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Rihanna's 'Anti' World Tour: Dates, Cities and How to Buy Tickets

In just a few weeks, fans will be able to listen to Rihanna's latest album Anti live and in-person at the Anti World Tour , which begins later this month. Tickets went on sale on Dec. 3 and can be purchased on Ticketmaster .

The North American leg's first show is on Feb. 26 in San Diego, and then Rihanna will make stops in cities such as Austin, Texas; New York; and Washington, D.C. On June 11, Rihanna hops on over to Europe, starting in Amsterdam and then performing in places such as London, Stockholm and Lille, France. The tour is set to end on Aug. 12 in Zurich. Every tour date can be found here .

Travis Scott will join the Barbadian singer onstage for her American shows, while Canadian R&B singer the Weeknd and rapper Big Sean will accompany her in Europe.

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After almost four years of work, Rihanna finally dropped Anti on Wednesday. It was first released on Jay Z's Tidal (after briefly leaking).

On the new album, Rihanna takes on new sounds and influences, including the slow, heartbreak ballad "Never Ending," which sounds like British singer Dido's 1998 "Thank You," and a cover of psych-rock band Tame Impala's "New Person, Same Old Mistakes."

"Ultimately, Anti 's sound is more than just another new costume for a singer who's dabbled in everything from flirty teen-pop to aggressive trap over the last decade-plus," Brittany Spanos wrote in Rolling Stone 's review of the album published Monday. "This is an album that forces us to question the boxes we've placed Rihanna in all along."

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Review: Rihanna on Tour, Part Preacher, Part Dominatrix, All Human

By Jon Caramanica

• March 28, 2016

There wasn’t much to look at in terms of set design during Rihanna’s Sunday-night concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Oversized plastic cocoons throbbed with pulsing air on either side of the stage. About two-thirds into the show, a huge shower curtain dropped from the ceiling; for a while, it displayed multicolored psychedelic swirls, and shortly after, foam came tumbling down it from the top, as if Rihanna had let the world’s largest washing machine overflow.

These didn’t feel like strategic choices so much as a result of needing literally to fill space — vertical, horizontal, intellectual, psychological.

But there was one exceedingly potent and poetic visual gambit early in the night, one that required just as little thought but was endlessly rich. Rihanna began the concert on a platform at the opposite end of the arena from the stage. After one song there, she boarded a clear floating catwalk and soared above the crowd, slithering through erotic numbers like “Woo” and “Sex With Me” while striking one hard pose after the next. She was moving laterally, and also undulating, and also pausing for effect. Songs were playing, she might even have been singing them, but in those minutes, all that mattered was her mastery of space.

She could have done the whole show like this, truly — staring down upon her faithful, bent at various angles, part tent preacher and part dominatrix. Rihanna is exceptional at being famous , and she needs very little in the way of help to fascinate a room.

At this show, though — the first of two sellouts at Barclays Center on her world tour celebrating “Anti” (Roc Nation) , her eighth album, which was released in January — she aimed for more, which she doesn’t always do. The concert was arranged thematically, split into sections that showcased different parts of her catalog — bombastic, anthemic, somewhat Caribbean, very Caribbean — if not of her personality. About two dozen songs were compressed into around 90 minutes, a warp-speed recent-career overview that played something like a workout video: tightly controlled with mild variations designed only to obscure the fact that, really, there are no variations.

That was echoed in the wardrobe, which utilized a restrained, mature palette — beige, ivory, taupe, olive — on garments designed for druids, a look that channeled 2013-era Kanye West and suggested a concert at the hottest club on Tatooine.

Neutrality is not anonymity, though. Rihanna, the 28-year-old pop star, was the most present she’s ever been onstage, and maybe the most confident. (Although in the past she has managed to pull off a supremely confident disengagement. )

She wasn’t particularly animated by the particulars of performing — her dancing was still casual, her lip-syncing not always spot on. But she appeared to be finding joy in singing — when she was doing it, which was only some of the time — a part of pop fame that has not always been her strength. Often, performers will front load their sets with songs that demand the most vocally, but Rihanna waited until the concert’s final leg to push herself: an ecstatic “Diamonds,” a bare-bones “FourFiveSeconds,” a melodramatic “Love on the Brain.” As people began to stream out of their seats to head home, Rihanna aimed to pull them back with her humanity.

This represented, in so much as is possible, Rihanna with her guard down. The rollout of “Anti” was scattershot and messy , and the album lacks a center. But it also includes some of Rihanna’s most thoughtful and invested singing ever. She is doing something extremely rare in pop: trying harder the more famous she’s become.

She surrounded herself with worthy allies here: a gaggle of outstanding dancers, including voguers and bone breakers, and a crack band, initially submerged on four square platforms arranged evenly onstage and eventually raised to sea level. The drums were tough and synthetic, the keyboards tingling. The band alternated between faithfulness to the source material and disruption, excelling on a space-funk version of “Birthday Cake” that was colder and dreamier than the original.

It also delivered an expertly rendered but unfortunate run of dance music, a world Rihanna occasionally visits with a big smile and a pinched nose: a nitrous-injected version of Drake’s “Take Care,” followed by “We Found Love” — on which her vocals were unsteady enough that they were clearly live, something that humanized the song’s assault — followed by “Where Have You Been.”

This, the most energized portion of the night’s show, was also the most disjointed. Each person onstage was operating in his or her independent universe; from a distance, it all suggested an Off Broadway play about an arena show, where each person surrounding the star harbors a provocative inner life but is trapped in an endless performance. In the middle of it all, Rihanna moved a little, but not much — everyone else’s physical scramble for attention only made her reluctance more entrancing.

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Rihanna’s Anti Tour: Subdued, but Still Ready to Party

By Josh Duboff

“My band is ugly as shit,” Rihanna mused during a break between songs at Sunday night’s Anti World Tour stop at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. “They know that, though. Luckily they can play some good-ass instruments.”

Rihanna is one of very few people on this planet who could call you ugly and it would somehow come off like a great compliment. Consider how cool you’d have to be for Rihanna to feel comfortable casually teasing you in front of thousands of people: that she is acknowledging you at all is paramount to anything else.

Rihanna’s “don’t give a fuck” persona has been written about extensively in recent years, ever since her somewhat darker 2012 album, Unapologetic , which was followed by a few years during which she was most visible to the public on her Instagram account, where her life seemed an impossibly chill collection of parties and galavanting with friends and vacations. She took quite some time (by her own standards) to release her follow-up, Anti , which represented a pretty significant departure from her previous collections. As we wrote when it came out in January, Anti is a “Sunday-afternoon album,” as opposed to an out-on-a-Friday-night or treadmill album. It’s soulful and hazy and, while there are definitely standouts, there are not the obvious “bangers” that her previous seven albums featured (save for straight-up smash first single “Work,” which has spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart). It was as though Rihanna was saying, with Anti , “I’ve already conquered the singles game; I want to put out a piece of cohesive art now,” and then went ahead and put out the Rihanna version of that, which has its slightly middling patches, but ultimately sounds—in its rawness and grit—like an Exactly the Album This Artist Wanted to Make album.

So it’s fitting that the corresponding tour for this “new era”—as she referred to it during the show—is one that feels minimalist and stripped down: less Pop Star, and more Mature Artist (Mature Artist Who Still Has a Penchant for Partying, that is). There was little in the way of set design or visual elements. The 28-year-old emerged from a white structure in the center of the arena at the beginning of the night (opening with the ballad “Stay,” off of Unapologetic , setting the tone for the staid-by-Rihanna-standards evening). She wore an oversize white coat—hood on—one of several cloaked, draped outfits she cycled through over the course of the night, all of which looked egregiously comfortable, and which gave her the appearance of being (the most fashionable version of) A Woman on Her Way to a Party in the Middle of a Blizzard.

She eventually made her way across a walkway—while performing “Pose,” an Anti bonus track, and one of the more rollicking songs on the record—vamping and preening. Once she reached the end of the walkway, and decamped for the stage, she remained there for the rest of the night. The aesthetic—the monochromatic leisure-wear clothing, and the sparse stage (two tarps were visible for the entire night, deflated on either side)—definitely evoked Kanye West’s Yeezy Season collections. For the most part, she sprinted through her prior hits, not giving the (spirited) audience much time to live with any of them. During a section in the middle, she performed a sequence of buoyant older jams (“Live Your Life,” “Run This Town,” “All of the Lights,” “Umbrella”) and she joyously danced, skipped, and spun around the stage, singing some, but seeming more like the Platonic Ideal of how one should move their body and bliss out to a Rihanna song—which, of course, makes sense, since she is Rihanna. Watching her be Rihanna is a delight like watching a supermodel strut or an athlete dunk—it’s regarding a triumph.

If Rihanna seemed to rush through some of her songs (the entire set was just under 90 minutes), she definitely, unsurprisingly, luxuriated most in the new Anti songs. Many of them—“Needed Me,” “Consideration”—came alive more in the live setting than they do on the album, perhaps due to Rihanna’s evident passion in selling them. “Work” was a bit of a missed opportunity, sandwiched into the middle of one of the sections and absent the Drake verse, but I would be lying if I said the woman in front of me did not turn around bemused as I wailed and flailed along to it, so it’s hard to say the rendition wasn’t wholly transformative. Her decision to close the show with Anti standout— but mid-tempo—“Kiss It Better” seemed indicative of her intentions for the night.

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As much as we all would love to spend a weekend partying with Rihanna in a remote beach house somewhere, she is, more than pretty much any other current celebrity, completely inaccessible, as if the colors she sees are completely different ones from the ones we see. In a strange way, even though music obviously made her famous and she is thriving as much as ever, her album output can sometimes seem beneath her, in the way that Keeping Up with the Kardashians has started to seem beneath Kim Kardashian as she has become more globally prominent. The music, or the reality show, seems increasingly an afterthought in light of the ever-growing personality . The main accomplishment Sunday night, all elements considered, would seem to be delivering Rihanna, the persona and the personality, to an audience of ecstatic fans.

During one of the breaks to talk to the audience, Rihanna criticized her front row for their lack of enthusiasm (“Y’all’s shit is mad expensive. Y’all don’t feel like you’re getting your money’s worth?”) which, again, just made me jealous Rihanna wasn’t lambasting me . Later, saying her good-byes, she reflected, in response to the crowd’s disappointment at the concert’s ending, “I want to stay out here with you guys, too. I ran out of DVDs to watch on the bus. It ain’t shit out there. This right here, this is my shit.” She launched into her next song, and, after gazing at her transfixedly for about a minute as she belted “Love on the Brain” in a loose, mustard-colored ensemble, I turned to my friend. “I want that coat,” I said. He nodded in agreement.

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Rihanna Details Massive 'Anti' World Tour

by Daniel Kreps

Although Rihanna hasn’t revealed the details surrounding her impending LP Anti , the singer has already plotted a long world tour in support of her new album. The Anti World Tour kicks off February 26th at San Diego, California’s Viejas Arena and will spend three months circling North America before the first leg closes out May 7th at Oakland’s Oracle Arena. The following month, Rihanna will embark on a two-month trek through Europe.

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Travis Scott will serve as Rihanna’s opening act throughout the North American leg, while the Weeknd and Big Sean will accompany her on the European tour. Anti World Tour tickets go on sale to American Express card members and Tidal subscribers on November 30th, with a general on-sale date for all shows scheduled for December 3rd.

Rihanna Anti World Tour – U.S. Dates

February 26 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena February 28 - San Jose, CA @ SAP Center March 1 - Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena March 4 - Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center March 5 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center March 6 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center March 8 - New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center March 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena March 12 - Jacksonville @ Jacksonville Arena March 13 - Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena March 15 - Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena March 18 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena March 19 - Cincinnati, OH @ U.S. Bank Arena March 20 - Charlotte, NC @ The Time Warner Cable Arena March 22 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center March 23 - Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center March 24 - Auburn Hills, MI @ Palace of Auburn Hills March 26 - Hartford, CT @ XL Center March 27 - Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center April 2 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center April 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo April 5 - Quebec City, QC @ Centre Videotron April 6 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre April 9 - Baltimore, MD @ Royal Farms Arena April 10 - Boston, MA @ TD Garden April 13 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Center April 15 - Chicago, IL @ United Center April 18 - Winnipeg, MS @ MTS Centre April 20 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place April 21 - Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome April 23 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena April 24 - Seattle, WA @ KeyArena April 27 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena April 29 - Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay May 3 - Los Angeles, CA @ Forum May 7 - Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena

Rihanna Anti World Tour – European Dates

June 11 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Amsterdam Arena June 14 - Coventry, United Kingdom @ Ricoh Arena June 16 - Cardiff, United Kingdom @ Cardiff Stadium June 18 - Sunderland, United Kingdom @ Stadium Of Light June 21 - Dublin, Ireland @ Aviva Stadium June 24 - London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Stadium June 27 - Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Hampden Park June 29 - Manchester, United Kingdom @ Emirates Old Park July 4 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Tele2 Arena July 7 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Refshale Island July 9 - Hamburg, Germany @ Volkspark Stadion July 13 - Milan, Italy @ San Siro July 15 - Nice, France @ Allianz Stadium July 17 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Commerzbank Arena July 19 - Lyon, France @ Grande Stade July 23 - Lille, France @ Stade Lille July 26 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Synotip Arena July 28 - Cologne, Germany @ Rhein Energie Stadion July 30 - Paris, France @ Stade de France August 2 - Berlin, Germany @ Olympiastadion August 5 - Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy August 7 - Munich, Germany @ Olympiastadion August 10 - Vienna, Austria @ Ernst Happel Stadium August 12 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Letzigrund Stadion

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Rihanna Announces World Tour With the Weeknd, Travis Scott, and Big Sean

By Jeremy Gordon

Rihanna has announced a tour in support of her upcoming album,  ANTI . The tour begins in February. She'll be supported by Travis Scott on her North American dates, and by the Weeknd and Big Sean in Europe. The dates can be found below.

02-26 San Diego, CA - Viejas Arena * 02-28 San Jose, CA - SAP Center * 03-01 Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Arena * 03-04 Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center * 03-05 Houston, TX - Toyota Center * 03-06 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center * 03-08 New Orleans, LA - Smoothie King Center * 03-09 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena * 03-12 Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville Arena * 03-13 Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena * 03-15 Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena* 03-18 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena * 03-19 Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Bank Arena * 03-20 Charlotte, NC - The Time Warner Cable Arena * 03-22 Washington D.C. - Verizon Center * 03-23 Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center * 03-24 Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills * 03-26 Hartford, CT - XL Center * 03-27 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center * 04-02 Newark, NJ - Prudential Center * 04-03 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo * 04-05 Quebec City, Quebec - Centre Videotron * 04-06 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre * 04-09 Baltimore, MD - Royal Farms Arena * 04-10 Boston, MA - TD Garden * 04-13 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Center * 04-15 Chicago, IL - United Center * 04-18 Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre * 04-20 Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place * 04-21 Calgary, Alberta - Scotiabank Saddledome * 04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena * 04-24 Seattle, WA - KeyArena * 04-27 Salt Lake City, UT - Vivint Smart Home Arena * 04-29 Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay * 05-03 Los Angeles, CA - Forum * 05-07 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena * 06-11 Amsterdam, Holland- Amsterdam Arena &$ 06-14 Coventry, England- Ricoh Arena &$ 06-16 Cardiff, Wales - Cardiff Stadium &$ 06-18 Sunderland, England - Stadium of Light &$ 06-21 Dublin, Ireland - Aviva Stadium &$ 06-24 London, England - Wembley Stadium &$ 06-27 Glasgow, Scotland - Hampden Park &$ 06-29 Manchester, England - Emirates Old Park &$ 07-04 Stockholm, Sweden - Tele2 Arena &$ 07-07 Copenhagen, Denmark - Refshale Island &$ 07-09 Hamburg, Germany - Volkspark Stadion &$ 07-13 Milan, Italy - San Siro &$ 07-15 Nice, France - Allianz Stadium &$ 07-17 Frankfurt, Germany - Commerzbank Arena &$ 07-19 Lyon, France - Grande Stade &$ 07-23 Lille, France - Stade Lille &$ 07-26 Prague, Czech Republic - Synotip Arena &$ 07-28 Cologne, Germany - Rhein Energie Stadion &$ 07-30 Paris, France - Stade de France &$ 08-02 Berlin, Germany - Olympiastadion &$ 08-05 Warsaw, Poland - PGE Narodowy &$ 08-07 Munich, Germany - Olympiastadion &$ 08-10 Vienne, Austria - Ernst Happel Stadium &$ 08-12 Zurich, Switzerland - Letzigrund Stadion &$

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Anti World Tour  was the seventh concert tour by Barbadian recording artist  Rihanna . The tour was launched in support of Rihanna's eighth studio album  Anti  (2016).The tour consisted of 75 shows in 70 countries. The tour began on March 12, 2016 in Jacksonville and ended on November 27, 2016 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

• 1 Background
• 2 Critical Response
• 3 Opening Acts
• 5 Tour Dates
• 6 References

Background [ ]

In November 2015, it was announced that Rihanna had signed a $25 million contract with Samsung to not only promote Samsung's Galaxy line of products, but to also sponsor the release of  Anti  and its supporting tour. On November 23, 2015, Rihanna announced she would be embarking on "The Anti World Tour".

Critical Response [ ]

In a review for  The New York Times , Jon Caramanica stated that Rihanna was at her "most confident" and "the most present she's ever been onstage", calling her dancing "casual" and that she "appeared to be finding joy in singing — when she was doing it. [1] "Reviewing the Los Angeles concert, Latifah Muhammad from  VIBE  described the tour as a "randomly epic road trip." [2]

Ed Power from  The Telegraph  gave Dublin concert four stars, writing that the tour "didn't waste time on embellishments and instead delivered full-strength shots of sass and escapism." [3]  The London concert also received four stars from  The Guardian , where Michael Cragg praised the singer's "unshakeable Rihanna-ness; that perfect pop voice, the undeniable presence, that couldn't-give-a-shit attitude." [4]

Opening Acts [ ]

• Travis Scott
• Bibi Bourelly
• Alan Walker

Setlist [ ]

This setlist is representative of the show in Jacksonville on March 12, 2016. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

• " Love the Way You Lie (Part II) "
• "Sex with Me"
• " Birthday Cake "
• " Pour It Up "
• " Bitch Better Have My Money "
• " Consideration "
• " Live Your Life " / "Run This Town" / " All of the Lights "
• " Umbrella "
• " Desperado "
• " Man Down " (remix)
• " Rude Boy "
• " Take Care " / " We Found Love " / "How Deep Is Your Love"
• " Where Have You Been "
• " Needed Me "
• " Same Ol' Mistakes "
• " Diamonds "
• " FourFiveSeconds "
• " Love on the Brain "
• " Kiss It Better "

Additional Notes

• During the shows in Miami and Manchester, and the second shows in Toronto and Inglewood, Drake joined Rihanna on stage during "Work".
• During the show in Milan, Rihanna did not perform "FourFiveSeconds" and "Kiss It Better", due to a summer storm which caused a late start of the concert.

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• ↑ Caramanica, Jon (March 28, 2016). "Review: Rihanna on Tour, Part Preacher, Part Dominatrix, All Human"
• ↑ Muhammad, Latifah (May 5, 2016). "Review: Rihanna's 'ANTI' World Tour Is Something You Have To See To Believe"
• ↑ Power, Ed (June 22, 2016). "Rihanna, Anti World Tour, Dublin, review: 'A slick, sleek arena blockbuster delivered full-strength shots of sass and escapism'"
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Rihanna Postpones ‘Anti’ Tour Dates

Following her Grammy performance cancelation from a bout with bronchitis, several dates of Rihanna's Anti tour, initially scheduled to begin at the end of February, have been postponed.

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Following her Grammy performance cancellation from a bout with bronchitis, several dates of Rihanna ‘s Anti tour, initially scheduled to begin at the end of February, have been postponed.

Eight dates have been rescheduled on Rihanna’s tour, including stops in San Diego, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, New Orleans and Oakland and San Jose, Calif. A source in San Jose tells Billboard that the second show on the tour — set for Feb. 28 at the SAP Center and moved to May 8 — was having production problems and the show wouldn’t be ready in time, which has been known for a couple of weeks. The show was headed for a sellout.

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Rihanna’s rep confirmed to Billboard that “production delays” were behind the postponement.

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The tour will now begin on March 12 in Jacksonville, Fla.; see the full list of rescheduled dates below, with the new dates bolded.

The singer will head out on her global trek in support of her eighth studio effort  Anti.  Rapper Travis Scott will be her plus-one for the North American leg while Big Sean and The Weeknd will join her for the European stint.

Billboard  has reached out to reps for Rihanna for comment.

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March 13 – Tampa, FL, Amalie Arena

March 15 – Miami, FL, American Airlines Arena

March 18 – Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena

March 19 – Cincinnati, OH, U.S. Bank Arena

March 20 – Charlotte, NC, The Time Warner Cable Arena

March 22 – Washington, DC, Verizon Center

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March 26 – Hartford, CT, XL Center

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March 30 – Brooklyn, NY, Barclays Center

April 2 – Newark, NJ, Prudential Center

April 3 – Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo

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April 7 – Montreal, QC, Bell Centre

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May 9* – San Diego, CA, Viejas Arena

May 13* – Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center

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May 15* – Houston, TX, Toyota Center

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Rihanna Postpones Several ‘Anti’ Tour Dates

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Rihanna  has postponed several dates for her Anti World Tour . The announcement comes on the heels of the singer cancelling her Grammy performance  due to bronchitis.

As Billboard  reports, eight dates from the North American leg of the tour have been moved. The tour date tweaks affect San Diego, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, New Orleans, and Oakland. An additional date in San Jose was already scheduled to be pushed back. The San Jose show date change is due to “production delays,” a rep for Rihanna told Billboard .

The tour was originally scheduled to begin on February 26th in San Diego, but it will now kick off on March 12th in Jacksonville, FL, and the rescheduled dates will take place in May. Rihanna is scheduled to embark on the European leg of her tour on June 11th.

Rihanna will be touring in support of her eighth studio album, Anti , which she debuted as a stream and download via Tidal last month. Travis Scott will serve as opener for the North American leg of the tour. 

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Exclusive: Rihanna’s Stylist Breaks Down All Her Stunning Anti Tour Looks

By Kristin Anderson

One of the Bad Gal’s most singular qualities? With the help of her directional stylist, Mel Ottenberg, she always keeps ’em guessing. True to form, the modern-day bombshell opens nights on her epic, lately mounted Anti world tour wearing a Craig Green coat in stark white canvas atop a bodysuit. It’s an unexpected move, one of the stripe that’s made pop’s foremost style star the subject of so many fashion blogs and Instagram accounts. “It’s the opposite of what I did with her on her last tour,” Ottenberg tells Vogue.com, “which was much more embellished and gold and intricate for the beginning. I just wanted to strip it all away. I felt like I was sort of bored of it.” That opening ensemble is just one of four wholly custom looks.

Ottenberg’s choice to dress his muse in purely bespoke wares for Anti is no accident. As he says: “This isn’t the first time that I’ve done [her tour costumes], and I know that everything’s so specific—movement, dance, and quick changes and durability—that, in my mind, there’s nothing really out there in the world that fits all that and is also fashion that’s going to work.” Ottenberg works closely with the tour’s choreographers and creative director, Willo Perron, talking about the dance moves entailed, and the larger aesthetic concept behind the show, while developing looks. But long before the lights go on to packed stadiums, Ottenberg had whiled away hours researching in the stacks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center. There he set his eyes on images like those of Irving Penn ’s of the ’80s. The resulting looks run the gamut from almost post-apocalyptic sex appeal (a second-skin lace-up bodysuit, courtesy of Adam Selman ) to full-throttle opulence ( Armani Privé ’s glittering getup and chocolate brown cape). We caught up with Ottenberg to talk about all the looks you’ll see when Anti comes to a town near you.

“Craig made this white coat, and I really wanted to start in something with canvas, with no decoration or beading or anything, sort of as a fresh start. To me, it was anti what any pop diva would ever be wearing to open her concert. She’s wearing this really well-designed yet incredible simple bodysuit that Adam Selman made for us, and a pair of thigh-high ruched boots by Giuseppe Zanotti.”

“It’s this nude lace-up jumpsuit with crisscross lacing that goes up and down the body. It really looks pretty naked onstage, but she’s totally covered, and then he made a head-to-toe do-rag that’s really, really amazing. I love it so much. The lace-up bodysuit is one of my favorite things on the tour. It’s really simple, and really strong.”

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“It’s a fringed, beaded jumpsuit with this huge, really dramatic, sweeping chocolate brown coat. It’s incredible how she can really whip that thing around. It’s really gigantic but also really light. I don’t want to constrain someone’s movement or feelings onstage just for a costume. I like to think you can inspire what the artist is doing through fashion, but you don’t want to weigh them down.”

“For the finale, we did a suit with Y/Project, who I really love. I think [Glenn Martens] is really talented. She’s wearing a leather bodysuit by this amazing designer from L.A. called L.A. Roxx. For that, she’s worn different sunglasses: custom Selima Optique, vintage Dior sunglasses from the ’70s—we’ve been switching it up. I really love ending the show in an oversize brown suit because she can pull that off so flawlessly, and again, that just feels so anti what you’re ever going to expect to see.”

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With virulent antisemitism surging at college campuses across the country, Touro University expanded the Touro Safe Campus Scholarship to help defray tuition costs of students who transfer to Touro’s New York School of Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) for the fall semester, from any other college where they may no longer feel comfortable. The Scholarship was launched earlier this year when campus unrest threatened student safety in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks.

Touro has successfully maintained a conflict-free campus focused on education and is prepared to provide financial assistance to students who seek a safe and supportive academic environment. With a primary campus in Times Square, New York City, Touro University is comprised of over 19,000 students across 36 campuses in six states. This year has seen an increase in enrollment within the Touro University system.

Touro’s undergraduate NYSCAS division offers a direct pathway to its graduate and professional programs for qualified students, including the only medical and dental school under Jewish auspices in the country.

While Touro was founded under the historic Jewish tradition of tolerance and dignity, it currently enrolls a diverse population comprised of students from a wide range of economic, racial and religious backgrounds.

“Our students select Touro because they know they will receive a rigorous education in an environment committed to diversity of students and ideas. College students should be focused on their studies and shouldn’t have to experience hate, violence and antisemitism while pursuing their education and professional training,” said Dr. Alan Kadish, president of Touro University. “Like many, we’ve been appalled by the inability of university leaders to address the rising antisemitism on campuses. This has inspired Touro to create solutions that both protect people seeking higher education while staying true to our school’s founding mission.”

The Touro Safe Campus Scholarship is now available to students who transfer to Touro NYSCAS for Fall 2024, from another college where they currently feel unsafe and uncomfortable. Transfer students with a minimum 3.0 GPA or higher are eligible for this scholarship. Awards amount to 25% of tuition per semester, over and above other financial aid for which students are eligible and can be rewarded for up to seven semesters. Students must maintain 3.0 GPA at Touro to continue receiving the scholarship and it can only be applied toward tuition. To learn more contact Rabbi Baruch Fogel at [email protected] .

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The Rolling Stones have decided who will “Start Them Up” on tour this year.

However, unlike most tours, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are mixing things up and bringing different opening acts to each city they’re hitting on the spring and summer  ‘The Stones Tour ’24 Hackney Diamonds.’

Just a few of the big names joining them include Gary Clark Jr. ( April 28 in Houston ), Joe Bonamassa ( May 15 in Seattle ), Tyler Childers ( June 3 in Orlando ), KALEO ( June 11 in Philadelphia ) and Lainey Wilson ( June 30 in Chicago ).

As for their MetLife Stadium gigs, pop-soul outfit Lawrence is slated to kick things off at their Sunday, May 26 concert ; no opener has been announced for the Thursday, May 23 show .

And if you’ve been on the fence about catching Mick, Keith and Ronnie live because you fear exorbitant ticket prices, we’re happy to report that some shows have cheaper seats available than one might imagine.

At the time of publication, the lowest price we found on tickets was just $21 before fees on Vivid Seats.

Yes, you read that right. Just $21. We couldn’t believe it either.

Other nights have seats starting anywhere from $44 to $109 before fees (excluding festival dates).

Curious how much tickets cost and who will be opening for the Stones at the show nearest you this year?

While we can’t guarantee we’ll give you what you want, we promise you’ll get what you need.

Our team has all the details you’re looking for and more about the Rolling Stones’ 2024 ‘Hackney Diamonds Tour’ below.

All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.

Rolling Stones tour schedule 2024

A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues, opening acts, and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found below.

(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout .)

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New Orleans Jazz Festival 2024

The musically diverse New Orleans Jazz Festival — they don’t do just jazz, contrary to popular belief — returns to the Big Easy on April 25-28 and May 2-5 next year.

At the two-weekend fest, Mick and co. will be joined by fellow Rock Hall of Famers Neil Young , Earth Wind and Fire , Heart , The Beach Boys , and Foo Fighters .

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Click here to check out single and multi-day general admission options.

Rolling Stones openers on tour

Many of the big names joining the Stones on the road have quite a few more shows lined up this year.

For a clearer picture, here are all the Rolling Stones opening acts who are on tour these next few months.

Gary Clark Jr. Carin León Joe Bonamassa

Lawrence The Red Clay Strays Tyler Childers KALEO Widespread Panic Lainey Wilson The War and Treaty The Beaches

The Rolling Stones set list

This 16-concert run will be the group’s first official North American trek since 2019’s ‘No Filter Tour,’ which concluded two years later due to COVID-related postponements.

Here’s what the band played at their last run, courtesy of  Set List FM .

01.) “Street Fighting Man” 02.) “Let’s Spend the Night Together” 03.) “19th Nervous Breakdown” 04.) “Tumbling Dice” 05.) “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” 06.) “Living in a Ghost Town” 07.) “Start Me Up” 08.) “Honky Tonk Women” 09.) “Connection” 10.) “Slipping Away” 11.) “Miss You” 12.) “Midnight Rambler” 13.) “Paint It Black” 14.) “Sympathy for the Devil” 15.) “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”

16.) “Gimme Shelter”

17.) “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Most recently, the band surprised New Yorkers when they performed a set at  Racket  in the Meatpacking District with Lady Gaga.

You can find their seven-song set list from the October 2023 one-off show  here .

The Rolling Stones new music

On Oct. 20, the Stones released their 26th American studio album,  “Hackney Diamonds,”  featuring special guests Paul McCartney, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder.

Comprised of 12 hard-rocking tracks that wouldn’t be out of place alongside their singalong stadium anthems of yore, “Diamonds” shows that Mick, Keith, and Ronnie still have their sticky fingers on rock and roll’s pulse.

“We wouldn’t have put this album out if we didn’t really like it,” Jagger, 80, told Jimmy Fallon. “We must say that we are quite pleased with it. We’re not big-headed but we hope you like it.”

If you’re looking to sample the record, we suggest starting with the fierce lead track “Angry” and the wistful ballad “Dreamy Skies.”

Prefer to listen in full? You can find “Hackney Diamonds”  here .

The Rolling Stones band members

No joke — the upcoming tour is sponsored by AARP.

Rather than shy away from their age, the legendary rockers are embracing their elder statesman status.

To give you a peek at who’s in the group these days, take a look below.

Mick Jagger   (80-years-old)   lead and backing vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar  (1962–present)

Keith Richards   (80-years-old)   rhythm and lead guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing and lead vocals  (1962–present)

Ronnie Wood   (76-years-old)   lead and rhythm guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals, pedal steel guitar  (1975–present)

Backing musicians include Chuck Leavell, Bernard Fowler, Matt Clifford, Darryl Jones, Tim Ries, Karl Denson, Chanelle Haynes, and Steve Jordan.

Their longtime drummer Charlie Watts passed away in August 2021.

Classic rockers on tour in 2024

Many AARP card-carrying icons will take the stage this year and next.

Here are just five of our favorite acts you won’t want to miss live in the near future.

•  Neil Young

•  Bob Dylan with Robert Plant and Willie Nelson

•  Electric Light Orchestra

•  Ringo Starr

•  Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues

Need more ’60s and ’70s hitmakers in your life? Check out our list of the 52 biggest classic rockers on tour in 2024 to find the show for you.

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Taylor Swift draws backlash for 'all the racists' lyrics on new 'Tortured Poets' album

Taylor Swift released a new album Friday , but not all listeners are loving a controversial line from her new song, "I Hate It Here."

In the track off of "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," a deluxe version of her new album, the Eras Tour singer sings about discontent and the way our recollections are distorted by nostalgia. In it, she says she wants to return to an era that ended more than a century before her career began.

"My friends used to play a game where we would pick a decade we wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists and getting married off for the highest bid," Swift sings in the track .

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The Civil War began in 1861, more than 30 years after the decade Swift references in the song. Slavery was still active in the United States during this time.

"Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now seems like it was never even fun back then / Nostalgia is a mind's trick if I'd been there, I'd hate it," she sings. "It was freezing in the palace."

'So many wrong things about this:' Social media users react to Taylor Swift's 'I Hate It Here' lyrics

The controversial line has drawn the ire of the internet and fueled conversations around Swift's lyricism. Users on X, formerly known as Twitter, reacted to Swift's " I Hate It Here" lyrics .

"y’all .. there are so many wrong things about this," one user wrote, while posting a screenshot of the song's lyrics from Genius .

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"'I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists' now Taylor …" another user commented .

Other fans on X defended Swift's songwriting capabilities as historical analysis.

"It's an interesting commentary on how we sometimes idealize certain eras without fully considering the realities of living in them," one commenter said .

'The Tortured Poets Department' features 31 songs

Swift's 11th album "The Tortured Poets Department" features 31 songs, when you add in the 15-song deluxe version "The Anthology," which includes "I Hate It Here." The album draws on heartbreak and coming of age, traditional themes for one of the world's most famous people and songwriters.

Lead single "Fortnight" features rapper and singer Post Malone .

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'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour

With the tourism explosion affecting even smaller cities such as Porto, visitors and locals alike are looking for more ‘authentic’ days out. But is that possible?

“From this point on, we’re going to be trespassing,” announces Margarida Castro casually. “Everyone comfortable with that, right?”

Our group of eight follow her across the threshold of an abandoned house in central Porto , Portugal’s second city. This once-sleepy, cobble-paved place is turning into one of Europe’s hottest tourist destinations, thanks in no small part to sweetener deals with low-cost airlines and a sophisticated government marketing drive.

But being the darling of the 48-hour city break comes with its costs. Old cafes are starting to make way for Starbucks and Costa. Locals are finding themselves outpriced by the boom in short-term rentals. And, while Porto has yet to see anti-tourist protests as in Venice or Barcelona, there’s a growing sense of disquiet.

And if locals are souring on tourism, so are some tourists. Porto’s sightseeing hotspots can be covered in a day or two, and middle-class city-breakers are looking for something different. A 2016 study by the online travel firm Expedia, for example, found millennial travellers are especially anxious for experiences that involve “living like a local” and finding “hidden gems” off the beaten track.

That suits Castro just fine. A 36-year-old Porto native, she is one of a trio of architects who set up The Worst Tours five years ago. They show people around the city’s disused factories, old railway lines, empty lots and down-at-heel backstreets. The highlight? A downtown shopping mall that went bust in the mid-1990s, now offering cheap rent to cafe bars and practice studios for local bands.

Their “anti-tour” was a response to how tourism was changing Porto. “We were needing to vent and find a way of pouring out our energy and frustrations, so we set up a walking tour to spark political debate,” she says, adding with a smile: “It was either this or hard drugs.”

The Worst Tours is one of string of alternative city tours now popping up in popular tourist destinations around the world. In one way or another, all pledge to pierce the marketing blurb, unveil the real side of their cities and provide an “authentic” experience.

“It’s obvious, no?” says Castro when asked why the format appeals. “No one likes being a tourist.”

Martin Finlayson, a British first-time visitor to Porto who took the tour, agrees. “There are so many tourist bars and restaurants here nowadays,” he says. “I wanted to see what the real Porto was like – you know, where local people hang out, where they eat and drink.”

Locals, too, are looking for novel ways to engage with their home cities. Eugene Quinn leads “ urban adventures ” around his adopted city of Vienna, including the Ugly Vienna Tour, the Corruption Tour, the Midnight Tour, and even a Smells Like Vienna Spirit Tour, which explores the olfactory delights of the Austrian capital. He says they attract as many as 80% locals.

“It’s a shame that more people don’t actually see their own cities,” says Quinn, who, rather than carrying a flag, wears the orange trousers of the municipal street sweepers.

Castro agrees, arguing that tours aren’t just for tourists, but encourage creativity along the peripatetic tradition of ancient Greece, sparking an exchange of ideas and experiences of urban living. The visit to the abandoned house in Porto, for instance, prompted a discussion about squatting: a common but little discussed practice in the city. Other topics addressed during the four-hour walk included social housing policies, rent hikes, green space and fachadismo – the practice of property developers ripping out the interiors of historic buildings while keeping the facades intact.

“With our salaries, we don’t travel much,” Castro says. “So walking the city and debating with someone from Warsaw or Barcelona about this or that keeps my ideas in check.”

Many sociologists and anthropologists have long considered “immersive tourism”, as the travel industry packages it, to be a futile quest: by the simple act of stepping into other people’s worlds, we change them.

“That the arrival of tourists alters the local community has been a theme from the earliest years of tourism research,” says Dean MacCannell, a sociologist at the University of California Davis and the author of The Ethics of Sightseeing. He gives the example of indigenous women in Peru who traditionally put a flower in their hair to signal their readiness for a romantic relationship. Now, however, the act often merely represents an acquiescence to the photo-snapping visitor.

“Today the flower means only that the woman knows herself to be an object of the tourist gaze,” he says. “What the tourist is seeing is life as it is actually lived by the locals under the regime of tourism.

“If a tourist wants authenticity the industry and hosts will provide it in the form of staged authenticity. But usually it is a fake ‘real-life setting’ for the tourists to explore.”

The Jane’s Walk movement makes a virtue of the limits of genuine immersion: it treats the city tour as a co-creative experience in which participants learn from one another rather than just gawp. Inspired by the urban studies guru Jane Jacobs, Jane’s Walks are pitched as an opportunity for people to “observe, reflect, share, question and re-imagine” the places where they live and work.

Alia Scanlon, the movement’s Toronto-based coordinator, took a walking group to the city’s main railway station soon after the Yonge Street van attack last April. Protective bollards had been installed at the station’s entrances. “We stood and touched the barriers and discussed how our sense of safety had been affected and whether they made us feel more safe or not,” she says.

In Leeds, meanwhile, the urban consultant and psychogeographer Anzir Boodoo uses the Jane’s Walk model to kick off novel conversations about urban living with his fellow residents. Boodoo has led walks to a former zoo, to a deconsecrated cemetery now buried under a new university campus, and to the city’s bus terminal, timed to coincide with the feast of Terminus, Roman god of boundary stones.

He considers the experiential aspect of anti-tours to be essential. “It’s all about overturning our normal perceptions and interactions with urban spaces,” he says. “With these walks, you can never really know where they’re going to take you.”

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