Today at a press conference in Paris, Modern Rock legends Depeche Mode announced European dates for the 2013 worldwide tour, as well as some details about their as yet unnamed new album. The tour will kick off in at Tel Aviv in Israel in May with 31 dates already set, though North American shows have yet to be detailed. [Read more…]
British alternative rock band Muse will hit arenas in North America at the start of the year, concurrently concluding their touring overseas with Japan, in support of their latest album, The 2nd Law. Tickets are currently on sale via Live Nation, Goldenvoice, and Another Planet Entertainment. [Read more…]
Grammy Award-winning artist P!nk has announced a Spring 2013 North American tour in support of her recently released album, The Truth About Love. Her first tour here in four years, the concert series will cover 24 dates in February and March 2013, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona. Tickets are now on sale via Live Nation. [Read more…]
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine recently announced their 2013 North American tour for this year’s hit album, Overexposed. The 31 date tour kicks off on February 13th in Columbus, Ohio and runs through early April. Tickets are now on sale via Live Nation, with special packages also offered via VIP Nation. [Read more…]
Grammy Award-winning artist Rihanna will be bringing her “Diamonds World Tour” to North America in Spring of 2013, and tickets are already on sale via Live Nation with additional special packages via VIP Nation. [Read more…]
Lady Gaga recently outlined her “Born This Way Ball” tour dates for North America in 2013. The support of the 2011 album started in Asia last year and she is currently touring Europe and will continue to Latin America and Africa. The 26 date run in Canada and the United States kicks off in mid-January in Vancouver. [Read more…]
The Who surviving members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey will be having their first tour in North America in four years starting November 1 and continuing well into 2013, with 37 dates planned. Title “Quadrophenia and More, the show will include a performance of the entire 1973 album. Tickets are on sale through AEG Live and Ticketmaster. [Read more…]
“Most times I try to think about how blessed my life is, and what a great time I’m gonna have in the future”… An optimistic and heartfelt sentiment shared by Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell, somewhere in the middle of an amazing concert last night. Jane’s Addiction pretty much figuratively kicked the door open from the 80s and into the 90s with their alternative music, genre defining single, “Stop!”, off their 1990 album Ritual de lo habitual. A truly pioneering band with a unique post-punk/post-goth (and at times hard) rock sound; if “Stop!” kicked the door in, “Been Caught Stealing” off the same album hammered a wedge in that door for the next generation of music that followed. At the Mondavi Center in Davis last night, some 22 or so years later, “Stop!” closed out one of the best shows I’ve been to all year. A fantastic celebration of amazing music by an awesome band, who, collectively and with individual efforts outside of their group, have had a tremendous and ongoing influence on pop culture in challenging ideas and preconceived notions. Maybe it is just in their nature, but they continue breaking new ground and opening doors well into their careers, and never lost their grasp on how to put on a great rock concert and connect with their fans.
New Wave revolutionary? Prince?? Pirate??? Adam Ant has adopted a multitude of roles spanning many decades… but as an icon of post-punk and early 80s music and pop culture, he still knows how to kill it on stage, which is what he did for the sold out crowd at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco last night, tearing through a massive 28+ song set list that still left out some fan favorites. Who would have imagined when he came on the scene in the mid to late 70s that not only would he still be selling out shows, but he’d still be relevant (and, looking backward, prescient) well into his late 50’s. Truly an artist musician, Adam Ant has created a culture and world all his own, and it is definitely a fun place to visit.
This article features the fourth in an ongoing series of “Rock Talk” podcast audio interviews for the Rock Subculture Journal. Today’s guest is Christian McAlhaney of Anberlin. I saw the band perform live at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Friday. Anberlin’s sixth studio album, Vital, will be released in the U.S. tomorrow, and they will be headlining a new tour throughout November. Mr. McAlhanely, guitarist with Anberlin, talked about their new album, touring, their history as a band, and the music industry at large.
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