IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES

MUSIC HAS BEEN a pandemic salve, but, in the coming months, fans will finally be able to enjoy many of their favourite artists in person again. Among the performers touring Canada on the strength of new albums in 2022 are Cali funk-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers, who drop the Rick Rubin-produced Unlimited

Love (April 1); it reunites them with prodigal guitarist John Frusciante, who’d left the group for a decade. Former White Stripes front man and Detroit native Jack White, who’s been sporting turquoise locks to match the record promo, releases Fear of the Dawn (April 8), a hard rock banger and the first of two albums he has scheduled this year. Effervescent New Orleans’ ambassador Trombone Shorty delivers Lifted (April 29), a set of funk, soul and psychedelic rock dedicated to his mother, who died of lung cancer last fall. Alberta country singer Corb

Lund issues Songs My Friends Wrote

(April 29), interpreting tunes penned by pals like fellow troubadour Ian Tyson. Toronto post-grungers Three Days Grace, inspired by COVID-19-era anxieties and upheavals, are back with Explosions (May 6). San Francisco rockers Train, whose

AM Gold (May 20) is their first collection of original music in five years, will be joined on tour by special guests Jewel and Blues Traveler, promising a show that is “strong, beautiful, encouraging.”

If you’re still loath to brave the crowds, now that COVID mandates are easing, take a trip down memory lane with

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and erstwhile Hall and Oates co-founder Daryl Hall’s

BeforeAfter (April 1), a two-disc set spanning his five solo albums, along with never-released live recordings from the web and television series Live From Daryl’s House. Finally, travel back to 1976 with a 4K digitally restored Blu-ray edition of The Last Waltz (March 29), Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The Band’s farewell concert, featuring Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, the Staple Singers, Muddy Waters and Neil Young.