The 1975 reschedule February 2020 tour dates for October 2020

If you live in Europe and were pumped to see the 1975 in the spring, then we have some bad news for you guys.

On Wednesday (Dec. 11), the British band made the disheartening news that due to complications with their upcoming new album, their European tour set for February 2020 will now happen in October.

“Due to the time needed to complete the recording of the upcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form, we have made the decision to move the 1975’s EU tour from February 2020 to October 2020,” the band posted on social media.

All tickets purchased for the February dates will remain valid. For those who will not be able to attend the newly rescheduled shows (because life does happen after all), refunds will be available at the original point of purchase.

The newly rescheduled tour dates include gigs in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Milan, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Oslo.

In addition to the postponed dates, the foursome has also added four new stops to the rescheduled itinerary: Oct. 8 at Le Zénith in Paris, Oct. 21 at Stodola in Warsaw, Oct. 23 at Gasometer in Vienna, and Oct. 26 at Saku Surrhall in Tallinn.

While a slew of the band’s European shows was rescheduled, it looks like they will still appear at Australia’s Laneway Festival and headline their United Kingdom shows.

The 1975’s much-anticipated new album Notes on a Conditional Form is due out Feb. 21, 2020, through Dirty Hit / Interscope. Pre-orders are available for purchase here.

The band’s full statement about the postponed shows can be read below:

Due to the time needed to complete the recording of the upcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form, we have made the decision to move The 1975’s EU tour from February 2020 to October 2020.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and hope that everyone can make the new shows.

We understand that this will be a cause of upset, but rest assured the delay will make for the best shows possible.

Thanks in advance for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you in October.

All original tickets remain valid. For all those who cannot make the new dates, you will be able to get refunds at your original point of purchase.

Rage Against the Machine to reunite in 2020

Hold onto your wallets people, because it looks like Rage Against the Machine is getting back together for some reunion gigs.

On Friday (Nov. 1), rumors started to circulate after a post on Instagram under the band’s moniker went viral. According to the post, the group would be playing a total of five shows in 2020; El Paso on March 26, Las Cruce on March 28, Phoenix on March 30, and Indio, California, on April 10 and April 17.

As it has been pointed put by many publications and fans, the Indio dates just so happen to coincide with Coachella 2020, meaning that they will headline both weekends of the event.

Forbes’ contributor Steve Baltin spoke with Rage Against the Machine associate Wayne Kamemoto who pretty much confirmed that the post and the tour dates were legitimate.

“The band’s social media is accurate,” Kamemoto reportedly told Baltin.

Similarity, Consequence of Sound also obtained confirmation from “industry sources” who said that the posts and dates are correct.

Now, we’ve gotten official confirmation from the band themselves.

Yes…it's true…2020…👊pic.twitter.com/8V7juth2Wt

— RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (@RATM) November 1, 2019

Since this all started out as a rumor and took place on an unverified Rage Against the Machine Instagram account, fans were quick to accept this announcement with a grain of salt. It wouldn’t be the first time that a Rage Against the Machine reunion rumor had taken over the internet.

In an interesting and most likely related twist, Tom Morello posted the same exact image from the announcement on his official Instagram account earlier this week.

The five reunion shows will be the first time the group has performed together since their 2011 L.A. Rising Festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Watch: Stranger Things season three trailer includes sun, fun, and a Demogorgon

It’s time to put your favorite cassette into your sibling’s stolen Walkman because we’re about to take a trip back to Hawkins, Indiana. On Wednesday (March 20), Netflix released the first full trailer for the upcoming season of their smash hit, “Stranger Things.”

The teaser finds the crew celebrating their freedom from school and evil, at least for the time being. The three-minute-clip includes a look at how Max and Eleven have been integrated into the group. How Eleven and Max’s friendship has grown. The impact of having girls in the group has on the once strong-friendship (especially for Will and Dustin). How Dustin and Steve’s brother figure connection has evolved since the end of season two. And how Joyce and Hopper’s budding relationship is going.

But because this is “Stranger Things,” don’t expect the big bad of the season to be jealousy. Halfway through the clip, the carefree aura of summer vacation switches as Hopper tells an unknown person (we’re led to believe it’s either Joyce of Eleven) how he still wants them to feel like Hawkins is still their home. As Hopper’s voice is heard, a clip of a man with a gun in a funhouse plays. We also can’t forget our introduction to an evolved and freaky-looking Demogorgon.

As the tagline for this season says, “one summer can change everything.”

Watch the trailer for “Stranger Things” season three above.

“Stranger Things” returns to Netflix on July 4.

Hugh Jackman announces his return to Broadway in ‘The Music Man’ revival

We all know that Hugh Jackman is “the greatest showman” and now it looks like he’s ready to return to where it all started. On Wednesday (March 13), the performer announced plans to return to Broadway in 2020. Taking to social media, Jackman revealed that he will star in the upcoming revival of Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic “The Music Man.”

“The Music Man. Broadway. October 22, 2020. ⁦@MusicManBway⁩,” Jackman posted on Twitter.

Jackman will play the role of Harold Hill, a con man whose latest scheme involves posing as the organizer of a boys’ marching band in a ploy to run away with all the money he collects for instruments and uniforms.

Jackman is no stranger to the Broadway stage having performed in several productions including “Oklahoma!” and his one-man show.

His role as Hill will mark the first time in over a decade that the actor will perform on a Broadway stage. His last Broadway role as Peter Allen in “The Boy from Oz” earned him a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Group tickets go on sale on June 9, 2019, while single tickets go on sale Sept. 15, 2019.

Previews for the show begin on Sept. 9, 2020, with opening night taking place a few weeks later on Oct. 22, 2020. The show will take over one of the Shubert Organization’s theatres.

Before returning to Broadway, Jackman will spend most of the spring and summer months on the road for his “The Man. The Music. The Show” one-man show.

The first leg of the tour will find Jackman performing at venues across Europe with stops in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester, and Dublin. The 12-stop jaunt will begin on May 13 at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany and conclude with a two-night engagement at the O2 Arena in London on June 2 and 3.

Following a couple of weeks off, Jackman will journey across the pond for the United States-centric leg of the tour. The 22-stop excursion will begin on June 18 at the Toyota Center in Houston and conclude with a double-night engagement at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on July 19 and 20.

The show’s set list will include songs from his past films like “The Greatest Showman” and “Les Miserables” as well as Broadway songs from productions like “Oklahoma!” and “The Boy from Oz.” The full list of tour dates can be found here.

Every Avenue announce two reunion shows

Just in time for the Halloween season, Every Avenue have announced that they are back from the dead. On Monday (Oct. 1), the Michigan-founded band revealed on social media that not only had they reunited, but that they had two shows already lineup for the month of December. Taking to Twitter, the group posted an image of a tour flyer with the caption, “Weeeeeeee’re back!”

The flyer, which fittingly features a zombie arm popping out of a grave with a beer in hand and a tombstone reading RIP 2003-2018, features two tour dates; Dec. 28 at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago and Dec. 29 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit. In addition to the dates, the flyer also confirms the act’s resurrection with the message: “They came on December 28 and 29, in the year 2018, once presumed dead, but no…Every Avenue, they’re alive!”

Check out the flyer and the band’s message here.

The band’s reunion and newly announced tour dates comes six years after calling it a day. While the five-piece did split up in 2012, they always maintained that it was much more of a “see you later” than a permanent break.

“We’ve always said ‘this is see you later, we’re not into goodbyes,” said the band in a joint post at the time.

“We are not breaking up, and are not on bad terms. We have all reached a new chapter in our lives and we are excited about exploring new possibilities!”

Every Avenue’s last studio album was 2011’s Bad Habits. The album was released through Fearless Records.

Live Nation’s National Concert Week offers $20 all-in tickets for hundreds of shows

Summer 2018 seems to be the summer that every single musician has decided to hit the road on some kind of tour. Of course, for those of us who are not financial secure, the slew of shows make it hard to decide which to buy tickets for and which we will need to pass on until the next time. On Tuesday (April 24), Live Nation announced their $20 All-In Tickets in honor of National Concert Week. For a week, the event tickets giant will be offering $20 tickets for a slew of popular tours that will hit North America during the summer months.

The $20 tickets deal will begin on Monday, April 30, at 8 a.m. local time and conclude the following Tuesday, May 8, at 11:59 p.m. local time. The deal does not include ticket delivery and print-at-home fees.

While lists like this typically include tours that are not selling very well, Live Nation has made sure to include some of their biggest tour to hit the road during the summer. Fans will be able to choose from over 2,000 Live Nation shows from all genres of music including rock, pop, hip-hop, rap, Latin, and even speaking tours (looking at you Joe Biden). The massive list includes some of our favorite acts like Paramore (Tour Five), 5 Seconds of Summer (Meet You There tour), the final Vans Warped tour, Thirty Seconds to Mars (“Monolith” tour), Weezer and the Pixies (their co-headlining tour), Taking Back Sunday and Coheed and Cambria (their joint tour), Charlie Puth (Voicenotes tour), Kesha and Macklemore (their co-headlining tour), and many more.

The complete list of participating tours can be seen below. For more information about Live Nation’s National Concert Week $20 All-In tickets, head on over to their website here.

LIVE NATION’S NATIONAL CONCERT WEEK SHOWS:

311 / The Offspring
3 Doors Down / Collective Soul
5 Seconds of Summer
Alan Jackson
Arcade Fire
Avenged Sevenfold / Prophets of Rage
Backstreet Boys
Beck
Bon Jovi
Brad Paisley
Breaking Benjamin / Five Finger Death Punch
Bush / Stone Temple Pilots / The Cult
Charlie Puth
Chicago / REO Speedwagon
Chris Brown
Coheed and Cambria / Taking Back Sunday
Counting Crows / LIVE
David Blaine
Dead & Company
Def Leppard / Journey
Dierks Bentley
Dwight Yoakam / Lucinda Williams / Steve Earle
Enanitos Verdes / Hombres G
Erasure
Foreigner / Whitesnake / Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening
Game of Thrones Live Experience
G-Eazy
Godsmack / Shinedown
Gov’t Mule / The Avett Brothers
Hall & Oates / Train
Halsey
Imagine Dragons
Janet Jackson
Jason Aldean
Jeff Beck / Paul Rodgers
Joe Biden
Juanes / Mon Laferte
Keith Urban
Kesha / Macklemore
Kevin Hart
Kid Rock
KIDZ BOP LIVE 2018
Kygo
Lady Antebellum / Darius Rucker
Lindsey Stirling / Evanescence
Logic
Luis Miguel
Luke Bryan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Maroon 5
Miranda Lambert / Little Big Town
Ms. Lauryn Hill
NEEDTOBREATHE / JOHNNYSWIM
Niall Horan
ODESZA
Ozzy Osbourne
Paramore
Pentatonix
Poison / Cheap Trick
Post Malone
Rascal Flatts
Ray LaMontagne
Rise Against / AFI
Rob Zombie / Marilyn Manson
Rod Stewart / Cyndi Lauper
Shakira
Shania Twain
Steely Dan / The Doobie Brothers
Styx / Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vans Warped Tour
Weezer / Pixies
Zac Brown Band

Watch the first official trailer for ‘Westworld’

Who’s ready to return to Westworld? Given how patiently fans have been waiting for the trailer for the second season of the hit HBO show, a lot are.  On Thursday (March 29), the first full-length trailer for the show’s sophomore season was released. The trailer, not to be confused with the teasers that were released at Comic-Con and during the Super Bowl, begins with Bernard talking to Dolores like he did throughout the first season of the show.

Throughout the clip, the viewer gets to see what is going on at the hub, how the hosts are getting ready to take down the creators, introduces the viewer to a brand new world all while a haunting, piano version of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” plays in the background.. The clip ends with Dolores creepily saying “why on Earth would you ever be frightened of me.” Watch the almost three-minute trailer for season two of Westworld above.

Westworld returns to HBO on April 22.

Houston Open Air Festival to launch in September

A couple of months after announcing the launch of the Chicago Open Air music festival, festival organizers have unveiled that the fest will be getting a sister location. On Monday (May 16), the people behind the World’ s Loudest Month concert series announced that they will be launching the Houston Open Air music festival in September. During the announcement, it was confirmed that acts like Avenged Sevenfold, Pierce the Veil, Of Mice & Men, Alice in Chains, The Word Alive, and more would make their way to the Lone Star State at the end of September.

Heading to the NRG Park in Houston during the weekend of Sept. 24-25 will also be Deftones, Slayer, Chevelle, The Cult, Ministry, Alter Bridge, Ghost, Anthrax, HELLYEAH, Avatar, letlive., and many more. For those who are interested in attending, early bird tickets for the two-day event will begin this Tuesday, May 17, at noon CDT. A limited amount of tickets will be available for $89.50 or $99.50, while supplies last. Those wanting to spend the complete weekend at the show will be able to purchase weekend passes for $234.50. If you are not able to obtain early bird tickets, then general admission tickets will go on sale beginning this Friday, May 20, at noon CDT. The full lineup can be seen below.

In addition to the list of rocking artists heading to Houston, festival organizers have also unveiled that  a portion of the proceeds will be donated Greater Houston Storm Relief Fund to assist with recent flooding in the Houston area.  The Greater Houston Storm Relief Fund was established by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to accept flood relief donations that will stay in the Houston community and aid the victims of the recent storms. If you cannot attend or want to donate directly, you can visit the website here.

A Static Lullaby to Reunite After Three-Year Hiatus

A Static Lullaby may have called it a day a couple of years ago (three years to be exact), but now, the band has confirmed plans to reunite. On Monday (Dec. 28), the group announced their slight reunion with a handful of shows in early 2016. The four shows will take place at different venues in the band’s home state of California and will feature them performing their debut album …And Don’t Forget to Breathe, in its entirety.

The first two …And Don’t Forget to Breathe shows are scheduled to take place in late February. On Feb. 26, the band will perform at the Soda Bar in San Diego while on Feb. 27, they will hit the stage at The Glasshouse in Pomona. After a month off, the band will finish the shows in late March. On March 25, they will perform at Orangevale’s The Boardwalk and on March 26, they will wrap it all up with a show at San Francisco’s Social Hall SF.

Check out the official poster for the shows below and don’t forget to refresh your minds with the lyrics for “The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us.”

A Static Lullaby announced their official disbandment back in 2012. Longtime guitarist/co-founder Dan Arnold was the first to announce the news of the separation in early 2012. A couple of days later, the group confirmed the news and even announced that their last show together would take place in Indonesia July 7, 2012.

A Static Lullaby’s final album before the hiatus was 2008’s Rattlesnake!

Asking Alexandria Cancel Upcoming Two Shows

Less than 24 hours after revealing the identity of their new singer, Asking Alexandria have already had to cancel two upcoming tour dates.

The band announced this morning new vocalist, Denis Shaforostov was not granted his visa because the “US government took far longer than anyone could have predicted” resulting in them having to cancel their performances at both Manchester Academy on Sunday (May 31) and the London Underworld on Monday (June 1).

Taking to the web, guitarist Ben Bruce unveiled the saddening, and most likely infuriating news, but did let the fans know that the other guys (sans Shaforostov) will be at the venue for both shows to “hang out.”

Sorry Denis.

“It is with a heavy heart and a great deal of frustration that I must regrettably inform you that our two UK shows have been cancelled due to visa problems.

We have spent the last few days doing everything we possibly can to make sure that these shows wouldn’t be cancelled but at the end of the day the US government took far longer than anyone could have predicted giving Denis his visa which has left us no time to finish his visa process to enter the UK.

You have no idea how much we were all looking forward to these shows and I promise you we will make it up to you. Myself, James, Cam and Sam will still be flying to the UK and will be at the venues on the day of each show to hang out with you guys.”