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Drake Delays It’s All a Blur Tour Without Explanation

When Drake said “It’s all a blur,” maybe he was talking about the scheduling for his new tour. The rapper quietly delayed the first shows of the It’s All a Blur tour with 21 Savage this week. It was set to start today, June 29, in Memphis. That show will now take place on August 6, while a July 1 show in Columbus, Ohio, has been rescheduled for October 9. That means the tour now kicks off nearly a week later than it was supposed to, on July 5 in Chicago, with little explanation. And it’s all happening after Drake and 21 already delayed the start of the tour once in April, pushing it from June 16 to July 29. Vulture has reached out to representatives for Drake, 21 Savage, and promoter Live Nation for comment.

This isn’t the first time Drake has pulled a last-minute delay. The rapper postponed two weeks of shows for his tour with Migos in 2018 . At that time, a rep for Drake said the delay was “in order to deliver the high standard tour experience our fans expect and deserve.” It’s unclear whether that’s the case again — given this is Drake’s first tour since that outing — or if Drizzy just wanted to catch the NASCAR street race in Chicago this weekend.

CORRECTION: An older version of this story included incorrect information on the tour’s delay. The information has since been removed.

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Drake cancels his rescheduled Memphis show. Here's why.

Rap superstar Drake has abruptly canceled his upcoming Memphis performance.

Drake was set to play Aug. 6 at Downtown’s FedExForum, but Ticketmaster is now saying that the “the organizer has cancelled the event.”

According to a statement from Drake's representatives given to FedExForum: "Due to the magnitude of the production of the Drake concert, it is logistically impossible to bring the show as designed to the FedExForum on August 6th. Unfortunately, the show is cancelled."

Those who already purchased tickets to the sold-out show will be given automatic refunds, and "will be processed to the original method of payment." According to Ticketmaster, refunds are usually completed in 30 days.

Drake was originally set to kick off his “It’s All a Blur Tour” — featuring 21 Savage — with a show at FedExForum in late June. That show was postponed just days before the event, even as Drake was in Memphis to accept a ceremonial key to Shelby County .

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Although Drake has other Southern tour dates still on the books for September and October, a rescheduled Memphis event has not been mentioned.

Drake’s remaining Tennessee tour dates, two shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Oct. 1 and 2, appear to be moving forward as planned.

For more information, go to Ticketmaster.com .

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Drake postpones show in Nashville again, reschedules for early October

Drake has once again postponed a show from his It's All A Blur tour.

Nashville's Bridgestone Arena announced on Instagram Thursday afternoon that the rapper's Oct. 1-2 shows would be postponed and that rescheduled dates are still being finalized. This is the second time Drake's concerts in Nashville have been postponed on fans.

The Candian rapper was originally set to headline a show on June 19, but postponed the show until October. Adding a second date to the Nashville show as well.

Drake was set to play Aug. 6 at Memphis’s FedExForum , but ticketholders learned he wasn't coming until just a couple of days before the concert.

According to a statement from Drake's representatives given to FedExForum: "Due to the magnitude of the production of the Drake concert, it is logistically impossible to bring the show as designed to the FedExForum on August 6th. Unfortunately, the show is cancelled."

Bridgestone Arena's statement stated that the Nashville dates would be rescheduled and that all tickets would be honored.

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Why did Drake postpone his concert?

The hip-hop star has yet to share details on the postponed concert on his social media channels but he recently spoke about finding it difficult to put out an album during the middle of a tour.

"Okay my dilemma I am faced with is either cancel shows to finish the album or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show," Drake wrote in an Instagram story earlier this month while announcing a new release of his eight studio LP "For All the Dogs."

The album was initially scheduled to come out Sept. 22, but it is now set to come out Oct. 6.

According to his website , he will celebrate the album's release with two hometown shows at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. The Nashville date, alongside others in Columbus, Ohio, and New Orleans are listed as TBD.

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Drake fans were left angry and in tears after his show in Vancouver was canceled just 2 hours before it was set to start

• Drake fans were left disappointed on Monday when his show in Vancouver was canceled at the last minute.
• Drake's show at Rogers Arena was called off due to issues with a newly installed scoreboard.
• Video footage captured from outside the arena shows some fans crying.

Drake fans were left disappointed on Monday when his show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was canceled at the last minute due to technical problems.

The "Rich Flex" rapper was set to perform the first of two shows at Rogers Arena as part of his It's All A Blur Tour.

CBC News reported, however, that the show was called off just two hours before show time.

Canucks Sports and Entertainment (CSE) — which manages Rogers Arena – said in a statement posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the cancellation was "due to unforeseen circumstances with the newly-installed videoboard."

"Tonight's Drake performance will now take place on Wednesday, August 30," wrote CSE. "All tickets will be honoured."

CSE added in its statement that Drake's show on Tuesday will go ahead as planned.

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"Drake was ready and excited to perform," CSE said. "He is looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday and Wednesday. Rogers Arena apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause."

—Rogers Arena (@RogersArena) August 29, 2023

Understandably, some fans were left devastated by the last-minute cancellation. 

Video footage captured from outside Rogers Arena by CBC News shows some fans crying, while others spoke of having no choice but to try to get a refund.

"If we were to stay, we'd have to get hotel, change our flights," one fan said.

"I planned this months in advance," another said. "I saved a lot of money and we got here and was so happy about it and two hours before it was supposed to happen, they give is this excuse that the stage wasn't finished."

Another video shared on X showed angry fans yelling at a Rogers Arena staff member.

—Charlie ND 🇨🇦 (@charliefrom6) August 29, 2023

Drake has usually been accompanied on stage by fellow rapper 21 Savage on the It's All A Blur Tour. However, Complex reported in March that Savage will not be performing at the Canadian dates. 

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Music | denver officially knocked off drake’s “it’s all a blur tour” after rapper cancels shows. again., drake’s arrival in denver for his “it’s all a blur tour” was postponed twice before being canceled in february.

After pushing back the date twice, Drake has officially canceled his Colorado concerts.

The Canadian singer and rapper was scheduled to arrive in Denver in April for his “It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?” but, according to the Ticketmaster website , the back-to-back shows on April 15 and April 16 have been canceled.

“Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event,” a pop-up reads on the Ticketmaster event page.

The canceled Denver shows had already been postponed twice before the announcement.

Drake was originally supposed to perform one night with rapper 21 Savage on Sept. 8, 2023 as part of the “It’s All A Blur” tour, but postponed the concert until January three days before the show.

Then the two-day January performance, on Jan. 18 and 19, was again postponed a mere three days before , pushing the singer’s arrival to April — the shows he’s now officially canceled.

As of Saturday afternoon, Drake had yet to release a statement regarding the cancellations.

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Drake’s Memphis Show Cancelled After Postponement 

Drake fans in Memphis will no longer be able to see the rapper on his 2024 “It’s All a Blur Tour.” 

Originally, Drake was scheduled to perform at the FedEx Forum with J. Cole on March 5, but the gig was rescheduled to April 8. Now, the show has been outright cancelled, and ticketholders are told to seek refunds via their point of purchase.

This isn’t the first time a show at the FedEx Forum has been called-off; fans in Memphis have been waiting about a year to see Drake take the stage. He was first set to appear at the venue on Thursday, June 29, 2023, however, the show was rescheduled to August 6, 2023 before it was officially cancelled.

Drake nor the venue commented on the reason for either cancellation.

Fans took to social media to air out their frustrations. While they were upset, many were not surprised.

Drake how you got a key to Memphis and you keep cancelling the Memphis show… pic.twitter.com/0gHgKO6tWy — cass (@cassxmoni) February 17, 2024

Drake: *mentions he loves Memphis in a song* Us Memphians from now on: pic.twitter.com/KWbg9QZjtr — Melvin Purdy (@MLVNPRDY) February 17, 2024

Drake canceled the Memphis show again 😂 pic.twitter.com/b3CYWkEEok — The Ju 🎶 (@THEJURAPS) February 17, 2024

drake loves claiming memphis but cancelled hella concerts in the past, then he changed the date, then said they’re going to have a future sprained ankle, then failed to tell us jcole won’t even be there, THEN cancelled pic.twitter.com/gx16OFpPOr — bdubs (@srslybri) February 17, 2024

Again Drake… 🤬🤷🏾‍♂️ #Memphis #ItsAllABlur pic.twitter.com/od9h5pSSks — T-Dubs (@xT_Calx) February 17, 2024

. @Drake was really the problem? why you keep canceling on Memphis? — a big mama.✨ (@_uknwuwantMOORE) February 17, 2024

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Drake just trolling Memphis at this point — STRANGEWAV (@strangewavmusic) February 17, 2024

The “God’s Plan” singer is not new to cancellations; during the first edition of the “It’s All A Blur Tour,” a pair of Nashville shows, as well as gigs in Columbus, New Orleans, and Denver, were rescheduled. The trek saw numerous delays and cancellations, with the Nashville shows being  pushed back for a second time without reasoning.

Then, after postponing a handful of tour dates and vowing to take a break from music due to health issues, rapper Drake announced a round of tour dates with J. Cole in 2024 — only to delay the start of the tour. Dates were moved around in New Orleans, Oklahoma, and San Antonio, while the Denver shows have been pushed to the end of the run, which will now wrap-up at the Ball Arena on April 15 and 16.

Throughout his last tour, Drake fans also fell victim to price surges ; in some locations, tickets rose to over $1,000, while some originally advertised for face value at $69 rose to more than $200 amid Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policies.

Drake is currently touring in support of For All The Dogs,  which dropped in October.

See Drake’s full list of upcoming tour dates below:

Drake & J. Cole ‘It’s A Blur’ Tour Dates 2024

02/20 – Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center 02/21 – Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center 02/24 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse 02/25 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 02/27 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center 02/28 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center 03/02 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center 03/03 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center 03/06 – New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center 03/07 – New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center 03/10 – Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena 03/14 – San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center 03/15 – San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center 03/18 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center 03/19 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center 03/23 – Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena (Drake without J. Cole) 03/24 – Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena (Drake without J. Cole) 03/27 – Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena at The BJCC (Drake without J. Cole) 04/04 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena (Drake without J. Cole) 04/05 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena (Drake without J. Cole) 04/08 – Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum (Drake without J. Cole) — CANCELLED 04/15 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena 04/16 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena

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Drake tour stop at FedExForum cancelled once again, according to Ticketmaster

I s it bad luck or just "God's Plan"? According to the Ticketmaster website, Memphis fans of Drake are once again faced with the  cancellation of a scheduled concert  at the FedExForum.

This is the second time a Drake concert at the forum has been scheduled, rescheduled and then outright cancelled.

After initially rescheduling the Memphis stop for his "It's All a Blur Tour" on Thursday, June 29, 2023, it was then rescheduled to Aug. 6, 2023. Later Ticketmaster posted a similar message on their site: "the event organizer has had to cancel the event."

More recently, the Drake and J. Cole show at FedExForum was originally set for March 2024 but was rescheduled for April 8 before now being cancelled, according to Ticketmaster's website.

Customers of the concert tickets will reportedly not have to take action in order to receive a refund, Ticketmaster said. 

They are said to be "processed to the original method of payment used at time of purchase" once the funds are "received from the event organizer," according to the company. Ticketmaster said this process typically takes 30 days.

If tickets were transferred to a would-be concert-goer, Ticketmaster said the refund will go to "the fan who originally purchased the tickets.

Last year, ABC24's Richard Ransom sat down with Drake’s dad — Dennis Graham — a Memphian who discussed the rapper's partial upbringing in the Bluff City.

"He tells people 'I’m from Memphis,'" Dennis said. "He’ll tell you in a second. 'I’m from Memphis. That’s my home.'”

Despite growing up in Toronto with his mom, Drake reportedly spent summers with his dad in Memphis at his grandmother’s home in the Whitehaven area.

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At this rate, Denverites may never see Drake again.

According to Ticketmaster's website , the Canadian rapper has canceled his Denver shows for the third time.

"Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event," reads the ticket page of Drake's It's All A Blur Tour.

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Drake was set to perform at Ball Arena on April 15 and 16 with fellow hip-hop superstar J. Cole. The two days were makeup dates for his canceled January showings, which fans received an email about three days before the event.

The Jan. 18 and 19 dates were also makeups for his canceled Sept. 8, 2023 concert with rapper 21 Savage.

It's unclear why Drake canceled his April showing in Denver.

The September show, according to a Ticketmaster email, was canceled because of "the distance the road crew has to travel along with the magnitude of the production of the Drake concert, it is logistically impossible to bring the full experience of the show to Denver this September."

According to 9News , Drake's January show was canceled due to an ankle injury.

Drake doesn't seem to be in love with the Mile High City. Drake last performed in Denver in 2016 with rapper Future for the "What a time to be alive!" show. He was set to perform in 2018 with the Migos but that show was canceled. Twice .

The news of the April cancellation comes amongst other cancellations in Birmingham and Memphis. No reason was announced as to why those shows were cancelled.

It's unclear whether the Denver show will be rescheduled. The Denver performances were the last dates of Drake's tour. Requests for comments from Ball Arena and Live Nation weren't immediately answered.

Desiree Mathurin is Denverite's neighborhood reporter. She previously worked for the Associated Press in Atlanta, Newsday in New York and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Desiree is a native New Yorker but ready to tell local stories featuring local people here in Denver. Follow her on Twitter  @Dez_AM .

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Rapper Drake cancels Memphis concert once again, sources say

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Drake, a renowned rapper who has a familial connection to the Mid-South, has once again canceled his Memphis concert.

According to sources, the Memphis show has been completely removed from the tour schedule after repeated postponements .

The tour, announced in November 2023 , follows Drake’s 2023 “It’s All A Blur” Tour, which saw him play 50 sold-out arena shows across North America throughout the summer and fall. The famed rapper was set to kick off the tour in Memphis, however, Drake postponed his late June performance to August 6 just days before the event.

Per the statement shared by Ticketmaster , the event organizer decided to cancel the tour date.

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Towards the tail end of his Sunday performance at Coachella , Kid Cudi jumped off the stage and broke his foot . While the fall was only a few feet, the artist appeared to have slipped upon impact and was carried away from the scene with the help of two security guards.

That same night, Cudi took to social media to update fans, revealing that he had actually broken his foot. A few days later, the diagnosis is more severe than first thought and Cudi will have to undergo surgery, forcing him to cancel his upcoming Insano Tour.

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As she strode onto the famed comedy stage of the Largo at the Coronet Theater in the heart of West Hollywood on Wednesday night, Ellen DeGeneres was a woman in command. A sold-out crowd of about 200 fans burst into roaring applause, eager to see the comedian turned talk-show host return to her comedy roots on the first night of her Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour . And she didn’t disappoint. Dressed in a simple, black long-sleeved shirt, white pants, and sneakers, DeGeneres addressed the elephant in the room with her first words.

“I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I realized…I said that at the height of my popularity,” DeGeneres said, prompting the audience to erupt in laughter. “It is such a waste of time to worry about what other people think…Right now I’m hoping you’re thinking, ‘This is marvelous, I’m so happy to be here.’ But you could be thinking, ‘Let’s see how this goes.’”

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Her Wednesday night set — culled from material DeGeneres said she’s been working on for about six months, including in a handful of performances — kicked off with a recap of what she’s been up to since her talk-show ended: gardening, a lot of sweatpants-wearing, and collecting chickens as pets. She joked that as someone who once hosted a daily show, she appreciates the plight of the chicken who has to lay an egg every day. Still, most of the routine found her grappling with having become Public Enemy No. 1 — a whiplash turn from her once-firm reputation as the happy-go-lucky talk-show host who ended each episode telling her audience to “be kind to one another.”

“What else can I tell you?” she mused, mock-reflecting on her recent past before adding sarcastically, “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business. There’s no mean people in show business.” 

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“I didn’t go to business school. I went to Charlie’s Chuckle Hutt,” DeGeneres joked. “The show was called Ellen and everybody was wearing T-shirts that said ‘Ellen’ and there were buildings on the Warner Brothers lot that said ‘Ellen,’ but I don’t know that that meant I should be in charge.”

She chalked up some of the vitriol she faced at the time to sexism, noting that “there are consequences” for not following the pre-existing rules and gender roles. Referencing the cancellation of her eponymous sitcom in the 1990s after she’d announced to the world that she was gay, she added wryly, “For those of you keeping score, this is the second time I’ve been kicked out of show business…Eventually they’re going to kick me out for a third time because I’m mean, old, and gay.”

The demise of her talk show seems especially painful for DeGeneres since, as she described in her set, it had been her way back to being embraced after her Nineties exile. “I’m giving stuff away…and I danced, then I was mean and they didn’t like me again,” she said. “It’s been such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem. There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder.”

As a 66-year-old woman, DeGeneres said she’s also grown increasingly aware of the aging process both physically and mentally. She finds herself thinking about existential subjects like time and the universe, and said her doctor recently told her she has osteoporosis and arthritis. Plus, she joked, now she’s at a point in her life where she’s obsessing over Wheel of Fortune .

Bringing up chickens as another metaphor for women and gender roles, DeGeneres made her point with “one last chicken joke,” as she put it. “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because she wanted to and you wouldn’t ask a rooster that.”

At the conclusion of her set, the crowd gave DeGeneres a standing ovation, prompting her to return to the stage for a candid conversation with the audience. DeGeneres called on people one by one as they asked questions and shared messages of gratitude. One same-sex couple said they had gotten married earlier that day and asked for marital advice. (DeGeneres’ wife of 16 years, Portia de Rossi, briefly made an appearance onstage during the Q&A, at fans’ request; DeGeneres explained that the last few years had been very tough on de Rossi as well, saying, “We were both just laying low for a while.”) One woman thanked DeGeneres for her original Netflix comedy special (2018’s Relatable ) because it made her mom laugh when she was diagnosed with cancer. Another woman expressed her thanks to DeGeneres for participating in her autistic daughter’s bat mitzvah. One person who said they’d been inspired by DeGeneres’ positivity asked if she used dancing as a means of escape during her recent tough period. 

“No. It’s hard to dance when you’re crying,” DeGeneres replied. “But I am dancing now.”

DeGeneres flashed another moment of sensitivity and bewilderment when a fan asked if her first go-round with public scrutiny after coming out prepared her for the next one, when The Ellen DeGeneres Show collapsed.

“This was a whole different thing,” she replied. “This was like, ‘What is going on?’ It was so hurtful. I couldn’t gain perspective. I couldn’t do anything to make myself understand that it wasn’t personal… I just thought, ‘Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending.’”

DeGeneres added that it took her a long time to figure out what she wanted to say on the topic and how she wanted to say it. 

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Citing the self-help book The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom , DeGeneres explained that she’s made her peace with the fact that everyone has their own reasons for making certain choices and “they have to live with their stuff.”

“I do realize that whatever happens may have nothing to do with me, it’s just somebody else’s stuff,” she said. “So no, I will not [seek revenge].”

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Here’s Why Swifties Think ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Is Coming to the Eras Tour

Taylor Swift resumes the European leg in Paris on May 9 after dropping her surprise double album

It’s once again time to figure out where the best sources of live streaming are for the Eras Tour.

Taylor Swift released a YouTube short  on Thursday, marking the two-week (or fortnight) countdown until she returns to the European leg of her stadium tour in Paris. Naturally, eagle-eyed Swifties have spotted clues about a possible addition of “The Tortured Poets Department” set.

In the video, filtered with a sepia tone, Swift is shown rehearsing familiar sets from the Eras tour. However, one shot in particular shows her leaning on a railing that looks like it contains the logo for “TTPD” — particularly the ‘PD’ at the end. It also looks like she might be wearing a certain “lilac skirt that fits [her] like skin” in that same shot. The boots also look like those worn in the “Fortnight” music video .

A following shot includes the singer rehearsing what looks to be a new number, since her background dancers have new canes and black top hats. In the next shot, Swift can be seen sitting on a stool in a flannel singing into what looks like a white microphone. She famously, meticulously uses mics coded to the corresponding eras sets — such as a wooden one for “folklore” and “evermore,” a blue one for “1989” and a black one with a red snake-like handle for “reputation.”

Still, other scenes do look familiar, like the giant parachute fans from the “Lover” opening of the tour, the mossy piano from “evermore,” the glass boxes from “reputation” and the fluffy clouds from “Midnights.”

Swift’s eleventh album has only been out for one week, but it broke streaming records in the first day of its release as well as after five days on Spotify, when the double album, “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” hit 1 billion streams across its 31 songs.

Taylor Swift resumes her European leg of the Eras Tour in Paris on May 9 .

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Animated metal band Dethklok brings tour with Babymetal to the Masonic for two nights

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Updated on: April 24, 2024 / 5:39 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco

The popular death metal band led by Brendan Small, the creative force behind popular Adult Swim animated show "Metalocalypse," Dethklok comes to the Masonic in San Francisco for two shows with co-headliners Babymetal.

Arguably the second most popular virtual band behind Gorillaz (the animated group helmed by Blur singer Damon Albarn), Dethklok made their as the stars of "Metalocalypse" when the show created by Small and partner/voice actor Tommy Blancha debuted in 2006. The world biggest death metal band in the program's absurd and surreal alternate universe, Dethklok stands as the planet's seventh largest economy despite the fact that the group's members are idiotic incompetents incapable of doing anything besides writing and performing brutal metal songs.

The quintet of singer Nathan Explosion (who was inspired by Cannibal Corpse vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher), guitarists Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth, bassist William Murderface and drummer Pickles live and work in their massive fortress-like home and studio Mordhaus, venturing into the world to secure lucrative sponsorship deals and play huge concerts for their legions of fanatical followers with outlandish stage theatrics like over-the-top pyrotechnics, lasers and a giant swinging pendulum blade, inevitably resulting in widespread death and destruction.

Over the course of four seasons and a special broadcast on Adult Swim, "Metalocalypse" became one of the network's more popular shows and a favorite among musicians, with such notable figures as King Diamond, Alice Cooper, Jon Hamm, Werner Herzog, Jack Black and members of Metallica, Exodus, Emperor and Mastodon appearing on the show. Dethklok further built on its fanbase with a series of studio albums featuring the satirical songs featured the show like "Murmaider," "Bloodrocuted" and "Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle." The band also delivered entertaining live performances with widescreen clips of the animated band projected behind Small and his talented band including monster drummer Gene Hogland (Dark Angel, Death, Strapping Young Lad, Testament, Devin Townsend) and former Frank Zappa collaborator Mike Kenneally on guitar.

Dethklok would make regular festival appearances and tour with the likes of Mastodon, High On Fire, Machine Head and the Black Dahlia Murder. After the broadcast of the hour-long rock opera special, "Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem" in 2013, the band continued to perform, but the project went on hiatus after the show was cancelled two years later.

The band returned to action in 2019, playing the Adult Swim Festival to ecstatic crowds. Dethklok also returned to the festival post-pandemic in 2022. The following year, Smalls was at last able to release the final chapter in the Dethklok story with the film Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar , which was accompanied by both a soundtrack and the band issuing its acclaimed fourth studio recording,  Dethalbum IV .

With the show having run its course, the band's current tour could be Dethklok's last hurrah as it takes to the road with previous touring partners and co-headliners Babymetal which stops at the Masonic for two nights starting Wednesday . A sensation in their native Japan since first forming in 2010, the group mixes elements of heavy metal with elements of J-Pop and "kawaii" -- the Japanese "culture of cuteness" as exemplified by Hello Kitty and Pokemon. Singer Suzuka Nakamoto had impressed producer Kobametal (aka Key Kobayashi) in her earlier girl groups Karen Girl's and Sakura Gakuin when he wanted to start a new band performing a heavier style of music.

Initially a successful offshoot of Sakura Gakuin, Babymetal became independent in 2013 and enjoyed growing popularity with the release of their self-titled debut the following year. Featuring Nakamoto along with fellow singers Moa Kikuchi (also a member of Sakura Gakuin) and Yui Mizuno executing synchronized dance moves and melodic vocals backed by a group of shredding metal session players known as the Kami Band, the album delivered a dizzying juxtaposition of sunshine pop and metallic crunch. The band rocketed to success in Japan and were playing sold-out shows to thousands when the girls were still in their teens.

The notoriety in their native land soon led to international touring in Europe and North America, with Babymetal appearing at major metal festivals and opening for Lady Gaga. By the time the band was set to release their sophomore album Metal Resistance in 2016, they were headlining Wembley Arena in London and the huge Tokyo Dome to 55,000 screaming fans. More high-profile support gigs with the Red Hot Chili Peppers followed.

While the band suffered some hardship with the accidental death of guitarist Mikio Fujioka late in 2017 after he fell from an observation deck and the departure of Mizuno due to health reasons the next year, Babymetal continued to tour and in 2023 announced the addition of Momoko Okazaki as Fujioka's permanent replacement. The band plays fan favorites and songs from its fourth album The Other One  at the Masonic. Opening acts on the two nights will be different, with hyper-technical British power metal band DrangonForce playing Wednesday and theatrical LA-based melodic death metallers Nekrogoblikon kicking off the show Thursday. 

Dethklok and Babymetal Wednesday-Thursday, April 24-25, 6 p.m. $75.75 The Masonic

Dave Pehling started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and producer for KTVU.com in 2003. He moved to CBS to work as the station website's managing editor in 2015.

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The second round of the Invited Celebrity Classic has been canceled due to inclement weather around Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, Texas.

"Due to the current weather conditions and forecast throughout the greater Dallas-Forth Worth area, competition at the Invited Celebrity Classic presented by Choctaw Casinos & Resorts will be canceled for Saturday, April 20," a statement released by PGA TOUR Champions announced. "Round 2 will be played on Sunday, April 21 and will utilize the same tee times. As a result of today's cancellation, this event will now be contested as a 36-hole competition. There will be no formal cut."

This marks the second time this season that a PGA TOUR Champions event will be official after 36 holes of competition. Stephen Ames was declared the winner of the The Chubb Classic presented by SERVPRO after 36 holes of competition earlier this season as weather caused Sunday's final round to be canceled.

Thomas Bjørn holds the 18-hole lead at 7-under with a pack of four golfers one stroke behind him at 6-under. Bjørn, who has never won on PGA TOUR Champions, finished runner-up at the Trophy Hassan II in February, his only other start this season.

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The Weeknd’s Postponed Stadium Tour of Australia Is Cancelled

Ticket holders for the postponed ANZ tour will be refunded while Live Nation figures out a new schedule.

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The Weeknd’s postponed tour of Australia is now canceled and ticket owners will be refunded.

The Canadian R&B superstar had initially scheduled an 11-date stadium tour of Australia and New Zealand, winding its way across both countries last November and December.

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“The Weeknd ‘After Hours Til Dawn Tour’ for Australia & New Zealand is still in process of being rescheduled,” reads a statement from LN, seen by Billboard . “Whilst we continue to work through the rescheduling process with the artist, tickets for the existing 2023 tour will be cancelled with all ticket holders receiving a full refund accordingly.”

Ticket holders of the The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours Til Dawn Tour’ shows who previously held on to their tickets will be able to access a priority purchase window for the new tour in Australia and New Zealand when announced, the message reads, linking to a priority waitlist . All current ticket holders will receive an automatic refund.

The tour was originally announced last August with just four shows, visiting each of Australia’s big three east coast cities — Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — and including a single date in Auckland, NZ.

Additional dates were added last September , boosting the itinerary to 11 across both markets.

The Weeknd’s tour is scrapped as Australia’s festivals market navigates turbulent waters. In recent weeks, the 2024 editions of Splendour in the Grass, Mona Foma, and Groovin The Moo, with soft ticket sales playing a part in each story.

The inaugural Soundcheck report, published by Creative Australia, found the climate for operating a festival was a “highly complex” one, with event organizers challenged with myriad issues, from rapidly increasing costs, changing ticket buying behavior and more.

In the U.S., he has landed seven No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 and four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200.

On Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart, published last Friday, April 19 , the Weeknd’s hits collection The Highlights lifts 8-4 in its 167th week on the tally. It’s triple-platinum certified in Australia.

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