The past century has seen a whole range of music icons, with distinct personas and styles, and, in this visual journey, as we did for female pop stars already, we take a look back at some of the most notable male artists from the past 100 years. We begin with Joe “King” Oliver, a preeminent 1910s jazz performer, and then work our way up through the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson, before reaching modern-day stars Kanye West and Justin Bieber.
Lukas Graham Announces North American Headline Tour Beginning November 10
Lukas Graham, whose hit single “7 Years” just went triple platinum, will embark on an expansive headlining tour later this year, produced by Live Nation. The tour kicks off Thursday, November 10 in Vancouver, and crisscrosses North America through Wednesday, February 1, making stops at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, The Fillmore in Denver, and Hammerstein Ballroom in New York along the way. The upcoming tour will see the Danish foursome graduate to theatres four to five times larger than the clubs they recently performed in during their sold-out Spring headline tour.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 10, with an artist presale launching Tuesday, June 7 at 10:00am local. Additionally, Citi card members will have access to presale tickets on select dates beginning Tuesday, June 7 at 10:00am local, through Citi’s Private Pass program. See below for a full list of dates, and check LukasGraham.com for more info.
Led by vocalist and songwriter Lukas Graham Forchhammer, Lukas Graham has solidified their status as the breakout act of 2016. Their hit single “7 Years,” which they recently performed at the Billboard Music Awards, reached #1 at both Top 40 and Hot AC radio and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, with over 425 million Spotify streams and counting. Now, the band is gearing up for the launch of their second single, “Mama Said.,” which will head to radio later this month.
Lukas Graham’s self-titled debut album has received overwhelming critical acclaim since its April 1 release, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200 and propelling the band further into the global spotlight with what the New York Times describes as “neatly turned songs that merge the lilt of pop-soul with the quick cadences of hip-hop.” Hailing from Christiania, an autonomous, artistic community in the center of Copenhagen, Lukas developed his natural talent for honest and gritty songwriting. Classically trained with the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir, with a musical scope widened by his Irish folk roots and passion for hip-hop, Lukas possesses a distinct, poetic ability to capture the full range of emotions in his music.
Lukas Graham Tour Dates
November 10 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
November 11 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
November 13 Berkeley, CA The UC Theatre
November 15 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
November 16 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
November 18 Las Vegas, NV The Foundry at SLS
November 19 San Diego, CA House of Blues
November 21 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
January 9 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
January 10 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
January 12 Houston, TX House of Blues
January 13 San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theater
January 14 Dallas, TX House of Blues
January 16 Saint Louis, MO The Pageant
January 17 Chicago, IL House of Blues
January 18 Saint Paul, MN The Myth
January 20 Madison, WI Orpheum Theatre
January 21 Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace Theater
January 22 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
January 24 Detroit, MI Fillmore Detroit
January 25 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
January 27 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
January 28 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
January 29 Boston, MA House of Blues
January 31 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
February 1 Wallingford, CT The Dome at Toyota Presents Oakdale Theater
Prophets Of Rage Announce “Make America Rage Again” North American Tour
Assembling as a politically-charged response to 2016’s tumultuous election year, the newly-formed PROPHETS OF RAGE, features TOM MORELLO, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, Chuck D, B-Real and DJ LORD. Best described by Morello as an, “elite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election year bullshit,” the group combines the sonic firepower of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. The band has said that “dangerous times demand dangerous songs” and has fans using #MakeAmericaRAGEAgain and #TakeThePowerBack to engage across social media. In what the LA Times headlined simply as “REVOLUTIONARY,” the band’s mission is clear, promising “No Sleep till Cleveland,” the home of the 2016 Republican National Convention this July, where they have a planned performance on July 19th.
Following two sold-out shows at The Whisky and The Hollywood Palladium that had thousands of hopeful fans lined up in Los Angeles this week, and a sold-out show in Brooklyn at Warsaw Ballroom, the group has announced a national 35+ city North American tour, bringing their raging messages to the masses. The MAKE AMERICA RAGE AGAIN TOUR, will kick off in Cleveland, OH on July 19, in tandem with the Republican National Convention. From there the tour will include stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta before concluding in San Diego, mere weeks before 2016 Election Day. A portion of the proceeds from each show will benefit a local homeless charity.
Ticket on-sales begin Friday, June 10th at www.livenation.com, check local listings for timing.
PROPHETS OF RAGE 2016 TOUR DATES
All dates, venues and cities below subject to change.
| Date | City | Venue |
| July 19 | Cleveland, OH | TBD |
| Aug. 19 | Fairfax, VA | EagleBank Arena |
| Aug. 20 | Camden, NJ | BB&T Pavilion |
| Aug. 21 | Mansfield, MA | Xfinity Center |
| Aug. 23 | Hartford, CT | The Xfinity Theatre |
| Aug. 24 | Toronto, ON | Molson Canadian Amphitheatre |
| Aug. 26 | Holmdel, NJ | P.N.C. Bank Arts Center |
| Aug. 27 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| Aug. 28 | Wantagh, NY | Nikon at Jones Beach Theater |
| Aug. 30 | Noblesville, IN | Klipsch Music Center |
| Aug. 31 | Burgettstown, PA | First Niagara Pavilion |
| Sept. 1 | Clarkston, MI | DTE Energy Music Theatre |
| Sept. 3 | Tinley Park, IL | Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 4 | St. Louis, MO | Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 5 | Kansas City, MO | Providence Medical Center Amphitheater |
| Sept. 7 | Morrison, CO | Red Rocks Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 10 | Auburn, WA | White River Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 11 | Ridgefield, WA | Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 13 | Mt. View, CA | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
| Sept. 15 | Los Angeles, CA | The Forum |
| Sept. 17 | Phoenix, AZ | Ak-Chin Pavilion |
| Sept. 25 | Dallas, TX | Gexa Energy Pavilion |
| Sept. 27 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena |
| Sept. 29 | VA Beach, VA | Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater |
| Oct. 1 | Tampa, FL | MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater at Encore Park |
| Oct. 2 | West Palm Beach, FL | Perfect Vodka Amp |
| Oct. 4 | Alpharetta, GA | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre |
| Oct. 5 | Cincinnati, OH | Riverbend Music Center |
| Oct. 7 | Tulsa, OK | BOK Center |
| Oct. 8 | Houston, TX | Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion |
| Oct. 9 | San Antonio, TX | AT&T Center |
| Oct. 11 | El Paso, TX | El Paso County Coliseum |
| Oct. 12 | Albuquerque, NM | Isleta Amphitheatre |
| Oct. 14 | Las Vegas, NV | Mandalay Bay Event Center |
| Oct. 16 | Chula Vista, CA | Sleep Train Amphitheatre |
Keegan-Michael Key: “Improv actors are at war together”
Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key gives us a glimpse of the group dynamics in an improv troupe.
Bad lip reading: orchestral version will make you laugh with your ears covered
I love the many bad lip reading videos for movies and TV shows, but this is the first bad lip reading of an orchestra. It’s horrible to listen to, but brilliant.
Music using only Windows computer noises
In 1994, Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project.[38] The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, “The Microsoft Sound.” YouTuber syou2at has taken all the sounds on your computer under the Windows operating system, and recorded a pretty cool EDM track for your dancing pleasure.
Neil Gaiman On What Stories Are Really About
Listen.
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.
If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong.
Any story is about a host of things. It is about the author; it is about the world the author sees and deals with and lives in; it is about the words chosen and the way those words are deployed; it is about the story itself and what happens in the story; it is about the people in the story; it is polemic; it is opinion.
An author’s opinions of what a story is about are always valid and are always true: the author was there, after all, when the book was written. She came up with each word and knows why she used that word instead of another. But an author is a creature of her time, and even she cannot see everything that her book is about.
Why do we need the things in books? The poems, the essays, the stories? Authors disagree. Authors are human and fallible and foolish. Stories are lies after all, tales of people who never existed and the things that never actually happened to them. Why should we read them? Why should we care?
The teller and the tale are very different. We must not forget that.
Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our ideas from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human. And fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, and What Science Fiction Is and Does
Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – has died at the age of 74. The former world heavyweight champion died late on Friday at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, having been admitted on Thursday. He had been suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson’s disease.
He was, and will always be, The Greatest. Rest in peace, Champ.
https://youtu.be/EYoh62jUFpk
Steve Miller’s Isolated Vocals For “Fly Like An Eagle”
Steve Miller’s Fly Like an Eagle went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of March 12, 1977, kept from the top spot by “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” by Barbra Streisand. The single edit can be found on Greatest Hits (1974–1978). Live and on the radio, it’s usually played in tandem with Space Intro, but the song also segues into Wild Mountain Honey.
https://youtu.be/q67kd0c5Irg
What your phone looks like when you’re famous
Demy de Zeeuw is a Dutch soccer player that runs a soccer-based Instagram account. Look at what happens when he posts a photo.