With more and more artists coming out with a summer tour, Live Nation is making sure you get to see as many as possible. Their all-new Lawn Pass allows concertgoers to attend shows at their venue of choice throughout summer 2022.
A Lawn Pass ticket allows you to attend up to 40 concerts this summer at one of a select number of Live Nation amphitheaters for a total of $199, plus fees.
The promoter says Lawn Pass not only will allow fans to catch concerts at their local selected music venue, they will also be able to access some select sold-out shows. “Each Lawn Pass purchaser will receive a custom personalized credential with their name that serves as their ticket on each show day,” Live Nation says, adding that the pass is good up to 40 shows.
The Lawn Pass will allow concertgoers to check out Goo Goo Dolls, Josh Groban, Backstreet Boys, OneRepublic, Rod Stewart, Santana, EWF, Tears for Fears, Steely Dan and many others at their local venues, with more artists to be announced.
Only a limited number of Lawn Passes will be available per venue and go on sale today, March 1, at 10 a.m. PT at LawnPass.LiveNation.com on a first-come-first-serve basis. Check out the website to find eligible venues and artists.
The Killers have canceled their headlining set at Moscow’s Park Live festival in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rep for the band tells Billboard.
The news follows Iggy Pop‘s announcement earlier Tuesday that he would be dropping off the festival lineup, calling the decision “necessary.”
“Our thoughts are with the Ukrainians and all the brave people who oppose this violence and seek peace,” Pop said.
Park Live runs over multiple weekends throughout June and July. Other listed headliners include My Chemical Romance, Placebo, Gorillaz, Deftones, Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit.
The UMe label has launched a new multi-faceted celebration dubbed “I Am Woman” in honor of Women’s History Month this month, and International Women’s Day on March 8.
To kick off the commemoration, a new lyric video for the late Helen Reddy‘s chart-topping 1972 female-empowerment anthem “I Am Woman” has premiered on YouTube. The clip also was created in honor of the 50th anniversary of the song, which was released as a single in May of ’72.
The campaign also includes a public mural, online stories spotlighting various female music artists, custom merchandise available for purchase on the uDiscover online store, an “I Am Woman” streaming playlist featuring a variety of empowering songs, and “I Am Woman”-themed EPs available via streaming platforms.
The “I Am Woman” mural is on display now at 1239 Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, California, and will give visitors the chance “to create shareable moments” and contribute their own stories to wall painting. The mural will remain on display for several weeks.
The streaming playlist features over 170 songs, beginning with Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” Other tunes by veteran artists on the playlist include Janet Jackson‘s “Nasty,” Diana Ross‘ “I’m Coming Out,” The Go-Go’s‘ “We Got the Beat,” ABBA‘s “Dancing Queen,” Pat Benatar‘s “Hit Me with Your Best Shot,” Gloria Gaynor‘s “I Will Survive,” Blondie‘s “Heart of Glass,” and Lesley Gore‘s “You Don’t Own Me.”
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address will be a remarkable scene: A maskless president speaking to more than 500 invited lawmakers packed cheek-to-jowl in the historic House chamber, also allowed to go without masks so long as they got tested first.
Case numbers and hospitalization levels have plummeted. Three-fourths of U.S. adults are now fully vaccinated with a growing number of people getting boosted. Rapid tests are finally widely available. And life-saving therapeutics including new anti-viral pills are growing in supply.
With such optimism on public display, Biden’s address will signal a new phase in the pandemic. It also will be a tacit acknowledgement that the virus, at any moment, could come roaring back to life.
Officials told ABC News that Biden on Tuesday would shy away from any suggestion of “mission accomplished” or even that the virus had morphed into an “endemic” state — a term reserved to describe a virus that persists but is mostly predictable.
Instead, a White House official described the president’s speech as noting the nation is now able to “move forward safely in a way in which COVID no longer disrupts our lives the way it has previously.”
The president also will “emphasize the need for the U.S. to remain vigilant in the face of an unpredictable virus, including by preparing for future variants,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details in advance of the speech.
That the nation is “moving forward safely” probably isn’t the bumper sticker slogan Democrats were hoping for in a midterm election year. But it’s also a much more honest assessment of a virus that’s still widely circulating globally and which has killed at least 945,688 Americans despite aggressive efforts to contain its spread.
Biden’s speech will be in juxtaposition to last year’s Fourth of July speech in which he declared the nation was close to its “independence” from the virus. But pockets of the country refused to get vaccinated last summer, giving rise to fresh waves of COVID hospitalizations in the fall and winter, eventually shuttering classrooms and workplaces.
Accordingly, the White House has been revising its COVID strategy and meeting privately with some of the nation’s top pandemic experts to consider paths the virus might take. Instead of counting primarily on getting more Americans vaccinated and moving past the virus, Biden’s new strategy would acknowledge that Americans might experience COVID in waves in the year to come and that the federal government’s role would be to blunt its impact by shoring up supplies of booster shots, rapid tests and effective therapeutics.
Details of that strategy were expected as early as this week. Biden was expected to touch on that new strategy only broadly Tuesday night.
Also, last Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new guidance for masks that factors in hospitalization capacity as much as it looks at new COVID case numbers and new COVID hospitalizations. The result is that based on current data more than 70% of Americans forgo masking indoors, including in schools, according to CDC guidance.
As if to remind the public of COVID’s reach, just hours before Biden’s speech Tuesday night, three Democrats — Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Alex Padilla of California and Suzan DelBene of Washington — announced they had tested positive. Several Republicans said they wouldn’t attend because they objected to having to take the PCR tests in the first place.
“We’ve seen things come down before only to be surprised,” one person said, describing the meetings as helping the administration to prepare for next steps.
ABC News reporter Mariam Khan contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — The nation and the world will be watching tonight when President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address at 9 p.m. ET with a main focus expected to be on how he and the U.S. are responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
As he is set to speak, Russian strikes are killing civilians, forces are massing near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of backing down.
Biden is expected to highlight his leadership in the allied response and call on Americans to deal with higher gasoline prices in order to help defend democracy.
On the domestic front, he will also address the inflation that is driving his job approval rating at just 37% and highlight progress in dealing with the pandemic that allows many mask mandates to be dropped, including, symbolically, in the House chamber as he makes his high-profile speech.
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Biden to stress leadership on Ukraine
President Joe Biden’s 9 p.m. ET speech, to be carried live on national television and seen around the world, will be delivered just days after Russia invaded Ukraine — and days after he nominated the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.
But he’ll also be speaking to Americans suffering from historic inflation as the nation continues to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
With his job approval at an all-time low of 37%, Biden faces the difficult task of balancing their pain with his desire to reap the political benefits of his legislative wins so far — a massive COVID relief package and a once-in-a-generation investment in the nation’s infrastructure — while also demonstrating his leadership on one of the greatest threats to European stability since World War II.
Dozens of artists, including Rod Stewart, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers and Tears for Fears, are taking part in Live Nation’s 2022 Lawn Pass promotion.
A Lawn Pass ticket allows you to attend up to 40 concerts this summer at one of a select number of Live Nation amphitheaters for a total of $199, plus fees.
Other tours participating in the promotion include Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Buffett, KISS, REO Speedwagon‘s outing with Styx and Loverboy, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Santana‘s joint trek with Earth, Wind & Fire, Sammy Hagar, Steely Dan and Third Eye Blind. More artists will be announced soon.
The promoter says Lawn Pass not only will allow fans to catch concerts at their local selected music venue, they will also be able to access some select sold-out shows. “Each Lawn Pass purchaser will receive a custom personalized credential with their name that serves as their ticket on each show day,” Live Nation says.
Only a limited number of Lawn Passes will be available per venue, and are on sale now at LawnPass.LiveNation.com on a first-come, first-served basis. Check out the website to find eligible venues and artists.
Foals has announced the details of the band’s upcoming album, Life Is Yours.
The seventh studio effort from the U.K. outfit — and the follow-up to 2019’s two-part Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — arrives June 17, and includes the previously released songs “Wake Me Up” and “2am.”
“We wanted to refocus and do something that shared a DNA throughout the songs: a physicality, a danceability, and with energy and joyousness,” says frontman Yannis Philippakis. “It’s definitely the poppiest record we’ve ever made.”
“I feel that with Everything Not Saved…we touched upon all of the facets of our sound up until that point,” he adds. “This time we wanted to find a new way to express ourselves.”
Here’s the Life Is Yours track list:
“Life Is Yours”
“Wake Me Up”
“2am”
“2001”
“(summer sky)”
“Flutter”
“Looking High”
“Under the Radar”
“Crest of the Wave”
“The Sound”
“Wild Green”
Papa Roach has announced a new album called Ego Trip.
The 11th studio effort from the “Last Resort” rockers — and their first since 2019’s Who Do You Trust? — will be released April 8.
“Now isn’t the time for comfort of conformity, but to be inspired and build something new,” frontman Jacoby Shaddix says of Ego Trip. “Something better, in order to channel something more.”
Ego Trip includes the previously released songs “Kill the Noise,” “Stand Up,” “Swerve” and “Dying to Believe.” A fifth track, titled “Cut the Line,” is out today via digital outlets. The “Cut the Line” video will premiere this Friday, March 4.
Here’s the Ego Trip track list:
“Kill the Noise”
“Stand Up”
“Swerve” feat. FEVER 333 & Sueco
“Bloodline”
“Liar”
“Ego Trip”
“Unglued”
“Dying to Believe”
“Killing Time”
“Leave a Light On”
“Always Wandering”
Artists including Foo Fighters, Jack White and Nine Inch Nails are taking part in Live Nation’s 2022 Lawn Pass promotion.
A Lawn Pass ticket allows you to attend up to 40 concerts this summer at one of a select number of Live Nation amphitheaters for a total of $199, plus fees.
Other tours participating include Slipknot, The Black Keys, Coheed and Cambria, Deftones, Dave Matthews Band, Iron Maiden, Jack Johnson, KISS, The Lumineers, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Sammy Hagar and Third Eye Blind.
The single will feature McCartney’s original version of “Women and Wives” — which appeared on 2020’s McCartney III album — on one side, and alt-rocker St. Vincent‘s 2021 remix of the tune on the other.
St. Vincent’s “Women and Wives” remix was featured on the McCartney III Imagined album, which was released in April 2021 and included covers or remixes of all the McCartney III tracks by various artists.
As previously reported, Record Store Day 2022 will take place on April 23, with an additional drop date for select releases on June 18. The “Women and Wives” vinyl single will be released on June 18, and a limited run of 3,000 numbered copies will be available.
Explaining why “Women and Wives” was chosen as Song of the Year, Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz says, “I was driving down a Montana highway one sunny, snowy morning when St. Vincent’s imagined version of ‘Women and Wives’ came on [satellite radio]. I was stunned by the song’s message of chasing the future. When St. Vincent’s Jeff Beck-like guitar solo arrived at the end, I got goosebumps. This is a classic McCartney song, up there with some of his best.”
McCartney was inspired to write the song after reading blues legend Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter‘s biography, and he recorded the track with an upright bass that belonged to Elvis Presley‘s early bassist, the late Bill Black.
