Tour Updates

Prince West Coast Tour

The tour is Prince’s first featuring 3rd Eye Girl, his brand new, all-female backing band.

US dates are:

April 18 – Seattle, Wash., Showbox At The Market
April 19 – Seattle, Wash., Showbox At The Market
April 21 – Portland, Ore., Roseland Theatre
April 23 – San Francisco, Calif., DNA Lounge
April 24 – San Francisco, Calif., DNA Lounge
April 26 – Las Vegas, Nev., The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel/Casino
April 27 – Las Vegas, Nev., The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel/Casino
April 30 – Tempe, Ariz., The Marquee
May 1 – Tempe, Ariz., The Marquee
May 3 – San Diego, Calif., Hard Rock Hotel
May 4 – San Diego, Calif., Hard Rock Hotel
May 7 – Anaheim, Calif., City National Grove Of Anaheim
May 8 – Anaheim, Calif., City National Grove Of Anaheim
May 12 – Denver, Colo., The Ogden Theatre,
May 13 – Denver, Colo., The Ogden Theatre

This tour is 2 shows a night. Each show will have a small number of backstage passes.

Lil Wayne's “America’s Most Wanted Tour”

Weezy had been released from Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and has announced his 2013 tour.

His tenth studio album, I Am Not A Human Being II, releases March 26.

Via NSFW video on Wednesday, the rapper told fans “I just want to say thank you to all y’all for y’all prayers and your concerns and all of that. I swear to God I felt that love when I was laid up in that ... hospital bed. But I want all y’all to know that I’m good … more than good.”

Dates and venues to follow.

Pink Won't Stop

Pink has booked more than two dozen additional dates for her “The Truth About Love Tour.”

Here’s what the Los Angeles Times had to say about Pink’s Feb. 16 gig at Staples Center: “Pink remains perhaps the most gifted and imaginative physical performer in pop right now. Her aerials make terrestrial-bound dancing feel, if not trivial, than certainly a little too safe. She spent a good half of Saturday’s show lashed to gyroscopes, hanging from ribbons or being tossed by the scruff of her neck into piles of dancers.”

New add-ons are:

Oct. 10 – Oakland, Calif., Oracle Arena    
Oct. 12 – Los Angeles, Calif., Staples Center    
Oct. 15 – San Jose, Calif., HP Pavilion At San Jose    
Oct. 17 – Salt Lake City, Utah, EnergySolutions Arena    
Oct. 18 – Denver, Colo., Pepsi Center    
Oct. 20 – Seattle, Wash., KeyArena at Seattle Center
Oct. 27 – Fargo, N.D., Fargodome    
Nov. 2 – Minneapolis, Minn., Target Center    
Nov. 3 – Milwaukee, Wis., BMO Harris Bradley Center    
Nov. 5 – Chicago, Ill., United Center    
Nov. 6 – Auburn Hills, Mich., The Palace Of Auburn Hills    
Nov. 8 – Des Moines, Iowa, Wells Fargo Arena    
Nov. 9 – Lincoln, Neb., Pinnacle Bank Arena
Nov. 11 – St. Louis, Mo., Scottrade Center    
Nov. 12 – Kansas City, Mo., Sprint Center    
Nov. 14 – San Antonio, Texas, AT&T Center    
Nov. 16 – Dallas, Texas, American Airlines Center    
Nov. 17 – North Little Rock, Ark., Verizon Arena    
Nov. 20 – Rosemont, Ill., Allstate Arena
Nov. 21 – Indianapolis, Ind., Bankers Life Fieldhouse    
Nov. 23 – Cleveland, Ohio, Quicken Loans Arena    
Nov. 24 – Washington, D.C., Verizon Center    
Dec. 5 – Boston, Mass., TD Garden    
Dec. 6 – Philadelphia, Pa., Wells Fargo Center    
Dec. 8 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Barclays Center    
Dec. 11 – Newark, N.J., Prudential Center    
Dec. 13 – Birmingham, Ala., BJCC Arena
Dec. 14 – Atlanta, Ga., Philips Arena

Rolling Again

The Rolling Stones will mount an 18-show arena tour in May and June. We'll have the specifics in a week or two but what we do know at this time is that the number of cities isn’t confirmed, other than they will be major markets and the 18 shows will include multiple-night stands.

Stay tuned!

Member Review: Pink in the Funhouse

BPD member Stella'sNoFella just this to us:

Britney's latest tour may be a Circus, but Pink's Funhouse trek is way more inspired.is touring in support of her fifth studio album, Funhouse, and the show was fun, fun, fun and then some.

Appearing from beneath a trap door on her catwalk, and suspended in the air by a cable and sporting a long orange feathered train that matched a red and black outfit of sequins and spandex, Pink made a big carnival-like entrance and kept the momentum breathlessly going from there for the next hour-and-50-minutes.

Wearing numerous skimpy costumes and performing on an amusement park-inspired set with an eight-piece band and five dancers, there really was no stopping her infectious energy powered by that thrilling, soulful voice.

She's one big, blonde, bold, brash ball of fun and athleticism.

I can't remember the last time I saw someone skip down their catwalk over and over again.

"We are here, we are so happy, are you readying to tear it up?" she said, after performing such older standouts as Just Like A Pill and Who Knew, which both prompted major singalongs everyone out front.

One of the few mis-steps was Pink's slowed down version of The Divinyls' I Touch Myself, which featured her in a black lingerie-inspired outfit and writhing around on a red couch. It was sexy but too reminiscent of Madonna's Like A Virgin schtick of years gone by.

Otherwise, Pink kicked off the night off right with a cover of AC/DC's Highway To Hell accompanied by a video of her riding a motorcyCle, lighting a cigarette and setting her house on fire.

Unlike the limp showing by Britney Spears during her Circus trek, Pink was an athletic and enthusiastic performer as she clamoured around her stage, getting in the face of her musicians and the audience as she crawled around the catwalk or dropped to her knees.

She also knew how to make fun of herself.

"How many good dancers do we have tonight? How many terrible dancers? I want to see the worst dancing," said Pink before she launched into Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) and busted out a few nerdy moves of her own.

There was even a pillow fight staged by her four female dancers and one male dancer, all dressed in white underwear, on a leopard print, heart-shaped bed during another song highlight, So What.

Does this girl have male fantasies down or what?

Still, Pink got serious during a touching piano-and-violin version of Family Portrait and even strapped on acoustic guitar for I Don't Believe You, which saw four of her band members gather around her at the front of the stage.

Even more beautiful sounding was the harmony-heavy Dear Mr. President, a critical open letter to ex-U.S. president George Bush, which saw Pink hook up with her two backup singers, guitar player and drummer at the front of her catwalk or "our fake little campfire," as she called it.

Next up was an acoustic version of Trouble and an impressive cover of Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You before she made yet another costume change for the dramatic Sober featuring a two-person aerial trapeze act.

During the MTV Video Music Awards just over two weeks ago, Pink actually performed the girl part but a shoulder injury has prevented her from doing that more recently in concert although she did end the show with the ballad, Glitter In The Air, performing some more gentle aerial work and getting dunked in water.

She's still got guts, along with the glory. After the show was over, she came by to shake my hand (drenched though she was), share a cold soda and asked what I thought of the show.

What did I think? She was amazing.

SET LIST

Highway to Hell (Intro - AC/DC Cover)

Bad Influence

Just Like A Pill

Who Knew

Don't Let Me Get Me

I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)

Please Don't Leave Me

U + Ur Hand

Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)

So What

Family Portrait

I Don't Believe You

Dear Mr. President

Trouble

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin cover)

Sober

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)

Funhouse

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)

Get The Party Started

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Glitter In The Air

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Get Pink in the Fall

Yet another artist with limited US tour dates is Pink. A handful of new shows have just been added to the fall North American leg of her world tour, which supports the singer's latest studio set, "Funhouse." All shows on the currently 10-city trip will include guest support from indie-pop duo The Ting Tings.

Pink heads to Australia later this month to launch a long tour stretch continuing through most of the summer. Those dates--along with information on pre-sales for the new North American shows--can be found at Pink's official website.

The singer is supporting her fifth studio album, "Funhouse," which surfaced last October. The set peaked at No. 2 on the US charts, and hit the top spot in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

The album's lead single, "So What," debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 last August, Pink's highest debuting single to date. The tune peaked at No. 1 in September, giving the singer her first solo top-seller, and second of her career after her 2001 "Lady Marmalade" collaboration with Christina Aguilera, Mya and Lil' Kim.


Tue 09/15/09 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater

Thu 09/17/09 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose

Fri 09/18/09 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

Sun 09/20/09 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena

Wed 09/23/09 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center

Thu 09/24/09 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Sat 09/26/09 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena

Mon 09/28/09 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center

Fri 10/02/09 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden

Mon 10/05/09 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena

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