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New York City mayor Eric Adams has announced changes to COVID-19 requirements within the five boroughs. The Key to NYC rules that went into effect last summer — and currently require restaurants, bars, fitness centers, and concert venues to check for proof of vaccination before customers can enter — will be phased out on Monday, May 7.

Kid Rock is hitting the road, but he’s being selective about exactly where he’s going.Just days after announcing his upcoming “Bad Reputation” tour, the artist took to his official Facebook account this week to reveal he won’t be performing at venues that require COVID-19 masks or vaccination.“There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine mandates and venues. People saying, ‘I’m not going to that venue because of the vaccine mandate’ and this, that and the other.

descended on Rockefeller Center for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006.The When We Were Young festival is going down with some of the most iconic acts in emo and pop-punk music of the last two decades, including My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Bright Eyes, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Alkaline Trio and AFI, to name a few expected to appear at the one-day-only showcase at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Nevada on Saturday, Oct. 22.The presale for entry begins Jan.

wasn’t alone when she slurred profanities at a group of fans on Saturday. The ’80s singing sensation — now age 50 — was caught on camera verbally abusing concertgoers at her show in Lake Park, Florida.

peeing on a fan onstage — while insisting she’s “not a shock artist.”“I have always pushed the limits in music and on stage. That night, I pushed the limits too far,” the New York-based frontwoman admitted in her first comments about her golden viral moment.“I love my family, the band, and the fans more than anything and I know that some were hurt or offended by what I did,” she admitted of the huge backlash following last Thursday’s show in Daytona, Florida.“I apologize to them and want them to know that I didn’t mean to hurt them,” she wrote.“I am not a shock artist,” she insisted, without detailing what drove her to urinate over a male fan she brought up onto the stage.“I always want to put the music first.

found itself in dire straits. Venues were shuttering, stages were silent and musicians and fans had to make do with awkward Zoom performances.

Some Billy Joel songs just hit you differently now, 21 months after the Piano Man last tinkled those ivories at Madison Square Garden on Feb.

a college student in California. “I can tell her if you’d like.”Excited fans shouted on as McConnell began, nervously, “Okay, there’s a lot of people!” The amused Styles egged her on: “There is a lot of people.

last performance at the Big Sip stage, he suffered numerous symptoms directly linked with his current medical situation,” the rep said. “As of today, Steve will be retiring from Smash Mouth to focus on his physical and mental health.”On Oct.

“Love on Tour” performance during Thursday night’s concert in Detroit to address one of his fans, whom he spotted holding a poster that asked, “Should I text him?”Blessedly, one concertgoer captured the entire exchange on video and shared it with the world.“I have a question: Is he nice to you?” he queried. Styles, of course, is already known for being that guy — totally in touch with his softer side and sartorially comfortable with his sexuality.

performing from a chair for almost all of his concerts and using a cane for what little walking that he did.Still, by the time the tour came to Madison Square Garden in October 2019, Collins was vigorously belting out such beloved classics as “Another Day in Paradise,” “Sussudio” and “In the Air Tonight.” And playing the unmistakable drum part on the latter track  —  indeed, skins throughout the whole show — was Collins’ 20-year-old son Nic. And it’s Nic who will be playing the drums throughout Genesis’ “The Last Domino?” tour, which, after being delayed last year because of COVID, kicked off its UK leg on Monday and will hit the US in November.​​“I’m kind of physically challenged a bit, which is very frustrating because I’d love to be

getting restless about when his “Love On Tour” dates would be finalized. But now they’re singing “Adore You” to him, as the “Watermelon Sugar” singer just came out with an updated list.

“Elton John Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour.”“The shows that I announce today will be my final tour dates ever in North America and Europe,” John said in a statement. “I’m going to go out in the biggest possible way, performing at my very best, with the most spectacular production I’ve ever had, playing in places that have meant so much to me throughout my career.”John is now set to perform in additional European cities and several major North American cities.

Innovative indie act the Flaming Lips performed two shows in Oklahoma this month, protecting their fans and themselves from one another by placing everyone inside their own inflatable bubble so as to make the concert “safer than going to the grocery store,” said frontman Wayne Coyne.“We collect everybody and then we take them row by row to their bubbles,” Coyne, a long-time bubble enthusiast, told Rolling Stone last month of the strategy. “Once you’re in the bubble you can do whatever the f–k you want, and that’s the beauty of it.

BEIJING – The moment the metal singer Shui Shu spread his arms, Buddhist prayer beads in hand and incense wafting from the stage, his band unleashed a wall of sound on the crowd.The rapt audience of about 200, many wearing masks, swayed gingerly.

Rolling Stone reader Mike Rainey for tipping us off.) The video begins with Mellencamp and his band playing hits like “Small Town” and “Paper in Fire” before Reed comes out, around the 16:00 mark, as the crowd goes absolutely insane.Indiana University rock history professor Glenn Gass was in the crowd that night. He followed Reed into an alley after the musician’s set and told him he was teaching his students about the Velvet Underground; Gass wrote his phone number on a matchbox and invited Reed to speak to the students, never thinking it would happen.Reed called Gass the next day and said he wanted to do it.

the ongoing pandemic ultimately canceled. And you may have hoped, really hoped, that the venue would reschedule the event sometime this year.Well, according to a Lollapalooza co-founder, don’t hold your breath.Making an appearance on Bob Lefsetz’s podcast this week, Marc Geiger is asked when live music will return.“In my humble opinion, it’s going to be 2022,” he said.He went on to say, “It’s going to take that long before what I call ‘the germaphobic economy’ is slowly killed off and replaced by the claustrophobia economy — that’s when people want to get out and go to dinner and have their lives, go to festivals and shows.”“It’s my instinct that’s going to take awhile because super-spreader events — sports, shows festivals, etc.

Taylor Swift has canceled her 2020 tour dates — including her Lover Fests — due to the coronavirus pandemic. Her planned U.S. shows will instead take place in 2021.

In mid-March, as more Americans were ordered to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a sense of foreboding started to creep up on British rocker Yungblud.

Harry Styles stopped by NPR for an intimate Tiny Desk Concert, performing four tracks from his new album, “Fine Line.”

Fake Whitney Houston is headed to the fakest town of all.