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SUMMARY:Simple Plan + Sum 41 at The Van Buren
DESCRIPTION:From their new millennium rise to MTV superstardom through pop-punk’s modern resurgence\, SIMPLE PLAN have been an indelible part of pop culture since forming in Montreal in 1999. They’ve sold 10 million albums worldwide\, won multiple Juno Awards\, performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics – and\, most recently\, launched the omnipresent #ImJustAKid TikTok challenge that’s spawned more than 3.4 million videos\, including clips from Hilary Duff\, Ed Sheeran\, Usher and Venus and Serena Williams. \nHARDER THAN IT LOOKS is the first self-released album from dummer Chuck Comeau\, vocalist Pierre Bouvier and guitarists Sébastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco. The album respects Simple Plan’s storied career while pushing forward in new ways\, with songs like “The Antidote\,” “Ruin My Life” (ft. Deryck Whibley)\, “Congratulations\,” “Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)” and “Iconic” set to stand as fan favourites for years to come. \n“It’s amazingly complex to be in a band for 20-plus years\, to keep going\, stay relevant and manage all the challenges that come your way\,” Bouvier says. “It’s the furthest thing from a ‘simple plan’ – it’s truly a lot harder than it looks. Throughout our career\, it’s taken a while to be mature enough to understand that our sound is an asset\, not a liability. On this album we said: ‘Let’s just embrace who we are and not be afraid to do what we do best.’ Making a good Simple Plan record is just as hard as making something off the beaten path. \n \n \nCanadian rock outfit Sum 41 hit the worldwide radar in 1996 after their hometown of Ajax\, Ontario\, proved unable to fully contain the foursome’s mixture of arena-sized riffing\, hip-hop poses\, and toilet-bowl humor. Their breakthrough major-label debut\, 2001’s All Killer No Filler\, featured the chart-topping MTV hit “Fat Lip” and follow-up “In Too Deep.” From there\, the band’s mischievous pop-punk style was steadily hardened with darker\, world-weary lyrics and a heavier\, metal-inspired attack. 2002’s Does This Look Infected? veered in that hardcore direction and still managed to maintain their popularity with singles “The Hell Song” and “Still Waiting.” By the time double-platinum third effort Chuck landed in 2004\, Sum 41’s metallic tendencies were at the fore on songs such as “We’re All to Blame.” Despite achieving a chart peak with 2007’s Underclass Hero\, the band soon found themselves in decline in the mainstream during the 2010s\, due in part to lineup changes and creeping health problems. While Screaming Bloody Murder produced the Grammy-nominated single “Blood in My Eyes\,” the album was the band’s lowest-charting effort since their debut. Soon after\, frontman Deryck Whibley announced serious health issues that would sideline the band until 2016\, when they issued the successful comeback record 13 Voices. \nIn addition to vocalist/guitarist Whibley\, the band also originally included guitarist/vocalist Dave Baksh\, bassist Cone McCaslin\, and drummer Steve Jocz. Wooed by the boys’ goofy antics and incendiary live show (and excited about the prospect of promoting their very own blink-182)\, Island put Sum 41 on the payroll in 1999. The Half Hour of Power EP followed\, and Warped Tour dates put the word out. They returned in 2000 with the fun-filled full-length All Killer No Filler\, and the singles “In Too Deep” and “Fat Lip” became staples of both modern rock radio and Total Request Live. An extensive tour followed\, and Sum 41 enjoyed their success the way all near-teenage boys would\, with plenty of towel-snapping\, groupie-loving\, and self-deprecating low-ball humor. In 2002\, they returned to wax with Does This Look Infected? While the album was a bit harder-edged\, it found the band as excited as ever to mix punk-pop business with sophomoric pleasure: The video for “Hell Song” featured the guys acting out a sort of rock-star debauchery cage match with the aid of a few celebrity action figures. Metallica\, Jesus Christ\, and the Osbournes all made appearances in the hilarious clip. \nIt was not all fun and games\, however\, as Sum 41’s involvement in the charity group War Child Canada had them lending a hand in the making of a 2004 documentary covering the effects of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Five days into filming\, fighting and gunfire suddenly erupted around them\, and they barely escaped unharmed — these events led to 2004’s slightly more mature and serious effort\, Chuck\, named for the UN aid worker\, Chuck Pelletier\, who was instrumental in getting them to safety. The DVD Rocked: Sum 41 in Congo was released at the end of 2005\, and the live album Go Chuck Yourself appeared the following March. \nGuitarist Dave Baksh left the band during the spring of 2006 due to creative differences\, going on to form the metal-punk outfit Brown Brigade. Sum 41 continued as a trio\, and their first album as such\, Underclass Hero\, appeared in July 2007. They eventually returned to being a quartet\, replacing Baksh with guitarist Tom Thacker\, and began to work on a new album. Screaming Bloody Murder appeared in March 2011. “Blood in My Eyes\,” a single from the album\, was nominated for a Grammy that year. However\, due to a series of back injuries for Whibley (and other issues that would soon come to light)\, Sum 41 would not return with new material for half a decade\, despite their critical success. \nDuring the break\, Jocz left the band and was replaced by Street Drum Corps‘ Frank Zummo. Baksh also returned to the fold just in time for Sum 41’s comeback in 2016. The group signed with Hopeless Records and embarked on an international tour that included stops in China and a stint on that summer’s Warped Tour. Their sixth LP\, 13 Voices\, featured the lead single “Fake My Own Death” and became their third highest-charting release in their native Canada\, peaking just outside the Top 20 in the U.S. During promotion for the album\, Whibley revealed that he had been in an alcohol-related induced coma during the band’s hiatus in 2014. While recovery included learning to walk and play guitar again\, Whibley contributed a large part of his healing to the writing process of 13 Voices. To coincide with the album’s release\, the band embarked on an international tour dubbed “Don’t Call It a Sum-Back.” \nAfter setting out on another trek to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their breakthrough\, they returned to the studio. Their seventh set\, Order in Decline\, arrived in the summer of 2019. Intensely political and pulling no punches with their message\, the album included the tracks “Out for Blood\,” “45 (A Matter of Time)\,” and “The New Sensation\,” borrowing from Linkin Park\, Bad Religion\, and even Muse on a series of rallying cries aimed at waking up a society on the brink of moral collapse. ~ Johnny Loftus & Neil Z. Yeung\, Rovi
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LOCATION:The Van Buren\, 401 W. Van Buren St\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Halestorm & The Pretty Reckless at Arizona Financial Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Led by charismatic vocalist/guitarist Lzzy Hale\, Pennsylvania-based post-grunge/metal quartet Halestorm have become one of the most successful hard rock groups of the early 21st century. With an aggressive yet hook-heavy sound that has become a fixture of American rock radio\, Halestorm have toured restlessly\, playing hundreds of shows per year and sharing the stage with nearly all of the popular American hard rock acts of their era. In 2013\, the band took home a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for the single “Love Bites (So Do I)\,” which appeared on their sophomore studio effort\, The Strange Case Of…. Subsequent efforts Into the Wild Life (2015)\, Vicious (2018)\, and Back from the Dead (2022) have shown the group to be equally adept at muscular hard rockers and piano-driven power ballads\, and their sound has branched out to include elements of dance music and pop-country. \nSiblings Elizabeth and Arejay Hale\, the core members of Halestorm\, formed the group in late 1997 near York\, Pennsylvania\, with Arejay on drums and Elizabeth on vocals and keyboard. Wanting to expand their sound\, the duo invited their father\, Roger\, to play bass with the band. Shortly after their first professional gig in 1998 at the Blue Mountain Coffee House in Hershey\, Pennsylvania\, Halestorm added various guitar players and released an EP\, 1999’s (Don’t Mess with The) Time Man. More lineup changes occurred\, but Halestorm finally solidified with Elizabeth (who was by then going by Lzzy) on vocals and guitar\, Josh Smith on bass\, Arejay on drums\, and Joe Hottinger on guitar. The band caught the attention of producer David Ivory as well as Atlantic Records — both were involved in the group’s major-label debut\, 2006’s One and Done\, a five-song EP recorded live at a show in Philadelphia. They would finally make their full-length studio debut in 2009 with the eponymous Halestorm\, all the while maintaining a rigorous touring schedule that would see them playing upwards of 250 shows a year. \nThe following year\, Halestorm released the concert recording Live in Philly 2010\, and Reanimate: The Covers EP appeared in 2011\, featuring the band’s takes on songs by Heart\, Guns N’ Roses\, and Lady Gaga. Their sophomore album\, The Strange Case Of…\, followed in 2012\, and the single “Love Bites (So Do I)” earned the group a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. Reanimate 2.0 was released in 2013\, this time finding the band tackling Fleetwood Mac\, Daft Punk\, and Marilyn Manson. Halestorm’s eclectic third studio long-player\, the Jay Joyce-produced Into the Wild Life\, was released in April 2015\, and was preceded by the single “Apocalyptic.” The live EP Into the Wild Live: Chicago arrived in 2016\, followed in early 2017 by their third covers set\, Reanimate 3.0\, which featured songs by Whitesnake\, Metallica\, and Soundgarden. Vicious\, the band’s fourth studio long-player\, followed in July 2018 and earned the group a Best Rock Performance Grammy nomination for the single “Uncomfortable.” 2020 saw Halestorm issue Reimagined\, a six-song EP that featured stripped-down versions of five fan favorites and a cover of “I Will Always Love You.” Two years later\, they unveiled their fifth long-player\, Back from the Dead. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz with co-production by Scott Stevens\, the 11-song set included “The Steeple” and “Back from the Dead\,” the latter of which became Halestorm’s sixth single to reach number one on the Active Rock charts. ~ Marisa Brown\, Rovi \n \n \nFormed in New York City during 2008\, The Pretty Reckless and late producer Kato Khandwala initially made waves with their 2010 debut\, Light Me Up. After countless gigs\, the band returned with Going To Hell in 2014. Not only did the record crash the Top 5 of the Billboard Top 200\, but it also ignited three #1 hits—the gold-certified “Heaven Knows” (the biggest rock song of 2014)\, “Fucked Up World\,” and “Follow Me Down”—a feat that had not been accomplished by a female-fronted group since The Pretenders in 1984. Meanwhile\, their third offering\, Who You Selling For\, saw them return to #1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs Chart with “Take Me Down\,” which cemented them as “the first band to send its first four singles to #1 on the chart\,” according to Billboard. Praise followed from Vogue\, Nylon\, and more as the quartet lit up television shows such as Letterman and Conan. With over half-a-billion streams\, they headlined countless sold out shows and toured with Guns N’ Roses and many other heavy hitters. \n \n \nThe Warning infuse rock music with a much-needed shot of adrenaline. The Monterrey\, Mexico trio of sisters—Daniela “Dany” [guitar\, lead vocals]\, Paulina “Pau” [drums\, vocals\, piano]\, and Alejandra “Ale” Villarreal [bass\, piano\, backing vocals]—charge forward with head-spinning riffs\, unpredictable rhythms\, stadium-size beats\, and skyscraping vocals. They stand out as the rare presence equally at home on network television and on stage at Heaven & Hell Festival. After exploding online with one viral moment after another\, The Warning parlayed this momentum into a series of independent releases\, including Escape the Mind EP [2015]\, XXI Century Blood [2017]\, and Queen of the Murder Scene [2019]. They graced a stacked bill at Mother of All Rock Festival as the only Mexican band and opened up two sold out Monterrey shows for The Killers and for Def Leppard in Mexico City and Guadalajara. After quietly amassing over 120 million YouTube views and 10 million streams\, they’ve already surged to the forefront of hard rock on their LAVA Records debut single “CHOKE” which Right out of the gate\, “CHOKE” cracked 1 million-plus streams. \n \n \nLilith Czar arrives with the force of an otherworldly thunder\, arising in visceral rebirth from an untimely grave of surrender and sacrifice. Her voice is the sound of supernatural determination\, summoned with a confessional vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. The girl who was Juliet Simms – her dreams discouraged and dismissed\, her identity confined and controlled – is no more. In her place stands Lilith Czar\, a new vessel forged in unbridled willpower and unashamed desire. \nHer motivation is simple: if it’s truly a man’s world? She wants to be King. \nCreated from Filth and Dust\, the debut album from Lilith Czar\, is an evocative invitation into her bold new world. It’s aggressive music with warm accessibility; huge hooks with driving hard rock—the new larger-than-life icon channels the fierce combativeness of Fiona Apple and Stevie Nicks’ seductive witchery. Lilith Czar arms herself with sonic power\, theatricality\, and confidence. It’s a sound where the pulse of Nine Inch Nails\, Halestorm’s songcraft\, and the libertine spirit of David Bowie converge\, all in service of a ritualistic ache for a more just and equitable world.
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LOCATION:Arizona Financial Theatre\, 400 W Washington St\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Def Leppard + Mötley Crüe + Poison & Joan Jett & Blackhearts at State Farm Stadium
DESCRIPTION:In many ways\, Def Leppard were the definitive hard rock band of the ’80s. There were groups that rocked harder\, but few captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late ’70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal\, Def Leppard gained a following outside of that scene by toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody. After a couple of strong albums\, they were poised for crossover success by the time of 1983’s Pyromania\, and skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. They reached the pinnacle of their career with 1987’s blockbuster Hysteria\, then had another big hit\, 1992’s Adrenalize\, that defied the mainstream turn toward grunge. After that\, the band settled into a pattern of touring exhaustively and releasing an album every few years\, maintaining a steady audience and occasionally surprising fans with an album\, like 2008’s Yeah!\, that harked back to the sound of their glory days\, or the oversized 2022 record Diamond Star Halos. \nDef Leppard originated in a Sheffield-based group that teenagers Rick Savage (bass) and Pete Willis (guitar) formed in 1977. Vocalist Joe Elliott\, a fanatical follower of Mott the Hoople and T. Rex\, joined the band several months later\, bringing the name Deaf Leopard with him. After a spelling change\, the trio\, augmented by a now-forgotten drummer\, began playing local Sheffield pubs\, and within a year the band had added guitarist Steve Clark to the lineup\, as well as a new drummer. Later in 1978\, they recorded their debut EP\, Getcha Rocks Off\, and released it on their own label\, Bludgeon Riffola. The EP became a word-of-mouth success\, earning airplay on the BBC. \nFollowing the release of Getcha Rocks Off\, 15-year-old Rick Allen was added as the band’s permanent drummer\, and Def Leppard quickly became the toast of the British music weeklies. They soon signed with AC/DC‘s manager\, Peter Mensch\, who helped them secure a contract with Mercury Records. On Through the Night\, the band’s full-length debut\, was released in 1980 and instantly became a hit in the U.K.\, also earning significant airplay in the U.S.\, where it reached number 51 on the charts. Over the course of the year\, Def Leppard relentlessly toured Britain and America\, playing their own shows while also opening concerts for Ozzy Osbourne\, Sammy Hagar\, and Judas Priest. High ‘n’ Dry followed in 1981 and became the group’s first platinum album in the U.S.\, thanks to MTV’s strong rotation of “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak.” \nAs the band recorded the follow-up to High ‘n’ Dry with producer Mutt Lange\, Pete Willis was fired from the group because of his alcoholism\, and Phil Collen\, a former guitarist for Girl\, was hired to replace him. The resulting album\, 1983’s Pyromania\, became an unexpected blockbuster\, due not only to Def Leppard’s skillful\, melodic metal\, but also to MTV’s repeated airing of “Photograph” and “Rock of Ages.” Pyromania went on to sell ten million copies\, establishing Def Leppard as one of the most popular bands in the world. Despite their success\, they were about to enter a trying time in their career. Following an extensive international tour\, the group reentered the studio to record the follow-up\, but producer Lange was unavailable\, so they began sessions with Jim Steinman\, the man responsible for Meat Loaf‘s Bat Out of Hell. The pairing turned out to be ill-advised\, so the bandmembers turned to their former engineer\, Nigel Green. One month into recording\, Allen lost his left arm in a New Year’s Eve car accident. The arm was reattached\, but it had to be amputated once an infection set in. \nDef Leppard’s future looked cloudy without a drummer\, but by the spring of 1985 — just a few months after his accident — Allen began learning to play a custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. The band soon resumed recording\, and within a few months\, Lange was back on board; having judged all the existing tapes inferior\, he ordered the band to begin work all over again. Recording sessions continued throughout 1986\, and that summer\, the group returned to the stage for the European Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed their fourth album\, now titled Hysteria\, early in 1987. The record was released that spring to lukewarm reviews\, with many critics claiming that the album compromised Leppard’s metal roots for sweet pop flourishes. Accordingly\, Hysteria was slow out of the starting gates — “Women\,” the first single\, failed to really take hold — but the release of “Animal” helped the album gather steam. The song became Def Leppard’s first Top 40 hit in the U.K.\, but more importantly\, it launched a string of six straight Top 20 hits in the U.S.\, which also included “Hysteria\,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me\,” “Love Bites\,” “Armageddon It\,” and “Rocket\,” the latter of which arrived in 1989\, a full two years after the release of Hysteria. During those two years\, Def Leppard’s presence was unavoidable — they were the kings of high school metal\, ruling the pop charts and MTV\, and teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans\, even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N’ Roses took hold in 1988. \nHysteria proved to be the peak of Leppard’s popularity\, yet their follow-up remained eagerly awaited in the early ’90s\, as the band took a break from the road and set to work on a new record. During the recording process\, however\, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Clark had historically battled alcohol\, and following their Hysteria heyday\, his bandmates forced him to take a sabbatical. Although he did enter rehab\, Clark’s habits continued\, and his abuse was so crippling that Collen began recording the majority of the band’s guitar leads. Following Clark’s death\, Def Leppard resolved to finish their forthcoming album as a quartet\, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of 1992. Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews\, and even though the album debuted at number one and contained several successful singles\, including the Top 20 hits “Let’s Get Rocked” (notable for having one of the first ever CGI music videos) and “Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad\,” the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake of Pyromania and Hysteria. After its release\, the group added former Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell to the lineup\, thus resuming Def Leppard’s two-guitar attack. \nIn 1993\, Def Leppard issued the rarities collection Retro Active\, which yielded another Top 20 hit with the acoustic ballad “Two Steps Behind.” Two years later\, the group released the greatest-hits collection Vault while preparing for their sixth album. Slang arrived in the spring of 1996\, and while it proved more adventurous than its predecessor\, it was greeted with indifference\, indicating that Leppard’s heyday had indeed passed\, and they were now simply a very popular cult band. Undaunted\, Leppard soldiered on\, returning to their patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria\, which was released in June of 1999. Despite the success of “Promises\,” the record failed to produce any additional hits\, resulting in a return to adult pop balladry on 2002’s X. The two-disc Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection arrived in 2005\, followed in 2006 by Yeah!\, a strong collection of covers. \nIn 2008\, the guys released their tenth studio album\, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge\, which debuted at number five and was supported by a lucrative summer tour. Material from that tour helped make up the bulk of 2011’s Mirror Ball: Live & More\, a three-disc live album containing a full concert\, three new studio recordings\, and DVD footage. Another live album followed two years later: Viva! Hysteria found Def Leppard running through their 1987 blockbuster in its entirety on the first disc\, and a collection of early\, rarely played material on the second. In 2015\, the band released Def Leppard\, their 11th studio album and first collection of original music since 2008. \nIn February 2017\, the group issued And There Will Be a Next Time\, a live album culled from the Def Leppard supporting tour. Later that year\, a Super Deluxe Edition of Hysteria came out in celebration of the record’s 30th anniversary. Further repackagings continued in 2018 with a box set of their ’80s albums titled The Collection\, Vol. 1 and The Story So Far: The Best of Def Leppard\, a multi-disc set that included the band’s first four studio albums and various rarities. The next year saw the release of The Collection\, Vol. 2\, a set of their ’90s records\, and The Story So Far\, Vol. 2: Hits & B-Sides\, which picked up where the first volume left off with material from the band’s ’90s run and beyond. Def Leppard continued to tour on a regular basis and played a Las Vegas residency\, then in 2020 issued a collection of their first two albums plus a live set and BBC sessions titled The Early Years 79-81. After this slew of live and reissued material\, the band finally released another studio album in 2022\, their 12th. Entitled Diamond Star Halos\, it was heralded by the barnstorming\, old-school promo track “Kick” and featured two collaborations with Alison Krauss. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine\, Rovi \n \nMÖTLEY CRÜE is The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Hailing from Los Angeles\, CA\, the quartet—Vince Neil (vocals)\, Mick Mars (guitars)\, Nikki Sixx (bass)\, and Tommy Lee (drums)— has commandeered the rock pantheon for 40 years. \nThey’ve accumulated worldwide album sales exceeding 100m\, 7 platinum and multi-platinum albums\, 22 Top 40 mainstream rock hits\, 6 Top 20 pop singles\, 3 GRAMMY nominations\, 4 New York Times best-sellers and even landed a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. \nWith utmost success from their Netflix biopic\, The Dirt and its soundtrack\, the band landed another #1 album on iTunes and Top 10 worldwide with 22 chart-topping singles and 7 albums on the charts. Its massive global success saw Mötley Crüe’s popularity soar to new highs\, catapulting the band’s music back to the top of the worldwide charts with the younger 18-44 demographic now representing 64% of the band’s fanbase. \nIn the six months following the release of THE DIRT\, Mötley Crüe has celebrated a meteoric rise of almost 350% increase in streams of their music across all streaming platforms. Known for their iconic live performances\, they’ve sold-out countless tours across the globe in front of millions of fans with groundbreaking production highlights such as Tommy Lee’s\, Crüecifly-Drum-Rollercoaster and Nikki Sixx’s Flame-Throwing-Bass. \n \nIn a decade fueled by party anthems and power ballads\, Poison enjoyed a great amount of popularity\, with only Bon Jovi and Def Leppard outselling them. While the group had a long string of pop-metal hits\, they soon became just as renowned for their stage show\, and continued to be a major attraction long after the ’80s came to a close (bringing the commercial downfall of pop-metal with it). Meanwhile\, frontman Bret Michaels reinvented himself as a reality TV star in 2007\, and his involvement in several TV shows — particularly Rock of Love\, Celebrity Apprentice\, and Life as I Know It — helped maintain the band’s popularity in concert. \nFormerly known as Paris\, Poison was formed in 1984 by Bret Michaels\, bassist Bobby Dall\, and drummer Rikki Rockett. After leaving their hometown of Harrisburg\, PA\, and resettling in L.A.\, the boys began holding auditions for a fourth member. Guitarist C.C. Deville got the gig\, famously beating out future Guns N’ Roses bandmate Slash in the process. With their lineup intact\, Poison embraced a glammy\, androgynous image and began playing shows in L.A.\, becoming masters of self-promotion and D.I.Y. advertising in the process. The hard work won them a contract with Enigma Records in 1986\, and they released their first album\, Look What the Cat Dragged In\, that summer. The record spawned a pair of Top 40 hits\, “Talk Dirty to Me” and “I Won’t Forget You\,” and sold over two-million copies within a year of its release. \nThe band was already quite popular by the end of 1987\, but 1988’s Open Up & Say…Ahhh! proved to be Poison’s commercial breakthrough\, due to the massive hits “Fallen Angel\,” “Nothin’ But a Good Time\,” and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (which became the band’s first chart-topping single). After a prosperous tour alongside David Lee Roth\, the group returned to the studio to record Flesh and Blood in 1990. The album\, which included the number three hit “Unskinny Bop” and the number four ballad “Something to Believe In\,” was another multi-platinum success\, but it also signaled the end of Poison’s glory days. While touring in support of Flesh and Blood (as documented on the double-disc concert album Swallow This Live)\, the band began falling apart\, and an infamous appearance on MTV showed Deville performing “Talk Dirty to Me” with his guitar unplugged. The band broke into a brawl backstage after the disastrous performance. \nShortly after the release of Swallow This Live\, Poison fired Deville due to his increasing addiction to drugs and alcohol. His replacement\, 21 year-old Richie Kotzen\, made his commercial debut with the band on 1993’s Native Tongue. Despite some strong reviews and a hit single\, “Stand\,” the album proved to be a commercial disappointment. Kotzen was fired during the subsequent tour\, having reportedly struck up an illicit relationship with Rikki Rockett’s fiancé\, and solo artist/session guitarist Blues Saraceno became Poison’s third guitarist. The band recorded its fifth studio album\, Crack a Smile\, for an intended release in 1996\, but the record was shelved and replaced with the Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 disc instead. Toward the end of that year\, Saraceno left and Deville returned to the band\, a move that resulted in a successful reunion tour during the summer of 1999. The Crack a Smile sessions were finally released the following spring\, followed by Power to the People\, which paired five new songs with 12 live tracks from the band’s comeback tour. However\, another tour was cut short by an accident that left Dall with serious back surgery. \nFollowing Dall’s lengthy recovery\, the band stepped into the studio and recorded Hollyweird\, which was released in the summer of 2002. The following tour was promoted as a nostalgic experience and was funded by VH1\, laying the brickwork for a lucrative relationship between the band and the television channel. Deville would later appear in the network’s sixth season of The Surreal Life\, while Michaels was awarded his own dating show\, Rock of Love with Bret Michaels. Hollyweird’s reception was lukewarm at best\, and Poison spent some time out of the spotlight while Michaels and Rockett released solo albums. They reconvened in 2006\, celebrating their 20th anniversary with a nationwide tour and another greatest-hits album. Propelled by Michaels‘ new status as a reality TV star\, The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock debuted inside the Billboard Top 20\, a feat the band hadn’t accomplished since Native Tongue. The following year brought similar luck\, with the band’s seventh studio effort — a covers album titled Poison’d! — moving over 20\,000 units during its first week. ~ Barry Weber & Andrew Leahey\, Rovi \n \nJoan Jett grew up during a time when rock ‘n’ roll was off limits to girls and women\, but as a teenager\, she promptly blew the door to the boys’ club off its hinges. After forming the Blackhearts in 1979\, with whom Jett has become a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee\, she has had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles\, including “Bad Reputation\,” “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll\,” “I Hate Myself For Loving You\,” and “Crimson and Clover.” With a career that has spanned music\, film\, television\, Broadway\, and humanitarianism\, Joan Jett remains a potent force and inspiration to generations of fans worldwide. As a producer\, she has overseen seminal albums by Bikini Kill\, and the Germs‘ LA punk masterpiece ‘GI.’ Jett and Kenny Laguna (her longtime producer and music partner) co-founded Blackheart Records from the trunk of Kenny’s Cadillac after rejections from no less than 23 labels. 40 years later\, Blackheart is a thriving entertainment company producing music\, film and television\, and continues to champion emerging bands. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts continue touring the globe with headlining shows alongside fellow rock legends like The Who\, Green Day\, Heart\, and Foo Fighters. After two COVID-19 postponements\, the group has returned to the road for The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard\, Mötley Crüe and Poison. ‘Bad Reputation\,’ a documentary about Jett’s life\, premiered to critical acclaim at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and is now available for streaming.
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LOCATION:State Farm Stadium\, 1 Cardinals Dr\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
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SUMMARY:Butcher Babies at Marquee Theatre
DESCRIPTION:For nearly a decade\, Butcher Babies have been crushing stages worldwide with their vicious live performance and explosive energy. Their stage presence is a hypnotic spectacle that leaves audiences hungry for more. Frontwomen Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey\, guitarist Henry Flury\, bassist Jason Klein and drummer Chase Brickenden juxtapose brutal\, aggressive riffs with beautiful melodies that wail with emotional redemption. Hailing from the City Of Angels\, Butcher Babies aided in the jubilant revival of the Metal scene on the Sunset Strip. While gaining attention from several record labels the band signed a worldwide deal with Century Media Records in December 2012. Less than a year later\, July 2013\, they released their debut album GOLIATH\, produced by Josh Wilbur (Gojira\, Lamb of God\, Hatebreed). Followed by their highly anticipated sophomore headbanger\, TAKE IT LIKE A MAN\, August 2015\, produced by Logan Mader (FFDP\, Gojira\, Soulfly). The evolution continues as the band is set to release their third full studio album\, October 27\, 2017\, LILITH\, produced by Steve Evetts (Suicide Silence\, Dillinger Escape Plan\, The Cure). With three albums and two EPs under their belt\, Butcher Babies have reached a new level of maturity solidifying a triumphant return after a brief creative hiatus to write and rebuild.  This album runs the gamut between exploring the dark roots of lust and the high energy thrash hijinks that Butcher Babies have become known and loved for. \n \n \n 
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LOCATION:Marquee Theatre\, 730 N Mill Ave\, Tempe\, 85281\, United States
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SUMMARY:Five Finger Death Punch + Megadeth at Ak-Chin Pavilion
DESCRIPTION:One of the most successful rock acts in modern music\, Five Finger Death Punch have been hard at work in the studio over the past year writing and recording the follow-up to their 2020 album F8. The album\, produced by Kevin Churko\, debuted at #1 on Rock charts around the world with top 10 mainstream chart debuts in the USA\, Austria\, Australia\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Sweden\, Switzerland\, the UK and more. It produced four #1 hit singles with “Inside Out\,” “A Little Bit Off\,” “Living The Dream\,” and “Darkness Settles In\,” the latter of which saw the band tie the record for most consecutive #1’s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart with seven chart-toppers in-a-row with Disturbed. The band has amassed over 8 billion streams and 3 billion video views to date and have sold over one million tickets between 2018 and 2020 alone. \n5FDP is also venturing into the film space\, with their appearance in the upcoming horror-thriller film THE RETALIATORS\, a Better Noise Films production\, which is set for a fall 2022 theatrical and streaming release. The band appears both onscreen and on the film’s original soundtrack\, alongside some of the biggest names in rock: Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee\, Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach\, Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills\, From Ashes to New\, The HU\, All Good Things\, and more. This past August\, the movie had its WORLD PREMIERE at Arrow Video FrightFest in London. Its North American premiere took place at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles as the OPENING NIGHT film for ScreamFest\, where the production took home an award for Best Make-Up and earned itself rave reviews\, with a rare rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes\, which it still maintains today. \nTwitter | Instagram | Facebook  | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music | Website \n \nMEGADETH have taken their place as one of metal’s most influential and respected acts\, and that vitality and excitement has only grown in recent years.  Having sold over 38 million albums worldwide\, the band’s most recent album\, 2016’sDystopia\, earned MEGADETH their first GRAMMY® Award (for “Best Metal Performance” for the title track “Dystopia)\, and charted #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock and #3 on the Top 200 (beating or matching the highest chart numbers of the band’s career)\, while landing on Top Ten Metal Albums of the Year on Rolling Stone\, Revolver and many others. MEGADETH are slated to release their 16th studio album\, “The Sick\, The Dying… And The Dead” this year. \nHaving recently toured North America as co-headliners of Metal Tour of the Year\, and joined Five Finger Death Punch in a full European tour in 2020\, MEGADETH are primed and ready to crush North America alongside Five Finger Death Punch again this fall. \n \nIn 2019\, an NPR story put a spotlight on “a band from Mongolia that blends the screaming guitars of heavy metal and traditional Mongolian guttural singing\,” accurately highlighting the cultural importance and unique musical identity of The HU. Founded in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar\, Mongolia\, The HU\, comprised of producer Dashka along with members Gala\, Jaya\, Temka\, and Enkush\, are a modern rock group rooted in the tradition of their homeland. The band’s name translates to the Mongolian root word for human being\, and their unique approach blends instruments like the Morin Khuur (horsehead fiddle)\, Tovshuur (Mongolian guitar)\, Tumur Khuur (jaw harp) and throat singing with contemporary sounds\, creating a unique sonic profile that they call “Hunnu Rock.” \nTheir debut album\, 2019 ‘s The Gereg\, debuted at #1 on the World Album and Top New Artist Charts. With it\, the band have accumulated over 250 million combined streams and video views to date and have received critical acclaim from the likes of Billboard\, NPR\, GQ\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, Revolver\, and even Sir Elton John himself. \nProving their global appeal\, The HU have sold out venues across the world in North America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Australia\, with scheduled festival appearances at Coachella\, Lollapalooza\, Download Festival\, and more\, creating a community of fans from all walks of life. They quickly grabbed the attention of the industry\, leading to collaborations with Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm. And most recently\, the band received praise from fans and critics for their Mongolian rendition of Metallica’s “Sad But True\,” which Metallica themselves acknowledged on their social media accounts\, seemingly giving the band their official seal of approval. The band has also explored eclectic ways to reach audiences with their sound\, most notably writing and recording music for EA Games’ Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. \nReadying their next chapter as a global force\, The HU are putting the finishing touches on their highly anticipated sophomore album\, which is due for a global release later this year from Better Noise Music. The project will include a selection of tracks that were premiered live on the band’s critically acclaimed North American tour at the end of 2021\, coinciding with their appearance on Metallica’s 2021 retrospective covers album The Metallica Blacklist\, alongside other high-profile guest artists like Miley Cyrus\, Chris Stapleton\, Phoebe Bridgers\, J Balvin\, St. Vincent\, and so many more. The HU’s forthcoming 2022 headlining tour will kick off with a special set at Coachella this April. \nWebsite | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | TikTok \n \nFor some artists making music isn’t a choice\, it’s fueled by something larger than themselves. This is undoubtedly true of Fire From The Gods whose second full-length American Sun sees them adopting the tagline “In Us We Trust” meaning “we the people” are responsible for change; a unifying statement in order to try to prevent society from succumbing to the growing malaise brought on by soul-sucking technology\, divisive politics and environmental destruction. “With this record what we’re trying to drive home is that our differences and where we are from doesn’t need to define who we are moving forward\,” frontman AJ Channer explains. “Like [2016’s] Narrative I’m telling the story from my perspective\, but it’s a story that people from all walks of life can relate to in the sense that we all face the same challenges… and the only way to conquer them is if we face them together.” \nFire From The Gods have experienced their share of ups and downs since the Austin\, Texas-based act released their David Bendeth-produced (Breaking Benjamin\, Paramore) debut three years ago. Since then\, the band—which also features drummer Richard Wicander\, guitarists Drew Walker and Jameson Teat and bassist Bonner Baker—have toured incessantly with acts like Sevendust and Of Mice & Men\, played festivals ranging from the Vans Warped Tour to the country’s largest Rock festival\, Rock On The Range\, re-released their debut as The Narrative Untold featuring new songs produced by Jonathan Davis of Korn and spread their message to fans all over the world. However instead of resting on their laurels\, the act doubled down on their message with American Sun\, their first album after signing with juggernauts Better Noise (fka Eleven Seven Music Group). “I think this record is a lot more personal because I’ve become a lot more open about who I am and what I’ve had to deal with\,” Channer explains. Channer spent his childhood shuffling between London\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Norfolk and Ghana\, giving him a unique perspective on the world\, however the issues that he’s dealt with such as anxiety\, depression\, anger\, rejection and loss are universal. \nWebsite | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
URL:https://globalazmedia.com/event/five-finger-death-punch-megadeth-at-ak-chin-pavilion/
LOCATION:Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre\, 2121 N 83rd Ave\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85035\, United States
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