Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones perform in 2019

Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones perform in 2019

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The Rolling Stones Announce 2020 North American "No Filter" Tour Dates

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The newly announced 2020 tour dates, running May 8 through July 9, are the latest installment in the band's long-running No Filter trek
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Feb 6, 2020 - 8:05 am

Rock icons and three-time GRAMMY winners Rolling Stones have today (Feb. 6) announced a North American tour, which will kick off this spring and run through the summer. The 15-date No Filter Tour, running May 8 through July 9, will take the legendary band to major stadiums across the U.S., with one date in Vancouver, Canada, confirmed so far. 

The newly announced 2020 tour dates are the latest installment in the Stones' long-running No Filter trek, which originally launched in Europe in September 2017 and followed with an additional European run in 2018, the latter of which featured support from GRAMMY nominees Liam Gallagher, Florence + The Machine, Richard Ashcroft, James Bay and others. The first North American installment of the No Filter Tour, a 17-date trek last summer, grossed more than $177 million, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The latter tour was originally scheduled to launch last April, but was rescheduled due to frontman Mick Jagger's heart surgery. 

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Last year, Rolling Stones reissued their 1969 album, Let It Bleed, in celebration of its 50th anniversary and performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Tickets for Rolling Stones' 2020 North American No Filter Tour go on sale Friday, Feb. 14, at 10 a.m. local time. For more information and for the full tour routing, visit the band's official website.

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John Mayer and Bob Weir of Dead & Company perform in 2017

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Dead & Company Announce Summer 2020 U.S. Tour

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The Grateful Dead offshoot, led by former guitarist Bob Weir and John Mayer, will launch the 17-date trek this July
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Feb 7, 2020 - 8:31 am

Dead & Company, the Grateful Dead offshoot led by founding member and former guitarist Bob Weir and seven-time GRAMMY winner John Mayer, have announced a U.S. tour set for this summer. The 17-date trek, which kicks July 10 in Boulder, Colo., and ends Aug. 8 in Boston, Mass., will take the iconic psychedelic rock band to major stadiums and amphitheaters across the nation.

Ahead of the summer 2020 tour, Dead & Company will headline the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this May. The upcoming trek follows the band's busy 2019, which saw the group touring the U.S. last summer

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Originally formed in 2015, Dead & Company is composed of former Grateful Dead members Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, along with Mayer. The group also features Allman Brothers Band bassist and The Aquarium Rescue Unit founding member Oteil Burbridge as well as renowned keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, who's worked with various Grateful Dead spin-off groups, including Weir's RatDog.

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Tickets for Dead & Company's summer 2020 U.S. tour go on sale Friday, Feb. 14, at 10 a.m. local time. For more information and for the full tour routing, visit the band's official website.

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Tegan & Sara perform at the 2017 Boston Calling Festival

Tegan & Sara perform at the 2017 Boston Calling Festival

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Tegan & Sara Announce 2020 'Tonight We're Seeing Colors' North American Tour

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The 40-date trek will take the GRAMMY-nominated twin-sister duo to theaters and venues across the U.S. and Canada throughout spring and summer
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Mar 11, 2020 - 8:32 am

Twin-sister duo Tegan & Sara have announced a North American tour starting this spring and running through the summer. Dubbed the Tonight We're Seeing Colors Tour, the 40-date trek is split into two legs, with the first half launching in mid-May and running through early June, while the second portion starts in late July and runs through early September. The tour, which also includes a festival performance at BottleRock Napa Valley 2020 in May, will feature support from Georgia and Jackie Mendoza on the first leg of the tour and IDER and Claud on the second half. More dates will be announced soon.

In a post shared on the duo's official website, Tegan & Sara acknowledged the current health concerns impacting the music industry due to the global coronavirus outbreak, which has caused multiple festivals and tours to cancel or postpone, including Coachella and Stagecoach in Southern California.

"We are proceeding optimistically with our planning but acknowledge that we will watch the developing situation with COVID-19 closely and heed all recommendations about social gatherings as the tour approaches," they wrote. 

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The group is also taking actions to combat ticket scalpers and secondary ticket outlets for this tour, including omitting a pre-sale and limiting ticket purchases per person. 

"Also, the spike in the actions of scalpers and secondary sites – buying up tickets to our shows and selling them for absurd prices online – is upsetting to us," they wrote in the same statement. "Touring is life to us. Know that while seeing us live hopefully brings joy and inspiration to all of you, it also delivers us the purpose and meaning WE need to keep going! So, we hope we'll see ALL of you out there in 2020!"

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As well, the duo will donate $1 from every ticket sold on the tour to their Tegan and Sara Foundation, which "fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women," according to the foundation's website.

The forthcoming tour follows the duo's 2019 album, Hey, I'm Just Like You, released last September on Sire, and their accompanying memoir, "High School," a New York Times Bestseller. 

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Formed in the late '90s in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Tegan & Sara received their first and only GRAMMY nomination at the 55th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2013, when their 2011 DVD/live Album, Get Along, received a nod for Best Long Form Music Video.

Tickets for Tegan & Sara's Tonight We're Seeing Colors North American tour go on sale Friday, March 13, at 10 a.m. local time. For more information and for the full tour routing, visit the duo's official website.  

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Paramore's Hayley Williams performs at Bonnaroo 2018

Paramore's Hayley Williams performs at Bonnaroo 2018

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Paramore Singer Hayley Williams Announces First-Ever Solo Tour

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The 22-date trek, running mid-May through late June, is in support of her forthcoming debut solo album, 'Petals For Armor'
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Mar 5, 2020 - 2:56 pm

Hayley Williams, the GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter best known as the frontwoman for pop rock trio Paramore, has announced her first-ever solo tour. The 22-date trek kicks off with a run of European shows in mid-May followed by a series of performances across North America through late June. The tour, which will wrap with a homecoming show in Williams' hometown of Nashville, Tenn., will feature support from The Ninth Wave on select European dates and Arlo Parks for the North American leg. 

The tour is in support of Williams' forthcoming debut solo album, Petals For Armor, which drops May 8 on Atlantic Records. The album features the singer's debut solo single, "Simmer," among other new tracks.

"Wow. I am going on tour. Myself. It's not Paramore and truthfully, it's just a little terrifying," Williams said in a statement announcing the tour, as reported by Rolling Stone. "But if I know anything, it's that there's no safer place (besides at home with my dog) than to be in a room, on a stage, in front of the people who I've grown up singing my lungs out for. There was a time I thought I wouldn't tour Petals For Armor. What a joke. I must."

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The upcoming tour will take Williams to smaller shows in more intimate venues, according to her posts on social media. She tweeted, "intimate shows. been craving the closeness a long time." She also wrote on Instagram, "i crave INTIMACY. these are small shows - i've been wanting to do this for a long time."

In her tour announcement, she gave more background about the forthcoming shows. 

"This is a brand-new adventure," she said. "It's important to embark on something new every now and then just to show yourself that you can… The first run of shows is going to be hot, sweaty and intimate. My brand-newly-formed band and I will be playing rooms that Paramore outgrew a decade ago. It's going to be so satisfying to feel the energy of a crowd that close again, especially while performing songs that feel so vital for me, songs I have never performed before for an audience."

Ahead of the release of Petals For Armor, Williams last month (Feb. 6) dropped her Petals For Armor I EP, which featured the singles "Leave It Alone" and "Cinnamon."

Petals For Armor follows Paramore's 2017 album, After Laughter. The group has received two GRAMMY nominations across its 16-year career, including a Best New Artist nod at the 50th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2008. Williams, along with bandmate and co-writer Taylor York, won her first and, so far, only GRAMMY at the 57th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2015, winning Best Rock Song for Paramore's "Ain't It Fun," a single off the group's 2013 self-titled album. 

In September 2019, Paramore went on hiatus, noting that they were "taking a really nice break after grinding away for nearly 15 years!"

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The Zombies

Colin Blunstone of The Zombies performs in 2019

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The Zombies Announce Spring 2020 World Tour, Confirm New Album

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The U.K. rock legends are currently in the studio working on their first full-length since 2015's Still Got That Hunger
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Feb 14, 2020 - 1:20 pm

U.K. rock legends The Zombies have announced a spring 2020 world tour. The trek kicks off in late March in Miami, Fla., where the group will perform at sea as part of the Flower Power Cruise, and will then travel across the U.S. and Canada throughout April. In May, the band then heads to Europe for a run of multiple shows in their native England as well as gigs in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 

In addition to the forthcoming tour, The Zombies have confirmed they are currently working on a new as yet untitled album, which will be their first full-length since 2015's Still Got That Hunger. The group verified the news in an Instagram post shared earlier this week (Feb. 10), which showed members of the band in the studio with the caption, "New album in the works."

Originally formed in 1962, The Zombies are best known for their classic songs "Tell Her No" (1965) and "Time Of The Season" (1968), the latter of which became a No. 3 hit in the U.S. and has since become one of the defining songs of the '60s rock and psychedelic era. 

Their 1964 debut single, "She's Not There," became a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached No. 12 in the UK Singles chart. The song was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2016.

In 2017, The Zombies visited the GRAMMY Museum to talk about recording "She's Not There" and delivered an intimate performance of the song.

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"It was our first time in a professional studio and it was thought to be very cool to record in the evenings," Zombies singer Colin Blunstone joked. "Unfortunately, the engineer… was absolutely, paralytically drunk. And he was also very aggressive. It's sort of ironic that having been in the business for 50 something years, in that first session I knew that, with this madman in the studio, the music business was not for me."

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The band recently shared a video of them performing "Time Of The Season" in Los Angeles in 2019. 

"It's now 51 years since 'Time of the Season' reached No. 1 on the U.S. single charts," Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent told Rolling Stone in an interview. "Unbelievably, it's a song that feels just as much a joy to play now as it did all those years ago!"

Following multiple nominations, including in 2018, The Zombies were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019. 

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