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•Beyonce Tickets 2009 Tour For Beyonce
Beyonce has just announced plans for a 2009 tour in support of her upcoming yet-to-be-titled album, which hits stores Nov. 18. Jay-Z’s wife and R&B’s leading lady will play international dates in spring 2009 before coming back to play shows in North America early next summer.
Beyonce Giselle Knowles began singing, dancing and displaying her emerging diva as a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas. Beyonce and her cousin Kelly Rowland and two friends LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett formed...
•Flight of the Conchords Tickets Flight of the Conchords Spring Tour
The New Zealand music-meets-comedy duo that is Flight of the Conchords is set to swoop down on North America for a tour this spring, beginning in Tampa, Fla. The tour is timed to correspond with the conclusion of the second season of Flight of the Conchords on HBO, as well as the pair’s sophomore full-length released on Sub Pop (the album title and release date have yet to be revealed). After Tampa, Flight of the Conchords will make two more stops in Florida (Coral Gables and Orlando) before...
•Bruce Springsteen Tickets Springsteen Releases New Song Via Amazon and MySpace
Proving he’s still “The Boss,” Bruce Springsteen has released his second new single from his latest record, Working on a Dream, jointly through MySpace Music and Amazon. The song, titled “My Lucky Day,” was available for download exclusively through the two services for one week starting Dec. 1 and the sites also hosted a live in-the-studio video for the song (http://Amazon.com) also boasted an extra two minutes of behind-the-scenes clips.) The title track for Springsteen’s upcoming release,...
•Coachella Music Festival Tickets Coachella Lineup Finally Announced
After months of anxiously waiting for the big reveal, the lineup for the 2009 Coachella Music Festival has been announced—and it doesn’t disappoint! The headliners for the 10th Coachella, which will be held April 17-19 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, are Paul McCartney, the Killers and the Cure. Other big names confirmed for the premier So Cal festival are My Bloody Valentine, Amy Winehouse, Morrissey, Leonard Cohen and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Check out...
•AC DC Tickets AC DC s Grasp Around No 1 Spot Remains Strong
During Election Week 2008 Barack Obama became the 44th United States President and the first African American to hold our nation’s highest office, and it was a good week for AC/DC as well. The famed rock band spent their second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for their most recent album, the Columbia-released Black Ice, which at that point sold 271,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan. Black Ice, which is available exclusively at Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and on...
•U2 Tickets New U2 Album on the Horizon
A new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, is slated for released March 3 via Interscope Records. The album, which is the iconic band’s 12th studio effort, was produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite and was expected to be released before the end of 2008 after being recorded in Dublin, New York and Fez. The band decided to push back the release date for No Line on the Horizon fearing it wasn’t complete yet. Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine told http://Billboard.com, “I...
•Jimmy Eat World Tickets Jimmy Eat World Celebrates Clarity Anniversary
If you are an emo music fan your collection is not complete without Jimmy Eat World’s 1999 album Clarity. The band is celebrating the album’s 10th anniversary with a ten-show tour that kicks off Feb. 23 in New York and concludes March 7 in Tempe, Arizona after making stops in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and San Diego. Although Clarity debuted at No. 30 in Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and only remained there for two weeks (signal Jimmy Eat World’s...
•The Who Tickets Flashback for the Who
The DVD The Who at Kilburn was released on Nov. 18 to commemorate the legendary rock band’s performance at the Gaumont State Theatre in Kilburn, London in December 1977 and Who frontman Roger Daltrey doesn’t know why. Daltrey told Billboard, “I just remember it was kind of a weird day. We did the show in the afternoon, which is not the best time of the day to be on form, especially for (drummer) Keith Moon.” The documentary was produced by Jeff Stein, and although Who biographer Johnny Black...
•Phish Tickets Live Nation Fails Phish Phans
Live Nation unveiled their new ticketing service on Friday (Jan. 30) with the sale of tickets for Phish’s reunion tour, and failed on their first major tryout. Phishheads flocked to the Live Nation page to secure tickets to the band’s highly anticipated reunion tour and the increased traffic caused the site to freeze, resulting in users losing tickets while in the process of purchasing—and many an angry Phish phans! A spokesman for Live Nation told http://RollingStone.com, “At the moment of the...
•Amy Winehouse Tickets More Trouble for the Talented Amy Winehouse
Troubled yet talented U.K. songstress Amy Winehouse was admitted to a private London clinic Nov. 23, and not for the first time. According to BBC spokesperson Chris Goodman, Winehouse’s camp released a statement saying that the 25-year-old Grammy winner suffered a reaction to medication she was taking as part of her ongoing treatment (he declined to say what specific medication Winehouse was taking.) The soulful singer landed herself in the hospital, London’s University College Hospital to be...
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