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unplugged by the pandemic, and a year earlier than organizers once predicted it would return.The festival’s lineup will be unveiled Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., and tickets will go on sale at noon, Chicago officials said.“Here in Chicago, the word ‘Lollapalooza’ has always been synonymous with summer, great music and four days of unforgettable fun — which made last year’s decision to postpone it all the more difficult,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a news release.To enter the four-day festival

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.

Twitter announcement — though the folks at Gov Ball have reserved their right to make changes based on public health recommendations at that time.“Given that vaccines are rolling out and many experts predict a return to live music events in the Fall, we are hopeful,” reads a recent update on GovernorsBallMusicFestival.com.

playing outside after contracting COVID-19 in late March and initially fearing she wouldn’t have the lung power to sing again.“On Day 11 of my quarantine, I finally had the energy to crawl onto my fire escape — and had a feeling of relief,” said the 47-year-old. “I decided then to make my music my top priority.”Although she had previously sang with the groups the Lovely and Ready Jane, Fiore was without a band at the time.

VIP-like boxes to individual bubbles for every attendee.But breakthrough scientific research might be music to live-show lovers’ ears.Concerts are not the riskiest endeavors in the age of COVID-19, according to a new study out of Germany which tested attendees at an indoor venue.The researchers ran simulations based on the behavior of masked participants over a 10-hour span. All the participants tested negative for the virus before joining the experiment.

viewers comparing the bubbles to hamster balls, tadpole embryos and “frogspawn” in the comments.

performed for socially undistanced thousands at a time over the course of 10 days, at an event attended by hundreds of thousands in total.According to the Associated Press, 103 COVID-19 cases directly related to the rally have been reported by the health departments in eight states — South Dakota, Minnesota,Wisconsin, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Washington.The band has not had much to say about Sturgis or responded to media requests since performing at the rally.

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.

the coronavirus era.About 2,500 people watched Sam Fender perform from 500 individual VIP-like platforms and pens in one of the UK’s first properly social-distanced concerts.The outdoor show on August 11 was held at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, where the private platforms and pens were all spaced about 6 feet apart.

annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally didn’t seem worried about gathering together during the viral outbreak that’s killed at least 160,000 Americans.“We’re all here together tonight! F–k that COVID shit!” front-man Steve Harwell said on stage, earning cheers from the crowd.The iconic 10-day festival was expected to attract some 250,000 motorcycle enthusiasts, scaled down from about half-a-million people who attended in previous years, according to USA Today.Festival goers didn’t have to face many of

pic.twitter.com/IzJpCUBURF— Guns N' Roses (@gunsnroses) July 29, 2020Back when Guns N’ Roses postponed their tour in May, the band said all original tickets would be honored at the make-up shows, while refunds would also be available.The Smashing Pumpkins were set to support Guns N’ Roses on a handful of their 2020 tour dates, although at the moment it’s unclear if the band will be still be opening for GnR next year.

COVID world. “You’re just gonna be really controlled.

coronavirus.Although most of Bendzko’s “Bin Ich Ja Hier” (“Now I Am Here”) tour has been postponed until next summer — much to the chagrin of his 192,000 Instagram followers — his show on Aug.

the ongoing pandemic ultimately canceled.

1990s-themed 4th of July concert in Austin, Texas, because of the coronavirus pandemic.“Due to the increase in COVID-19 numbers in Austin we’re gonna move the concert to a better date,” he wrote in a caption for a video posted Thursday on Twitter.

via Instagram that he will be holding a July 4 throwback concert in Austin, Texas — one of the states currently seeing a rise in coronavirus cases.Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle, said that the concert will feature hit songs from the 90s.“The 90s were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers.

Josh Groban fans were supposed to have seen their man, in all his popera glory, last Saturday at Radio City Music Hall.But while it’ll be some time before the 39-year-old star can make up that June 20 performance of his “Great Big Radio City Show” — which has been rescheduled for April 16, 2021 — that voice will still be making Grobanites swoon during a livestream concert Saturday at 4 p.m.Tickets to the intimate affair — in which Groban will be accompanied by his longtime guitarist Tariqh Aqoni

coronavirus pandemic.So instead, the Governors Ball Music Festival is pressing rewind and replaying some memorable sets from over the years on Thursday and Friday on YouTube.On Thursday’s bill is Travis Scott (8 p.m.) and the Black Keys (9:30), while Friday’s lineup includes Post Malone (8 p.m.) and Major Lazer (9:30).The special two-night event comes with a good cause: Viewers are being asked to donate whatever they can to raise money for the Equal Justice Initiative, the Food Bank for New York

SXSW and Coachella canceled globally due to the coronavirus.  In March, Live Nation canceled all of its tours, including those from Billie Eilish, Post Malone, Madonna and Cher.“I wanted to make sure, if we were going to do anything like this, that they had the important stuff worked out,” Paisley said in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday. “My goal would be not to spread this virus to one person.

postponing their summer Stadium Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have announced makeup dates for 2021.“All tickets will be honored for the new dates,” they wrote in a message to fans. “If you are a ticket holder and cannot make the new show, you will receive an e-mail from your ticket provider you can visit livenation.com/refund.

website. “The health and safety of our fans, artists, partners, staff and community is always our highest priority.” As the Chicago Tribune notes, the festival was canceled alongside a handful of other local events, such as Taste of Chicago and the Chicago Jazz Festival.

The party will go on, after all.

No mosh pits here.

The Prince Estate, in partnership with YouTube, will host a three-day streaming event of “Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the legendary concert filmed toward the end of the “Purple Rain” tour in Syracuse, New York, on March 30, 1985.

You may soon have to roll up to rock out.

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.

Andrea Bocelli’s concert at an empty Duomo of Milan has had over 26 million views since it streamed live on Easter Sunday, Fox News confirmed on Monday.

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.