Mike Shinoda tells Howard Stern about the passing of his friend and Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington.
Miss Calvin & Hobbes? Bill Watterson Is Releasing A New Graphic Novel Called ‘The Mysteries’ On October 10
From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes The Mysteries, a beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. It comes out October 10 through Simon & Schuster.
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
For the book’s illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate a mysterious process in its own right.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band Add North American Shows In 18 Cities To Their 2023 International Tour
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have announced additional North American dates on their 2023 international tour in 18 cities, with newly-added shows beginning at Chicago’s Wrigley Field on August 9 and running through December 8 at San Francisco’s Chase Center. Multiple nights have been scheduled for Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park (August 16 and 18), New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium (August 30 and September 1), Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena (November 14 and 16) and Los Angeles’ Kia Forum (December 4 and 6). Tickets for the 22 added North American shows will go on sale over the course of the next two weeks, with the first onsale beginning this Friday February 19 at 10am local time (full details below).
The 2023 international tour began February 1 in Tampa, Florida with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s first North American show in seven years. Opening night featured a high-energy 28-song set which included rocking fan favorites like “Born To Run,” “Prove It All Night,” and “Wrecking Ball,” with The E Street Band effortlessly shifting to soul and R&B while complemented by a horn section and backing vocalists. Rolling Stone called the band’s return “ecstatic and emotional,” and SPIN added it was a “must-see.” USA Today said they “rocked like their lives depended on it” and the Associated Press noted the “energy was as high as ever…every song seemed epic.”
For many cities, the tour will be using Verified Fan via Ticketmaster. Verified Fan requires pre-registration here and is open through Sunday February 19 at 11:59pm ET. Verified Fan is intended to make it easier for fans to get tickets, and harder for resellers and bots.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band – New 2023 North American Tour Dates
August 9 – Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field
Onsale: Friday, February 17 at 10:00 AM CT
August 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET
August 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET
August 24 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
Verified Fan Onsale: Monday, February 27 at 10:00 AM ET
August 28 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park
Verified Fan Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET
August 30 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
Verified Fan Onsale: Friday, February 24 at 10:00 AM ET
September 1 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
Verified Fan Onsale: Friday, February 24 at 12:00 PM ET
September 7 – Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome
Verified Fan Onsale: Friday, February 24 at 10:00 AM ET
September 9 – Baltimore, MD @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Verified Fan Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET
September 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM ET
November 3 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM PT
November 6 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM MT
November 8 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM MT
November 10 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM CT
November 14 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM ET
November 16 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM ET
November 18 – Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM ET
November 20 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM ET
November 30 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM MT
December 4 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM PT
December 6 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM PT
December 8 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM PT
Dave Grohl Pays Tribute To All Things Canada In New Commercial
Continuing the tradition of absolutely shredding national anthems…
Dave Grohl produces epic rock cover of O Canada with Canadian guitar legend, Donna Grantis. And it’s all in the name of Crown Royal-inspired gratitude.
Ghost Announces Re-Imperatour U.S.A. 2023
Ghost has revealed details of its upcoming RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023 summer tour with special guest Amon Amarth. Produced by Live Nation and FPC Live, the 27-date tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 2nd in Concord, CA at Concord Pavilion, with stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Austin and more before wrapping up with the band’s Monday, September 11th return to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Ghost continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the “euphoric spectacle” (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London’s O2 Arena and Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had “conquered metal and the charts” when its fifth album IMPERA debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace — and featuring “Spillways”—hailed as a “sweetly constructed rock tune” by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the GRAMMY-nominated “Call Me Little Sunshine,” and Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon” — IMPERA finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle—or as ROLLING STONE put it, “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.”The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of IMPERA’s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made… All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making IMPERA a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.
GHOST RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023:
Wed Aug 02 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion
Fri Aug 04 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 05 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
Mon Aug 07 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
Tue Aug 08 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *
Fri Aug 11 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 12 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater
Mon, Aug 14– Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Tue Aug 15 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Wed Aug 16 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
Fri Aug 18 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview
Sat Aug 19 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
Sun Aug 20 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
Tue Aug 22 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
Wed Aug 23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
Thu, Aug 24 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
Fri Aug 25 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Sun Aug 27 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
Tue Aug 29 – Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park
Wed, Aug 30 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place
Thu Aug 31 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat Sep 02 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
Sun Sep 03 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Tue Sep 05 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Thu Sep 07 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Fri Sep 08 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
Mon Sep 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Kia Forum
Jason Aldean Announces Highway Desperado Tour 2023
With 27 number one singles, 15 billion streams and more than 20 million albums sold, ACM Artist of the Decade Jason Aldean today announced his upcoming Highway Desperado Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 41-city headlining tour kicks off on July 14 at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY making stops across the U.S. in Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix and more before wrapping up in Tampa at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre on October 28. Mitchell Tenpenny serves as direct support for Aldean, alongside openers Corey Kent and Dee Jay Silver.
The Grammy-nominated, multi-Platinum entertainer released his 10th career studio album, MACON, GEORGIA, featuring 20 new songs and an additional 10 live tracks last year, earning praise from Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Tennessean, Entertainment Tonight, E! News and more. The album earned the Georgia-native his 27th career-charting #1 single, “Trouble With A Heartbreak,” as well as a Billboard Music Award nomination for “Top Country Song” as well as awards from ACM, CMT, iHeart, and a GRAMMY nomination for “If I Didn’t Love You” with Carrie Underwood. His current single, “That’s What Tequila Does,” is currently Top 10 and climbing at Country Radio.
Since making his chart debut in 2005, the 3X ACM Entertainer of the Year has earned the most Top 10 songs on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart-more than any other artist- with “songs of small-town living, love and loss have resonated with a loyal fanbase” (Billboard) that have “vaulted him to the pinnacle of Country music success” (Atlanta Journal Constitution).
HIGHWAY DESPERADO 2023 TOUR DATES:
Fri Jul 14 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Sat Jul 15 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
Sun Jul 16 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Thu Jul 20 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
Fri Jul 21 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
Thu Jul 27 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion^
Fri Jul 28 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
Sat Jul 29 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
Fri Aug 04 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
Sat Aug 05 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
Sun Aug 06 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Thu Aug 10 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
Fri Aug 11 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
Fri Aug 18 – Sioux Falls, SD – Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
Sat Aug 19 – Welch, MN – Treasure Island Amphitheater*
Thu Aug 24 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena
Fri Aug 25 – Jacksonville, FL – VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
Sat Aug 26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Wharf Amphitheater
Thu Sep 07 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Fri Sep 08 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Sat Sep 09 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Thu Sep 14 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
Fri Sep 15 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sat Sep 16 –Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
Thu Sep 21 – Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre
Fri Sep 22 – Portland, OR – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Sat Sep 23 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
Thu Sep 28 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
Fri Sep 29 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
Sat Sep 30 – San Bernardino, CA – Glen Helen Amphitheater
Thu Oct 05 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
Fri Oct 06 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Sat Oct 07 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
Thu Oct 12 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center+
Fri Oct 13 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center
Sat Oct 14 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
Thu Oct 19 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
Fri Oct 20 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
Sat Oct 21 – Toledo, OH – Huntington Center
Fri Oct 27 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Sat Oct 28 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds And Garbage To Embark On Co-Headline North American Tour This Summer
Today, Garbage and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have announced a co-headlining tour of North America for this summer. The tour, produced by Live Nation, features special guest Metric and will kick off in Auburn, Washington on June 2nd.
This is the first time Noel and his High Flying Birds ave hit the road in North America since 2019, when they made stops across the USA and Canada with the Smashing Pumpkins. The first tour date in Washington State coincides with the release day for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ much anticipated 4th album Council Skies.
2021 saw Garbage on an extensive tour following the reease of their most recent album, No Gods No Masters; of the live shows, Consequence raved, “Once the curtain dropped, Garbage whipped the fans in the pit to a frenzy…clad in pink ad rocking a mic stand adorned with a matching feathered boa, Manson revealed a rock star stage presence that has refined over the past two decades. At the Greek, Garbage proved they are going 20 years strong, and their legacy demands closer observation.”
Garbage and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will besupported by Metric, who released their most recent album Formentera last year. It was their most commercially successful release in a decade and was accompanied by a sold-out tour spanning the US, Canada, the UK and Europe.
2023 North American Tour
June 2nd, 2023 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
June 3rd, 2023 – Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
June 6th, 2023 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion
June 7th, 2023 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl ^
June 9th, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
June 10th, 2023 – San Diego, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 11th, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
June 13th, 2023 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
June 15th, 2023 – Denver, CO – Levitt Pavilion Denver
June 17th, 2023 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
June 18th, 2023 – Del Valle, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
June 21st, 2023 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
June 22nd, 2023 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 25th, 2023 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater
June 27th, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
June 28th, 2023 – Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field
June 29th, 2023 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
July 1st, 2023 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
July 3rd, 2023 – Toronto, OH – Budweiser Stage*
July 6th, 2023 – Clarkson, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 8th, 2023 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 10th, 2023 – New York, NY – Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage
July 13th, 2023 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 14th, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann
July 15th, 2023 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
*without Metric
Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Announce First Live Tour Together Beginning Spring 2023
Comedy icons, writers, producers, actresses and Saturday Night Live alumni Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will embark on their first-ever live tour together Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour. The tour will include a limited run of east coast shows taking place this Spring, 2023, where fans will see the duo celebrate their thirty years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories and conversational entertainment.
“If this tour goes right, we can finally end this friendship!” says Amy and Tina
AMY POEHLER & TINA FEY: RESTLESS LEG TOUR DATES:
Fri Apr 28 – Washington, DC – DAR Constitution Hall
Sat May 20 – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
Fri Jun 09 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sat Jun 10 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
Ottawa-Based Throat Singer Qattuu Releases Debut Solo Album
World-class throat singer and musician, Qattuu, has released her debut solo album, Midnight Sun. The album was released on February 10, 2023.
Qattuu, whose name is pronounced “KAT-suu”, is a singer, throat singer, songwriter, performing artist, and experimental Indigenous expressionist. She currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario and has roots in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.
“After hearing my album, what I would love for people to leave with are feelings and thoughts that were never there before,” said Qattuu. “This is heart, soul, and mind provoking music.”
Midnight Sun was produced by Grammy-, Juno-, and Polaris Prize-winning music producer Chris Birkett, whose previous work includes Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sinéad O’Connor, and Sting. Birkett also co-wrote a number of songs on the album. Midnight Sun was largely recorded at his studio in Toronto, Ontario.
The album’s creative process was additionally guided by Juno-nominated Inuk artist, Looee Arreak, whose 1998-released song “Don’t Give Up” was covered by Qattuu on Midnight Sun. Arreak, along with fellow Inuk artist Joey Nowyuk, provided some Inuktitut lyrics on the album.
Midnight Sun was released on the Nunavut-based record label, Hitmakerz. Its creation was made possible with support from Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.
“Everything about this album is my heart and an incredible amount of work was put into it from many people,” said Qattuu. “My sauniapikuluuk is in there, my panik, I wrote a song for my dad, I covered Looee’s song…it’s a community album!”
Qattuu’s title choice draws inspiration from a natural Arctic phenomenon. “Midnight sun” is when the sun continues shining throughout the night in the summer months.
“My producer and I went through trying different names from the song list, and this one fit the most. It’s very poetic and interesting,” said Qattuu.
Midnight Sun’s sound varies, creating a captivating contrast between Qattuu’s sweet singing voice and rhythmically driving throat singing. She fuses contemporary musical elements with Inuit tradition.
The album has eight tracks in total: Midnight Sun, Ataataga, Sauniapikuluuk, Panikuluuk, Kitturiaq, The Ones Forgotten, Don’t Give Up, and The Day I Get Married.
Qattuu has long been part of the Nunavut and Ottawa music scenes. Her passion began at the age of 6, after her mother showed her a cassette tape of an Inuk singer performing throat singing.
Largely self-taught, Qattuu honed her craft over many years. As a child, she was motivated to succeed, and remembers crying from the physical pain in her throat as she learned the technique. Despite this, she never regretted a single moment, as she was determined to learn the ancient art of katajjaq.
Qattuu is a featured artist on many songs by fellow Nunavut artists, such as Joey Nowyuk and Angela Amarualik. Qattuu was also asked to join the Juno-nominated group, Silla and Rise, from 2020-2022. She co-wrote their album Silarjuaq in 2021. Now Qattuu is making her own path.
“I’ve always been collaborating with other artists and so I was like ‘why limit myself?’” said Qattuu. “This [album] is one of the first pieces as ‘Qattuu’ going forward, so it’s very important to me.”
As a soloist, Qattuu has performed internationally many times, and represented Inuit culture on stages around the world, including in France, Belgium, and the Philippines.
For many years, Qattuu has also delivered cultural workshops and helped others learn about Inuit throat singing. She is considered by many to be an experienced throat singer and leading performer.
Midnight Sun is available now on all streaming platforms.
Rihanna’s FULL Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show
Apple Music brought Rihanna to celebrate her musical genius as the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show performer on Sunday, February 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.