Today we talk about Paramore going on tour, Kylie Jenner pissing off the internet, and the shooting in Greenwood, Indiana. Paramore Goes on Tour Paramore made an announcement this weekend and we still aren’t over it. The band is going on tour this year, starting in October, and it sounds like it’s going to be the best time. They’ll have 12 dates in North America and will be performing at Austin City Limits and We Are Young Festival in between dates. The tour kicks off in Bakersfield, CA and ends in Mexico City, Mexico. The last album released by Paramore,… Read more »
The Band Camino have already embarked on their second headlining tour across the United States and have sold out more than half of the dates.
All Time Low have released their new music video for “Something’s Gotta Give”, the first single from their upcoming album ‘Future Hearts’.
Chicago-based indie rock band Empires have just released their new song “Please Don’t Tell My Lover” off their upcoming EP How Good Does It Feel, which will be released on June 17 via Chop Shop/Island Records.
Kings of Leon will be among the headliners of this year’s Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits festivals, Billboard Magazine is reporting. Depeche Mode the Beastie Boys and Jane’s Addiction are also playing Lollapalooza, which takes place in Chicago’s Grant Park Aug. 7-9, the Chicago Tribune reports and Billboard’s sources confirm. Both events are produced by Austin, Texas-based C3 Productions. The full Lollapalooza lineup announcement is expected in April. Among the known top headliners for this year’s Lollapalooza, Kings of Leon are the only band that wasn’t around when the event debuted in 1991 as a traveling, multi-city festival. The Nashville-based… Read more »
November 4 was a historic night for the United States, the city of Chicago and, on another level, for C3 Presents. C3, an Austin, Texas-based promoter/event producer whose principals are Charlie Jones, Charles Attal and Charlie Walker, produces Chicago’s Lollapalooza and Austin’s Austin City Limits Festival . It now has another production credit: Barack Obama ‘s election night victory rally in Chicago’s Grant Park. “It was definitely one of the coolest things I have ever been involved in,” Jones says. “It was a humbling experience and very emotional.” C3’s relationship with the Obama campaign began during the Democratic Party presidential… Read more »
Beck’s new album is shaping up to be a game of Cat and Mouse. The Grammy-winning alt-rocker plans to issue his eighth major-label studio album this summer, an as-yet-untitled 10-song set produced by Gnarls Barkley board whiz Danger Mouse and reportedly featuring a guest appearance by indie rocker Cat Power. The new material clocks in at a concise 30 minutes and is the follow-up to 2006’s The Information, which peaked at No. 7 and sold 380,000 copies. Beck touted the project on his website, but neither he nor Interscope have announced a specific street date, leading to speculation that it… Read more »
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will hit the road for a 13-date fall tour of the East Coast, kicking off on September 22 in Duluth, Ga. and wrapping October 9 in Rochester, N.Y. Dylan is currently touring Australia and New Zealand, and will also perform September 16 at the Austin City Limits festival in Texas. A complete list of the tour dates can be seen via BobDylan.com.
Are the re-formed Smashing Pumpkins set to rock Lollapalooza? Will the long-dormant Police return at Bonnaroo? How about a reunited Nirvana taking the stage at South by Southwest, only with Ben Kweller playing guitar and singing Kurt’s vocals? All three sound too good to be true, little more than the pipe dreams of manic music buffs with way too much free time. But incredibly, they’re all “100 percent confirmed” by sources with intimate knowledge about such things. But don’t go crazy just yet. It’s entirely possible that absolutely none of the above information is true. After all, we’re smack-dab in… Read more »
Nashville – The Pixies, Weezer, Widespread Panic, the Killers, the Arcade Fire, Liz Phair, the Black Keys and Death Cab For Cutie are among the acts that will play the reconfigured Lollapalooza festival, which will take place July 23-24 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Also on the bill are Cake, Dashboard Confessional, Dinosaur Jr., Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Louis XIV, Tegan & Sara, M83, Los Amigos Invisibles, Blue Merle, the Redwalls, the Changes, Dandy Warhols, Digable Planets, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Billy Idol, the Bravery and Blonde Redhead. The lineup was announced Friday in Chicago. Lollapalooza 2005 will be produced by Capital Sports… Read more »
