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After rolling out the first slate of international dates in support of her upcoming Tension II album last month, Australian pop superstar Kylie Minogue announced the North American leg of the outing on Thursday (Oct. 3). The 2025 Tension Tour is slated to kick off on March 29 with a gig at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and take the “Padam Padam” singer to Montreal, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Austin, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Denver before winding down with a May 2 show at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Tickets for Minogue’s biggest tour since 2011 will kick off with an American Express presale for card members on Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. local time (through Oct. 10 at 10 p.m. local time), followed by an artist presale starting on Oct. 9 at 10 a.m., which fans can sign up for now here. The general public onsale will begin at 10 a.m. local on Oct. 11.

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“I am beyond excited to announce the TENSION TOUR 2025. I can’t wait to share beautiful and wild moments with fans all over the world, celebrating the Tension era and more! It’s been an exhilarating ride so far and now, get ready for your close up because I will be calling Lights, Camera, Action … and there will be a whole lot of Padaming!,” Minogue said in a statement.

The 13-track Tension II album, led by the first single “Lights Camera Action,” was released last month, featuring the previously-released dance song “Edge of Saturday Night” with The Blessed Madonna as well as collaborations with Orville Peck, Bebe Rexha and Tove Lo, and Sia.

The North American dates will follow on the heels of the Australian leg that launches with a Feb. 15 show at Perth’s RAC Arena, marking her first home country gig in five years.

Check out the dates for the 2025 North American Tension Tour below.

March 29 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena

March 30 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre

April 2 – Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena

April 4 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

April 8 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena

April 9 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden

April 11 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena

April 13 – Orlando, FL @ Kia Center

April 14 – Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center

April 17 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center

April 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center

April 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center

April 25 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena

April 26 – Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum

April 29 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena

May 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena

Queens of the Stone Age will be back on the road next summer after cancelling a run of 2024 shows due to unspecified health issues affecting singer/guitarist Josh Homme. The band called off eight festivals shows on their End Is Nero tour so Homme could fly back to the U.S. for what was described at […]

Shortly after rolling out the first North American dates for their 2025 reunion tour, Oasis revealed that they will ditch Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing scheme for the gigs. “Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America,” the group announced on X in an official statement from their management on Monday morning (Sept. 30).
“It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable,” the statement continued. “But, when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans.”

The statement concluded, “We have made this decision for the North American tour to hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced recently.” At press time a spokesperson for Ticketmaster had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment.

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The move comes in response to the bumpy rollout of the initial slate of dates for the first Oasis tour in 16 years. Back in August, the crushing demand for the summer 2025 UK/Ireland reunion shows by battling brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher sparked some fury among fans who spent hours on queue in a desperate bid to snag one of the one million tickets.

The anger was such that the British government promised to open a probe into the use of dynamic pricing for concert tickets after fans who waited on digital line for hours discovered that the cost of a standing ticket had nearly doubled due to high demand. At the time, a Ticketmaster spokesperson said that all ticket prices are set by the tour’s promoters.

Dynamic ticket pricing has become a staple in the U.S. live music industry in recent years, but Oasis’ comeback tour – jointly promoted by Live Nation, SJM Concerts, MCD and DF Concerts – marked its most high-profile and possibly biggest roll out for live concerts in the U.K. and Ireland. The U.K. competition regulator launched an investigation into TM over the Oasis ticket roll-out a week after the initial on-sale prompted hundreds of complains from fans.

At the time, Oasis said they had “no awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used” for the UK ticketing roll-out, adding that “it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management.”

The North American run of stadium dates for the 2025 reunion tour were rolled out on Monday morning, consisting of visits to five North American stadiums beginning with an August 24 show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, followed by an August 28 gig at Soldier Field in Chicago and an August 31 stop at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

For now, the North American portion will wind down with a Sept. 6 show at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles and a Sept. 12 stop at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City. Cage the Elephant — led by brothers singer Matt Shultz and guitarist Brad Shultz — will open all the new dates.

Oasis warned fans to be “careful what you wish for” over the weekend, hinting that the long-awaited announcement of additional international dates for their reunion tour were on the horizon. Well, that tease became a reality on Monday morning (Sept. 30) when brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher revealed the first dates for the North American leg of their 2025 world tour.

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The run of shows will have the famously battling sibling playing a series of stadium shows in five North American cities beginning with an August 24 show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, followed by an August 28 gig at Soldier Field in Chicago and an August 31 show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

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The run of concerts is currently slated to wind down with a Sept. 6 show at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles and a Sept. 12 stop at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City. A press release noted that the gigs will be Oasis first in North America in 16 years, with the band saying, “America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.” Cage the Elephant — led by singer Matt Shultz and his brother, guitarist Brad Shultz — will open all the new dates.

Oasis shocked the world in August when they revealed that they would put their differences aside and reunite for one of the most anticipated rock get-backs of all time. The first round of 2025 shows across the U.K. instantly sold out for the tour that is slated to kick off with two shows at Principality Stadium in Cardiff on July 4-5, followed by a five-night stand at Heaton Park in their native Manchester (July 11, 12, 16, 19, 20) and another five-night run at Wembley Stadium in London (July 25, 26, 30, August 2, 3).

The swing will then hit Dublin, Ireland for two shows at Croke Park (August 16, 17) before hopping the Atlantic for the North American shows and returning to Wembley for two more sold-out gigs on Sept. 27, 28.

The last time Oasis played the U.S. in 2008 on the Dig Out Your Soul tour they performed in 10,000-20,000 capacity arenas. The stadiums on their upcoming North American swing will accommodate between 45,000-80,000+ fans. According to the release announcing the new shows, plans are still underway for Oasis Live ’25 to hit “other continents outside of Europe and North America later next year.

Registration for a presale for the North American dates is open here through Tuesday (Oct. 1) at 8 a.m. ET, with a general onsale slated to begin on Friday (Oct. 4) at 12 p.m. ET local time here.

Billy Joel‘s historic Madison Square Garden run might be over, but the Piano Man is not done playing to the rafters. Joel announced a new run of 2025 stadium shows on Thursday (Sept. 26) that will once again find him sharing the stage with recent tour mates Sting and Stevie Nicks. Explore Explore See latest […]

K-pop girl group aespa announced additional dates for their 2024-2025 aespa LIVE TOUR – SYNK: PARALLEL LINE outing. After launching in June with a pair of shows in Seoul, South Korea and then hitting Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia in July and August, KARINA, GISELLE, WINTER and NINGNING will make their way to North America, Mexico and Europe in early 2025.
According to a release announcing the shows, with the newly-added stops the year-long tour will included a total of 41 performances across 29 cities.

Tickets for the U.S. and Canadian dates will be available first through a WeVerse presale, followed by a general onsale beginning on Oct. 4 at 3 p.m. local time, with ticket information available here; tickets for the Mexico City show will go on sale to the general public on Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. local time, with information available here.

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The announcement of the additional dates for the group’s world tour in support of their debut studio album, Armageddon – The 1st Album — came a week after aespa teamed up with Grimes for a spacey remix of their hit single “Supernova” on the six-track EP iScreaM Vol. 33 : Supernova / Armageddon Remixes.

The 2025 SYNK : PARALLEL LINE tour dates:Jan. 28 – Seattle, WA @ ShoWare Center  

Jan. 30 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena  

Feb. 1 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum  

Feb. 4 – Mexico City, MX @ Sports Palace  

Feb. 6 – Orlando, FL @ Kia Center  

Feb. 8 – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center  

Feb. 11 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center  

Feb. 13 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena  

Feb. 15 – Chicago, IL @ United Center

March 2 – London, UK @ OVO Arena, Wembley  

March 4 – Paris, FR @ Zenith  

March 6 – Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live  

March 9 – Frankfurt, DE @ myticket Jahrhunderthalle  

March 12 – Madrid, ES @ WiZink Center  

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2024-2025 aespa LIVE TOUR – SYNK PARALLEL LINE –[SEATTLE]📅 2025.01.28 (TUE)[OAKLAND]📅 2025.01.30 (THU)[LOS ANGELES]📅 2025.02.01 (SAT)[MEXICO CITY]📅 2025.02.04 (TUE)[ORLANDO]📅 2025.02.06 (THU)[CHARLOTTE]📅 2025.02.08 (SAT)[NEWARK]📅 2025.02.11… pic.twitter.com/TBKSCPn4v4— aespa (@aespa_official) September 26, 2024

Herb Alpert laughs when he says that his sister Mimi — who at 98 is nine years his senior — often asks him, “Why are you doing these concerts? Why are you traveling? Why do you want to do that?” But the 89-year-old trumpet-playing music legend has a ready answer.
“I have to explain to her that it gives me energy to do it,” Alpert — who just released his 50th studio album, appropriately titled 50 — tells Billboard via Zoom. “I’m not on a victory tour here. It’s not about that. It’s that I love doing it. I love to play the horn. I love to play the horn. I love playing with great musicians. I love doing it. I’m a right-brain guy; I play, I’m painting for over 50 years, sculpting for over 40. It just gives me reason to be.”

He’s quick to add however, that “this is landmark year for me. I can’t believe I’ve recorded 50 albums out there. I’ve been married (to singer Lani Hall) 50 years this year. A lot of things have happened in my life that are so startling. I never dreamed of having a career like I’ve had. I’m certainly grateful for it.”

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It’s hard to come up with a superlative that definitively captures Alpert’s career. Born in Los Angeles into a family where everybody played an instrument, Alpert started on trumpet when he was eight, studied at the University of Southern California and played in the Trojan Marching Band and the U.S. 6th Army Band.

He began writing songs during the late ‘50s and putting out records of his own, first billed as Dore (his given name) Alpert, in 1960. Since then, he’s sold more than 74 million records worldwide with his Tijuana Brass band and on his own; placed 39 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (including two No. 1s); won eight Grammy Awards; received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; won a Tony; got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006; and received National Medal of the Arts in 2013.

Alpert was also the “A” in the famed A&M Records label, which he started in 1962 with Jerry Moss. Moss passed away 13 months ago, and another of A&M’s stalwarts, Brazilian keyboardist and Brasil ’66 bandleader Sergio Mendes, died earlier this month — another death that hit close to home for Alpert, who signed the group to A&M and produced its 1966 debut album, which remained on the Billboard 200 for more than two years and was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012. It was Mendes who introduced Alpert to Hall, too, when she was part of Brasil ’66.

“He was an extraordinarily gifted musician. We just hit it off,” Alpert says of Mendes, adding that he and Hall spoke with him almost daily during the last year of his life. “He was a real person. He was excited about so many things. He loved great food. He loved great wine. He loved great restaurants. He spoke several languages. He was into life. He was a very unusual guy. He’s missed by everyone who came into contact with him.”

Alpert’s record of having four albums simultaneously in the Billboard top 10 back in 1966, meanwhile, was matched last year by none other than Taylor Swift.

“I sent her a nice little FaceTime, and I was very happy for her,” Alpert says. “I think she’s a really good artist. I don’t actually follow her music. I hear a couple of things, but I like her. She has a lot of integrity. She understands her audience. She’s very sensitive. She’s smart. I don’t think that record is carved in stone; I like to see other artists jump in there, too. I have other records, so it’s alright.”

What’s most impressive and inspiring is that Alpert is still doing it, and also planning for the future. He’s released a dozen albums since 2010 — eight of which debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. He approached the 10-track 50 much like he did his other releases.

“I don’t even think about it as being an album,” he explains. “I have a studio at home here, and I just record at my whim, individual songs and melodies that just touch me…. I don’t have a master plan for recording an album. I don’t have a concept. I just take songs that I like, and when I feel it’s worthy of putting out there for other people to listen to, I put out an album. But really I’m just trying to entertain myself more than anything.”

50 features Alpert’s usual mix of original compositions and covers. One of those covers — The Chords’ 1954 hit “Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)” — is particularly special for him.

“I was kind of a snob with classical music until I heard ‘Sh-Boom,’” Alpert recalls. “I was in high school, and it was the first time I heard a song like that. There was something about it…. I remember sitting down at a friend’s house who had the radio on, listening to this song, thinking, ‘I like that. I like the feeling of that song.’ I really didn’t understand what the lyric was about ’til much later, but I liked the harmonies and the feeling. That song got me on to pop music and got me thinking about some of the songs that were out there in that period. Then I started listening to jazz and never looked back.”

Alpert maintains that his litmus for music has remained the same throughout the decades. “Melody reigns supreme,” he says. “Any artist who’s had success over the years has to have good taste when it comes to melody. You can have a fabulous lyric and terrible melody and I don’t think that song’s gonna go very far. But you can have a fabulous melody with a pretty good lyric and that’ll go far. And if you have a fabulous lyric with a fabulous melody, i.e. Burt Bacharach and Hal David and all those sophisticated songs they did, it hits. Even with jazz, after expressing a melody all of a sudden they’ll improvise on the chord changes of the particular song and invent a whole new melody. That’s exciting.”

As he reaches this year’s milestones, Alpert is already eyeballing the future. He plans to release a recording of “The Christmas Song” for this holiday season (“It touches me, and I feel like a lot of people might feel the same”) and reports that “I have another Christmas album in my head.” And while he and Hall have concert dates books into mid-December, next February Alpert plans to hit the road with a revived version of the Tijuana Brass, the band he led from the early ‘60s into the mid-70s and released hits such as the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 “The Lonely Bull” and the Billboard 200-topping 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights.

“A lot of people have asked; they want to hear that Tijuana Brass sound again, so I’m gonna do it and I’m excited about it,” he says. “I always like the music. It always gave me a good feeling when I hear it, and I know a lot of people feel the same. It’s gonna be fun for me to revisit that whole sound again and play some of the old standards — ‘The Lonely Bull,’ ‘Spanish Flea,’ ‘This Guy’s In Love With You.’” He also plans to include his 1979 hit “Rise” in the repertoire, one of his two Hot 100 toppers (the other being “This Guy’s In Love With You”).

And beyond all that? “I hope to keep living,” Alpert says with a laugh. “Honestly, I don’t know if there’s anything I’m missing. I play the horn every day. I’d like to be able to play a little better bebop, but that’s an inch at a time. There’s not much, though. It’s been a great life.”

Ringo Starr has come down with a cold, and he and his his All Starr Band have been forced to cancel the last two remaining shows of their tour. The group was scheduled to perform at Philadelphia’s TD Pavilion at The Mann on Tuesday (Sept. 24) and at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday (Sept. 25), […]

Linkin Park are going back back to the start. The rock band dropped the hard-hitting new single “Heavy Is the Crown” on Tuesday (Sept. 24), a rager that will be the official anthem for the League of Legends World Championship. The follow-up to the band’s first new music in seven years — the previously released […]

“Weird Al” Yankovic is gearing up for a huge 2025 tour that will keep him on the road all summer long for the Bigger & Weirder tour. The parody singing icon announced the dates for the 65-city tour on Monday (Sept. 23), revealing that he’ll kick it off with a five-night run at the Venetian Theatre at the Venetian Resort (from June 13-June 21), followed by stops in Salt Lake City, Indianapolis, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Diego and Phoenix before winding down with a Sept. 20 gig at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville.

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According to a release, after two world tours playing his original songs in intimate venues, Al will be back in amphitheaters with his full, multi-media production for the first time in six years, “playing his iconic hits as well as some fan favorites which have never been performed live. With his giant video wall, multiple costume changes, and an amazing eight-piece ensemble featuring Al’s original band, Weird Al ups the ante on his already legendary show with a new super-sized concert experience.”

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In a statement, Al, 64, said, “This is kind of a ‘best of both worlds’ tour. We’ll be doing all the big crowd-pleasing parodies as well as some deep cuts for the hardcore fans – but with twice as many players on stage, everything is going to sound twice as good!” The “White & Nerdy” singer will bring along opening act sad clown crooner Puddles Pity Party for the tour whose public onsale will begin at 10 a.m. local time on Friday (Sept. 27).

Earlier this year, Yankovic celebrated the 10th anniversary of his 14th studio album, Mandatory Fun, his first-ever LP to top the Billboard 200 album chart. And in July, he dropped his first new song in a decade, “Polkamania!,” a polka medley, which blitzes through bits of songs by Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Nas X, among many others.

“Weird Al” Yankovic 2025 Bigger & Weirder tour dates:

June 13 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort *June 14 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort *June 18 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort *June 20 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort *June 21 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort *June 23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Maverik Center *June 24 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *June 26 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre *June 27 – Des Moines, IA @ Des Moines Civic Center *June 28 – Welch, MN @ Treasure Island Amphitheater at Treasure Island Resort & Casino *June 29 – Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia FestivalJuly 1 – Traverse City, MI @ National Cherry FestivalJuly 2 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre *July 3 – Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park *July 5 – Beaver Dam, KY @ Beaver Dam Amphitheater *July 6 – Kettering, OH @ Fraze Pavilion *July 9 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage *July 11 – Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater *July 12 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden *July 13 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts *July 15 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre *July 17 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Broadview Stage at SPAC *July 18 – Mashantucket, CT @ The Premier Theatre at Foxwoods Resort Casino *July 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at the Mann *July 20 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap *July 24 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater *July 25 – Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion *July 26 – Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre *July 27 – Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater *July 29 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre *July 31 – Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall *August 1 – The Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion *August 2 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre *August 3 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP *August 5 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater *August 7 – Casper, WY @ Ford Wyoming Center *August 8 – Idaho Falls, ID @ Mountain America Center *August 9 – Nampa, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater *August 10 – Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater *August 12 – Airway Heights, WA @ BECU Live Amp at Northern Quest Resort & Casino *August 13 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater *August 14 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater *August 15 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre *August 17 – Palmer, AK @ Alaska State Fair – ConocoPhillips Borealis TheatreAugust 20 – Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater *August 22 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre *August 23 – Modesto, CA @ The Fruit Yard Amphitheater *August 24 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys *August 26 – Redding, CA @ Redding Civic Auditorium Lawn *August 27 – Rohnert Park, CA @ Green Music Center *August 29 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs ParkAugust 30 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum *August 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre *Sept. 2 – Grand Junction, CO @ Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park *Sept. 4 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Ford Amphitheater *Sept. 5 – Rio Rancho, NM @ Rio Rancho Events Center *Sept. 6 – Concho, OK @ Lucky Star Amphitheater at Lucky Star Casino *Sept. 7 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater *Sept. 9 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park *Sept. 12 – Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field *Sept. 13 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center *Sept. 14 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre *Sept. 16 – Newport, KY @ MegaCorp Pavilion *Sept. 17 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Miller Auditorium *Sept. 20 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater *

* with Puddles Pity Party