Interlocken Festival 2013

Making your summer-festival choice that much harder this season – on which of the country's many, many music festivals should you spend your hard-earned money? – yet another new event has exploded onto the scene. The inaugural Interlocken Festival will take place in Arrington, VA, this coming September 5-6. More laid-back than let's-rage, Interlocken boasts a lineup of jamband heavyweights, including headliners Neil Young & Crazy Horse and The String Cheese Incident, as well as Gov'T Mule, The Black Crowes, Punch Brothers, and Further.

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Festival organizers seem well aware of their mighty competition (Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, etc.), which is why they're doing their best to make Interlocken stand out from the pack. The event will feature consecutive performances, which means there won't be any breaks or lag time between each artist's two-hour set. Or, "When something ends, another begins," as the press release says. This mantra holds true for each of the festival's two main stages, where performances will run simultaneously. For a complete list of Interlocken's full lineup, see our chart below - and don't forget to check back here in the weeks ahead as even more discount ticket links become available!

Interlocken Festival 2013 Tickets

Interlocken Festival 2013 Lineup

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Old and Busted Way

Collection of images would take up to a month any time we wanted to add a new
size. Outsourcers would be commissioned to collect 5000 images of a
certain size. A simple step but expensive, inflexible, and time consuming.

New Hotness OpenCV!

OpenCV does the hard work of finding shapes that resemble a human face and
returning the coordinates. It includes a python version but there are other
libraries that wrap it up and make it a bit easier to work with.

Since we don't have to do the hard work of finding faces why don't we just
get really big images and automate the process of making smaller ones!

The `haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml` file contains the results of training the
classifier, which you can find as part of the OpenCV library or with a quick
search online.

Starting with this picture of Eisley:

we can use PIL to draw rectangles around the faces that OpenCV found:

How to resize once we can find faces

Once we have a face we need to resize the image. In our case the images we
collected are landscape format images and we us landscape images for our larger
sizes. Staying in the format makes resizing a bit easier, we mostly make
thinner images, a higher aspect ratio, so we can just resize to the correct
width and crop it into a rectangle with the correct height that we want.

The `face_buffer` is the amount of space we want to leave above the top-most
face after finding the height from the top of the top face to the bottom of
the bottom face to make sure we aren't cropping anyone out of the photo.

Generally we want to include as much of the image as possible without
cropping out anyones face so this works reasonably well for images where the
final size is a higher aspect ratio then when you started. Now that you have
the faces though you can use any sort of cropping that you need.

Installing into a Virtualenv

If you are installing this on your Ubuntu machine then the system packages should
include everything you need. If you use virtualenvs you are going to run in to
some issues. With virtualenvs I've found the steps for installing Simple CV to be incredibly helpful as a starting point.

Learnings

This was originally setup for some small images used in a few places around
the site and would resize on-the-fly if the CDN didn't have the image cached.
Live resizing works for smaller images reasonably well, sometimes it would
just take a couple of seconds to load an image, not ideal, but not horrible.
As the images grew in size the face detection and resizing would take up to
20 seconds, safely a deal-breaker.

Resizing the width first and only cropping the height is an easy first step
if the final aspect ratio will be greater. That will likely become an issue
when other people find out they can get all of the images in whatever size
they want. If you have to make images small enough that you can't fit all
of the faces into the image then you will really need to make something
more intelligent.

We actually use ImageMagick instead of PIL since the service this is part of
was already using it. ImageMagick is rather quirky and can sometimes ignore
your commands without any mention of why.

3rd party services exist that can do this for you as well. With a little
development work to integrate the service it is still cheaper than hiring
someone to resize all of the images and still significantly faster. If you
don't want to pay for external hosting you can easily store them on your
servers or S3.

A full example can bee seen as a gist. If you want to use these images and more to code some great interfaces we're hiring frontend developers and more!

Savages Tour

Hailing from London - and featuring a French lead singer - Savages have been making noise in 2013 with their debut album, Silence Yourself. And although a Savages US Tour was already on the books to support the new release, another round of Savages tour dates have been announced recently in their support of the Queens of the Stone Age tour. In addition to opening for QOTSA concerts, Savages are also opening for Portishead and Iggy & the Stooges this spring in Europe.

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While the group is just now releasing its first studio albums, the first Savages live shows occurred in early 2012 after the group formed in the fall of 2011. Sharing the same manager as Sigur Ros, Savages concerts have gained critical acclaim for their unique mix of pop-punk artistry. Most US fans got their first look at a Savages live performance in early June on Jimmy Fallon's late night show, though they did get some additional exposure at Coachella 2013. Between their vast European festival set and Savages US concerts, including Austin City Limits and Laneway in Detroit, Savages will have plenty of new fans to their credit by the end of a busy tour year.

Savages Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Savages Concerts

Savages Video for "Shut Up"

Music Midtown News

Round out the festival season with the 2013 Music Midtown Festival! Held in Atlanta, GA, this festy has been around since 1994—but not without the same financial problems that seem to plague other large music gatherings (like Rothbury and Nateva). Music Midtown had a successful run from its incarnation in 1994 all the way through 2005, annually drawing crowds around 30,000. But the recession wasn't just affecting the little people, and due to decline in attendance the festy was put on hiatus until 2011. Luckily, the last two years have brought big-name acts like The Black Keys and Coldplay, and with them big ticket sales. It was estimated that 40,000 concert-goers were in attendance at this year's Music Midtown, perhaps due to headliners Florence + The Machine and Pearl Jam at the helm.

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With the overwhelming success of the 2012 festival, Atlanta-dwellers can rest assured that next year will be better than ever. Located in the 10th Street Meadow at Piedmont Park, the festival is filled with food tucks, wine gardens, plenty of bathrooms, water, and booze. There are also ATMs on site so you can go blow your cash on merchandise and hippie vendors. With several VIP packages and “Early Bird” offerings, prices for the tickets range from $55 to $1,000. Last year's festival sold out, so be sure to nab your tickets off of SeatGeek when they go on sale!

Music Midtown 2013 Tickets

Music Midtown Historical Ticket Prices

In 2011, the Music Midtown festival was only held over one day, and featured The Black Keys and Coldplay as headliners. Tickets for the event were around $85 on the secondary market, which isn't too shabby considering the average ticket price for Coldplay over the same time period was $206. In 2012, the event was turned back into a two-day affair: on September 21 the Foo Fighters, Avett Brothers and T.I. headlined, and on the following day Pearl Jam closed the show.

Music Midtown 2013 Dates

September 20-21, 2013 (projected dates)

Music Midtown 2013 Lineup

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Journey
Queens of the Stone Age
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Imagine Dragons
Phoenix
Jane's Addiction
Weezer
2 Chainz
Kendrick Lamar
Cake
Tegan and Sarah
Arctic Monkeys
The Black Lips
North Mississippi Allstars
The Neighbourhood
Capital Cities
ZZ Ward
Drivin N Cryin
The Mowgli's
Mona
Reignwolf

Music Midtown 2012 Lineup

Foo Fighters
The Avett Brothers
T.I.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Van Hunt
Pearl Jam
Girl Talk
Florence + The Machine
Neon Trees
Ludacris
Adam Ant
Garbage
LP
Civil Twilight
O'Brother

Music Midtown 2012 Performances

Pearl Jam Performing "Better Man" at Music Midtown 2012

The Avett Brothers Performing "Laundry Room" at Music Midtown 2012

Foo Fighters Performing "Everlong" at Music Midtown 2012

Bullet For My Valentine Tour

Bullet For My Valentine, the 3-piece heavy metal band from Wales, have announced their largest UK tour to date, aptly named the "Rule Brittania" tour. The band will make stops at five different arenas throughout the UK, including Manchester Arena and London's Wembley Arena. These shows will be in support of Temper Temper, Bullet For My Valentine's fourth studio album, and first since 2010. The album has already found international success, charting at No. 11 in the US and No. 13 in the UK.

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Bullet For My Valentine will be the main headliners on this newly announced arena tour. Support during these dates will be provided by two of the biggest up-and-coming UK rock bands today, Asking Alexandria and Young Guns, both of whom promise to add to the raucousness and showmanship that Bullet For My Valentine provides in their shows. As frontman Matt Tuck said when asked about the upcoming dates, "this time around it’s gonna be louder, crazier and we'll be bringing more pyro than ever!" What else could you want? Take a listen below to their latest single, "Riot," while dusting off your fire extinguisher.

Bullet For My Valentine Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Bullet For My Valentine Concerts

Bullet For My Valentine Video for “Riot”

Lionel Richie Tour

Music legend Lionel Richie announced his latest North American tour today, June 10, 2013. The tour, titled "All The Hits All Night Long,' will kick off September 18, 2013 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. The five-time Grammy winner will then go on to play 16 more shows in cities including Atlantic City, NJ; Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico. Along the way, Richie will also be performing at the Austin City Limits Festival in Austin, TX October 4-6 and October 11-13.

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This latest tour will feature the multi-platinum selling artists greatest hits from his past 30 years in the music business. From 1992's "Endless Love" to 2012's "Easy," this concert will have Lionel Richie fans singing and dancing "all night long." Says the icon on his fan-friendly performances: “I’m so lucky to have the collection of songs that I can play for my fans, it becomes a giant sing-along most nights. People always ask me ‘what are you going to sing tonight Lionel?” and I always laugh and reply, “what are YOU going to sing tonight?”

And the 63-year-old superstar has no plans of slowing down. Richie is already in the studio writing and recording new music for his latest original album, which he plans to release within the next year.

Tickets for Lionel Richie's All The Hits All Night Long tour go on sale Friday, June 14.

Lionel Richie Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Lionel Richie 'All The Hits All Night Long' Concerts

Lionel Richie Video for “All Night Long (All Night)”

Under The Influence Tour

Wiz Khalifa? ASAP Rocky? B.O.B? Talk about an exciting cast of rappers to get under the influence with this summer. The trio, along with Trinidad Jame$ and Joey Bada$$, are bound to hit 20 cities during this year's Under The Influence tour, starting in San Francisco with planned stops in Denver, Houston, Chicago and Boston, among many others, along the way before wrapping up in Cincinnati. Taking into account that this tour sold out venues of over 20,000 last year, who is to say that it won't happen again this year - possibly even raise the ceiling a little higher.

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A powerhouse in the hip hop game with hits such as "Black and Yellow" and "Real Estate," Wiz Khalifa's name nowadays is practically synonymous with partying and getting (intoxicated). Add to the mix, ASAP, the mind behind the smash hit "F***** Problems," and you have got yourself a guaranteed great time. So if you are still "Young, Wild & Free." what are you waiting for? It's not everyday that you get to see such big names headlining together. To gain access to this experience, check SeatGeek for all the best ticket deals online.

Wiz Khalifa Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Under The Influence Tour Dates

Wiz Khalifa and A$AP Rocky Video for “U.O.E.N.O”

Farm Aid Tour

The date and location for Farm Aid 2013 has  been announced, and the charity concert benefiting family farmers across the US will return to New York for the first time since 2007. Co-founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp will headline for a cast for friends and fellow Farm Aid artists at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. Started in 1985, Farm Aid's mission is to keep family farmers on their land by promoting food from family farms, growing the good food movement, helping farms thrive, and taking action to change the system. Every Farm Aid ticket sold helps to further this cause while giving the buyer access to a day of good music and community.

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While Nelson, Young, and Mellencamp are assured of being on the 2013 Farm Aid ticket, the other performers are not known. Dave Matthews joined the Board over ten years ago, so he'll be there; he'll probably be accompanied by Tim Reynolds rather than the full Dave Matthews Band based on previous years of the Farm Aid concert. Keep checking back in with SeatGeek to stay up to date with the latest announcements about additional Farm Aid performers and other news. Once tickets go on sale, use SeatGeek's Deal Score to find the best value on Farm Aid tickets for you and and your friends!

Farm Aid Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

The final Farm Aid 2013 artist lineup and ticket prices for 9/21/2013 are TBA at this time.

Farm Aid Concerts

Here are some of the more notable and recent Farm Aid concert locations. Because the event didn't happen annually at first, the first major milestone is 1995's Tenth Anniversary Show in Louisville, KY. This year's performance in Saratoga Springs, NY, marks the event's first show in the Empire State since 2007's show on Randall's Island in New York City.

Farm Aid Video for "Heart of Gold"

2012 Performers

Some of the more notable performers from 2012 Farm Aid in Hershey, PA, were Jamey Johnson, Grace Potters & The Nocturnals, Jack Johnson, Kenny Chesney, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, John Mellencamp, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Willie Nelson.

2012 Performances

Jamey Johnson - Give it Away

Jack Johnson - "Flake"

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Like a Hurricane"

Willie Nelson - "Roll Me Up & Smoke Me When I Die"

Breakaway Festival 2013

In the grand new tradition of super popular/lucrative music festivals, entertainment company Primal Social Group has wisely decided to get in on the trendy action. PSG will launch its first-ever festival this coming September. Breakaway Music Festival will take place in two locations: in Columbus, OH, and Frisco, TX, on September 14 and 21, respectively. Ambitious from the get-go, organizers are already thinking ahead to next year's – and the year after's – event: “By 2014 and 2015, we expect two- and three-day events for both markets. We are going to build this brand year by year," Adam Lynn, PSG's Managing Partner, recently told Billboard.

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Both the Ohio and Texas affairs will be held in large soccer stadiums (Columbus Crew Stadium and the FC Dallas Stadium), a move Lynn thinks is one of the festival's greatest strengths. "We are particularly thrilled to bridge the gap between sports culture and the music world with Breakaway,” he said, "I believe this event will break new ground." At the very least, it's already broken through to the head of this fall's music-festival pack, leading with a lineup that includes Bassnectar, Matt & Kim, Kendrick Lamar, Ra Ra Riot, Schoolboy Q, and many others. Tickets are on sale now – see our list of discount deals below!

Breakaway Festival 2013 Tickets

Breakaway Festival 2013 Dates

In Columbus, OH, at Columbus Crew Stadium: Saturday, September 14
In Frisco, TX, at FC Dallas Stadium: Saturday, September 21

Breakaway Festival 2013 Lineup

John Fogerty Tour

Creedence Clearwater Revival singer and rock god John Fogerty has announced plans for a U.S tour, kicking off this fall, to promote his new album, Wrote A Song For Everyone. The shows start in early September at the inaugural Interlocken Festival in Arrington, Virginia; next, Fogerty moves through Nashville, Tennessee; Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas; Durham, North Carolina; and finishes it up with a show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on November 12. The openers for the tour are Widespread Panic or Zac Brown Band, depending on your gig’s locale.

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Fogerty, born in Berkeley, California, in 1945, has the rare distinction of being named to both Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitars (he comes in at No. 40) and Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Singers (at No. 72). Two of his songs – “Proud Mary” and “Born on the Bayou” are ranked among Rolling Stone’s Greatest Pop Songs (“Proud Mary” is No. 41) and Greatest Guitar Songs (“Born on the Bayou” falls at No. 53).

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John Fogerty Concerts

John Fogerty Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

John Fogerty Music Videos

“Have You Ever Seen The Rain”

“Creedence Song”

“Down On The Corner”

Kanye West New Album

Ever the humble artist, Kanye West has outdone himself with his new album: the appropriately hubristic titled Yeezus (a mashup of Kanye's nickname, Yeezy, and the name of his homeboy, Jesus). This latest from the controversial father-to-be will mark West's followup to 2010's fantastic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his last solo record, and Watch The Throne, the 2011 collaborative album he produced with Jay-Z. With less than a month to go, the countdown to the coming of Yeezus has already begun – the record is set to drop June 18.

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Although no official tracklist has been released/leaked yet, those song titles that we do know of sound perfectly in-keeping with Kanye's characteristic blend of egomania and religiosity: "Awesome" and "I Am God." Frank Ocean makes a cameo on "New Slaves," while Skrillex, Chief Keef, Daft Punk, TNGHT, Odd Future, and Young Chop are among the album's other rumored guest stars. Whether or not any of these collaborators will appear on Kanye West's upcoming (inevitable) promotional tour remains to be seen, but we'll keep you updated as the rapper releases more details - including tour dates and ticket information!

Kanye West New Album Release Date

June 18

Kanye West New Album Yeezus Cover Art

Kanye West Yeezus Tracklist

01. On Sight
02. Black Skinhead
03. I Am A God (Featuring God)
04. New Slaves (Featuring Frank Ocean)
05. Hold My Liquor (Featuring Chief Keef & Justin Vernon)
06. I’m In It
07. Blood On The Leaves
08. Guilt Trip (Featuring Kid Cudi)
09. Send It Up (Featuring King L)
10. Bound 2 (Featuring Charlie Wilson)

Kany West Discography

Kanye West Tickets

The Dodos Tour

The Dodos, the indie rock duo of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber, have announced a full North American tour this fall to coincide with their forthcoming album, Carrier, due out on August 27. The band, which formed back in 2005, has announced support on this tour from a myriad of bands, including Bleeding Rainbow, COUSINS, The Love Language and Dustin Wong. They'll play mostly smaller venues, ensuring that the demand for tickets will be high.

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The Dodos' latest album is a follow up to their 2011 album, No Color. The album is influenced by the sudden passing of the band's guitarist, Christopher Reimer. The band will have a few big opportunities to showcase their new tracks, playing at events like Pop Montreal and MusicfestNW with bands like Local Natives, The Dream, and Shuggie Otis. Their tour will conclude with a (semi) homecoming show at El Rey Theater in Los Angeles in mid-October. Take a listen below to their last single, "Black Night."

The Dodos Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

The Dodos Concerts

The Dodos Video for “Black Night”

Nine Inch Nails Album & Tour

Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, announced Tuesday that the band's latest album, Hesitation Waits, will be released September 3, 2013. This will be NIN's first new music in five years, since 2008's The Slip. The first single, "Came Back Haunted," is now available on for free download on iTtunes with a pre-order of the album. After a three year hiatus from 2009-2012, Reznor has spent the past year recording with producers Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder. Not much is else is known about Hesitation Waits, as Reznor has kept recording process for this album has been kept very hush-hush.

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Reznor also announced the dates for their fall arena tour, titled Nine Inch Nails: Tension 2013. NIN will be joined by Explosions in the Sky or Godspeed You! Black Emperor, depending on the show. According to Reznor, Tension 2013 picks up right where their 2008 tour, Lights in the Sky, left off. This is a show no NIN fan should miss - as Reznor said, "This is the full-on NIN live experience realized as we never could before." The two-month, 33-show tour kicks off September 28 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN and wraps November 25 at ScotiaBank Saddledome in Calgary, Canada. Along the way, Reznor and his band will hit Toronto, Boston, Brookyn, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and almost everywhere in between. Tickets go on sale June 14.

Nine Inch Nails Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Nine Inch Nails Concerts

* with Explosions in the Sky
# with Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Nine Inch Nails Video for “Come Back Haunted”

Skid Row Tour

Heavy Metal veterans Skid Row have released details of their upcoming European Tour, which will have them blowing out venues alongside fellow rockers Ugly Kid Joe. The band will open their 12-country tour in Southampton, England, and will make stops in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France and Switzerland, before drawing the curtains in Vienna, Austria. Sounds like fans in Europe are in for a rocking treat in what promises to be a legendary set of performances.

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Since bursting into the heavy metal scene in 1986, Skid Row has sold over 20 million albums to date. Fan favorites being their original album Skid Row followed by the critically acclaimed Slave To The Grind. Renowned for their hard, thrashy guitar solos and unique songwriting techniques, Skid Row is viewed by many to be one of the last great hair metal bands to have formed prior to the '90s grunge invasion, so if you consider yourself to be a true rock and roll fan, this historic tour should definitely be on your calendar. For tickets to stops on the tour, keep on checking SeatGeek for the best deals and prices!

Skid Row Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

Skid Row Concerts

Skid Row Video for “Youth Gone Wild”

Scofield's Überjam Band Summer Tour 2013

The legendary John Scofield is at it once again. The jazz pioneer and world-famous composer plans to release his newest album, Überjam Deux, on July 2. Although the album has not yet been made public, Scofield himself has described the collection as "funk, Afrobeat, reggae, house music, R&B...and a lot of what’s in between." In short, it will be what we hoped to hear from Scofield and probably more, a return to the original Überjam days while also exploring new musical avenues. Sco has expressed his excitement for the album, stating: "The initial rehearsal, when we all played together, was such a beautiful thing that I had to say, ‘OK, we can’t rehearse anymore, we have to go in the studio to capture this vibe.'"

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Longtime followers of his work should be excited as well. Überjam Deux features Avi Bortnick, Andy Hess and Adam Deitch, two of whom were original collaborators on Überjam a decade ago. The group will be promoting their new work with a summer tour across the United States, making several splashes in Canada along the way. Scofield will be stopping at the High Sierra Music Festival, Halifax Jazz Festival, All Good Music Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, Telluride Jazz Celebration, and the String Cheese Incident's Horning’s Hideout 2013. With an ambitious tour schedule ahead of him and snowballing enthusiasm for Überjam Deux, John Scofield may once again justify his status as a musical visionary of our time.

John Scofield Concert Tickets & Tour Dates

John Scofield Concerts

Listen to Überjam's “Ideofunk”

The Replacements Tour 2013

Alt-rock pioneers The Replacements, to the delight of their many fans the country over, are officially reuniting for a series of shows this fall. Last year, Paul Westerberg hinted at the reunion in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, saying, "It's possible. I'm closer to it now than I was two years ago, that's for sure." The possibility became definite when popular music festival Riot Fest announced the group would be appearing at its Chicago event early this September, as well as at its Toronto and Denver offshoots in late August and September, respectively.

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It's been 22 years since The Replacements last performed live together. The band briefly got back together this past October, when they recorded an EP, Songs For Slim, for their former guitarist Slim Dunlap, who had suffered a stroke. Although they don't have any new material to promote for their latest round of shows – their last album, All Shook Down, dropped in 1990 – who knows what creative juices might once again stir over the course of the next several months. Tickets to a few Riot Fest shows are on sale now, but be sure to check back here to see if and when The Replacements take their reunion out on the road!

The Replacements Tickets and Tour Dates 2013

The Replacements Concerts 2013

The band will appear at Riot Fests in Chicago (September 13-15), Toronto (August 24-25) and Denver (September 21-22) – otherwise, TBA!

The Replacements Video

The Replacements: "Bastards of Young"

The Cure Tour 2013

Eighties goth-rock icons The Cure recently announced a string of upcoming tour dates, releasing an itinerary that includes several festival appearances and one anticipated stint in Hawaii. The band first shot to fame in the late '70s when they dropped their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys. While this and several other of their earliest releases were characterized by a gloomy post-punk sensibility they helped popularize in the UK, the eighties – arguably their heyday – saw The Cure adding a little pop to their sound, a risk that proved a winning, and clearly endurable, formula.

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The first of The Cure's summer and fall concerts kicks off this July in Ansan, KR, at the Ansan Valley Rock Festival. This festival appearance will soon be followed by similar stops in Japan, Hawaii (their first-ever show in the region), Canada, Chicago, and Austin, TX, at Fuji Rock Festival, the Neil Blaisdell Center Arena, Osheaga Festival, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits, respectively. Tickets to a few of these international and high-profile gigs are on sale now, but as this latest leg only includes a few stops, be sure to keep checking back with us if/when The Cure tack on even more tour dates!

The Cure Tickets and Tour Dates 2013

The Cure Concerts 2013