Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers announced their 2010 North American tour today and the upcoming release of Mojo, their first studio album in eight years, set for release on Reprise Records this spring. The North American tour, produced by Live Nation, will take the band through a mix of top arenas and amphitheaters across the US with a Chicago tour stop on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at The United Center.
Tickets go on sale beginning Monday, March 8 at LiveNation.com. JACK will have access to a special pre-sale this week with all the details coming soon. All 2010 tour tickets purchased online will include an MP3 download of every track on the Heartbreakers’ electrifying new album, Mojo.
Once fans purchase tickets online they will receive an email with codes entitling them to download two tracks from Mojo (“First Flash Of Freedom” and “Good Enough.”) Then, on the release date of the album, currently slated for this spring, ticket buyers will be sent a download of the entire album. Also included with every online ticket purchase, to be delivered at the end of the 2010 tour, will be a selection of live tracks recorded during the tour.
Again, JACK will have free tickets to give you to the concert. Stay tuned this week for all the details. You can listen to win tickets and enter online through Jack’s Kickbacks at www.iknowjack.com
104.3 JACK FM welcomes Styx, Foreigner, and special guest Kansas to the Charter One Pavilion on Friday, June 5th.
Tickets go on-sale this Saturday, March 6th at www.Livenation.com at 10am. JACK listeners can pick up their tickets before everyone else with a special pre-sale this Friday, March 5th from 10am to 10pm. When you get to the special pre-sale box enter the password: jack no bold, period or caps just the plain word jack.
JACK will also have some free tickets within the next week. Stay tuned for your chance to listen and win, and to enter online in Jack’s Kickbacks.
In the meantime, reflect with a live videos as a preview for this spring’s concert.
The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has revealed he would like to form a supergroup with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Daltrey is keen to start a blues-influenced side project and sees Page as an ideal prospective bandmate.
“I’d love to do something, I’d love to do an album with Jimmy Page,” he told the BBC. “He needs a singer to drive him. I’m a great blues singer.”
Daltrey also noted that he would go back to the blues roots he established before songwriting with Pete Townshend.
“I don’t sing the blues with The Who, but that’s what I used to be before Townshend started writing,” he said. “I used to be a great blues singer.”
The future of the Who remains uncertain following Townshend’s revelations that his recurring tinnitus problem may stop him from performing any further shows.
Stone Temple Pilots have officially announced that they will be releasing their comeback album on May 25. The 12 tracks from the self-titled album, which will be the band’s first in nine years, were unveiled at a private listening party in New York on Tuesday.
The entire band attended the event, with singer Scott Weiland looking “the best he’s looked in a long time,” according to a local station.
STP bassist Robert DeLeo noted, “Fans are going get to a great STP record . . . a really cohesive record with songs that are going to be lasting.”
The band also confirmed that they will be performing at SXSW in March and embarking on a subsequent spring and summer tour. Weiland even hinted that the band may be putting together its own festival.
The Chicago stop of that tour takes place on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at the Riviera Theatre. Tickets go on-sale tomorrow morning at www.ticketmaster.com and will likely be an instant sell-out.
Stone Temple Pilots reunited in 2008 after a six-year hiatus.
He pulled a young kid, Austin, out of the audience and let him play “Belief” with him and then gave him his guitar to keep! Check it out. (Warning: You may get dizzy from watching this!)
One of the biggest rock bands of the 90s is back in it’s first reincarnate since the death of frontman Bradley Nowell in 1996. The two other original members of Sublime, drummer Bud Gaugh and bassis Eric Wilson, have teamed up with a 22-year-old singer-guitarist from Northern California named Rome Ramirez.
Controversy arose when the band first came together to play a few small gigs late last year, but that has been settled after the band agreed to call their new act Sublime With Rome since the late Nowell registered the trademark for the name Sublime. With a new singer, a new name, and a couple new songs in the works – Sublime With Rome will kick-off a year long tour on April 20th at the Palladium in Los Angeles. The band has included Chicago in it’s intimate six-city theater tour with a show at The Riviera on April 28th. More European and US dates to follow for Summer 2010. If schedules allow, wouldn’t be surprised to see them on the bill for Lollapalooza in August.
Steven Tyler has sort of been the Brett Favre of Rock N’ Roll lately. Is he? Isn’t he? The band set records straight yesterday via their website (video above). Tyler is back in and the band is set to kick off a European Tour this summer.
The Cocked, Locked, and Ready to Rock Tour will tear up Europe and rumors some US dates… just don’t expect them to hit up South Dakota anytime soon. Bad things happen there. Namely, gravity.
Watching that video again with the current Olympics in mind, I doubt Tyler would have scored well with the judges. While the footwork was impressive and demonstrated a high degree of difficulty, he definitely would be docked points on the landing.
Billy Joel and Elton John have canceled all the performances scheduled for their summer Face 2 Face tour. (VIEW PHOTOS from the Face 2 Face tour show in 2009 at Wrigley Field)
In a recent interview with NBC, Elton explained that the two piano men will finish out their winter dates and will likely end the joint tour after that.
The two had not yet released a full itinerary for the summer run, but reportedly confirmed an appearance at Chicago’s legendary Wrigley Field on July 7. According to John, it was Joel’s decision to scrap the summer leg of the tour because he needs some time away from the stage. (more…)
Paul McCartney has announced the first two dates of his Up and Coming tour, which is set to get underway next month.
The legendary singer/songwriter will kick things off March 28 in Glendale, Arizona, which will mark his first performance in the state in four years. He will then perform at the Hollywood Bowl on March 30, a venue he hasn’t appeared at since 1993.
These two shows are the beginning of an “extensive roadtrip,” as described by the tour’s press release. Further details and dates will be announced through McCartney’s official website soon. (more…)
Amidst the outcry over the discounted rumor of EMI’s possible sale of Abbey Road Studios, the British Culture Minister declared on Tuesday that the North London recording studios is officially a historic landmark. British Culture Minister Margaret Hodge declared the iconic venue a Grade II listed building because of the “the historic merit of the studios” and because of its “huge cultural importance.”
Amidst the outcry over the discounted rumor of EMI’s possible sale of Abbey Road Studios, the British Culture Minister declared on Tuesday that the North London recording studios is officially a historic landmark.
British Culture Minister Margaret Hodge declared the iconic venue a Grade II listed building – the second-highest category – on the advice of national preservation body English Heritage. In a statement, she said Abbey Road was granted the Grade II designation because of the “the historic merit of the studios” and because of its “huge cultural importance.”
