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Foo Fighters singer/guitarist Dave Grohl put down his pick and hopped into the pit to help Los Angeles’ Hope Mission feed the homeless last week in a marathon BBQ session that had the organization’s CEO singing the rocker’s praises.
“In the middle of our 350 mile run to end homelessness, we got the coolest video ever from Dave Grohl, of the Foo Fighters. Not only did I wish us luck, but he cooked for hundreds of people who live in our shelters in the middle of one of the worst storms,” the group’s boss, Rowan Vansleve, wrote alongside a video of Grohl manning the rib station last Wednesday.
TMZ reported that Grohl spent 16 hours in the kitchen whipping up ribs, pork butt, brisket, cabbage, coleslaw and beans, personally footing the bill for all the expenses and catching a nap in the parking lot while the meat was smoking. The rocker then reportdly helped serve the food, which fed around 450 guests and 50 staff members.
On Tuesday morning (Feb. 28), the Foos also announced three more headlining shows. The band is gearing up to play its first run of gigs since the shock death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last March in Colombia while on tour; at press time the group had not yet announced who will play drums on their 2023 dates.
In addition to a number of festival gigs at Bonnaroo, Boston Calling, Sonic Temple, Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park, Harley-Davidson Homecoming, Fuji Rock, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, The Town and Sea.Hear.Now, the Foos announced gigs in Gilford, NH on May 24 (at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion), Rogers, AR on June 14 (at Walmart AMP) and Pelham, AL on June 16 (at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre); tickets for all three shows will go on sale to the public on Friday (March 3) at 10 a.m. local time here.
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A planned concert by Roger Waters in Frankfurt, Germany has been canceled after the city council called the former Pink Floyd singer/bassist “one of the world’s most well-known antisemites.” Waters was scheduled to perform at the city’s Festhalle on May 28, on the spot of what was a Jewish detention camp during WWII, where 3,000 Jewish men were held on Kristallnacht (“Night of the Broken Glass”) in Nov. 1938 before being sent to their deaths.
“The background to the cancellation is the persistent anti-Israel behavior of the former Pink Floyd frontman, who is considered one of the most widely spread antisemites in the world,” the council said in a statement according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “He repeatedly called for a cultural boycott of Israel and drew comparisons to the apartheid regime in South Africa and put pressure on artists to cancel events in Israel.”
The JTA reported that the city of Frankfurt made reference to the historic significance of the concert hall — which it partly owns — and said it was cancelling the show over Waters’ support of the controversial BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions). BDS is a Palestinian-led movement that calls for a boycott of Israel to force the nation’s government to change its policies toward Palestinians.
The JFA also noted that past Waters concerts have featured a flying pig balloon emblazoned with a Star of David (as well as a number of other corporate logos and symbols) and that he’s compared the actions of the Israeli government to that of South Africa under apartheid and Nazi Germany and questioned Israel’s right to exist.
At press time a spokesperson for Waters had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment; additionally, at press time the concert was still listed on Waters’ official site. Waters’ This Is Not a Drill tour is still slated to play a number of other gigs in Germany, including Hamburg (May 7), Cologne (May 9), Berlin (May 17) and Munich (May 21).
While Waters does not appear to have issued an official statement on the cancellation, he did retweet messages of support from an author and editor at the Palestine Chronicle who denied that the singer is an antisemite and an editor at the Delhi, India-based Marxist publishing house Leftword Books, who defended Waters’ stance on Israel. “Love you my brother,” Waters tweeted at Vijay Prashad, adding, “shoulder to shoulder. F–k em’!”
In Sept., Waters canceled planned shows in Krakow, Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s unprovoked, yearlong war in Ukraine, which he has said was the fault of Ukraine and NATO. An official with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, said they would no longer take place; the shows have been scrubbed from Water’s site. “Roger Waters’ manager decided to withdraw … without giving any reason,” Lukasz Pytko from Tauron Arena Krakow said in comments carried by Polish media outlets.
This year’s Beale Street Music Festival will feature sets from The Lumineers, Greta Van Fleet, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Earth, Wind & Fire, Hardy, Jazmine Sullivan, The Roots, AJR and 311.
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The event at Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee on May 5-7 will also feature appearances from GloRilla, Gary Clark Jr., Ziggy Marley, Young the Giant, Halestorm, Live, PJ Morton, The Struts, Gov’t Mule, Dru Hill, Mike., Andy Grammer, Yola, Toadies, Lucinda Williams and Living Colour.
Weekend VIP tickets will run you $995, while three-day tickets are $205 and one-day GA passes are $88.53; click here for more ticketing information.
Among the other acts slated to take the stage for this year’s fest are: Big Boogie, Cameo, the Bar-Kays, White Reaper, Shovels & Rope, Phony PPL, Low Cut Connie, Marcy Playground, Beach Weather, Jason D Williams, Myron Elkins, Dirty Streets, Mac Saturn, Tyke T, Sleep Theory and more.
The event will also host the Memphis Tourism Blues Stage on Beale at Handy Park — which is open to the public and free of charge — featuring Los Lobos, Keb Mo, North Mississippi Allstars, Bernard Allison, Ana Popovic, Cedric Burnside, Mr. Sipp, Colin James, Selwyn Birchwood, Ghost Town Blues Band, Blind Mississippi Morris and more.
“This year’s lineup reflects the broad musical tastes of our festival goers with a diverse lineup of some of today’s hottest artists as well past festival favorites and stars of tomorrow,” said Jim Holt, President and CEO of Memphis In May in a statement. “At the Beale Street Music Festival, we endeavor to offer something for almost every musical taste, and we have a few more surprise additions to come.”
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The 2023 Roskilde Festival in Denmark will feature headlining sets from Blur, Kendrick Lamar, Queens of the Stone Age, Christine and the Queens, Rosalía and others. Organizers announced a slew of new additions to the line-up on Monday (Feb. 27), including Angélique Kidjo, Caroline Polachek, Weyes Blood, Code Orange, Indigo De Souza and Special Interest.
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Other previously announced names on the roster for the fest slated to take place between June 24-July 1 are: Burna Boy, Sudan Archives, Big Freedia, GloRilla, Lil Nas X, Central Cee, Fever Ray, Hudson Mowhawke, Tinariwen, Lock Up, Benny Jamz, Clarissa Conelly’s Canon, 070 Shake, Derya Yildrim & Grup Simsek, Alice Glass, Rina Sawayama, Denzel Curry, Tove Lo, Japanese Breakfast, Nikki Lane, First Hate, Fulu Miziki, J.I.D., Rema, Armand Hammer, Billy Woods, Nora Brown and Phelimuncasi.
In a statement, Roskilde’s head of programming, Anders Wahrén, praised the eclectic lineup, saying, “This announcement features some of the most vehement vocalists and powerful performers right now, acts whom in each their own way convey hope, meaning and change. Roskilde Festival has shared a special, decade-spanning bond with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Angélique Kidjo, and they always bring something new to this festival.”
Speaking specifically about Lamar, Wahrén added, “Kendrick Lamar is one of the most requested artists among our festival audience, and he possesses a peerless artistic vision. He is no doubt the most influential rapper of his generation, and we’re excited to welcome him back.”
See the latest lineup announcement below.
After injuring his ring finger two times this month, Travis Barker revealed Monday (Feb. 27) on Instagram that he’s getting surgery.
“Surgery tomorrow,” Barker captioned an Instagram carousel of his injury, with the fingers-crossed emoji.
The first video in the carousel shows a medical professional trying to get the joint back in place. The next three photos show his swollen knuckle and a brace holding the ring finger in place.
Barker first injured the finger on Feb. 7 during rehearsals for Blink-182‘s upcoming reunion tour. “I was playing the drums at rehearsals yesterday and I smashed my finger so hard I dislocated it and tore the ligaments,” Barker tweeted on Feb. 8. Then, on Feb. 20, Barker shared an Instagram Story in which he showed off his swollen, bruised knuckle, captioning the image “again.”
Blink-182’s world tour — the first with reunited co-frontman Tom DeLonge back in the picture since 2014 — is set to kick off March 11 in Tijuana, Mexico. There’s no word yet how long Barker’s surgery recovery will take, but given how public the drummer has been with his injury journey, he’ll likely keep fans posted.
Mark Hoppus, Barker and DeLonge announced back in October that they were reuniting the band’s classic lineup for the 2023-24 world tour and the new single “Edging,” which was released late last year. On Christmas Eve, DeLonge teased that the trio were working on “the best album we’ve ever made.”
“I’m personally tripping and so proud of what we have created TOGETHER,” he wrote on Instagram. “As one unified force of fun, eternal youth, and most of all- close friends.”
See Barker’s surgery announcement below:
Lizzo showed off her knack for German by covering Rammstein on a tour stop in Hamburg, Germany, last week.
“Du, du hast/ Du hast mich!/ Oma!/ Du, du hast/ Du hast mich!” the star playfully chanted onstage at the European city’s Barclays Arena, in a reference to Rammstein’s 1997 single “Du Hast” from their sophomore album Sehnsucht. “Nein! Oh, Hamburg, I’m having fun, bi–h!” she then declared in her sparkling, rainbow sequined dress.
“Germany = Rammstein,” a TikTok user captioned the fan-captured video, adding, “She had just learned how to say ‘Oma’, that’s why she incorporated it.”
Lizzo’s ardent fandom certainly appreciated her knowledge of the German metal rockers, flooding the comments section with elated reactions. “Lizzo knowing Rammstein is everything I ever needed,” one wrote, while another ecstatically typed, “Just imagine her and Till on stage together I bet it would be hilarious.” Of course, several others called for a Lizzo/Rammstein collaboration.
At another concert during the week, Lizzo also re-created Ariana DeBose’s viral opening number from the 2023 BAFTA Awards, complete with the West Side Story breakout star’s shimmy of the shoulders and impassioned delivery of “Angela Bassett did the thing!”
Currently, the European leg of The Special Tour is slated to continue through the middle of March, with stops in Berlin, Milan, Paris, Dublin and London before Lizzo heads back to the U.S. for a second North American leg beginning April 21 at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.
Watch Lizzo nail her German pronunciation with a bit of Rammstein’s “Du Hast” below.
The Doobie Brothers are not done celebrating half a century of rockin’ down the highway. On Monday (Feb. 27) the veteran group announced 35 new U.S. dates for their ongoing 50th anniversary tour. The shows, which will run from June through October of this year, extends the outing that has brought founding members guitarists Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and John McFee and singer Michael McDonald back together for the first time in 25 years.
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Tickets for all the new dates will go on sale beginning Friday (March 3) at 10 a.m. local time (with the exception of the shows in Sparks, NV; New Brunswick, NJ; Morristown, NJ; Washington, DC; and Uncasville, CT, which will go on sale beginning March 10 at 10 a.m. local time.)
“We are thrilled to be back on the road in 2023 playing some cities we haven’t gotten to yet on this tour,” said guitarist Johnston in a statement.
The new dates include shows in Kansas City, Des Moines, Louisville, Biloxi, Charleston and Atlantic City. After wrapping the U.S. dates the group is slated to head overseas for shows in Australia, Japan and Singapore.
Check out the dates for the Doobie Brothers’ 50th anniversary extended U.S. tour below.
June 9 — Sparks, NV @ Nugget Event Center*
June 11 — West Valley, UT @ Maverik Center
June 14 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
June 15 — Springfield, MO @ Great Southern Bank Arena
June 17 — Sioux City, IA @ Tyson Events Center
June 18 — Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena
June 20 — Duluth, MN @ AMSOIL Arena
June 21 — Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field
June 23 — Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
June 24 — Peoria, IL @ Peoria Civic Center
June 26 — Huber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center at the Heights
June 28 — Youngstown, OH @ The Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre
June 30 — Pikeville, KY @ Appalachian Wireless Arena
July 1 — Louisville, KY @The Palace Theatre
July 3 — Portsmouth, VA @ Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion
July 6 — Reading, PA @ Santander Performing Arts Center
July 8 — New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre New Jersey*
July 9 — New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre New Jersey*
July 11 — Morristown, NJ @ Mayo Performing Arts Center*
July 12 — Morristown, NJ @ Mayo Performing Arts Center*
August 18 — Waite Park, MN @ The Ledge Amphitheater
August 20 — Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater
August 23 — Camdenton, MO @ Ozarks Amphitheater
August 26 — Brandon, MS @ Brandon Amphitheater
August 28 — Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum
August 30 — Huntsville, AL @ The Orion Amphitheater
August 31 — Franklin, TN @ FirstBank Amphitheater
Sept. 2 — Macon, GA @ Macon Centreplex
Sept. 3 — Savannah, GA @ Enmarket Arena
Sept. 6 — Simpsonville, SC @ CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park
Sept. 7 — Greensboro, NC @ White Oak Amphitheatre
Sept. 9 — Charleston, SC @ Credit One Stadium
Oct. 4 — Washington, DC @ MGM National Harbor*
Oct. 6 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena*
Oct. 8 — Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Five Finger Death Punch adds to its record streak of No. 1s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay, as “Welcome to the Circus” jumps from No. 2 to the summit on the March 4-dated survey.
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The song is the Ivan Moody-fronted band’s 10th No. 1 in a row, the longest run of leading consecutive entries in the history of Mainstream Rock Airplay, which began in 1981.
Each of the band’s entries has ruled the chart starting with “Sham Pain,” which led for a week in 2018.
In all, Five Finger Death Punch now boasts 14 Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s, giving the group sole possession of the third-most leaders in the chart’s history. Only Shinedown (18) and Three Days Grace (17) have more.
Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:18, Shinedown17, Three Days Grace14, Five Finger Death Punch13, Van Halen12, Godsmack11, Disturbed11, Foo Fighters11, Metallica10, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)10, Volbeat
Five Finger Death Punch first crowned Mainstream Rock Airplay with the two-week No. 1 “Coming Down” in 2012.
Concurrently, “Circus” leaps 13-10 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.8 million audience impressions, up 11%, Feb. 17-23, according to Luminate. It’s the band’s sixth top 10 and first since “Afterlife,” which peaked at No. 8 last July.
“Circus” ranked at No. 14 on the latest multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs survey (dated Feb. 25). In addition to its radio airplay, it earned 714,000 official U.S. streams in the Feb. 10-16 tracking week.
Linkin Park debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, as its recently unearthed track “Lost” bows atop the Feb. 25-dated ranking.
In the Feb. 10-16 tracking week, “Lost” earned 10.3 million radio audience impressions and 9 million official U.S. streams and sold 12,000 downloads in the United States, according to Luminate.
It’s Linkin Park’s second No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, which began in 2020, following “In the End,” which reigned for two weeks in 2021 due to gains sparked by iTunes sale pricing.
“Lost” also begins at No. 2 on Hot Alternative Songs and at No. 4 on both Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs.
On the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, “Lost” starts at No. 38, Linkin Park’s highest charting entry since “Burn It Down” reached No. 30 in 2012. It’s the band’s 11th top 40 Hot 100 hit, and fifth to debut in the region. The group hit a No. 2 best with “In the End” in 2002.
As previously reported, “Lost” became the first to debut at No. 1 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart in more than a decade on the strength of its radio audience.
The track also tops the Rock Digital Song Sales, Alternative Digital Song Sales and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales surveys, as well as Hard Rock Streaming Songs.
“Lost,” with vocals by Chester Bennington, who died in 2017, was originally recorded for the sessions for Meteora, Linkin Park’s second studio album, released in March 2003. It’s part of a 20th anniversary reissue of the album, due April 7.
Shinedown has the record for the most top 10s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart all to itself, as “Dead Don’t Die” climbs into the top 10 of the ranking dated Feb. 25.
“Die,” which jumps from No. 13 to No. 9, is Shinedown’s 30th top 10, as the band becomes the first act to cross the threshold in the history of the list, which began in 1981.
Previously, the Brent Smith-fronted outfit was in a three-way tie with Five Finger Death Punch and Foo Fighters for the most top 10s, with 29 apiece.
Most Top 10s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:
30, Shinedown
29, Five Finger Death Punch
29, Foo Fighters
28, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)
27, Godsmack
26, Van Halen
25, Disturbed
25, Metallica
Each of Shinedown’s entries on Mainstream Rock Airplay has reached the top five, dating to its debut entry “Fly From the Inside,” which hit No. 5 in September 2003.
Shinedown is currently riding a streak of eight No. 1s in a row on the chart, a run that began with “How Did You Love” in 2017. The record is held by Five Finger Death Punch, which has notched 10 straight.
Shinedown also boasts the most No. 1s – 18 – of any act in the chart’s history.
Concurrently, “Die” pushes 22-18 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay tally with 1.8 million audience impressions, up 18%, Feb. 10-16, according to Luminate.
The song is the third rock radio single from Planet Zero, Shinedown’s seventh studio album, following the title track and “Daylight.” The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated July 16, 2022, and has earned 158,000 equivalent album units to date.
