Boygenius by Harrison Whitford
News of North American tour dates for Boygenius and Run The Jewels are among the biggest headlines we featured last week.
Boygenius have added more North American tour dates to their live schedule for this year.
Five years on from their debut EP, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker were to finally release their first full length album on March 31st, and the planned touring behind it has got a lot bigger with US and Canadian shows now scheduled from June through to early August.
Also booked are appearances at the Coachella weekends next month.
Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced a tour of North America starting in Asbury Park, NJ on August 20th.
If that bill doesn’t already seem big enough, Cat Power will be acting as chief support on the dates which are set to move into September at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, CO.
Gallagher Square in San Diego is to host the closing night on September 16th.
The Killers, Kendrick Lamar and Odesza will be headlining the 10th anniversary of Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas between September 22nd-24th.
They top a bill which also includes some heavyweight performers such as The 1975, Khalid, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nelly and Rina Sawayama.
“This year’s lineup is a reflection of the 10 years we’ve spent striving to give fans incredible experiences centered around a weekend of revelry in Las Vegas,” Craig Asher Nyman of Life Is Beautiful said.
Run The Jewels have announced a run of US shows to mark the 10th anniversary of their debut album.
It was after a collaboration with El-P on Killer Mike’s 2012 record R.A.P. Music that Run The Jewels emerged, and the subsequent self-titled debut LP’s milestone will be recognised with September/October dates highlighted by residencies at Terminal 5, The Salt Shed in Chicago and Hollywood Palladium.
“The best way we can think to celebrate is to get the whole family together and do what we love for the people who love us back,” the pair continued.
The first names for Stormzy‘s ‘This Is What We Mean Day’ during the All Points East festival at Victoria Park in London this summer have been revealed.
Kehlani, Sampha, Knucks, Lucky Daye, WSTRN, Ms Banks and The No Signal Stage are leading the charge, with more names promised in due course.
“I was thinking what’s next, cos we’ve done 3 O2s, shut that down,” the curator said. “I said to the team, we gotta do something bigger, something better, something different. We were having back to back meetings, bouncing ideas.”
Noel Gallagher has announced a December UK arena tour in support of his upcoming new High Flying Birds album Council Skies.
The tour is due to begin at Wembley Arena on December 14th, and will also visit Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool.
The news comes shortly after the release of the latest Council Skies preview Dead To The World – described by Gallagher as, ‘by some distance my favourite tune on the album’