twenty one pilots, Hozier, Greta Van Fleet, More To Play Boston Calling 2019

Friday was the official announcement of the tenth annual Boston Calling Music Festival in Boston, Mass. The three day festival runs from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, May 26, and features a lineup of bands from a multitude of genres.

Headlining the festival include alternative rap duo twenty one pilots, rapper Travis Scott, and Australian psychedelic rock group Tame Impala. Others performing over the course of the weekend include ODEZA, Hozier, Anderson .Paak And The Free Nationals, Superorganism, Greta Van Fleet, Logic, Denzel Curry, Turnstile, Lord Huron, and Cautious Clay. The full lineup can be seen below.

Tickets for the festival are available on the festival’s website. More information on the festival can be found there.

Boston Calling was created back in 2013 and has been called one of the top 10 best festivals in the U.S. by Consequence Of Sound. Since its formation, acts like fun., Vampire Weekend, Frank Turner, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gerard Way, CHVRCHES, The Front Bottoms, Chance The Rapper, and Eminem have played.

Warped Tour Is Back…Kinda

It’s back! Well, not in the way we expected.

Back in November 2017, the world was told that Warped Tour’s cross-country run would be coming to an end by August 2018. After Pennywise finished their set on the tour’s final day on August 5, Warped Tour officially closed. Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman did say that there would be something special for next year since it will be Warped Tour’s 25th year. After a tweet made by Lyman showed the sign of the Columbia, Md., date for this year’s warped was shown with the words “Home of Warped 2019”, people began speculating that something big was coming.

Well today we finally have closure. Lyman tweeted earlier today that there will be something big for the 25th year. The tweet read, “Plans are coming together for @VansWarpedTour 25th only thing I can say for now since many need to hold vacations dates are June 8 Cleveland, June 29-30 eastcoast, July 20-21 westcoast.”

With only one confirmed location, the rest of the locations are now just guesses. If I had to guess, the east coast location would be Columbia, Md., since Lyman tweeted about it earlier in the year, and the west coast location would have to be somewhere in California since the tour and Lyman are from there. The confirmed places for the Warped Tour shows on both coasts should be unveiled soon.

The Vans Warped Tour first started in 1995 and had bands like Sublime, No Doubt, and Quicksand on the first run. Since then, numerous acts like All Time Low, We Came As Romans, NOFX, Less Than Jake, and Flogging Molly have done runs on the tour. Famous artists who’ve played the tour and became popular later on include Katy Perry, 3OH!3, Machine Gun Kelly, Fall Out Boy, Of Mice & Men, The All-American Rejects, Eminem, Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and The Black Eyed Peas.

 

 

Kendrick Lamar, Between The Buried And Me, Fall Out Boy, More Nominated For Grammys In 2019

Music’s biggest night has unveiled the artists who are nominated for next year’s award show.

The 61st Grammy Awards have released the artists nominated for the Grammys, and the lineup is filled with several famous artists ranging from rap (Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Cardi B), pop (Shawn Mendes, Zedd, Bebe Rexha), rock (Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, Greta Van Fleet), and metal (Between The Buried And Me, Deafheaven, Underoath).

The award show was blasted last year for having a not so diverse lineup featuring little to no women. But it seems that will be changing next year. As Variety wrote, “Looking at the four main categories, 5 out of 7 Album of the Year nominees are female artists (the 8th is the Lamar-helmed multi-artist “Black Panther” soundtrack); 6 of the 8 nominees for Best New Artist are female; 5 of the 8 nominees for Song of the Year are by female artists or co-billed with male artists; 5 of the 8 nominees for Record of the year have at least one female songwriter.”

Some of the biggest surprises for nominations include Bring Me The Horizon and Twenty One Pilots fighting over Best Rock Song, Fever 333 nominated for Best Rock Performance, and Underoath’s second Grammy nomination (their first was back in 2006 for Best Short Form Music Video for “Writing On The Walls”).

The 61st Grammys takes place February 10, 2019, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., at 8 p.m. est on CBS.

Check out the nominees below.

Record Of The Year

“I Like It” — Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
“The Joke” — Brandi Carlile
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino
“God’s Plan” — Drake
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
“All The Stars” — Kendrick Lamar & SZA
“Rockstar” — Post Malone featuring 21 Savage
“The Middle” — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Album Of The Year

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B
By The Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile
Scorpion — Drake
H.E.R. — H.E.R.
Beerbongs & Bentleys — Post Malone
Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe
Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By (Various Artists)

Song Of The Year

“All The Stars” — Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Al Shuckburgh, Mark Spears & Anthony Tiffith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar & SZA)
“Boo’d Up” — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)
“God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
“In My Blood” — Teddy Geiger, Scott Harris, Shawn Mendes & Geoffrey Warburton, songwriters (Shawn Mendes)
“The Joke” — Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)
“The Middle” — Sarah Aarons, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Marcus Lomax, Kyle Trewartha, Michael Trewartha & Anton Zaslavski, songwriters (Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey)
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)
“This Is America” — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

Best New Artist

Chloe x Halle
Luke Combs
Greta Van Fleet
H.E.R.
Dua Lipa
Margo Price
Bebe Rexha
Jorja Smith

Best Pop Solo Performance

“Colors” — Beck
“Havana (Live)” — Camila Cabello
“God Is A Woman” — Ariana Grande
“Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” — Lady Gaga
“Better Now” — Post Malone

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Fall In Line” — Christina Aguilera featuring Demi Lovato
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” — Backstreet Boys
“‘S Wonderful” — Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
“Girls I Like You” — Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B
“Say Something” — Justin Timberlake Featuring Chris Stapleton
“The Middle” — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Love Is Here To Stay —Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
My Way — Willie Nelson
Nat “King” Cole & Me — Gregory Porter
Standards (DELUXE) — Seal
THE MUSIC…THE MEM’RIES…THE MAGIC! — Barbra Streisand

Best Pop Vocal Album

Camila — Camila Cabello
Meaning Of Life — Kelly Clarkson
Sweetener — Ariana Grande
Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes
Beautiful Trauma — P!nk
Reputation — Taylor Swift

Best Rock Performance

“Four Out Of Five” — Arctic Monkeys
“When Bad Does Good” — Chris Cornell
“Made An America” — The Fever 333
“Highway Tune” — Greta Van Fleet
“Uncomfortable” — Halestorm

Best Metal Performance

“Condemned To The Gallows “— Between The Buried And Me
“Honeycomb” — Deafheaven
“Electric Messiah” — High On Fire
“Betrayer” — Trivium
“On My Teeth” — Underoath

Best Rock Song

“Black Smoke Rising” — Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka & Daniel Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet)
“Jumpsuit” — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (twenty one pilots)
“MANTRA” — Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls & Oliver Sykes, songwriters (Bring Me The Horizon)
“Masseduction” — Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
“Rats” — Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)

Best Rock Album 

Rainier Fog — Alice In Chains
M A N I A — Fall Out Boy
Prequelle — Ghost
From The Fires — Greta Van Fleet
Pacific Daydream — Weezer

Best Alternative Music Album

Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino — Arctic Monkeys
Colors — Beck
Utopia — Björk
American Utopia — David Byrne
Masseduction — St. Vincent

Best Rap Performance

“Be Careful” — Cardi B
“Nice For What” — Drake
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake
“Bubblin” — Anderson .Paak
“Sicko Mode” — Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee

Best Rap/Sung Performance

“Like I Do” — Christina Aguilera featuring GoldLink
“Pretty Little Fears” — 6LACK featuring J. Cole
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino
“All The Stars” — Kendrick Lamar & SZA
“Rockstar” — Post Malone featuring 21 Savage

Best Rap Song

“God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Duckworth, Samuel Gloade, James Litherland, Johnny McKinzie, Mark Spears, Travis Walton, Nayvadius Wilburn & Michael Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake)
“Lucky You” — R. Fraser, G. Lucas, M. Mathers, M. Samuels & J. Sweet, songwriters (Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas)
“Sicko Mode” — Khalif Brown, Rogét Chahayed, BryTavious Chambers, Mike Dean, Mirsad Dervic, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Aubrey Graham, John Edward Hawkins, Chauncey Hollis, Jacques Webster, Ozan Yildirim & Cydel Young, songwriters (Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee)
“Win” — K. Duckworth, A. Hernandez, J. McKinzie, M. Samuels & C. Thompson, songwriters (Jay Rock)

Best Rap Album

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B
Swimming — Mac Miller
Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle
Daytona — Pusha T
Astroworld — Travis Scott

Best Music Video

“APES***” — The Carters, Ricky Saiz, video director; Mélodie Buchris, Natan Schottenfels & Erinn Williams, video producers
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino, Hiro Murai, video director; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers
“I’m Not Racist” — Joyner Lucas & Ben Proulx, video directors; Joyner Lucas, video producer
“Pynk” —  Janelle Monáe, Emma Westenberg, video director; Justin Benoliel & Whitney Jackson, video producers
“Mumbo Jumbo” — Tierra Whack Marco Prestini, video director; Sara Nassim, video producer

Best Music Film

“Life in 12 Bars”— Eric Clapton, Lili Fini Zanuck, video director; John Battsek, Scooter Weintraub, Larry Yelen & Lili Fini Zanuck, video producers
“Whitney” — (Whitney Houston), Kevin Macdonald, video director; Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn & Lisa Erspamer, video producers
“Quincy” — Quincy Jones Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula DuPré Pesmen, video producer
“Itzhak”— Itzhak Perlman, Alison Chernick, video director; Alison Chernick, video producer
“The King” — (Elvis Presley), Eugene Jarecki, video director; Christopher Frierson, Georgina Hill, David Kuhn & Christopher St. John, video producers

To see the full list of nominees, check out here to see if you’re favorite band or artist is nominated.

The 1975, Foo Fighters, Post Malone, More To Play Reading And Leeds 2019

Get ready, England.

Reading and Leeds Festivals have announced their headliners earlier today along with other guests.

Rock group Foo Fighters, rapper Post Malone, British alt darlings The 1975, and Ohioan alternative hip-hop duo Twenty One Pilots will headline the festivals. Others scheduled to perform include Juice WRLD, Pale Waves, Camelphat, Hayley Kiyoko, Bowling For Soup, Blossoms, Billie Ellish, Stefflon Dion, PVRIS, Crucast, G Flip, Bastille, The Distillers, Not3s, Sundara Karma, Denis Sulta, The Amazons, and YUNGBLUD. 

Reading has been going on since 1961 and started under the name of the National Jazz And Blues Festival. Leeds began in 1999. Artists who’ve played the festivals in the past include The Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Eminem, Panic! At The Disco, Blink-182, Iron Maiden, and Björk.