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Welcome To Rockville 2018: Dates, First Performer Announced

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The three-day hard-rock festival teased its 2018 dates and first performers today
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Oct 23, 2017 - 6:06 pm

Florida's preeminent three-day hard rock festival Welcome To Rockville has officially locked in its dates for 2018, and the festival promoters have confirmed the first of many big acts that will grace their festival stages early next year.

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The full festival lineup announcement is still forthcoming, but a landing page on the festival's website confirms that the Foo Fighters are the first act confirmed to be putting in an appearance in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2018.

Welcome To Rockville will be returning to Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Fla. on April 27–29, 2018. Full lineup and ticket information will be announced on Monday, Nov. 6 at noon.

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Report: Music Fans Traveled The World For Live Events In 2018

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As accessibility makes the world smaller, more music fans are crossing borders to attend live concerts and festivals—can you guess which artists fans travelled to go see the most?
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Dec 6, 2018 - 11:59 am

Music lovers and fans of man other live events dusted off their passports and headed out to international destinations to catch music live in 2018, a new study by StubHub shows.

The study, solely based on sales from StubHub, shows roughly 200,000 customers went to a different country to experience one of approximately30,000 live events, according to Rolling Stone. Fans included in the report come from 144 countries that include the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Mexico and France. The U.S. and the U.K. are home to the fans most likely to travel for concerts, festivals, sports and other live events.

Perkins Miller, Stubhub’s general manager of the Americas says that all the travel is due to a combination of recent trends and traveling accessibility.

“There are a few industry and cultural factors driving the trends we’re seeing,” Miller told Rolling Stone. “On the industry side, we are seeing artists expand their star power internationally — fans flocked from 80 different countries to watch K-Pop boy band BTS perform — and as a culture, we are traveling further afield to experience live events. The easy availability of apartment rentals and homestays is accelerating this trend. Nothing lets you experience another culture quite like immersing yourself in a live event. In some way, it’s the ultimate way to feel ‘like a local.'”

While many international music fans travel to America each year for concerts, Rolling Stone noted that Americans are visiting the U.K. and Canada the most, but music fans are visiting Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands more than prior years. 

Who are the artists fans are going great lengths to see? GRAMMY winner Ed Sheeran, BTS, Elton John, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney made the top 5. Who would you travel long and far to see live?

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M.I.A., 2018

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MIA, Gucci Mane, Jhené Aiko: AMF Fest Announces Inaugural Headliners

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The first edition of Gary Richards' new Los Angeles festival boasts a strong bill of headliners
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Apr 19, 2018 - 11:55 am

Former HARD Events founder and new LiveStyle majordomo of North American activities Gary Richards has announced the slate of headliners for his new downtown Los Angeles-based multigenre music festival All My Friends L.A.

Set in downtown L.A.'s ROW outdoor venue near the former American Apparel warehouse, the two-day, three-stage event will feature landmark headlining sets from RL Grime, Gucci Mane, and Jhené Aiko on its opening day, and M.I.A., Jamie XX, and Armand Van Helden to close out the weekend.

The full lineup of supporting acts for the weekend remains forthcoming, but this initial headliner tease promise big things to come.

Prior to launching his new flagship festival, Richards has been slowly teasing the rollout for the AMF brand with a series of activations and smaller events, first teeing up the inaugural voyage of Friend Ship cruise festival – which has already sold out almost a year before the event dates – then hosting a marathon day party during Miami Music Week under the "All My Friends" banner that kicked off at 5 a.m. and ran until midafternoon.

All My Friends L.A. is set to rip up downtown Los Angeles Aug. 18 – 19. The first tier of Early Bird tickets have already sold out, but tier 2 tickets are still available. Tickets and more information are all available from AMF's official website.

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Sophie Allison of Soccer Mommy, 2017

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SXSW 2018: Fader Fort Will Host Soccer Mommy, SOB X RBE, Debut New Location

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One of the premiere events at South By Southwest has announced its official lineup for 2018
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Mar 6, 2018 - 12:22 pm

South By Southwest is so close we can taste it, and that means it's time for the event lineups to start rolling in. Who will make a splash this year? Which acts will take that crucial step from hanging on the verge of fame and walk out into the spotlight?

Long known as one of the premiere events to see new acts break at SXSW, FADER magazine's three-day "Fader Fort" concert series has now revealed its 2018 lineup. It's packed with some names we've had our eyes and ears tuned towards lately, namely Soccer Mommy, SOB x RBE, Mozzy, Now Now, YBN Nahmir, and BbyMutha, with more acts still to be announced.

Soccer Mommy is the band project of 20 year-old Nashville songwriter Sophie Allison – a tight-knit four-piece whose sound belies their young age. Allison began playing music at the age of six, but largely kept her songwriting and recording a secret from her local friend group, choosing instead to release her songs online without publicizing them. As she got older, however, the recordings on her Bandcamp page caught an organic buzz that led to bookings for live gigs, eventually landing Allison a record deal the summer after she graduated from high school.

SOB x RBE meanwhile, have been riding a rocket all through the first quarter of 2018, thanks largely to their fantastic contribution to the No. 1 charting Kendrick Lamar-curated and produced Black Panther: The Album. Their track "Paramedic!" has managed to become one of the standout tracks on a soundtrack album packed wall-to-wall with hits. As a follow-up to their success as part of Black Panther: The Album, SOB x RBE were next tapped to join the lineup for Post Malone's huge 45-date summer world tour alongside 21 Savage, which kicks off next month on with a two-weekend stint at Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Tickets for the tour are still available; purchase links and additional show date details can be found on Post Malone's website.

Playing the Fader Fort at SXSW has proven to be a crucial step in the careers of some of today's biggest acts. Over the past 16 years has played host to the breakthrough moments for acts such as Odd Future (introducing the world to Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, and Frank Ocean, et al.), Kid Cudi and Amy Winehouse, meaning that its annual presence at SXSW is always a hotspot of activity for brand ambassadors, artist managers and industry reps of all kinds who are in Austin looking for the Next Big Thing.  The first 15 years of the Fader Fort will soon be documented in a new book called FADER FORT: Setting The Stage, which FADER will premiere at this year's event.

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For its 17th annual installment, the Fader Fort has once again changed venues, moving up the street to 1501 East 7th St. in Austin, a joint indoor-outdoor space just three blocks from last year's venue.

"We wanted a little more space to be able to accommodate more fans at [the] Fort," explained FADER president and publisher Andy Cohn about the decision to change venues for the third time in three years. "We also wanted to enhance the experiences for artists with a larger stage, but still maintain the special, intimate experience with great sound quality that Fort is known to provide."

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Pitchfork Music Festival Announces 2018 Lineup: Tame Impala Is 1st Headliner

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The eclectic three-day summer festival has begun rolling out its 2018 lineup
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Feb 27, 2018 - 5:30 pm

The 13th annual Pitchfork Music Festival has begun rolling out its lineup of acts for 2018 – a process that will reportedly take several weeks, as each artist's name is being revealed by being painted onto a living mural in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, which will be livestreamed on Pitchfork's homepage.

Among the first batch of names announced, Tame Impala has been revealed as the Friday headliner for the eclectic three-day summer festival.

Other exciting reveals include Kelela, Raphael Saadiq, D.R.A.M., and Japandroids.

The 2018 edition of Pitchfork Music Festival will take place in Chaicago's Union Park on July 20 – July 22. Both single-day and three-day passes are currently available directly from the festival's website.

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