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Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring the Wolfpack are playing a five-night residency at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY Dec. 12, 13, 15, 16 & 17 as part of a recently announced year-end mini-tour with Wolf Bros. members Don Was, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and Barry Sless.
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“Well OK, looks like we’re back at the Cap for five nights this time around in December; this is gonna be big fun,” Weir tells Billboard. “We’re gonna get a chance to get to most everything in the song book – and maybe see if a couple folks are willing to make the hr-or-so trip outta the city to join us.”
The five-show run marks the largest residency performance of 2023 for the Capitol Theatre, which is owned by Brookyln Bowl founder and Dayglo Presents CEO Peter Shapiro. The 2,000-cap venue has become the unofficial home for residency shows, especially within the jam band and Grateful Dead fan scene thanks to Shapiro’s deep musical roots — including his ownership of Relix Magazine — and the theaters central location. Port Chester is a 30-mile drive north of Manhattan, near the Connecticut state line about ten minutes from Greenwich.
“I tell the artists that more shows they play during their residency, the larger the geographic draw will be,” says Shapiro, who hosted residencies for Goose and Wilco in March and a three-night run for Disco Biscuits in May.
Shapiro, who has hosted more than 100 shows at the Cap for Grateful Dead bandmate Phil Lesh, including six in 2023, says key to the success of the theater is that artists play original sets each night of their residency since many fans who travel to attend a residency often buy tickets for multiple shows.
“The bands and crew like it because it gives them more downtime to rest and make adjustments to sound and production,” he tells Billboard. As a promoter, the model significantly reduces costs, especially for the middle shows on a three, four or five night run.
“Not having the load-in and load-out costs to deal with can make a huge difference,” Shapiro says. “And for the band, not having to rely on tour busses can mean significant savings, especially with the high costs of travel right now.
Weir’s manager Matt Busch tells Billboard Weir enjoys playing the Capitol Theatre because “we know there’s a singular focus on the music to make this run of shows as unique and special as possible.”
Artist presale begins Thursday, Sept 28 at 10 a.m. ET, with local presale beginning at 12 p.m. Sign-up for early access to tickets here. General on sale begins Sept 29 at 10 a.m.
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack are currently on their Fall 2023 tour and have joined Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival 2023 for a number of shows. The band will also be performing with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra at the Frost Amphitheatre in Stanford, Calif. on Oct. 29. Fans can also join the band for Playa Luna Presents Dead Ahead, an all-inclusive vacation experience in Riviera Cancún, Mexico on January 12-15, 2024 celebrating the Dead songbook featuring two nights of curated collaborations themed “Dead Ahead” as well as one night of Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack and more. More info on Dead Ahead can be found here.
One person was injured when shots were fired during an argument between two groups of people at the Oklahoma State Fair on Saturday (Sept. 23), sending a crowd of people running for safety, police said.
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One person was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after the evening shooting, Oklahoma City police Lt. Jeff Cooper said Sunday. Police initially took two people into custody but Cooper said one of them was later released.
Police have not yet released the suspect’s name.
The injured person was taken to the hospital and remained in critical condition Sunday, police said.
The shooting happened at an event center on the fairgrounds. Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said that after the initial shooting, someone fired some rounds into the air as people started running.
Guns are prohibited on the fairgrounds, and there are security and detectors at entrances, police said.
Motley Crue‘s Vince Neil, on the Saturday night lineup with an 8 p.m. start time, was mid-performance at the fair’s nearby Chickasaw Country Entertainment Stage when the incident occurred. He wrote about the alarming experience on his X (formerly Twitter) account Sunday afternoon.
“At a concert in Oklahoma City Crazy night last night. 3/4 of the way thru the set people started running,” Neil said. “We were told to get in [the] dressing room. There were shooters shooting people.”
“Thank you fans for your understanding,” he added, addressing those who were at the fair and didn’t get his full set.
In another message, Neil wrote, “Thankfully we are all okay! Thanks to everyone who came out. Please stay safe!”
See Neil’s statement below.
At a concert in Oklahoma City Crazy night last night. 3/4 of the way thru the set people started running. We we’re told to get in dressing room. There were shooters shooting people. Thank you fans for your understanding.— Vince Neil (@thevinceneil) September 24, 2023
Megan Thee Stallion finally joined Beyoncé to perform “Savage” live together for the first time on the Renaissance World Tour. The superstar pair of Texas natives treated a lucky Houston crowd to their “Savage” collab at NRG Stadium Saturday night (Sept. 23). Bey first put her twist on the track in 2020, when the “Savage” […]
Ms. Lauryn Hill, one of the headliners at the 2023 Global Citizen Festival, brought out Wyclef Jean and Pras for a surprise Fugees reunion in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday (Sept. 23). The formally dormant trio is back again on Hill’s ongoing 25th anniversary tour celebrating her Grammy album of the year-winning debut, […]
“Farm Aid is Earth Aid,” declared Neil Young, succinctly summarizing the role which the festival has taken on since 1985, focusing on how family farmers can help address the climate crisis, while also offering hours of extraordinary music Saturday (Sept. 23) at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana. With an acoustic set which opened with […]
“My dream is to play small theaters in England…This has gone way beyond,” says Ed Sheeran to a sold-out SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. on Saturday night (Sept. 23). Indeed, playing to a record-breaking 81,000 fans – the most tickets the venue has sold for a one-day event – is staggering. But the show itself […]
Bob Dylan astonished thousands of fans at Willie Nelson’s sold-out Farm Aid festival with a surprise late-night performance Saturday (Sept. 23) at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana.
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The appearance took place 38 years after Dylan conceived the idea for what became Farm Aid.
On July 13, 1985, in Philadelphia, Dylan had taken the stadium stage of Live Aid, the mega-benefit organized to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. Between songs, he mused to the event’s global audience: couldn’t a similar benefit help America’s family farmers?
“The question hit me like a ton of bricks,” Nelson recalled to Billboard in 2015. The musician was on the road that day, watching Live Aid on his tour-bus TV, and began looking into the economic crisis that was then forcing family farmers off their land and into bankruptcy. Then he called his friends, including the musician who made the suggestion.
Dylan was among the remarkable lineup of country and rock musicians who played the first Farm Aid in Champaign, Ill., on Sept. 22, 1985, a bill which also included Nelson’s fellow Farm Aid founders Neil Young and John Mellencamp, along with Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Billy Joel, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt and many more — including Tom Petty, who died in 2017, and Petty’s band, the Heartbreakers.
Three decades on, Farm Aid remains music’s longest-running concert for a cause, having raised more than $64 million to support family farmers and a sustainable food system.
Farm Aid’s guiding board now includes Dave Matthews and Margo Price, and Saturday’s bill also featured the Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir & the Wolf Bros. featuring the Wolfpack, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident and Particle Kid. Also on the bill: Clayton Anderson, The Black Opry featuring Lori Rayne, Tylar Bryant and Kyshona, the Jim Irsay Band, featuring Ann Wilson of Heart, Native Pride Productions and the Wisdom Indian Dancers.
At Farm Aid in 1985, Dylan performed with Petty and the Heartbreakers.
“At that time, Tony Dimitriades, Tom’s manager, was in a business partnership with [the late] Elliot Roberts in Lookout Management” who represented Dylan, recalled Bill DeYoung, a music critic, author and Petty historian, in a 2017 interview with Billboard. DeYoung for many years worked at the Gainesville Sun, the newspaper in Petty’s Florida hometown.
“Dylan needed a band for the first Farm Aid,” said DeYoung. “Everything else sprang from that.”
“Everything else” included the True Confessions Tour that Dylan and Petty launched together early the following year, in February 1986, during which the Heartbreakers backed Dylan for some 60 shows in Australia, Japan and the United States — including two nights at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. and three nights at Madison Square Garden.
The singers also performed at the second Farm Aid on July 4, 1986 — via satellite from their tour stop at Rich Stadium, outside Buffalo, New York. A second outing, the Temples in Flames tour, followed in 1987.
And the creative friendship between Dylan and Petty — born at Farm Aid — flourished.
In 1988, Dylan welcomed Petty, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison to his studio in Malibu to record the song “Handle Me With Care.” Originally intended as the B-side to a single from Harrison’s Cloud Nine album, the song instead became the inspiration for the tongue-in-cheek supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
So, from Farm Aid, Dylan found a potent touring partner and a hit recording collaboration. On Saturday, the legendary singer contributed to the goal of helping America’s family farmers, which he had first suggested on stage 38 years ago.
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A lot happened in a too-short amount of time when Jung Kook made his Global Citizen Festival solo debut as co-headliner on a rainy day in New York City Saturday (Sept. 23). The ARMY was in full force supporting the BTS member for his solo performance that included “a few surprises” — which he teased in a pre-show interview that aired during the concert’s live stream.
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First, as the night set in on city’s Central Park, Jung Kook — smiling and adjusting his purple in-ear monitors — kicked off his set with “Euphoria.” He held up his mic to hear the sound of the crowd singing back to him. Some tears were shed by fans up front by the barricade.
“Wow. Hi, Global Citizen!” he greeted the audience before moving along to his next song. He addressed the purpose of the show, saying, “Let’s keep making an impact further to make sure everyone, everywhere has access to their basic rights like food and education. OK?”
With the music festival in Central Park, Global Citizen aimed to urge world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly to tackle climate crisis, equity for women and girls, and the global hunger crisis.
“Here is my next song,” Jung Kook continued to say from the stage. “Thank you for coming in the rain. I love you guys.”
Jung Kook performs during Global Citizen Festival 2023 at Central Park on Sept. 23, 2023 in New York City.
“Still With You” was up next, and it was his first-ever live performance of the track. Jung Kook was feeling the guitar solo on the song. One fan held up a sketch of the BTS artist, while many from the ARMY held up their phones to capture the memory of the live event.
Jung Kook then introduced “Seven,” his solo summer single, hyping the crowd with an exclamation of “Let’s go!”
One of the night’s unexpected moments was an unannounced appearance by Latto during “Seven,” for which she delivered a live performance of her feature from the collab.
“Wow, that was a nice surprise, right?” Jung Kook commented at the song’s end. Latto said to him, “Thank you, JK. Shout out to the ARMY!”
Jung Kook’s Global Citizen set was nearing its end at this point. “My last song is a set of BTS hits,” he said. He recently said he misses performing with the group, which hasn’t happened lately due to solo music endeavors by its members, who are also fulfilling South Korea’s military enlistment requirement.
The BTS medley highlighted a trio of Billboard Hot 100 chart toppers, “Permission to Dance,” “Dynamite” and “Butter,” all of which have hit No. 1.
But Jung Kook’s show wasn’t quite over when he exited the performance area. A clip played on a large screen on the stage, showing Jung Kook’s name and “3D,” a cryptic teaser. ARMY awaits.
Jung Kook Set List at Global Citizen 2023
“Euphoria”“Still With You” (live debut)“Seven” (feat. Latto)“Permission to Dance/“Dynamite”/“Butter” (BTS medley)“3D”
Beyoncé fan Jon Hetherington posted a video last week in which he lamented that he would not be able to achieve a lifelong dream of seeing Queen Bey in concert in Seattle at Lumen Field because he said the airline he was flying on was unable to accommodate his wheelchair. In a TikTok video, Oregon native Hetherington said he got the airport and was told by the unnamed airline that his chair was four inches too tall to be loaded onto the plane.
“They checked every possible flight, every airline, and nothing is available. So after 25 years of waiting, I’m not seeing Beyonce tonight. So ableism strikes again,” he lamented in the video that went viral and racked up more than 360,000 likes and 1,500 comments.
He was quickly flooded by comments from the Bey Hive, with some offering to give him their tickets for upcoming shows, and many others tagging Beyoncé, her Parkwood Entertainment management company and Columbia Records. “I’ve waited so f–king long for this,” Hetherington said in a follow-up video in which he said was demoralized, frustrated and sad about missing the show; two weeks earlier he said he was left stranded in Seattle for hours after a Janelle Monáe show because he could not find an accessible taxi in Seattle.
The groundswell of support and offers of help for the Oregon native turned into a dream come true on Thursday night (Sept. 21) when Hetherington, 34 — who has cerebral palsy and uses an electric wheelchair — was able to attend Bey’s Renaissance tour date at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX after a member of the singer’s team reached out to him, according to the New York Times; at press time a spokesperson for Beyoncé could not be reached for confirmation of the report.
The Times reported that Bey’s team arranged for a new flight and after the show Hetherington reported that not only did his dream come true, but he met Beyoncé’s mom — Tina Knowles-Lawson — as well as the singer herself. “Beyhive, you made this happen, you pushed and tagged like the internet has never seen. Tonight, for the first time ever, I had a seat on the floor for a concert. Welcome to the RENAISSANCE,” he wrote alongside a shot of him awaiting the beginning of the concert.
In a second photo, next to a smiling Knowles-Lawson, Hetherington was elated about his magical night and told his followers that he planned to keep the special words Beyoncé shared to himself. “There is much that I will say in the coming days about what tonight means to me. There are some things I’ll keep for myself. Truly an honor to meet you, @mstinaknowles! Thank you for all that you’ve done and given the world. We’re so grateful,” he said.
“To the Queen herself, @beyonce, I will treasure those words you said and the hugs you gave,” he added. “I meant every word I said. No, for anyone and everyone reading this, I will not ever share with you what was said to me, don’t even try it. That moment is between the two of us.”
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Most pop stars don’t suddenly experience a lot of firsts several decades into their career, but Kylie Minogue has always stood out from the pop pack.
Last year, the Aussie icon brought her branded rosé wine to the U.S. after dominating sales in the U.K.; on Nov. 3, she begins her debut Las Vegas residency at the Venetian’s Voltaire, making her the first headliner at the new venue. And unexpectedly this May — just two months shy of her debut album turning 35 — Minogue landed a viral smash with “Padam Padam,” a song that helped define the summer of 2023. The single, titled after the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeat, instantly inspired an eclectic slew of memes, dances and lip-syncs from a generation who wasn’t even born when Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” hit the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10 in March 2002.
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With new album Tension out now and her Vegas residency kicking off soon, Minogue chatted with Billboard about joining TikTok, Padam-demonium and the most personal song on her latest album.
We have to start by talking “Padam Padam,” which was everywhere this summer, from Ariana Grande lip-syncing to Vice President Harris dancing to it in front of Stonewall. When did you realize the reaction to this song was different from other singles?
It felt very instantaneous. I didn’t know it was going to be this kind of, dare I say, zeitgeist-y [song with] more than a day of excitement on socials. But I had the feeling, “This is different from other times.” I was just loving it, I’m not gonna lie.
And it finally pushed you to become active on TikTok. Now that you’ve been doing it a bit, what do you think of that environment?
I’m into it now. My label tried to get me to do TikTok things before and it didn’t feel organic enough. But “Padam Padam” happened organically. I don’t think anyone on the team was thinking, “This is our TikTok moment.” In “Tension,” there’s less of a routine, but enough, and I’ve enjoyed seeing people extract what they want from the video and make it their own. It’s not, “this is how it goes – now you do it.” It’s a presentation, and then the users decide how they want to express themselves with it. People are so creative and hilarious. It’s amazing to me to have another big first in my career, and “Padam” did that.
Your last few albums have all had a theme: Kylie Christmas was the holiday album, Golden was the Nashville record, Disco was obviously the disco LP. Is there a theme for Tension?
We started searching for one. Initially, a kind of ‘80s vibe was floated. We did a block of writing with an ‘80s lilt in mind and then we abandoned it. Then there was no theme, and things really started to come together. It’s just what feels good — it’s servicing the song. And then making sure sonically they live in the same world enough to live as an album. Even a song like “Tension” is referencing different eras and sounds.
Was there one song that was the hardest to get right?
“Story” took a lot of chipping away.
It seemed very personal.
It is.
“10 Out of 10,” your collab with Oliver Heldens, is so much fun. How was working with him?
I’ve still not met Oliver! We were emailing back and forth, he was always very sweet over old-school emails, which I really like. We went back and forth with stems; it took me a long time to get that one down with the syncopation of it. A few songs (on Tension) took a while, and that was one of them. Whereas “Padam” took no time at all.
At the New York preview listening session over the summer, “Green Light” went off.
What a joy to hear the songs with people and get instant feedback – that tipped me over the edge. I tried to say, “this might be one of the slower ones” (to the crowd), and then, nuh-uh. It’s illuminating. It’s not like a 100 people got together in a room and came up with a plan – it was a natural, visceral reaction. And that helped us inform the run of singles, and “Tension” being a single. When we got past the fact that there was no theme for this album, the one thing I kept coming back to was my A&R Jamie Nelson, who was so important in this process. He said, “Just have fun – as long as it’s not boring.” And I don’t think any of the songs are boring. Mission accomplished on that front.
This is your 16th album now. What keeps you excited about making new music?
Writing with people I love, particularly Biff Stannard, Duck Blackwell and Jon Green on the last couple albums. There’s a history and an unspoken acceptance — we all complement each other. We enjoy writing together. Starting a day with nothing and writing a song is one aspect of creating that I love more and more, especially as I understand my strengths more in writing, and what risks I want to take. And now I self-record a lot — I travel with my studio — and I have my independence with that. I really, really had such a desire to get back into the studio.
You have a Las Vegas residency starting in November – you’ll be the first headliner to play the Voltaire. It’s called “More Than Just a Residency.” How are you making it more than what someone has seen before?
Well, that’s the club tag line [laughs]. But the presentation of the venue is custom-made: what they’ve come up with is a cross between a ‘30s cabaret club and Studio 54. That’s where it’s more than just a residency – there’s gonna be other entertainment leading up to the headline act, and if you want to stay (after my performance) you can carry on, there will be a DJ after it. It is more than just a residency — mine will stand alone as having another point of view.
Have you seen any shows in Vegas that inspired you?
Lady Gaga’s Jazz & Piano show, John Legend’s show and Silk Sonic. I was really inspired seeing the excitement. Vegas is its own beast.
Are you a gambler? Will we see you at the blackjack table?
I’m not. I’m a kind of 10-cent slot machine, give myself a 20-buck limit. It’s uneventful, me and gambling.
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You mentioned how “Tension” references different eras and sounds. I love how cool the verses feel, but then there’s this euphoric chorus.
It’s a roller coaster of a song. I can’t get that one out of my head.
The video is amazing.
Yes, the many me’s.
Are those looks a hint of what’s to come at the residency?
If I can be four people at once, yes. There’s nods to all sorts of things in the video and it’s incredible seeing people come up with their own theories. I don’t know which character will be the one I see people dressing up as (in Vegas). I wouldn’t know where to place my bet. Maybe the controller, the bleached blonde. I encourage people who come to the show in Vegas to live your best life, be your best self and have a great time. That’s a good tag line, isn’t it?