Concerts
Nelly Furtado Leads Lineup For Australia’s Beyond The Valley Festival
Nelly Furtado will make her comeback to the stage with a one-off New Year’s Eve festival performance in the land Down Under. The “I’m Like a Bird” singer is booked to perform at Beyond The Valley, a popular camping fest set in rural Victoria, and produced by independent promoter Untitled Group. The event is set for Dec. 28 to Jan. 1, 2023 at Barunah Plains, Hesse, with a lineup including Denzel Curry, Diplo, Kaytranada, Bicep, Benee, Aitch, Lime Cordiale, Charlotte De Witte and many others. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Booking Furtado is a coup for organizers and ticketholders, who’ll get the chance to see the Canadian-born artist perform a full set for the first time in over five years. Furtado’s career took flight in 2001 with “I’m Like A ...
KCON 2022 Wraps With 90,000 Attendees at Los Angeles K-Pop Festival
Finally, Los Angeles again felt the full power of K-pop fandom as the scene’s premiere festival KCON made its grand return this weekend after two years away during the pandemic. Across three days of a convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center and two days of concerts in the Crypto.com Arena, KCON 2022 Los Angeles reported more than 90,000 fans in attendance in its first in-person event since 2019. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Plus, with a new, post-COVID emphasis on live streaming, the festival garnered a total viewership of 7.17 million viewers in more than 176 regions. KCON’s live comeback is a slight dip from its last in-person event (103,000 fans were reported attending in L.A. in 2019), but what 2022 can claim is some of its most ...
Travel Guide: 4 Toronto Airbnbs When You’re Visiting for a Music Festival or Concert
So you’re going to Toronto to see some epic music. You have your tickets, rave outfits and flights secured, but where are you going to rest in-between all the music? Thankfully, Toronto is an awesome city and there’s plenty of great spots to lay your head down at night. As the largest city in Canada representing over 200 distinct ethnic origins, there’s no shortage of Airbnbs to book when visiting for your next festival or concert. Whether you’re coming out for Veld Music Festival, Rolling Loud, North By Northeast, or seeing your favorite producer throw down, we have you covered with top five picks of Airbnbs to book for your next Toronto live music experience. 1) Upscale condo in the clouds at CN Tower If you’re going out for a night on the city, consider this executive-style ...
10 Greatest Moments in KCON History So Far
With 10 years of perspective, one can confidentially say that the timing for launching America’s biggest K-pop festival couldn’t have been better. In the summer of 2012, K-pop was breaking into the American vernacular thanks to the massively viral success of PSY‘s “Gangnam Style.” The inescapable horsey-dance hit entered the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in September. It would spend seven consecutive weeks at the No. 2 position, coinciding with performances at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Saturday Night Live and the American Music Awards. While “Gangnam Style” was rocketing up the charts, KCON was announced as a first-of-its-kind convention/festival hybrid that looked to honor all things Korean-pop culture. Taking place at the now-shuttered Ve...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Welcome Family, Dish the Hits at ‘Emotional’ Detroit Concert
It was a special family and friends night — with a guest appearance onstage by drummer Chad Smith’s mother — when the Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ played Detroit’s Comerica Park on Sunday night (Aug. 14). Smith hails from the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, while frontman Anthony Kiedis was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Mich. Both of their mothers, Joan and Peggy, respectively, attended the show, along with other members of their families. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news After finishing the show with “By the Way,” Smith — who sported an olde English D, the Detroit Tigers’ logo, on his bass drum head — addressed the crowd of about 33,000, telling fans that “it means the world to us that you’ve supported us all these years, and it means ...
Dua Lipa Sets Intimate Theater Show In Melbourne
When Dua Lipa makes the long haul to Australia later this year, she’ll warm up with a special, one-off theater show. Announced Thursday (Aug. 11), the English pop superstar will stop by Melbourne’s Palais Theatre for a date ahead of her national arena trek. This is no ordinary gig, and Lipa is no ordinary singer. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The venue in St Kilda, south Melbourne has a capacity of 2,800, a room the Brit can fill many times over in these parts. An Exclusive Evening With Dua Lipa – The Melbourne Theatre Show is presented by The Victorian Government, Live Nation and Always Live, the state-wide festival of live music, which kicked off earlier in the year to restart Victoria’s legendary live scene. Roger Field, pres...
VERIVERY Reveal Dates, Venues for 2022 U.S. & Latin America Tour: Exclusive
VERIVERY was the first K-pop act to tour around the U.S. post-pandemic in late 2021 and the boy band is coming back to the western hemisphere to visit even more cities and countries. After VERIVERY announced they’d be returning to America, and visiting Latin America, with their ‘PAGE : O” tour, Billboard can exclusively reveal the dates and venues for the ambitious live trek. Starting on Sept. 14 in Boston, the septet will visit more than a dozen cities across the States before heading south for concerts in Chile and Mexico mid-October. MyMusicTaste will be supporting the tour alongside VERIVERY’s label Jellyfish Entertainment. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “We’re so glad to be given a chance to go on another tour ...
10 Standout Moments From J-Hope’s Historic Lollapalooza Set
When J-Hope joined the Lollapalooza lineup as a new headliner, the BTS member had already made history as the first Korean artist to headline a major U.S. music festival. But the star didn’t rest on those historic laurels when putting together his 70-minute set. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news J-Hope’s headlining set for the famous Chicago festival — nicknamed #HOBIPALOOZA by Twitter fans since its announcement — was a more extensive representation of different aspects that make up the star. Viewers got to see J-Hope’s electrifying onstage persona, his respect for hip-hop, the social messages he believes in, his humility, and much more. “I pour my heart and my soul into my music,” J-Hope told the crowd early into his set. “E...
ODESZA Returns in Dazzling Form for First Live Show in Three Years
Five years after their last album and almost exactly three years after their last live set, ODESZA returned to their hometown of Seattle Friday night (July 29) and showed the roughly 17,000 people in attendance at the city’s Climate Pledge Arena that — despite the name of their latest album — there is truly no last goodbye. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The duo, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, released their new LP, The Last Goodbye, on July 22, kicking off their tour a week later with a sold-out, three-night run at Climate Pledge that continues Saturday (July 30) and Sunday (July 31.) The tour will then extend across North America this summer with an amphitheater run. But with Friday night marking ODESZA’s return to live music, anticipati...
TLC, Boyz II Men Take Over the Hollywood Bowl: 5 Memorable Moments
Amid coast-to-coast frenzy about the $1.3 billion Mega Millions jackpot this week, there was only one magic number for Hollywood Bowl music fans Friday night (July 29): 30. That’s the number of hit-filled years that TLC and Boyz II Men each brought to the stage during their respective 70-minute sets that kept the audience screaming, dancing and singing along from start to finish. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Here are five memorable moments from the Grammy-winning groups’ performances at the Bowl, now celebrating its 100th anniversary: Hey Mr. DJ: Plugging into the ’90s nostalgia vibe that was already percolating throughout the full house, DJ Bubz jump-started his pre-intro set with DMX’s “Party Up (Up in Here).” From there, the party shifted...
Billie Eilish & Finneas Celebrate 1 Year of ‘Happier Than Ever’ With Amoeba Hollywood Concert
In honor of the one-year anniversary of the release of Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish, accompanied by her brother and producer/co-writer Finneas, hosted an intimate concert for fans and friends at Amoeba Music in Hollywood on Friday (July 29). Released July 30, 2021, Happier Than Ever marked the 20-year-old’s second studio album and hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, just as her debut When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? did back in 2019. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Fans waited in line outside the independent record store for hours for the chance to see the free acoustic show, many of whom arrived in Billie Eilish tour merchandise and gave Eilish a warm welcome as she came onstage. She and Finneas went straight into “B...
Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow to Join Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid on Return to Raleigh; Neil Young Bows Out Again Due to Pandemic
Willie Nelson’s annual Farm Aid festival, taking place Sept. 24 in Raleigh, N.C. and focusing on climate resilient agriculture, will feature Chris Stapleton and Sheryl Crow, along with Farm Aid board members Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price. Additional acts at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek will include Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Allison Russell, Charley Crockett, Brittney Spencer and Particle Kid. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Absent from the festival stage for the second consecutive year will be Farm Aid board member Neil Young, who recently responded to a fan’s letter on his website, stating: “I will not be at Farmaid this year. I am not ready ...
