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New York-based actor David Kaverman is four months into his contract as a swing performer on the second national tour of the hit Broadway musical WICKED. During the Houston stop, Kaverman took a break from his grueling schedule and the triple-digit heat index in Texas to chat with Georgia Voice. He jokingly recalled his first night in the hit musical and the advice he received from the show’s dance captain before his first performance: “The only thing you have to do today is just not fall down,” he recalls being told. “Don’t fall—just get on and get off stage. That’s all you have to do.”

Air have announced a North American leg of their 2024 25th Anniversary ‘Moon Safari’ tour in celebration of their seminal album.The French duo – comprised of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel – will kick off the US tour at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver on September 25. From there, Air will make their way across the US, making stops in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., New York City and Dallas before wrapping up the tour at the Moody Amphitheatre in Austin on October 30.A ticket pre-sale will be available starting today (March 7) for fans who use the access code KEY.

Blur have announced an intimate warm-up show ahead of their performance at this year’s edition of Coachella.The Britpop icons took to their official social media pages to share a flyer of the intimate show, which is set to take place on Wednesday, April 10 at the Fox Theatre in Pomona, California. The show will take place roughly three days before Damon Albarn and co are due to hit the stage at Coachella on Saturday, April 13.Opening support for the gig will come from Jockstrap.

Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, the artist known as Lil Nas X lays down his ambitions to achieve something “great, super grand, BIG.”He might be referring to his trailblazing career as a Grammy-winning rapper-singer-songwriter, whose unabashedly queer persona and presentation garner admiration and controversy in equal measure.He could mean his first concert tour as a headliner, the Long Live Montero Tour, the American leg of which is chronicled in this film by directors Carlos López Estrada and Zac Manuel.There’s little doubt he envisions greatness for himself, Montero Hill, the self-described brat from Lithia Springs, Georgia, who uploaded his modest country-rap banger “Old Town Road” to his socials and became a global sensation.The film, a verité-style tour diary in three acts, doesn’t achieve greatness of its own, but offers glimpses at those aforementioned aspects of Montero’s super grand life.Whether rehearsing for opening night at Detroit’s legendary Fox Theatre, getting a surprise pre-show visit from Madonna, or donning his drag persona to meet his uncannily accurate Madame Tussaud’s wax figure, he rides the dizzying whirlwind of music stardom with aplomb, clearly living out a dream.Among the most compelling footage presented here is the video he shot himself in 2018, as a striving but confident 19-year-old, a month after releasing “Old Town Road” to the internet. Looking into the camera, he tallies his current follower count, promising that in a year the count will look different.

Thania Garcia Lil Uzi Vert will be performing in venues across the U.S. later this fall for the newly-announced “Pink Tape” tour in support of their latest, 26-track album album “Pink Tape.” The 17-date trip will be Uzi’s first headlining jaunt since 2018’s “Endless Summer Tour,” and is slated to begin on Oct. 21 in Minneapolis, before making numerous stops across major cities like Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, New York City, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Denver, among other cities. They will close the tour with a special hometown performance in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on Nov. 22. “Pink Tape,” the follow-up to the rapper’s 2020 record, “Pluto x Baby Pluto,” is expected to be one of the top rap releases of the year when it arrives on U.S. charts next week. It features guest verses from Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Bring Me The Horizon and more.

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The ladies of Aespa just made their Cannes Film Festival debut!

aespa have announced the Europe, US and Latin America legs of their 2023 ‘SYNK: Hyper Line’ world tour.Today (May 19), aespa revealed that they will be going on a tour of Europe, US and Latin America later this year, as part of their 2023 ‘SYNK: Hyper Line’ world tour. The US leg will kick off in Los Angeles on August 13.Following which, the girl group will plays shows in Dallas, Miami, Chicago and more over the next month, before wrapping things up in New York City on September 5.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The all-star trio Boygenius has set 14 headlining dates for this summer, on top of festival gigs that include Coachella appearances and concerts under the Re:SET banner that’d previously been announced for the group. Opening acts for the 14 newly set dates include Carly Rae Jepsen, Broken Social Scene, Illuminati Hotties, Bartees Strange and Claud. The shows include gigs at two of the nation’s most iconic outdoor venues — Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, on Aug. 5, and the Gorge in Washington state, on July 29 — along with al fresco appearances in Phoenix, Houston, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Toronto, Vancouver, Asheville, Wilmington, Bend, Bonner and Boise.

Oscars producer Will Packer has responded to Will Smith‘s public apology for slapping Chris Rock at this year’s ceremony.Last month, Smith posted a video in which he directly apologised to Rock, describing his behaviour as “unacceptable”.READ MORE: The story of Slapgate: Will Smith and Chris Rock’s relationship through the yearsPacker, the producer behind the 2022 Academy Awards, has now commended Smith for the apology, telling Entertainment Tonight: “I love the fact that he’s being so transparent about his process. He is being very public and honest and open about his remorse.”“I think that he’s got three decades in this business of being somebody that is the exact opposite of who he was in those few seconds, and so I’m pulling for him,” he added.Smith shared the apology video on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, telling Rock: “I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”“I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk, and when he is he will reach out,” said Smith.

emotional video apology for that Oscars slap? A shrug and a new nickname for the “King Richard” star: “Suge Smith.”Rock took the stage for a show at the Fox Theatre Atlanta, Georgia just hours after Smith released the video, where, according to People, he didn’t address the apology, but told the crowd, “Everybody is trying to be a f—ing victim. If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims.

Chris Rock has a new nickname for Will Smith, and it’s in reference to the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.

Chris Rock has a new nickname for Will Smith, and it's in reference to the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.According to multiple reports, Rock took the stage Friday night at Atlanta's Fox Theatre as part of his Ego Death World Tour and addressed the star as «Suge Smith,» in reference to Marion «Suge» Knight, who was known for his tough and often violent demeanor when he was the head of the record label behind Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac.While Rock didn't directly address Smith's public apology video, the comedian wanted to make it known that he does not see himself as a victim following Smith's infamous Oscars slap heard and seen 'round the world.«Everybody is trying to be a f***ing victim,» he said.

Marcus Mumford is making an exciting announcement.

Kehlani has announced details of a UK, European and North American tour that will run from July through to December.The Bay Area artist will tour in support of their third studio album ‘Blue Water Road’, which was released last month.Kehlani will embark on the ‘Blue Water Road Trip’ on July 30 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a string of North American tour dates running until October with a date in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 21.She will then head to Europe in November for a number of live dates, which will conclude with a run of UK and Ireland shows in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester.General sale tickets for Kehlani’s UK dates will go on sale here this Friday (May 20) from 10am, while tickets for the North American shows can be bought here from 10am local time on Friday.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSome 45 years after their first performance, new wave icons the B-52s have announced a farewell tour that kicks off this summer.The jaunt — billed as “Their final tour ever of planet Earth” — will hit 11 cities across the U.S., launching August 22 in Seattle and running through November 11, where it will finish at Atlanta’s legendary Fox Theatre, not far from their home base of Athens, Georgia. More shows will be added in the coming weeks; see current routing below.The pre-sale begins tomorrow, April 27, at 12 p.m.

Charli XCX has shared a new song ‘Every Rule’, ahead of the release of her new album ‘Crash‘ this Friday (March 18) – listen below.The slow-burning, tender ballad has a gentle beat, soft-synths and auto-tuned vocals throughout.Last week, Charli XCX shared the full track listing for ‘Crash’, which is made up of 12 songs including ‘Every Rule’.The new single is joined on the record by the previously unveiled ‘Good Ones‘, ‘Baby‘, her collaboration with Rina Sawayama, ‘Beg For You’ and her song with Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek, ‘New Shapes’.Following the release of ‘Crash’, Charli will be heading out on a European and North American tour, with shows in Los Angeles, London, Paris and more.Get your tickets here and see the full list of tour dates below.MARCH 202226 – Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA29 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, ORAPRIL 20221 – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA3 – The Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA6 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO8 – ACL Live at The Moody Theater – Austin, TX9 – House of Blues Houston – Houston, TX10 – House of Blues Dallas – Dallas, TX12 – Orpheum Theater – New Orleans, LA13 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA15 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC16 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VA18 – The Fillmore Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA20 – House of Blues Boston – Boston, MA22 – Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY23 – Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY25 – Massey Hall – Toronto, ON26 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI28 – Palace Theatre – Saint Paul, MN29 – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, ILMAY 202213 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin, Ireland15 – O2 Academy – Glasgow, UK17 – Victoria Warehouse – Manchester, UK18 – O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK19 – Alexandra Palace – London, UK21 – UEA –

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCharli XCX has dropped the latest single from her forthcoming album “Crash,” just days before her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” (which was originally scheduled for December but postponed due to omicron) and will perform the song on the show.According to the announcement, the song, which is accompanied by a video directed by Imogene Strauss and Luke Orlando, is one of the first Charli wrote for the album. The disco-fied song is a collaboration with the brother team of Justin and Jeremiah Raisen (a.k.a.

Bob Dylan has announced details of a spring run of dates for his ‘Never Ending Tour’.The tour resumes in Phoenix on March 3 and will run for 27 dates over five weeks.Dylan’s website hints that more dates will be announced after this, saying that the tour will run until 2024.A ticket pre-sale for this run of dates begins on January 27, with a general on-sale beginning on January 28.

Call him the "Puff of Smoke." Less than a week after partying with Issa Rae, Sean "Diddy" Combs hosted a birthday bash for Quality Control Music CEO Pierre "Pee" Thomas at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on Wednesday night, and the party was so hot, a dancer caught on fire. "There were dancers on tables wearing feathered skirts, and one dropped down to get her eagle on and caught on fire from a candle! "Nothing was left but her string thong.

“The Masked Singer” is coming to a concert venue near you. Fox is set to announce on Wednesday night’s episode that tickets have gone on sale for a nationwide tour this summer inspired by “The Masked Singer.”

Vagabon and Angel Olsen recently finished a run of North American tour dates together. Earlier this month, during a show at Oakland’s Fox Theatre, Olsen joined Vagabon on stage to play the latter’s “Every Woman.” Watch their performance below.