Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, and Korn will headline the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky this fall. Metallica will play two unique sets on different nights. The event will also feature performances from Judas Priest, Jane’s Addiction, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Gojira, and many others. It will take place …
Read More »Yungblud Announces 'The Weird Time of Life' Digital Tour
Yungblud will embark on a “global digital tour” this fall, the artist announced on Monday. With coronavirus restrictions on live music still in place in many parts of the world, Yungblud (a.k.a. Dominic Harrison) will kick off a 16-date virtual tour, presented by Moment House, on November 16th in London. …
Read More »Owner of Famed L.A. Venue The Troubadour: 'Are We Going to Be a Footnote in History?'
West Hollywood music venue The Troubadour has long been one of the most storied venues in popular music. In the 1960s and Seventies, Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne frequented the joint just a short drive away through the Hollywood Hills. In 1970, Elton John played his …
Read More »How Nashville's Play-for-Tips Musicians Are Adapting in the Age of Social Distancing
Joshua Hedley has played Robert’s Western World, the famous Nashville honky-tonk known for its old-school country music and fried bologna sandwiches, thousands of times since 2005, but until this past Tuesday night, he had never performed there to an empty dance floor. After bars and honky-tonks shut down in Nashville’s …
Read More »Santana, Buddy Guy to be Honored at Jazz Foundation of America's Great Night in Harlem
The Jazz Foundation of America will honor Carlos Santana and Buddy Guy at their annual A Great Night in Harlem event, April 14th at the Apollo Theater in New York City. The event borrows its name from Art Kane’s 1958 photograph for Esquire, “A Great Day in Harlem,” which captured …
Read More »New Order, Pet Shop Boys Plot Co-Headlining Tour
New Order and Pet Shop Boys will embark on a co-headlining North American tour this September. The 11-date Unity Tour will kick off September 5th at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto and include stops in cities like Boston, New York, Chicago, Vancouver and San Francisco before wrapping October 2nd at …
Read More »Lovers and Friends Plots Second Day With Usher, Lauryn Hill, TLC
Despite a week filled with some uncertainty over its lineup, the new R&B and hip-hop festival Lovers and Friends has added a second show that will feature many of the same artists as the first, including headliners Lauryn Hill, Usher, TLC, Ludacris and Lil Jon. Lovers and Friends was initially …
Read More »Madness Announce 40th Anniversary Tour
British rock band Madness are hitting the road again in 2020. More than 40 years after the release of their debut album, 1979’s ska-punk-y One Step Beyond…, Madness will be performing a slew of tour dates, including their first U.S. shows in eight years. The tour will feature most of …
Read More »Bob Seger Adds Final Four North American Dates to Farewell Tour
The final leg of Bob Seger’s Roll Me Away farewell tour kicks off September 12th in Rapid City, South Dakota and four more dates have just been tacked onto the end that will be the last North American shows of the tour. The four concerts will take place in Boston …
Read More »Warren Haynes, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson Lead Last Waltz Tour
Robbie Robertson has announced an all-star tour celebrating the Band‘s legendary farewell concert The Last Waltz. Warren Haynes, Don Was, Jamey Johnson and Lukas Nelson are among the artists that will take part in the 12-date The Last Waltz Tour 2019: A Celebration of The Band’s Historic Farewell Concert. Robertson …
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