Elvis Costello & The Imposters have unveiled details of a new, North American tour today (February 17).The Imposters are comprised of Steve Nieve (keyboards), Pete Thomas (drums) and Davey Faragher (bass/backing vocals).
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Bleachers have announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates, sprawling into the second half of 2022.Sans a brief detour through Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, the band have 22 dates on their itinerary thus far. Each of the tour’s legs will feature unique support acts – Charly Bliss, for example, will open for the two sold-out dates in Boston where Bleachers will play their first two records in full (2014’s ‘Strange Desire’ on Thursday March 24 and 2017’s ‘Gone Now’ on Friday 25).Allison Ponthier will kick the festivities off throughout May, performing with Bleachers in Orlando, St.
Petersburg, New Orleans, Austin, Houston and Dallas. Also in May, Jack Antonoff and co.
will play at the 2022 edition of Napa Valley’s BottleRock festival.Before rolling through Nashville to play Bonnaroo and the Bonnaroo SuperJam, Bleachers will treat fans in Atlanta to a sole headline show supported by Blu DeTiger. After the festival, they’ll hit Morrison to play the Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Wolf Alice, before taking to stages in Vancouver, Seattle, Forest Grove, San Jose and LA with The Lemon Twigs in tow.Wrapping up the tour will be four dates in July, with shows booked for Portland, New York, Lewiston and Cooperstown.
Beabadoobee will support Bleachers at all of those gigs, performing tracks from her recent ‘Fake It Flowers’ album and ‘Our Extended Play’ EP.Alongside the tour announcement came a new video for the track ‘How Dare You Want More’, comprising footage from Bleachers’ 2021 tour of the US. The track comes from their 2021 album ‘Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night’, which also spawned the singles ‘Chinatown’ (a landmark collab with Bruce Springsteen), ‘Stop Making This Hurt’ and the Lana Del
.Elvis Costello & The Imposters have unveiled details of a new, North American tour today (February 17).The Imposters are comprised of Steve Nieve (keyboards), Pete Thomas (drums) and Davey Faragher (bass/backing vocals).
Belgian pop artist Stromae is heading over to the United States in April to play Coachella 2022, his first American show in ages. North American fans won't have to head to Indio, California to see him perform this year, though: starting in October, Stromae will perform nine additional dates in the United States and Canada, including three in Quebec.
Modest Mouse have announced a new North American tour with The Cribs, due to take place this spring.The two bands have long had a link, with the Wakefield trio recruiting the Portland band’s Joe Plummer to add some percussion to some tracks in 2007. Later, in 2008, Johnny Marr completed his touring duties with Modest Mouse and left the line-up to join The Cribs, with whom he played for three years.Now the groups are hitting the road together for a number of gigs across North America, which will begin in Baltimore in April.
Rage Against The Machine have shared their new tour itinerary, with half of their dates now set to take place in early 2023.The band, who first announced their second reunion back in 2019, were set to begin their ‘Public Service Announcement’ tour in March 2020. Ongoing complications surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, however, has forced the tour to be rescheduled several times over – the most recent of which came in January, where half the tour was postponed from April to July and the other half was postponed indefinitely.Now, the band have confirmed that the North American tour will take place across two legs.
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Flume will return to North America for his first tour dates in nearly three years this April, in support of his forthcoming album ‘Palaces’.Flume had previously been announced as part of the 2022 Coachella line-up in April, as well as Bonnaroo and New York City’s Governors Ball this June. Headlining shows for the producer have now been announced that are largely based around these festival dates.
win for Group Of The Year at last night’s BRIT Awards, Wolf Alice had a quick chat with NME about their whirlwind year and dreams of partying with Sam Fender and Tom Grennan. Watch out full red carpet interview with the band above.The band were nominated in the category alongside Coldplay, Little Mix, D-Block Europe and London Grammar.“There’s loads of great music in there,” drummer Joel Amey told NME about their fellow nominees. “We’re just happy to be here.
Wolf Alice won Group Of The Year at tonight’s (February 8) BRIT Awards 2022, taking home their first trophy from the prestigious awards.The band were nominated in the category alongside Coldplay, Little Mix, D-Block Europe and London Grammar.Wolf Alice were presented with the award by Italian Eurovision winners Måneskin. “That’s absolutely unbelievable,” bassist Theo Ellis said, receiving the trophy. “I think we’re quite shocked.
IDLES have shared the details behind their 2022 North American tour and announced that they’ve been added to this year’s Coachella Music Festival lineup.Along with the new tour dates, the band has shared a video for their single, ‘CRAWL!’ from their fourth studio album, ‘CRAWLER’. The video features a claymation version of frontman Joe Talbot riding a motorcycle while singing the lyrics to the gritty track. Watch the video below.“This is the turning point, after you’ve crashed,” Talbot said of the track.
Ringo Starr is set to return to the road with his All-Starr Band in mid-2022, touring North America for the first time in nearly three years.Joining Starr on the road will be long-serving guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto, saxophonist Warren Ham, bassist Hamish Stuart and drummer Gregg Bissonette.Men At Work‘s Colin Hay is also set to participate in the tour, providing guitar and vocals, as is a returning Edgar Winter. The prolific musician – who provides keyboards, saxophone and backing vocals – has not performed with the All-Starr Band since 2011.
The Who have announced details of a huge two-part North American tour for 2022 – see the full list of dates and ticket details below.The tour – dubbed ‘The Who Hits Back!’ – will begin in late April, with the first leg running until the end of May.The band will then return to the States in October for another run of dates, which take them through until November.Speaking of the tour, Roger Daltrey said: “Pete and I said we’d be back, but we didn’t think we’d have to wait for two years for the privilege. This is making the chance to perform feel even more special this time around.“So many livelihoods have been impacted due to COVID, so we are thrilled to get everyone back together – the band, the crew and the fans.
Halsey has shared a new music video for her song ‘Girl Is A Gun’, which takes place in a colourful period drama setting.The track is taken from the star’s latest album, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’, which was released in August 2021.The video was directed by Colin Tilley and features Halsey dressed in a big purple and green wig and voluminous, corseted green dress. Joined by a gaggle of female friends, they bowl around the streets of an old-fashioned town, drinking, dancing and knocking over apple carts.Towards the end of the video, they ride out of town on horses, with only Halsey shown at its conclusion, standing precariously at the edge of a rocky cliff.
Alice Cooper shared his distaste for mixing music with politics in a new interview, explaining that he thinks “rock ‘n’ roll should be anti-political”.In the conversation with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay the shock rock legend was asked how his relationship with the controversial right-wing rocker, Ted Nugent is “holding up right now”.“Ted and I grew up together in Detroit, and he’s always been the mouth that roared. When he gets going, nobody can stay with him.
Slowthai has announced a slate of dates for a brief North American tour. The Antisocial Roadshow tour is a seven-show run that kicks off in New York City on April 8 and will make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco before concluding in Boston on April 30.
Slowthai will return to North America later this year for a run of headlining shows in the leadup to his performances at Coachella 2022.The tour, announced earlier this week (January 31), will commence in early April with a performance at New York’s Webster Hall. The rapper will spend most of the month on tour throughout the continent, which will include sets across both weekends of Coachella alongside the likes of Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Kanye West.Slowthai was performing in the US as recently as last month, where he performed a last-minute show at Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right.
Wolf Alice will tour North America this March and April, taking in shows across the US and Canada on a 20-date run.READ MORE: Wolf Alice live in London: spellbinding small venue show from snarling rock superstarsThe tour, announced yesterday (February 1), is part of the band’s ongoing world tour in support of their third studio album, ‘Blue Weekend’. It marks their second tour of North America in as many years, following their run of dates in late 2021.Along with their headlining dates, the band will also play two shows in June as a support act.
Yesterday, English rockers Wolf Alice were announced as the opening act for just one date of Halsey's upcoming 2022 tour. It was unlikely that the group, who just released one of 2021's best albums with Blue Weekend, would be playing just one stateside show this year, and lo and behold, today they've announced more North American dates.
Halsey has announced a run of North American dates behind her excellent 2021 album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power. The pop songwriter will embark on a 22-date trek with a number of great openers spread out across the run: PinkPantheress and beabadoobee will guest on the first half of the tour with The Marias and Abby Roberts joining Halsey until the tour's conclusion in Irvine, California.