Month: May 2024

Dead & Company will launch a new immersive pop-up for fans ahead of their ‘Dead Forever’ residency at the Sphere. The ‘Dead Forever Experience’, created in partnership with Vibee, opens May 15 at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and is described as a centralized hub where fans can “come together and celebrate, shop, view exclusive Dead & Company content and explore the Grateful Dead’s unparalleled legacy.” Visitors can explore more than 22,000 square feet of interactive exhibit space across two floors, which will be located at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas.

The experience, located by the Palazzo Waterfall Atrium, at The Venetian, will cover two floors and feature a one-fourth scale functioning recreation of the Grateful Dead’s iconic sound system, the Wall of Sound; a Participation Row, where fans can take action for causes important to the band, like HeadCount and REVERB; and Art at The Edge of Magic, a new immersive art exhibition from drummer Mickey Hart. There will also be a photo exhibit, featuring 145 Dead images from 27 photographers, and a cinema experience that will show Dead & Company’s May 8, 2023, concert at Cornell University’s Barton Hall.  The Dead Forever Experience will also have a retail store, where fans can snag exclusive Dead & Company merchandise, including show posters, apparel and accessories, as well as vinyl. There will also be a bar and lounge with specialty cocktails.

The Dead Forever Experience will be open five days a week for the duration of Dead & Company’s Dead Forever – Live at Sphere residency and will be open to the public at no charge. Vibee packages can be purchased at deadforever.vibee.com.

The “Dead Forever – Live at Sphere” residency kicks off Thursday, May 16, and runs until July 13. Tickets are available at deadandcompany.com.

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Due to popular demand, Slipknot have announced a second LA show added to the North American leg of their Here Comes The Pain Tour. The second date will be Saturday, September 14th at Intuit Dome. The band posted on its socials: “LOS ANGELES: A 2nd show has been added at @IntuitDome on Saturday, September 14.  https://knot1.co/LosAngelesSep14”

Slipknot’s Here Comes The Pain Tour celebrates the 25th anniversary of their self-titled album, released on June 29th, 1999. The North American leg includes stops in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, two nights at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, Austin’s Moody Center, and more with direct support from Knocked Loose, with Orbit Culture and Vended confirmed as support on select dates.

Tickets for the newly added LA show, as well as the entire tour, are on sale now; for ticket information, head here.

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Pearl Jam and Neil Young with Crazy Horse were revealed as headliners for the 2024 edition of Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival, taking place at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, Ca. on Sept. 27-29.

Pearl Jam will headline the first and third nights of the festival, with the lineup rounded out by Alanis Morissette, Turnpike Troubadours, Garbage, Maren Morris, Black Pumas, IDLES, Jenny Lewis, the Breeders and Crowded House. Vedder shares: “Pearl Jam on the seashore is going to be something to look forward to for us, certainly … the whole rosters are very impressive and inspiring and exciting.”

Ohana will also feature appearances by Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar, Vedder’s frequent cohort Glen Hansard, Cat Power performing her Bob Dylan 1966 tribute show and Kim Gordon.

The festival will take place following the conclusion of Pearl Jam’s North American Dark Matter tour, which begins May 4 in Vancouver and wraps Sept. 17 at Boston’s Fenway Park. After Ohana, the band will head to Australia and New Zealand for their first shows there in a decade, commencing Nov. 8 in Auckland.

More information on the Ohana Festival’s lineup, ticketing and VIP offers can be found here.

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Linkin Park’s first-ever, career-spanning greatest hits album, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart and the Top Vinyl Albums Chart.  Additionally, the compilation debuted at No. 2 on the Top Album Sales Chart, as well as in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 (No. 6).

Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) marks the band’s eighth No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart as well as their 11th Top 10 entry on the Billboard 200.  The band now claims the most No. 1s on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, according to Billboard.

Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) launches at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart with 44,000 equivalent units, which includes 21,000 actual purchases.

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Slipknot have shared details of their Summer 2024 ‘Here Comes The Pain’ North American tour. The tour celebrates the 25th anniversary of Slipknot’s self-titled breakout album,and the 20th anniversary of their Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses record. Knocked Loose, Orbit Culture and Vended are will serve as support on select dates.

The ‘Here Comes The Pain’ tour will kick-off on Aug. 6 in Noblesville, Indiana, with dates running through the recently announced Knotfest Iowa headlining performance in Des Moines on Sept. 21. The band also will appear at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA on Oct. 11, before finishing out 2024 with dates in South America and Europe.

Tickets will be available to the general public on Friday, May 3 at 10AM; visit Slipknot’s website for additional touring details.

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Blink-182 are hitting the road for the very last American leg of their massive 2024 tour. The new announcement comes just weeks after the band wrapped their Australian and New Zealand leg of the One More Time Tour.

The band has announced a new run of dates with original Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge, featuring support from Pierce The Veil, Hot Milk, jxdn, Live Without, Drain, Landon Barker, Astronoid, and EKKSTACY for select dates.

The 30-date trek gets underway June 20 at Orlando’s Kia Center wrapping around the U.S. and Canada until an Aug. 15 finale in Toronto. There are a variety of VIP packages available via vipnation.com; further ticket details can be found through the band’s website.

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