"The reality of being a musician means you need to have very rich parents, the willingness to ruin yourself financially, or a label with very deep pockets." Why that hotly-tipped band you love might not be touring this year

Crown Lands.

Hotly-tipped Canadian prog duo Crown Lands have a new album out. Apocalypse came out via InsideOutMusic earlier this month, and while the band have shows lined up in Canada, any European fans hoping to see the band in 2026 will be disappointed – and you can blame the cost of touring.

"We had a very difficult discussion about it yesterday," says guitarist/bassist/keyboardist Kevin Comeau, interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock. "Our management showed us a budget where if we went over to the UK and Europe to play ten shows, we would lose about thirty-five thousand dollars.