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Yesterday may have been Father’s Day, but EW’s social media all-star Nika Vagner and I were the ones who received the greatest gift of all — a triple bill of boy-band hotness, courtesy of New Kids on the Block’s cheekily named The Package Tour, featuring 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men.
We posted to EW’s Instagram and Vine accounts last night from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Now I’m here to deliver the in-depth report: READ FULL STORY »
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You know what the worst part about summer music fests are? Not being able to attend them!
Luckily the friendly folks at KROQ, the L.A. radio station that throws their annual multi-band rock bonanza Weenie Roast every year in nearby Irvine, Calif., have found a way to let you be there without burning all you sick days (or your money): By streaming the whole festival live.
Slated performances include the Black Keys (pictured above), Vampire Weekend, Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World, 30 Seconds to Mars, and more, this year’s Weenie Roast (now in its 21st year). Click below for the live stream and a full schedule (all times PDT) of the day’s performers, which will kick off with a preshow at noon PDT/3pm EST:
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Get ready for a summer full of H.W.A: Holograms With Attitude.
The touring hip-hop festival Rock the Bells announced its 10th-annual lineup, and a cursory perusal indicates it’s in line with previous iterations, with a mix of exciting new players (Earl Sweatshirt, Black Hippy, Flatbush Zombies) and venerable veterans (Jurassic 5, Common, Rakim).
That’s until get to the bottom of the list, however, and see that this year’s Rock the Bells will include not one but two holograms — Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E, to be specific. Way to bury the lede, Rock the Bells!
Billed as “special guests,” the resurrected late greats will offer up “original virtual performances,” whatever that means. ODB — also known as Big Baby Jesus and Dirt McGirt, among other names — will be hitting the stage with the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan, who are in the festival’s lineup. He died of a drug overdose in 2004. Eazy-E, was originally a member of gangsta-rap pioneers N.W.A., but he’ll be joining his mentees Bone Thugs N Harmony. That group’s 1996 hit “The Crossroads” was written in honor of Eazy-E, who died of complications from AIDS in 1995.
So, where can you catch these rapping apparitions? Rock the Bells will be taking place at the following dates:
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Beginning this Friday, May 17, Tom Petty will be getting not one but two new stations dedicated to his music on SiriusXM satellite radio.
One will feature an overview of Petty’s entire career, from his work with the Heartbreakers to his solo material and his stints with Mudcrutch and the Traveling Wilburys, available to SiriusXM subscribers on channel 111. It will be available until June 14.
The other will be dedicated to episodes of Petty’s show Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure, which airs every Thursday night on SiriusXM channel 27 and features Petty opening up his vaults and discussing deeper cuts from his huge catalog. Both stations will feature studio tracks and rarely heard live material, and Buried Treasure will air around the clock on SiriusXM Internet Radio.
Petty joins a select group of artists who have received their own station. The current lineup includes channels devoted solely to Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, and Jimmy Buffet, while past special channels have been dedicated to Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones, Coldplay, ABBA, and Metallica. READ FULL STORY »
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After 20 years of being in the music biz, the Backstreet Boys are as busy as ever. After previewing their new album, announcing their upcoming documentary, and earning a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, the boy band has announced that they are going on tour this summer.
BSB member Nick Carter told Ryan Seacrest that all five members are hitting the road for a new tour, titled In A World Like This, which kicks off on Aug. 2 in Chicago. The band will be joined on the road by Jesse McCartney and Jersey Shore‘s DJ Pauly D.
Check out the band’s website for a full list of tour dates. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 17.
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Justin Bieber must have been listening to a little Chumbawumba while on tour in Dubai, as he did in fact get knocked down and get back up again.
During Sunday night’s performance at Dubai’s Sevens Stadium, a fan broke through Bieber’s security and bounded toward the singer during a run through the title track from his latest album Believe. He didn’t get very far: A guard stormed the stage and tackled the overzealous fan, knocking over a grand piano. Ever the professional, Bieber simply sauntered away from the fracas and continued on with the song. It’s the latest unfortunate incident in a year full of them, involving fights, drugs, Anne Frank, and at least one monkey.
Check out fan-shot video of the incident below. READ FULL STORY »
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The three surviving Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, will be going on a cross-country tour this summer, beginning July 15. Titled “A Midsummer’s Night With The Monkees,” the show will be a multimedia look into the band’s song catalog. Using old footage and photos to supplement the time-travel journey, the Midsummer’s Night will kick off with hits like “I’m a Believer” and end with songs from the band’s 1996 reunion album, “Just Us.”
Davy Jones passed away in February 2012, but the band’s reunion tour in November and December of the same year were successful. Fans thrilled to see the Monkees back together, and the remaining band members paid tribute to Jones’ memory by including video of him in their recent shows together.
According to a statement by band member Micky Dolenz, there have been talks of recording another album and of expanding the tour. Presale and VIP tickets will be available on May 1, with general tickets going on sale on May 3.
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Hold on to your flannels, kids: revered indie-rock band Neutral Milk Hotel is reuniting for the first time in fifteen years.
The Athens, GA, group behind 1998′s seminal In the Aeroplane Over the Sea just announced a small string of tour dates this fall on their official web site. And while the band’s elusive leader Jeff Mangum has been trotting out NMH songs during his handful of shows in recent years, this new outing will bring together the full NMH crew, including Jeremy Barnes, Scott Spillane, and Julian Koster, playing together for the first time since the year Aeroplane was released.
Only a few dates have been set so far, but the band’s site teases that more will be announced soon — hopefully including one in Pawnee, for April Ludgate’s sake. As of now, though, you’ll be able to catch them at the following few dates:
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Bob Dylan is literally always on tour — his “Never Ending” trek technically started way back in 1988, if you buy into the Dylan mythology.
But this summer, he’s putting together his own package tour, AmericanaramA. Wilco and My Morning Jacket are slated to round out the top of the bill, which will hit 26 different dates. Several acts will rotate in on the undercard, including Ryan Bingham and the Richard Thompson Electric Trio.
The tour kicks off on June 26 in West Palm Beach, Florida and wraps up August 4 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, April 24. Check out the complete list of dates and venues below. READ FULL STORY »
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In an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest today, Selena Gomez announced that she is set to hit the road this summer for a 56-date world tour. Gomez’s “Stars Dance” kicks off Aug. 4 in Vancouver.
“I couldn’t be more excited to tour again but this time around the world,” Gomez wrote on Facebook. READ FULL STORY »
