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Bayside, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping With Sirens, Memphis May Fire, and Silver Comet are the first five bands that have been confirmed for the 2012 Vans Warped Tour. Check out the dates for the festival!
Sat Jun 16 Salt Lake City, UT
Sun Jun 17 Denver, CO
Wed Jun 20 Las Vegas, NV
Thu Jun 21 Irvine, CA
Fri Jun 22 Pomona, CA…
Just announced: the Noise Pop 2012 lineup! Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the San Francisco-based music festival features Cursive and Built to Spill as headlining acts, with appearances from Die Antwoord, Grimes, and Surfer Blood representing a particularly solid early lineup this year. The festival, known for its genre-bending bills, will take place across multiple venues and dates from…
Morrissey's PR sent us an email informing us the singer's show in Oakland tonight has been cancelled. Drummer Matt Walker suffered an eye injury which prevents him from playing tonight, though none of the other tour dates are in jeopardy.
We'll update when we have information on how they'll offer refunds.
The remainder of Morrissey's 2011 tour dates go like this (mostly south of the border):
Die Antwoord, the South African rap group who recorded a viral hit with their video for "Enter the Ninja" and played their first international show at Coachella 2010, now bring a series of tour dates to US soil. After a recent split from Interscope Records (in which the group rejected Interscope's suggestion to introduce more pop elements into their sound), Die Antwoord will release their next album, …
Jake Shimabukuro will tour the United States in 2011/2012, and with 15 dates in California we'd make jokes about him getting his sun in, but the man's from Hawaii so we think he's got us beat.
For the curious, Jake's ukelele talents went viral when his cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" went viral on YouTube. Watch it here:
Justice will launch a 2012 US tour in support of Audio, Video, Disco, the followup to their 2007 Grammy-nominated debut, †. It's their first tour in two years, but if it seems like it's been awhile, remember what they told us when we interviewed them at the Creators Project last month: “When you make a record, it doesn’t matter if it took four years or four month or weeks to make.
Avenged Sevenfold have announced 2011 tour dates, including a FREE show on December 16th, 2011 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA. The free show atones for their cancelled performance at Live 105's Uproar Festival in Mountain View, CA last month - those previously bummed out fans will be able to exchange their Uproar passes for priority tickets to this show, which guarantees first entry to the venue and first choice of seats.
