Part three of the Melvins' ongoing tour diary includes Kansas City, where their tour crossed paths with the Cheap Trick/Poison tour and Melvins joined Cheap Trick on stage.
The "National Concerts Week" promotion is happening now with hundreds of $20, all-in tickets to Live Nation shows across the country.
Live Nation is once again offering $20 "all-in" (aka service fees included) tickets to over 2000 shows happening this summer with a promotion they're calling National Concert Week. Those include shows with such artists as Arcade Fire, Beck, Dead & Company, Paramore, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bon Jovi, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer/Pixies, Dwight Yoakam/Lucinda Williams, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers, Alan Jackson, Bush/Stone Temple Pilots/The Cult, Counting Crows/Live, and lots more.
The Milwaukee fest also includes The Weeknd, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Social Distortion, Pat Benatar, Meat Puppets, Ash, Sugarhill Gang, Jason Isbell, Soccer Mommy, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and much more.
He joins a stacked lineup that already included Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Donald Fagen, Billy F. Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr., Mavis Staples, and more.
”I promise this will be awesome,” Bret Michaels assures us.
The second annual benefit concert also features Emmylou Harris, Billy F. Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr., Mavis Staples, Andra Day, Ann Wilson, Bernie Williams, and tons of others.
The band -- featuring members of Green Day, The Replacements, The E Street Band, The Hold Steady, Blondie, D Generation and more -- took on songs by Ramones, The Clash, Dead Boys, Tom Petty, New York Dolls, The Kinks, Cheap Trick, Blondie, The Replacements, and more...
Cheap Trick covered AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" in tribute to their friend and onetime tourmate Malcolm Young (who died this weekend)...
The video is for "Revelations / Thirteen," an original song that segues into a partial Big Star cover and is about a breakup that took place at the now-closed Angelica Kitchen.