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If you attend one of the upcoming Daryl Hall-Howard Jones concert in November, you’ll be treated to the same high-caliber musicianship that make’s Hall’s video series, Live From Daryl’s House, a must-see for music lovers.
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“My band is the best band on Earth,” Hall tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast about guitarist and musical director Shane Theriot, keyboardist Greg Mayo, drummer Brian Dunne, bass player Klyde Jones, percussionist Porter Carroll Jr. and saxophone player Charlie DeChant. In each episode, the Live From Daryl’s House house band performs a handful of songs with a diverse group of musical guests who have recently included Jones, singer-songwriters Andy Grammer and Lisa Loeb, Robert Fripp, and Charlie Starr of the Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke.
Most musicians would face a steep learning curve performing the songs, but Hall and his crew make it look effortless. The band is so good that, according to Hall, the members don’t rehearse together before taping. Instead, Hall spends a little time on the songs with Theriot, and each band member has the music at home. “We get together in that room, turn the cameras on, and that’s what you see,” he explains.
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Take the episode with Fripp, the former King Crimson band leader who struck up a friendship with Hall in the mid-‘70s and produced 1980 album Sacred Songs. Hall says Fripp was blown away by performing with Hall’s band. Fripp joined Live From Daryl’s House for renditions of such songs as “You Burn Me I’m a Cigarette” (co-written by Fripp and Hall), King Crimson’s “Red,” David Bowie’s “Heroes” and “Babs and Babs” from Hall’s Sacred Songs.
“[Fripp] said, ‘I have never worked with a band that didn’t take at least three or four days to even begin to learn these songs. You guys just played them,’” says Hall. “I mean, it flipped Robert out.”
The tour is like a traveling version of Live From Daryl’s House. After Jones opens the show with the Daryl’s house band, Hall, who’s supporting his latest album, D, will perform a set with the same band. Near the end of Hall’s set, Jones will join Hall on stage to trade vocals on each other songs and perhaps throw in a cover song or two.
Hall and Jones were hitmakers at roughly the same time in the ‘80s. By the time Jones crashed the U.S charts in the mid’-80s with songs such as “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life in One Day” and “New Song,” Hall was basking in the success of Hall & Oates’ 1980 album Voices, which contained “Kiss on My List” and “You Make My Dreams (Come True),” and 1981’s Private Eyes, which spawned the hit title track and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).”
Until recording Live From Daryl’s House last year, Hall and Jones had never met. Now they’re prepping for a short tour together. “Howard and I get along really well, and I think he’s great,” says Hall.
The eight-date tour starts in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 7, heads north to Evans, Ga., on Nov. 16, Nashville and Knoxville in Tennessee, and culminates in Atlantic City, N.J., on Nov. 23. Before the tour kicks off, Hall will perform a free, private concert on Oct. 31 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Daryl’s House Club venue and restaurant in Pawling, N.Y.
Listen to the entire interview with Daryl Hall, go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart, Podbean or Everand.
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We’re here today with former America’s Got Talent winner, former Billboard 21 Under 21 recipient, singer-songwriter and actress Grace VanderWaal. Grace, welcome.
Wow, thank you.
You’re releasing two new singles.
Yes.
And you’re going to be in a movie. So we have a lot to talk about.
Oooh yeah, girl.
Let’s get into it.
Let’s do it. Let’s crack the egg.
You achieved incredible success at a really young age. How has that affected you as you continue to work today?
Instead of describing it as, like, experiencing success at a young age, I would like describe it as like the facade of fame being shattered for me, very, very early, which I’m eternally grateful for. Unreachable fame is the one thing that you can absolutely promote so that people are constantly and it’s like meeting God and then he’s like, meh. You know, you would have an existential crisis. And so, like, I very much discovered at an early age, I was like, “Oh this is completely hollow.” And like, you just need to, like, love the art, and like, I will never chase, you know that fulfillment or facade at all, you know what I’m saying?
It like, separates you and your work from your ego.
Yes, exactly, at a very early age, too. Yeah.
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The 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival brought the biggest voices on radio to the stage for two music-packed nights on Friday and Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and Billboard was backstage and in the pit for all the action.Night 1 saw Dua Lipa and Camila Cabello hit the stage, and Billboard‘s camera caught the pop powerhouses backstage for a sweet embrace, as well as Cabello’s meet-up with fellow Friday performer Gwen Stefani. We also captured Shaboozey walking the halls backstage after performing his now-11-week Billboard Hot 100-topping breakout hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
Night 2 kicked off with New Kids on the Block, who just announced last week that they’ll launch their first-ever Las Vegas residency on June 20 at Dolby Live at Park MGM. So was the iHeart set a good preview of what fans can expect? “A really small preview, because this was 20 minutes,” Donnie Wahlberg told Billboard backstage. “We’re going to do a very long, very intricate, hopefully very exciting and fun and energetic set with a lot of songs, a lot of hits, a lot of feels. But it was also a sample for us of the audience. Because it’s a real good example of what it might be like. A lot of New Kids fans showed up, and a lot of fans who were experiencing us for the first time. We pride ourselves on the fun and the energy that we bring to a show, and this was a great opportunity for us to share that with this crowd.” We also caught up with Donnie’s wife, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, backstage who is ready to house-hunt in Sin City: “Now I just get to come to Vegas and find a place to live, because we’re absolutely going to be finding houses to station ourselves here for a few months — or a few years, maybe.” The New Kids also invited Flavor Flav out onstage for their “Hangin’ Tough” finale, and we caught the Public Enemy hype man backstage with Wahlberg and bandmate Danny Wood.
Keith Urban also played on Saturday night, making the most of a brisk 20-minute set by playing three songs from his just-released High album: “Messed Up as Me,” “Wildside” and “Straight Line.” “We just packed ’em in as quick as possible,” Urban laughed backstage, adding that fans have been quick to embrace the new material. “It’s been immediate, which i haven’t seen that in a long time. It is what it is with songwriting — you write songs and some connect immediately and some take awhile — but when we did ‘Messed Up as Me’ from this record, it was immediate, because we were playing festivals, and it was immediate. ‘Wildside’ was immediate, the first night we did that. ‘Straight Line’ — it’s a different record.”
Before night 2 kicked off, Billboard caught up with OBB Media CEO Michael D. Ratner, whose team produced the festival livestream, which broadcast both nights on Hulu in real time. After teaming up with iHeart for livestreams of the New York and Los Angeles stops of Jingle Ball late last year, Ratner said his team was able to jump in seamlessly to take the reins of the iHeartRadio Music Festival for the first time in the fest’s 14 years. “The reason we work so well together is iHeart knows music,” he said on Saturday. “They have amazing talent relationships, as do we, but the idea that we’re able to storytell and make these shows more layered … it’s not just watching performance after performance after performance.” One key to that was adding some Vegas-specific touches, like teaming up mentalist Max Major with Cabello or enlisting the Blue Man Group for an intro. “You get these fun moments, and it’s embedded in the history of Vegas. … You mix that with what Vegas is today, which is residencies and EDM and lights and day parties and the Sphere, I think making it new and fresh while having a nod to old Vegas is cool. It’s a really good balance and team that makes the show very unique.”
If you weren’t in Vegas or just want to relive the two days of hits over again, find Billboard‘s best photos from backstage and onstage below.
Thomas Rhett & Gwen Stefani
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Thomas Rhett and Gwen Stefani at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shaboozey
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Shaboozey at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Victoria Monét
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Victoria Monét at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dua Lipa & Camila Cabello
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Dua Lipa and Camila Cabello at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Doja Cat
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Doja Cat at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
New Kids on the Block
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Joey McIntyre, Danny Wood, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight and Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Black Crowes
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Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Keith Urban
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Keith Urban at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Stefani at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Halsey
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Halsey at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Thomas Rhett
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Thomas Rhett at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shaboozey
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Shaboozey at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Camila Cabello & Gwen Stefani
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Camila Cabello and Gwen Stefani at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dua Lipa
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Dua Lipa at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Donnie Wahlberg, Flavor Flav & Danny Wood
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Donnie Wahlberg, Flavor Flav and Danny Wood at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Stefani at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Nate White
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Nate White at day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Camilla Cabello
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Camilla Cabello at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Big Boy, AJ McLean & Christina Milian
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Big Boy, AJ McLean and Christina Milian at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Armani White
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Armani White at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Camila Cabello
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Camila Cabello performs on stage at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Stefani at day 1 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg
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Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg backstage on day 2 of the iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 21, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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