Update: Rolling Stones unveil tour dates

- April 3rd, 2013

In what could be the most uneventful tour announcement ever, the Rolling Stones unveiled details for a nine, yes, nine-date North America tour.

This comes after rumours circulated for weeks that the band would be hitting 18 cities. There’s just one Canadian stop.

The tour, called 50 and Counting, will start in Los Angeles next month (tour kickoff date will be announced soon), and will make its way to Toronto on May 25 at the Air Canada Centre. Tickets for the T.O. gig go on sale April 8 via rollingstones.com and Ticketmaster.ca at 10 a.m. ET.

UPDATE: A second show has been added for Toronto at the Air Canada Centre on June 6. Tickets go on sale on the same day as the original date.

Here’s hoping you are getting a nice tax refund this year – the top ticket will run you a whopping $624.50 and the cheapest one will be $166.50.

The short trek ends in Philadelphia on June 18. This is just a hunch (sarcasm alert), but expect more dates to be added once the nine sell out, which will match the original rumoured 18 dates.

The band will also play London’s Hyde Park on Saturday, July 6 following a headlining appearance at UK’s Glastonbury Festival on June 29.

“’50 and Counting’ has been pretty amazing so far,” lead singer Mick Jagger said in a statement on Wednesday.

“We did a few shows in London and New York last year … and had such a good time that we thought…let’s do some more.”

Mick Taylor, who was a member of the Rolling Stones from 1969-74, will be a special guest throughout the tour.

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The dates were unveiled via video message from the band on YouTube (see below).

Rolling Stone reported that Mick, Keef and co. will be paid $4-5 million per show.

50 and Counting tour dates:

TBA Los Angeles Staples Center TBA

May 5 Oakland Oracle Arena On sale April 8 @ 10AM PST

May 8 San Jose HP Pavilion On sale April 8 @ 10AM PST

May 11 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena TBA

May 15 Anaheim Honda Center TBA

May 25 Toronto Air Canada Centre On sale April 8 @ 10AM EST

May 28 Chicago United Center On sale April 8 @ 10AM CST

June 12 Boston TD Garden TBA

June 18 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center TBA

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John Mayer books first tour in three years

- March 22nd, 2013

John Mayer is ready to hit the road again for the first time in three years after being sidelined following two rounds of surgery to repair a granuloma in his throat.

And he’s certainly about to put his voice through the ultimate test.

The Grammy Award winner has booked a huge summer/early fall tour which will see him go all over North America, including one Canadian stop at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 14. He’ll even head down to South America for two gigs.

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The tour is in support of his 2012 studio album, Born and Raised.

Tickets for the T.O. date go on sale March 29 through Ticketmaster.

John Mayer’s tour dates:

7/6 Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest, Marcus Amphitheater
7/7 Maryland Heights/St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/9 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
7/10 Bonner Springs, KS – Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
7/12 Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
7/13 Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion
7/16 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
7/19 Ridgefield, WA – Sleep Country Amphitheater
7/20 George, WA – The Gorge
7/22 Paso Robles, CA – California Mid State Fair
7/24 Wheatland, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre at Sacramento
7/26 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
7/27 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine
8/6 Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
8/7 Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/9 Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/10 Noblesville, IN – Klipsch Music Center
8/11 Springfield, IL – Illinois State Fair
8/13 Darien, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
8/14 Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
8/16 Hartford, CT – Comcast Theatre
8/17 Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
8/20 Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
8/21 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
8/23 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
8/24 Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
8/25 Burgettstown, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
8/27 Allentown, PA – The Great Allentown Fair
8/28 Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
8/30 Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8/31 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
9/1 Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Resort Spa and Casino Event Center
9/4 Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte
9/5 Raleigh, NC – Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
9/7 Tampa, FL – Live Nation Amphitheater at the Florida State Fairgrounds
9/8 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre
9/17 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Luna Park
9/21 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – Rock in Rio
9/27 Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
10/1 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
10/2 Phoenix, AZ – Desert Sky Pavilion
10/4 San Diego, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
10/5 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl

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Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake book two Canadian stadium dates

- February 22nd, 2013

Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake are joining forces for a 12-city North American run of stadiums, and it includes two stops in the Great White North.

The tour, confidently called “The Legends of the Summer,” kicks off on July 17 at Rogers Centre in Toronto and makes its way to Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium on July 31. The trek ends on August 16 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida.

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Tickets for the Canadian dates go on sale to the general public on February 28, but early birds can take advantage of a special Live Nation presale here.

The tour is in support of Timberlake’s highly anticipated studio album, “The 20/20 Experience,” which is set to be released March 19 on RCA Records. The 10 track album features the hit single “Suit & Tie” (watch below), which features Jay-Z.

Here’s the full set of dates:

July 17 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
July 19 New York, NY Yankee Stadium
July 22 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
July 26 San Francisco, CA Candlestick Park
July 28 Los Angeles, CA Rose Bowl
July 31 Vancouver, BC BC Place Stadium
August 4 Hershey, PA Hershey Stadium
August 6 Detroit, MI Ford Field
August 8 Baltimore, MD M&T Bank Stadium
August 10 Boston, MA Fenway Park
August 13 Philadelphia, PA Citizens Bank Park
August 16 Miami, FL Sun Life Stadium

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