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You can now call her Mayor Bey. Ahead of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour stop at Levi’s Stadium on Aug. 30, the Santa Clara City Council will be voting on Tuesday night (Aug. 28) to name the superstar honorary mayor for the day and present her with a key to the city, according to The Mercury News. “The […]
It’s getting “Too Hot” out there, even for 50 Cent. The MC who is in the middle of his 20th anniversary Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 20th anniversary tour had to hit pause on tonight’s (Aug. 29) show in Glendale, Arizona at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre due to an excessive heat warning. “Due to […]
After spending this summer criss-crossing Europe on the latest leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour — which began in 2021 — Bob Dylan announced a new slate of 18 North American fall dates on Monday morning (Aug. 21). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The […]
After criss-crossing the nation this summer playing festival gigs, Lana Del Rey announced a run of fall amphitheater shows on Monday morning (Aug. 21). The 10 gigs are slated to kick off on Sept. 13 at the FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, TN before moving on to the Germania Insurance Amphitheater in Austin, TX.
The run will also include shows in Dallas, West Palm Beach, Tampa and Pittsburgh before winding down on Oct. 5 at the Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, WV. A general onsale for the shows will begin on Friday (Aug. 25) at 10 a.m. local time here.
Del Rey has been on the road supporting her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd., which came out in March. Over the weekend, the singer was spotted at producer Jack Antonoff‘s wedding to actress Margaret Qualley in New Jersey. Del Rey joined a list of fellow A-listers at the ceremony, which was also attended by Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz, Cara Delevingne and the bride’s mother, Andie MacDowell, according to People.
Check out the dates for Del Rey’s fall tour below.
Sept. 14 – Franklin, TN @ FirstBank Amphitheater
Sept. 17 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Sept. 19 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
Sept. 21 – Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater
Sept. 23 – West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Sept. 25 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sept. 27 – Brandon, MS @ Brandon Amphitheater
Sept. 29 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
Oct. 3 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake
Oct. 5 – Charleston, WV @ Charleston Coliseum
Jack Harlow is flying first class back home. The rapper announced on Thursday (Aug. 17) the No Place Like Home: The Kentucky tour produced by Live Nation, which will see Harlow traversing Kentucky for his third annual hometown run. The six-show tour will kick off on November 24 at Owensboro Sports Center in Owensboro and will […]
Nick Jonas had a rough day at work on Tuesday. The Jonas Brothers singer and solo star was minding his own business during the group’s The Tour date at Boston’s TD Garden gig while singing “Sail Away” when a trap door opened up behind him and, well, there’s no easy way to say it, he […]
It looks like the “Streets of Philadelphia” will not be welcoming Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on Wednesday night (Aug. 16) as planned. Springsteen, via his X (formerly known as Twitter) page, announced that he had fallen ill and would be postponing his Aug. 16 and Aug. 18 shows at Citizens Bank Park […]
The Boss paid tribute to the leader of The Band on Wednesday night (Aug. 9) at the kick-off of the E Street Band’s North American stadium/arena tour at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Just hours after the world learned that legendary singer/songwriter/composer Robbie Robertson of The Band had passed away at age 80 following a long illness, Bruce Springsteen dedicated a song to his fellow hard core troubadour.
“To my good friend Robbie Robertson,” Springsteen said before the band kicked into the emotional ballad “I’ll See You In My Dreams” from the E Street Band’s 2020 album Letter to You according to the Asbury Park Press. The sentimental track is an a tribute to a lost loved one in which Springsteen takes solace in a dream world reunion as he surrounds himself with the departed’s books and records.
“The road is long and seeming without end/ The days go on, I remember you my friend/ And though you’re gone and my heart’s been emptied it seems/ I’ll see you in my dreams,” Springsteen sings before hitting the hope-filled chorus on the song that closed out the 26-song, three-hour setlist for Wednesday night’s show. “I’ll see you in my dreams/ When all our summers have come to an end/ I’ll see you in my dreams/ We’ll meet and live and laugh again/ I’ll see you in my dreams,” Springsteen manifests on the chorus.
Earlier in the day, E Street Band guitarist “Little” Steven Van Zandt called Robertson “good friend and a genius. The Band’s music shocked the excess out of the Renaissance and were an essential part of the final back-to-the-roots trend of ‘60s. He was an underrated brilliant guitar player adding greatly to Bob Dylan’s best tour & best album,” he wrote on Twitter.
The APP noted that, like Springsteen, 73, Toronto native Robertson worked the boards on the New Jersey shore in the mid-1960s, working at clubs such as the former Tony Marts in Somers Point, NJ with The Band.
Robertson had just wrapped work on Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon, the 14th collaboration with the man the legendary director called “one of my closest friends, a constant in my life and work.” He was one of the dozens of musicians, friends and admirers who paid tribute to Robertson, whose career spanned more than 65 years as a band member, solo star, actor and film composer.
From his beginnings as a teenage guitarist in Little Caesar and the Consuls to his stint in Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks in the early 1960s, a fruitful run with Bob Dylan in the mid-to-late 1960s and then the formation of Americana progenitors The Band, Robertson was a beloved, deeply soulful and thoughtful artist who former President Bill Clinton referred to as a “brilliant songwriter, guitarist and composer whose gifts changed music forever.”
Check out fan footage of the performance below.
Paramore have been forced to cancel the final two dates on their U.S. tour due to singer Hayley Williams’ ongoing health issues. The singer announced the news in an Instagram Story on Thursday morning (Aug. 10) in which she revealed that the band’s shows at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland tonight and the Delta Center […]
Hours after Travis Scott revealed on Tuesday (Aug. 8) that he was gearing up for a U.S. tour in support of his just-released chart-topping Utopia album, the mayor of his hometown, Houston, confirmed that the rapper has booked a gig at the city’s Toyota Center later this year.
While Scott has not revealed any of the dates or venues for the outing yet, other than to tease on Instagram “UTOPIA TOUR SOON, US AND EURO DATES SOON TO BE ANNOUNCE, I MISS THE ROAD I MISSS YALLL,” the Houston gig is notable because it will mark the first time since the Astroworld tragedy two years ago that the rapper will take the stage in the city.
According to ABC 13, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner released a statement on Tuesday that Scott and his promotion partners “booked the Toyota Center for a concert in October.” Turner also noted that the 19,000-seat arena is a different type of venue than the one that hosted Astroworld in 2021, the parking lot at NRG, where 10 people died and hundreds were injured during a deadly crowd crush. Scott and Live Nation are still facing a number of civil lawsuits over Astroworld.
“The Toyota Center has been a good partner with the City of Houston, and we expect this to continue for this and every other concert. Before today’s announcement, Toyota Center representatives convened meetings with public safety officials and the City’s special events office,” the mayor’s statement read. “They will continue working together to ensure this concert’s safety, not unlike the many other concerts and events held at Toyota Center each year.”
A grand jury in Houston decided in June that neither Scott nor the organizers of the festival would face criminal charges in the incident following a 19-month investigation that found there was not enough evidence to support criminal charges against the rapper or other individuals who organized the event.
Though Scott has not confirmed the Houston date, KPRC 2 reported that local law enforcement agencies told the station that leaders in the Houston Police Department were not pleased with the news. “The HPOU found out early last week that Travis Scott would be returning to Houston for two concert dates. October 19th, and November the 20th, were the dates in which were proposed for the return. Like most we were in complete disbelief,” read a statement from HPD Union president Douglas Griffith after what was reportedly a tense meeting with the HPD and a number of officers who expressed their frustrations and safety concerns about the upcoming show by the rapper who in the past has encouraged his fans to “rage” at his shows.
“Only days after the release of a 1,200-page report describing the tragic events that took place during his Astroworld Concert, we are advised just days later that there will be another,” the HPD statement continued. “This is outrageous and the HPOU will be calling for all of our elected officials to stand up and say, Not in our city, not again! We truly do not want to ever make a statement like the one two weeks ago asking for prayers for the families of those lost at a Travis Scott concert.”
At press time a spokesperson for tour promoter Live Nation could not be reached for comment on the HPD’s reported concerns.
Scott celebrated the release of Utopia with a concert at Rome’s Circus Maximus over the weekend which featured a surprise appearance from disgraced rapper Kanye West (who now goes by Ye.) Utopia shot to a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Aug. 12, marking the third-biggest week of 2023 for any album and the largest for any R&B/hip-hop or rap release.
