Juice WRLD

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Juice WRLD Announces A Death Race For Love Tour

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The young Chicago rapper will be hitting up Vancouver, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City and many cities along the way on his 30-show headline tour
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Feb 21, 2019 - 1:48 pm

Chicago rapper Juice WRLD  has announced dates for his A Death Race For Love Tour, in support of his upcoming sophomore studio album of the same name, due out March 8.

His massive headline tour begins on April 25 in Vancouver, B.C. and heads to the American West Coast with stops in Portland, Washington and Seattle, and at two iconic California venues: San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on April 30 and Los Angeles' Greek Theater on May 2. Rappers from his Lyrical Lemonade squad plus collaborator Ski Mask The Slump God will offer support for all show dates. 

The packed tour schedule will stop in pretty much every major U.S. city, including two nights in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom on May 20-21, along with a trip back up to Canada for a show in Toronto on May 25. The rapper will close out the tour in Dallas on June 8. 

Before embarking on the headline tour, Juice WRLD will be finishing up a handful more of European show dates in February and March as support for GRAMMY-nominee Nicki Minaj on her Nicki Wrld Tour. He'll also be playing a number of big festivals this year including Coachella in April, Bonnaroo in June and iHeartRadio Fest in September, who announced yesterday that the young rapper will headline their day stage.

A Death Race For Love is due out less than a year since he dropped his full-length debut Goodbye & Good Riddance in May 2018. The debut included his breakout hit single, "Lucid Dreams," which showcases his downtempo flow and lovelorn lyrics, aka "emo-rap." He also put out a mixtape last year, WRLD on Drugs, with GRAMMY-winner Future.

Juice WRLD and Ski Mask The Slump are also planning on releasing a joint project, Evil Twins, in 2019. The 20-year-old's latest release is the single "Robbery," dropped on Feb. 14.

Complete tour dates and ticket info is available on Juice WRLD's website. Tickets go on sale Fri. Feb 22 at 10:00 AM local time.

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Green Day, Weezer & Fall Out Boy Unite For 2020 Hella Mega Tour

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The aptly named trek will have eight shows across Europe next June, followed by 20 open-air sports arenas across North America, from July 17 in Seattle to Aug. 29 in Philadelphia
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Sep 10, 2019 - 3:58 pm

Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy have answered forgotten dreams from your teen self: the alt-rock stalwarts have revealed details for their joint Hella Mega Tour. The epic 28-date global stadium trek kicks off in Paris on June 13, 2020 and wraps up in Philadelphia on Aug. 29. The three bands have marked the occasion by each sharing new singles, all from their newly announced forthcoming 2020 albums.

The aptly named Hella Mega Tour will have eight shows across Europe next June, closing that first leg out on June 29 in Dublin. They'll start things back up in Seattle on July 17 at T-Mobile Park, at 20 open-air sports arenas across the continent. The concerts will happen at San Francisco's Oracle Park on July 21, Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium on July 25 and Chicago's Wrigley Field on Aug. 13, to name a few, with the final one taking place on Aug. 29 in Philadelphia.

Los Angeles ska band The Interrupters will open for all North American dates. Rolling Stone reveals that the order of each night will continue with GRAMMY winners Weezer, followed by GRAMMY nominees Fall Out Boy, ending with four-time golden gramophone winners—and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers—Green Day.

A much more intimate show with the three bands, at West Hollywood's historic 500-capacity Whiskey A Go Go, has been announced for tonight, Sept. 10, without any information on how to obtain tickets. You can go camp outside on Sunset Boulevard right now, or you can plan on tuning into "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for the next three nights. Weezer, Fall Out Boy and Green Day will each perform as the special musical guests on the L.A.-based late-night show tonight, tomorrow and Thursday, respectively.

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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong said the joint tour idea began with them and was inspired by classic '80s and '90s arena rock. As highlighted in the Rolling Stone article, he, along with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, spoke to Beats 1 host Zane Lowe this morning about the upcoming trek and new music.

"We talked about how we weren't really wanting to do stadiums and [instead] do something that was like throwback to the Monsters of Rock Tour," Armstrong said, citing the shows featuring Van Halen, Metallica, Aerosmith and others. "There was, of course, Fall Out Boy and Weezer and now we're stoked."

Wentz, who was born seven years after Armstrong, also wants to keep the big rock vibes alive. "I remember in the 1990s there was this one summer, and Guns N' Roses [and] Metallica went on the stadium tour and my parents didn't let me go to it… I feel trapped in that forever and we wanted to recreate that memory."

Doing their part to keep rock alive, the bands all released lead singles from their newly announced upcoming albums, which you can listen to below. Weezer's new track, "The End of the Game," is filled with '80s glam-rock guitar riffs and will be featured on Van Weezer, due out in May 2020. Green Day elicits the early So Cal garage-punk rock days on "Father of All…," from their upcoming February album of the same name.

Fall Out Boy gets an assist from sonic chameleon Wyclef Jean on the angsty, high-tempo "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)," from their upcoming album Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two. The album is due out next month, Nov. 15, and will serve as their second "greatest hits" compilation LP, with ​volume one dropping in  2009.

A variety of pre-sales begin on Sept. 16, with tickets going on sale to the general public on Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. local time. Pre-ordering any of the band's new albums or signing up for their email lists will grant pre-sale ticket access. You can find all ticketing info and all tour dates at hellamegatour.com.

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Vampire Weekend

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Vampire Weekend Announce 2020 Tour Dates

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As Ezra Koenig and company closed out a show at Madison Square Garden in NYC, they revealed new North American tour dates, beginning in spring 2020
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Sep 9, 2019 - 1:33 pm

This year has been a big one for Vampire Weekend, who, after months of double-single releases, dropped their long-awaited follow up to 2013's GRAMMY-winning Modern Vampires Of The City. The GRAMMY winners shared the epic 18-track Father of the Bride on May 3 and began part one of the supporting tour in June.

Now, this past Friday, Sept. 6, as Ezra Koenig and company closed out a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, they revealed new North American tour dates, beginning spring 2020, with tickets going on sale this week.

The alt-rock group will wrap up the second leg of the FOTB Tour and second decade of the century in Australia for the four dates of the multi-city Falls Festival. The trek will pick back up in North America on May 29, 2020 in Westbrook, Maine, with 19 more shows slated across the U.S. and Canada. The 2020 dates include many cities they will miss on their current run, including Ashville, N.C. on June 12, Detroit on Sept. 24 and New Orleans on Oct. 6.

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In addition to giving their fans more chances to see them live, the three-hour Garden show in Vampire Weekend's birthplace of New York City marked the first live performance of "Sunflower" that included collaborator Steve Lacy. You can check out a fan video of the performance below. As the upload reveals, they also performed a version of "Dark Red," from Steve Lacy's Demo, Lacy's 2017 solo EP, his first release outside of his music with The Internet.

Presales for the new dates begin this Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. local time, with general sales starting Sept. 13. Tickets are also still available for select previously announced dates. All tour info can be found on VampireWeekend.com

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Ben Folds Adds Book Events To Tour To Share New Memoir, 'A Dream About Lightning Bugs'

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"I try to justify the role of the artist as being that person who can see a particular thing, and it's your responsibility to share it. Because life is just so short," the singer/songwriter said in a recent interview
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jul 15, 2019 - 5:48 pm

Last month, long-time indie rock favorite Ben Folds announced he would be releasing a memoir about journey as a left-of-field creative, titled A Dream About Lightning Bugs, on July 30. The North Carolina-native will also be kicking off a North American Summer/Fall tour at the end of July and has recently added a handful of special events along the trek to talk discuss and sign the new book.

On the first half of the tour, Folds co-headlines with '80s alt-rock outfit Violent Femmes. The jaunt kicks off on July 28 in Uncasville, Conn., with stops along the East Coast, including in Washington D.C. and New York, the latter of which is the first city slated for a book event. The two acts have their last show of the tour together on Aug. 16 in Kansas City, Mo., after which Folds will take things down under for four memoir chats in Australia.

He'll return stateside for a concert in Missoula, Mont. on Sept. 5, this time co-heading the remaining dates with your favorite funky '00s rockers, CAKE. The new tour squad will make their way to California a week later, stopping in Sacramento, San Francisco, Irvine and Los Angeles.

Folds will also be bringing the book experience to S.F. and L.A., on Sept. 12 and 16, respectively, with two more subsequent conversations scheduled for Dallas on Sept. 21 and D.C. on Oct. 1. That final talk will be held at the iconic Kennedy Center, where he is currently acting as the first-ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra and helps curate special performances, according to a new press release.

Last month, Folds spoke with Billboard about A Dream About Lightning Bugs, whose title comes from the joyful memory of chasing lighting bugs as a child growing up in the South. "I love albums, but boy are they a pain in the ass to make. They cost a lot of money, and I find them painful. I found it a lot less painful to write a book." He added that the underlying message is to find the ways to follow your heart:

"The point I try to make in the book is to really just follow the things that interest you. I try to justify the role of the artist as being that person who can see a particular thing, and it's your responsibility to share it. Because life is just so short. Once you've got clean water, a roof over your head, your kids are safe—just follow the things that glow."

Folds' most recent album is 2015's So There, a collaborative project with the yMusic Ensemble. You can find the complete schedule and ticketing info on his concert and book tour dates on his website. His memoir will be released in the U.S. on July 30; you can find more info and where to pre-order here.

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Keith Urban

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Keith Urban To Kick Off First Shows At Revamped Caesars Palace Colosseum

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The four-time GRAMMY winner will perform two nights—Sept. 6 and 7—at the newly remodeled Las Vegas venue during his Graffiti U Tour
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jul 12, 2019 - 5:38 pm

Today, Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas announced that GRAMMY-winning country star Keith Urban will be launching the new era of The Colosseum, their 4,300 seat theater. The New Zealand-born artist will perform the first two nights—Sept. 6 and 7—at the newly remodeled venue during his Graffiti U Tour.

"Caesars Entertainment could not be more excited to celebrate the relaunch of The Colosseum at Caesars Palace by welcoming Keith Urban to officially unveil many new and state-of-the-art enhancements that we have made to our award-winning venue," Jason Gastwirth, President of Entertainment of Caesars Entertainment told Billboard. "Keith is a remarkable musician, and the general admission area will provide our guests an exciting entertainment experience in the next chapter of The Colosseum."  

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"We knew we had to reopen a venue as iconic as The Colosseum in a big way. Keith Urban was the perfect choice," Amanda Moore, VP Marketing for Live Nation Las Vegas, added. As Billboard reports, in April The Colosseum began a new partnership with concert behemoth Live Nation; AEG formerly ran the venue's shows since its opening in 2003.

Billboard notes that the remodel includes "improved state-of-the-art sound and moving light fixtures along with a completely new high-definition LED video wall measuring 110 feet long and 34 feet tall with more than double the resolution of its predecessor," all of which will be on display during Urban's shows.

The outlet adds that that more special engagements and residencies at the new and improved Colosseum will be announced soon. Previously announced shows include two different residencies from Mariah Carey, three shows from Madonna on her intimate Fall Madame X Tour and Sting's Spring/Summer 2020 residency.

Tickets for Urban's two Vegas shows go on sale to the general public on July 19, with his fan club's pre-sale beginning tomorrow, July 13; more info on his website.

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