Stone Temple Pilots have announced a fall U.S. tour that will kick off following their current co-headlining summer tour with Bush. The new trek starts October 9th in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and, after a month on the road, concludes November 9th in Baltimore, Maryland. The band, now fronted by singer and …
Read More »Stanley Nelson to Be Honored at Rolling Stone and Variety's Inaugural Truth Seekers Summit
VarietyandRollingStone are pleased to announce programming for the inaugural Truth Seekers virtual summit on August 26th, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. Keynote speakers will include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War), with panels from documentarians behind Allen v. Farrow,Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,Crime Scene: The …
Read More »100 Gecs Plot '10,000 Gecs' North American Tour
100 Gecs are set to kick off a North American tour later this fall. The 34-date 10,000 Gecs tour will launch on October 8th at the Fox Theater in Oakland and run all the way through December 9th, when the run wraps at Terminal 5 in New York City. Tickets …
Read More »Bob Dylan Announces Streaming Concert as First Post-Pandemic Performance
Bob Dylan‘s first post-pandemic performance will take on July 18th as a paid steaming event called Shadow Kingdom. The show will be presented through Veeps, and tickets are $25. It will be available for 48 hours after the initial airing. “Shadow Kingdom will showcase the artist in an intimate setting,” …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Tyler, the Creator to Headline Day N Vegas Festival
Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, and Tyler, the Creator are set to headline the 2021 Day N Vegas festival, which will take place November 12th through 14th at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Lamar’s set was billed in a press release as his only live performance of 2021. The billing on …
Read More »How Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange Almost Appeared in 'WandaVision'
The story of WandaVision‘s main character, Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen), is set to continue in 2022’s Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, but the two projects were almost linked much more directly. As Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige reveals in Rolling Stone‘s extensive …
Read More »Billie Eilish Addresses Body Shaming in Concert Interlude
Billie Eilish kicked off the North American leg of her Where Do We Go? World Touron Monday night at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. Prior to performing “All the Good Girls Go to Hell,” the 18-year-old singer appeared in a video interlude in which she addressed her experiences with …
Read More »Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings Announce First U.S. Tour Together in a Decade
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will celebrate the music of the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and more on their first United States tour together in 10 years. The Together Again, Live in Concert trek will kick off June 13th at the Rose Music Center at the Heights in Huber Heights, …
Read More »Watch Chris and Rich Robinson Cover R.E.M. With Peter Buck
While performing an intimate acoustic show as Brothers of a Feather, the Black Crowes‘ Chris and Rich Robinson were joined by Peter Buck for a cover of R.E.M.‘s “7 Chinese Bros.” in Portland on Wednesday. They performed the song, off 1984’s Reckoning, during the duo’s encore. Rich and Buck plucked …
Read More »Surprising No One, TikTok Is Driving a Lot of New-Artist Growth
In 2008, Jay Sean released “Ride It,” a dance-floor come-on that became a hit everywhere — except for the U.S. Now, it’s enjoying a second life. A house-music remix by Regard became popular on the video app TikTok, which allows users to set short clips to music. After the “Ride …
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