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Midland Tops First-Year ‘Feels Like Home Festival,’ Oct. 19 In Texas
Midland tops the first-year Feels Like Home Festival, taking place Oct. 19 at a new outdoor music venue at the Brownwood Event Center in Brownwood, Texas. Along with Texas trio Midland, whose new album Barely Blue, drops Sept. 20, Feels…
Jimmy Eat World Announces Hometown Show To Celebrate Album Anniversaries
Emo stalwarts Jimmy Eat World will mark the anniversaries of two albums with a special hometown show in October. The Phoenix band will perform at The Van Buren in Arizona’s capital Oct. 17, playing their 2004 gold-certified fifth album Futures…
80,000 Fans, $15M Local Impact: Ed Sheeran Sets Baltic Ticket Sales Record
Ed Sheeran performed for two consecutive nights at the newly renovated Darius and Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania, Aug. 3-4, gathering more than 80,000 fans, and setting a new ticket sales record in the Baltic states for a show by…
Revolution Through Evolution: EXIT Festival Is Building Bridges
Several festivals in the Balkans are the creative manifestations of a youth rebelling against dictatorship. Revolution Festival launched in 2015 in Timisoara, where the Romanian revolution of 1989 started. It was the first city in the country to declare itself…
Sziget’s ‘Spectacular, Vibrant & Diverse’ 30th Anniversary
Sziget festival in Budapest, Hungary, concluded its epic 30th anniversary party, which took place Aug. 7-12 on Óbuda island, the Island of Freedom, right on the Danube river, counting between 60,000 and 70,000 daily guests, who saw some 1,000 shows…