A look at the most anticipated musical tours of 2022
Steve Baltin, Senior contributor for Forbes Magazine, breaks down the most anticipated tours due to take place in 2022 with comments on unexpected sold out bands and most valuable tickets to locate. (Jan. 4)
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Get ready to enter a “rainbow paradise.”
Harry Styles is set to headline the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival along with Billie Eilish, Ye and Swedish House Mafia, the festival announced Wednesday.
The two-weekend festival will return April 15-17 and April 22-24 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio for the first time in three years.
The festival was initially postponed from April to October 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. A few months later, it was rescheduled for April 2021 until it was pushed again to 2022.
Eilish performed at the festival in 2019. Although her first performance was delayed by 40 minutes due to technical issues during the debut weekend, she delivered an explosive set. She fared better the second weekend, and fans couldn’t resist bouncing around to the deep bass lines. Justin Bieber was in the audience that night, and rapper Vince Staples made a guest appearance.
Ye, or the artist formerly known as Kanye West, first performed at Coachella in 2006 and later headlined in 2011. In 2019, he did a two-hour “Sunday Service” performance in a gospel-show format with guest appearances by Kid Cudi, Chance the Rapper, Ty Dolla $ign and DMX.
West changed his name to Ye last October. An abbreviation of his first name, Ye is the rapper’s longstanding nickname that he used as early as 2012 in his hit single “Clique” featuring Jay-Z and Big Sean (“Yeah, I’m talking Ye”). West titled his eighth studio album “Ye,” which was released in 2018.
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Ye packed the Mercedes-Benz stadium last summer for two bizarre listening parties featuring an unfinished version of his 10th studio album “Donda.” And then he For several weeks, he never left the building, continuing to tweak and twist songs while living in a makeshift bedroom in the stadium locker rooms. He did a third event in his hometown of Chicago at Soldier Field, where he was joined by Marilyn Manson, DaBaby and estranged wife Kim Kardashian (in a wedding dress, no less). “Donda” was released in August.
This will be the first time Styles performs at the festival, but the former One Direction member was spotted in Palm Springs in 2020 while filming “Don’t Worry Darling.”
Swedish House Mafia was announced by Goldenvoice last October. The electronic dance music group was founded in 2008 and performed a farewell tour in 2012 that included an appearance at Coachella on the main stage. Following the breakup, member Steve Angello performed at the festival in 2017.
In addition to this year’s headliners, the official lineup for the festival features numerous artists, including rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat, the Italian glam rock band Måneskin, Latin pop star Karol G and pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen, among others.
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The 2020 lineup included headliners Rage Against the Machine, rapper Travis Scott and Frank Ocean.
A petition was started last November calling for Scott to be removed from the festival after 10 people died in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival in Houston where he was performing on Nov. 5. Eight people died on the day of the event. The ninth, a 22-year-old college student, died Nov. 10 in a hospital. The 10th – and youngest – Ezra Blount, 9, died Nov. 14 in a hospital in a medically-induced coma.
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