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Lizzo Announces 'CUZ I LOVE YOU' Album & Tour

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The indie hip-hop star's major-label debut LP drops on April 19
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jan 28, 2019 - 5:10 pm

Minnesota-based rapper Lizzo announced today that she will be dropping her major-label full-length debut album, CUZ I LOVE YOU, on April 19 via Nice Life/Atlantic Records. She also shared details for a tour in its support, kicking off in San Francisco, Calif. on April 24.

The announcement follows the release of Lizzo's latest single, "Juice," dropped Jan. 4. The fun, bouncy track has Lizzo's signature positivity all over it and will be included on the album.

The CUZ I LOVE YOU Tour will begin shortly after the album drops, and after she performs at both weekends of Coachella 2019, on April 12 and 21. She will play shows in major cities across the U.S. in April and May, concluding at the House Of Blues in Boston on May 22.

In addition to her Coachella debut, Lizzo will also be making a few other festival appearances outside of her headline tour dates. She will be taking the stage at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on June 1 and at the new NOS Primavera festival the following weekend in Portugal.

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Lizzo made her debut with Nice Life/Atlantic in 2016 when they released her EP Coconut Oil. Prior to getting signed, she released two albums independently, Lizzobangers in 2013 and Big GRRRL Small World in 2015.

Details on all Lizzo tour dates and her upcoming album are available on her website.

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Maroon 5 Announce Massive 2020 Tour With Leon Bridges & Meghan Trainor

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The 2005 Best New Artist GRAMMY winners' most recent release is "Memories," which they dropped on Sept. 20
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 4, 2019 - 2:06 pm

Today, GRAMMY winners Maroon 5 revealed dates for an extensive North American 2020 tour, featuring fellow GRAMMY winners Leon Bridges and Meghan Trainor.

After the septet wrap up a handful of shows across Latin America in February and March, they will kick of the newly announced trek on May 30, 2020 in Chula Vista, Calif. and play huge venues across the continent until Sept. 17, where they'll close things out in Tampa, Fla.

According to a press release, the "upcoming tour dates mark the biggest U.S. shows of the band's career," as they are slated to play to massive stadiums and amphitheaters, including Austin, Texas' Austin360 Amphitheater on June 7, Chicago's Wrigley Field on June 13 and Boston's Fenway Park on June 24. Trainor will be joining the band on all tour dates, while Bridges will offer additional support for all of the stadium shows.

Tickets for the tour go on sale next Friday, Dec. 13, via Live Nation, with pre-sales beginning Dec. 9. More info and complete dates can be found on Maroon5.com.

The pop-rock heavyweights have not yet revealed details about a follow up to 2018's Red Pill Blues, although they did release a new track, "Memories," on Sept. 20. Earlier this year, at the 61st GRAMMYs, the Red Pill Blues single "Girls Like You" received a nod for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Their upcoming tour mate Bridges won his first GRAMMY at the 61st show, for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Bet Ain't Worth The Hand," from his GRAMMY-nominated 2018 sophomore album, Good Thing. Trainor shares the title of former Best New Artist winner with Maroon 5, as she earned it at the 58th GRAMMY Awards in 2016.

Back at the 47th GRAMMY Awards in 2005, a baby-faced group of rising pop-rockers known as Maroon 5 accepted the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. Adam Levine even gave a heartfelt shout out to fellow 2005 Best New Artist Nominee Kanye West during his speech: "Kanye West, I want to thank you for being unbelievable." 

That year they were also nominated for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for their breakout hit, "She Will Be Loved." The next year, at the 48th GRAMMYs, they won in that category with "This Love," another Songs About Jane hit.

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Dua Lipa

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Dua Lipa Teases New Album, 'Future Nostalgia,' Announces 2020 Tour Dates

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The 2019 Best New Artist shared the first details of her highly anticipated sophomore LP by getting the album title tattooed on her arm
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 3, 2019 - 1:37 pm

GRAMMY-winning dance-pop queen Dua Lipa is poised to bring us boldly into the new decade. On Dec. 1, the 2019 Best New Artist shared the first details of her highly anticipated sophomore LP by getting the album title, Future Nostalgia, tattooed on her arm and posting it on social media.

The "Electricity" artist followed up the album reveal with another exciting announcement: a 24-date European tour, which she will kick off on April 26 in Madrid. The Future Nostalgia EU Tour 2020 will see the Londoner playing massive venues across Europe, two nights at London's 20,000-capacity The 02 and Berlin's Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Lipa has not announced the release date for the new album yet, although her most recent bop, the vibrant nu-disco-tinged "Don't Start Now," was confirmed to be the lead single. She dropped the "boy bye" anthem on Halloween, followed by a fun new video (where you can peek that new tattoo!) the next day, Nov. 1.

She also spoke about the forthcoming project in a recent press release:

"What I wanted to do with this album was to break out of my comfort zone and challenge myself to make music that felt like it could sit alongside some of my favorite classic pop songs, whilst still feeling fresh and uniquely mine. I was inspired by so many artists on the new record from Gwen Stefani to Madonna to Moloko to Blondie and OutKast, to name just a few.

Because of the time that I'd spent on the road touring with my band I wanted Future Nostalgia to have a lot more of a live element, but mixed together with modern electronic production. My sound has naturally matured a bit as I've grown up but I wanted to keep the same pop sensibility as I had on the first record. I remember that I was on my way to a radio show in Las Vegas thinking about the direction for this new record and I realized that what I wanted to make was something that felt nostalgic but had something fresh and futuristic about it too."

Sounds like exactly what we need in pop music in 2020!

Last October, at her powerful acoustic performance and intimate conversation at the GRAMMY Museum, the "New Rules" singer noted the personal-feeling early albums of P!nk and Nelly Furtado, two of her childhood favorites, as points of reference for her 2017 self-titled debut album. We also caught up with her before the event to chat about working with Calvin Harris, who's on her collab wish list (RosalĂ­a and Frank Ocean are two!), what the viral success of "New Rules" felt like for her and more.

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Tickets for the Future Nostalgia EU Tour go on sale this Friday, Dec. 6 at 9 a.m. local time, except for Spain, whose tickets will go on sale on Dec. 5 at 9 a.m.—more details can be found on dualipa.com.

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Bruno Major Announces 2020 North American Tour To Support Forthcoming New Album

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The "Easily" singer's tour announcement follows a new single, "Tapestry," from his yet-to-be-named project
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 2, 2019 - 5:03 pm

Today, rising British singer/songwriter Bruno Major shared news of his upcoming 2020 North American tour. He launches the 12-date tour on March 19 in Chicago at Concord Music Hall, playing "his biggest rooms to date," according to a press release.

In March, the "Easily" singer's tour also includes performances in Toronto, Brooklyn, N.Y. and Atlanta (among other cities) at Danforth Music Hall, Brooklyn Steel and Terminal West, respectively. Major will then stop in Houston on April 1, followed by two more Texas dates, one in Phoenix, Ariz. and the final two in California—at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre on April 7 and San Francisco's Fillmore on April 9.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m. local time; more info can be found on the artist's website.

The tour announcement follows the recent release of a new single, "Tapestry," on Nov. 21. The mellow, pretty love song marks Major's third single of 2019 and came with the reveal that a new album is on the way. The project, whose title or release date has yet to be revealed, follows his 2017 debut, A Song For Every Moon. 

Speaking of the song's importance to him, Major shared (in another press release) that it was inspired by a conversation he had with his mom after being dropped by his label and hitting a bout of writer's block:

"Success at nearly everything in life requires confidence and songwriting is no different—without it I couldn't write songs anymore. A whole year past and despite my best efforts, I hadn't written anything good. I had all but given up on my career as an artist but one morning I had a conversation in the car with my mum, she's very wise my mum, and I remember her saying to me: 'Darling, everything you are going through now will always part of your Tapestry.'"

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Stormzy Announces Heavy Is The Head 2020 World Tour

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The U.K. grime artist has revealed dates and pre-sale info for his massive 55-date 2020 tour
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 2, 2019 - 1:06 pm

While many of us were recovering from a Thanksgiving carb-fest by shopping "huge deals" online in our stretchiest pants, Stormzy revealed his plans for world domination with his 55-date Heavy Is The Head – The World Tour 2020. The British rap king's big trek runs from Feb. 10 with dates across the globe until Oct. 10 and is in support of his forthcoming sophomore album, Heavy Is The Head, due out Dec. 13.

The world tour's first two legs has Stormzy trekking through Europe and Asia in February and March, kicking things off in Brussels on Feb. 10 and closing March out in Seoul on the 29th. The "Vossi Bop" artist will then bring the heat to New Zealand, Australia and North America in May and June, including dates in Oakland, Calif., Los Angeles, Toronto, Brooklyn, N.Y. and Chicago on May 26, May 27, June 2, June 4 and June 9, respectively. The last U.S. date is set for June 13 in Dallas.

After a short tour break, the U.K. grime heavy-hitter will start things up again on Sep. 3 in London, with dates across his native U.K. and Ireland for the rest of the month. Finally, the H.I.T.H. World Tour will wrap up with four dates in Africa, including a stop in Accra, Ghana (his mother hails from Ghana) on Oct. 9 and a final show in Lagos, Nigeria on Oct. 10.

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Visit stormzy.com for complete tour dates, along with info on how to sign up for the pre-sale. Pre-orders of Heavy Is The Head and merch bundles from his online store come with pre-sale access codes.

Ahead of the album's forthcoming release, Stormzy has dropped the singles "Vossi Bop," "Crown," "Wiley Flow" and, most recently, "Own It," featuring Burna Boy and Ed Sheeran. He was also featured on Sheeran's "Take Me Back To London," from the currently GRAMMY-nominated, collab-heavy No.6 Collaborations Project.

As noted by Pitchfork, last week, in addition to the tour announcement, the rapper shared a message with his fellow Brits, encouraging them to vote and revealing his support for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. His stand against conservatism saw a spike in voter registration in the country and a regrettable response from a leading Conservative MP Michael Gove.

This summer, during his headline set at the iconic Glastonbury festival, Stormzy wore a Banksy-designed bulletproof vest emblazoned with the Union Jack flag and stab marks, as a statement on the chaotic state of the union in his home country. While The Guardian and others celebrated the emblematic fashion choice—which was on display in Bansky's "Gross Domestic Product" installation and is featured on the H.I.T.C. album art—Gove found offense in its powerful statement.

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