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Dust off your boots and get ready to put your drinks in the air because Riley Green is bringing an unforgettable night of country music to Northern Quest. Catch him on the BECU Live stage with ’90s hitmaker Tracy Lawrence and rising star Ella Langley in May 2024!

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About Riley Green

Raised on the sounds of traditional country, bluegrass, and Southern gospel music, Riley Green learned the spirit of songwriting and performing at a young age. With a mix of outlaw rebellion and respect for tradition, Green saw his first success with the single "There Was This Girl" (2018). He went on to release country hits like "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" (2019), "If It Wasn’t For Trucks" (2020), and "Different ’Round Here (feat. Luke Combs)" (2023). He has also built fierce support on the road, having toured with the likes of Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Jon Pardi, and Morgan Wallen.

About Tracy Lawrence

With his rock-tinged honky tonk sound, Tracy Lawrence was one of the most reliable country hitmakers of the 1990s. Since his rise to fame in 1991, he’s landed 40 singles on the Billboard Country charts, including the number one hits "Texas Tornado" (1995), "Time Marches On" (1996), and "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (2006).

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With true country storytelling, anthemic hooks, and a hint of rock ’n’ roll, singer-songwriter Ella Langley has taken Nashville by storm. Her songs "If You Have To" (2021), "Damn You" (2022), and "Country Boy’s Dream Girl" (2022) have fueled her momentum with tens of millions of streams on each track. Simultaneously, she co-wrote Elle King’s 2022 single "Out Yonder," toured with the likes of Randy Houser and Cody Johnson, and was pegged a "2023 Hot Country Artist to Watch" by Spotify.

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Guy is an American hip-hop R&B and soul music group originally formed in Harlem, New York. The members include Teddy Riley, Aaron Hall and Damion Hall.

Childhood friends, Teddy Riley, Aaron Hall and Timmy Gatling in 1987 who grew up together in Harlem, New York, formed Guy. With the help of their manager, Gene Griffin, they were able to sign to Uptown Records and released their debut self-titled album in 1988. After the completion of the album, however, Gatling left the group and was replaced by Aaron Hall’s younger brother, Damion Hall. The album fared fairly well, with four of the singles doing well on the R&B charts, which helped the album reach double platinum status. In the fall of 1990 Guy released their second album entitled “The Future.” The album didn’t hit mainstream success though it fared well on the R&B genre; however, the group disbanded with Riley pursuing producing and the Hall brothers each pursuing solo projects.

The group reunited in 1995 with the release of the song “Tell Me What You Like” but unfortunately nothing else was made. It wasn’t until 1999 that they reunited for an album. Unfortunately, “Guy III” didn’t fare so well and again the group disbanded. After a series of reunions it was announced in 2014 that Riley and the Hall brothers would be returning with new music as well as a tour.

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While Guy might possess one of the least inspiring names in music history (I mean, seriously. Guy?! I choose to believe that they were so excited about the music that the name didn’t matter. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it), they are a band far more deserving of mass recognition than many who get it for a number of reasons. Most prominent is the fact that they were instrumental in the popularisation of the New Jack Swing style in the early 1990’s. This might not seem like much on the surface but considering that the vast majority of mainstream R&B and Hip-Hop owes a serious debt to its smooth yet streetwise sound, Guy become pioneers of their time. Strangely enough however, they weren’t around at the time when the sound was inescapable as they first split up in 1991. Since then a few choice concerts and performances around the turn of the century gave way to a more permanent reunion in 2005, and since then they’ve been bringing audiences to their feet the world over ever. Band founder Teddy Riley’s vocals still blend sumptuously with Aaron and Damion Hall’s, and like any great performer with nearly thirty years of experience behind them they’ve all become better performers since their glory days. It’s a celebration of a part of nineties culture that doesn’t get anywhere near as much recognition as it should, and it’s a hell of a good time as well. Highly recommended.

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I think Guy may take the award for laziest band names, perhaps just pipped to the post by The The. Despite the lack of imagination when it comes to their namesake, the American R & B group creates music that easily surpasses the band name in the quality stakes.

They may not have released an original album in fifteen years yet the three albums in their discography are clearly adored by the fans who continue to attend the tours, many of which are labelled as reunions after the band has gone on various hiatuses through the years. The three musicians step out to loud cheers and quickly get to work with a set of hits for the long awaiting fans. Their soulful voices do not seem to be ageing and the vocal is only enhanced by a brilliant, rich sounding live band. The crowd gets involved during 'Lets Chill' 'My Fantasy' and 'Dancing' as despite the growing age of these songs, the choruses are still recognisable to the majority and the infectiously soulful hooks are difficult to forget.

I attended the GUY concert at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights, MI (last night) Saturday night July 8, 2017 sponsored by radio station 105.9 and to many of Guys fan they were a complete NO SHOW!!!! The radio station last act of the night was David Holister after his performance everyone was angiously waiting on GUY performance but all we got to do is sit in the dark in dispair and watch was the stage being dismantled The radio Personalities did not have the descenency to inform the fans that the show would end without the headliner GUY

I feel duped it was false advertisement and I encourage everyone that attended this particular show to call 105.9 and express there dissatisfaction

On a postive note I truly enjoyed After 7 performance and would love to see them in a more intimate setting

One of my all-time favorite groups! They never disappoint and they gave a great concert.Loved how they took me back to my high-school days. Teddy, Damian and Aaron are the real deal and still sing real R&B!

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The Oasis 2025 Tour Tickets Controversy: What Happened and Will Extra Dates Be Added?

A fter breaking up 15 years ago, iconic rock band Oasis announced on Aug. 27 that they would be reuniting for a U.K. and Ireland tour in 2025. The news that formerly feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will once again share the stage has been met with enthusiasm—but not without controversy.

The announcement of the tour resulted in an "unprecedented demand" for tickets, leading the band to add even more U.K. and Ireland dates. Still, the quest for tickets via Ticketmaster has been marred with frustration over technological issues, pricing, and touts.

Here’s a breakdown of the Oasis ticketing controversy and where things currently stand.

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On Friday, Aug. 30, fans who had been selected in the pre-sale ballot waited in a queue on Ticketmaster—which dominates concert and sporting tickets around the world—ahead of the three-hour window for pre-sale purchases. On X (formerly Twitter), many fans complained about technical difficulties preventing them from accessing tickets. Some people got locked out of their Ticketmaster accounts , or were virtually queuing behind tens of thousands of people, only to be kicked out of the Ticketmaster queue or to receive an error notification once they finally reach the checkout stage of the ticket-buying process.

When the tickets went on general sale on Saturday, Aug. 31, fans complained of the same issues.

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Former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson, widely known to be a long-time Oasis fan, even entered the conversation. While attending the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon, he shared that he had been in the queue for reunion tour tickets , but was unlucky and hadn’t received a (pre-sale ballot) code.

In addition to the queuing and technical problems, there’s also been backlash about the prices. Within an hour of the pre-sale, tickets appeared on re-selling sites for triple the face value.

Oasis spoke out on X about the controversy and prices, telling fans that tickets can only be re-sold at face value via certain websites. “Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters,” the post read.

Yet, the controversy is also connected to Ticketmaster’s own price raising, since during the sale, they upped their own prices for “in-demand” tickets. As fans finally entered the ticket-selection portion of the website, they found out that tickets that were originally £148 ($194) were being sold at £355 ($466) . Ticketmaster introduced this “ in-demand” dynamic pricing system in 2022 , which allows their prices to inflate according to the market demand.

Fans referred to the raised ticket prices as " problematic ," with some comparing Ticketmaster to touts.

"In demand standing ticket" is just a standard standing ticket except double the price. No difference between Ticketmaster and touts. #OasisDublin pic.twitter.com/IcfX715wEJ — Darragh Moriarty (@darragh_mor) August 31, 2024

"As anticipated, millions of fans accessed our site and were placed in a queue, which moved along as they bought tickets,”a Ticketmaster spokesperson told TIME in an email. “We always advise fans to hold their place in line, make sure they're only using one tab, clear cookies, and ensure they aren't using any VPN software on their device.”

They added: “To clarify, Ticketmaster does not set ticket prices.” On its website, Ticketmaster states: “Promoters and artists set ticket prices. Prices can be either fixed or market-based. Market-based tickets are labeled as ‘Platinum’ or ‘In Demand.’”

This is not the first time Ticketmaster has been at the heart of controversy over their ticket system. During the sale for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, the company came under fire after fans waited in a queue for hours during pre-sale, just for the website to glitch at the last moment, with Ticketmaster eventually canceling the general sale.

Are Oasis adding extra shows to the 2025 U.K. and Ireland tour?

Due to the difficulties and demand for tickets, many fans called for Oasis to add more tour dates to their 2025 tour in the U.K. and Ireland. The request for more dates come after Oasis already added an additional three extra shows in the U.K. ahead of the tickets going on sale.

In light of the public demand, on Sept. 4, Oasis announced two extra tour dates at Wembley Stadium, London, set to take place in September 2025. In a post shared on X, the group said: "Tickets will be sold by a staggered, invitation-only ballot process. Applications to join the ballot will be opened first to the many U.K. fans who were unsuccessful in the initial on sale with Ticketmaster."

UK 🇬🇧 Two extra Wembley Stadium shows have been added due to phenomenal demand. Tickets will be sold by a staggered, invitation-only ballot process. Applications to join the ballot will be opened first to the many UK fans who were unsuccessful in the initial on sale with… pic.twitter.com/Dpfhk49va3 — Oasis (@oasis) September 4, 2024

TIME has reached out to Oasis’ representatives for comment.

How are government officials in the U.K. and Ireland responding to the rising complaints?

Government officials in the U.K. and Ireland have spoken out amid rising complaints from disgruntled Oasis fans. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke on BBC’s Radio 5 Live show , stating the government will address the issue of dynamic pricing—the name given to the pricing system that raises costs by demand.

“This is really important, because this isn’t just an Oasis problem. This is a problem for tickets for all sorts of events, where people go online straight away, as soon as they can, and within seconds sometimes, sometimes minutes, all the tickets are gone, and the prices start going through the roof, which means many people can’t afford it,” Starmer said. “We have to stop that. We’re consulting on that. I do think there are a number of things that we can do, and we should do.”

Meanwhile, Lucy Powell, the Leader of the House of Commons, also went on the show, and in discussing the dynamic pricing concept, said she was upset to see “inflated prices excluding ordinary fans.” She went on to say that the government plans to investigate “issues around the transparency and use of dynamic pricing, including the technology around queuing systems which incentivise it.”

The conversation is prevalent in Ireland, also, as Tánaiste Micheál Martin, the Deputy Prime Minister, has spoken out about the debacle to Irish news outlet RTÉ . He said there could be a role for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to investigate it. He went on to say he hoped those behind the ticket sales would “reflect” on the issues present.

“I do think we need a strong reflection on this runaway inflation in costs,” Martin said. “Clearly it was beyond the reach of many, many people to purchase or to be in a position to afford to get to a concert given the acceleration of price increases around the tickets.”

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A Guide to the Rest of 2024’s Concerts and Music Festivals

S ummer may be winding down, but the music scene is hot as ever . Typically, the warmer months are associated with outdoor concerts—but the fun doesn’t have to end just because the seasons have changed . In fact, some of the best acts of 2024 have yet to step onstage.

September marks the beginning of a new concert and festival circuit that will carry through the end of the year. There are plenty of options for all music fans, whether you’re into pop, R&B, rock, country, rap, or indie. This month marks the start of Weezer’s “Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour,” as well as Kacey Musgraves’s “Deeper Well World Tour” and Post Malone's “F-1 Trillion Tour.” Later on, Billie Eilish, Duran Duran, and Usher will embark on their own tours, too.

If you’re more of a festival type, there are plenty of options to choose from. The Outlaw Music Festival kicks things off in September, followed by the I Love RnB Festival, Riot Festival, Pilgrimage Festival, and so much more.

Here is your 2024 concert and festival guide.

Weezer: Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour

Dates: September 4–October 11

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Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well World Tour

Dates: September 4–December 7

Pulp: This Is What We Do for an Encore Tour

Dates: September 8–18

Post Malone: F-1 Trillion Tour

Dates: September 8–October 19

Maxwell: The Serenade Tour

Dates: September 14–October 27

André 3000: New Blue Son - Live in Concert

Dates: September 19–November 14

Zach Bryan: The Quittin Time Tour

Dates: September 21–December 19

Julien Baker: North American Fall Tour

Dates: September 23–October 26

Usher: Past Present Future

Dates: September 24, 2024–May 7, 2025

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour

Dates: September 29–December 17

Taylor Swift: Eras Tour

Dates: October 18–December 8

Duran Duran: North American Tour

Dates: October 21–November 2

November/December

Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour

Dates: November 2–December 15

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Dates: November 6–December 17

Outlaw Music Festival Tour

When: September 7–September 20

Where: Wisconsin, Illinois, St. Louis, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, and New Hampshire

Lineup: Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Southern Avenue

I Love RnB Fest

When: September 7

Where: Grand Park, Los Angeles

Lineup: Omarion, Ja Rule, Bow Wow, Monica, Mario, Jagged Edge, Pretty Ricky, Fabolous, Ginuwine, Mya, Jeremih, Keri Hilson, Lloyd, Ray J, Sammie, Bobby V, Pleasure P, Yung Berg, Chingy, Lil Mo, J Holiday, Tweet, Nivea, Truth Hurts, Jermaine Dupri

Sea Hear Now

When: September 14–15

Where: Asbury Park, New Jersey

Lineup: Noah Kahan, The Black Crowes, 311, The Revivalists, The Hives, Grace Potter, Sierra Ferrell, Peaches, Guster, Ziggy Alberts, Robert Randolph Band, Joe P, Passafire, Sonic Blume, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, the Gaslight Anthem, Trey Anastasio Band, Norah Jones, Kool & the Gang, Action Bronson, Gogol Bordello, Larkin Poe, Joy Oladokun, the Aces, Eggy, Illiterate Light, Bertha, Sunshine Spazz, Rachel Ana Dobken

When: September 20–22

Where: Douglas Park, Chicago

Lineup: Fall Out Boy, Beck Payment, Slayer, the Offspring, Public Enemy, the Marley Brothers, Sum 41, Cypress Hill, New Found Glory, St. Vincent, Spoon, Bright Eyes, Manchester Orchestra, Waxahatchee, Rob Zombie, Sublime, Dr. Dog, Oliver Tree, Something Corporate, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and more (click here for the full lineup)

Pilgrimage Festival

When: September 28–29

Where: The Park at Harlinsdale, Franklin, Tennessee

Lineup: Dave Matthews Band, Hozier, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Lukas Nelson, the Brook & the Bluff, Allison Russell, Chance Peña, Celisse, Illiterate Light, Lamont Landers, the Band of Heathens, Heavy Drunk, Willi Carlisle, People on the Porch, Theo Lawrence, Wyatt Ellis, Noah Kahan, Needtobreathe, Coin, Stephen Sanchez, Better Than Ezra, Myles Smith, the Cadillac Three, Sierra Hull, Grace Bowers & the Hodge Podge, the Brevet, Charlie Worsham, Hippies & Cowboys, Lamont Landers, Cassandra Lewis, Earnest “Guitar” Roy, Owensboro Bluegrass, Down Home Church

All Things Go

Where: Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, Maryland; Forest Hills Stadium, New York City

Lineup: Lauffey, Bleachers, Janelle Monáe, Renee Rapp, Muna, Chappel Roan, Ethel Cain, Julien Baker, and more

Note: The lineup changes based on your location, so check the festival website to see who’s playing at your local venue.

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Soundside Music Festival

Where: Seaside Park Bridgeport, Connecticut

Lineup: Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Fleet Foxes, Boyz II Men, Grace Potter, Thee Sacred Souls, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories, Madi Diaz, Rijah, Foo Fighters, Bleachers, Norah Jones, Teddy Swims, Gregory Alan Isakov, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, the War and Treaty, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Daren Kiel

Austin City Limits

When: October 4–6, 11–13

Where: Zilker Park, Austin, Texas

Lineup: Chris Stapleton, Blink–182, Leon Bridges, Carín León, Norah Jones, Foster the People, Dua Lipa, Pretty Lights, Khruangbin, Reneé Rapp, Teddy Swims, Benson Boone, Tyler, the Creator, Sturgill Simpson, Chappel Roan, Kehlani, Dom Dolla, and more ( click here for the full lineup)

GoldenSky Country Music Festival

When: October 18–20

Where: Discovery Park, Sacramento

Lineup: Keith Urban, Turnpike Troubadours, Elle King, Clint Black, Locash, Shane Smith & the Saints, Hailey Whitters, Travis Denning, Carter Faith, Kylie Morgan, Logan Crosby, Thomas Rhett, Riley Green, Gabby Barrett, Charles Wesley Godwin, Conner Smith, Sam Barber, Hunter Hayes, David Nial, George Birge, Hannah Ellis, Tanner Adell, Sofia Claire, Luke Bryan, Bailey Zimmerman, Ashley McBryde, Paul Cauthen, Colbie Caillat, Shaboozey, Deana Carter, Chayce Beckham, RVSHVD, Lecade, Madeline Merlo, Moonshine Crazy

Besame Mucho

When: December 21

Where: Los Angeles

Lineup: Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Los Tigres Del Norte, Banda MS, Hombres G, Juanes, Yuridia, Carlos Vives, Paulina Rubio, Gloria Trevie, María Jose, Pesado, El Fantasma, La Adictiva, and more ( click here for the full lineup)

Riley Pearce has always chronicled major moments via his music, threading his experiences into the fabric of a sonic patchwork of indie, alternative, and folk. Thus far, he has generated hundreds of millions of streams and views, and garnered acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, Atwood Magazine, and many more. Now, he examines the most significant season of his life – parenthood – on his 2024 album, It’s Your Turn Now [Nettwerk Music Group].

Riley started to project his life through music on the 2016 debut EP, Outside the Lines. Standout “Brave” gathered north of 47.5 million Spotify streams and surged through popular culture via placements everywhere from Shameless and Shadowhunters to The Rookie. 2018’s Eastbound EP yielded the fan favourite “Elephants,” amassing over 13.9 million Spotify streams. In between projects such as The Landing Songs, Acoustic, Maybe I Can Sleep it Off, and Love and All That Stuff, he graced the stages of festivals around the world including Latitude (UK) and PinkPop (Netherlands).

In 2022, he took flight on his debut LP, The Water & The Rough, inciting tastemaker applause, Atwood Magazine hailed it as “a magnificent album of raw alt-folk warmth and intimate connection.” Throughout 2023, he crafted what would become It’s Your Turn Now in his home studio alongside collaborator Andy Lawson. As much as he absorbed inspiration from the likes of Toledo, Day Wave, Flights, Dijon, and Jeff Tweedy, marriage and fatherhood made the deepest imprint on his creative process.

By speaking so openly about his world, Riley might just help you understand yours a little better.

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The First Movie About Pop Music to Nail Its Mediocrity

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes.

By Robert Rubsam

Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at Madison Square Garden. I went in a fan of the group, but with every interchangeable song, every self-important gesture, I grew farther apart from the crowd around me: The more they enjoyed the music, the more it bored me. I had been pulled into a conversation with 20,000 other people, but I had nothing to say. By the first set break, I wanted to leave; by the third, I needed to escape .

Cooper (Josh Hartnett), the protagonist of M. Night Shyamalan’s recent thriller “Trap,” probably knows how I felt. A hunky, hopelessly square man in his 40s, Cooper has taken his teenage daughter, Riley (Ariel Donoghue), to see her favorite musician, Lady Raven. Cooper is a model dad, bringing his daughter to the special matinee and searching for the perfect concert T-shirt — but whatever his desire to support her fandom, he can’t share it. Instead he spends the concert wandering the arena halls, surreptitiously listening to something else.

Lady Raven is played by the independent pop musician (and daughter of the director) Saleka Shyamalan, who wrote a full album of original songs for the film. She has been cast as the kind of blandly contemporary pop star who might reasonably appeal to teenagers. Glimpsed in brief, her music comes across as snappy, dutiful and necessarily muted, each melody just memorable enough to register without pulling our focus from Cooper.

This being a Shyamalan film, there must also be a twist. The model dad is in fact a notorious serial killer with a victim in his safe house. The concert has been set up to trap him. Yet you don’t side with the police: Listening to Lady Raven with him, you sympathize with Cooper’s need to get out.

“Trap” is hardly the first film to make use of fictional music — fake pop songs that let directors and musicians create alternate cultural realities in the shadow of our own. Many of cinema’s made-up hits are genuinely catchy. But they rarely transcend pastiche: Mostly, they convince us via their similarity to songs we already know.

Some of the best come from spoofs. In “This Is Spinal Tap,” from 1984, the titular metal group is captured in a low moment — failing albums, low ticket sales — but a survey of their past hits, like “(Listen to the) Flower People” and “Gimme Some Money,” reveals how absurd their popularity has been all along. (The music, though, is easy to believe in: Silly as they seem, Spinal Tap rocks .) Similarly, the Lonely Island’s songs from “PopStar: Never Stop Never Stopping” (2016) combine undeniable hooks with ridiculous content: a braggadocio anthem about humility, a sex jam about a woman with an Osama bin Laden fetish. The punchlines wouldn’t land if the songs supporting them were not fluent in the language of contemporary pop-rap; to properly spoof this kind of music, you have to love it, at least a little.

In more realistic films, songs must convince us not only of their quality but also of their (fictional) popularity. It helps to have an actual pop star in the movie. The “Star Is Born” films, for instance, let the audience’s familiarity with Barbra Streisand and Lady Gaga do the work. (It’s easy enough to imagine “Evergreen” becoming a hit onscreen; with Streisand behind the mic, it became one in real life, too.) And of course not every pop phenomenon lasts. “That Thing You Do!” from 1996 told the story of the Wonders, a mid-60s rock ’n’ roll group who record one perfect song before breaking up. The title track, written by Adam Schlesinger, is widely considered among the best original movie songs, in part because it walks a fine line: It is catchy enough to have been a mid-60s sensation but also just generic enough to have become a forgotten one.

Her songs comfort no one, least of all herself.

Of course, film is a visual medium, and our belief in these hits is itself a form of manipulation: We watch the crowds go wild, and we join them. With its gleeful satire of the corporate music world, “Josie and the Pussycats” took this manipulation as its subject, envisioning pop music circa 2001 as a mind-control conspiracy. The movie laughs at its fictional boy-band DuJour, positioning them as beneath the title group’s girl-power pop-punk — but their hit song “Backdoor Lover” sounds so much like the Backstreet Boys that it only registers as outrageous once you look at the title.

However silly the songs in these movies might be, we are typically supposed to like them. Very few films are bold enough to let their fictional pop sound as hollow and bland as the real thing can. Some, like “Almost Famous,” turn this mediocrity into tragedy. (Once you’ve heard that movie’s ’70s arena rockers Stillwater, you can believe they won’t make it.) Others play it for laughs: When Dirk Diggler tries to pivot to pop stardom in “Boogie Nights,” it only proves that he should stick with his adult-film career.

But only one film that I can think of has been brave enough to own up to the catastrophic implications of a pop hit’s emptiness. Celeste, the singer in Brady Corbet’s 2018 “Vox Lux,” explodes onto the public stage after surviving a school shooting as a teenager. Yet this does not result in deep, meaningful music. Celeste’s songs (as written by Sia) are heavy on flash and light on anything else. “I don’t want people to have to think too hard,” she explains to a lover. “I just want them to feel good.” In acting the role of a national healer, Celeste must stunt herself, a bargain that Corbet presents as essentially Faustian. Her music is the waste product of a culture of violence, a civilization capable only of reproducing tragedy as trashy Europop. Her songs comfort no one, least of all herself. When Celeste returns to her hometown for a climactic concert, the effect is hardly triumphant: All that movement and spectacle does nothing to paper over the void.

This choice was a real gamble, and it did not pay off: Some critics hated “Vox Lux,” and audiences did not pay to see it. Yet it is the only one of these movies that does not try to curry your favor with earwormy pop songs. Even industry satires like “Josie” and “PopStar” can’t risk alienating the audience. Only “Vox Lux” goes all the way, serving up the poison heart of pop music and daring you to bite down.

For all its imagery of killers draped in concert merch, you won’t find any such self-criticism in “Trap.” Shyamalan’s film serves as a love letter to and power fantasy for his daughter. Saleka’s solo music has a slinky quality reminiscent of early-00s R&B, but her self-released 2023 solo debut made little impression, and to date her most prominent songs have all been in her father’s films. Unable to fill an arena on her own, he has booked one for her.

Yet he will not stop at making her a star. In a third-act twist, Cooper escapes the concert with his daughter, kidnapping Lady Raven and riding in her limousine. She then turns the tables on him, first leveraging Riley’s adoration to invite herself to the family home, then using social media to mobilize her fans, a digital army of teenage sleuths, to rescue Cooper’s latest victim. At this point, plenty of art, from “Der Fan” to “Stan,” has covered the dangerous ways some fans identify with their favorite musicians. Yet in Shyamalan’s film , there’s nothing more virtuous than this relationship.

What a far cry from the days when “Josie” could imagine pop fandom as a corporate mind-control conspiracy! In “Trap,” the pop star and the fandom empower each other to feats of heroism — a long way from how we’ve seen fans actually behave online. For all their mob mentality, Swifties at least have a history of bops to defend. Lady Raven’s music offers nothing but a little distraction while the SWAT team closes in.

Robert Rubsam is a freelance writer and critic.

Source photographs for illustration above: Neon, Universal Pictures, Columbia TriStar/Getty Images, Warner Brothers/Alamy.

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The Oasis Tour Is Already Causing Fights—and Not the Fun Kind

The biggest band reunion in years has quickly become a cock-up..

Only a matter of hours after Noel and Liam Gallagher announced that Oasis would be returning to the stage for the first time in 15 years, someone posted the following on X :

“Imagine waiting 15 years for Oasis to reform only to lose out on tickets to Chloe, 21 from Stockport who just wants to hear Wonderwall live.”

This got lots of likes and comments. On the one hand, it’s just garden-variety gatekeeping with a smattering of light misogyny thrown in. But when I read it, my first thought was: Ah, yes. Here we go again .

No doubt, demand for Oasis tickets was always going to be enormous. It was once the biggest band in the United Kingdom, with perhaps the bestselling album of the 1990s, before its infamous split in 2009 following a backstage brawl at a festival near Paris. Whatever you think of the group’s later work, the band’s first two albums were instrumental in launching Britpop, the 1990s alt-rock movement that included fellow ’60s-influenced bands like Blur. It’s easy enough to forget this, overshadowed as the music itself has been in the years since by the Gallagher brothers’ extremely public hatred of each other. They’ve been very good at it, and the vendetta has been fun, of a kind, to watch: Noel memorably describing Liam as “a man with a fork in a world of soup,” that sort of thing.

I too have sung “Wonderwall” off-key after five drinks, but I was a child during the ’90s and remember the group mostly for the drive-time-radio blah it was turning out in the mid-noughties. I must say, it was a bit surprising to learn, from tweets like the above, that Oasis has many younger fans, but it seems it does. Part of me wonders if some of this is that simply by virtue of it being from 30 years ago, any available cultural content from the ’90s has cachet. Oasis is, for many Gen Z–ers, music that their parents were listening to when they were children. But whatever the reason, it seemed as if people of all stripes and all ages were excited: an opportunity to hear Oasis live, whether to relive glory days or to see their favorite band together for the first time.

They were also angry, though, as was the man who invented a young woman to be mad at on X, before the tickets were even released. Indeed, people began to be angry before the reunion itself was even announced, when the possibility had been only hinted at in a cryptic post from the official Oasis social media accounts. And in some ways, they had good reason to be. In the recent era of megatours, fans have been waking up repeatedly to the unpleasant reality of how ticket sales work—and work mostly against them.

Lo and behold, when Saturday came around and tickets were released to the public, there was pandemonium. I stood at a pub bar looking over the shoulder of the woman in front of me, who was gazing bleakly at her phone, which showed almost 30,000 people ahead of her in the online queue for Oasis tickets. I heard of friends of friends getting booted out of the queue after waiting for hours and giving up. People took to social media and the national press to vent their frustration. One Guardian writer lamented spending the thick end of 1,500 quid on four tickets. “When you’ve queued all day and the price of the ticket has more than doubled, I just think they’ve broken their contract with the working class ,” one upset fan told the BBC.

It seems that in the years since the end of COVID lockdowns sent fans flooding back to the bleachers, every time a huge stadium tour gets announced, people learn anew about corporate greed. Dynamic pricing—the same way things like flights and Ubers work, where the more people make a booking, the higher the prices go—maddened Bruce Springsteen’s fans when his tour tickets went on sale in 2022, leading to midfloor tickets being offered for up to $5,000 . It was a similar story with Harry Styles’ concerts at Slane Castle, in Ireland, last year. And none of this is to mention the outrage prompted when Ticketmaster melted down over the unprecedented demand for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour, an event that led to a flurry of legislative proposals , a lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice , and Republicans and Democrats linking arms to grill ticket-sales executives on Capitol Hill. Incidentally, none of these developments have rendered dynamic pricing any less legal.

This time, as ever, Ticketmaster was quick to point out that artists, management, and promoters have to opt in to dynamic pricing, although Ticketmaster slices out a hefty percentage for its own service fees. Ticketmaster is also a subsidiary of Live Nation, which is, er, one of the promoters involved in the Oasis tour. Oasis has yet to comment on the matter.

All of this means that people get about 10 minutes to feel genuinely excited about news of a band they like getting back on the road before the material realities set in. The point at which someone has a matter of seconds to decide, after waiting hours in an online queue, whether they suddenly want to spend three times the amount they were told they’d be spending is the point at which they are being exploited. That seems like a fairly uncontroversial opinion, to me. And I know all of the obvious background here: that in the streaming era, musicians rely more than ever on live performances to make their money, that venues struggle to stay open, all of that. But still. Still! A surprise 355-pound ($465) cost for something that was advertised as being 140 pounds ($183), even if it is “just a gig,” strikes me as bad and wrong, however you might like to blame it all on “market forces”—especially when the DOJ has accused Live Nation of hampering some of those market forces via a monopoly.

At the risk of taking a news item as superficially frivolous as “Aging Brothers Agree to Be in the Same Room Again” too seriously, I find something depressing in watching this cycle play out again and again. Band announces gigs, fans get excited, fans get agitated that they won’t get tickets, fans do battle with ticket-sales websites and either do not get tickets or end up paying for them with a month’s rent. I have no skin in this particular game. I didn’t try for tickets. I’d be a “Chloe from Stockport” in this scenario: Sure, I would like to see Oasis play that one song. But—and though I accept that this is a crank’s position, that doesn’t make it any less true—it’s sad, because it’s become a normal moment in public life to watch ordinary people trying to have a good time getting squeezed for every last, desperate drop to make rich people richer. I don’t especially care that some guy with a collection of bucket hats in the back of his wardrobe will have overpaid to wave eight successive cans of lager in the air at Wembley Stadium next year. But I do (crankily) care that incidents like this mean I have to think about how dynamic pricing underpins almost everything in life, whether it’s made clear to us or not.

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Farmington Summer Concerts Riley Park 2024

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Farmington Summer Concerts Riley Park 2024 – Rhythms in Riley Park concert lineup. Riley Park in Farmington, Michigan will host free summer concerts on Friday nights in 2024 beginning June 7 at the Walter E Sundquist Pavilion as part of the Rhythms in Riley Park concert series.

Also usually featured at Riley Park will be the Lunch Beats noon-time summer concert series every Wednesday this summer.

NEW for 2024 … The Farmington DDA is also hosting Thursday evening concerts in Dinan Park from 5p-7p.

Farmington Summer Concerts in Riley Park 2024 (Subject To Change)

Concerts run every Friday from 7p-9p and feature pop music, folk, country, rock-a-billy and more. Chairs and blankets are recommended.

Friday, June 7, 2024 from 7p-9p – Joyriders Friday, June 14, 2024 from 7p-9p – Detroit Retro Society Friday, June 21, 2024 from 7p-9p – Billy Mack and the Juke Joint Johnnies Friday, June 28, 2024 from 7p-9p – Wilson Thicket Friday, July 5, 2024 from 7p-9p – Chris Canas Band Friday, July 12, 2024 from 7p-9p – Soul Xpress Friday, July 19, 2024 – NO CONCERT DUE TO FARMINGTON FOUNDERS FEST Friday, July 26, 2024 from 7p-9p – PowderFinger Detroit Friday, August 2, 2024 from 7p-9p – Zang Friday, August 9, 2024 from 7p-9p – Dig A Phony Friday, August 16, 2024 from 7p-9p – Major Dudes Friday, August 23, 2024 from 7p-9p – The Paisley Fogg Friday, August 30, 2024 from 7p-9p – Just One Linda

Lunch Beats in Riley Park Concerts 2024 (Subject To Change)

June 5, 2024 at Noon – Bob & Coltrane Monteleone June 12, 2024 at Noon – Jill Govan June 19, 2024 at Noon – Syd Burnham June 26, 2024 at Noon – Bob Skon July 3, 2024 at Noon – Mark Jewett July 10, 2024 at Noon – Bill Edwards July 17, 2024 – NO CONCERT DUE TO FARMINGTON FOUNDERS FEST July 24, 2024 at Noon – Alex Belhaj & Erik McIntyre July 31, 2024 at Noon – Kylee Phillips August 7, 2024 at Noon – Kyle Chase & Shepherd Smith August 14, 2024 at Noon – Nick Fugedi August 21, 2024 at Noon – Chris DuPont August 28, 2024 at Noon – Heart Cruise

Dinan Park Summer Concerts 2024

Thursday, June 6, 2024 – Shawn Riley Thursday, June 13, 2024 – Lannie Stump Thursday, June 20, 2024 – Mike Bass Thursday, June 7, 2024 – Keith Maguire Thursday, July 4, 2024 – Jason Locke Thursday, July 11, 2024 – Alex Mendenall Thursday, July 18, 2024 – NO CONCERT DUE TO FARMINGTON FOUNDERS FEST Thursday, July 25, 2024 – Al Carmichael Thursday, August 1, 2024 – Geff Phillips Thursday, August 8, 2024 – Acoustic Ash Thursday, August 15, 2024 – Steve Taylor Thursday, August 22, 2024 – Nick Fugedi Thursday, August 29, 2024 – Ken Mobley

Dinan Park  23625 Farmington Rd Farmington, MI 48335

Sundquist Pavilion in Riley Park / Rhythms in Riley Park Concerts Grand River Avenue at Grove Street Farmington, MI

This page is intended to be used as a guide. Oakland County Moms does not endorse these events. Oakland County Moms is not responsible for changes to event descriptions, event times or details being altered without notice or cancellations .

FEATURE IMAGE PHOTO CREDIT – www.downtownfarmington.org with permission

See our  Events / Things To Do tab  for more events, activities and things to do in Oakland County and Metro Detroit Michigan.

Friday, June 7, 2024 at 7p Farmington Weekend Events – Downtown Farmington Free Summer Concerts Riley Park Sundquist Pavilion (Grand River Avenue at Grove Street, Farmington, Michigan) FREE concerts at Riley Park this summer. Hosted by the Downtown Farmington DDA . MORE INFO / CONCERT SCHEDULE .

For more info on Farmington Summer Concerts Riley Park 2024, visit www.downtownfarmington.org

2 thoughts on “Farmington Summer Concerts Riley Park 2024”

How do I go about getting our band Eye2eye submitted for the 2024 summer season.

Dinan Park 23625 Farmington Rd Farmington, MI 48335 Where is this, google shows me all businesses. And, of course, in Farmington, they LOVE to have functions, but NO parking within sometimes half a mile away!

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