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Weezer are hitting the road this fall for an all-star indie rock tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their iconic 1994 “Blue” album. The Voyage to the Blue Planet North American outing will feature support from the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr., with Weezer performing their self-titled debut album (known as the “Blue Album”) in total, along with fan favorites and rarities.

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The Live Nation-promoted 22-date tour will kick off on Sept. 4 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota and feature stops in Toronto, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland and San Francisco before winding down on Oct. 11 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.

Fans can sign up for Weezer’s mailing list to get presale ticket access beginning Wednesday (March 13) at noon local time. Citi card members will also have access to a presale for the U.S. dates beginning Wednesday at 9 a.m. local time through Thursday (March 14) at 10 p.m. local time here.

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The Ric Ocasek-produced Blue Album is a beloved 1990s classic, featuring such iconic Weezer tracks as the band’s quirky breakthrough hit “Undone – The Sweater Song,” as well as “Buddy Holly” and “Say It Ain’t So” and favorites including “My Name is Jonas,” “In the Garage” and “Holiday.”

In addition to the 30th anniversary tour, Weezer will play a special anniversary show on Friday (March 15) at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles with Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar as support. According to a release announcing the show, the Lodge gig will serve as a full-circle moment, mirroring the band’s March 1992 show at Raji’s, where they opened up for Dogstar; they will play the Blue Album in total with special, as-yet-unannounced guests.

Check out the dates for the Voyage to the Blue Planet 2024 tour:

Sept. 4 – Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center

Sept. 6 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena

Sept. 7 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena

Sept. 8 – Toronto, ON, Canada @ Scotiabank Arena

Sept. 10 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden

Sept. 11 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

Sept. 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center

Sept. 14 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem*

Sept. 17 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena

Sept. 18 – Greenville, SC @ Bon Secours Wellness Arena

Sept. 20 – Orlando, FL @ Kia Center

Sept. 21 – Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood*

Sept. 27 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center

Sept. 28 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

Sept. 29 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center

Oct. 1 – Loveland, CO @ Blue FCU Arena

Oct. 4 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena

Oct. 5 – Vancouver, BC, Canada @ Rogers Arena

Oct. 6 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center

Oct. 8 – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center

Oct. 9 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center

Oct. 11 – Inglewood, CA @ Intuit Dome

*Not a Live Nation Date

[Trigger warning: this article contains descriptions of domestic violence, as well as sexual and physical abuse.]
Marilyn Manson announced his first live dates in nearly five years on Friday (March 8), marking the shock rocker’s return to the road after more than half a dozen women accused the him of sexual and emotional abuse. The news came in an X post in which Manson revealed that he and Slaughter to Prevail will be hitting the road this summer/fall for a 30-date arena/amphitheater tour with Five Finger Death Punch slated to kick off on August 2 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA.

More than a dozen women have accused Manson (born Brian Warner), 55, of sexual, emotional and physical assault, including actress Evan Rachel Wood, who was the subject of the two-part HBO 2022 documentary Phoenix Rising that delved into her claims of the abuse she claims she allegedly suffered at the rocker’s hand during an on-and-off relationship that began when she was 18.

Manson, who has denied all the allegations, reached a settlement with actress Esme Bianco last year to end her sexual assault lawsuit after a judge dismissed another sexual abuse suit from model Ashley Morgan Smithline. Previously, an L.A. Superior Court judge dismissed a suit against Manson filed by a former personal assistant alleging sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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The singer was sued over allegations of sexual assault against a minor in January 2023, in which the “Jane Doe” claimed Manson groomed and sexually assaulted the then-underage girl early in his career. The graphic details of that Doe suit closely match the allegations from a number of the other women who have made claims against Manson, including that the singer subjected them to “hostile and verbally abusive behavior,” as well as racially charged language mixed with the sharing of intimate personal details.

After initially declining to name Manson as her abuser, Wood posted an Instagram statement in Feb. 2021 in which she wrote that “he [Manson] started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail.” Among her horrifying claims were that Manson would “draw swastikas over my bedside table when he was mad at me” and that he would allegedly tie the actress up and torture her ritualistically, lashing her to a “kneeler” bench and hitting her “over and over” with a Nazi whip from the Holocaust before shocking her welts and private areas until she broke the bench in half. Following Wood’s claims four other women came forward with similarly allegations against Manson in a Vanity Fair article.

Manson has countersued a number of his alleged victims — in addition to settle Bianco’s suit — and judges have dismissed several of the abuse lawsuits against him over the past three years. In the wake of the raft of allegations, Manson was dropped by his record label Loma Vista Records in Feb. 2021 as well as by his longtime manager, Tony Ciulla, several days later.

The “Antichrist Superstar” singer has been off the road since the final August 18, 2019 date on the Twins of Evil: Hell Never Dies joint tour with Rob Zombie and hasn’t released new music since his 2020 We Are Chaos album.

See the announcement and tour dates below.

Summer/Fall 2024 North American tour:

August 2 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium

August 4 — Boston, MA @ Gillette Stadium ( w/ @metallica )

August 5 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center

August 7 — Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Centre

August 8 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center

August 10 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphiteater

August 11 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (w/Metallica)

August 13 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart Amphitheater

August 14 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena

August 16 — Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center

August 18 — Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium (w/Metallica)

August 19 — Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena

August 21 — Omaha, NE @ CHI Health Center

August 22 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena

August 24 — Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre*

August 25 — Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium (w/Metallica)

August 27 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

August 29 — Airway Heights, WA @ NorthQuest

August 31 — Portland, OR @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater

Sept. 1 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field (w/Metallica)

Sept. 3 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater

Sept. 4 — Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheater

Sept. 6 — Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center

Sept. 8 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden

Sept. 10 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resorts Amphitheater

Sept. 11 — Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheatre

Sept. 13 — Durant, OK @ Choctaw Grand Theater

Sept. 15 — Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre

Sept. 16 — Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum

Sept. 18 — Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Sept. 19 — Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

*no Manson

The National announced the dates for their 19-date fall North American tour on Monday morning (Feb. 26). The joint Zen Diagram Tour outing with The War on Drugs is slated to kick off on Sept .12 with a gig in Gilford, NH at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion and take the bands to New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Vancouver and Los Angeles before winding down with an Oct. 10 show at the Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City.

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The first joint tour by the bands will feature special guest Lucius on all the dates except Mexico City. A presale for the Live Nation-produced outing will begin on Tuesday (Feb. 27) at 10 a.m. local time, followed by a general onsale on Friday (March 1) at 10 a.m. local time here.

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Each band will play a full set from the headliners, with the National still touring in support of their dual 2023 releases, First Two Pages of Frankenstein and September’s Laugh Track. The War on Drugs dropped their fifth full-length studio album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, in Oct. 2021.

Check out the dates for the 2024 Zen Diagram tour below.

Sept. 12 — Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

Sept. 13 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium

Sept. 14 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center

Sept. 16 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

Sept. 17 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at the Mann Center for Performing Arts

Sept. 19 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell

Sept. 20 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage

Sept. 21 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center

Sept. 24 — Chicago, IL @ United Center

Sept. 25 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill

Sept. 26 — Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field

Sept. 28 — Englewood, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *

Sept. 29 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Granary Live *

Oct. 1 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena

Oct. 2 — Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena

Oct. 3 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center

Oct. 6 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre *

Oct. 7 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

Oct. 10 — Mexico City, MX @ Palacio De Los Deportes

* Non-Live Nation Date

^ Without Lucius

Kings of Leon stormed back after several years of silence on Thursday (Feb. 22) with the raucous single “Mustang.” The song is the first taste of the sibling group’s upcoming ninth studio album, Can We Please Have Fun (May 10), their first effort on new label Capitol Records and first full-length album since 2021’s When You See Yourself.

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According to a statement announcing the 12-song album, Can We Please Have Fun is “a document of one of this era’s great rock & roll bands cutting loose, trying new things, and, yes, having some fun.” The collection was recorded at Nashville’s Dark Horse studio and produced by Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Florence + the Machine). It’s described as a return to the group’s “gritty origins while simultaneously finding new gears. It’s the sound of a band unified in vision and purpose, freed from any expectations, and the album the band says they’ve always wanted to make.”

The driving “Mustang” is a classic KOL burner, with singer Caleb Followill promising that love is all around over an insistent, thrumming bass line as he howls, “There’s a mustang in the city/ And it’s calling me out/ Are you a mustang or a kitty?/ What are you all about?” while the song slowly builds to one of the band’s signature radio-ready, shout-along choruses.

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The Brook Linder-directed video for “Mustang” finds the band jamming out on rooftops and bridges amid a series of random images of a Roomba pulling a bunch of deflated balloons, an urban LARPing battle, EMTs attending to a patient on a city street and men wearing animal masks running through a park with mysterious satchels.

Caleb Followill said in a statement that the sessions for CWPHF were “the most enjoyable record I’ve ever been a part of,” with drummer Nathan Followill adding, “It’s like we allowed ourselves to be musically vulnerable. I love it when a rock band is not embarrassed to admit that every song doesn’t have to be on 11.”

KOL also announced the dates for their upcoming summer/fall Live Nation-produced 26-date North American tour, which will kick off on August 14 at the Moody Center in Austin, TX and keep them on the road through an Oct. 5 gig at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT.

The band cancelled the remaining four dates of their U.S. tour in support of When You See Yourself in Sept. 2021 following the death of their mother, Betty Ann; KOL is comprised of brothers Caleb, Nathan and bassist Jared Followill and cousin guitarist Matthew Followill.

Check out the track list for CWPHF, the “Mustang” video and the band’s 2024 tour dates below.

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CWPHF:

“Ballerina Radio”

“Rainbow Ball”

“Nowhere To Run”

“Mustang”

“Actual Daydream”

“Split Screen”

“Don’t Stop The Bleeding”

“Nothing To Do”

“Television”

“Hesitation Generation”

“Ease Me On”

“Seen”

2024 North American tour dates:

August 14 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center

August 16 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

August 17 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena

August 20 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre

August 22 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum

August 23 — Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure Arena

August 25 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre*

August 26 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl*

August 28 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center

August 29 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena

August 31 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

Sept. 2 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place

Sept. 3 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome

Sept. 5 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre

Sept. 13 — Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater

Sept. 14 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center

Sept. 16 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Sept. 18 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium

Sept. 20 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem

Sept. 23 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann

Sept. 25 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena

Sept. 26 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena

Sept. 28 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island 

Oct. 1 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage

Oct. 2 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell

Oct. 5 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater

*Not a Live Nation Date