millions of fans and pioneered the Las Vegas rock residency with a sold-out run in 2012. Hit songs, like “Kickstart My Heart” and “Home Sweet Home,” are frequently licensed by major brands such as NASCAR, Dodge, Coldwell Banker, Carl’s Jr., and KIA, and their music can be heard on hit TV shows like Stranger Things and Cobra Kai, among others. The band’s biography, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, became a New York Times Best Seller in 2001 and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Members of the band have authored 5 additional New York Times Best Selling books since. In 2019, Netflix premiered The Dirt, a biopic based on the bestselling book. Mötley Crüe remains a huge global draw 43 years into their career, wrapping up a 2-year world stadium tour in late 2023. In 2024, the band ushered in a brand-new era, signing to Big Machine Records and releasing the single “Dogs of War.” 2025 saw Mötley Crüe return to the Las Vegas Strip for the band’s third Sin City residency – the first one since 2013 – with ten nights at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Mötley Crüe will celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2026. For upcoming announcements, more information and tour dates, visit motley.com.
Alabama Shakes and Tedeschi Trucks Band @ Riverbend Music Center!
ALABAMA SHAKES AND
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Future Soul 2026 Tour
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AUGUST 26
TICKETS ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 AT 10AM AT TICKETMASTER.COM
DOORS OPEN: 4:30PM
SHOWTIME: 6:00PM
CINCINNATI, OH (1/23/26) – Tedeschi Trucks Band (TTB), the GRAMMY Award-winning band led by the dynamic wife and husband duo of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, has announced the details for their sixth studio album, Future Soul, and released the first single “I Got You.” The 11-track collection, the band’s most powerful album to date, will be released on Friday, March 20th via Fantasy Records in the middle of TTB’s 10-show headlining run at NYC’s Beacon Theatre. The infectious “I Got You,” written by guitarist/vocalist Mike Mattison, takes cues from the spirit of Derek and the Dominos and Delaney & Bonnie to create a driving, mid-tempo classic. PRESS HERE to listen and PRESS HERE to watch the official video. PRESS HERE to pre-save Future Soul on DSPs and to pre-order on CD and vinyl.
“I Got You’ is a breath of fresh air and pretty different for us,” shares Trucks. “It feels like the band, but it doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before.”
To support the album’s release, Tedeschi Trucks Band has announced their Future Soul 2026 Tour. Following the band’s residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City from March 10-28, the 35-date headlining outing will kick off in April and include a stop in Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center on Wednesday, August 26 featuring co-headliner Alabama Shakes.
TTB Swamp Family Fan Club presales for the Future Soul 2026 Tour will be available starting Tuesday, January 27 at 10AM. Citi is the official card of the tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 27 at 12PM through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete details visit citientertainment.com. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning at 10AM on Friday, January 30 at Ticketmaster.com and Riverbend.org,
Future Soul has a lot to live up to…and it does. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s debut studio album, Revelator, won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, while 2018’s Live From the Fox Oakland was nominated for a Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy. Since forming in 2010, TTB has been nominated for numerous Americana Music Honors & Awards and won Band of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2023 at the Blues Music Awards. They’ve sold out Madison Square Garden and over 20 nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In 2024, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi (hailed as “two of the best roots rock musicians of their generation” by NPR) performed at the Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Bonnie Raitt, Grateful Dead, and more, and the full band played the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony honoring one of their biggest influences, Joe Cocker, with an all-star set featuring special guests Nathaniel Rateliff, Teddy Swims, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Chris Robinson, and more.
Known for its world-class musicianship, Tedeschi Trucks Band is Susan Tedeschi (guitar, vocals), Derek Trucks (guitar), Mike Mattison (guitar, vocals), Gabe Dixon (keys, vocals), Brandon Boone (bass), Tyler “Falcon” Greenwell (drums, percussion), Isaac Eady (drums, percussion), Mark Rivers (vocals), Alecia Chakour (vocals), Kebbi Williams (saxophone), Emmanuel Echem (trumpet) and Elizabeth Lea (trombone).
About Alabama Shakes
The Athens, AL-raised band, comprised of vocalist/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, and bassist Zac Cockrell exploded onto the scene in 2012 with their debut album Boys & Girls, (ATO Records), which entered Billboard’s Independent Albums chart at No. 1. Boys & Girls earned the band multiple GRAMMY nominations and was hailed as one of the year’s best albums by numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, which also named lead single “Hold On” the #1 Best Song of 2012. Soon after its release, the bandmates found themselves thrust into the global spotlight, achieving such milestones as performing at the White House and on “Saturday Night Live.”
The band’s legacy continued to grow with the groundbreaking Sound & Color (ATO Records). Released 10 years ago, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, won GRAMMY Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The first single, “Don’t Wanna Fight,” took honors in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories. Sound & Color marked a profound evolution from Alabama Shakes’ debut album, as The New York Times Magazine observed, heralding the band’s “soul-stirring, shape-shifting new sound.” Both Sound & Color and Boys & Girls were certified Platinum by the RIAA.
The Ultimate Doors-Tribute to The Doors @ The Bluestone!
THE ULTIMATE DOORS
Tribute to The Doors
Saturday, September 5
The Bluestone – Doors open at 7pm
Tickets on sale Friday, April 3 at 10am at AXS.com
What sets The Ultimate Doors apart is their obsessive attention to authenticity. From the period-correct instruments and vintage gear that recreate The Doors’ unmistakable tones, to the styling, stage presence, and energy that mirror the original band, every detail is crafted to transport audiences back to 1968. The four musicians of The Ultimate Doors combine to create a sound so faithful that fans often remark they feel as though they’re at a real Doors concert. It’s not just a tribute…it’s a time machine.
Darrian Kenney – Vocals
Jordyn Huffman – Percussion
Branden Eifrid – Organ
Todd Huffman – Guitar
Eric Clapton at Heritage Bank Center
ERIC CLAPTON
with special guest Jimmie Vaughan
Tuesday, September 8
On Sale Now at Ticketmaster.com
The 2026 Eric Clapton touring band will be:
- Doyle Bramhall II – Guitar
- Sonny Emory – Drums
- Chris Stainton – Keyboards
- Nathan East – Bass
- Tim Carmon – B3 Hammond Organ
- Katie Kissoon – Backing Vocals
- Sharon White – Backing Vocals
Late last year, Eric Clapton released a remastered special edition of his 1989 album Journeyman, via Bushbranch/Surfdog Records. Journeyman: Deluxe Edition is available digitally and on CD/LP and features four brand-new bonus tracks. The album arrived alongside a music video for a new bonus track off the record “Higher Power,” written by Jerry Williams. Listen to Journeyman: Deluxe Edition HERE and watch the new music video HERE.
Dokken with Lita Ford & Lynch Mob! – Rose Music Center at The Heights
DOKKEN
WITH LITA FORD AND LYNCH MOB
ROSE MUSIC CENTER AT THE HEIGHTS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
Tickets On Sale Friday, May 1 at 10AM at Ticketmaster.com
Presale begins: 10AM on Thursday, April 30
Presale ends: 10PM on Thursday, April 30
Offer Code: FUNKY
HUBER HEIGHTS, OH (4/27/2026) – Dokken, Lita Ford and Lynch Mob are joining forces for the not-to-be-missed rock concert of the year. Featuring full sets by each band, the concert will also include a special encore performance by Don Dokken and George Lynch together on stage at Rose Music Center at The Heights on Saturday, September 19.
Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning at 10AM on Friday, May 1 at Ticketmaster.com and the Rose Music Center Box Office.
HUBER HEIGHTS, OH (4/27/2026) – Dokken, Lita Ford and Lynch Mob are joining forces for the not-to-be-missed rock concert of the year. Featuring full sets by each band, the concert will also include a special encore performance by Don Dokken and George Lynch together on stage at Rose Music Center at The Heights on Saturday, September 19.
Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning at 10AM on Friday, May 1 at Ticketmaster.com and the Rose Music Center Box Office.
DOKKEN
Dokken exploded out of the boiling hard rock/heavy metal scene in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. 1983’s “Breaking the Chains” with its catchy title track, set the stage for Dokken becoming the most dominant creative and commercial force in the world of Melodic Hard Rock for the following years. Such classic albums as “Tooth and Nail”, “Under Lock and Key” and “Back for the Attack” all became Multi-Platinum selling smashes and the live “Beast from the East” went gold in Europe and Japan. Songs like “Alone Again”, “Just Got Lucky”, “Into the Fire”, “In My Dreams”, “Unchain the Night”, “Dream Warriors”, “Burning like a Flame” and “Heaven Sent” are still nowadays regarded among the genre’s finest.
Dokken has shared the stage with AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Kiss, Scorpions, as well as Bon Jovi, just to name a few. The band hit stadium status in 1988, playing in front of over a million fans in just five weeks. It seemed Dokken was on the verge of superstardom. But like so many other bands that have come before and after them, Dokken broke up his group in 1989.
In 1994, the legendary A&R man John Kalodner offered Dokken a recording contract on the condition the group had to be original members. The band released the appropriately titled “Dysfunctional” in 1995 selling 450,000 copies, which by the mid ’90s was considered by industry standards very respectable. But just as they were on the verge of releasing a second single, filming a video, starting a world tour and “taking it all the way”, as Don Dokken puts it, the baggage from their past reared its ugly head, and again the group began to unravel. Soon after guitarist George Lynch left the group, he was replaced by Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake).
They released “Erase the Slate” in 1999 Followed by their DVD “Live from the Sun” in 2000. In 2001, Beach was replaced by John Norum (Europe) and released the album “Long Way Home”. By 2003 guitarist Jon Levin came on board with the subsequent release of the albums “Hell to pay”, “Lightning strikes Again” and “Broken Bones” and has remained with the group for over 20 years now.
DOKKEN is now Don Dokken (vocals), Mick Brown (drums), Jon Levin (guitar) and Chris McCarvill (bass).
LITA FORD
Lita Ford’s trailblazing career began in 1976 as the lead guitarist of the groundbreaking all-girl punk rock band, The Runaways, whose hard rock/punk edge spawned cult classics like “Cherry Bomb”, “Wasted” and “Queens of Noise.” Additionally, the band contributed a great Slade cover to the annals of rock with their rendition of “Mama We’re All Crazy Now”. Their legacy was re-ignited in 2014 when “Cherry Bomb” was featured in Marvel/Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy. This earned a Grammy nomination, cementing the band’s enduring influence on rock music. In addition to the Guardians movie, Lita’s “Kiss Me Deadly” was part of the 2019 Captain Marvel movie soundtrack, which had Captain Marvel cast in a female role.
After The Runaways broke up in 1979, Lita had to reinvent herself. Lita influenced the shock rock world with her leather costuming (thank you Neil Merryweather) influencing bands like Motley Crue and WASP. Even her signature BC Rich guitars caught on with the aforementioned bands.
She launched her solo career in 1983 with Out for Blood, establishing herself as the premier female force in hard rock and heavy metal. Her follow-up album, Dancin’ on the Edge (1984), earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and produced her hit, “Gotta Let Go.” By 1988, she had become a household name upon the release of her multi-platinum, self-titled album, LITA XX. This huge album was produced by Mike Chapman (The Sweet, Tina Turner, Pat Benatar and featured the chart-toppers “Kiss Me Deadly” and “Close My Eyes Forever” (a duet with the late Ozzy Osbourne), the latter spending 25 weeks on the Billboard Top 10; a first ever top 10 for Ozzy. Lita is also proud to have been the first female on the cover of Lonn Friend’s RIP magazine – this was also to be the largest selling edition ever printed.
Lita went on to release Stiletto (1990), Dangerous Curves (1991), and Black (1995), producing more hits like “Hungry,” “Playin’ with Fire,” and “Shot of Poison”—and earning further Grammy nominations. The year 2012 gave us Living Like a Runaway and in 2014, including the Guitar Player Lifetime Achievement Award and the Guitar Player Certified Legend Award, she was also inducted into the Guitar Player Hall of Fame. Finally, Lita Ford was honored as the First Lady of Rock Guitar at the She Rocks Awards in 2017.
Lita has appeared in film, television, and video games, and her 2016 Harper Collins memoir, Living Like a Runaway became a national bestseller, earning her the “Outstanding Writer” award by the Producers Choice Honors. Her iconic and influential B.C. Rich Warlock guitar was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s permanent collection in 2021.
Now more active than ever, Lita Ford is extensively touring across the United States and Europe. In addition to her relentless tour schedule, Lita is set to release a highly anticipated new album in 2026 which promises to deliver the fierce energy and signature guitar work fans around the world have come to love. This new album boasts a wealth of writing and production talent including Gary Hoey, mixing Max Norman, and including a duet written, produced, and sung with Jean Beauvoir.
With a legacy that spans nearly five decades, Lita Ford continues to inspire generations of musicians—solidifying even more, her place as an icon, pioneer, and true Queen of Rock.
LYNCH MOB
Lynch Mob was formed by George Lynch in 1989 after the breakup of Dokken, his long time band of which he was a founding member and main song writer. The band signed with Elektra Records, and immediately released “Wicked Sensation” which would go on to achieve gold status. The album received much critical and fan acclaim, and would pave the way for over a dozen records over the next 30+ years. The band is known for its high energy, guitar driven, hard rock vibe, while featuring elements of classic rock, blues, metal, with a propensity for improvisation. The current lineup features Lynch, alongside of Jimmy D’Anda, Gabriel Colon, and Jaron Gulino.
On drums, O.G. BULLETBOYS drummer Jimmy D’Anda brings the band an old school Dr Funkenstein funky, but heavy back beat. He’s also known for being the pie eating champion of Boyle Heights East Los Angeles 84’. Go Rough Riders!
Gabriel Colón is a Puerto Rican singer who started his career with a band called Fast Taker. The band would go on to release a top 10 single in Puerto Rico’s rock radio market. Since arriving in the states, he has showcased his wide range of vocal talent with many rock acts including, Gothic Knights, Culprit, White Wizzard, and Rowan Robertson.
New Jersey’s own Jaron Gulino brings the east coast attitude and energy. He has prospered in a long career as the bassist in a variety of bands, most notably post-grunge rock band Tantric. Gulino achieved chart topping success with multiple releases from Tantric, as well as performing on many high profile tours and events with numerous other acts.
Lynch Mob plans on celebrating the legacy of an incredible history, with shows consisting of classic, career spanning material, as well as a heavy dose of Dokken material.
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