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Fifty years ago today, September 12, 1966, The Monkees hit the TV airwaves for the first time.

Michael Nesmith is playing with the Monkees again, possibly for the last time.

Mike Nesmith was back with The Monkees on Friday night and this time on stage.

Original Monkees member Mike Nesmith will perform live with the band again tonight in Monterey.

The Monkees are riding their biggest wave since the days of their television show. Their latest album, Good Times!, debuted at 14 on the Billboard 200 and became their highest charting album in 48 years. Plus, their latest tour is doing huge business coast-to-coast.

The Monkees 50th anniversary show, featuring Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, will tour New Zealand and Australia in November and December.

The Monkees are officially back and riding high on the charts.

The Monkees will return to the US Top 10 for the first time in 48 years this week.

Mike Nesmith was back performing with The Monkees last week but he wasn’t in the room … he was on Skype.

The Monkees have just scored their highest album chart position in Australia in nearly 50 years.

When the Billboard charts come out next Tuesday, there is going to be a name in the top twenty that has been seen since 1968, The Monkees.

Mike Nesmith will play live with The Monkees this week in New York this week but he won’t be in the room … he will be on Skype.

Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz are still touring The Monkees almost 50 years since their very first concert.

The Monkees, Beth Orton, Flume, Fifth Harmony, Lacuna Coil, Winterbourne, Dierks Bentley, Catfish & the Bottlemen, and the Alice: Through the Looking Glass soundtrack lead this week’s new music releases.

The Monkees will release their first new album in twenty years on May 27 (vinyl on July 1) with the Adam Schlesinger produced Good Times.

Aviva Maloney, a member of the Monkees’ backup band for over twenty years, has sued Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Warner Music and others for being wrongly fired.

More details of ‘Good Times’, the new album by The Monkees, have emerged with it now revealed that Paul Weller has written a song with Noel Gallagher especially for the album.

The Monkees will release their first new album in 20 years with new songs written by members of Death Cab For Cutie, Weezer and XTC.

Not sure what to make of Peter Tork’s plug midway through the set imploring the audience to buy their merchandise?

The Monkees TV series and the movie ‘Head’ is coming to Blu-Ray.

The Monkees featuring Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, will perform their first concert in the UK since their sold-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011.

Michael Nesmith has slated a new group of solo shows that will take him through the month of November just after wrapping up a tour with The Monkees.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers opened their 2013 tour last Thursday in at the Ford Center in Evansville, IN and started their five-night stand on Monday at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

The perennial favorite musical pastime, complaining about who’s not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, almost always comes around to a few artists including Rush (who are now in), Deep Purple, the Monkees and KISS.

Harry Nilsson was one of the most enigmatic artists of the rock era. Unassuming, he called all four Beatles, Randy Newman, Keith Moon and Jimmy Webb his friends and was one of the only artists to attain mainstream success without performing live or touring.

It has been 21 years since Michael Nesmith has done a full solo tour of the U.S.

Jewel Akens, who told the whole world all about The Birds and the Bees, has died at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, CA hospital from complications of back surgery. He was 79.

Former teen idols David Cassidy, Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz will play a number of concerts during 2013 under the name David Cassidy Presents The World’s Greatest Teen Idols.

Hot off the road from a rare reunion with the Monkees, Michael Nesmith has announced that he will, once again, be touring his solo material during March and April.