Ezra Koenig

Ezra Koenig

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Vampire Weekend To Tour North America This Summer In Support Of New Album

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With a new album, 'Father Of The Bride,' due out in spring, the GRAMMY-winning rock band gets set to hit the road
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jan 30, 2019 - 12:22 pm

Just last week, Ezra Koenig and his band Vampire Weekened gifted fans two new songs and announced their forthcoming album, Father Of The Bride, is coming this spring. Now, the band have revealed plans for a sprawling North American tour in support of the new album.

The extensive run kicks off May 17 at Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala., and wraps up at the world-famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, making stops along the way in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City,  at Madison Square Garden. The tour will also send Vampire Weekend to Europe for a few dates during the month of July.

In an odd glimpse of their upcoming album, the band teased their new project with 120 minutes of guitar riffs of one song, "Harmony Hall," which was one of the two new tracks unleashed last week.

Vampire Weekend earned their first career GRAMMY for Best Alternative Album for 2013's Modern Vampires Of The City. Their new album will be their first since Modern Vampires… and their fourth overall studio album. An exact release date is yet to be announced.

 

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Tickets for the upcoming tour are available now via Ticketmaster.

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Taylor Swift Plots 2020 World Tour With U.S. Dates For Lover Fest East & West

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Following dates in Europe and South America, Swift will land in the U.S. for Lover Fest East and West, where the pop star will open Los Angeles' brand new stadium
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Sep 17, 2019 - 3:38 pm

Taylor Swift  will be spreading the love in support of her hit album Lover.in 2020, but it may or may not be in a city near you. The GRAMMY winner announced plans for her summer 2020 tour in support of her seventh studio album, including two shows each in Foxborough, Mass. and Los Angeles for Lover Fest East and West respectively as the only four U.S. dates announced so far.

The tour kicks off in Belgium on June 20 and hits festivals in seven European countries before heading to Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 18 then heading to U.S. Swift will then present Lover Fest West with back-to-back Los Angeles July 25 and 26 at the newly named SoFi Stadium. The concerts will serve as the grand opening of the much-anticipated NFL venue. The tour will wrap a double header at Gillette Stadiuim in Foxborough July 31 and Aug 1

"The Lover album is open fields, sunsets, + SUMMER. I want to perform it in a way that feels authentic," she tweeted. "I want to go to some places I haven’t been and play festivals. Where we didn’t have festivals, we made some. Introducing, Lover Fest East + West!" 

Lover was released Aug. 23 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Her sold-out tour for her previous album, 2017's Reputation, was the highest grossing U.S. tour ever, breaking her own record.

Tickets for the new dates go on sale to the general public via Ticketmaster on Oct. 17. 

 

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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Chance The Rapper's Debut Album Is Coming Soon... Prepare For 'The Big Day'

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Chance took to television to announce the follow up to his 2016 GRAMMY-winning mixtape 'Coloring Book' will arrive July 26
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jul 17, 2019 - 6:35 pm

GRAMMY winner Chance the Rapper appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon recently, where he revealed plans for his debut album, The Big Day. The album, which will drop July 26, is the follow up to his third mixtape, 2016's Coloring Book. 

Chance also showed the world the album artwork for his new project and, after some negotiations with Fallon, revealed the album title. 

Coloring Book earned the Chicago rapper a whopping six GRAMMY nominations plus a nod for Best New Artist, a category he won, along with Best Rap Performance for "No Problem" and Best Rap Album. 

The Big Day is currently available for pre-order via Chance's website, where you can also pick up his three mixtapes newly released on vinyl and pre-sale for his upcoming world tour.

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Alan Palomo

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Neon Indian Returns With Invasion Musical Total Tour Of North America

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Alan Palomo plots his chillwave project's extensive run of dates this fall
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jul 16, 2019 - 4:47 pm

Mexico-born, Texas-raised music machine Alan Palomo has annunced an extensive fall North American tour for the return of his chillwave project Neon Indian. 

The Invasion Musical Total Tour kicks off October 9 at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif., after a quartet of “¡Eso Es!” shows Aug. 29-31 and Sept. 1 with Empres Of, La Goony Chonga and more. The tour runs 29 dates across the U.S., Mexico and Canada before coming to a close Nov. 29 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Palomo's most recent Neon Indian album is 2015's VEGA INTL. Night School, but he's been busy of late, directing a short film last year called 86'd and creating it's theme song, "Heaven's Basement."

A full list of dates and ticket info is available at Neon Indian's website, with tickets for all shows before Oct. 8 already on sale.

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