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Live Nation Festival Passport Expands for 2018
YouTube to Exclusively Livestream Coachella 2018
YouTube returns to Coachella for the eighth year in a row to exclusively livestream the first weekend of Coachella 2018. Presented by T-Mobile in the US, Optus in Australia and Garnier in Canada, music fans can take a front seat in the desert for performances by their favorite artists when they tune in to Coachella’s YouTube channel on any screen (desktop, mobile and living room) from April 13 – 15. From headliners to some of the biggest artists on the rise, livestream performances throughout the weekend will include Beyoncé, The Weeknd, ODESZA, Post Malone, The War on Drugs, Kygo, Chromeo, Alan Walker, BØRNS, alt-J and many more.
Fans tuning in will have their choice of four livestream feeds with different artists performing on each simultaneously. This includes one VR180 channel that will allow viewers to experience performances and exclusive on the ground coverage in a more immersive way using viewers and headsets like Google Cardboard and Daydream View. Fans can also create personalized viewing schedules to feature the live acts they want to see, where livestream channels will automatically change to artists they’ve selected.
Highlights from the weekend will be available through a video-on-demand hub, and returning host Jason Bentley from KCRW, along with co-hosts Nadeska Alexis, Valerie Lee and Brittany Eustis will bring fans interviews with artists and creators from throughout the festival.
Google Home will amplify the Coachella experience through a custom voice-enabled experience for both festival goers and fans around the globe tuning in to the livestream, allowing users to discover music from artists performing as part of this year’s lineup and test their knowledge of the festival, present and past. Just say, “Hey Google, talk to Coachella,” and Google Home will become the ultimate Coachella companion, providing information on the festival from set times to travel info. Once gates open, fans at home will get the backstage experience with live artist interviews throughout the weekend.
Google Pixel will bring its incredible camera capabilities to one of Coachella’s most iconic and popular attractions, the giant Ferris Wheel. Surprised festival goers boarding select Ferris Wheel gondolas will walk into a special Pixel photo booth, creating a totally unique and Instagrammable photo moment through clever visual treatments. Artist portraits will also be captured on Pixel 2 backstage by influential photographers.
In addition, Coachella and verified lineup artists will be able to post updates and information on performances and livestreams for fans directly in Google search through the recently launched integration that allows artists to customize content.
Subscribe to Coachella’s YouTube channel for up to date information on when you favorite artists are streaming live and follow @youtubemusic on Instagram and Twitter to watch the latest videos and relive past moments. Additional details on specific artist livestreams to come.
Goo Goo Dolls Announce “Dizzy Up The Girl” 20th Anniversary Tour
This Fall, multi-platinum Grammy-nominated band Goo Goo Dolls will embark on the SiriusXM Presents: Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up The Girl 20th Anniversary Tour, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their iconic album, Dizzy Up The Girl. The band will be performing the record in its entirety at each show, followed by an additional set packed with surprises and more of their many unforgettable hits. Singer John Rzeznik added “I am incredibly excited to share this album in its entirety with our fans”. The band also took to social media today, posting a special video to announce their tour, watch it HERE.
The tour kicks off in Phoenix, AZ on September 30th and will run through mid-November, wrapping up in Las Vegas, NV on November 18th.
First released on September 22, 1998 via Warner Bros. Records, Dizzy Up The Girl is often noted for being the album that catapulted the band into mainstream success and is one of their most successful albums to date. The record sold 6 million albums worldwide, went 4x platinum in the US and had five top 10 singles, including “Iris” (3 GRAMMY nominations, Certified Platinum, 275M Spotify Streams) and “Slide” (Certified Gold, 57M Spotify Streams).
Fan Club and VIP Package pre-sales begin on Tuesday, April 10 at 10:00AM local time. Various package tiers include meet and greets with the band, backstage tours, premium reserved seats, and many more exclusive offerings. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 13 at 10:00AM local time.
TOUR DATES:
Sun., September 30 Phoenix, AZ The Van Buren
Tues., October 2 Houston, TX House of Blues
Wed., October 3 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Fri., October 5 Saint Louis, MO The Pageant
Sat., October 6 Indianapolis, IN Old National Centre
Sun., October 7 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Tues., October 9 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
Wed., October 10 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte
Fri., October 12 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
Sat., October 13 Washington, DC The Anthem
Mon., October 15 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Tues., October 16 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
Wed., October 17 Boston, MA House of Blues
Fri., October 19 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center
Sat., October 20 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center
Sun., October 21 Toronto, ON Rebel
Tues., October 23 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
Wed., October 24 Grand Rapids, MI 20 Monroe Live
Fri., October 26 Chicago, IL Chicago Theater
Sat., October 27 Minneapolis, MN State Theater
Sun., October 28 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
Tues., October 30 Denver, CO Paramount Theater
Thurs., November 1 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
Sat., November 3 Seattle, WA The Paramount Theater
Thurs., November 8 San Diego, CA House of Blues
Fri., November 9 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
Sat., November 18 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Photo Gallery: Johnny Reid with Jessica Mitchell at St. Catharines’ Meridian Centre
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Harry Shearer Narrates 4 Short Animated Films About Freedom and Justice
BBC Radio 4 series A History of Ideas is about life’s big questions, with Melvyn Bragg chairing discussions about beauty, freedom and justice (among other things). Is giving up some of your freedoms a fair price to pay to live in a secure society? Watch these short video narrated by Harry Shearer, and scripted by Nigel Warburton.
Dan Wilson On World Cafe
Unless you’re into reading the songwriting credits in tiny print on album liners, you might not know how many hits Dan has had a hand in since Semisonic and that massive Closing Time single. Dan co-wrote Adele’s Someone Like You and the Dixie Chicks’ Not Ready to Make Nice. He’s also co-written with the likes of Taylor Swift, Chris Stapleton and John Legend. Dan has a new album, Recovered, where he puts his own spin on those tunes and more. He has also released a deluxe-edition book along with the CD – full of his own illustrations, lyrics and stories.
Watch Jason Isbell play a Tiny Desk Concert
Like many singer-songwriters, Jason Isbell writes music that mirrors developments in his own life. In recent years, that’s thankfully included the hard-won contentment he’s experienced on his path to 40: sobriety, marriage and on from there. On this summer’s The Nashville Sound, the decorated Alabama-born star understandably casts his gaze toward parenthood — a job he’s recently come to share with singer, fiddler and Tiny Desk veteran Amanda Shires — but expands his scope further to encompass politics, fear of obsolescence, and his place in the world. It’s a gorgeous record: noble and scruffy, graceful and human.
Henry Rollins on the simplicity of the old days
There’s things to be said about the simplicity of the old days. The more successful you are, the more issues that pop up. Little, stressful things that make me understand why my dad might have been a dick sometimes. I catch myself saying things that my parents would say—”The bills are just piling up”—and I’m like, “I remember when I didn’t have any bills!” But I didn’t have any money, either. So, the scale is always tipping one way or another. I’m not saying to feel bad for me at all, because I am completely happy where I am and I am completely happy where I’ve been. But I often look back at those early days, playing a shitty club with no green room and having to sit at the merch table all night and eating only two tacos. Those are some of my fondest memories. – Henry Rollins
Steve Earle on NPR’s World Cafe
Steve Earle’s got stories and a new album – So You Wannabe an Outlaw – and you’re gonna hear them in this World Cafe session. That includes the time he got a letter of support from Waylon Jennings when Earle was in prison and the time Johnny Cash gave him a compliment at a truck stop — not to mention the time he had one of country music’s toughest singers pull a gun on him.
Bob Dylan, Kesha, Benjamin Gibbard, St. Vincent Release Songs For LGBTQ Community
MGM Resorts International today announced the release of UNIVERSAL LOVE, a collection of reimagined wedding songs for the LGBTQ community, celebrating the enduring and overwhelming power of love and music to unite.
MGM Resorts is a global entertainment company with a deep-seated belief that entertainment is fundamental to human fulfillment. The company’s passion for the UNIVERSAL LOVE project reflects its profound commitment to embracing humanity and the impact music can have on the human experience.
UNIVERSAL LOVE offers six newly recorded versions of iconic love songs that give same-sex couples a soundtrack for their own love stories and feature pronouns changed to reflect the world of LGBTQ relationships.
The album includes boundary-changing songs from some of today’s most-beloved artists. Bob Dylan, one of the most influential and successful recording artists in American history, is among the visionary artists participating in this unprecedented project. Dylan re-recorded “She’s Funny That Way” as “He’s Funny That Way.” The album features five additional stellar artists whose involvement is a testament to the urgency of equality in entertainment: Kesha (“I Need a Woman to Love Me”), St. Vincent (“And Then She Kissed Me”), Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (“And I Love Him”), Kele Okereke of Bloc Party (“My Guy”), and Valerie June (“Mad About The Girl”).
Phyllis James, MGM Resorts’ Chief Diversity & Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, said, “We believe projects like this will help all of us reach a point where seeing the world through the lens of people who happen to be different from us becomes natural and commonplace. It is an immense honor for MGM Resorts to spearhead this inspirational project which celebrates LGBTQ dimensions of the universal emotion of love.”
UNIVERSAL LOVE is a natural extension of MGM’s two decades of advocacy work with the LGBTQ community and the company’s desire to advance initiatives that unite humanity. More than a decade before same-sex marriage was legalized, same-sex commitment ceremonies were performed at chapels at MGM Resorts’ properties. In 2004, MGM Resorts became the first company in the gaming and hospitality industry to offer same-sex health benefits to employees, and MGM was a founding partner of the Las Vegas chapter of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in 2004.
MGM Resorts is a leader in all aspects of the entertainment industry (hospitality, gaming, live events, etc.) and believes in the transformational power of entertainment for all. MGM’s launch of UNIVERSAL LOVE reinforces an inclusive vision of unions that more closely mirrors the incredible diversity of today’s relationships.
The compilation album was produced by MGM Resorts in conjunction with global advertising agency McCann and will be distributed by Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music. UNIVERSAL LOVE is available on all streaming platforms beginning today.
UNIVERSAL LOVE TRACK LISTING
01 “HE’S FUNNY THAT WAY” • BOB DYLAN
02 “AND THEN SHE KISSED ME” • ST VINCENT
03 “MY GUY” • KELE OKEREKE
04 “MAD ABOUT THE GIRL” • VALERIE JUNE
05 “AND I LOVE HIM” • BENJAMIN GIBBARD
06 “I NEED A WOMAN TO LOVE ME” • KESHA