Vans Warped Tour Day One to Stream on Yahoo

With a week until the 2015 Vans Warped Tour is slated to kick off their summer trek, organizers have revealed that the first day of the festivities are going to be broadcast live.

Those who might not be able to attend this year’s traveling rock show due to issues, will get the opportunity to watch 30 artists from this years line-up on four different stages from the comfort of their homes. The live broadcast will also feature backstage access as well as some behind-the-scenes footage.

The stream of the Pomona, CA stop on June 19 will go live at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. for those on the east coast) on Yahoo.

The list of artists who will be performing during the live broadcast can be seen below.

2015 VANS WARPED TOUR LIVE BROADCAST ACTS:

• PVRIS
• Attila
• We Came As Romans
• The Amity Affliction
• Transit
• Beartooth
• Memphis May Fire
• Black Veil Brides
• August Burns Red
• Bebe Rexha
• Blessthefall
• Mooseblood
• Riff Raff
• Neck Deep
• As It Is
• Night Riots
• This Wild Life
• Set It Off
• Family Force Five
• Metro Station
• Never Shout Never
• Mod Sun
• Hands Like Houses
• Motion City Soundtrack
• Juliet Simms
• Citizen
• Man Overboard
• Icon For Hire
• The Wonder Years
• Lee Corey Oswald
• Miss May I

Recording Academy Reveal First Couple of Grammy Categories, Nominees

It’s that time once again. The time of year when the Grammys announce the nominees for the 2015 incarnation of the yearly award ceremony. Earlier this morning, the Recording Academy revealed the first set of categories and their nominees during CBS’s This Morning with the help of previous collaborators and nominees each, Pharrell Williams and Ed Sheeran.

Check out the first four categories below as well as their nominees.

Best Rock Song:

“Ain’t It Fun” – Paramore

“Blue Moon” – Beck

“Fever” – The Black Keys

“Gimme Something Good” – Ryan Adams

“Lazaretto” – Jack White

Best Rock Album:

Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams

Morning Phase – Beck

Turn Blue – The Black Keys

Hypnotic Eye – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Songs of Innocence – U2

Best Country Album:

Riser – Dierks Bentley

The Outsiders – Eric Church

12 Stories – Brandy Clark

Platinum – Miranda Lambert

The Way I’m Livin – Lee Ann Womack

Best Pop Vocal Album:

Ghost Stories – Coldplay

Bangerz – Miley Cyrus

My Everything – Ariana Grande

Prism – Katy Perry

X – Ed Sheeran

In The Lonely Hour – Sam Smith

Best Urban Contemporary Album:

Sail Out – Jhené Aiko

Beyoncé – Beyoncé

X – Chris Brown

Mali Is – Mali Music

G I R L – Pharrell

Record Of The Year:

“Fancy,” Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX

“Chandelier,” Sia

“Stay With Me,” Sam Smith

“Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift

“All About That Bass,”  Meghan Trainor

As for the rest if the 75 categories that have yet to be announced, the Recording Academy will announce the rest around 11 a.m. PST while the big award of Album of the Year will be announced around 7 p.m. PST as part of CBS’ A Very Grammy Christmas special airing tonight.

South By Southwest Reveal Preliminary Musicians List

South by Southwest will be returning to Austin, TX next March, as always, and today the festival has announced the first wave of artists who will be performing at the annual event.

Artists confirmed in the first wave of reveals include: The Dodos, Jessie Ware, The Pop Group, Thee Oh Sees, Carl Barat and The Jackals, Twin Peaks, The Twilight Sad, The Big Pink, Ben Kweller, Mew, Courtney Barnett, Twerps, Black Milk, Bishop Nehru, Alvvays, Pharmakon, Lust For Youth, Dry the River, Hey Marseilles, Moon Duo, The Octopus Project, Sleep ∞ Over, Ume, The Stone Foxes, Jonathan Toubin, Warm Soda, Natural Child, The Lonely Wild, Civil Twilight, Cheerleader, and Angus & Julia Stone.

At the end of the full reveal, there will be over 1,000 acts descending in Austin for SXSW.

SXSW will take place from March 13 to March 22 with the musical portions of the event taking placing from March 17-22. If you’re interested in going, don’t wait too long, badges to attend are currently on sale on the festival’s website.

Awful News: Two Men Arrested for Assaulting Woman at Reading and Leeds

What should be one of the most enjoyable weekends across the pond has turned into an awful one for one attendants.

The Guardian is reporting that two people were arrested during yesterday’s installation of Reading and Leeds and not for some petty crime charge like theft or drugs, but for something a lot more serious.

According to British press, a 14-year-old boy from Surrey and a 31-year-old man from London have been arrested on suspicion of raping a young woman and are currently being held by Thames Valley police.

The victim, a 19-year-old woman, reported being attacked Thursday night “in a caravan on the festival trader’s site.” The woman, said she had met the man and the boy earlier in the day near an ice-cream van near a mobile phone charging station in one of the campsite.

But for those attending this year’s event and are a little concerned about things like this being a norm, don’t worry because it appears that the police have things under control, according to Chief Inspector Dave Parker, who spoke directly with The Guardian about this possibly occurring again.

“There is currently a scene watch in place and I would like to reassure those attending the festival that crime levels remain low and crimes of this nature are very rare. Officers are patrolling the site to support on-site security and if anyone has any concerns, please feel free to approach our officers to discuss this.”

On the upside, there have only been 21 (reported) crimes committed since Wednesday; five alleged drug offenses and 13 suspected thefts.

This year’s line up of Reading and Leeds has quite roster with blink-182, Paramore, The Arctic Monkeys, Jimmy Eat World, Queens of the Stone Age, Imagine Dragons, You Me at Six and many (many, many) more.

MTV Video Music Awards Reveal Full List of Performers

The MTV Video Music Awards are right around the corner and the annual music award show has finally unveiled the full list of performers that are slated to take the stage to perform.

For the last few weeks, the former music television network had been revealing performers once at a time to prolong the suspense for those who tune in annually.

Today, Sam Smith was revealed as the last performer on the list. Throughout the past weeks, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Rita Ora, Iggy Azalea, Maroon 5, Usher, Ariana Grande, 5 Seconds of Summer and Beyoncé (who will also be receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award) had been revealed to be taking the stage at some point during the normally two and a half hour music-centric award program.

In the award nomination portion of the show, Beyoncé leads this year’s pack with a grand total of eight while fellow performer, Iggy Azalea trails behind with seven nominations.

This year, MTV will be introducing a new category to the award show, the MTV Clubland Award which will capitalize on the recent popularity of electronic dance music (EDM).

The full list of nominees can be found here. The MTV Video Music Award will take place this Sunday, August 24, live from the refurbished The Forum in Inglewood, CA beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Want to Book Your Favorite Musician? It’ll Cost You: Part 2

Remember how a few months ago, there was a list going around the web letting fans know how much it would cost to have your favorite artists perform for you?

Well, it looks like there has been some new developments with that list. Turns out, the information that Degy Entertainment, the people who composed the actual list, used wasn’t exactly up-to-date. As was pointed out by Business Insider, the company did not “verify the veracity or timeliness of the list.”

Instead of pointing out all the flaws within the list, Business Insider teamed up with CelebrityTalent.net to reach out to managers in order to get a more accurate list of booking fee.

You can check out some of the brackets where your favorite artists fall into below, but to see the complete list, head on over here.

Want to Book Your Favorite Band? It Might Cost You

Over the past day, one of the most eye-opening lists was made and it all has to do with how much it would typically cost to book your favorite mudicians. Some musicians can start as low as $1.5K, but other, including high-profiled superstars, can easily cost you in the millions range. Can’t say we are surprised that some of the biggest names in pop culture and even some who haven’t had a hit song in a few years, can cost more than $100,000.

All that just to have someone sing you a song. YouTube and records, here we come. Or, we can always rob a bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lollapalooza Officially Announces 2014 Acts

Lollapalooza has finally come out and announced all the acts that will performing at the annual festival. Last week, a source had confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that Eminem, Kings of Leon, Skrillex and the Arctic Monkeys would be headlining.

Today, the festival confirmed the previously announced acts will in fact be headlining the weekend alongside Lorde, Calvin Harris and OutKast who can add this show to their long list of festival performances.

The rest of the 130-acts who will be taking the stage during the weekend long festival include: Nas, Lykke Li, Spoon, Interpol, Chance the Rapper, CHVRCHES, Broken Bells, Run the Jewels, Blood Orange, Jenny Lewis, Darkside, Chromeo, Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, Parquet Courts, Phosphorescent, Ratking, the 1975, Phantogram, Duke Dumont, Rich Homie Quan, Jhené Aiko, Vic Mensa, White Denim, Flosstradamus, the So So Glos, Jagwar Ma, the Head and the Heart, Kate Nash, the Avett Brothers, Foster the People, Young the Giant, Portugal. the Man, Childish Gambino, and many more.

The festival is set to return to its usual spot of Grant Park in Chicago during the weekend of August 1st-3rd. Sadly, for those individuals who would like to attend all three days of the festival, the three-day passes have already sold out for general admission.

Individual day tickets, though, are set to go on sale beginning at 10 a.m. Central, but if you are still interested in getting three-day passes, VIP and Platinum ones are still available.

Ultra Music Festival 2014 Time Schedule

Are you one of the thousands of people who will be congregating to Miami beginning next Friday for the Ultra Music Festival?

Well, if you are and not too sure when your favorite DJ or group will be performing ten look no further because we have acquire the complete schedule for the weekend long dance music festival. With artists such as Tiesto, M.I.A., MGMT, Diplo, Kaskade, Zedd, Avicii, Riff Raff and a whole lot more, you might want to take a gander at this list just so you don’t miss anyone and hate yourself once your hangover has worn off.

DAY ONE (Friday, March 28th):

Main Stage
11:00 p.m. Tiesto
9:50 p.m. Kaskade
8:30 p.m. Eric Prydz Presents Holo
7:10 p.m. Zedd
6:05 p.m. Diplo
5:00 p.m. Laidback Luke
4:00 p.m. Showtek

Live Stage
10:45 p.m. Gesaffelstein
9:40 p.m. MGMT
8:30 p.m. M.I.A.
7:20 p.m. Basement Jaxx
6:10 p.m. Chance the Rapper
5:00 p.m. Waka Flocka

Carl Cox & Friends Arena
10:30 p.m. Carl Cox
8:00 p.m. Luciano
7:00 p.m. Marco Carola
5:30 p.m. Maceo Plex
4:00 p.m. Jon Rundell

Underground Story, Presented by Story Miami and Link & Miami Rebels
10:30 p.m. Jamie Jones
9:00 p.m. Art Department
8:00 p.m. Damian Lazarus
7:00 p.m. Lee Burridge
6:00 p.m. Lee Foss
5:00 p.m. Soul Clap
4:00 p.m. Fur Coat

Ultra Worldwide
11:00 p.m. Carnage
10:00 p.m. Borgore
9:00 p.m. Adventure Club
8:00 p.m. The Glitch Mob
7:00 p.m. Datsik
6:00 p.m. Andy C
5:00 p.m. Zomboy
4:00 p.m. 3Lau

UMF Radio
11:00 p.m. Kill the Noise
10:00 p.m. Alvin Risk
9:00 p.m. 12th Planet
8:00 p.m. Figure
7:00 p.m. Crizzly
6:00 p.m. Paper Diamond
5:00 p.m. Dvbbs
4:00 p.m. Sluggers

Stage 7
11:00 p.m. Chainsmokers
10:00 p.m. Nate Campbell
9:00 p.m. DKS
8:00 p.m. Stanton Warriors
7:00 p.m. DJ Icey
6:00 p.m. Baby Anne
5:00 p.m. Proxxy & Lantern
4:00 p.m. Metaphysical

DAY TWO (Saturday, March 29th):

Main Stage
11:00 p.m. Avicii
9:40 p.m. Armin Van Buuren
8:35 p.m. Above & Beyond
7:30 p.m. Alesso
6:25 p.m. Nicky Romero
5:20 p.m. Krewella
4:15 p.m. Martin Garrix
3:15 p.m. W&W
2:15 p.m. Blasterjaxx
1:15 p.m. Rebecca & Fiona
12:30 p.m. Moti
Noon Mykris

Live Stage
11:00 p.m. Empire of the Sun
9:30 p.m. 2ManyDJs
8:05 p.m. Trentemoller
6:20 p.m. Paul Kalkbrenner
5:10 p.m. Gramatik
4:00 p.m. Infected Mushroom
2:50 p.m. Riff Raff
1:40 p.m. Tourist
12:30 p.m. Goldfish
Noon Afrobeta

Carl Cox & Friends Arena
10:00 p.m. Carl Cox
8:30 p.m. Loco Dice
7:00 p.m. Dubfire
5:00 p.m. Nic Fanciulli B2B Carl Cox
3:30 p.m. Umek
2:00 p.m. Pete Tong
Noon Monika Kruze

Underground Story, Presented by Story Miami and Link & Miami Rebels
10:30 p.m. Solomun
9:00 p.m. Tale of Us
8:00 p.m. H.O.S.H.
7:00 p.m. Adriatique
6:00 p.m. Claude VonStroke
5:00 p.m. Justin Martin
4:00 p.m. J.Phlip
3:00 p.m. Blond:ish
2:00 p.m. Kill Frenzy
1:00 p.m. Hardline B2B Danyelino B2B Hugo Biano
Noon Ms. Mada B2B Thunderpony

Ultra Worldwide
11:00 p.m. Dillon Francis
10:00 p.m. Flosstradamus
9:00 p.m. RL Grime
8:00 p.m. DJ Snake
7:00 p.m. GTA
6:00 p.m. Bro Safari
5:00 p.m. Been Trill
4:00 p.m. Just Blaze
3:00 p.m. Dirtyphonics
2:00 p.m. Craze
1:00 p.m. Brillz
Noon Grandtheft

UMF Radio
11:00 p.m. Cazzette
10:00 p.m. Dyro
9:00 p.m. Dannic
8:00 p.m. Ummet Ozcan
7:00 p.m. Audien
6:00 p.m. Don Diablo
5:00 p.m. Syn Cole
3:00 p.m. Henry Fong
2:00 p.m. Candyland
1:00 p.m. Stafford Brothers
Noon Pegboard Nerds

Stage 7
11:00 p.m. Los De La Vega
10:00 p.m. Sick Individuals
9:00 p.m. Plastik Funk
8:00 p.m. White Noize
7:00 p.m. Sydney Blu
6:00 p.m. Riotgear
5:00 p.m. Stefano Noferini
4:00 p.m. Phunk Investigation
3:00 p.m. Rod B & Re Dupre
2:00 p.m. Miss Melera
1:00 p.m. Kito & Takshak

DAY THREE (Sunday, March 30th):

Main Stage
10:00 p.m. Hardwell
8:50 p.m. David Guetta
7:40 p.m. Steve Angello
6:30 p.m. Afrojack
5:20 p.m. Jack U
4:10 p.m. Sander Van Doorn
3:05 p.m. Nervo
2:00 p.m. Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano
1:00 p.m. Tommie Sunshine
Noon Michael Brun

Live Stage
10:00 p.m. Subfocus (Live)
8:40 p.m. Chase & Status
7:20 p.m. Netsky (Live)
6:10 p.m. Example
4:50 p.m. Cut Copy
3:30 p.m. Dizzie Rascal
2:10 p.m. Pusha T
1:00 p.m. I See Monstas
Noon Eons

A State of Trance
10:00 p.m. Paul Van Dyk
8:30 p.m. Gaia
7:00 p.m. New World Punx
5:30 p.m. Aly & Fila B2B John O’Callaghan
4:30 p.m. Cosmic Gate
3:30 p.m. Myon & Shane 54
2:00 p.m. Andrew Rayel
1:00 p.m. Orjan Nilsen
Noon Jochen Miller

Ultra Ibiza, Presented by Space Ibiza
9:00 p.m. Cirez D
7:00 p.m. John Digweed
6:00 p.m. The Martinez Brothers
5:00 p.m. Dusky
4:00 p.m. Cajmere
3:00 p.m. Riotgear
2:00 p.m. Andrea Oliva
1:00 p.m. Danny Marquez
Noon Rony Seikaly

Ultra Korea
10:00 p.m. Fedde Le Grand
9:00 p.m. Gareth Emery
8:00 p.m. Cedric Gervais
7:00 p.m. Mat Zo
6:00 p.m. Danny Avila
5:00 p.m. Clockwork
4:00 p.m. Makj
3:00 p.m. TJR
2:00 p.m. Sandro Silva
1:00 p.m. DJ Koo
Noon Justin Oh

UMF Radio
10:00 p.m. Rac
9:00 p.m. Oliver
8:00 p.m. Moon Boots
7:00 p.m. Julio Bashmore
6:00 p.m. Cyril Hahn
5:00 p.m. Goldroom
4:00 p.m. Jonas Rathsman
3:00 p.m. Perseus
2:00 p.m. Isaac Tichauer
1:00 p.m. Viceroy
Noon Amtrac

Stage 7
10:00 p.m. Posso
9:00 p.m. Mykris
8:00 p.m. Rodrigo Vieira
7:00 p.m. Fresh vs. Euphonik
6:00 p.m. Antz
5:00 p.m. Elio Riso
4:00 p.m. Kryoman
3:45 p.m. Casey Kiss
2:45 p.m. Ideal & J-Break
1:45 p.m. Pedro M
1:00 p.m. Ranidu Presents Bailatronic
12:30 p.m. Tommy Walker
Noon Peter Holman

Watch the 2014 Oscar Performances

If you were the small percentage that did not tune in to see the Oscars, then don’t worry, it was long and boring except for the parts that host Ellen DeGeneres was on-screen including making fun of people, giving out pizza and crashing Twitter with “The Worlds Most Retweeted” picture.

During the show, several artists took to the stage to perform their Oscar nominated songs. Pharrell with his Smokey the Bear hat took to the stage for the Despicable Me 2 theme and radio hit, “Happy” with a group of dancer. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O. and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig performed “The Moon Song” from Her while U2 paid tribute to Nelson Mandela with “Ordinary Love” from Mandela. Idina Menzel got in touch with Snow Queen, Elsa to perform “Let it Go” from Frozen after John Travolta-gate.

With the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz is upon us and P!nk was asked to honor it by performing “Over the Rainbow.” Bette Midler sang “Wind Beneath My Wings” as part of the ‘In Memorium’ for all the fallen heroes of Hollywood.

All the videos can be seen below.