Montreux Jazz Festival Announced!
The famously versatile and eclectic music festival known as the Montreux Jazz Festival has announced its line-up for this year and the event promises to be just as enjoyable as ever! Featuring such greats as Norah Jones, Wilco, Foreigner, Jimmy Cliff, Pet Shop Boys, Chick Corea & Gary Burton and the Wu-Tang Clan, this 41st staging of the annual 16-day event promises an insanely good time.
Also featuring Beastie Boys, Tori Amos and European DJ Laurent Garnier among many other performers, the Montreux Jazz Festival promises to show everyone in your group as great time, whether they are traditional jazz lovers or not! So go ahead, visit Stubhub.com to get yourself tickets for one or all of the days of this festival, lasting July 6-21, 2007. If the abovementioned acts weren’t quite enough to peak your interest, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Van Morrison, Seal, John Legend and Paulo Nutini will also be at this festival. Come on down guys, you know you don’t want to miss out on this event!
Pitchfork Music Festival News!
Yoko Ono has agreed to the Pitchfork Music Festival that will kick off July 13 with the North American premiere of “Don’t Look Back,” a concert concept that began at the U.K. Festival “All Tomorrow’s Parties.”
Joining a slew of indie acts that include Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Clipse, De La Soul, Grizzly Bear, New Pornographers, Or Montreal, Klaxons and Menomena at the three-day festival, Yoko Ono is cashing in on her own new found surge of popularity thanks to the release of a pair of projects that revisit her own musical legacy. With an amazing number of bands playing each night of this festival, the first night will feature such groups as Wu-Tang Clan’s The GZA (Liquid Swords), Slint (Spiderland), and Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation) as well as some of the indie music scene kids with great buzz surrounding them, including Iron & Wine, Girl Talk and Battles.
Ono is excited to be headlining this festival as it will be a means for her to act on the revival, of sorts, that has been happening over the past few years as people have begun to revisit her work which previously had been spoken of quite poorly. If this sounds like a great event to you, then you know you want to visit Stubhub.com and get your hands on tickets to this festival and all sorts of other musical events while you still can!
Diana Krall on Tour!
Diana Krall, that jazz chanteuse who of late has been taking time out of her busy career to spend time with her husband, Elvis Costello and their two boys who were born last December, has announced a U.S. tour for the summer of 2007!
Fans of Krall could not be more excited, and it will be extra-interesting to note that this tour will be split between performances by the Diana Krall Quartet and with her talents co-headlining shows with trumpet aficionado Chris Botti which will take place on several multi-night stands. Kicking off in Oakland, California, Krall will play 30 concerts at various venues around the country, including the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado and the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois among a slew of others.
Additionally, Krall will be joined by The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra - which was featured on Krall’s latest album, From This Moment On – at both of her Las Vegas concerts at the Hilton Hotel and at her Los Angeles dates at the Hollywood Bowl. This tour promises great times for all Krall fans as well as exposing all fans to a few of the other groups that inspire Krall herself. Make sure you keep your eye on Stubhub.com to stay updated on ticket sales so you can make sure to get yourself to one of these concerts!
White Stripes Tour!
The White Stripes have announced that they will embark on a tour of the United States starting on July 22 after touring Canada and Europe. While in the United States, this musical group will play 16 states that they have yet to visit throughout their career, as they want to hit every state in the U.S. and not leave anyone out, rather than just hitting the most well-known venues in specific states over and over again. Within this 16-state tour, this band will also do a limited number of performances in New York City and Boston.
Before hitting the United States, the first leg of the White Stripes concerts tour will cover the eastern seaboard and run into the South> The White Stripes’ tour of Canada will include 10 provinces as well as the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, and the band will play a few European festival shows. Additionally, the White Stripes will also make a stop at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 17.
For tickets to this White Stripes tour and all other concerts, make sure you visit Stubhub.com to get the most out of every music experience!
Josh Groban Announces U.S. Tour Spots!
Josh Groban, the youthful champion of what some today refer to as popera – the sort of opera performed by the younger crowd of operatic singers including Groban as well as the young Charlotte Church - who has since launched into a full-fledged pop career in the UK and is soon to be a mother.
For his part, however, Josh Groban has announced a new set of tour dates for his Awake U.S. tour taking place in 2007. Starting out the summer with a 14-city sweep through Europe and the UK, the second leg of Groban’s tour will kick off July 17 at the Bi Lo Center in South Carolina and will hit an additional 27 arenas in the United States and Canada. Moving from Uniondale, New York to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Portland Oregon, Denver Colorado, and many more.
If you are a fan of Josh Groban or the popera that has risen to such heights in the last few years, this is the perfect time for you to visit stubhub.com and see what tickets you can secure for yourself for Groban’s tour to your city!
Bob Dylan Announces North American Tour!
Bob Dylan, that master of songwriting, lyrical poetry, and consistent self-change has announced a series of American touring dates. Currently touring in Europe, Dylan plans to start this North American tour in New Jersey and move along throughout the states from that point. Hitting 22 arenas, amphitheaters and casinos in the United States and Canada throughout the end of July, Dylan is giving a lot of his fans hope to see him in concert, at whatever location is closest, or most worth a road trip. Keep an eye out on Stubhub.com to catch all the locales and get your tickets fast while you still can!
Dylan’s most recent album, Modern Times, is his newest release in 5 years, and the anticipation leading up to the albums’ release date as just as intense as fans will be vying for tickets to this tour. Modern Times was chosen as Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album at the Grammy’s, and the artist also received a Grammy for Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the track “Someday Baby.”
Without a doubt Bob Dylan is the icon of our era, and it is a rare opportunity to see him in concert, so act fast and get your Bob Dylan tickets now – you will not want to miss out on this!
Sage Francis To Tour!
The genre-bending hip-hop artist Sage Francis is gearing up to tour the U.S. this summer! With a new album and an eight-week tour, Francis will hit 33-cities on what is being called the Human The Death Dance Tour. Starting May 23 and 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and May 25 and 26 in New York City, the tour will also come to Atlanta, Dallas, San Diego, and many others! If you’re fan of this artist, you’re going to want to get your tickets as soon as possible so that you can guarantee yourself a seat! Keep your eye on Stubhub.com to ensure you are among the first to get those tickets!
Also on tour with Sage Francis will be Canadian hip-hopper, MC and turntablist Buck 65, West coast abstract hip-hopper Alias, and spoken word poet Buddy Wakefield. To be backed by a live band for the tour, the whole concert experience promises to be unforgettable to fans and a ton fun.
Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Sage Francis himself was born in Miami, Florida and boasts a style that blends a varying tone and delivery with lyrical matter that focuses on equally varying imagery as well as pop culture references, puns and much more, all in the tradition of hip-hop storytelling.
Family Values Tour Announcement!
It was announced today, Friday, April 20, 2007, that the Family Values Tour, co-headlined by Korn and Evanescence will kick off on July 20 in St. Louis and will finish up the summer on September 2 in Irvine, California. Other acts on the tour include Atreyu, Flyleaf, Hellyeah (featuring members of Pantera and Mudvayne), and Trivium, and additional bands and details are expected, and will be announced, in the future.
Other cities on the tour’s 30-city rock-out of the United States and Canada will include Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix. If this tour is anywhere as good as the 2006 Family Values Tour, which featured Korn, Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf and Dir en grey and several additional acts, sold over 400,000 tickets and shot the group concert into the hot musical festival for the summer.
If you’re a fan of rock ‘n’ roll, love live music, are a dedicated fan to any one of the many bands slated to play in the 2007 Family Values Tour, you are not going to want to miss out on this concert extravaganza! Make sure you keep your eye on Stubhub.com to catch tickets the minute they go on sale, and in the meantime, get your concert-going appetite whetted by taking in some of Stubhub.com’s other great concerts!
Get The Police Tour Tickets!
Pre-show tickets are available for European fans of The Police off of their official Tour website today, April 19, 2007, but it won’t do you much good to get your hands on them unless you plan to be in Paris in September to make use of them. If such is not the case, may we recommend you visit Stubhub.com to get your tickets now for the U.S. leg of The Police Reunion Tour? After all, this English trio will be kicking off their tour in Vancouver as of May 28, and the shows will just keep coming from there so it would be wise to get your tickets now before they’re all sold out!
A band comprised of singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland, The Police shot to fame in the early 1980s, playing a rock style that was heavily influenced by both reggae-styles and punk music. The band’s 1983 release, Synchronicity went platinum 8 times in the U.S. The band broke up in the mid-1980’s and are still one of the most famous bands of the 1980’s in spite of having been together for only a handful of years before branching off into independent projects. 2007 is their first tour since the break-up, and they will also be playing the Live Earth concert in July 2007.
Daddy Yankee Comes to the USA!
Daddy Yankee, one of Reggaeton’s reigning stars, has revealed his U.S. Tour Plans, and they promise to be a great rundown of 18 cities in the United States! Planned to support his upcoming album, “The Cartel: The Big Boss” which is due to be released on June 5, 2007 on the El Cartel/Interscope label. The artists’ actual tour will be a massive 40-city tour of the United States and Latin America, starting August 31, 2007 at the Allstate Arena in Chicago.
The opening act of Daddy Yankee’s concert tour will be the eight-year-old reggaeton artist known as Miguelito, who is signed to Daddy Yankee’s El Cartel Label. With this incredible artist playing such cities as Boston, New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Las Vegas among others, and tickets ranging from $40 to $100, everyone should take this chance to see Daddy Yankee live!
While the U.S. leg of Daddy Yankee’s tour will wrap on October 14, 2007 at the Toyota Center in Houston, he will be hitting up a lot of cities in the time that he is here, and fans would be wise to go to Stubhub.com to get tickets as soon as possible to ensure themselves a spot at one of the concerts!