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Big news coming up from the Riot Fest organizers, confirming that Wu-Tang Clan will be performing at this year’s edition of the festival.

The iconic hip-hop group will hit the stage on Saturday, September 14 in Douglas Park, Chicago. If you want to see them perform, click right here to acquire your tickets.

Wu-Tang Clan join the already formidable lineup of this fest which includes the likes of Blink-182, The Flaming Lips, Jawbreaker, Slayer, Rise Against, Bikini Kill, Ween and many others.

The three-day happening will celebrate its 15^th anniversary and the organizers are now ecstatic to welcome the 2017 alumni who brought a memorable performance three years ago.

Wu-Tang Clan are replacing Die Antwoord who have been removed from the lineup after a video surfaced of the group members using homophobic slurs in 2012. Namely, the video shows band member Ninja in a physical confrontation with Andy Butler from Hercules and Love Affair. Also in the video, another Wu-Tang Clan member ¥o-landi can be heard using a homophobic slur several times during the altercation.

The band has since explained that the altercation which occurred in Australia was not a hate crime.

“This fight had nothing to with the fact that this guy was gay. We dont care about people’s sexual preference. Our DJ and best friend DJ HITEK is gay, and alot of people in our crew are gay,” the statement said.

However, in addition to Riot Fest, Die Antwoord have also been dropped from the 2019 edition of the Louder Than Life festival.

Riot Fest 2019

Show Date and Time: September 13-15, 2019

Show Location: Douglas Park, Chicago, Illinois

Organizers of the inaugural Exit 111 music festival have outlined a full schedule for the upcoming event, taking place October 11^th – October 13^th at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee.

Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard and Lynyrd Skynyrd will headline this three-day event, named for the Manchester exit on I-24, that mixes hard rock with heavy metal and Southern Rock. All musical performances will split time across three stages, called “Heaven”, “Hell”, and “Rise Above”.

This makes the second announced live date for Guns N’ Roses this fall. The reunited band of Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan will headline the Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, Kentucky in September. And now, they are set to wrap up Exit 111 on Sunday night.

Megadeth, Black Label Society, ZZ Top, Ghost, Mastodon, Deftones, Coheed and Cambria, Lamb of God and Ministry are also on the bill, along with Kentucky outfit Black Stone Cherry, rising Southern rock group Bishop Gunn and Nashville rebels the Cadillac Three.

There will also be one appearance proud metal-heads ought not to miss. Slayer, who announced their retirement last year, is also slated to perform at what is being referred to as their last-ever Tennessee concert.

The festival will be hosted by hard-rock DJ Eddie Trunk, and it will feature all kinds of additional attractions, such as a car show, motocross demos, a sports bar and the adult circus Paranormal Cirque.

It’s never too early to start planning your weekend with hard rock royalty! Get your tickets right here!

Exit 111

Show Date and Time: Friday, October 11^th, 3:30 a.m.

Show Location: Great Stage Park, Manchester, Tennessee

Last month, Ariana Grande played the last of 48 dates of the Sweetener World Tour’s first leg.

At the close of the tour’s North American leg, the singer has earned $78.8 million and sold 659,842 tickets in 2019, according to reports.

Her shows in New York, two at Madison Square Garden and two at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center market the highest-grossing and best-selling North American performances of her career with receipts of $5.5 million (28,576 tickets) from MSG and 28,972 tickets ($4.4 million gross) for her Barclays Center shows.

What’s more, out of the singer’s 40 best-grossing performances across her career, 32 are the ones from the Sweetener World Tour’s first leg, an astounding achievement taken into consideration the tour is not even at its halfway mark yet.

The Sweetener World Tour, with all of Europe and a second North American leg left, has already surpassed the global totals of all her previous tours. It left far behind the Honeymoon Tour’s $25.3 million, with Dangerous Woman Tour ($71.1 million) following closely.

Grande set a rare quick pace for pop artist last November, releasing “Thank U, Next” and an album of the same name in February 2019.  The Sweetener follow-up also debuted at No.1 giving her first two No.1 titles on the Hot 100. The title track and “7 Rings” were featured on the list for seven and eight non-consecutive weeks, effectively pushing her fans into a ticket-buying frenzy, mounting one of the top tours of 2019.

Do not miss this record-breaking tour and join the frenzy! Get the tickets here.

The Sweetener Tour

Show Date and Time: Saturday, August 17^th, 6:30 p.m.

Show Location: O2 Arena, London GL

Heading to Australia for the first time in eight years, Janet Jackson has been revealed as this year’s headliner for RNB Fridays 2019.

Other fellow hip hop artists that are scheduled to join Jackson in leading the lineup for Australia’s biggest party are Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Jason Derulo.

The lineup of the fourth annual celebration of hip-hop and urban music which takes place across Australia and New Zealand this November will host other prominent artists such as Keri Hilson, Sisqo, J-Kwon, and an unidentified “mystery artist”, with Fatman Scoop returning as emcee.

The day-long experience will visit all five of Australia’s largest cities, opening November 8^th at Perth’s HBF Park, then on to Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, Adelaide Showgrounds, Brisbane Showgrounds and Sydney’s Giants Stadium on November 16^th.

The event is presented by Illusive Presents and Frontier Touring (both part of the Mushroom Group) plus Hit Network and they promise that this edition will be the biggest one yet. The production has seen huge growth since its inaugural year in 2016, and now, organizers have big plans to take the brand even further.

The plans discussed all focus on taking the event and concept into further international markets in 2020 and beyond. This means that we might soon see the launch of a number of events next year in the U.K and Europe, as well as “potentially some Asian” territories, according to Matt Gudinski, Illusive Presents co-founder.

The event has become so popular that in 2018 it was the biggest touring festival in Australia. It followed a similar trajectory in New Zealand.

With big plans on the horizon, the event might take over more international markets in the near future.

After an eight-year ban Tyler, The Creator will return to New Zealand to headline Bay Dreams festival.

Tyler, The Creator is now finally free to visit New Zealand, eight years after he and his former Odd Future bandmates were controversially banned by immigration authorities.

The IGOR rapper was first banned from entering the country back in 2014 due to controversy over his group Odd Future’s lyrical content. The country’s immigration department infamously deemed the group a “threat to public order”, thus making them miss their slot at Rapture Festival alongside Eminem.

Tyler and five other six group members were reportedly declined visas due to a 2011 incident in Boston in which some of the witnesses claimed that the group members incited fans to attack police officers.

The artist will make a return to New Zealand in January, where he is slated to perform at the annual music festival Bay Dreams, alongside Skepta, Halsey, Netsky, Yelawolf and Sub Focus. It will be his first gig and appearance in the country in eight years.

New Zealand immigration has cleared the rappers flying visit and declared that he “is no longer deemed to be a potential threat to public order and the public interest.” It was reported that his visa is “currently being processed”.

This decision follows the U.K.’s Home Office lifting Tyler’s four-year ban on entering the country back in May.

Tyler is currently set to kick off his U.S. IGOR Tour on August 30^th. Click on the link right here, and secure your tickets on time.

Bay Dreams Festival

Show Date and Time: Friday, August 30^th, 3:30 p.m.

Show location: Seattle Center, Seattle WA