From the streets, to the 20,000-plus seats filled at Madison Square Garden, to the millions online, El Alfa’s La Leyenda del Dembow World Tour stop on Oct. 22 was nothing short of a triumph. The artist, born Emanuel Herrera, is the first star from the Dominican Republic’s dembow genre to …
Read More »Stone Temple Pilots Announce Fall U.S. Tour
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 »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 »When Will Indie Venue Owners Get the Funding They Were Promised?
Sean Lynch is in limbo. Like thousands of other independent venue owners across the country, Lynch — who owns the Pub Station, a once-thriving concert hall in Billings, Montana — is depending on the money promised by the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, a federal program passed last year to deliver …
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 »Clive Davis to Produce New York 'Mega-Concert' for City's Reopening
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a huge concert event for the city’s post-pandemic reopening and has called on veteran producer Clive Davis to helm the show, the New York Times reports. The “mega-concert,” part of de Blasio’s proposed “Homecoming Week” and tentatively scheduled for August 21st, …
Read More »Vax Live: Inside the First Full-Scale, Covid-Compliant Concert in the United States
In a stadium of over 20,000 fans standing shoulder to shoulder eagerly awaiting their first star-studded concert in over a year, no one was more excited than Dave Grohl. “This is a fucking rock concert!” the Foo Fighters frontman said multiple times between the band’s set, as if he still …
Read More »Lucy Dacus Announces 'Home Video,' Hear the Lead Single 'Hot and Heavy'
A month after releasing her crushing ballad “Thumbs,” Lucy Dacus has announced the new album Home Video, out June 25th via Matador. The singer-songwriter accompanied the release with “Hot and Heavy,” the opening track to the record. “Being back here makes me hot in the face/Hot blood in my pulsing …
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 …
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