Both Livedaily.com and true-to-you.net -- a Morrissey-approved web site -- list a Cleveland date for the former Smiths' singer upcoming U.S. tour

According to reports he'll play Cleveland's Playhouse Square -- most likely, the Palace -- on May 17. An on-sale date has not been announced. Keep checking playhousesquare.com for details.

You better hurry if you want to catch Tragically Hip's show in Erie. Yes, the show isn't until May 18 at the Warner Theatre but tickets got off to a super fast start last week. This one may be headed for a sellout.

What a shock about Brad Delp, former lead singer of Boston. Bad enough that he died; Boston had been planning to hit the road this summer. Now, his family says he committed suicide.

Boston never was a critics' favorite, and any grudging respect that came the band's way was usually accorded to musical wizard Tom Scholz. But it was Delp's expressive vocal work that help elevate classics like "More than a Feeling" and "Long Time." He could wail, when he wanted.

I was so caught up in Boston's first CD -- it sounded like nothing else in 1976 -- that I caught the band when it played my college, the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. It still ranks as one of the all-time worst concerts I've ever seen. Boston couldn't yet reproduce its sound on stage, band members bickered. The night was wholly unsatisfying.