Laufey, who had promised a night of firsts, delivered in Orlando on Monday (9/15). The enchanting Icelandic 26-year-old Grammy-winner offered up a 24-song setlist at the Kia Center, unveiling new songs, including the live debut of “Carousel.”
The opening night marked the launch of the A Matter of Time Tour, an ambitious 40-date run across North America and Europe. It's a trek that supports her third studio release, which came out last month on AWAL.
David Byrne launched his Who Is the Sky? Tour on Tuesday (9/16) at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh.
The beloved musical legend, forever tied with the Talking Heads, recently released the album the tour is named after earlier this month on Matador Records. It is Byrne’s first solo studio album since the critically acclaimed American Utopia in 2018.
Foo Fighters proved they are still learning to fly after being grounded for nearly a year, with two surprise pop-up shows in California that served as ways to introduce their new drummer, Ilan Rubin, and get the rust off. The band had not performed live since their last shows in 2024 before surprising fans in San Luis Obispo on Saturday (9/13) at the Fremont Theater and in Santa Ana on Monday (9/15) at the Observatory.
Rubin officially replaced Josh Freese in July in what now looks like a swap with Nine Inch Nails. Freese had joined Foos in 2023 following the tragic death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022. Freese has now returned to Nine Inch Nails, while Rubin, who played with NIN from 2009 through 2022, is now keeping the beat for the Foos. Rubin had also spent 2006 to 2009 with Lostprophets and 2011 to 2018 with Angels & Airwaves.
X Ambassadors know a thing or two about rewinding the tape. Formed in Ithaca, New York in 2009 when brothers Sam and Casey Harris began playing music with their childhood friend Noah Feldshuh, drummer Adam Levin joined soon after, and the four have been together for more than sixteen years.
What started as a college project quickly grew into a national act once the band signed with KidinaKORNER and Interscope.Their debut album VHS dropped in 2015, producing the hit singles “Renegades” and “Unsteady” that appeared in commercials and film helping the record move over a million units.
It was a miracle. For the first time, St. Peter’s Square turned into a real pop concert venue Saturday (9/13) for the two-hour musical showcase co-directed by Andrea Bocelli and Pharrell Williams called Grace for the World.
The free show featured John Legend, Clipse, Jelly Roll, Jennifer Hudson and others and drew more than 80,000 people into the Vatican City piazza including Pope Leo XIV who turned 70 the following day.
If not for Christine Stevenson, the Hollywood Bowl, the crown jewel of American outdoor music venues, would never have existed. The Philadelphian born into the Pittsburgh Paint Company fortune used her healthy inheritance to bankroll art in its grandest forms: theaters, pageants, and eventually a hillside amphitheater in Los Angeles.
In 1919, Stevenson and the Theatre Arts Alliance found primo land in a Hollywood canyon called Daisy Dell, forking over $48k (about $745k today) for the 59 acres, which boast natural acoustics.
Turnstile rocked NPR’s Tiny Desk in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday (8/20) in a way they only could, and spiked the football with a stage dive from the office furniture.
The video was released this week as the hardcore group's begins a US headlining run in support of their critically acclaimed new album Never Enough, which dropped in June.
The irresistible Jessica Simpson rocked Pittsburgh and Nashville this past weekend, and stopped by the MTV VMAs to bring attention to the release of her new EP Nashville Canyon, Part 2, which bookends Part 1, was released in March.
The star of stage and reality TV performed at the Stage AE in the Steel City on Friday (9/5) as part of the Women Who Rock Benefit Concert, the annual event that raises money for the Magee-Women’s Research Institute & Foundation and UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital, which supports research and patient care in women’s health. Opened in 2010, Stage AE is a 5,500-capacity for the outdoor configuration and about half that for indoor.
The progressive metal giants Dream Theater rocked the Santander Performing Arts Center in Reading, PA, on Friday (9/5) to kick off their ambitious Parasomnia Tour.
Parasomnia, the group's 16th studio LP dropped in February and was the first new material recorded with their north star, Mike Portnoy since Black Clouds & Silver Linings in 2009.
Nine Inch Nails played what was billed as their final show at the Wiltern Theatre in LA on September 10, 2009, closing out the Wave Goodbye Tour, alongside a slow parade of guest stars.
Frontman Trent Reznor had announced earlier that year that the band would be stepping away from live performances, citing exhaustion after two decades of relentless touring and a desire to focus on other parts of his life.
Marina lit up the stage on Saturday night (9/6) in Seattle, launching the Princess of Power Tour with an energy that felt like stepping into a neon-lit futuristic arcade.
The show was divided into six theatrical “levels,” broken up in tiny groups of three or four songs each.
Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello called the British rock duo Nova Twins, "the best band people hadn’t heard yet." Elton John described them as phenomenal and said they rocked his world.
Vocalist and guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South have been friends since childhood who played in different bands before deciding to form one together in 2014 called BRAATS. They quickly changed their name to Nova Twins where they mixed punk, grime, hip-hop, and metal into something totally unique.
