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Billie Eilish Announces 2020 Arena Where Do We Go? World Tour

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Global, chart-topping Interscope/Darkroom Records artist Billie Eilish has announced her 2020 arena WHERE DO WE GO? WORLD TOUR, produced by Live Nation. Starting on March 8 in Miami, FL, WHERE DO WE GO? tour will take her live show to some of the world’s biggest arenas including New York City’s Madison Square Garden on March 15.

Following the release of her official music video for ‘all the good girls go to hell’ – accompanied with the important call to action on climate change – Billie Eilish continues to set an example by partnering with non-profit organization REVERB for her upcoming tour. To help create and encourage an eco-conscious environment both backstage and for her fans, Billie Eilish will be allowing fans to bring their re-fillable water bottles to the shows, water-stations will be available at every venue for both attendees and crew backstage, plastic straws will not be permitted and a Billie Eilish Eco-Village will be stationed at every show, providing attendees information and resources on ways to help combat climate change and preserve the Earth.

Last month, Billie Eilish earned her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘bad guy,’ taken from her multi-platinum global smash debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Billie Eilish is officially the first artist born this millennium to achieve both a No. 1 album and single, and is now the third female solo artist in the 31-year history with multiple songs topping the Billboard Alternative Songs airplay chart (alongside Alanis Morrissett and Sinead O’Connor). “bad guy” also hit #1 in the Pop Songs airplay chart after leading the Alternative Songs airplay. Her album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? — released on March 29 — debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, has since returned to the top spot two additional times this year, and is currently 2019’s best-selling album in North America. Recently, Billie Eilish graced the cover of Rolling Stone, V and ELLE, and has amassed more that 17-billion combined global streams to date.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES*
03/09 – AmericanAirlines Arena – Miami, FL
03/10 – Amway Center – Orlando, FL
03/12 – PNC Arena – Raleigh, NC
03/13 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA
03/15 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
03/16 – Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
03/18 – Capital One Center – Washington, DC
03/19 – TD Garden – Boston, MA
03/20 – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY
03/23 – Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI
03/24 – United Center – Chicago, IL
03/25 – Bankers Life Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, IN
03/27 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN
03/28 – Enterprise Center – St. Louis, MO
03/29 – CHI Health Center Omaha – Omaha, NE
04/01 – Pepsi Center – Denver, CO
04/04 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA
04/05 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA
04/07 – Chase Center – San Francisco, CA
04/08 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, CA
04/10 – Tacoma Dome – Seattle, WA
04/11 – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC

LATIN AMERICAN TOUR DATES
05/25 – Arena VFG – Guadalajara, Mexico
05/27 – Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, Mexico
05/30 – Allianz Parque – Sao Paulo, Brazil
05/31 – Jeunesse Arena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
06/2 – DirecTV Arena – Buenos Aires, Argentina
06/5 – Movistar Arena – Santiago, Chile
06/7 – Movistar Arena – Bogota, Colombia

EUROPEAN AND UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES
07/9 – TBA – TBA, Spain
07/10 – NOS Alive (festival) – Lisbon, Portugal
07/13 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam, Netherlands
07/14 – Mercedes-Benz Arena – Berlin, Germany
07/15 – Lanxess Arena – Cologne, Germany
07/17 – MIND (Area Expo) (festival) – Milano, Italy
07/18 – Lollapalooza (festival) – Paris, France
07/19 – Werchter Boutique (festival) – Werchter, Belgium
07/21 – Manchester Arena – Manchester, UK
07/22 – Manchester Arena – Manchester, UK
07/24 – Arena Birmingham – Birmingham, UK
07/26 – O2 Arena – London, UK
07/27 – O2 Arena – London, UK

Ringo Starr Joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in a Toy Instrument Rendition of ‘Yellow Submarine’

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Ringo Starr joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform the Beatles hit “Yellow Submarine” with classroom instruments.

The JUNO Awards return to Toronto to Celebrate 50 years of Canadian Music

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The JUNO Awards will be returning to Toronto for its 50th anniversary. The 2021 JUNO Awards and JUNO Week will take place March 22-28, 2021 culminating in The 50th Annual JUNO Awards Broadcast at Scotiabank Arena on Sunday, March 28, 2021, to be aired live on CBC.

“50 years ago Walt Grealis and Stan Klees created the JUNO Awards right here in Toronto and it’s an honour to bring Canada’s biggest night in music back home to where it all started,” said Allan Reid, President & CEO, CARAS / The JUNO Awards and MusiCounts. “This country continues to produce some of the most vibrant artists in the world and we invite you to join us in what will be the greatest national celebration of Canadian music ever.”

JUNO Week 2021 returns to Toronto after a decade, with the support of the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto. This will be the 26th time that Toronto has hosted Canada’s most iconic celebration of music, which remained in Toronto for its first 20 years – starting out in 1970 at St. Lawrence Hall, a historic venue that held an intimate 250 people. Since then, the awards show has grown to fill venues of over 15,000 seats and traveled from coast-to-coast, from St. John’s, NL, to Vancouver, BC, honouring the best in Canadian musical talent.

“Toronto is proud to host The JUNO Awards for their 50th anniversary,” said Mayor John Tory. “As the biggest event in Canadian music, this is a great opportunity for Toronto to welcome The JUNO Awards back home to where it all began 50 years ago and highlight the city’s truly diverse yet quintessentially Canadian spirit. We look forward to hosting the best of Canadian music in 2021!”

“Ontario’s amazing artists, industry professionals and emerging talent exemplify that we offer the world in one province,” said Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. “We’re ready to share it with the rest of the country by welcoming the JUNO Awards back to Ontario for their 50th anniversary, which will help drive our $25 billion culture sector and contribute to an overall economic footprint of $71 billion dollars when factoring in tourism, culture, and sport.”

Toronto, Canada’s largest city and one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, is known for its vibrant and ever-evolving music scene. The city has produced some of Canada’s most iconic and best-selling artists in the world. Since the JUNO Awards hit the road in 2002, each host city has seen an average of over $10 million in economic impact of the awards broadcast, JUNO Week and surrounding events.

The origins of the JUNO Awards date back to 1970. In that year, Walt Grealis and Stan Klees, publishers of the weekly trade publication, RPM, organized the Gold Leaf Awards, held at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. A year later, the name of the award was changed to honour Pierre Juneau, the first head of the CRTC and responsible for the implementation of the Canadian Content Regulations in 1971.

The 50th annual JUNO Awards and JUNO Week 2021 will be hosted in Toronto, ON from March 22 through 28 with the finale event, The JUNO Awards Broadcast, on March 28 at Scotiabank Arena. The broadcast will be aired live on CBC, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, the free CBC Gem streaming service in Canada and globally at www.CBCMusic.ca/junos.

Watch Bruce Springsteen perform “Born To Run,” “Raise Your Hand” and “Detroit Medley” live in 1978

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One of his most famous performances took place on Sept. 19, 1978 in his home state at the Capitol Theatre. The 3,200 fans (now totaling in the million who claim they were there) in the crowd witnessed what many consider to be the best performance of his – or any – career. It was captured on a WNEW-FM simulcast broadcast and filmed with then state-of-the-art video technology. even though it’s a little lacking now. Springsteen performed songs like “Born To Run,” “Detroit Medley” and “Raise Your Hand,” and he was at the absolute peak of his powers and still maintaining the artistic sensibility that runs deeper than those of his era.

https://youtu.be/gTFZW51HKGo

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How To Build a Guitar Out of an Old Shovel

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Burl of Burl’s Art demonstrates that you can make a pretty …groundbreaking… guitar out of an old shovel. YOU can do this, I can’t, even though Burl shares each step of the process, I would likely break something.

Midge Ure Returns To North America: Songs Questions & Answers Tour

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Grammy and Brit Award winning musician Midge Ure returns to the North American intimate venue circuit with his open and honest, Songs, Questions and Answers Tour 2020.

Direct from the hugely successful UK leg of the tour Midge will be playing alongside multi-instrumentalist Tony Solis, performing acoustic versions of his catalogue and taking questions, and maybe the odd song request from the audience.

There is plenty to talk about too while covering a 40 year professional career, Ultravox, Solo work, Band Aid, his Orchestrated album from 2017….and anything the audience can think of to ask him!

This is as close as you can possibly get to the man, his life and his music. An event as real, honest, uplifting and poignant as his songs.

Midge Ure will also be releasing Soundtrack 1978-2019 on September 20th via Chrysalis Records. The 32-song collection encompasses four decades of Ure’s rich and varied career. In addition to many classic Ultravox and Midge Ure solo tracks, this collection also features previously unreleased material. One of these songs is a new remix of 2014’s ‘Dark Dark Night’, co-written and performed with Moby.

The collection also features collaborations with the likes of Kate Bush (Sister And Brother), Sir George Martin (orchestral arrangement on All In One Day), former Japan member Mick Karn (After A Fashion), and Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory (Personal Heaven).

The double CD version also comes with an accompanying DVD. The DVD features video promos from the Rich Kids and Midge’s solo work and collaborations. Later videos by his Band Electronica, and bonus documentaries.

Soundtrack 1978-2019 Tracklist:
All tracks are Midge Ure solo unless stated.

CD ONE
01 Call of The Wild (7” Version) [1986]
02 Answers To Nothing (7” Version) [1988]
03 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (7” Version) [1984] – Ultravox
04 The Gift [1985]
05 Wastelands (7” Version) [1985]
06 After A Fashion (7” Version) [1983] – Midge Ure & Mick Karn
07 Remembrance Day [1988]
08 No Regrets (7” Version) [1982]
09 Marching Men (7” Version) [1978] – Rich Kids
10 If I Was (7” Version) [1985]
11 Fade To Grey (2017 Version) [Originally 1980] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
12 Dear God (7” Version) [1988]
13 The Man Who Sold The World [1982]
14 That Certain Smile (7” Version) [1985]
15 Sister And Brother (Alt. 7” Edit) [1988] – Midge Ure feat. Kate Bush
16 All In One Day (7” Version) [1986] – Ultravox

CD TWO
01 Become [2014]
02 Touching Hearts And Skies
03 Glorious [2017] – Midge Ure & Rusty Egan
04 Star Crossed [2014]
05 You Move Me (Radio Edit) [2000]
06 I Survived (Single Edit) [2014] previously unreleased version
07 Personal Heaven [2001] – Midge Ure & Glenn Gregory
08 Beneath A Spielberg Sky (7” Version) [2000]
09 Breathe (7” Version) [1996]
10 Nevermore [2008]
11 Cold Cold Heart (7” Version) [1991]
12 Let Me Go [2014]
13 I See Hope (In The Morning Light) (7” Version) [1991]
14 Let It Rise [2010] – Schiller feat. Midge Ure
15 Dark Dark Night (2019 Remix) [2014] previously unreleased version. – Midge Ure feat. Moby
16 Vienna (Orchestrated Version) [2017]

DVD
01 Marching Men [1978] – The Rich Kids
02 No Regrets [1982]
03 After A Fashion [1983] – Midge Ure & Mick Karn
04 If I Was [1985]
05 That Certain Smile [1985]
06 Call of The Wild [1986]
07 Answers To Nothing [1988]
08 Dear God [1988]
09 Cold Cold Heart [1991]
10 I see Hope (In The Morning Light) [1991]
11 Breathe [1996]
12 You Move Me [2000]
13 Beneath A Spielberg Sky [2000]
14 Become [2014]
15 Let It Rise (Live) [2010] – Schiller feat. Midge Ure
16 Breathe (Orchestrated Version) [2017]

Bonus Videos:
• Feature length Commentary on Promo videos by Midge Ure
• Yellow Pearl/Passing Strangers (Live) [2017] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
• Fade To Grey (Live) [2017] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
• Vienna (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
• Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
Bonus Documentaries:
• A Portrait [‘The Gift’ EPK 1985]
• Answers: A Musical Journey [Longform Documentary 1990]
• Orchestrated [The Making of EPK] [2017]

Midge Ure Tour Dates:
January 15 – Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s
January 16 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
January 17 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – Coach House
January 18 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
January 20 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
January 21 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
January 22 – Seattle, WA – Recital Hall @ Benaroya Hall
January 24 – Salt Lake City, UT – State Room
January 25 – Denver, CO – Soiled Dove
January 27 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
January 28 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
January 29 – Chicago, IL – City Winery
January 30 – Hamilton, ON – The Casbah
January 31 – Toronto, ON – Hugh’s Room 1H
February 01 – Pawling, NY – Daryl’s House
February 03 – Boston, MA – City Winery
February 04 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater
February 05 – Washington DC – City Winery – Wine Garden
February 06 – New York, NY – Iridium
February 07 – New York, NY – Iridium
February 08 – Long Island, NY – My Fathers Place
February 09 – Bordentown, NJ – Man Cave (2 Shows)

AC/DC And Beethoven Aren’t As Far Off As You Think

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Musician Peter Bence breaks new ground in showing you a comparison between Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, and AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, two songs you might not have ever sounded the same.

The Legend of 23 Hop: A documentary on the murky origins of Toronto rave culture.

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I’m pretty sure I went to 23 Hop a few dozen times. I honestly can’t remember. Which means I was likely there.

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, And Weezer Announce Global Stadium Hella Mega Tour

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Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer, three of the biggest acts in rock music, announced they will be heading out on the road together for the first time ever on THE HELLA MEGA TOUR presented by Harley-Davidson. To celebrate the tour reveal, all three bands will perform a historic show tonight at the legendary Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles.

The global tour kicks off June 13, 2020 in Paris and will visit cities across Europe and the UK throughout the month including Glasgow, London, and Dublin. Produced by Live Nation, the 20-city North American outing will bring the bands to some of the most renowned stadiums including Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Citi Field, Fenway Park, and more. Beginning July 17 in Seattle, WA, the outing makes stops in Houston, Miami, Toronto, New York and more, before wrapping August 29 in Philadelphia, PA. More dates will be announced. The Interrupters will appear as special guest on the tour.

Concert-goers will see and experience the newest Harley-Davidson motorcycles, including the fully electric LiveWire and their new, exciting lineup of electric bicycles.

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Monday, September 16 at 10am local time through Thursday, September 19 at 10pm local time. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, September 20 at 10am local time at Ticketmaster.com. VIP packages will be available next week.

Five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day unleash their brand new single “Father Of All…,” which is the lead track on their forthcoming thirteenth studio album of the same name, out February 7, 2020 on Reprise / Warner Records. Formed in 1986 in Berkeley, CA, Green Day is one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide and 10 billion cumulative audio/visual streams. Their 1994 breakout album Dookie, which sold over 10 million and achieved diamond status, is widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, catapulting a career-long run of #1 hit singles. Entertainment Weekly calls Green Day, “The most influential band of their generation,” while Rolling Stone attests, “Green Day have inspired more young bands to start than any act this side of KISS, and that doesn’t seem to be changing.” In 2004, Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot which captured the nation’s attention, selling more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone and taking home the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. Mojo declared “It’s exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock’n’roll band in the 21st century.” In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway to critical and commercial acclaim and now they’re taking the world stage once again with their new album and Hella Mega global stadium tour. Green Day will also be performing solo dates in 2020- click here for all dates. Pre-order the album Father Of All… here. Listen to their single “Father of All…” here.

Multi-platinum selling, Grammy-nominated Fall Out Boy’s new single “Dear Future Self (Hands Up)” ft. Wyclef Jean will be featured on their forthcoming record Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two, out November 15 via Island Records. The song marks the band’s first new music since the August 2018 release of the three-song Lake Effect Kid EP, a love letter to their hometown city of Chicago that featured the full version of the band’s previously unreleased title track demo along with two new songs “City in A Garden” and “Super Fade.” In January, Fall Out Boy was featured on the gold-certified track “I’ve Been Waiting,” a collaboration from Lil Peep and iLoveMakonnen. Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio album M A N I A debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2018 and garnered a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album. Their worldwide tour in support of the record included a hometown show at Wrigley Field. Pre-order the album Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two here. Listen to their single “Dear Future Self (Hands Up)” here.

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY award-winning Weezer’s new single “The End of the Game,” produced by Suzy Shinn, will be included on their forthcoming 14th studio album, entitled Van Weezer, due out in May 2020. The inspiration for this album derives from the deepest roots of Weezer – metal! What has metal got to do with Weezer, you ask? In his earliest years, Rivers was a huge KISS fan; Brian was a big Black Sabbath fan; Pat worshipped at the altar of Van Halen and Rush; Scott loved Slayer and Metallica. The last time this vein of harder rock was mined by Weezer was on their much-loved 2002 album Maladroit; Van Weezer is primed to take that album’s sonics many steps further courtesy of producer Suzy Shinn. “The End of the Game” is Weezer’s first new song since this year’s release of Weezer (The Black Album), as well as their covers album, Weezer (The Teal Album), whose streaming numbers have surpassed 100 million. Weezer has sold 10 million albums in the U.S., and over 35 million records worldwide since their debut album’s release in 1994. Their catalogue has included such megahits as “Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “Say It Ain’t So,” “El Scorcho,” “Hash Pipe,” “Island In The Sun,” “Beverly Hills,” “Pork and Beans,” and more. Pre-order the album Van Weezer here. Listen to their single “The End of the Game” here.

Tonight will mark the beginning of a three-day music takeover on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with a first ever TV performance of the new music from Weezer followed by Fall Out Boy tomorrow night and Green Day on Thursday. All episodes begin at 11:35pm on ABC and can be found online at https://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live. Additionally, each of the band’s new songs were serviced to all Rock and Alternative Radio stations today and will be featured once an hour on a three hour loop all day with Cumulus, Entercom, and iHeart radio chains.

THE HELLA MEGA TOUR Europe & UK Dates:

DATE CITY VENUE
Saturday, June 13 PARIS, FRANCE La Defense Arena
Sunday, June 14 GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS Stadspark
Wednesday, June 17 ANTWERP, BELGIUM Sportpaleis
Sunday, June 21 VIENNA, AUSTRIA Ernst Happel Stadium
Wednesday, June 24 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Bellahouston Park
Friday, June 26 LONDON, ENGLAND London Stadium
Saturday, June 27 HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND The John Smith’s Stadium
Monday, June 29 DUBLIN, IRELAND RDS Arena

THE HELLA MEGA TOUR North American Dates:

DATE CITY VENUE
Friday, July 17 SEATTLE, WA T-Mobile Park
Tuesday, July 21 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Oracle Park
Friday, July 24 SAN DIEGO, CA Petco Park
Saturday, July 25 LOS ANGELES, CA Dodger Stadium
Tuesday, July 28 COMMERCE CITY, CO DICK’S Sporting Goods Park
Friday, July 31 ARLINGTON, TX GLOBE LIFE FIELD
Saturday, August 1 HOUSTON, TX Minute Maid Park
Wednesday, August 5 MIAMI, FL Hard Rock Stadium
Thursday, August 6 JACKSONVILLE, FL TIAA Bank Field
Saturday, August 8 ATLANTA, GA SunTrust Park
Tuesday, August 11 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Target Field
Thursday, August 13 CHICAGO, IL Wrigley Field
Saturday, August 15 PITTSBURGH, PA PNC Park
Sunday, August 16 HERSHEY, PA Hersheypark Stadium
Wednesday, August 19 DETROIT, MI Comerica Park
Friday, August 21 WASHINGTON, DC Nationals Park
Saturday, August 22 NEW YORK, NY Citi Field
Monday, August 24 TORONTO, ON Rogers Centre
Thursday, August 27 BOSTON, MA Fenway Park
Saturday, August 29 PHILADELPHIA, PA Citizens Bank Park

Sinead O’Connor Performs ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ In 2019 And Can Still Break Your Heart

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Sinead O’Connor performs her iconic song in tribute to Prince on Ireland’s The Late Late Show.