Summer music heats up 2024

After tour dates were postponed into late 2023 on medical advice while Boss recovered from a peptic ulcer, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were back on the road – yet another reason to celebrate the return of summer music.

Scroll through our gallery of shows, with images from the CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographer Ed Spinelli.

Judah and the Lion

The band Judah and the Lion, whose innovative music blends folk, rock, hip hop and bluegrass, performed at the Huntington Bank Pavilion on Northernly Island, Chicago, on May 28, 2024. Pictured are founding members Judah Akers (left), Brian Macdonald (center) and Nate Zuercher.

His latest studio album is “The Process”.

Hermanos Gutierrez

The brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez, who act as Hermanos Gutierrezbrought a spaghetti western vibe to Thalia Hall in Chicago on May 12th and 13th, 2024.

His most recent album is “El Bueno y el Malo”, from 2022.

Judas Priest

Rob Halford, from the British metal band Judas Priestperforms at Wing’s Event Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 4, 2024.

In March the group released the album “Invincible Shield”.

Sabaton

Bassist Pär Sundström from the Swedish metal band Sabatonperforming at Wing’s Event Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 4, 2024. The group is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

The band’s most recent album is 2022’s “The War to End All Wars”. Their setlist included “Carolus Rex”, “Soldier of Heaven” and “To Hell and Back”.

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O Tour Sessanta presents rock groups Puscifer, Cousin It is A perfect circlein an onstage mash-up celebrating the 60th birthday of Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Tool.

Tour Sessanta

Maynard James Keenan joins English singer-songwriter Carina Round of Puscifer to perform “Grand Canyon” during the Sessanta Tour at Wintrust Arena in Chicago on May 1, 2024.

Serra Ferrel

Singer and composer Serra Ferrel played two sold-out shows at Chicago’s Thalia Hall on April 23 and 24, 2024. Their setlist included songs from their latest album, “Trail of Flowers” (“American Dreaming”, “Fox Hunt”, “I Could Drive Youi Crazy”), along with “In Dreams”, “Jeremiah” and “Why’d Ya Do It”.

In a recent interview with Anthony Mason for “CBS Mornings,” Ferrell, who said she sang as soon as she could talk (“I was a really annoying kid!”), struggled for years — hitchhiking, train hopping and playing with her for across the country while escaping addiction. Her life began to change in Nashville, playing Honky Tonk Tuesday Nights at American Legion Post 82. A buzz began to build, leading to a recording contract. “Long Time Coming” was released in 2019.

“It’s funny how attention comes, because it’s like: nothing, nothing, nothing, all at once,” she said.

Uli Jon Roth

On tour across North America, the virtuoso German guitarist Uli Jon Roth stopped by Reggies in Chicago on April 20, 2024, to perform two sets: one, an electric guitar rendition of Mozart’s music; and second, songs from his time with the rock band Scorpions.

Your guitar has two extra strings – one tuned to play as loud as a violin and one as deep as a cello.

He closed the show with “The Sails of Charon”.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

On April 4, 2024 at the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood California Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened with a cover of blues legend John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom.”

The three and a half hour (!) show featured 32 songs, including encores.

Alkaline Trio

In January the punk band Alkaline Trio released their first album in six years, “Blood, Hair and Eyeballs.” They performed on March 16, 2024, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.

Pictured, from left: bassist Dan Andriano, guitarist Matt Skiba and drummer Atom Willard.

Hermanos Gutierrez

Guitarist Estevan Gutiérrez.

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Edited by senior producer David Morgan.