Concert Ticket Stories

After spending their year touring the UK, Europe and beyond, Scottish rockers The Fratellis will be coming across the pond for a fall headlining tour. The U.S. dates kick off September 1 in Columbus, OH, and are scheduled to close on October 4 in Hartford, CT. Indie rockers Electric Touch will open for The Fratellis on all U.S. dates, including performances at the Monolith and Austin City Limits festivals.

The Fratellis are currently touring in support of their sophomore album "Here We Stand," released in June 2008. The band debuted in 2006 with "Costello Music," an album that achieved moderate success in the U.S. after the catchy single "Flathead" was featured in an Apple iPod/iTunes commercial. The album only reached No. 48 on the U.S. charts, but is certified Triple Platinum in the UK.

The one-day Ozzfest on three stages at the Pizza Hut Park in Dallas, TX, on August 9 was deemed a success by its promoter AEG Live. With close to 30,000 metal bashers in attendance and a gross of nearly $3.5 million, plans are underway to bring the festival, which started as a roving multi-city tour in 1996, back to Dallas for two days next summer. Last year's tour's unique feature was that it was a free event.

The 13-hour spectacle featured Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter's only U.S. concert appearance this year. Before the sun went down, the day had an emotional moment when Hell Yeah’s set transitioned into a one-time only all-star tribute to fallen Pantera guitarist and Texas native “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.

Live Nation has been awarded a long-term contract to operate, manage and exclusively book Miami's 6,000 capacity Bayfront Park Amphitheater by the City of Miami and the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Located within Bayfront Park in the heart of downtown Miami, the venue overlooks the city skyline, as well as Biscayne Bay.

"With its location right on Biscayne Bay, the Bayfront Park Amphitheater is a beautiful and unique place to see concerts," said Neil Jacobsen, president of Live Nation Miami, in a statement. "The amphitheater perfectly complements our Florida venue portfolio which now enables us to nurture bands at all stages of their career as they grow from the 2,700 capacity Fillmore at Jackie Gleason to the 2,800 capacity Pompano Beach Amphitheatre and our 3,400 capacity Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, through to Bayfront Park and finally to our 19,000 capacity Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach and 20,000 capacity Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa."

Brooklyn, NY-based indie rock group MGMT, the duo of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden, have been logging lots of time on the road lately, and will be touring Australia for the first time ever this December. The two will perform headline shows in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, December 6-11.

The two have been playing together since their days at Wesleyan University in Connecticut back in 2001. After graduating in 2005, they toured extensively in support of their "Time to Pretend" EP.

The biggest names in the Cyrus household might still be Billy Ray and Miley, but the Disney starlet's half-brother wants to change all that. After touring this summer with Good Charlotte and Boys Like Girls, Trace Cyrus's band Metro Station will launch a 33-date headlining tour of the U.S. this fall.

Metro Station's headlining gigs kick off October 15 in Nashville, TN, and wrap November 29 in Anaheim, CA. The LA-based quartet is touring behind their 2007 self-titled debut, which has experienced a recent boom in sales coinciding with the release of their 2008 single "Shake It." The song was recently RIAA-certified Platinum on July 29.

LeRoi Moore, founding member and saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 19, from complications stemming from an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. Moore would have been 47 on September 7.

According to a statement on the band's Web site, Moore died at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. He had returned to Los Angeles in July to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program. The band expressed their shock and deep regrets at Moore's sudden passing.

The upcoming North American trek of The Academy Is… (TAI), Bill & Trav's Bogus Journey Tour, is a multi-artist bill featuring We The Kings, Carolina Liar and Hey Monday. It kicks off on October 1 in Charlotte, NC, and after 41 club and ballroom shows wraps on November 23 in Buffalo, NY.

Presale tickets were offered first to TAI fan club members on August 19; additional presale tickets will be available via the band's Web site. All remaining tickets will then go on sale to the general public on August 23.

Milwaukee's Riverside Theater, in keeping with their anti-scalping pledge, canceled more than 100 tickets for the August 19 Eddie Vedder solo concert and are reselling them to "real fans."

According to an email sent out to theater mailing list members (See Below), the venue confiscated the tickets because some people, who they identified as scalpers, were reselling tickets for upwards of $2,000 each.

Illness has sidelined G. Love & Special Sauce on two shows of their summer tour: August 20-21.

The group will not perform at their August 20 show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC. Supporting acts John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman will still perform. However, the August 21 at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC, is completely cancelled. Refunds are available for both shows at the original point of purchase.

Emerging UK rock ensemble Glasvegas, named "The Best New Band in Britain" by NME, will launch its first-ever U.S. tour this fall with a string of headlining club shows. The tour kicks off September 29 and runs through October 4.

Formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in early 2006, Glasvegas has been personally selected by Ian McCulloch to support his band Echo & The Bunnymen when they play New York's Radio City Music Hall on October 1.

The indie rock bands Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady are teaming up for a co-headlining tour across the U.S. this fall. The 23-date trek, labeled the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour, kicks off October 30 in Louisville, KY, and wraps November 25 in Los Angeles, CA.

Ticket presales for the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour begin today (August 19); sales will open to the public on August 22. The tour features two-night stands in New York, NY; Minneapolis, MN; Seattle, WA; and San Francisco, CA. Both bands will share lead billing over the course of the tour by alternating which group closes each night of the show.

Welsh metal-core rockers Bullet for My Valentine are returning to the U.S. for a second leg of shows from September 2-28. The tour's first leg ran July 14 through August 16.

The quartet continues on its nearly two-year world tour supporting their sophomore release, “Scream Aim Fire,” which debuted in the U.S. at No. 4, and is up for Best Album in the Kerrang! Awards, scheduled to be handed out August 21 in London. The band is up for three other awards -- Best British Band, Best Single (“Waking The Demon”), and Best Video (“Waking The Demon”). The album debuted in the U.S. at No. 4.

Following a successful three-month tour of Europe, Neil Young is preparing for his eight-week North American tour with Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco and Everest. The Live Nation-produced performances kick off October 14 in St. Paul, MN, and culminate on December 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

Eight of the 19 shows scheduled for Young will take place in the Canadian provinces. The tour rounds out with stops in major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, CA; Omaha, NE; Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; and Philadelphia, PA. The backing band from Young's European gigs will reprise its role for the singer/songwriter's North American adventure.

Due to overwhelming demand, alternative/progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria have extended their Neverender Tour after all 15,000 tickets went clean in three hours for eight shows in New York and Los Angeles, October 22-25 and November 5-8, respectively. They are now bringing their Neverender shows to the Riviera Theater in Chicago from October 28-31 as well as to London with dates to be announced later.

Neverender is an event created by the band, who will perform over four nights all four of their concept records in their entirety for the first time -- “The Second Stage Turbine Blade," "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3," "From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness," and "No World For Tomorrow.” Each night's production will be specifically catered to the record being performed.

In an effort to spotlight the issues that affect the creative community and the importance of music education, Grammys Rock the Conventions will bring live music to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions with star-studded events benefiting the Grammy Foundation.

Three-time Grammy-nominated rockers Daughtry and Everclear, and chart-topping alternative/hip-hop group the Flobots, will perform an up-close-and-personal acoustic evening in Denver, CO, at the Democratic National Convention on August 26.

Southern California punk rockers Bad Religion are charting some new maps of their own in continued support of their 2007 album "New Maps of Hell." Their updated itinerary will take them on a 13-city jaunt through Canada, beginning September 14 in Vancouver, BC, and ending October 1 in Halifax, NS.

Bad Religion began their extensive tour schedule last year with more than 50 shows across the United States, including a string of performances at House of Blues venues in California and Nevada.

Dave Stewart has canceled his 18-date fall tour, which was scheduled to travel cities across the U.S. and Canada from August 28 to September 21. Tickets for all performance dates are refundable at the original point of purchase.

"Unfortunately, I have canceled my tour dates due to unforeseen circumstances," Stewart wrote in a note on his Web site. "In lieu of the larger tour, my band and I will be performing at venues in select cities. The new dates and venues will be announced at a later date. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone."

Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist Common has tapped the experimental talents in N*E*R*D to join him for several U.S. tour dates this fall. Common kicks off his tour on August 23 with a performance at the SoCo Music Experience in San Diego. The current leg of the tour wraps October 24 in Columbia, MO.

Common is touring in support of his eighth studio record, "Invincible Summer," slated for released on September 23, 2008. The rapper, whose name is Lonnie Lynn, got his start in 1992 with his debut "Can I Borrow A Dollar?" In addition to his studio recordings, Common released a "best of" album in November 2007, closely following the July 2007 release of his Gold-certified chart-topper, "Finding Forever."

Welsh songbird Duffy just released her debut in March 2008, but she already has an impressive tour itinerary lined up for fall. The singer/songwriter, whose full name is Aimee Anne Duffy, will kick off a string of North American tour dates with a performance at Fashion Rocks 2008 on September 5 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Duffy will follow up the Fashion Rocks gig by setting off on her North American tour on October 9 in San Diego, CA. The 16-date tour mixes solo shows with six opening sets for pop rock giants Coldplay, who are touring in support of their 2008 release "Viva La Vida." The U.S. and Canadian dates wrap on November 1 with a Coldplay show in Philadelphia, PA. Duffy then takes her tour back to Europe and the UK for 13 more performances through November and December.

Indie rock band Rookie of the Year will be hitting the road again this fall to support the release of their new album with a major North American tour starting on October 14 in Ponoma, CA and concluding on November 20 in Los Angeles, CA. Mest will accompany Rookie of the Year on tour.

The 23-date trek criss-crosses the country as the band plays various clubs and theaters. The quintet out of Fayetteville, NC, will be supporting their sophomore album, “Sweet Attention,” that landed them the No. 9 spot on the Billboard Alternative New Artist Chart and the No. 21 spot on the Heatseeker Chart.