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The B-52s And Devo Announce Special Co-Headlining Performances
Two of rock’s most influential and distinctive forces, The B-52s and Devo, will unite for the 2025 “Cosmic De-Evolution Tour”: a co-headlining 11-date run serving as both bands’ continuing concert farewells. Lene Lovich will open the celebratory trek, which currently launches September 24th in Toronto and wraps November 2nd in Houston.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with CITI and AMEX presales (details below) beginning Monday, June 16. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday June 20 at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com.
CITI PRESALE: Citi is the official card of the Cosmic De-Evolution Tour*. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, June 16 at 12 PM local time until Thursday, June 19 at 10 PM local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com. *LA date is not available within this presale.
AMEX PRESALE: American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets for the Los Angeles show before the general public beginning Monday, June 16 at 10 AM local time through Thursday, June 19 at 10 PM local time.
“In 2022, I swore I’d never get on a tour bus again” said Fred Schneider “but we were careful to say to our fans that we would still perform in special situations that don’t require all of the awful tour travel. Our Vegas residency is going great, and when we were offered the chance to do a small run of shows with Devo, we all said this is an extraordinary opportunity we couldn’t say no to.”
Added Kate Pierson, “When we first came from Athens to New York City to perform, punk was in full force…and New Wave was right on its tail! We loved all the New Wave groups, including Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie and the Ramones. We also really dug the far-out weirdness of Devo, which seemed very in tuned to our sensibilities. We remember one of our first shows– amazed that David Bowie, Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, Allen Ginsberg, Talking Heads and Blondie all came to see us! When we opened the Mudd Club, we partied with Devo and really hit it off on the dance floor. Later, Brian Eno went onto to produce Devo’s incredible first album…and now we will align again ! So put on your wig hats and Devo bonnets and get ready to party! This is going to be wild.”
Said Cindy Wilson, “When both of our bands performed at the recent SNL 50 concert at Radio City, we started talking and agreed we had to do these shows” says Cindy Wilson. “Believe or not, we’ve never done more than a festival or two together in all this time. This will be amazing and I can’t wait for The B-52s to share these stages with Devo!”
Said Mark Mothersbaugh, “The B-52s had one of the best sounds of any of the bands out there in the late 70’s early 80’s – Rock Lobster is one of my favorite songs – DEVO used to sing it to Booji Boy after DEVO shows. It was either fate or luck or the SNL anniversary that brought us all together to create this amazing chance to go out on tour. All I can say is Cosmic Devolution is REAL!”
Added Gerry Casale, “Devo and The B-52s on tour together! That it took almost 50 years to happen is rather mind-blowing. But better late than never. We each did something right in different ways that withstood the test of time. Now we’re here to prove we can still “bring it” as they say!”
The B-52s— led by original co-founders Fred Schneider (vocals), Kate Pierson (vocals, keyboards), and Cindy Wilson (vocals)—kicked off their extended goodbye run back in 2022. Since that time, they have electrified select venues and large music festivals across the U.S. and even established a Las Vegas residency at The Venetian Theatre, powered by their colorful, danceable iconic classics that have made a seismic impact on New Wave and music history. As they prepare for a 2025 farewell tour, a high-profile documentary and their first official book, The B-52s undoubtedly stand poised to inspire and influence future generations.
This curtain-call timing overlaps with Devo, who are also fronted by three of their original members: Mark Mothersbaugh (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Gerald Casale (vocals, bass, keyboards), and Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar, vocals). In 2023, the fellow New Wave icons (“Whip It,” “Uncontrollable Urge”) kicked off their own farewell tour, 50 Years of De-Evolution, paired with a compilation album of the same name. That jaunt has since been extended and continues through the summer and fall of 2025.
COSMIC DE-EVOLUTION TOUR DATES 2025
9/24 – Toronto, ONT @ Budweiser Stage
9/25 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
10/2 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
10/4 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
10/5 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
10/16 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
10/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/24 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
10/25 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
11/1 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
11/2 – Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sponsored by Huntsman
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Sara Bareilles Returns With New Album and Headline Tour Across North America This Fall
GRAMMY-winning, Tony and Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and Epic Records recording artist Sara Bareilles sets her new album, Good Grief, for August 28—presave/preorder HERE. Alongside the announcement, Bareilles is debuting the album’s first single, “Home”—listen/share HERE. Bareilles will also make her long-awaited return to the stage this fall for her deeply personal Good Grief Tour, promoted by Live Nation.
Good Grief marks Bareilles’ seventh studio album and her first since 2019’s Grammy-winning Amidst the Chaos, opening a new chapter to her 20-year career. True to its title, the 14-track collection is a reckoning with loss, yet even its darkest moments are threaded with an insistent, luminous pull toward hope.
“This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world,” says Bareilles. “My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.”
“Home,” the album’s first single, was inspired by a conversation between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper about grief and loss on Cooper’s podcast. Bareilles shares, “It feels like an invitation and a tone setter for the specificity and depth of this record. It just feels really essential right now. In order for us as humans to really know and understand each other, we have to listen to each other’s stories.”
Bareilles will also make her long-awaited return to the stage this fall for her deeply personal Good Grief Tour. Kicking off September 9 in Boston, this trek marks a triumphant new chapter for an artist at the height of her storytelling powers. The shows promise a blend of raw, vulnerable new tracks from Good Grief, alongside songs that have defined her career and connection to fans. Bringing her signature wit and authenticity to iconic theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and more, Bareilles hopes to invite fans into an intimate space of connection, truth-telling, joy and some good grief. Tickets will be available starting with artist, Verizon and CITI pre-sales on Monday, June 8 (details below for exact times), with general onsale beginning on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 A.M. local time. See below for full tour routing and visit sarabmusic.com for more information.
Good Grief spans remarkable thematic ground, all of it rooted in Bareilles’ own experience—from intimate tributes to lost friends, to defiant anthems for women’s rights, to unexpected moments of lightness found in the darkest of times. Produced by Bareilles herself, the album was mostly recorded over six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY, alongside a band of longtime collaborators: drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and co-producer, recording engineer and mixer Jonathan Low. Later sessions took place alongside co-producer Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley, NY, with assists from engineer and mixer Bella Blasko. The collection also features contributions from Brandi Carlile, Andrea Gibson, Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Tippett and Megan Falley.
The making of the album was captured in the documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week. The film offers an intimate, unfiltered portrait of Bareilles’ return to the recording studio with close friends for the first time in seven years—a cinematic document of her creative process that becomes a profoundly personal, ultimately hopeful meditation on loss, grief and the power of music to heal. A masterclass in creativity, community and vulnerability, the documentary serves as a reminder of music’s extraordinary power to connect us to ourselves and to each other.
The album, tour and documentary add to a landmark year for Bareilles. Her song “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” co-written with Brandi Carlile and the late poet and activist Andrea Gibson, appears in the Peabody Award-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, on which Bareilles also serves as executive producer. The song was shortlisted for Best Original Song and the film for Best Documentary at the 98th Academy Awards. The track also appears on Good Grief.
Bareilles is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor, producer, activist, and New York Times best-selling author. A two-time GRAMMY winner, she has also earned three Tony and three Primetime Emmy nominations. Bareilles has sold more than three million albums and 15 million singles in the U.S., with over 3.5 billion streams worldwide. On Broadway, Bareilles composed the music and lyrics for Waitress, later stepping into the lead role both on Broadway and the West End. Her additional theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance as the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods and a song on the Tony Award-nominated score for SpongeBob SquarePants. Her on-screen work includes an Emmy Award-nominated performance as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live! and her role as Dawn Solano in the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva. She is also currently developing a musical theater adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel The Interestings.
SARA BAREILLES—GOOD GRIEF
- Home
- Just a Kid
- Still Crying
- A Love Story
- Hands Off My Body
- Ladies In A Line
- Heartland
- Capsize Me
- Nervous Breakdown
- Idiot Heart
- Say Leave
- Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (feat. Brandi Carlile)
- Forever
- Wind Is the Weather
SARA BAREILLES LIVE
September 9—Boston, MA—MGM Music Hall at Fenway
September 12—Washington, D.C.—The Anthem
September 15—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall
September 18—New York, NY—Radio City Music Hall
September 21—Philadelphia, PA—The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
September 24—Atlanta, GA—Fox Theatre
September 25—Cincinnati, OH—Taft Theatre
September 27—Chicago, IL—Chicago Theatre
September 30—Minneapolis, MN—Orpheum Theatre
October 2—St. Louis, MO—Stifel Theatre
October 4—Denver, CO—Bellco Theatre
October 6—Austin, TX—Bass Concert Hall
October 7—Houston, TX—The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
October 12—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre
October 13—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre
October 16—San Francisco, CA—Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
October 19—Seattle, WA—The Paramount Theatre
PRESALE INFORMATION
ARTIST PRESALE: To participate in the Sara Bareilles artist presale on Monday, June 8 at 12 P.M. local time you must sign up at sarabmusic.com.
CITI: Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, June 8 at 10 A.M local time until Tuesday, June 9 at 10 P.M. local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
VERIZON: Verizon will offer customers an exclusive presale for the Sara Bareilles Good Grief Tour in the U.S – no strings attached, simply for being a Verizon customer. The presale for select shows runs from Monday, June 8 at 10 A.M local time to Tuesday, June 9 at 10 P.M local time. Visit myAccess in the My Verizon app for more details. Learn more about Verizon Access here.
CHARITY INFORMATION
The Jed Foundation
Sara Bareilles has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket sold will be contributed by Live Nation to help protect emotional health and prevent suicide among teens and young adults through The Jed Foundation. No portion of the purchase price is tax-deductible. plus1.org | jedfoundation.org
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
100% of net proceeds from the Good Grief Tour VIP Upgrade Packages will benefit NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization. These funds will help NAMI continue to provide free education, support programs, advocacy, and resources to individuals and families affected by mental health conditions. For more information, visit https://www.nami.org/.
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Bryson Tiller Presents: The Neo Trapsoul Tour
GRAMMY-nominated multi-platinum selling artist Bryson Tiller has announced that he will be returning to the stage for his upcoming headline tour Bryson Tiller Presents: The Neo Trapsoul Tour, with support from Majid Jordan, Ty Dolla $ign and Austin Millz on select dates.
Produced by Live Nation, the expansive 61-date run kicks off with the US leg on August 27, 2026 in West Valley City, Utah making stops at iconic venues including Madison Square Garden in NYC, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, Intuit Dome in LA and more before embarking on the UK/EU leg on November 17. The tour will continue on to stops in Paris, London, and Dublin among others before the final leg in Australia which begins January 19, 2027. Full routing below.
The announcement builds on recent momentum for Bryson, who is gearing up to release a brand-new album. Last month, he dropped his new single “IT’S OK” from the upcoming project.
TICKETS: Tickets to Bryson Tiller Presents: The Neo Trapsoul Tour will be available first through the Artist Presale on Wednesday, June 3rd at 12pm local in North America, the UK and Europe. Artist presale will be available for Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday, June 3rd at 11am local. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale starting Friday, June 5th at 12pm local. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, exclusive access to the pre-show VIP lounge, specially designed VIP gift item, early entry into the venue & more. VIP package contents vary based on the offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com!
The tour announcement follows a landmark year for Tiller. Last October, he both celebrated the 10-year anniversary of his groundbreaking debut T R A P S O U L and released the double-album Solace & The Vices, showcasing the duality of his artistry, with The Vices leaning into high-energy, rap-driven production and Solace embracing a more soulful, R&B-forward sound. Additionally, Bryson teamed up with Chris Brown on their smash hit “It Depends,” which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales Chart and peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also garnered an NAACP Image Award, along with two Grammy nominations, two BET Award nominations and an American Music Award.
BRYSON TILLER PRESENTS: THE NEO TRAPSOUL TOUR DATES
| Thu, Aug 27 | West Valley City, UT | Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre #$* |
| Sat, Aug 29 | Morrison, CO | Red Rocks Amphitheatre #$* |
| Mon, Aug 31 | Dallas, TX | Dos Equis Pavilion #$* |
| Wed, Sep 2 | Atlanta, GA | Lakewood Amphitheatre #$* |
| Thu, Sep 3 | Charlotte, NC | Truliant Amphitheater #$* |
| Fri, Sep 4 | Raleigh, NC | Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek #$* |
| Sun, Sep 6 | Baltimore, MD | CFG Bank Arena #$* |
| Wed, Sep 9 | Virginia Beach, VA | Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach #$* |
| Thu, Sep 10 | Bristow, VA | Jiffy Lube Live #$* |
| Sat, Sep 12 | Belmont Park, NY | UBS Arena #$* |
| Sun, Sep 13 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden #$* |
| Tue, Sep 15 | Darien Center, NY | Darien Lake Amphitheater #$* |
| Wed, Sep 16 | Toronto, ON | RBC Amphitheatre #$* |
| Fri, Sep 18 | Camden, NJ | Freedom Mortgage Pavilion #$* |
| Sat, Sep 19 | Newark, NJ | Prudential Center #$* |
| Sun, Sep 20 | Burgettstown, PA | The Pavilion at Star Lake #$* |
| Tue, Sep 22 | Mansfield, MA | Xfinity Center #$* |
| Wed, Sep 23 | Hartford, CT | The Meadows Music Theatre #$* |
| Fri, Sep 25 | Cuyahoga Falls, OH | Blossom Music Center #$* |
| Sat, Sep 26 | Clarkston, MI | Pine Knob Music Theatre #$ |
| Sun, Sep 27 | Tinley Park, IL | Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre #* |
| Tue, Sep 29 | Milwaukee, WI | American Family Insurance Amphitheater #$* |
| Wed, Sep 30 | Shakopee, MN | Mystic Lake Amphitheater #$* |
| Fri, Oct 2 | Noblesville, IN | Ruoff Music Center #$* |
| Sat, Oct 3 | St. Louis, MO | Hollywood Casino Amphitheater #$* |
| Sun, Oct 4 | Kansas City, MO | Morton Amphitheater #$* |
| Tue, Oct 6 | Memphis, TN | FedExForum #$* |
| Wed, Oct 7 | Louisville, KY | KFC Yum! Center #$* |
| Fri, Oct 9 | Tampa, FL | MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre #$ |
| Sat, Oct 10 | West Palm Beach, FL | iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre #$* |
| Tue, Oct 13 | Austin, TX | Moody Center #$* |
| Thu, Oct 15 | Houston, TX | The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sponsored by Huntsman #$* |
| Fri, Oct 16 | Rogers, AR | Walmart AMP #$* |
| Sun, Oct 18 | Albuquerque, NM | First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater #$* |
| Tue, Oct 20 | Phoenix, AZ | Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre #$* |
| Thu, Oct 22 | Anaheim, CA | Honda Center #$* |
| Sat, Oct 24 | Chula Vista, CA | North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre #$* |
| Sun, Oct 25 | Inglewood, CA | Intuit Dome #$* |
| Tue, Oct 27 | Concord, CA | Toyota Pavilion at Concord #$* |
| Thu, Oct 29 | Portland, OR | Veterans Memorial Coliseum #$* |
| Fri, Oct 30 | Vancouver, BC | Rogers Arena #$* |
| Sun, Nov 1 | Seattle, WA | Climate Pledge Arena #$* |
| Tue, Nov 17 | Zurich, CH | Hallenstadion # |
| Wed, Nov 18 | Paris, FR | Adidas Arena # |
| Fri, Nov 20 | Copenhagen, DK | Royal Arena # |
| Sun, Nov 22 | Stockholm, SE | Avicii Arena # |
| Tue, Nov 24 | Amsterdam, NL | Ziggo Dome # |
| Wed, Nov 25 | Berlin, DE | Velodrom # |
| Thu, Nov 26 | Dusseldorf, DE | Mitsubishi Electric Halle # |
| Sat, Nov 28 | Brussels, BE | Forest National # |
| Tue, Dec 01 | Dublin, IE | 3Arena # |
| Thu, Dec 03 | Manchester, UK | Co-op Live # |
| Fri, Dec 04 | Leeds, UK | First Direct Bank Arena # |
| Sat, Dec 05 | Cardiff, UK | Cardiff Utilita Arena # |
| Mon, Dec 07 | London, UK | The O2 Arena # |
| Wed, Dec 09 | Birmingham, UK | bp pulse # |
| Tue, Jan 19 | Perth, AU | RAC Arena # |
| Thu, Jan 21 | Melbourne, AU | Sidney Myer Music Bowl # |
| Sat, Jan 23 | Sydney, AU | Qudos Bank Arena # |
| Mon, Jan 25 | Brisbane, AU | Brisbane Entertainment Centre # |
| Wed, Jan 27 | Auckland, NZ | Spark Arena # |
# with Majid Jordan
$ with Ty Dolla $ign
* with Austin Millz