Ra Ra Riot, on tour with Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World soon, unveil album details

photo: Rowan Daly

As a follow up to their recent single “Bad To Worse,” Ra Ra Riot has released a new track, Flowers. Like “Bad To Worse” and 2016’s “Water,” “Flowers” was co-written and produced by Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers, Haim).

In addition, the New York indie rockers shared details of their forthcoming new studio album Superbloom, which will be released on Aug. 9 via Rob the Rich Recordings/Caroline.

Pre-orders for Superbloom are available now from the band’s website. Fans can purchase exclusive splatter colored vinyl and exclusive merch designs from Idle New York.

“Flowers” joins the previously released “This Time Of Year” and current single and Rostam collaboration “Bad To Worse” as the first three tracks revealed from Superbloom. “Bad To Worse” has been added at Sirius XMU and has more than 2 million global streams to date.

Ra Ra Riot is Wes Miles (vocals), Mathieu Santos (bass), Milo Bonacci (guitar),Rebecca Zeller (violin), Kenny Bernard (drums). To stay in the loop on new music, please visit: www.rarariot.com.

Track listing:

1. Flowers

2. Bad To Worse
3. Belladonna
4. Endless Pain/Endless Joy
5. War & Famine
6. Bitter Conversation
7. This Time of Year
8. Gimme Time
9. Backroads
10. Dangerous
11. An Accident
12. A Check for Daniel

Tour dates opening for Third Eye Blind & Jimmy Eat World:

June 14 @ Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA
June 15 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA
June 16 @ Britt Festival Pavilion in Jacksonville, OR ^
June 18 @ Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center in Portland, OR
June 19 @ WaMu Theater in Seattle, WA
June 21 @ USANA Amphitheatre in Salt Lake City, UT
June 22 @ Levitt Pavilion in Denver, CO
June 23 @ Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, MO
June 25 @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in St. Louis, MO
June 27 @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, IL
June 28 @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill Detroit, MI
June 29 @ Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI
June 30 @ Farmer’s Bureau Insurance Lawn in Indianapolis, IN
July 2 @ Jacob’s Pavilion at Nautica in Cleveland, OH
July 3 @ Artpark in Lewiston, NY
July 5 @ CMAC in Canandaigua, NY
July 6 @ Thompson’s Point in Portland, ME
July 7 @ Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, MA**
July 8 @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston, MA
July 9 @ Toyota Presents Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT
July 11 @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY
July 12 @ Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA
July 13 @ PNC Bank Arts Theater in Holmdel, NJ
July 14 @ BB&T Pavilion in Camden, NJ
July 16 @ Express Live! Pavilion in Columbus, OH
July 17 @ PNC Pavilion in Cincinnati, OH
July 19 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD
July 20 @ Stage AE Outdoors in Pittsburgh, PA
July 21 @ PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, NC
July 22 @ State Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Charlotte, NC
July 24 @ Ascend Amphitheatre in Nashville, TN
July 25 @ Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion in Rogers, AR
July 26 @ Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, TX
July 27 @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston, TX
July 29 @ Launchpad in Albuquerque, NM**
July 31 @ Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix, AZ
August 1 @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in San Diego, CA
August 2 @ The Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino in Las Vegas, NV
August 3 @ FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA

**Ra Ra Riot Headlining Show
^ Third Eye Blind and Ra Ra Riot only

Unique New Order live recording from '17 coming this summer; European tour dates

photo: Warren Jackson

I'm always very interested in anything New Order does. This concert recording sounds very intriguing. Read more from the press release and Euro tour dates below...

 

Joy Division made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes program in 1978.

For the celebrated show, New Order deconstructed, rethought and rebuilt a wealth of material from throughout their career: familiar and obscure, old and new.

∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes...(Yes, that's the title) will be released July 12 on triple vinyl, double CD and digital formats. Pre-order the album and listen to “Sub-culture” live from the 2017 Manchester International Festival here.

The triple vinyl edition will be housed in a hardback slip case with spot gloss varnish and will feature transparent red, green and blue LPs as well as a 24-page deluxe booklet. The double CD edition will come packaged in a triple gatefold sleeve and a deluxe booklet.

The new live album was recorded live on July 13, 2017 and includes the full show as well as three additional tracks recorded over the residency to give listeners a full representation of the breadth of material performed. Featuring tracks such as “Disorder” – from Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures and not played live for 30 years – up to 2015’s “Plastic” from New Order’s critically acclaimed Music Complete, this is the perfect document of those magical five nights.

Created in collaboration with visual artist Liam Gillick – who has previously presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Tate Britain and MoMA in New York – and orchestrated by composer-arranger Joe Duddell, a fellow son of Manchester and a frequent New Order collaborator, the live show was performed by the band with a 12-strong synthesiser ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music.

This summer New Order will be performing at festivals throughout Europe and have just announced a headline tour for October playing Prague, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. Track listing:

1. Times Change (Live at MIF)

2. Who's Joe (Live at MIF)
3. Dream Attack (Live at MIF)
4. Disorder (Live at MIF)
5. Ultraviolence (Live at MIF)
6. In A Lonely Place (Live at MIF)
7. All Day Long (Live at MIF)
8. Shellshock (Live at MIF)
9. Guilt Is A Useless Emotion (Live at MIF)
10. Sub-culture (Live at MIF)
11. Bizarre Love Triangle (Live at MIF)
12. Vanishing Point (Live at MIF)
13. Plastic (Live at MIF)
14. Your Silent Face (Live at MIF)
15. Decades (Live at MIF)
16. Elegia (Live at MIF)
17. Heart & Soul (Live at MIF)
18. Behind Closed Doors (Live at MIF)

New Order 2019 Tour:

June 7 – Aarhus, Norway – Northside Festival
June 13 – Oslo, Norway – PiPfest
June 16 – Athens, Greece – Release Festival
June 30 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter Festival
July 7 – Dublin, Ireland – Trinity Summer Sessions
July 12 – Lucca, Italy – Summer Festival
July 18 – Bristol, England – Harbourside Festival
July 21 – Cheshire, England – Bluedot Festival
July 24 – Rattvik, Sweden – Dalhalla Festival
July 27 – Benidorm, Spain – Low Festival
August 12 – Girona, Spain – Cap Roig Festival
August 15 – Praia do Taboão, Portugal – Parades de Coura Festival
August 18 – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
August 25 – Portsmouth, England – Victorious Festival
September 21 – Madrid, Spain – Weekend City Festival
October 3 – Prague, Czech Republic – Lucerna Music Hall
October 5 – Munich, Germany – Philharmonic Hall
October 7 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
October 11 – Paris, France – Le Grand Rex
October 14 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
October 17 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live

TODAY Show Summer Concert Series 2019 lineup

I've reviewed some of these acts live in the past. I'm particularly looking forward to Kacey Musgraves, who was so great at the recent Coachella Festival (see elsewhere on this blog). Get the details below...

The 2019 Citi Concert Series on TODAY at Rockefeller Plaza has been announced. 

Additionally, as part of a special edition of TODAY, Sheryl Crow will perform Thursday, May 23 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ahead of the 103rd Indianapolis 500. The concert is part of a special edition of TODAY celebrating Elizabeth Dole’s Hidden Heroes organization, and will be performed for a crowd of military caregivers.

All performances are on Fridays unless otherwise noted. Fans are encouraged to visit the plaza outside TODAY’s Studio 1A for the live concerts. Viewing is on a first-come, first-served basis. Entrance is located at 48th Street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

MAY

23 SHERYL CROW (#SherylCrowTODAY) *Thursday in Indianapolis

31 THOMAS RHETT (#ThomasRhettTODAY)

JUNE

7 JONAS BROTHERS (#JonasBrothersTODAY)

21 THE CHAINSMOKERS (#ChainsmokersTODAY)

28 DAN + SHAY (#DanShayTODAY)

JULY

12 MAGGIE ROGERS (#MaggieRogersTODAY)

19 KACEY MUSGRAVES(#KaceyMusgravesTODAY)

26 ANDY GRAMMER (#AndyGrammerTODAY)

AUGUST

16 ALOE BLACC (#AloeBlaccTODAY)

23 LIZZO (#LizzoTODAY)

SEPTEMBER

2 WHY DON’T WE (#WhyDontWeTODAY) *Monday

*Meghan Trainor and OneRepublic dates to be announced

China Crisis concert review: Riverside, Calif.

photo: George A. Paul

The first time I caught China Crisis in concert was September 2014 at the Greek Theatre in LA, when it made a rare U.S. live appearance during the Retro Futura Tour alongside Howard Jones, Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, Midge Ure and others: https://newwavegeo.blogspot.com/2014/09/concert-review-retro-futura-tour-feat.html.

That was just a short "opening act" set though. The veteran Liverpool band - founding lead singer Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon, plus a tour keyboardist and a saxophonist - returned to Southern California last Friday at Romano's Concert Lounge and did a far more fulfilling 90-minute performance.

Although the venue wasn't filled, some followers in attendance traveled from afar. A quick survey by Daly revealed various people came from nearby states (possibly to attend the following day's Like Totally '80s festival, which China Crisis was scheduled to play before an abrupt cancellation) and other distant locations. Several British fans made their presence known as well.

During China Crisis' Eighties heyday, the sophisticated synth-pop band placed five top 40 singles and three successful albums on the U.K. charts. Stateside, it had more of a cult following and a minor hit on Billboard's Dance Club chart in "Working with Fire and Steel." More recently, Daly and Lundon used crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic to release Autumn in the Neighbourhood - the first China Crisis studio album in 20 years.

Billowy synth sounds and a fresh sax intro on "The Soul Awakening" launched the impressive 16-song Riverside concert. The distinctly new wave-sounding wash of synth amid "Temptation's Big Blue Eyes" (the first of five tracks from 1982 debut album Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain) and the experimental "Feel to be Driven Away" mined similar sonic territory as the Human League and Talking Heads. Those were two acts Daly said the band was trying to one-up at the time.

Before China Crisis enthralled fans with the luxurious textures of "Bigger the Punch I'm Feeling," Daly told an interesting story about how Steely Dan's Walter Becker came to produce the most successful album by China Crisis, 1985's Flaunt the Imperfection (which I bought on cassette upon release and still own). The reggae-leaning "Strength of Character," another track from said album, boasted some supple sax work and was an early standout.

A gorgeous Lundon-sung "Fool," the newest song, fit in well with the older material. First-ever single "African and White" proved infectious as ever. Another highlight was the ebullient vibe of "Arizona Sky," which Daly said was about touring America in the '80s (a less favorable anecdote revolved around serving as opener for Simple Minds back in the day). 

photo: George A. Paul

Nearing the end, China Crisis sounded strong on "King in a Catholic Style." After it ended, a woman brought a cake onstage to salute Daly's birthday for the band's social media and he took a good-natured swipe at Depeche Mode ("they might fill stadiums, but not people's hearts").

Ethereal UK hit "Christian" was memorable as Daly gestured while he sang. Finally, the band concluded with the dancey audience request "Working with Fire and Steel."  

Setlist: The Soul Awakening/Temptation's Big Blue Eyes/Feel to be Driven Away/Red Sails/Best Kept Secret/Bigger the Punch I'm Feeling/Strength of Character/Fool/African and White/Tragedy and Mystery/Arizona Sky/Black Man Ray/Wishful Thinking/King in a Catholic Style/Christian/Working with Fire and Steel

Generationals back this summer with a new album, tour

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Generationals have announced the release of their fifth full-length album, Reader As Detective, due July 19 on Polyvinyl. They debuted new single "I Turned My Back on the Written Word" on freshfridays.tv. Check it out here.

The New Orleans indie-pop duo, made up of Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner, released their debut in 2009. They have toured with Broken Social Scene and Two Door Cinema Club in the past. Reader As Detective was completed with producer and longtime collaborator Dan Black. 

Tour dates:

8/16 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada

8/17 - Austin, TX - Antone’s Nightclub
8/19 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
8/20 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
8/22 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
8/23 - Santa Barbara, CA - SOhO Music Club
8/24 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
8/26 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
8/27 - Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret
8/28 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
8/30 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
9/18 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
9/19 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
9/20 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
9/21 - Colombus, OH - The A&R Music Bar
9/22 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
9/24 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
9/26 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
9/27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
9/28 - Washington, DC - The Black Cat
9/30 - Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall
10/2 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East
10/3 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/4 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
10/5 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s

Track listings:

01. I’ve Been Wrong Before
02. I Turned My Back on the Written Word
03. Breaking Your Silence
04. A List of the Virtues
05. Gatekeeper
06. Xeno Bobby
07. Society of Winners
08. Deadbeat Shiver
09. Save This For Never
10. Dream Box

Roger Daltrey to release 'The Who's Tommy: Orchestral'; touring now

In the of Summer 2018, Roger Daltrey and his band toured the U.S.A. performing The Who's classic album Tommy with symphony orchestras, an experience that Daltrey described as ‘magical.'

Featuring a new orchestration by the composer and arranger David Campbell this incarnation of Tommy celebrates the 50th anniversary of the album’s first release. Preview "Pinball Wizard" here.

The album, which was recorded in Budapest and Bethel in upstate New York, the scene of the first Woodstock festival 50 years ago, was produced by Roger Daltrey and Keith Levenson (who worked on the touring version of the Tommy Musical) and features the core band of Simon Townshend – Vocals / Guitar, Frank Simes – Guitar, Scott Devours – Drums, Jon Button – Bass, and Loren Gold – keyboards, all of whom have played with The Who live. Keith Levenson conducted The Budapest Scoring Orchestra from new orchestrations by David Campbell.

Roger Daltrey on Tommy’s enduring appeal after 50 years and why it sounds better with an orchestra “Pete’s music is particularly suited to being embellished by the sounds that an orchestra can add to the band. Tommy can mean whatever you want it to mean, I use the characters in it as metaphors for parts of the human condition, so it’s a kind of a story of the human spirit. Even though it is 50 years on, I approach it as though I'm singing it for the first time.”

Since it was first debuted at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho London in early May 1969, Tommy has had many different live outings; it was performed in full at the Woodstock and Isle Of Wight Festivals in 1969, it was the basis for a ballet in Canada in 1970, it was a full-blown opera in Seattle in 1971, in 1972 it was recorded as an orchestral piece by the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Stevie Winwood, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, there was the infamous 1975 movie directed by Ken Russell starring Elton John, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Ann-Margaret, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson and Roger Daltrey. After that, the band didn't perform it again until 1989 in Los Angeles when guests such as Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Elton John & Patti Labelle were part of the show. In 1993, the musical version opened on Broadway and won five Tony awards before transferring to The West End where it went on to win three Olivier awards.

The band played it in full, for what they have said is the last time for the Teen Cancer Trust at The Royal Albert Hall in 2017 but will be performing parts of their classic rock opera on their 2019 North American tour, The Who: Moving On!, utilizing up to 50 local musicians from the greatest symphonies across the country at every show starting with May 7 in Grand Rapids, MN. $1 from each ticket sold online for the tour will benefit Teen Cancer America. After successfully establishing the Teen Cancer Trust in London, Daltrey and Townshend launched Teen Cancer America in 2012. The charity has devoted Teen Cancer units being opened in hospitals across the U.S. TCA’s work has impacted more than 5,000 young people and their families nationwide during the last six years. More info on TCA, teencanceramerica.org or the WHO tour dates, thewho.com.

Keith Levenson, co-producer of Tommy Orchestral is currently on the road as coordinator and conductor for the orchestra for the Who’s Moving On! Tour. Levenson has worked with Daltrey since 1994, when he worked on the ‘Daltrey Sings Townshend’ Summer Tour and went on to conduct more symphony tours with Daltrey including the ‘British Rock Symphony’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Lincoln Center.

Keith Levenson has conducted and created arrangements for KISS, Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, Yes, The British Rock Symphony, Peter Frampton, Paul Rodgers, Darlene Love and Nigel Kennedy among many others. As a Broadway/National Tour Music Director/Supervisor, Keith has conducted the musicals ‘Annie’ with Nell Carter and Sally Struthers, ‘The Best Little Whorehouse’ in Texas with Ann-Margret, Jason Robert Brown’s ‘The Bridges of Madison County,’ Franco Dragone’s ‘India!,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘Peter and Pan’ with Cathy Rigby.

Track listing:

01 Overture
02 It's A Boy
03 1921
04 Amazing Journey
05 Sparks
06 Eyesight To The Blind
07 Christmas
08 Cousin Kevin
09 The Acid Queen
10 Do You Think It's Alright
11 Fiddle About
12 Pinball Wizard
13 There's A Doctor
14 Go To The Mirror
15 Tommy, Can You Hear
16 Smash The Mirror
17 Refrain - It's A Boy
18 I'm Free
19 Miracle Cure
20 Sensation
21 Sally Simpson
22 Welcome
23 Tommy's Holiday Camp
24 We're Not Gonna Take It

'The Who: Moving On! Live' Tour Dates:

May 16 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
May 18 - Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
May 21 - Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
May 23 - St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
May 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
May 28 - Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
May 30 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
June 1 - Toronto, CA @ Scotiabank Arena
July 6 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
Sept 6 - Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
Sept 8- Elkhorn, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
Sept 10 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
Sept 13 - Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
Sept 15 - Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health At Jones Beach Theater
Sept 18 - Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
Sept 20 - Sunrise, FL @ BB&T Center
Sept 22 - Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
Sept 25 - Houston, TX @ Houston Toyota Center
Sept 27 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
Sept 29 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
Oct 9 - San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
Oct 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
Oct 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
Oct 16 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
Oct 19 - Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park
Oct 21 - Vancouver, CA @ Rogers Arena
Oct 23 - Edmonton, CA @ Rogers Place

www.thewho.com

The B-52s to reissue expanded 'Cosmic Thing'; on tour this summer

photo: Kelly Swift

I've been a big fan of the band since "Rock Lobster" first came out and have reviewed their shows several times in recent years (see below). I'm really looking forward to the new version of their classic album. Read the press release for all the details...

https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/21/the-b52s-and-pacific-symphony-party-it-up-at-pacific-amphitheatre/
https://www.ocregister.com/2016/08/13/photos-the-b-52s-get-the-closing-weekend-party-started-at-pacific-amphitheatre/
https://www.ocregister.com/2012/07/02/the-b-52s-squeeze-make-a-winning-pair-at-the-greek/

The B-52s soared in 1989, propelled by the band’s first Top 10 hits “Love Shack” and “Roam.” They were breakthrough singles from the Athens, Georgia-based group’s fifth studio release, Cosmic Thing. That record reached #3 on the Billboard Album Chart, sold more than four million copies in the U.S.

It will be the 30th anniversary of Cosmic Thing this summer and the B-52s are taking the party on the road with an extensive tour of Europe and the U.S. Also, Rhino Records will introduce an anniversary edition of the album that features newly remastered sound, B-sides, remixes and unreleased concert recordings from 1990’s Cosmic Tour.

On June 28 – one day after the album’s official 30th anniversary – Rhino will release Cosmic Thing: 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition. The two-disc set is accompanied by a booklet that includes liner notes from journalist and author T. Cole Rachel, song lyrics, and unseen photos of the band from that time period. The music will be available on the same day through digital download and streaming services.

The anniversary edition opens with a newly remastered version of the original album, which was recorded by Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Keith Strickland, and co-produced by Nile Rodgers and Don Was. Along with the original album, the two-disc set also includes five newly remastered bonus tracks that spotlight B-sides and remixes like “B-52’s Megamix” and “Roam” (Extended Remix).

The collection’s second disc is an unreleased live album that captures the B-52s performing live in Texas in August 1990 during the band’s Cosmic Tour. The performance includes seven songs from Cosmic Thing along with several other B-52’s classics such as “Rock Lobster” and “Dance This Mess Around” from the group’s 1979 self-titled debut; and “Private Idaho” and “Give Me Back My Man” from 1980’s Wild Planet.

All songs were recorded during the band’s August 4 show at The Pavillion in The Woodlands, Texas except for “Whammy Kiss,” which was recorded the previous night during the band’s show in Dallas.

COSMIC THING: 30th ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION

2-CD Track Listing

Disc One: Newly Remastered Original Album

1. “Cosmic Thing”
2. “Dry County”
3. “Deadbeat Club”
4. “Love Shack”
5. “Junebug”
6. “Roam”
7. “Bushfire”
8. “Channel Z”
9. “Topaz”
10. “Follow Your Bliss”
Assorted B-Sides And Remixes - Newly Remastered.
11. “B-52’s Megamix”
12. “Love Shack” (Edit)
13. “Channel Z” (Rock Mix)
14. “Roam” (Extended Remix)
15. “Roam” (12” Remix)

Disc Two:Cosmic Tour: Live In Texas, 1990

1. “Cosmic Thing”
2. “Bushfire”
3. “Quiche Lorraine”
4. “Dance This Mess Around”
5. “Dry County”
6. “Private Idaho”
7. “Give Me Back My Man”
8. “Deadbeat Club”
9. “Mesopotamia”
10. “Strobe Light”
11. “Roam”
12. “52 Girls”
13. “Love Shack”
14. “Rock Lobster”
15. “Whammy Kiss”
16. “Channel Z”

The B-52’s Summer Tour Dates

May

12 Arlington, TX KAABOO Texas
26 Nashville, TN Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender

June

21 Vitoria, ES Azkena Rock Festival
23 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso
24 Brussels, BE Ancienne Belgique
26 Cologne, DE E-Werk
27 Berlin, DE Columbiahalle
29 Gateshead Sage, UK Gateshead Sage
30 London, UK Eventim Apollo

July

2 Nottingham, UK Royal Concert Hall
3 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
5 Paris, FR Olympia
7 Argeles Sur Me, FR Festival les Deferlantes
26 Asheville, NC Biltmore Estate - South Terrace Stage

August

1 Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheatre
3 San Diego, CA Bayside Summer Nights @ Embarcadero Marina Park
4 Los Angeles, CA Microsoft Theater
6 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheater
7 Seattle, WA BECU ZooTunes Concert Series
8 Missoula, MT Kettlehouse Amphitheater
10 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheater
11 Murphys, CA Ironstone Amphitheatre
12 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery
14 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
16 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
17 Dillon, CO Dillon Amphitheater
18 Greenwood Village, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
21 San Antonio, TX The Majestic Theater
22 Austin, TX Bass Concert Hall
24 Sugarland, TX Smart Financial Centre
25 New Orleans, LA Saenger Theatre
28 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
29 Ft Lauderdale, FL Broward Center Au-Rene Theater

September

6 Greensboro, NC White Oak Amphitheatre at Greensboro Coliseum Complex
7 Atlanta, GA Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
8 Huber Heights, OH Rose Music Center at the Heights
11 Grand Rapids, MI Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts at Meijer Gardens
13 Toronto, ONT, CA Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
14 Detroit, MI Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
17 Washington, DC The Anthem
19 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center for the Performing Arts
20 Mashantucket, CT Foxwoods Resort Casino – Grand Theater
22 Asbury Park, NJ Sea.Hear.Now Festival
24 New York, NY Summerstage – Central Park