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Avril Lavigne announced the dates for her 2024 Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits tour on Monday (Jan. 22). The North American outing is slated to kick off on May 22 with a show at Rogers Arena in Vancouver and keep her on the road through a Sept. 16 gig at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB.
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In between, the 27-date Live Nation-produced tour will have Lavigne performing such smash hits as “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi” and “Girlfriend” in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Ottawa, Toronto, Nashville, Milwaukee, Chicago and Minneapolis before the final scheduled show in Edmonton.
Joining Lavigne on select dates through the tour will be Simple Plan and All Time Low, with Royal & the Serpent and Girlfriends also playing on select dates as opening acts. Tickets will be available first through an artist presale beginning Wednesday (Jan. 24) at 10 a.m. local time, with additional presales throughout the week before the general onsale kicks off at 10 a.m. local time here.
Lavigne will also take her Greatest Hits show on the road in the U.K. and Europe this summer on a run that will will include several festival gigs, including the Pinkpop Festival (June 21) in Landgraff, Netherlands and the Hurricane Festival (June 22) in Schnee, Germany.
Check out Lavigne’s 2024 North American tour dates below.
May 22 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena ^
May 25 — Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre ^
May 26 — Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater ^
May 28 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ^
May 30 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum ^
June 1 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena ^
June 2 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre ^
Aug. 14 — Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre +
Aug. 16 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage +
Aug. 17 — Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC @ Festival International de Montgolfières ~
Aug. 20 — Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater +
Aug. 21 — Hartford, CT @ The XFINITY Theatre +
Aug. 23 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center +
Aug. 24 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center +
Aug. 27 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater +
Aug. 29 — Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion +
Aug. 31 — Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live +
Sept. 1 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion +
Sept. 3 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre +
Sept. 4 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater +
Sept. 6 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center +
Sept. 7 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre +
Sept. 9 — Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater +
Sept. 10 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island +
Sept. 12 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory +
Sept. 14 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre +
Sept. 16 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
^ With All Time Low and Royal & The Serpent
+ With Simple Plan and Girlfriends
~ Festival Date
The Eagles have set what they’re calling their last U.K. tour dates as part of the veteran group’s Long Goodbye final tour. On Monday (Jan. 22) the band — Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey — announced a three-show residency run at the new Co-Op Live Arena in […]
Green Day‘s Saviors has topped this week’s new music poll.
Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Jan. 19) on Billboard, choosing the veteran pop-punk trio’s 14th studio album as their favorite new music release of the past week.
Saviors brought in almost 27% of the vote, beating out new music by Kygo and Ava Max (“Whatever”), Nicki Minaj featuring Future (“Press Play”), Norah Jones (“Running”), Bleachers (“Tiny Moves”), and others.
Nearly four years since their last studio LP — 2020’s Father of All… — Green Day returned on Friday with a brand new set featuring a slew of singles, including Billboard‘s Rock Airplay chart-topper “The American Dream Is Killing Me.”
“‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’ was written by Billie [Joe Armstrong] almost four years ago. But we all knew it was just low-hanging fruit. We’re not a parody of who we are, and songs like that need time to be fleshed out. If that means just sitting back and letting life happen, so be it. And it was one of the last things we recorded,” Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt told Rolling Stone in early January.
In addition to “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” the iconic rockers also released single like “Dilemma,” “Bobby Sox,” “One Eyed Bastard” and “Look Ma, No Brains!” To promote the new album, the band played an impromptu show in the Rockefeller Center subway station on Jan. 16 for a segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Green Day will hit the road this summer to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their major-label debut, Dookie, and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot by playing both albums in full on a massive stadium tour. The trek launches its North American leg on July 29 at Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park. Rancid, the Smashing Pumpkins and the Linda Lindas will open the North American shows.
Trailing behind Saviors on the poll is tropical house producer Kygo and pop hitmaker Ava Max’s “Whatever,” which brought in nearly 26% of the vote. With nostalgic vibes, the throwback smash lifts its chorus from Shakira’s English-language breakout single “Whenever, Wherever.”
See the final results of this week’s new music release poll below.
Sting, Incubus and My Morning Jacket are set to headline this year’s BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach, Calif., May 3-5. Also playing are DEVO, Dirty Heads and Trey Anastasio + Classic TAB, among others. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The high-end live music, art and culinary event […]
Nostalgia for the ’90s can be found all throughout today’s music, but when Green Day leans into penning a ’90s-style punk track, it just hits different. On Friday (Jan. 19), the legendary rock trio shared the music video for their new song “Bobby Sox.” The single unveiled off of their just-released album Saviors, “Bobby Sox” […]
Like many of us, David Bowie was one of American Fiction actor Jeffrey Wright’s all-time heroes. But unlike most of us, Wright not only got meet the late rock legend, he also had the opportunity to act alongside him in the 1996 biopic Basquiat, in which he played neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat alongside Bowie as pop art figurehead Andy Warhol.
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On The Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday (Jan. 19), Wright recalled meeting Bowie on the film in reaction to a picture Clarkson put on the big screen from a photo shoot the actor did with the “Space Oddity” singer to promote the biopic about the talented street-artist-turned-international-phenom.
“He meant the world to me,” Wright said of Bowie, who died of liver cancer in 2016 at 69. “There were periods of my life where his music was the soundtrack.” Wright describe the intense prep he did for the film — directed by artist Julian Schnabel — in which the actor painted for six months in Schnabel’s studio in the presence of dozens of original Basquiat paintings to get into character.
One day while working on a canvas, Wright said the door opened and Bowie — who also dabbled in painting, as well as quite a bit of big screen acting — walked in unexpectedly. “He kneels down next to me and he says, ‘do you mind if I watch?’,” Wright said Bowie asked. “And I said, ‘well, I think I’m gonna have to get used to it, yeah.’”
Wright recalled that they had a laugh and for the remainder of the shoot Bowie was “so generous and so smart and funny… and he couldn’t have been cooler to me.” In fact, one day he was in the hair and makeup trailer with Gary Oldman — who played a fictional composite character modeled on Schnabel — and Bowie walked in with a most incredible query. “‘Do you want to hear some music?’” the singer asked them.
“And we’re like, ‘huh?!’,” Wright remembers responding in gleeful shock. “And we’re like, ‘yeah David Bowie we’ll tolerate your music, yeah sure! Put in your little disc.’” What Bowie cued up were tracks from his then-unreleased new album, the arty concept song cycle Outside, which included some songs that ended up in the film.
“And we’re listening to it and we’re like, ‘Whoa!’ and David’s sitting there air-guitaring to his own music… and it was like, you know, the cool guy at school who found some obscure record somewhere and brought it in,” Wright recalled thinking. “Except the cool guy was David Bowie!”
American Fiction — about a struggling Black novelist horrified by the smash success of a racially charged book he wrote as as joke — is in theaters now.
Watch Wright talk about Bowie below.
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If you thought Dolly Parton was done rocking, think again. The country icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer celebrated her 78th birthday on Friday (Jan. 19) by dropping a deluxe version of her debut rock album, Rockstar. “It’s my Birthday so I’m going to give you a present!” Parton wrote on X. “I’m […]
Green Day are in full promotional blitz mode to support their just released new studio album, Saviors. In addition to talk show and radio appearances, the veteran pop-punk trio also went undercover, and underground, to film a bit for The Tonight Show earlier this week with host Jimmy Fallon in a New York City subway […]
No need to traverse a boulevard a broken dreams, a new Green Day album has finally arrived. Nearly four years since their last studio LP — 2020’s Father of All… — the iconic rockers are back with a brand new set featuring a slew of singles including the Rock Airplay chart-topper “The American Dream Is […]
Green Day didn’t want to be a bunch of American idiots, so they became Billboard chart titans instead. The iconic rockers are currently prepping the release of Saviors — their 14th studio album — and in anticipation of their latest LP, Billboard is reflecting on the band’s biggest chart achievements across their decades-long career.
The Cali-bred band made its first entry on a Billboard chart back in 1994 with “Longview,” their debut single. The track soared to No. 1 on Alternative Airplay, becoming the first of 12 for the Grammy-winning rock icons. Since “Longview,” Green Day has gone on to become the act with the second-most chart-toppers in Alternative Airplay history, alongside fellow rock bands Foo Fighters and Linkin Park (12).
Alternative Airplay has proven to be an area of dominance for Green Day. The band is tied with Red Hot Chili Peppers for the fourth-most Alternative Airplay entries of all time (37), and they also boast the third-most top 10 hits on the ranking (25). Over on Rock & Alternative Airplay, Green Day stands as the act with the second-most No. 1 hits (7).
Of course, Green Day wouldn’t be Green Day without its era-defining crossover success. The band has notched a pair of top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — both in 2006 — thanks to the beloved American Idiot singles “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (No. 2) and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (No. 6). On the Billboard 200, the band has sent 11 titles to the top 10, including the chart-toppers American Idiot (2004, three weeks), 21st Century Breakdown (2009, one week) and Revolution Radio (2016, one week).
Although Saviors doesn’t hit DSPs until Jan. 19, the album has already helped the band increase some of its Billboard chart tallies. “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” the set’s lead single, peaked atop Rock Airplay and reached No. 22 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs.
Check out the full Billboard Explains video on Green Day’s chart success above.
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