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After telling fans during her Coachella performance with Bizarrap last weekend that she would be touring this year, Shakira has announced the first leg of her 2024 Live Nation-promoted North American tour.
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Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour — named in honor of her new album of the same name — will play 14 arena shows across North America, beginning Nov. 2 in Palm Desert, California, and ending December 15 in Detroit, Michigan. Tickets for the tour will be available beginning Wednesday (April 17) via a Citi presale, with an artist presale beginning on Friday (April 19) at 10 am. The general onsale begins on April 22 at 10 a.m. local time here.
This is Shakira’s first tour since her 2018 El Dorado World Tour, which took her to stadiums and arenas around the world. Shakira first hinted that she would be touring this year during her Q&A at Billboard Latin Music Week and her Billboard cover story last October. At the time, she said she would “definitely” tour in 2024, but provided no details.
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Then, last month, following the release of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, she performed in New York City’s Times Square for a crowd of more than 40,000 fans. During her new tour, Shakira is expected to perform her new hits, as well as her iconic global chart stoppers. Find all announced dates below:
Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour Dates:
Nov 2 – Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena
Nov. 7 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
Nov. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum
Nov. 16 – San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
Nov. 17 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
Nov. 20 – Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
Nov. 23 – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
Nov. 25 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
Nov. 30 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
Dec. 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
Dec. 8 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
Dec. 10 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
Dec. 14 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
Dec. 15 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
Five of late reggae icon Bob Marley‘s musical scions announced their first joint tour in nearly 20 years on Monday (April 15), an outing they’re calling The Marley Brothers: The Legacy Tour.
Teaming up for their first extended run of joint dates since 2007, brothers Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian will celebrate their beloved father’s music and legacy on the outing that a release promised would feature both their individual hits and classic Bob Marley songs.
The 22-date Live Nation-promoted North American trek is slated to kick off Sept. 5 with a show at the Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park in Vancouver, then hitting Phoenix, Dallas, Cincinnati, Toronto, Atlanta and Tampa before winding down at Miami’s FPL Solar Amphitheatre on Oct. 5.
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April 20 will mark an expansion of screenings of the biopic Bob Marley: One Love, while the 40th anniversary of the “Could You Be Loved” singer’s landmark 1984 greatest-hits compilation Legend will be celebrated next month; in addition, 2025 marks what would have been Marley’s 80th birthday.
Tickets for the tour will start with pre-sales kicking off Tuesday (April 16), including a Citi presale beginning at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday (April 18) at 10 p.m. local time here. A general on-sale will kick off Friday (April 19) at 10 a.m. local time with information available here.
Check out the dates for the 2024 Legacy Tour below.
Sept. 5 — Vancouver, BC @ Festival Lawn at Deer Lake ParkSept 6 — Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts AmphitheaterSept. 8 — Auburn, WA @ White River AmphitheatreSept. 10 — Concord, CA @ Toyota Pavilion at ConcordSept. 11 — Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union AmphitheatreSept. 12 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort AmphitheatreSept. 13 — Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta AmphitheaterSept. 15 — Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance AmphitheaterSept. 16 — Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis PavilionSept. 18 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music CenterSept. 19 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music TheatreSept. 22 — Queens, NY @ Forest Hills StadiumSept. 23 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts CenterSept. 25 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare AmphitheaterSept. 26 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity CenterSept. 27 — Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube LiveSept. 29 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser StageSept. 30 — Laval, QC @ Place BellOct. 2 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion Oct. 3 — Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood AmphitheatreOct. 4 — Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union AmpOct. 5 — Miami, FL @ FPL Solar Amphitheatre
Maggie Rogers is heading back on the road, this time in arenas.
The star announced on Thursday (April 11) her first-ever arena tour, dubbed the Don’t Forget Me Tour Part II, to celebrate the release of her third studio album, Don’t Forget Me. The Live Nation-produced outing will kick off on Oct. 9 at Moody Center in Austin, Texas, before it hits cities like Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Chicago, Seattle and more before wrapping up on November 2 in Los Angeles, Calif. Ryan Beatty will join Rogers as the opening act on her fall tour dates.
The previously announced first leg of the Don’t Forget Me Tour kicks off May 23 in San Diego, Calif., and wraps in Miami, Fla., on June 22. The Japanese House is slated as the supporting act.
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In addition to the arena tour, Rogers also announced Box Office Week, which will include pop-up events and special shows taking place over the course of the week at intimate venues in four U.S. cities. Additionally, Rogers will continue her commitment of in-person ticketing from April 13 to 20, where fans can go to the box office of any arena she’s playing at and buy tickets for $25 with no added fees. At her pop-up events, she’ll be selling the tickets herself.
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“On the last album, Surrender, I decided to go old school and sell tickets in-person in an effort to reduce fees, combat bots and get tickets directly into the hands of fans,” the singer explained in a press statement. “That process was so fun, this year I’m hosting ‘Box Office Week,’ where I’ve set some special prices for fans who want to come purchase tickets in person.”
See the full list of Box Office shows and Don’t Forget Me Tour Part II dates below. For ticket purchasing information, refer to Rogers’ website here.
Box Office Week/Release Shows04-13 New York, NY – Irving Plaza 04-14 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts/The Fillmore 04-16 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club04-19 Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Don’t Forget Me Tour Part II10-09 Austin, TX – Moody Center10-15 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center10-17 Boston, MA – TD Garden 10-19 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 10-22 Toronto, Ontario – Coca-Cola Coliseum 10-24 Chicago, IL – United Center 10-25 Minneapolis, MN – Target Center 10-29 Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena 10-30 Portland, OR – Moda Center 11-01 San Francisco, CA – Chase Center 11-02 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
Bad Bunny‘s Most Wanted Tour is in high gear, bringing his latest album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, to life across various U.S. cities. Meanwhile, he has invited multiple surprise guests along the way. The Puerto Rican superstar kicked off his 2024 tour in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 21, promoted […]
The Roots are hitting the road this summer with some special friends. The Tonight Show house band will take a break from playing celebrities onto stage and doing bits with host Jimmy Fallon to play a run of dates from May through September with kindred spirit hip-hop experimentalists Digable Planets and Arrested Development.
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After announcing an initial slate of dates for the Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life outing last week with the message “This is for the ones that really fell in LOVE with this,” the band has filled the roster out with a more robust run. The mostly weekend shows will commence on May 11 with a gig at the Mountain Winery Concert Series in Saratoga, CA and a spot on the Wonderfront Festival in San Diego on May 12 before setting up shop in Philadelphia for this year’s edition of their Roots Picnic festival.
This year’s June 1-2 Picnic will feature André 3000 and his bag of magical flutes, Jill Scott, Lil Wayne, Gunna, Victoria Monét, Method Man, Nas, Redman and Sexyy Red, and others performing in The Mann in Fairmount Park.
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A quick pop-in at the Reggae Rise Up Maryland 2024 festival in Baltimore on June 23 will be followed by a June 29 gig at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and then a pair of dates in July in Denver and Seattle, before a hop over the Atlantic for a couple of dates in England and Germany before a return to U.S. shores in August for shows in Houston and Irving, Texas, Highland Park, IL, Sterling Heights, MI, Atlanta, Vienna, VA and a Sept. 1 show at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston.
In keeping with their job supporting Fallon since 2009 — on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and then, beginning in 2014 on The Tonight Show — the majority of this summer’s dates will be weekend gigs that will allow the group to be in their spots in Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center in New York for their nightly gig.
Check out the dates for the Roots’ Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life 2024 tour below.
May 11 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery Concert Series
May 12 – San Diego, CA @ Wonderfront Festival
June 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Roots Picnic 2024
June 2 – Philadelphia, PA @ Roots Picnic 2024
June 23 – Baltimore, MD @ Reggae Rise Up Maryland 2024
June 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *^
July 20 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
July 21 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo
August 1 – Tower Of London, UK @ Crystal Palace Bowl
August 2 – Margate, UK @ Dreamland
August 5 – Berlin, DE @ Uber Eats Music Hall
August 16 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall *^
August 17 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory *^
August 24 – Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival *^
August 25 – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill *^
August 29 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park *^
August 31 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap *^
Sept. 1 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *^’July 20 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
* = w/ Arrested Development^ = w/ Digable Planets
More than three decades into her storied career, Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott is gearing up for her first-ever headlining tour. On Monday morning (April 8) the “Work It” rapper announced the dates for her Out of This World – The Missy Elliott Experience 2024 North American arena tour, which is slated to kick off on on July 4 in Vancouver at Rogers Arena, and include stops in Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Houston, Tampa, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn and Detroit before winding down on August 22 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL.
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The summer outing will feature support from Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Elliott’s longtime musical partner producer Timbaland. The poster for the tour features Missy, Busta and Ciara dressed in Mad Max-style futuristic leather outfits standing in front of a giant space ship.
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“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts.’ Being the FIRST female Hip Hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and now going out on my FIRST headline tour,” Elliott said in a statement about the 24-city tour co-produced by Live Nation and Elliott’s longtime manager Mona Scott-Young. “Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family! So get ready to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We can’t wait to share this experience with the fans!”
In keeping with Elliott’s legendarily out-there music videos, the tour announce was accompanied by a short teaser video helmed by another one of Missy’s frequent collaborators, director Dave Meyers. “In 2024, these three icons come together to show you something you’ve never seen before,” Elliott says in voiceover in the clip in which she, Busta and Ciara emerge from the spacecraft.
“Something not right,” Elliott says at one point as the shoot is interrupted by confusion. “This is not Earth!” That leads to Busta busting out a paper celestial map only to discover that he took a “wrong turn” at Mars, a revelation that makes Ciara short of breath. Missy then calls Timbaland on her old school brick cell phone to complain about Busta’s terrible sense of space direction.
In an additional statement about her client’s first-ever headlining tour, Scott-Young said, “Missy has always been an iconic groundbreaker and continuously pushes herself to be bolder and go where she has never been before – and surprisingly, one of those places is headlining her own tour! For decades, fans and peers worldwide have clamored for Missy to tour and they’re finally going to get what they’ve been asking for as she teams up with Ciara, Busta, and longtime partner-in-rhyme Timbaland, to deliver a start-to-finish, nonstop, high-octane, OUT OF THIS WORLD concert experience. This will be one for the books, so trust me, you don’t want to miss it!”
Tickets for the tour will go on sale first through a Verizon presale that kicks off on Tuesday (April 9) beginning at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday (April 11) at 10 p.m. local time; click here for more details. Following additional presales throughout the week, the general onsale for the tour will begin on Friday (April 12) at 10 a.m. local time here.
Check out the dates for the tour and the teaser video below.
Missy Elliott 2024 Out of This World dates:
July 4 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
July 6 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
July 9 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
July 11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
July 13 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
July 16 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
July 18 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
July 20 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
July 21 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
July 24 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
July 25 — Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena
Saturday, July 27 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena
August 1 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
August 2 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
August 3 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
August 5 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
August 8 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
August 9 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
August 10 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
August 12 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
August 15 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
August 17 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
August 19 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
August 22 — Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
Gilberto Santa Rosa brought his class and elegance to New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Saturday (April 6), where he made it clear once more why he is considered El Caballero de la Salsa (The Gentleman of Salsa).
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Accompanied by a stellar orchestra of 15 musicians — including brasses, keyboards, strings, percussion, and backup singers — the Puerto Rican icon delighted a mostly Latino audience in New York City with classics from his repertoire such as “Derroche,” “Conciencia,” “Conteo Regresivo” and “Perdóname.”
He also performed a set of boleros, which he introduced with an anecdote told with his characteristic grace and charm.
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“My life has gone between bolero and salsa, and I say it in that order because the first thing I started singing was bolero,” he remembered. “I started singing bolero because I suffered a very strong love disappointment… at the age of 6,” Santa Rosa continued, making the audience burst in laughter.
With the idea of winning over a girl, he said, the singer teamed up with a buddy who also sang and played the guitar.
“I thought, ‘When I start singing, that girl is going to go crazy for me’. Well, guess what? I went out to sing on the first school program that I could, and the girl didn’t even look at me. But she gave me a profession, and thanks to that, you and us we are here tonight.”
On his third occasion at the Radio City Music Hall, this time as part of his Auténtico Tour, Santa Rosa recalled his long history with New York City, where he began playing as a teenager in the 1980s at the Corso nightclub as part of Willie Rosario’s orchestra, and where he recorded his iconic 1995 live album En Vivo Desde El Carnegie Hall.
“Tonight we come to give you everything here at Radio City Music Hall, which is an iconic place in New York City and the United States,” he said with a smile. “This is our third time on this stage and we are happy about that.”
One of the most joyful moments was led by conguero Gerardo Rivas, a former member of the musical duo NG2 who also has a solo career as a singer. The son of Jerry Rivas from El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Gerardo momentarily left the congas to take center stage, where he first sang “Suma y Resta” with Santa Rosa — who originally recorded this song with El Micha — and then a track from his own repertoire, “Happy”, which got everyone dancing.
The orchestra, whose talent was matched by their grace and elegance, includes veteran musicians such as musical director and trombonist Georgie Torres, pianist Luis Marín, bongo player Rafael Echeverría, backup singer Gino Ramírez and trumpeter Rebeca Zambrana, many of whom have been playing with Santa Rosa for decades. They all spread their enthusiasm with amusing choreographies, and Santa Rosa took the time to introduce each one of them with great affection and admiration.
With an uninterrupted and successful decades-long career, Gilberto Santa Rosa continues to be one of the undisputed references of salsa. His Auténtico Tour began last year in Puerto Rico and arrived in South America in February. His U.S. stint continues next week in Charlotte, N.C., and also includes stops in cities such as El Paso, Houston, and Dallas, before moving on to Europe. (For a full list of dates, click here).
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When Prince released Musicology in 2004, it was hailed as a comeback — and greeted with a few sighs of relief. The Purple One’s previous albums had either been too conceptual (The Rainbow Children, 2001) or uncommercial (N·E·W·S and Xpectation, both 2003, were fully instrumental) for most listeners, so when he delivered a party album of old-school funk, critics and fans were thrilled to press play.
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The album netted him two Grammys and a No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200 – his first album to reach that peak since 1991’s Diamonds and Pearls. Even better, the ensuing Musicology Live 2004ever tour found the icon delivering lengthy, hit-filled sets with a loose warmth you didn’t always get from Prince on stage. (The album was also sold as part of each ticket to the tour, with the LP’s cost baked into the ticket price.)
For the album’s 20th anniversary, NPG Records and Paisley Park Enterprises, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, are releasing his rare B-side “United States of Division” to streaming platforms for the first time. Previously available as an mp3 download to members of Prince’s NPG Music Club, “United States of Division” is a six-minute soul-funk jam that tackles the Iraq War, America’s dwindling global reputation and internal social divisions.
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Musically, Musicology received a warm welcome – and in hindsight, it’s one of Prince’s best latter-day albums, with the title track and the hilarious “Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance” being particular standouts. But its release strategy had people in the industry a bit confused.
“Instead of Musicology, Prince should have gone back into his catalog and named his new album Controversy. That is what he is once again stirring up as he distributes Musicology free to fans at his shows,” reported the May 8, 2004, issue of Billboard. “Nielsen SoundScan is counting those copies as sales. Of the 191,000 copies of Musicology Nielsen SoundScan tracked for the week ending April 18, 12,600 — 6% — were counted from his April 21 concert in Columbia, S.C.”
Despite some questioning the strategy’s efficacy or fairness, it proved influential – dozens of acts would follow suit in the ensuing years until Billboard stopped counting album sales that were part of ticket bundles in 2020.
Karol G is making waves with her Mañana Será Bonito stadium tour. Following her successful stint in the U.S., she’s now captivating audiences across Latin America, accompanied by a slew of surprise guests and special invitees on many stops.
The tour began Feb. 8 at Mexico City’s renowned Estadio Azteca, where Karol shared the stage with 2024 breakout star Xavi, who performed his No. 1 Hot Latin Songs hit “La Diabla.” The Colombian hitmaker achieved a historic milestone as the first female artist to sell out the iconic Mexican stadium for three consecutive nights, drawing an impressive 80,000 attendees each evening.
She also performed in the Mexican cities of Monterrey, Guadalajara, as well as in Guatemala City and San José, Costa Rica. In the latter city, she shattered Coldplay’s record by selling 104,686 tickets across two sold-out nights (March 9-10), marking the highest ticket sales ever for a concert in the country.
In Santo Domingo, Dominican dembow artist Ángel Dior and Puerto Rican star Justin Quiles joined Karol onstage to perform “Ojos Ferrari” from her tour’s namesake album. And during her two-day stopover in Venezuela, the superstar surprised her fans with a reunion of Servando and Florentino, with whom she made an emotional trip down memory lane, to Salserín, a youth salsa orchestra. The Colombian singer and the Venezuelan brothers performed the 1996 salsa hit “De Sol a Sol” in front of 50,000 people.
Her tour will continue to make stops in Bogotá, Santiago and Buenos Aires and conclude in Asunción, Paraguay, at Estadio La Nueva Olla on May 2. However, the journey doesn’t end there. Karol will begin her European stint right after, launching on June 8 in Zurich, Switzerland.
As La Bichota’s Mañana tour continues, keep an eye out for the list of performers (surprise or not) from her Latin American leg below, including some opening acts, in alphabetical order.
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