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Paramore postponed another trio of dates due to what the band has described as an “illness within the touring party.” The move came after the Hayley Williams-fronted band canceled a show in San Francisco on Saturday night at the Chase Center due to illness just hours before the show was slated to take place. That […]
The 1975 are canceling shows in Indonesia and Taiwan after the band’s set was cut at a Malaysia music festival following frontman Matty Healy‘s comments about the country’s anti-gay laws and kissing his bandmate on stage.
The British pop-rock group was scheduled to perform at Jakarta’s We the Fest on Sunday (July 23) and at the Taipei Music Center on Tuesday (July 25) as part of their 2023 Asia tour. The band announced in a statement on Sunday that both performances have been called off.
“The 1975 regret to announce that their forthcoming shows in Jakarta and Taipei will no longer be going ahead as planned,” the 1975 wrote in a statement posted on We the Fest’s Twitter page.
“The band never takes the decision to cancel a show lightly and had been eagerly looking forward to playing for fans in Jakarta and Taipei but unfortunately, due to current circumstances, it is impossible to proceed with the scheduled shows.”
The cancellations come after Healy slammed Malaysia’s LGBTQ laws as “f–king ridiculous” before sharing a prolonged kiss with bassist Ross MacDonald at the country’s Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur on Friday (July 21). The following day, event organizer Future Sounds Asia announced that the remainder of the three-day fest had been canceled.
Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia, and those convicted face up to 20 years behind bars.
The 1975’s Good Vibes set was cut short after Healy, who has long been outspoken about LGBTQ rights, ranted about Malaysia’s restrictive laws banning homosexuality.
“Because you are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool,” he told the crowd in video circulating on social media, noting that he had pulled the show Thursday in protest before deciding not to let fans down. “But, I’ve done this before. I’ve gone to a country where it’s — I don’t know what it f–king is. Ridiculous. F–king ridiculous to tell people what they can do with that and that. If you want to invite me here to do a show, you can f–k off. I’ll take your money, you can ban me, but I’ve done this before and it doesn’t feel good, and I’m f–ked off.”
The set ended early shortly after Healy kissed MacDonald, with the frontman telling festival-goers, “All right, we just got banned from Kuala Lumpur. See you later.”
See the 1975’s Asian tour cancellation announcement below via We the Fest’s Twitter page.
The 1975 regret to announce that their forthcoming shows in Jakarta and Taipei will no longer be going ahead as planned.Please see the official statement from the band. pic.twitter.com/XpZskFnyeD— We The Fest (@WeTheFest) July 23, 2023
Just hours before Paramore would be taking the stage Saturday night (July 22), the band canceled a concert at San Francisco’s Chase Center due to illness. The show has already been rescheduled. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Due to sickness within the touring party, we will be […]
New music from Blur doesn’t just sprout from the ground, fall from the air, or materialize without sufficient fanfare.
The British pop-rock band was a standout of the ‘90s Britpop era, an act with charm, hits, a loveable line-up, and, as it turns out, longevity and a knack for reinvention.
While many of their contemporaries are frozen in time, Blur remains relevant.
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The original combination of Damon Albarn (vocals/keyboard), Graham Coxon (vocals/guitar), Alex James (bass) and Dave Rowntree (drums) returns for The Ballad Of Darren (via Parlophone), Blur’s ninth studio album and first in eight years.
Arriving at the stroke of midnight, The Ballad Of Darren was produced by James Ford, and recorded at Studio 13 in London and Devon, England in spring of this year.
Comprising 10 tracks, including the first release “The Narcissist,” which earned the lads their first Airplay Chart top 10 since 1997, plus followup “St. Charles Square,” The Ballad of Darren is the result of a fortuitous gathering of the bandmembers at Albarn’s West London studio just six months ago.
Since then, the foursome has shaken off the rust with several triumphant performances, including headline slots at Wembley Stadium on July 8 and 9. Both dates were sellouts.
More shows will follow.
Blur will embark on a run of Continental European festival dates, starting Saturday (July 22) at Italy’s Lucca Summer Festival, followed by spots at Japan’s Summer Sonic fest and additional dates in Central and South America. Fans everywhere can log into a “Live from London” presentation on July 25, for what is said to be the first ever performance of the new LP.
The Ballad of Darren follows the release of The Magic Whip in 2015, which hit No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, one of the band’s six leaders. Albarn and Co. have landed 13 U.K. top 10 singles, including No. 1s with “Country House” (1995) and “Beetlebum” (1997).
Stream The Ballad of Darren in full below.
Paramore continues to bring special guests on stops of its This Is Why tour, and the Wednesday (July 19) show at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles was no exception. Longtime Paramore fan Billie Eilish took the stage alongside the lead singer Hayley Williams for “All I Wanted” for a surprise performance. During the show’s […]
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Coldplay recently marched into Billboard Boxscore history when they followed the Rolling Stones to become the second artist to score a half-billion double-up in the top 10 of all-time highest-grossing tours when they crossed the $500 million mark on their ongoing Music of the Spheres world tour. The massive outing that is in its second year has passed the $550 million plateau and they’re not done yet.
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On Thursday (July 20) the Chris Martin-led band announced that they will follow-up their sold-out summer 2023 European stadium dates — which wrapped up on Wednesday night with a fourth gig in Amsterdam — with a third round of European shows in June, July and August of 2024. According to a release, the latest round of dates will include their first-ever shows in Greece, Romania and Finland and their first gigs in Rome since 2003 and Budapest since 2008.
The eye-popping spectacle that includes a number of forward-thinking green initiatives kicked off in March 2022 in Costa Rica, and, according to the release, has sold more than 7.5 million tickets to date. Fans can register for first access to the presale for the new shows beginning on Tuesday (July 25) here now.
The presale will being at 9 a.m. local time in Athens, Bucharest, Budapest, Lyon, Rome and Helsinki and at 10 a.m. local time in Dusseldorf, Munich, Vienna and Dublin; the general on-sale will kick off at 10 a.m. local time for all the cities on July 28. The Music of the Spheres tour will pick up again with run of North American dates in September and October, followed by November shows in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia before moving on to Manila and Singapore in January 2024 and Bangkok in February.
Check out the dates for Coldplay’s 2024 European Music of the Spheres tour below:
June 8 — Athens, Greece @ Olympic Stadium
June 12 — Bucharest, Romania @ Arena Națională
June 16 — Budapest, Hungary @ Puskás Aréna
June 22 — Lyon, France @ Groupama Stadium
June 23 — Lyon, France @ Groupama Stadium
July 12 — Rome, Italy @ Stadio Olimpico
June 13 — Rome, Italy @ Stadio Olimpico
June 20 — Düsseldorf, Germany @ Merkur Spiel-Arena
June 21 — Düsseldorf, Germany @ Merkur Spiel-Arena
June 28 — Helsinki, Finland @ Olympiastadion
August 15 — Munich, Germany @ Olympiastadion
August 17 — Munich, Germany @ Olympiastadion
August 21 — Vienna, Austria @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion
August 22 — Vienna, Austria @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion
August 29 — Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park
August 30 — Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park
Travis Barker is not known for doing things the traditional way. And if the Blink-182 drummer is to be believed, he’s planning to continue along his unique path when it comes to the potential baby name for the son he’s expecting with wife Kourtney Kardashian.
The father of two children with his ex, daughter Alabama, 17, and son Landon, 19, appeared on Complex’s GOAT Talk video series this week with his 17-year-old daughter, during which the pair threw out some potential baby names, with Alabama suggesting some truly high-end ones, including “Audemars, Milan, f—in’ Patek.”
Travis, however, said he has something a bit more punk rock in mind: “I like Rocky Thirteen.” No, not the as-yet-unfilmed future sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa boxing franchise, but instead an homage to one of his favorite musicians and numbers.
“That’s so bad!” Alabama responded with a laugh. “That’s this name that’s just been going in my head lately,” the drummer explained as his daughter — who is named after her the main character in one of her dad’s favorite movies, True Romance — teased that even her pops knows it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. “It is, it is bad,” Travis said with a smile.
The explanation of the unusual moniker didn’t totally help explain his thinking. “Rocky George played guitar for Suicidal Tendencies and 13 is just the greatest number of all time,” he said in reference to the lead guitarist for the thrashy punk group who also spent time playing with the Cro-Mags, Fishbone and 40 Cycle Hum.
Huffing in exasperation, Alabama said, “So you’re gonna name your kid Rocky Thirteen?”
“Possibly,” Travis said. “Let’ see how this goes when he’s at school. ‘Rocky 13!,” his daughter responded. And then, the drummer added, of course it is also a reference to the “greatest boxing movie of all time.” Alabama said she thought her ideas were better, before tossing in one more potential off-beat choice: Cloud.
Barker and Kardashian — who has three children with her ex Scott Disick: Mason, 13, Penelope, 11 and Reign, 8 — announced they were expecting their first child together in June. The reveal of their baby news came in early June when Kardashian held up a “Travis I’m Pregnant” poster in the crowd at Blink-182’s concert at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium. The sign referenced Blink’s “All the Small Things” music video, in which a random fan holds up the same poster in the crowd.
Back then, Kardashian posted some pics from her maternity photo shoot on Instagram, with Barker commenting, “I already know his name.” In November, before they were expecting, Barker left another comment on a photo his wife posted of their True Romance-inspired costumes, claiming, “Our sons name would be Elvis.”
Watch the father-daughter talk below (around 10 minute mark).
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As Lizzo nears the end of her globe-trotting Special Tour, the “About Damn Time” singer is offering glimpses of how she unwinds after a night of entertaining an arena packed with thousands of screaming fans. In an Instagram post on Tuesday (July 16), Lizzo posted a lighthearted photoset with the caption, “What does Lizzo do […]
Creed will reunite for their first shows in 12 years in 2024, when they set sail the Summer of ’99 cruise next April as headliners of the rock voyage, the band announced on Wednesday (July 17).
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The band’s lineup of Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips will play two shows during the cruise, which will travel from Miami to the Bahamas between Apr. 18-22, 2024. Presented by Sixthman, the Summer of ’99 cruise lineup is also topped by 3 Doors Down, and includes Buckcherry, Tonic, Fuel, Vertical Horizon, The Verve Pipe, Tantric and Nine Days, among others.
Creed released four albums beginning with 1997’s My Own Prison, and helped define the mega-selling post-grunge rock movement of the late ‘90s. Singles like “One,” “Higher,” “With Arms Wide Open” and “My Sacrifice” crossed over from alternative radio to pop audiences, and with 1999 sophomore album Human Clay, Creed reached a commercial peak — the album has sold 11.7 million copies to date, according to Luminate.
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“The whole experience was flying by the seat of our pants,” Stapp told Billboard in 2019. “We knew what we wanted, we knew what our dreams were, we knew what our goal was, we knew what our passion was, we were a unit. We were brothers.”
Full Circle, released in 2009, marked the band’s last album, and Creed stopped touring together in 2012. During the hiatus, Stapp released his second and third solo albums, while Tremonti has regularly released music as the leader of the collective Tremonti, among other side projects.
While no other reunion dates, or recording plans, have yet been announced, Creed will take part in a live Q&A during the Summer of ’99 cruise that will be open to all attendees. Pre-sale signups for the cruises are available now through July 26, with July 28 marking the public on-sale; more details can be found here.