To kick off its Viva La Vida World tour, Coldplay is planning to play two free concerts.  The first will be at Brixton Acadamy in London, UK and the second will be on June 23 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  To get tickets to these show visit the bands website, coldplay.com.

Coldplay will kick off their 29 city World tour on June 29 in Philadelphia, PA and it will rap up on November 22 in Salt lake City, UT.  The schedule has left a lot of open dates so that they made add more stops to the tour.  The band is promoting the upcoming June release of their new album Viva La Vida.

Coldplay Tour Schedule:

June 29 Philadelphia, PA; (Wachovia Center)

July 2 Washington, DC; (Verizon Center)
July 3 Hartford, CT (XL Center)
July 5 Detroit, MI (The Palace of Auburn Hills)
July 6 Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loans Arena)
July 8 St. Paul, MN (Xcel Energy Center)
July 9 Kansas City, MO (Sprint Center)
July 10 Oklahoma City, OK (Ford Center)
July 12 Phoenix, AZ (Jobing.com Arena)
July 19 Las Vegas, NV (MGM Grand Garden Arena)
July 21 Sacramento, CA (ARCO Arena)
July 24 San Jose, CA (HP Pavilion)
July 27 Pemberton, BC (Pemberton Festival)
July 29 Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)
July 30 Calgary, AB (Pengrowth Saddledome)

August 1 Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)
August 3 Omaha, NE (Qwest Center)
August 4 Chicago, IL (United Center)
August 8 Osaka, JAP (Maishima)
August 9 Toyko, JAP (Marine Stadium)

October 20 Montreal, QC (Bell Centre)
October 21 Ottawa, ON, (Scotiabank Place)
October 26 East Rutherford, NJ (Izod Center)
October 29-30 Toronto, ON (Air Canada Centre)

November 3 Boston, MA (TD Banknorth Garden)
November 11 Atlanta, GA (Philips Arena)
November 18 Houston, TX (Toyota Center)
November 19 Dallas, TX (American Airlines Center)
November 21 Denver, CO (Pepsi Center Arena)
November 22 Salt Lake City, UT (Energy Solutions Arena) 

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As I reported last week Tina Turner announced that she is going to be heading on tour while on the Oprah show.  We now have the details for you.  It will being on October 1 in Kansas City, Mo and will go through 17 different cities before ending up on December 8 in Montreal.

Her last world tour when took place in 2000 was called the twenty four seven tour.  over 3 million people came out to see Tina making it the best selling tour of 2000. 

On this upcoming tour you will be able to see all of her early songs such as, “River Deep Mountain High,” “Proud Mary,” and her blockbuster hits like, “Let’s Stay Together,” “What’s Love Got to Do With It”.

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Tina Turner Tour Schedule:

October
1 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
3 Chicago, IL United Center
6 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
13 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
14 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
19 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
22 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena
24 Phoenix, AZ Jobing.com Arena
30 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena

November
2 Fort Lauderdale BankAtlantic Center
5 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
9 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
16 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
23 Washington, DC Verizon Center
26 Newark, NJ Prudential Center

December
3 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
8 Montreal, QB Bell Centre

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Fresh off the release of her brand new #1 album “Hard Candy”, Madonna will set out on her upcoming world tour beginning on August 23 in Cunfiff, Wales.  The name of the tour will be “Sticky & Sweet”.  This will be Madonna’s first tour under her new deal 10 year deal with Live Nation and her first tour in 2 years.

Madonna will play in Europe until September and then she begin her North American leg on October 3 in East Rutherford.  She will wrap everything up in Miami at Dolphins Stadium.  There has been talk about her adding a couple more shows in both Mexico and South America.

This is going to be a relatively small tour with on 27 total shows.  She is rumored to be going on a more lengthy tour come 2009.  The schedule has her playing at both arenas and stadiums.  This will be the first time in over 15 years that she has played in a stadium.

Tickets for Sticky & Sweet Tour will go on sale beginning May 16 in London, Paris, Cardiff and Nice; May 17 in Amsterdam, Boston and Chicago; May 19 in E. Rutherford and New York. Tickets will have a price range from $55- $350 ($375 in Las Vegas), and there will be a 4-ticket limit per person at the arena performances and a 6-ticket per person limit for stadium events.

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Madonna Tour Schedule:

Aug

23 - Cardiff Millennium Stadium
26 - Nice Stade Charles Ehrmann
28 - Berlin Olympic Stadium

Sept

2 - Amsterdam Arena
4 - Dusseldorf LTU Arena
6 - Rome Olympic Stadium
9 - Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
11 - London Wembley Stadium
20 - Paris Stade de France

Oct

03 - E. Rutherford Izod Center
06 - New York City Madison Square Garden
07 - New York City Madison Square Garden
15 - Boston TD BankNorth Garden
18 - Toronto Air Canada Centre
22 - Montreal Bell Centre
26 - Chicago United Center
30 - Vancouver BC Place Stadium

Nov

1 - Oakland Oracle Arena
4 - San Diego Petco Park
6 - Los Angeles Dodger Stadium
8 - Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena
11 - Denver Pepsi Center
16 - Houston Minute Maid Park
19 - Philadelphia Wachovia Center
22 - Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
24 - Atlanta Philips Arena
26 - Miami Dolphin Stadium

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Later this month Metallica has been announced as one of the headlining acts for the KROQ-FM Weenie Roast.  The annual weenie roast will be held on May 17 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, Ca. 

Metallica is set to release a new album this September and rumors are swirling that they are planning a North American tour for this fall.

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Recently Widespread Panic was announced to be replacing Allman Brothers Band as the closing act for the Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 15.  The summer tour will end up Snowmass Village, Colorado on August 29. 

The Band will be promoting their most recentalbum, “Free Shadows”, which was released this past February. 

Widespread Panic Tour Schedule:

June
15 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
20-22 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
24 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
25 Flagstaff, AZ Pine Mountain Amphitheatre
27-29 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre

July
1-2 Kansas City, MO The Uptown Theater
4 Rothbury, MI Rothbury Festival
5 Toronto, Ontario Sound Academy
6 Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Bluesfest
8 Rochester, NY The Main Street Armory
10 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion
11 Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier
12 Masontown, WV All Good Music Festival
14-15 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre
18 Cleveland, OH The Plain Dealer Pavilion at Nautica
19 Portsmouth, VA Ntelos Wireless Pavilion
25-26 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

August

24 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Music Festival
28-29 Snowmass Village, CO Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival

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Tina Turner was on the Oprah show last week and while there she announced that she is going to be heading back out of the road later this year.  While not many details are known at this time we do know that she will start out in Kansas City, MO at Sprint Center on October 1.

The last time Turner was on tour was in 2000 when she netted over $80 million on her US leg.  That made it the 5Th largest US tour ever.  Her last live performance was on February 10 when she performed a duet with Beyonce at the Grammy Awards.  One of Tina Turners most famous song is “What’s Love Got To Do With It”.

Stay tuned for more information and the full tour schedule.

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Beginning on July 25 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Counting Crows and Maroon 5 will begin a co-headlining summer tour.  Opening acts will include a mix of Sara Bareilles and Augustana.  The tour will come to a close on October 4 at Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, FL.

This will be an amazing tour as both of these artists have gone multi platinum.  To be able to get them on the same stage is a very nice treat.  The tour is expected to stop in more than 40 different cities and is being produced by Live Nation. 

Maroon 5 is still basking in the glory of there last album, “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long”.  Counting Crows has just released, “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings”.

Maroon 5 & Counting Crows Tour Schedule:

7/25 Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater Virginia Beach, VA
7/26 Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain Scranton, PA
7/28 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte Charlotte, NC
7/29 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC
7/31 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Wantagh, NY
8/2 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Boston, MA
8/5 Hersheypark Stadium & Star Pavilion Hershey, PA
8/7 PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ
8/9 Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ
8/12 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY
8/13 Bethel Woods Center for The Arts Bethel, NY
8/15 New England Dodge Music Center Hartford, CT
8/16 Nissan Pavilion Washington, DC
8/18 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Buffalo, NY
8/19 Molson Amphitheatre Toronto, ON
8/21 Post-Gazette Pavilion Pittsburgh, PA
8/22 First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Chicago, IL
8/23 Marcus Amphitheater Milwaukee, WI
8/26 Blossom Music Center Cleveland, OH
8/28 Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN
8/29 DTE Energy Music Theatre Detroit, MI
8/30 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH
9/5 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Houston, TX
9/6 Superpages.com Center Dallas, TX
9/9 Journal Pavilion Albuquerque, NM
9/10 Cricket Wireless Pavilion Phoenix, AZ
9/12 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine, CA
9/13 Coors Amphitheatre San Diego, CA
9/17 Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View Mountain View, CA
9/18 Sleep Train Pavilion Concord, CA
9/20 Amphitheater at Clark County Ridgefield, WA
9/21 White River Amphitheatre Seattle, WA
9/24 Coors Amphitheatre at Fiddler’s Green Denver, CO
9/26 Starlight Theatre Kansas City, MO
9/27 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis St. Louis, MO
9/30 Verizon Wireless Music Center Birmingham Birmingham, AL
10/1 Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
10/3 Ford Amphitheatre Tampa, FL
10/4 Cruzan Amphitheatre W. Palm Beach, FL

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Wicked which is one of the most popular shows ever to hit the Broadway stage will soon end its run at Gershwin Theater in New York City.  If you were unable to see it in New York it will still be running at the Ford Center for Performing Arts in Chicago and Until January 9, 2009 at Pantages Theater in Los Angeles.  Then Beginning in January 2009 Wicked will head to the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco.

Wicked has easily become the best performer in regards to ticket sales having been seem by over 2 million people.  At first it received somewhat of a chilly reception by critics but then ended up winning 10 Tony awards in 2004 followed by 6 Drama Desk awards.

No announcement has been made on the casting for the San Francisco show.  It will be directed by Joe Mantello.  Stephen Schwartz will be in charge of music and lyrics.

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On the heels on having to cancel dates on their current tour, Def Leppard announces it will add more shows in Canada and the US.  The canceled shows this month were due to lead singer, Joe Elliot coming down with an upper respiratory tract infection. 

Def Leppard tour dates:

July 30 - Hildago, TX - Dodge Arena
August 1 - Nashville, TN - Sommet Center
August 2 - Birmingham, AL - Verizon Wireless Center
August 3 - Biloxi, MS - Mississippi Coast Coliseum
August 6 - Hamilton, ONT - Copps Coliseum
August 7 - London, ONT - John Labatt Centre
August 9 - Quebec City, QUE - Colisee Pepsi
August 10 - Ottawa, ONT - Scotiabank Place
August 13 - Winnipeg, MAN - MTS Centre
August 15 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
August 16 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
August 17 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
August 20 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Memorial Coliseum
August 21 - Youngstown, OH - Chevrolet Centre
August 23 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena
August 24 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair

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On June 5-8 country music’s biggest stars will begin flocking to Nashville’s LP Field for the 2008 CMA Music Festival.  Artists include:  Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Dwight Yoakam, Randy Travis, Trace Adkins, Montgomery Gentry and Kenny Rodgers. 

Tickets went on sale this past weekend for the 37th annual show.  Ticket prices are $40 for all reserved seats and $30 for General Admission. 

Nighttime Concerts on The Vault Stage:

Thursday, June 5
Jewel
Montgomery Gentry
Kellie Pickler
Sugarland
Taylor Swift

Friday, June 6
Faith Hill
Lady Antebellum
Miranda Lambert
Josh Turner
Carrie Underwood

Saturday, June 7
Trace Adkins
Rodney Atkins
Alan Jackson
Little Big Town
Craig Morgan
Kenny Rogers

Sunday, June 8
Bucky Covington
Billy Ray Cyrus
Sara Evans
James Otto
Randy Travis
Dwight Yoakam

CMA Music Festival Tickets 

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