J Balvin marked the release of his new album Jose by performing his Skrillex-produced track “In Da Getto” during a visit to The Tonight Show Thursday. “In De Getto,” also co-produced by Tainy, is built around an interpolation of the Nineties dance hit “In De Ghetto” by David Morales and …
Read More »The Residents Cancel 'Dog Stab!' 50th-Anniversary Tour
UPDATE (8/23): The Residents have canceled their Dog Stab! 50th-Anniversary Tour due to continued concerns about the spread of Covid-19 cases from the Delta variant. While the bulk of shows will be axed, the band will keep three gigs in California: September 15th at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles, …
Read More »Bon Iver Announces Special Live Shows for Album's 10th Anniversary
Bon Iver has announced that they’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2011 album Bon Iver, Bon Iver, with two live performances at Los Angeles’ newly opened YouTube Theater. The performances at the Inglewood venue will take place Friday, October 22nd and Saturday, October 23rd. Tickets go on sale …
Read More »Bleachers Plan to Enforce Vaccination/Negative Test Mandate on Upcoming Tour
Bleachers is the latest artist to mandate that fans attending their upcoming tour either be vaccinated or supply a negative Covid-19 test. “Working with the promoters and venues now to make sure all shows are vaccine/negative test for entry for the Bleachers tour,” Jack Antonoff tweeted Wednesday. “We’re not messing …
Read More »Chris Young Announces Famous Friends Headlining Tour
Chris Young has announced a fall headlining tour in support of his new album Famous Friends. Titled after the LP, the Famous Friends Tour launches October 21st in Little Rock, Arkansas, and plays 13 shows into early December. Mitchell Tenpenny and Callista Clark will open the majority of dates. “Touring …
Read More »Brooks & Dunn Plot 2021 Reboot Tour
Brooks & Dunn have announced a new fall tour with a decidedly Nineties country edge: The duo’s 2021 Reboot Tour features Travis Tritt as the opening act. Kicking off Labor Day weekend in Indianapolis at the Ruoff Music Center, the fall tour runs through early October and plays markets like …
Read More »Durand Jones & the Indications Release 'Love Will Work It Out'
Durand Jones & the Indications have released their new song “Love Will Work It Out,” alongside a video of the band performing the new track. “For months into the pandemic and the racial/political chaos that ensued, we found it hard to write. The biggest creative dry spell we’d experienced in …
Read More »How 2020 Changed the Music Business Forever
If the music business were allowed to write its own history, every year’s chronicle would glow with variations on the same theme — the words “transformation,” “revolution,” and “record-breaking sea change” chief among the lexicon — ad nauseam. But in the peculiar shadow of 2020, these bombastic end-of-year appraisals, for …
Read More »For Music's Crew Workers, 2020 Has Been Devastating
I n an alternate universe, NicWeldon would be focusing one of his video cameras on Janet Jackson right about now. At 35, he’s spent most of his working life on road crews, as either a director or a cameraman on tours with the Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Ricky Martin. …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers Drops Stellar New Song, 'I See You,' Announces Virtual World Tour
Phoebe Bridgers originally titled her new single “ICU,” but upon its release on Tuesday, she’s changed it to “I See You,” due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, or, as she explains, “*gestures at entire world*.” The track opens with a tumultuous, skittering intro as Bridgers’ vocals enter: “I’ve been playing …
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