Bob Dylan announces 2023 North American tour dates

Brian May and Roger Taylor have confirmed the line-up of their ‘official tribute band’ Queen Extravaganza and announced a run of tour dates for 2024.Queen Extravaganza has been touring together for over a decade and features a line-up that was hand-picked by May and Taylor to perform their music.May and Taylor have now confirmed that the line-up for next year’s tour includes Nick Radcliffe on guitar, François-Olivier Doyon on bass, George Farrar on drums and Alirio Netto and Gareth Taylor on vocals.You can see the full list of 2024 dates below and buy your tickets here.FEBRUARY26 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall27 – Bradford, St George’s Hall28 – Newcastle, O2 City HallMARCH1 – Glasgow, SEC Armadillo2 – Derby, Arena4 – Swansea, Arena5 – Bristol, Beacon6 – London, Eventim Apollo8 – Stockton, Globe9 – Manchester, O2 Apollo10 – Oxford, New Theatre12 – Eastbourne, Congress Theatre13 – Ipswich, Regent Theatre15 – Plymouth, Pavilion16 – Bournemouth, International Centre 17 – Truro, Hall For Cornwall19 – Dublin, Olympia Theatre21 – Belfast, Waterfront HallMeanwhile, in other Queen news, an auction took place earlier this week saw over 1,400 of Freddie Mercury’s personal possessions sold off, which May admitted was “too sad” to think about.The auction saw handwritten lyrics for some of Queen’s most famous songs, jewellery worn by Mercury, and his collection of artwork go under the hammer.In a social media post, May said of the action: “Freddie’s most intimate personal effects, and writings that were part of what we shared for so many years, will go under the hammer, to be knocked down to the highest bidder and dispersed forever.“I can’t look.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Following the auction in 2022 of a new version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold to a bidder for $1.8 million, three more re-recordings Bob Dylan has made of his classic songs with producer T Bone Burnett are also now being put up for sale via Christie’s: “A Simple Twist of Fate,” “Masters of War” and “Gotta Serve Somebody.” But this time, the purchase of the unique discs containing the songs will happen via a private sale, rather than a public auction. As with “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the three songs being offered to prospective buyers of means as one-of-a-kind Iconic discs come from a recording session Dylan did in 2021 with Burnett.

The Twang have announced a run of shows for late 2023 – find all the details below.The Birmingham indie rockers will be kicking off the tour in Sheffield on November 24, before making stops in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Wrexham, Wolverhampton and Leicester.The dates will conclude with a hometown show at Birmingham’s O2 Institute on December 23. Pastel will be supporting at all gigs, with The Effenaar also joining for all dates apart from Wolverhampton, Leicester and Birmingham.The Twang previously announced a trio of UK shows in London, Glasgow and Leeds for March 2024.

Lil TJay has announced a 2023 UK arena tour titled ‘Beat The Odds’ that will kick off this winter.Set to kick off in November, the Bronx-born rapper – whose real name is Tione Jayden Merritt – will be making stops at London’s OVO Arena Wembley, the O2 Academy Birmingham, the O2 Academy Glasgow and Manchester’s Mayfield Depot.Musicians Joony and Dina Ayada will be joining Lil TJay on his UK run as opening support. Tickets for the arena shows are set to go on general sale on Friday, September 8 at 10am local time.

PURPLE KISS have announced their 2023 ‘Festa’ US tour, which kicks off this October.On September 3, tour organiser Leo Presents announced PURPLE KISS’ upcoming 2023 ‘Festa’ US tour, featuring 17 shows. It will kick off at the end of October at the Regent Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, before moving down the East Coast to New York, Pennsylvania and more.Thereafter, the girl group will head across Central US, with concerts in Tennessee, Colorado and Missouri, as well as two in Texas.

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NOVEMBER24: Jersey City, New Jersey26: Chicago, Illinois29: Atlanta, GeorgiaDECEMBER01: Dallas, Texas03: Puerto Rico06: Mexico City, Mexico08: San Francisco, California10: Los Angeles, CaliforniaWHAT'S GOIN' ON #FORX!? we are so excited to bring @OmegaX_official this November and December during ✖OMEGA X 2023 US & Mexico Tour✖Mark a giant red ❌ on your calendar to save the date! Stay tuned for more information!~ #OMEGAX #오메가엑스 #OMEGAXinUSA #OMEGAXinCDMX pic.twitter.com/63Qq9Qje1i— Studio PAV (@studio_pav) August 29, 2023In other touring news, popular South Korean singing reality competition TV series Immortal Songs is headed to New York this October.

Bob Dylan supposedly once gave Post Malone his unused lyrics to use in a song that never got completed according to producer Michael Cash.Speaking to Rolling Stone, Cash revealed that he had come up with the idea for a project during the COVID-19 pandemic that would have seen rappers form songs based on recently uncovered and unused lyrics from Bob Dylan.Cash said the project would have been his own spin of the 2014 Bob Dylan-tribute record ‘Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes’, in which artists like Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, and Rhiannon Giddens recorded songs featuring unused Dylan lyrics.Cash’s version of the project, which would have been called ‘The Attic MP3s’, ultimately never came to fruition, but would ideally have featured performances from Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Post Malone.While the project never got released, Cash told Rolling Stone that some progress had been made as Dylan’s team green-lit Malone’s involvement in the record and that they had sent him lyrics to work with.Cash claims he corresponded with Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s longtime representative, and that after weeks of not hearing back, he got a text at “two o’clock in the morning”.

There’s a lost Post Malone and Bob Dylan collaboration!

Bob Dylan Center has launched a new yearly songwriter fellowship in partnership with Universal Music Publishing Group.Announced Wednesday (August 23), the fellowship will see two recipients awarded annually with a $40,000 (£31,784) project stipend, along with public engagement and presentation opportunities, time in the Bob Dylan Archive, mentorship, studio time at Leon Russell’s historic Church Studio in Tulsa, a roundtrip airfare and more.The review panel includes American rapper Nas along with musicians and songwriters including Juliette Armanet, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp and Carla Morrison, along with a BDC and UMPG executives.A post shared by Bob Dylan Center (@bobdylancenter)“The Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship is core to our mission of educating, motivating and inspiring visitors to engage their own capacity as creators, and we cannot wait to hear the entries from undiscovered talent around the world,” said Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins in a statement.“We are grateful to continue our partnership with UMPG—the world’s leading music publisher is already such a great supporter of the BDC—and we know that this panel of extraordinary songwriters will select deserving Fellows for our inaugural year.”Applications are now open for the 2024 fellowship until October 18, 2023.

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Bob Dylan is still on the road.Dylan, 82, just announced 17 new concert dates as part of his ongoing ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour’ in support of his 2020 album with the same name.He’ll cap the quick run of gigs with shows at Rochester, NY’s Rochester Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 24 and Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Monday, Oct.

Lana Del Rey has announced details of a headline tour this September and October. The tour will be Del Rey's first since releasing her latest album, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, earlier this year.

Lana Del Rey has announced 10 U.S. fall tour dates behind her latest album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. The small tour kicks off in Franklin, Tennessee next month, and includes a total of 10 dates in addition to her previously announced October 1 stand at the All Things Must Go Festival in Columbia, Maryland.

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Slayyyter is counting down the days to the September 22 release of her second album STARFUCKER, a project themed around fame, sex, femme fatales, and celebrity obsession. It is the second of those themes that acts as the basis for “Erotic Electronic,” the latest single to be lifted from the album following “Out of Time” and “Miss Belladonna.” Read Next: The artists of Portola Fest on the state of sampled music The song is a sleazy electro-pop banger filled with lust and desire.

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Bob Dylan has issued a statement paying tribute to late musician Robbie Robertson.Dylan said in a statement posted onto social media yesterday (August 12): “This is shocking news. Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.Robertson, who besides performing as part of Dylan’s backing band in the latter half of the 1960s, was a guitarist and singer-songwriter for The Band, died earlier this week at the age of 80.Statement from Bob Dylan on the passing of Robbie Robertson:“This is shocking news.

Pete Davidson just added a few additional stand-up dates to his 2023 tour calendar.He’s now slated to headline in Florida, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia this August.These additional dates come on the heels of the “Saturday Night Live” alum’s recently announced five-show tour with fellow comics John Mulaney and Jon Stewart on Sept. 8-10.On that run, he’ll play two gigs at Atlantic City, NJ’s Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Sept.

Depeche Mode have announced the acts joining them as support on the North American leg of their ‘Memento Mori’ tour.Announced today (August 11), the band – which is comprised of Martin Gore and Dave Gahan – shared the three acts that will be joining them for their string of tour dates across North America starting next month.On Instagram, the duo shared that Kelly Lee Owens, Young Fathers and DIIV would be the acts joining them across all 35 upcoming shows.Kicking off their North American tour with three dates in Mexico on September 21, 23 and 25, the band will then head out to Austin, Texas. From there, Depeche Mode will make stops in major cities such as Miami, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Vancouver, Seattle, and San Diego.A post shared by Depeche Mode (@depechemode)The tour will wrap up with four dates in Los Angeles, California in December.