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Bad Bunny delivers a spectacular show on any stage, but there’s nothing like seeing the megastar at home in Puerto Rico, performing for his day-ones. After wrapping up his Most Wanted Tour in the U.S., Benito brought the show to el Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. All three shows, including last Sunday’s (June 9) finale, sold out.

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Benito gifted locals an extra-special event, packed with guest appearances and hometown-specific elements not offered elsewhere.

Most tellingly, he opened with a video montage created specifically for this weekend’s shows. In it, he reflects on the excitement of the earlier tour dates, but makes clear that performing at home is like nothing else. Nobody will better appreciate his work than his fellow Puerto Ricans on the archipelago, he says in the clip, before concluding: If you’ve seen Bad Bunny perform, but you haven’t seen him in Puerto Rico, then you haven’t really seen him at all.

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On Friday’s, Saturday’s and last night’s shows, a youthful, classical orchestra directed by Colombian musician Carlitos López was both the opening act and a live band. The orchestra was also a major feature of the U.S. dates; this weekend, however, the first number was different. The orchestra opened with “La Borinqueña,” Puerto Rico’s official anthem. The crowd came to attention quickly, shifting from anticipatory pre-show bustle into a beautiful choir.

Centered around his latest release, 2023’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana album, the U.S. dates featured two stages at opposite ends and a moving runway that descends from above. The Coliseo setup was the same — and considering the overwhelming number of cargo trailers outside the venue, it’s safe to assume Bad Bunny had the exact setup shipped in.

When the video went black, the orchestra began three Western-inspired overtures, setting a somber, solitary tone, before moving into “Nadie Sabe.” The orchestral opening and subsequent accompaniment was pretty ingenious in the satisfying cohesion it brought; the soundtrack of a companionless cowboy pairs well with the loneliness of fame, which Bad Bunny explores in the track’s lyrics.

When Bad Bunny rose, surrounded by fog, from a hidden opening in one of the stages, the crowd roared mightily. He maintained a stoic demeanor befitting the song, though — then hunched over his gleaming, silver mic at the end as fans chanted “Benito, Benito!”

The coliseum rattled as “Monaco” rolled in, then out — and Bad Bunny took a long moment to look around the giant space. He didn’t smile, yet he looked content. He nodded as if in acknowledgment of the love beaming at him from every direction.

Then came the guest appearances: Joining first for “Fina” was Young Miko, who bounced around the stage between dancers with a big black bow adorning her long blonde hair. Then came Mora for “Hibiki,” and later Yovngchimi for “Mercedes Carota” and Bryant Myers for “Seda.” Benito slowed the show there, stopping for a lights-off pep talk for fans, essentially about being yourself fully, regardless of the hate or admiration you receive.

Moving to the opposite stage, Luar La L hopped on for “Telefono Nuevo.” Shortly after, two lucha libre wrestlers appeared on the opposite stage. It was an awesomely bizarre method of distraction — meanwhile, Eladio Carrión was joining Bad Bunny on the runway to run through a slew of their collaborations.

Another stretch of Most Wanted feels like a piano bar, with only a pianist accompanying Benito as he runs through hits from his growing discography. He got extra playful with the element last night, though, playing a sort of guess-the-song game with fans. The pianist would play a few notes, he’d sing, then stop — did fans know the song? Of course, they always did. He apparently improvised plenty, as eventually the pianist stopped playing and it was only Bad Bunny singing a few bars — before, again, checking to see if fans knew the song. The game seemed to delight him. Here, he smiled plenty.

Again, special to these Puerto Rico dates, the mystery pianist’s identity was finally revealed. She’d been masked at every show since the start of Most Wanted, but removed the covering at the end of the set here, as Benito introduced her to the crowd as Tiffany Román.

Later, De La Ghetto rolled in for “Acho PR.” Then Arcángel hopped in for several cuts — the crowd went wild. Bomba players also joined onstage, with cabezudos wearing the mask also worn by Bad Bunny in the album visuals, as well as by the orchestra player and pianist.

There’s some practical rationale to the overabundance of guest stars in Puerto Rico, of course. It’s logistically easier for these artists to appear in concert alongside Bad Bunny when he’s playing where everyone’s based. Still, it’s a treat concertgoers simply can’t get anywhere but else but here.

In total, the Puerto Rico shows were each about an hour longer than the U.S. shows. Call it preferential treatment, and you’d be right — but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. His hometown fans are the reason Bad Bunny is who is today, and they’re forever his foundation. They deserve the best, and it’s beautiful that Bad Bunny never forgets it.

Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan is set to hit the road this summer with his Blanco y Negro tour, which he announced on Monday (June 10). His upcoming trek, produced by Live Nation, will kick off July 26 in Salt Lake City’s Maverik Center. Santa Fe Klan’s 25-date trek, which follows his 2023 Todo y […]

Connecting via Zoom from across the pond, Roger Daltrey declares with great exuberance, “I’m actually looking forward to a tour! I’m out there to have a good time this time.”

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Daltrey doesn’t mean to cast aspersions on his many treks with The Who, mind you — most recently the symphonic tours he and Pete Townshend began in 2019. But his upcoming nine-date North American run, which kicks off June 12 in Vienna, Va., is something else entirely, described as “a mostly acoustic set of Who gems, rarities, solo nuggets and other surprises,” along with Q&A opportunities for the audiences.

“I’ve done all those years with The Who, and I’ve done my solo stuff and charity gigs and all that,” Daltrey tells Billboard. “I just want to branch out and do something different, where I’ve got different instrumentation and I can stop using tape loops. It just creates a whole new sound and allows me the freedom as a singer to put some other people’s songs in I’ve been fond of over the years. It’s gonna be quite interesting. I’m just determined to enjoy myself and explore the freedom I’ve got to do what I want to do on this tour, and let’s see where it ends up.”

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Don’t ask what those songs will be, however.

“I’m not gonna talk about songs,” Daltrey says. “Too many people reveal songs. There’s no surprises left with concerts these days, ’cause everybody wants to see the setlist. I’m f–king sick of it. The Internet’s ruined the live shows for me. Who wants to know what’s coming next? People forget about surprises. I can’t stand it.”

Maybe, it’s suggested, that it’s just an audience with weak bladders who want to pick the right spot to visit the loo? “Why not just start to listen to the bloody show in the toilet, then?” he says with a laugh.

One song Daltrey expects to perform is The Who opus “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but, he adds, “We don’t use a tape loop for the instrumentation. We do it on real instruments. It just takes it off the rails and gives me more room as a singer.” That said, Daltrey notes, “I’m not gonna do the scream. I’m gonna get the f–king audience to do the scream. I’ve done that scream for 55 years, and I’ve had enough of it. I don’t even want to try it now; it’s brutal on the vocal cords. They can do the scream, and I’ll do everything else. I’m more into singing these days. At the age of 80, I think I deserve to be.”

Daltrey’s band for the tour includes Who musicians Simon Townshend (Pete’s younger brother) on guitar, violinist Katie Jacoby and Billy Nicholls on mandolin and vocals, rounded out by Jody Linscott on percussion, guitarist Doug Boyle, bassist John Hogg, harmonica player Steve Weston, Geraint Watkins on keyboards and accordion and drummer Scott Devours. “I like to put bands together where we’re a real band and everybody gets the spotlight and there’s camaraderie,” Daltrey says. “To me a band is more than choosing great musicians; you can sometimes have five great musicians on stage and there’s no chemistry whatsoever and it falls flat on its face. That’s not gonna happen here.”

As for the Q&A part of the night, Daltrey did something similar for a show in England back in 2022 and enjoyed it. Fans will be able to submit written questions to boxes at the venues before the show, then the band will review them backstage and choose “the most interesting ones…and I just draw them out of a hat. It creates a great deal of fun, and you can get some good comedy out of it if you’re lucky.”

The tour, meanwhile, is just one of the projects Daltrey has in motion these days. He has no plans yet to record another solo album — his last, As Long as I Have You, came out in 2018 — but doesn’t rule it out, either. “I don’t really think about it,” he says. “If anything turns up that I find interesting and challenging and musically progressive, I’ll have a go at it.” Meanwhile he’s continuing to work on making a biopic about late Who drummer Keith Moon that he’s been plugging away at for many years; Daltrey has a script in place that will be finalized once he finds a director, which is the next step in the process.

“That’s taken up quite a lot of my time; I want to get this made while I’m still alive to promote it,” he says. “I’m trying not to make that (typical) kind of biopic. There’s some good ones out there; I thought the Amy Winehouse (Back to Black) was better than the reviews it got. I thought (star Marisa Abela) was really good, actually, ’cause I knew Amy. But was that a film? I’m not so sure. I think it’s a TV film, and that’s the problem cinema has at the moment. What are you making it for — streaming or theaters? And I suggest that if you’re making great films you’ve got to think of theater. You’ve got to take them into theater and blow their minds. You never get your mind blown on a TV, do ya?”

Daltrey is also contemplating a second book to follow his 2018 memoir Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story, one that will delve further into the shyness and insecurities he felt during the early days of The Who. “I didn’t really go deep enough in my first book,” he says. “Quite a lot of it was terrifying, but I didn’t show it. I need to write about it.” The Who itself, meanwhile, is back of mind for Daltrey, who claims that “I don’t really think about it.”

“I’ll do it if Pete wants to do it, really wants to do it and do it properly,” Daltrey explains. “As far as I’m concerned, do we need another Who tour? We were a great group and two of our members died, and it’s been different since. Equally, there’s a chemistry between Pete and I. I love him dearly. There’s something special there, but it needs us both to be on fire and both wanting to be there. So if he really, really wants to do it I’m gonna turn up even with a broken leg, and I’ll deliver for you.”

But if The Who never return, Daltrey says he’s satisfied the band did its bit — and then some. “We did as much as I could ever have wished for, and more. I thought it ended on the ultimate presentation of Pete Townshend’s music, which is out with the orchestra while maintaining the thunder of a rock band. That’s what the music deserved.”

Daltrey’s upcoming tour itinerary includes:June 12 / Wolf Trap – Filene Center / Vienna, VAJune 14 / OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino / Niagara Falls, ONJune 16 / Bethel Woods Center for the Arts / Bethel, NYJune 18 / The Capitol Theatre / Port Chester, NYJune 20 / Leader Bank Pavilion / Boston, MAJune 22 / Tanglewood – The Koussevitzky Music Shed / Lenox, MAJune 25 / Meadow Brook Amphitheatre / Detroit, MIJune 27 / Murat Theatre at Old National Centre / Indianapolis, INJune 29 / The Pavilion at Ravinia / Highland Park, IL

Cyndi Lauper is saying goodbye to the road.
On Monday (June 3), the veteran pop star announced her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, a 23-city North American trek that marks the singer’s first major run in more than a decade.

The Live Nation-produced jaunt is scheduled to launch Oct. 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and wrap Dec. 5 at the United Center in Chicago. The tour will also visit major such major cities as New York, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta and Houston. See the full list of dates below.

Special guests on the trek will be revealed at a later date.

A ticket presale begins on Tuesday (June 4) and the general onsale starts Friday (June 7) at livenation.com.

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Lauper’s farewell tour announcement arrives alongside the release of her upcoming biopic, Let the Canary Sing, which debuts June 4 on Paramount+. The feature-length film, directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood (Laurel Canyon), premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival in New York.

Legacy Recordings will release a career-spanning companion album that takes listeners from the singer’s early days in the group Blue Angel (“I’m Gonna Be Strong”) through the global breakout success of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and other iconic hits such as “True Colors,” “I Drove All Night,” “Money Changes Everything,” “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough,” “She Bop,” “All Through the Night” and more.

See the dates to Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour below.

Oct. 18: Montreal (Bell Centre)Oct. 20: Toronto (Scotiabank Arena)Oct. 24: Detroit (Fox Theatre)Oct. 26: Boston (MGM Music Hall at Fenway)Oct. 27: Washington, D.C. (Capital One Arena)Oct. 30: New York (Madison Square Garden)Nov. 1: Nashville (Bridgestone Arena)Nov. 3: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center)Nov. 6: Tampa, Fla. (Amalie Arena)Nov. 8: Hollywood, Fla. (Hard Rock Hollywood)Nov. 10: Atlanta (State Farm Arena)Nov. 12: Dallas (American Airlines Center)Nov. 14: Austin, Texas (Moody Center)Nov. 16: Houston (Toyota Center)Nov. 19: Phoenix (Footprint Center)Nov. 20: San Diego (Viejas Arena)Nov. 23: Los Angeles (Intuit Dome)Nov. 24: Palm Desert, Calif. (Acrisure Arena)Nov. 26: San Francisco (Chase Center)Nov. 30: Portland, Ore. (Moda Center)Dec. 1: Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena)Dec. 4: Minneapolis (Target Center)Dec. 5: Chicago (United Center)

Following the success of his inaugural U.S. tour, Regional Mexican rising star Codiciado is kicking of a second leg that will take him to 14 U.S. cities.
Codiciado’s Ando Enfocado tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off September 27 at BK Paramount in Brooklyn, and will make stops in Miami (The Fillmore), Chicago (Rosemont) and Los Angeles (YouTube Theater), before wrapping up in Reno, NV at the Grand Sierra Resort October 26.

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Codiciado (real name Erick de Jesús Aragón Alcantar), who hails from Tijuana, is a former farmworker who co-founded the successful Grupo Codiciado in 2015, placing three hits on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart. As a solo act since 2021, Codiciado has collaborated with the likes of  Grupo Firme, Natanael Cano, Santa Fe Klan and Peso Pluma, among others, and currently boasts close to 5 million monthly listeners.

The second leg of Codiciado’s tour came about quickly after a first limited, five-city run on the West Coast that included a sold-out date at the Hard Rock Live in Sacramento.

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Tickets for the second, far more extensive leg, will be available via an artist presale starting Thursday (May 30) at 10 a.m. local time, with the general onsale kicking off on Friday (May 31) at 10 a.m. local time on LiveNation.com.

See the full list of dates and venues for the second leg of the Ando Enfocado 2024 U.S. Tour below:

Sept. 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ BK Paramount

Sept. 29 – Rosemont, IL @ Rosemont Theatre

Oct. 3 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte

Oct. 4 – Miami, FL @ The Fillmore Miami Beach

Oct. 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy

Oct. 10 – Irving, TX  @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 

Oct. 11 – San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre

Oct. 12 – Hidalgo, TX @ Payne Arena

Oct. 13 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall

Oct. 18 – El Paso, TX @ El Paso County Coliseum

Oct. 20 – Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena

Oct. 24 – San José, CA @ San Jose Civic

Oct. 25 – Inglewood, CA @ YouTube Theater

Oct. 26 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort*

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The Black Keys have abruptly canceled their upcoming North American tour. The 31-date arena trek — which was scheduled to launch Sept. 17 in Tulsa, Okla., and wrap Nov. 12 in Detroit — quietly disappeared from Ticketmaster’s website without explanation on Friday (May 24). The upcoming jaunt, dubbed the International Players Tour, was in support […]

Fourteen years after their last performance at Madison Square Garden, Romeo Santos and Aventura returned on Thursday (May 23) to the New York City arena as part of their reunion tour Cerrando Ciclos, and picked up where they left off — with fans enraptured by their music, screaming every word of every one of their bachata songs at the top of their lungs.
From the first chords of “Por un Segundo,” through “Dile al Amor,” “El Perdedor,” and “Brindo con Agua,” Romeo — along with his bandmates Henry, Lenny, and Max Santos and about a dozen musicians on stage — thrilled a crowd that never stopped shouting out each verse and every comment from the singer, who continuously interacted with them.

He even indulged them with a segment in which he performed snippets of songs they requested from the stands, and brought a couple of female fans on stage to sing with him in a moment that felt intimate despite the nearly 20,000-people that filled the venue.

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It was as if time had not passed and, to top it off, Aventura had its first surprise guest of the tour at the Garden. Right at the end, for the encore, Judy Santos appeared unexpectedly to perform with Romeo the collaboration they originally recorded in 2002: Aventura’s anthem “Obsesión.”

Produced by CMN Events, the Cerrando Ciclos Tour started on May 1 in Sacramento, California, and has visited cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago. The U.S. trek will conclude on Aug. 3 in Hidalgo, TX, before the group heads to Spain for seven shows. Subsequently, they’ll head to San Juan for six shows at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico and continue their journey in Latin America.

The last time Romeo Santos (who launched his solo career in 2012) and Aventura went on tour was right before the COVID pandemic for their 2020 Inmortal Tour, which grossed $25.8 million and sold 189,000 tickets among 15 shows between Feb. 5 and March 10, 2020, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

For a full setlist of Aventura’s Cerrando Ciclos Tour, click here.

Singer Ana Gabriel is dealing with pneumonia, which has led her to postpone three shows from her Un Deseo Más tour in Latin America.
On Tuesday afternoon (May 21), the Mexican star, who is celebrating her 50 years in music, provided an update on her health, stating that what started as a flu had worsened and that she would need a few more days to recover.

“Given the medical conditions, I’m returning to Miami to recover from this pneumonia because we don’t see a favorable change,” Ana Gabriel said in a video posted on her Instagram account, where she appears bundled up in bed and wearing a face mask. “I am still on a lot of medication, and it is my life, it is my health, it is my music, it is you. Thank you for understanding. I will keep you updated on how I am doing.”

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Ana Gabriel was diagnosed with the flu on May 14 after her first of two shows at the Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile. She recently postponed that concert to June 7 and another set for May 22 at the SND Arena in Asunción, Paraguay to June 11. On Tuesday, the artist known for No. 1 hits like “Ay Amor” and “Simplemente Amigos” announced that her May 25 show at the Tokyo Marine Hall Theater in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will be instead on July 26.

The global tour Un Deseo Más began in January and has visited various cities in Mexico and South America. With dates scheduled until the end of the year, it is set to arrive in the U.S. in the fall for a 24-date trek starting on Sept. 13 at the Prudential Center in New Jersey and including stops in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Las Vegas, among other cities, before concluding on Nov. 30 at the Kaseya Center in Miami. (For a complete list of dates, click here).

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Recognized as a Living Legend at Billboard’s inaugural Latin Women in Music in 2023, the revered raspy-voiced singer has been sharing messages with her fans about the tour and, more recently, about her health, apologizing “for this inconvenience I am causing you.”

“Thank you for your prayers,” she added in her Tuesday post. “You all are in my heart!”

Check out Ana Gabriel’s latest statement (in Spanish) below:

The TLC tour has been bitten by the flu bug. The duo informed fans on Monday (May 14) that they’ve been forced to cancel that night’s planned show and postpone three other tour dates in Canada this week after member T-Boz (as well as several other tour members) have fallen ill. “We deeply regret to […]

The Band Camino had a jam-packed 2023, complete with their pensive sophomore album, The Dark, and non-stop touring worldwide. But they’re not slowing down yet.
The trio — Jeffery Jordan, Spencer Stewart and Garrison Burgess — announced exclusively via Billboard on Monday (May 13) that they’re unveiling a brand new EP, Bruises, on May 17. “Fresh starts are hard to come by when you’ve been a band for nine years and almost all of your 20s, but this release truly feels like one,” the band tells Billboard in a statement. “Honestly, for a while, it felt like we were chasing something. Having a fan base and any amount of success puts this pressure on your art and it’s easy to start chasing and predicting what you think people are going to like. In this next chapter, we’ve decided we aren’t chasing anything at all – just expressing. Making something you connect with is far more fulfilling, and the only reason we found our footing as a band in the first place. Just know we feel these songs in our bones and we have a feeling someone out there will too.”

The statement continues, “Making these songs and this EP brought us together in a way we haven’t felt in a long time, honestly. We took the process back to the place we started as a band and wrote and arranged the songs in a live rehearsal setting to truly create them together with instruments in our hands. Making music in 2024 has mostly turned into sitting in front of a computer, so we really put in effort to make music with no computers in sight until it was time to hit the studio with a fully-fleshed out arrangement. We tracked everything live as a band and left the takes as raw as we could. Our live show has always been what we’re most proud of, so we really just wanted to capture that in these recordings and not overcomplicate or overproduce anything. A touch more humanness, imperfectly perfect.”

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With so much emphasis on sharing the upcoming tracks directly with their fans, The Band Camino doubled down on the excitement by announcing an accompanying summer tour, with “Not The 1975” star Knox as the supporting act.

The month-long run will kick off on July 8 in Seattle, Wash., before hitting cities like Sacramento, Calif.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Austin, Texas; Orlando, Fla. and more before wrapping up on August 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

See the full list of tour dates below and on the band’s website here, and pre-save The Band Camino’s Bruises EP here.

July 8 – Seattle, Washington – Showbox SoDoJuly 11 – Sacramento, California – Ace of SpacesJuly 12 – Costa Mesa, California – OC FairJuly 13 – Phoenix, Arizona – The Van BurenJuly 15 – Austin, Texas – ACL Live at the Moody TheaterJuly 16 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – The CriterionJuly 18 – St. Louis, Missouri – The PageantJuly 19 – West Des Moines, Iowa – Val Air BallroomJuly 20 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin – The Rave/Eagles ClubJuly 22 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Stage AEJuly 23 – Cincinnati, Ohio – Bogart’sJuly 25 – Royal Oak, Michigan – Royal Oak Music TheatreJuly 26 – Fort Wayne, Indiana – The Clyde TheatreJuly 27 – Cleveland, Ohio – The AgoraJuly 29 – Orlando, Florida – The VanguardJuly 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina – The RitzAugust 3 – Charlotte, North Carolina – The Fillmore Charlotte