After being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday (Oct. 30), electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk are announcing plans for a 2022 North American tour that will kick off on May 27 in St. Louis, Missouri. The run of shows will make up some of the dates from the band’s 2020 tour, which
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On Saturday, Brandi Carlile made her Saturday Night Live debut, performing two songs from her new album In These Silent Days, including “Right on Time” and “Broken Horses.” Next year, Carlile will hit the road in support of the project, which debuted atop Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart, Top Rock Albums chart and Tastemaster Albums chart. The six-time
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Your palm could soon be your ticket into a concert. Amazon says it is bringing its palm-recognition technology to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver and it will be available at other venues in the coming months. It’s the first time the technology, called Amazon One, will be used outside some of Amazon’s stores, where
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For a year and a half during the pandemic, concerts seemed more dangerous than just about any other setting. Then came vaccines, and shows trickled back, from Madison Square Garden to Red Rocks Amphitheatre — until the fast-spreading delta variant ripped through a Netherlands festival, leading to 1,000 infections, and the Foo Fighters postponed a show after a
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A week after Live Nation and Dierks Bentley canceled the Seven Peaks Music Festival “due to current capacity restrictions in place by local health officials,” the local officials in Chaffee County, Colo., are pushing back. They say Live Nation put tickets on sale June 13 for the Labor Day weekend (Sept. 3–5) festival in scenic mountain hamlet Buena Vista, but had not obtained permit approval in advance, and was
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Phoebe Bridgers is headed back out on the road this fall with special guest MUNA. The “Kyoto” singer will play her first ticketed live events since 2019 starting in September and running through October. The Reunion Tour will kick off on Sept. 3 at The Pageant in St. Louis, Mo., and hit up Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Taking the stage not far from trucks roaring down Interstate 25 in Cheyenne, Wyo., with the faint odor of manure from the air, Subtronics announced to a fist-pumping EDM audience packed to a general-admission pit: “I’will shout! We’re actually back at this time. Is this true? ” Regardless of the unusual location,
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In their tiny rehearsal space in an old Birmingham, Ala., shopping center, where a mystery critter nibbled inside the walls, all eight members of the soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones spent three-plus hours in mid-April playing their songs — without masks or social distancing. The band members are fully vaccinated, and with
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The numbers are in for Billy Strings’ six-night run at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York last week. The bluegrass phenom sold 20,000 pay-per-view tickets for four shows streamed on Fans.live, and lured another 200,000 viewers who tuned in for the series opener and finale broadcast on Twitch. At one point during the
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American music lovers have a intricate relationship with the heaps of amphitheaters that criss-cross the United States. A handful are placed on a base for their stunning design and acoustics — think Denver’s Red Rocks or the Gorge in Washington state — while the majority are only tolerated by lovers who slog through muddy parking
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