Everything Is Cancelled

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News March 12, 2020 10:42 AM By Tom Breihan

Everything Is Cancelled

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News March 12, 2020 10:42 AM By Tom Breihan

Last night, the NBA suspended its entire season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for coronavirus. This seems likely to spell doom for any large public gatherings of people in the immediate future, something that will hit the music world especially hard. The coronavirus epidemic has already led to cancellations or postponements of massive events like SXSW and Coachella. Today, we’re looking at a flood of similar announcements, and we’ll keep you updated as we get them. (UPDATE: Concert promoters Live Nation and AEG have both paused live music operations globally.)

• The Who were scheduled to start a tour of the UK and Ireland on Monday, and they have since announced that the tour is postponed. In a statement, singer Roger Daltrey says that the shows “definitely happen and it may be the last time we do a tour of this type, so keep those tickets, as the shows will be fantastic.”

• My Chemical Romance have postponed the Japanese leg of their reunion tour indefinitely. They also postponed their Australian and New Zealand concerts. That means that, naturally, openers Deftones will also not perform.

• Bikini Kill have postponed their planned tour dates in the Pacific Northwest.

• Billie Eilish has postponed all of her North American tour dates through the end of March.

• Former Hole bandmates Courtney Love and Melissa Auf Der Maur were planning to play a reunion show, a benefit for Planned Parenthood, in New York this Saturday. They have postponed it, and no new date has been set.

• Pearl Jam postponed their 2020 tour in support of new album Gigaton.

• Disclosure have cancelled their American tour, where they were going to DJ in intimate venues.

• Melted Music Fest in Columbus, Ohio — which was set to feature people like Oh Sees, Protomartyr, Twin Peaks, Mikal Cronin, Windhand, and Control Top, has been cancelled, though organizers are looking into rescheduling it.

• Miley Cyrus has cancelled her bushfire-relief benefit concert in Melbourne, which was also set to feature Lil Nas X, the Veronicas, and Seb Fontaine.

• Pixies, in the midst of an Australian tour, have postponed the rest of their dates.

• They Might Be Giants have rescheduled a series of planned East Coast dates, which will now happen later in the year.

• Washington, DC’s Made In The DMV conference, set for this weekend, is postponed.

• Adam Green’s upcoming tour with Nation Of Language is cancelled.

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Driving to Cleveland I had a bunch of calls w my booking agent and my family, and it looks like the tour is cancelled and we have to return home to nyc— We’re now on the road in the middle of a pandemic, and one of the things that's going to help us get through this is to stop gathering in crowds. I’d been pushing myself to do the rest of this tour, but I realize it can't be at the risk of making things worse. Sorry to everyone who had bought tickets and was looking forward to us coming to your town. I will try to reschedule as much of this as possible once the world is healthier. I’d like to thank Nation of Language for coming out on tour with us – I was so happy we got to do Boston, Montreal, and Toronto together. We wish we could keep going, but Coronavirus has left us with no choice but to do what feels right.

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• Ween’s March Mitzvah weekend has been rescheduled to October.

• The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame’s 5/2 induction ceremony in Cleveland has been postponed, Rolling Stone reports.

• Lollapalooza Argentina will be pushed back to the second half of the year.

• Chris Stapleton has postponed his March tour dates.

• Michael Bublé has postponed his spring tour dates.

• A good chunk of Wilco’s dates in the Western US are postponed.

• Cher’s “Here We Go Again” tour has been suspended.

• Kenny Chesney’s initial Chillaxification dates are postponed. You’ll have to chillaxificate at home.

• The British/Scottish/Irish country music festival Country 2 Country is postponed.

• Luck Reunion, the so-called anti-festival that’s put on by Willie Nelson during SXSW, has also been cancelled. “Turn out the lights. The party’s over,” they wrote in a statement. “We’re lucked if we don’t…for now.”

• Capitol One’s JamFest, which was Taylor Swift’s only American show outside of her LoverFest tour dates, has been cancelled.

• Bob Dylan’s Japanese tour, which was scheduled to take place from 4/1-4/24, has been cancelled. A statement says that they “will look to rebook the shows in the future.”

• Phil Elverum has announced that Mount Eerie’s tour, which was set to take place in April, is cancelled.

• The remainder of Against Me!’s tour with Stef Chura has been cancelled.

• Rage Against The Machine have postponed the first leg of their reunion tour with Run The Jewels. They are scheduled to pick back up the tour as scheduled on 5/20.

• Canada’s music awards show the Junos have also been cancelled. It was scheduled to take place on Sunday. “We are devastated to cancel this national celebration of music,” readsa statement from the City of Saskatoon, where the awards were to be held.

• Thom Yorke has postponed the North American leg of his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour.

• J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival in Raleigh has been postponed from 4/4 to 8/29.

• Virginia Beach’s Something In The Water festival, scheduled for this April, has been postponed until next year.

• The 2020 WFMU Record Fair is cancelled.

• Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin, which was scheduled to take place on 5/8 and 5/9, has been cancelled.

• The Rolling Stones’ No Filter summer tour, which was scheduled to run from May through July, has been postponed. “We’re hugely disappointed to have to postpone the tour. We are sorry to all the fans who were looking forward to it as much as we were, but the health and safety of everyone has to take priority,” the band wrote in a statement. “We will all get through this together — and we’ll see you very soon.”

• The 2020 Billboard Music Awards show, which were scheduled to air live on 4/29, has been postponed. A new date has not been announced.

• Previously rescheduled for the fall, New Orleans Jazz Fest is now cancelled for 2020. The festival plans to return 4/22-5/1 in 2021.

• The Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled for the first time ever. It was scheduled to start in May in the Netherlands.

• The Vermont-based festival Waking Windows has been cancelled and announced a new date for 2021.

• Georgia’s Shaky Knees festival has been rescheduled for the fall.

• The 1975 have announced that they’ll be rescheduling their upcoming North American tour.

• BottleRock Napa has been rescheduled to 10/2 through 10/4. Headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews Band, Miley Cyrus, Khalid, Anderson .Paak, and Zedd are confirmed to return.

• LA’s ’80s goth and new wave fest Cruel World has been postponed until September.

• Rural Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival has pushed back its 2020 iteration to 2021.

• Metallica have rescheduled their tour dates. Shows that were planned in South America for April have been pushed to December; Greta Van Fleet will still accompany them. Several festivals they were set to headline — Epicenter, Welcome To Rockville, and Sonic Temple — have all been cancelled, too, though the band is still scheduled to appear at Louisville’s Louder Than Life, which will take place in September. Read Metallica’s full statement here.

• The Delaware-based Firefly Music Festival has been cancelled and will return in 2021.

• Camila Cabello postponed her tour set to kick off 5/26 in Oslo.

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• Harry Styles’ European tour is being rescheduled for 2021.

• Bon Iver have rescheduled their upcoming tour dates in Europe and the UK to January 2021.

• Download Festival is cancelled and will return in 2021.

• The new LA fest Lovers & Friends is moving to 8/8, and will now be only one day instead of two.

• The giant NYC festival Governors Ball has been cancelled; unable to find a replacement date that could work, it will return in 2021.

• BTS are rescheduling their North American tour with new dates to be “announced soon.”

• Roger Waters’ This Is Not A Drill tour has been postponed until next year.

• Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival has been postponed from June to 8/26-30.

• The 2020 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture in New Orleans has been moved to the fall.

• Miami’s III Points Festival has been pushed to October.

• Modern English have postponed their June/July 40th anniversary tour of America, on which they were set to perform After The Snow in its entirety. In a statement, the band said the plan was to try and reschedule for September.

• Like the main iteration of Primavera in Barcelona, the Portuguese sister fest Nos Primavera Sound Porto is also postponed. Its new dates are 9/3-9/5.

• Boston Calling 2020 has been cancelled and says that they’ll return next year.

• Queen and Adam Lambert have postponed their UK and European “Bohemian Rhapsody” tour that was supposed to kick off in May and end in July. They’re planning to return to the same venues around the same dates in 2021.

• Justin Bieber, who had already downgraded many of his stadium dates to arenas while blaming coronavirus for low ticket sales, has now postponed his entire Changes Tour. The rescheduled dates are yet to be announced.

• Hangout has officially announced that it cannot move forward with its planned May dates. The festival shared a statement saying they are still figuring out a new plan.

• Rolling Loud Miami has been postponed from its scheduled May start. A statement says that it will now take place next President’s Day weekend, from 2/12-14 in 2021.

• Texas’ JMBLYA hip-hop festival is being rescheduled for the fall.

• The National’s Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati has been cancelled.

• Las Vegas’ EDC, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year, is moving from May to October.

• The Denmark festival Roskilde is not happening this year.

• Sled Island 2020, which was supposed to take place at the end of June, has been cancelled.

• Originally scheduled for July, Belgium’s Tomorrowland is cancelled and promises to return in 2021.

Tom Breihan Staff

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