Melanie Brown, Geri Horner, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm

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Spice Girls Announce 2019 Reunion Tour Without Posh Spice

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The British girl group—sans Victoria Beckham—that took the '90s pop world by storm is back to share their message of girl power with their first tour in a decade, with dates set for summer 2019 in the U.K.
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Nov 5, 2018 - 1:18 pm

The legendary Brit-pop girl group has answered every 90s kids' nostalgia-filled prayers and is ready to inject the world with a fresh dose of girl power we haven't seen since they took to the stage at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Today, Nov. 5, the Spice Girls announced they are reuniting in a U.K. for their first tour in a decade, yet without Posh Spice aka entrepreneur/fashion designer Victoria Beckham.

Geri Horner, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton, perhaps best known by their stage names Ginger Spice, Scary Spice, Sporty Spice and Baby Spice, respectively, are ready to bring their message of positivity and female empowerment back to their home country. The four members of the group are set to tour the U.K. with six dates in June 2019.

Fans have hoped for a Spice Girls reunion—be that new music, a TV special or a tour—for years, with speculation ramping up over the last year. In October 2017 Horner said in an interview; "I really pushed to get everyone back together. I still love the girls and there are other bits and bobs in the pipeline." The most recent time the group performed together was at the London Olympics in 2012, with all five members performing a medley of their hits on stage. The last time the group toured together was in 2007 for a reunion tour, seven years after they parted ways.

While Beckham is not part of the lineup for the reunion tour due to "business commitments" with her namesake fashion brand and other entrepreneurial endeavors, she did share a message of positive wishes to her groupmates:

"Being in the Spice Girls was a hugely important part of my life and I wish my girls so much love and fun as they go back on tour, I know they will put on an amazing show and the fantastic fans past and present are going to have a wonderful time!"

While the rest of the group—and their fans—would love for a full-force reunion with all five members, the show must go on. As Horner shared, "I am so excited, together we celebrate girl power with our fans and the next generation and everyone is welcome."

Tour dates and ticket info can be found at the group's website. 

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Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner

Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton & Geri Horner

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Spice Girls Reunion Tour Breaks U.K. Ticket Sales Records Minutes After Going On Sale

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The world has shown it is ready to spice up their lives, as hundreds of thousands of fans rushed to buy tickets over the weekend, breaking Ticketmaster UK's records and (thankfully) causing four more dates to be added
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Nov 12, 2018 - 5:49 pm

On Nov. 5, we shared that the Spice Girls, sans Victoria Beckham, would be embarking on the Spice World 2019 reunion tour in the U.K. Seems like the world's '90s-nostalgia-fueled excitement was let loose; as soon as tickets went on sale on Nov. 10, millions of fans rushed to purchase tickets, with demand so high that four more dates were added to the originally six-date tour that same day.

"Demand for Spice Girls was off the chart. They have smashed through Ticketmaster UK's records becoming the busiest ever sale," said Andrew Parsons, Ticketmaster UK's Managing Director, via the Independent. "There were millions of people on our site searching for tickets, with a queue at one point of well over 700,000."

The original announcement included six dates across the U.K. in June 2019 for the reunion tour, with two more shows each added in both Manchester and London. No dates outside of the U.K. have been set yet, although the high demand for the Spice Girls upbeat, pop-powered brand of empowerment points to global tour dates being very likely in the future. As Parsons points out, based on ticket sales, "they could have played nearly every night for a year." 

The same day that Geri Horner, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton—aka Ginger Spice, Scary Spice, Sporty Spice and Baby Spice—almost broke the internet with ticket sales, they also announced their "I Wanna Be A Spice Girl" campaign to support "girl power"—or "people power" as Bunton recently corrected, in action. They will be donating 100% of proceeds from limited-edition apparel emblazoned with #IWANNABEASPICEGIRL to U.K.-based charity Comic Relief to specifically support the organization's gender equality work.

"It's people power. We're about equality and bringing everyone together," Bunton said.

Up-to-date Spice World Tour info can be found on the Spice Girl's Ticketmaster page.

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The Cure

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Robert Smith Teases New Cure Album, Confirms Tour Dates

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The Cure frontman revealed that fans can expect the band's first new album in over a decade in early 2019
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 14, 2018 - 2:18 pm

Yesterday, on Dec. 13, the iconic GRAMMY-nominated group the Cure was announced as one of the 2019 inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Following the exciting news, frontman Robert Smith shared in an interview that it's only a matter of weeks before the group finishes up work on their first studio album since 2008.

Smith's interview with SiriusXM Volume may have only been 23 seconds long, but it gave enough information to show that the legendary group who put out such '80s and '90s classics like 1987's "Just Like Heaven" and 1992's "Friday I'm In Love" definitely still have some musical gems up their sleeves.

"Primarily because of the Meltdown [music festival] thing and seeing all these new bands, I've listened to so many new bands and met so many of them, it's kind of inspired me to do something new," Smith shared. "We're going in about six weeks' time to finish off what will be our first album in more than a decade. It's very exciting times for us all around."

Meltdown, according to the organizers, is the "U.K.'s longest-running artist-curated music festival." Smith led the charge for their 25th anniversary in June 2018, which included artists like GRAMMY winners Nine Inch Nails, GRAMMY nominees Death Cab For Cutie and post-rock group Mogwai on the impressive lineup. Smith himself closed out the festival on a high note, with the Cure performing a 28-song, two-part set, for one of the group's only shows in 2018.

Shortly after Meltdown, on Sept. 21, Smith shared an excited update via Twitter: "WE WILL BE HEADLINING AROUND 20 FESTIVALS NEXT SUMMER - MOSTLY IN EUROPE - DETAILS WILL BE POSTED ON thecure.com AND facebook.com/thecure/ WHEN WE GET THEM."

Smith should probably just take over for Santa Claus this year, because indeed the Cure's site currently lists 18 European summer music festivals, including Mad Cool Fest in Madrid, plus two spring shows in South Africa, giving fans exactly 20 festivals, mostly in Europe, where you can catch the group performing.

Topping it off with new music on the way, we're currently singing "it's Friday, I'm in love."

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Lil Wayne Reveals Four December Tour Dates

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The GRAMMY-winning rapper initially broke news of the mini-tour on Dec. 3, asking fans to vote on where to hold the shows
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 12, 2018 - 4:40 pm

On Dec. 11, GRAMMY-winning rapper Lil Wayne announced the four cities he would visit on the I Ain't Sh*t Without You tour: Houston, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Chicago. These are the first major shows the rapper has planned since his long-delayed and hotly anticipated Tha Carter V was finally released on Sept. 28.

Wayne initially broke news of the mini-tour on Dec. 3, asking fans to vote on where to hold the shows. In an announcement video, he stressed the intimate and exclusive vibe all four shows would have: "It's gonna be a real intimate setting, some different sh*t. You might get to hear some sh*t you've never heard or some sh*t some people may never hear, things like that."

Now that the votes are in and the cities have been chosen—although the venues are still undisclosed—fans can RSVP for tickets, which are free for Tidal members. Non-subscribers can sign up for a free trial in order to join in.

To get a taste, watch below to see Wayne performing "Uproar" from Tha Carter V, along with collaborator (and fellow GRAMMY winner) Swizz Beatz, on Saturday Night Live.

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Vince Staples

Vince Staples

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Vince Staples To Tour North America In 2019

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The West Coast rapper will embark on a headlining tour starting Feb. 1, shortly after closing out dates in support of Childish Gambino
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 11, 2018 - 1:47 pm

Rapper Vince Staples announced today, Dec. 11, he will be kicking off the "Smile, You're On Camera" tour across North America in Feb. 2019. Before starting off his 37-show headline trek, he is set to finish up several shows this month as support for GRAMMY winner Childish Gambino, whose final tour (under that moniker) got pushed back due to a foot injury.

Staples' headlining tour begins in Tucson, Ariz. on Feb. 1 with dates eastbound across the U.S., showing Florida some love with three shows around Valentine's Day, stopping in New York City on Feb. 21, followed by a few more East Coast dates, including Washington, D.C. on Feb. 22.

He also has several concerts planned for our neighbors up north, including a Montreal show on Feb. 28 and a Toronto Show on Mar. 5. The Southern California rapper eventually makes his way back to the West Coast, including a show in Los Angeles on Mar. 30, and closing it all out on April 3 with a show in Pomona, Calif.

All show dates can be found in Staples' Tweet. Fellow SoCal rappers Buddy and JPEGMAFIA will be offering opening support. The tour follows the release of Staples' latest (surprise) release, his third studio album, FM!

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Select dates go on sale tomorrow, Dec. 13—visit Ticketmaster for more info.

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