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PIERCE THE VEIL and THE USED will be hitting the road this summer on the "Creative Control" tour. The epic co-headliner kicks off on May 23 in Austin, Texas, making stops across the U.S. and Canada in Tampa, Toronto, Baltimore, New York, Grand Rapids, Irvine, and more before wrapping up in Phoenix, Arizona on July 2 with support from DON BROCO , DEATHBYROMY (May 23 to June 10) and GIRLFRIENDS (June 12 to July 1).

THE USED 's Bert McCracken said: "We are more than excited for our first tour with PIERCE THE VEIL . We've been friends for a long time and I know this will be a tour to remember. We can't wait for you to hear some new music! We are so fucking stoked and will see you there!"

PIERCE THE VEIL added: "Every night of this tour is going to be a celebration. Our new album 'The Jaws Of Life' is finally out and we get to share this monumental moment with our beautiful fans. We are so honored to hit the road with THE USED , a band that has inspired us since the very beginning. It's going to be unlike any other tour we've done and we can't wait to see you there. Thank you for all of your support."

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, March 8 at 10:00 a.m. EST and end on Thursday, March 9 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "BBM2023" to access tickets before the general public. Check back here before Wednesday for ticketing links to individual shows. General on-sale will be Friday, March 10 at 10 a.m. local.

"Creative Control" 2023 tour dates:

May 23 - Austin, TX - HEB Center at Cedar Park ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 24 - New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore Harrah's New Orleans ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 26 - Tampa, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 27 - Boca Raton, FL - Mizner Park Amphitheatre ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 28 - St. Augustine, FL - The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 30 - Atlanta, GA - Coca Cola Roxy ^+ ( buy tickets ) May 31 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 02 - Toronto, ON - RBC Echo Beach ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 03 - Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 06 - Richmond, VA - Virginia Credit Union LIVE! *^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 07 - Wallingford, CT - Oakdale Theatre ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 09 - Philadelphia, PA - Skyline Stage at the Mann ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 10 - Portland, ME - Cross Insurance Arena ^+ ( buy tickets ) Jun. 12 - Asbury Park, NJ - Stone Pony Summer Stage ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 13 - New York, NY - The Rooftop at Pier 17 ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 15 - Bethlehem, PA - Wind Creek Event Center ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 16 - Moon Twp, PA - UPMC Events Center ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 17 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 19 - Grand Rapids, MI - GLC Live at 20 Monroe ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 21 - Cincinnati, OH - The Andrew J Brady Music Center ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 22 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 24 - Dallas, TX - Fair Park *^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 25 - Wichita, KS - WAVE * ( buy tickets ) Jun. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex (Outdoors) ^# ( buy tickets ) Jun. 29 - Reno, NV - Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort ^# ( buy tickets ) Jul. 01 - Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheatre ^# ( buy tickets ) Jul. 02 - Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Financial Theatre ^# ( buy tickets )

* Non- Live Nation date ^ With DON BROCO + With DEATHBYROMY # With GIRLFRIENDS

THE USED 's new album, "Toxic Positivity" , will be out on May 19 via Big Noise . "Toxic Positivity" includes the previously-released, no-holds-barred singles "Fuck You" and "People Are Vomit" .

Established in 2000, THE USED was brought to life and have since released a collection of albums that pioneered the scene of emo rock. High-energy live shows, gut-wrenching relatable lyrics, and melodies that blended pop sensibility and hard rock was the perfect combination to make an everlasting impression on fans globally.

THE USED released their ninth studio album, "Heartwork (Deluxe)" , in 2021 via Big Noise . The extended album features 11 never-before-heard tracks that were all written during the original "Heartwork" (2020) sessions. A variety of collaborators including producer John Feldmann , co-writer Mark Hoppus ( BLINK-182 ),guest artists Travis Barker , Jason Aalon Butler ( FEVER 333 ), Caleb Shomo ( BEARTOOTH ) and more helped deliver this now 27-track album that simultaneously showcases what made THE USED emerge as one of the most prolific bands of the early 2000s as well as what has kept them at the forefront of the genre ever since. The band locked in No. 4 spots on both the Top Alternative and Top Hard Rock Album charts, No. 11 on Top Rock Album charts as well as landing in the Billboard 200 at the No. 87 spot.

THE USED is Bert McCracken (vocals), Jepha (bass), Dan Whitesides (drums) and Joey Bradford (guitar).

PIERCE THE VEIL dropped the new album "The Jaws Of Life" , their first in seven years, in February via longtime label Fearless Records . "The Jaws Of Life" marked a welcome return for PIERCE THE VEIL , with press praise pouring in from Rolling Stone , Uproxx , Huffington Post , Gawker and MTV , among others.

PIERCE THE VEIL 's evolution from album to album is nothing less than stunning. The early buzz generated by "A Flair For The Dramatic" (2007) made its follow-up one of the most anticipated albums of 2010. "Selfish Machines " shot to No. 1 on Billboard 's Heatseekers chart. The Chicago Tribune saluted "Collide With The Sky" for its "post-hardcore punk with more than a few nods to QUEEN ." They became a true arena act on "Misadventures" , selling out huge venues without losing the intimate connection with their fans.

"The Jaws Of Life" was produced by Paul Meany ( TWENTY ONE PILOTS , YUNGBLUD , LANY ),and mixed by Adam Hawkins ( MACHINE GUN KELLY , TURNSTILE , TWENTY ONE PILOTS ). Deadly serious subject matter abounds, but PIERCE THE VEIL enduringly navigates it all with grace. The lyrics continue the Vic Fuentes tradition of painstaking honesty and clever twists of phrase. PIERCE THE VEIL perform at the biggest festivals and is counted among the biggest and brightest of a younger generation of bands. But it all starts with the songs. "The Jaws Of Life" is filled with the kind to keep the PIERCE THE VEIL fire burning forever.

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The Used and Pierce the Veil Announce 2023 North American Co-Headlining Tour

"The Creative Control Tour" will run from late May into early July with support from Don Broco, Deathbyromy, and girlfriends

The Used and Pierce the Veil have announced a 2023 co-headlining North American tour.

Dubbed “The Creative Control Tour,” the outing kicks off May 23rd in Austin, Texas, and runs through July 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona. Don Broco, Deathbyromy, and girlfriends will provide support on select dates.

An artist pre-sale starts today (March 7th) at 1 p.m. ET using the code JAWS  via Ticketmaster , while a Live Nation pre-sale begins Wednesday (March 8th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code OPENER . General ticket sales begin Friday (March 10th) at 10 a.m. local time.

Alternatively, you can pick up tickets via StubHub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

“We are more than excited for our first tour with Pierce the Veil,” commented The Used’s Bert McCracken in a press announcement. “We’ve been friends for a long time and I know this will be a tour to remember. We can’t wait for you to hear some new music! We are so fucking stoked and will see you there! Love, Bert.”

Added Pierce the Veil: “Every night of this tour is going to be a celebration. Our new album The Jaws of Life is finally out and we get to share this monumental moment with our beautiful fans. We are so honored to hit the road with The Used, a band that has inspired us since the very beginning. It’s going to be unlike any other tour we’ve done and we can’t wait to see you there. Thank you for all of your support. Love, PTV.”

The Used Announce New Album Toxic Positivity, Unveil Single “People Are Vomit”: Stream

Both bands will be out in support of their new albums: The Used’s Toxic Positivity (arriving May 19th) and Pierce the Veil’s aforementioned The Jaws of Life (which dropped in February).

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The Used and Pierce the Veil’s 2023 North American Tour Dates: 05/23 – Austin, TX @ HEB Center at Cedar Park ^ + 05/24 – New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore Harrah’s New Orleans ^ + 05/26 – Tampa, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa ^ + 05/27 – Boca Raton, FL @ Mizner Park Amphitheatre ^ + 05/28 – St. Augustine, FL @ The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre ^ + 05/30 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy ^ + 05/31 – Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium ^ + 06/02 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach ^ + 06/03 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion ^ + 06/06 – Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union LIVE! * ^ + 06/07 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre ^ + 06/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at the Mann ^ + 06/10 – Portland, ME @ Cross Insurance Arena ^ + 06/12 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage ^ # 06/13 – New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 ^ # 06/15 – Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Event Center ^ # 06/16 – Moon Twp, PA @ UPMC Events Center ^ # 06/17 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center ^ # 06/19 – Grand Rapids, MI @ GLC Live at 20 Monroe ^ # 06/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center ^ # 06/22 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee ^ # 06/24 – Dallas, TX @ Fair Park ^ # 06/28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex (Outdoors) ^ # 06/29 – Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort ^ # 07/01 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre ^ # 07/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre ^ #

^ = with Don Broco + = with Deathbyromy # = with girlfriends

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Coheed & Cambria + The Used Announce 2021 Tour Dates

Another huge tour has just been announced, with Coheed & Cambria and the Used revealing a run of 2021 amphitheater dates.

Up-and-coming easycore act Meet Me @ the Altar will open the majority of the summer gigs, while carolesdaughter will finish off the last few dates. The four-week run will begin Aug. 27 in Los Angeles and end in Jacksonville, Fla. on Sept. 24.

“We are so grateful with all the craziness in the world to be able to announce these dates!” write Coheed. “Opener on most dates is an awesome young band called Meet Me @ the Altar. The last 3 shows of the tour will see Carolesdaughter taking MMATA’s place. Can't wait to see you!”

Tickets will go on sale June 18 at 10AM local time via Live Nation . Check out the full list of 2021 U.S. dates below.

Coheed & Cambria + The Used 2021 Tour Dates:

Aug. 27 - Irvine, Calif. @ FivePoint Amphitheatre Aug. 28 -  Mesa, Ariz. @ Mesa Amphitheatre Aug. 30 -  Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Complex Aug. 31 -  Denver, Colo. @ Levitt Pavilion Sept. 02 -  Dallas, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Sept. 04 -  Austin, Texas @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater Sept. 05 - Houston, Texas @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sept. 07 -  Wichita, Kan. @ WAVE Sept. 08 - St. Louis, Mo. @ St. Louis Music Park Sept. 11 - Columbus, Ohio @ Express Live! Sept. 12 - Cleveland, Ohio @ Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica Sept. 14 - Cincinnati, Ohio @ The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park Sept. 15 - Indianapolis, Ind. @ Amphitheater at White River State Park Sept. 18 - Worcester, Mass. @ The Palladium Sept. 19 - Holmdel, N.J. @ PNC Bank Arts Center Sept. 21 - Baltimore, Md. @ MECU Pavilion Sept. 22 - Raleigh, N.C. @ Red Hat Amphitheater Sept. 24 - Jacksonville, Fla. @ Daily’s Place

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A Day To Remember Announce “Just Some Shows” & “Just Some More Shows”

North American Dates To Feature Support From Special Guests   The Used, The Ghost Inside, Beartooth, Bad Omens, Movements, & Magnolia Park On Select Dates  

Tickets go on sale to the public starting may 12 th on ticketmaster.com    .

A Day To Remember have announced an epic run of new North American tour dates featuring special guests The Used , The Ghost Inside (on select dates), Beartooth , Bad Omens , Movements , and Magnolia Park.  

“Just Some Shows” and “Just Some More Shows” will kick off July 27th in Baltimore, MD and traverse the country through a performance on October 28th in Irvine, CA. The general on-sale for tickets begins on Thursday, May 12th at 10:00AM local time at Ticketmaster.com . Full tour routing listed below. 

Citi is the official card of the JUST SOME SHOWS / JUST SOME MORE SHOWS 2022 Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, May 9th at 10am local time until Wednesday, May 11th at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.  

Earlier this year A Day To Remember shared a new version of their single “Re-Entry” featuring Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 – LISTEN HERE . 

“Re-Entry” originally appeared on A Day To Remember’s latest studio album You’re Welcome .  Available on all streaming platforms , You’re Welcome is largely produced by Colin “DOC” Brittain and the band’s own Jeremy McKinnon.  The 14-track collection represents another major step forward for the acclaimed quintet, and is highlighted by singles “ Brick Wall ,” “ Degenerates ,” “ Resentment ,” “ Mindreade r” and the #1 Active Rock hit single “ Everything We Need .” 

Having amassed over 1.6 billion global streams to date, A Day To Remember incited critical praise with You’re Welcome . Revolver declared, “[Brick Wall] showcases the group’s signature mix of post-hardcore heaviness and pop-rock hooks,” while Consequence of Sound declared, “the Florida rockers’ new LP will continue their wide-ranging sound that ranges from infectious pop-punk to crushing metalcore. ”  Forbes put it simply, “ It seems A Day To Remember are only just getting started,” and Billboard praised the band’s “ anthemic hybrid of post-hardcore and pop.”   Popdust avowed A Day To Remember “ have all but mastered their niche melding of pop melodies with hardcore music,” while Kerrang! attested, “‘You’re Welcome’ is the perfect soundtrack to this strange and uncertain world that we live in .” 

Last year, A Day To Remember also unveiled their first-ever acoustic livestream event, “A Day To Remember: Live at The Audio Compound . ”   After premiering the stream on their official YouTube channel , the band surprised audiences everywhere by releasing the career-spanning nine-song performance as an acoustic live album, Live At The Audio Compound , which is available now on all DSPs . 

A DAY TO REMEMBER  

“JUST SOME SHOWS” & “JUST SOME MORE SHOWS”  

WITH SUPPORT FROM THE USED, THE GHOST INSIDE (SELECT DATES), BEARTOOTH, BAD OMENS, MOVEMENTS, AND MAGNOLIA PARK   

~The Used | ^The Ghost Inside |*Beartooth | #Bad Omens | @Movements | %Magnolia Park | +Non Live Nation Dates  

July 27 – Baltimore, MD – Pier SixPavilion *# 

July 29 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica +^*# 

July 30 – Toronto, ON – RBC Echo Beach ^*# 

July 31 – Quebec City, QC – Agora du Vieux-Port ^*# 

August 2 – Providence, RI – Bold Point Park *# 

August 3 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheater *# 

August 5 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater ^# 

August 6 – Reading, PA – Santander Arena ^# 

August 7 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summer Stage ^*# 

August 9 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE +*# 

August 11 – Chattanooga, TN – Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Auditorium *# 

August 12 – Maryland Heights, MO – Saint Louis Music Park *# 

August 14 – Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove *# 

August 16 – Cedar Rapids, IA – McGrath Amphitheatre *# 

August 17 – Oshkosh, WI – Oshkosh Arena +*# 

August 20 – Wichita, KS – The Wave (Outdoors) +*# 

August 21 – Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheater +^*# 

August 23 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park *# 

August 24 – Pikeville, KY – Appalachian Wireless Arena *# 

August 26 – Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park *# 

August 27 – Portsmouth, VA – Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion *# 

October 1 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Bay Center +~@% 

October 2 – Birmingham, AL – Legacy Arena at The BJCC ~% 

October 4 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Zoo Amphitheatre @% 

October 7 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park @% 

October 8 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival 

October 10 – Portland, OR – Theater of the Clouds +~@% 

October 11 – Seattle, WA – WAMU +~@% 

October 13 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Resort & Casino +~@% 

October 14 – Spokane, WA – TBA ~@% 

October 16 – Grand Junction, CO – Amphitheatre at Las Colonias Park +~@% 

October 18 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater @% 

October 22 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young Festival 

October 23 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young Festival 

October 25 – Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Amphitheater ~@% 

October 27 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Amphitheater +~@% 

October 28 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre ^@% 

October 29 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young Festival 

ABOUT A DAY TO REMEMBER:  

Since their formation in 2003, A Day To Remember quietly emerged as arguably the biggest underground band in the world. The Florida group affirmed this status by achieving one platinum album, one gold album, one platinum single, and four gold singles. Not to mention, each full-length record ascended to #1 on the Billboard Rock, Indie, and/or Alternative Charts with 2016’s Bad Vibrations bowing at #2 on the Billboard Top 200. They’ve put up unprecedented numbers for a rock act in the 21 st century, generating 850 million Spotify streams, 500 million YouTube views, and sales of three million-plus units. They’ve also packed arenas on continental tours and attracted a worldwide audience consisting of millions. Additionally, A Day To Remember successfully launched their own Self Help Festival in 2014, which continues going strong. Plus, everyone from Marshmello to Pierce The Veil has sought them out for collaborations. All of which explains why Rolling Stone called them “An Artist You Need To Know . ”   

A Day To Remember is: Jeremy McKinnon (vocals), Alex Shelnutt (drums), Kevin Skaff (guitar, vocals), and Neil Westfall (guitar, vocals). 

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The post The Used and Pierce the Veil Announce 2023 North American Co-Headlining Tour appeared first on Consequence .

The Used and Pierce the Veil have announced a 2023 co-headlining North American tour.

Dubbed “The Creative Control Tour,” the outing kicks off May 23rd in Austin, Texas, and runs through July 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona. Don Broco, Deathbyromy, and girlfriends will provide support on select dates.

An artist pre-sale starts today (March 7th) at 1 p.m. ET using the code JAWS  via Ticketmaster , while a Live Nation pre-sale begins Wednesday (March 8th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code OPENER . General ticket sales begin Friday (March 10th) at 10 a.m. local time.

Alternatively, you can pick up tickets via StubHub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

“We are more than excited for our first tour with Pierce the Veil,” commented The Used’s Bert McCracken in a press announcement. “We’ve been friends for a long time and I know this will be a tour to remember. We can’t wait for you to hear some new music! We are so fucking stoked and will see you there! Love, Bert.”

Added Pierce the Veil: “Every night of this tour is going to be a celebration. Our new album The Jaws of Life is finally out and we get to share this monumental moment with our beautiful fans. We are so honored to hit the road with The Used, a band that has inspired us since the very beginning. It’s going to be unlike any other tour we’ve done and we can’t wait to see you there. Thank you for all of your support. Love, PTV.”

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The Used and Pierce the Veil’s 2023 North American Tour Dates: 05/23 – Austin, TX @ HEB Center at Cedar Park ^ + 05/24 – New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore Harrah’s New Orleans ^ + 05/26 – Tampa, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa ^ + 05/27 – Boca Raton, FL @ Mizner Park Amphitheatre ^ + 05/28 – St. Augustine, FL @ The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre ^ + 05/30 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy ^ + 05/31 – Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium ^ + 06/02 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach ^ + 06/03 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion ^ + 06/06 – Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union LIVE! * ^ + 06/07 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre ^ + 06/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at the Mann ^ + 06/10 – Portland, ME @ Cross Insurance Arena ^ + 06/12 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage ^ # 06/13 – New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 ^ # 06/15 – Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Event Center ^ # 06/16 – Moon Twp, PA @ UPMC Events Center ^ # 06/17 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center ^ # 06/19 – Grand Rapids, MI @ GLC Live at 20 Monroe ^ # 06/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center ^ # 06/22 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee ^ # 06/24 – Dallas, TX @ Fair Park ^ # 06/28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex (Outdoors) ^ # 06/29 – Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort ^ # 07/01 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre ^ # 07/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre ^ #

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Step aside, summer heat. There’s a new duo that’s determined to make fans sweat this year: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan . After weeks of non-subtle teasers, Charli recently announced she and Sivan are hitting the road together in the fall of 2024. Let’s discuss the details.

On April 11, Charli shared the roster of dates on her Instagram Stories. Fittingly called the Sweat Tour, both pop stars will visit 21 cities across North America and Canada in the fall. Though Charli and Sivan are known for creating dizzying hits ideal for the dance floor at a packed club , they’re going big with their visuals this time around — arena venues big. From New York’s Madison Square Garden to the Kia stadiums in Orlando and Los Angeles, they’re turning the world into their own rave.

On the tour, fans will hear tracks from Sivan’s latest album, Something To Give Each Other, and Charli’s upcoming Brat . For an extra dose of heat, electro-pop singer Shygirl will also star as the tour’s opener.

Charli and Sivan first teased their tour earlier this month, when they rented a billboard at Coachella . Shortly after, Charli posted a picture of a soaked tank top with “sweat” written on the front on Instagram. Fans immediately thought they were releasing another collaboration, as they already have two in their bag: “1999” and “2099.” Then again, an arena-wide tour hits a million times more than another duet.

Here’s everything to know about the Sweat tour.

The Sweat Tour Will Start This Fall

Charli and Sivan’s upcoming tour will start in mid-September in Detroit. After two stops to Canada, the two singers (alongside ShyGirl) will return back to North America until their final stop in Seattle in October.

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• Sept. 26 in Baltimore, MD at CFG Bank Arena
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• Oct. 6 in Orlando, FL at Kia Center
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• Oct. 13 in Phoenix, AZ at Footprint Center
• Oct. 15 in Los Angeles, CA at Kia Forum
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• Oct. 23 in Seattle, WA at Climate Pledge Arena

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Shygirl, London’s own dance-pop singer and DJ, will be opening every show on the tour. It’ll be exciting to see her live, as she abruptly cancelled her 2023 tour with Tinashe due to health reasons.

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Maynard James Keenan's Sessanta tour in Phoenix: Here's what - and who - you'll see on stage

Maynard James Keenan is bringing a tour celebrating his 60th birthday to Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix for two nights, the second of which is his actual 60th birthday — Wednesday, April 17.

The tour is called Sessanta because it’s Italian for 60.

The concerts feature members of A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Primus not only sharing a stage, but joining each other's performances as the night unfolds with all three bands onstage for the duration of the concert.

It's a sequel of sorts to Cinquanta (Italian for 50), a 50th birthday celebration Keenan threw himself at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with members of A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Failure.

We caught up with Keenan, who rose to fame as the singer for Tool in the '90s and became a celebrated winemaker after leaving L.A. for Jerome, Arizona, to talk about the tour before he'd sorted out the details at rehearsal or released the three-song tour EP, “Sessanta E.P.P.P.”

This is what he had to say.

Maynard James Keenan on life as a rock star turning 60

How does it feel to be turning 60?

My ribs hurt.

Yeah, I pulled my ribs somehow yesterday. But yeah, (expletive) like that. You stand up from bed and your knee pops out. And you're like, "I didn't really do anything. Why is that?"

Does it feel like your relationship to what you do has changed much as you've gotten older?

I think it's a better relationship, just figuring out more efficient ways to go about writing, to go about sharing, to go about recording, especially with things progressing with technology. It's just better all around.

In that the technology makes different ways of collaborating possible?

Absolutely. Just in general, being able to get your ideas out. It used to be you'd spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to a studio. And you're kind of writing in a rehearsal space that smells like wet socks and beer. Now I can write in the hotel room.

I can see where that would be a better situation. And this tour is a bit of an extension of what you did with the 50th birthday concerts?

Yeah, absolutely. The rotation where one band will play a few songs and then the next band plays a few songs. It's gonna be fun.

The logistics of A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Primus sharing a stage

And how does the sharing of band members work?

Well, it depends on the song. That's what we're going to rehearsals now to determine, having other special guests on a song or guesting on each other's songs. That will just come down to logistics and what makes sense while we're rehearsing.

You're obviously in A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. Will you be sitting in with Primus, too?

It's hard to say. Once we get into rehearsals, we'll figure out what songs they're actually doing. I don't even know.

There's that poster that says all three bands on stage at the same time. That's not for the length of the concert, is it?

So if there's a song going on that you're not taking part in, are you just hanging out on stage at that point?

Yeah, there's couches. We might be sharing cake. We're all on stage.

Oh, nice. I saw a quote from Les Claypool where he said, 'What a glorious notion of combining three bands that all start with the letter P.' Was that at all a factor in having Primus on there, that they start with a P as well?

No, it just ended up being accidental, honestly. We had tried to approach a couple other bands. It basically comes down to logistics. Who's touring? Who's writing? Who's even willing to do a thing like this?

Who are the other bands that you approached?

Pixies but they were touring right at the same time. A couple others. The names escape me at the moment.

I was thinking Primus might have been a choice because you have a relationship with Tim Alexander. Is that how they became involved?

Absolutely. I was gonna try to get him down anyway. And Les and (Primus guitarist) Larry (LaLonde) and Tim are all very open-minded. They've jammed with a lot of different people. Les' relationship with Mr. (Sean) Lennon makes sense. Some of his other projects. It just seemed to fit right.

I saw an Instagram post where you said, 'We may even play new songs.' Have you written new songs with these concerts in mind? Or do you plan on writing new songs?

There's an EP. We basically each did a song I had been working on in Logic, just kind of getting songs in the folder, getting my head around the process of using Logic, and I ended up with 60 things in the folder. I started developing them further and realized, 'Oh, this kind of sounds like a Primus song. This kind of sounds like a Puscifer song. This sounds like A Perfect Circle song.'

So we each recorded them individually and they're all gonna be on the same EP available at the concert. I think there's only, like, a handful at each show that are available. And then we're gonna probably sell them online on the actual tour website.

You're also releasing recordings of that 50th birthday concert. Did putting these concerts together inspire you to circle back to those recordings?

They're coming out now because it just took forever to get our (expletive) together. They've been bumbling around and we kind of mixed them, then we forgot about them. Then, we come back around to them and other things happened. COVID. My other three bands released albums. We just kind of lost track of it. Then last year, it was ready to go but we were like, "We might as well just wait 'til the 60th birthday party."

What's next for Keenan's bands A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Tool?

These are A Perfect Circle's first live shows since 2018. How does it feel to be getting back together with those guys?

I think it's gonna be fun. It was in the past. Like I said, rehearsals are starting pretty soon. So we're blowing the dust off.

With all those song ideas you got together to arrive at these new songs you did for this EP, have you given any thought to getting either A Perfect Circle or Puscifer back into the studio or wherever you'd like to record?

I mean, that's always happening. There's always folders of stuff we're working on. It's just a matter of setting aside the time to do it, to finish it off. But all those things are on the table. Always. That's what we do.

There's obviously been a lot of talk surrounding Tool recording a new album. How are things going on that front?

As you know, I wait for them to tell me that there's something to discuss. Then I'm all ears.

So it hasn't gotten to the point where you're adding to the creative process yet?

I'm not even gonna say a word about it. Because if I even mention a syllable, that's the whole article and my 60th birthday party gets a sidenote, right?

Why Keenan opened a fried chicken restaurant in Arizona

I hear you just opened a new fried chicken place in Cottonwood.

What can you tell me about that?

That it's delicious and you should drive north and check it out. It's a little Southwestern twist on hot chicken .

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What inspired you to open a chicken place?

Mead, to be honest. I was making mead right around COVID lockdown. I'd had a bunch of honey wines and people kind of overdo them. They age them in a whiskey barrel. They add cherries and blueberries and a bunch of garbage. I just wanted to try an actual honey wine to see what it was like. So I dove in. We made the first one. It was delicious. I ended up carbonating it and putting in a Puscifer can, so it's a Puscifer Queen Bee Mead.

Then once we tried it, the first thought that I had was that it would pair perfectly with my fried chicken recipe. So I started experimenting with that, kind of pairing them together to see if that worked and it was delicious. So that's why we're doing the chicken actually, because of the mead.

Sessanta will have special guests and birthday cake for Maynard

Is there anything else about the birthday concerts that you think people should know?

I think it's just strap in because it's probably not something you're used to. You're used to an opening band, maybe another opener. And then the headliners. It's not laid out like that. It's much more festive. And the rotation, if we do it right. We pulled it off on Cinquanta. It was pretty flawless. So hopefully we can do it this time. It's a different setup a little bit from last time, but it's gonna be fun.

When you talked about sofas and cake and being on stage with the other bands even when you're not performing, is the idea to make it feel more like a party than a concert up there?

Both. I think you can have both, right? A concert party. Party concert.

Sure. It sounds like a great time.

It's gonna be fun. We'll have special guests and people you didn't expect to be up there. Can't really nail anybody down. Because if I say it out loud, then they'll have a dentist appointment and they won't show up. Musicians are flaky like that. So I can't really announce special guests.

But you anticipate there there could be special guests in assorted cities on the tour.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's the plan.

Maynard James Keenan's Sessanta concerts

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16-17.

Where: Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, 2121 N. 83rd Ave., Phoenix.

Admission: $48.75 and up.

Details: 602-254-7200,  livenation.com .

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Girl in Red is back, baby!

Three years after her first album, the norwegian pop star and taylor swift eras tour opener returns with a polished new record.

Girl in Red’s new album is downright cheerful, and if that doesn’t sound quite on brand, you’re not paying attention. As the title track, “Doing It Again Baby,” unravels from an upbeat, synthy groove into a banjo-forward breakdown, those less in the know might ask: What happened to the homemade bedroom pop that launched Girl in Red (a.k.a. Marie Ulven) from indie stardom to opener for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour?

True, the 25-year-old’s early days as an artist in her native Norway were marked by the wistful singles that have since amassed hundreds of millions of Spotify streams (and also by a relatively successful fingerboarding career ). Dreamy tunes like 2018’s “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” still haunt the playlists of the young and pining: “I don’t want to be your friend/ I want to kiss your lips,” Ulven sings, her muffled voice emoting all the tortured artistry of a teenager in love.

But in the six years since, Ulven has grown up — as a songwriter, as a producer and as a human.

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“It’s like I need to update my profile picture, but I need to do it with my entire discography,” she says over Zoom with a slight SoCal surfer inflection. It’s early April, and Ulven is in Nashville rehearsing for an arena tour that’ll take her across the country before summer and throughout Europe in the fall. She continues talking between bites of room service pancakes. “I feel like this new album is the thing that’s going to set that,” she says. “So that when people think of Girl in Red, they don’t think of a demo I posted in 2016.”

Released last week, “I’m Doing It Again Baby!” is a maximalist sophomore album that, while delivering 27 minutes of polished pop, veers into strange and satisfying new territories for Ulven: Her voice stretches like bubble gum over danceable tracks with hints of Rodrigo-esque punk . She’s joined on one by fellow Eras alum Sabrina Carpenter. In short, it’s a lot of fun.

That’s not to say there aren’t songs like 2018’s gentle yet discomforting “Summer Depression” — songs that deal head-on with Ulven’s struggles with mental health. On “Ugly Side,” there’s a particularly vulnerable spoken-word example: “The people I love the most are the ones who get the worst of me/ And I don’t like that.”

So despite a swing between genres, for Ulven it’s the right next step. That’s in no small part because of her growth as a producer; she’s now worked with such big-name producers as Finneas (Billie Eilish’s brother) and, most recently, Norwegian composer Matias Tellez.

“I hear things differently now,” Ulven says. “It’s a natural progression for me, sonically, because I’m just better at what I do.”

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Ulven has kept busy despite the three-year gap between albums. For one, she’s been hitting the festival circuit hard. For another, she was scooped up by reigning pop queen Swift for her record-breaking Eras Tour last summer. Although she had conflicting headlining shows, she couldn’t say no. By June, she had jetted off to Chicago to embark on a string of Northwestern shows.

“If [Swift] comes knocking, you do whatever she f---ing says,” Ulven says, half joking.

As Ulven herself notes, we live in a time when the biggest names in pop belong to women. And although she is eager to join those ranks, she’s hesitant to be put in a box with queer contemporaries. It’s true that explicitly gay female artists are having a moment in pop: Look no further than Reneé Rapp or Chappell Roan. But there was a time not long ago when the internet memed the phrase “Do you like Girl in Red?” meaning, “Are you gay?” For Ulven, it got tiresome.

“I would constantly get messages from people being like, ‘I’m not gay, but I really like [your 2018 single] “We Fell in Love in October,”’” she says. “I was like, ‘Why are you saying that? That’s so weird.’”

Instead, her sexuality has been a background to her art only insomuch as her love songs are about women — such as the new album’s delicate “A Night to Remember,” a hopeful, drum-driven bop about meeting her girlfriend at a bar.

But Ulven’s favorite song on the record, she says as she clutches a vinyl copy to her chest, is the opener, “I’m Back,” which explains her absence from music (“I was gone for a minute ’cause I went to get help”). It’s just gentle enough to ease listeners in to the rest of the track list’s high-energy bangers, a sort of introductory lullaby to an album that has an explicitly eager name. Ulven says she cries when she listens to it and cries when she plays it. “It feels like the song that most correctly and truly reflects my reality,” she says.

“I’m Back” is also cheery, certainly, but in a way that feels earned. “Sometimes I get bit by the dark/ It spreads into my heart, takes over me,” Ulven sings, then answers her own doubts: “I believe I will laugh/ I believe it will pass/ I believe there’s hope for me.”

April 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. at the Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. theanthemdc.com . Saturday sold out; Sunday tickets $45-$95.

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It’s the first day of the Trump trial and just walking out the door in my house. It’s a beautiful day, 6:11 AM. The thing that keeps running through my head is it’s kind of amazing that hundreds of jurors are going to show up at the Manhattan courthouse. And some of them are going to know what they’re there for — probably talking to their friends, their relatives about it.

Some of them are going to learn this morning talking to other jurors in line, asking what all the fuss is about. But I really do imagine that there’s going to be at least one potential juror who, headphones on, getting into court. Here they’re going to be there for the first criminal trial of Donald J. Trump. And just, I mean, how would you react?

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today, what it’s been like inside the lower Manhattan courtroom, where political and legal history are being made? My colleague, Jonah Bromwich, on the opening days of the first criminal trial of a US President. It’s Thursday, April 18.

Is that his mic? Hi, there.

Hello. How are you?

I’m doing good.

OK. Thank you for coming in, Jonah —

Thank you for having me.

— in the middle of a trial. Can you just explain why you’re able to even be here?

Sure. So we happen to be off on Wednesdays during trial, so.

We being not “The New York Times,” but the courts.

That’s right.

Which is why we’re taping with you. And because we now have two full court days of this history-making trial now under our belts. And the thing about this trial that’s so interesting is that there are no cameras in the courtroom for the wider world.

There’s no audio recordings. So all we really have is and your eyes and your notebook, maybe your laptop. And so we’re hoping you can reconstruct for us the scene of the first two days of this trial and really the highlights.

Yeah, I’d be happy to. So on Monday morning, I left the subway. It’s before 7:00 AM. The sun is just rising over these grandiose court buildings in lower Manhattan.

I’m about to turn left onto Center Street. I’m right in front of the big municipal building.

And I turn onto Center Street. That’s where the courthouses are.

I’m crossing.

And I expected to see a big crowd. And it was even bigger than I had anticipated.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Now, I finally see the crowd.

You have camera banks. You have reporters. You have the beginnings of what will eventually become a protest. And you have this most New York thing, which is just a big crowd of people.

[CHUCKLES]: Who just know something is going on.

That’s right. And what they know is going on is, of course, the first trial of an American president.

All right, I’m passing the camera, folks. Camera, camera, camera, camera. Here we go.

Let’s start with Sharon Crowley live outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

I want to get right to ABC’S Aaron Katersky who’s outside of the courthouse.

Robert Costa is following it outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Bob, I saw the satellite trucks lined up all in a row. Good morning.

Talk to us how we got here exactly.

So this is the case that was brought by the Manhattan district attorney. So prosecutors have accused Donald Trump of covering up the actions of his former fixer, Michael Cohen, after Cohen paid hush money to Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels had a story about having had sex with Donald Trump, which Trump has always denied.

Cohen paid her money, and then Trump reimbursed Cohen. And prosecutors say that Trump essentially defrauded the American people because he hid this information that could have been very important for the election from those people when he reimbursed Cohen.

Right. And as I remember it, he also misrepresented what that reimbursement was. Claimed it was a legal fee when, in fact, it was just reimbursing Michael Cohen for a hush money payment.

Exactly, yeah. He definitely didn’t say reimbursement for hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. It’s a cover up case. It’s a case about hiding information you don’t want people to see.

Right. And of course, the context of all this is that it is in the middle of a presidential election. It’s 2016. Trump wants to keep this secret, prosecutors allege, so that the American public doesn’t know about it and potentially hold it against him.

Right. And prosecutors are telling a story about election interference. They’re saying that Trump interfered with an election. And Trump himself is also using the phrase “election interference.” But he’s painting the trial itself as election interference as he now runs again in 2024.

Fascinating.

And because we’re in Manhattan, and because the jury pool is going to be largely Democratic, and the judge is a Democrat, and the district attorney is a Democrat, Trump keeps claiming he cannot get a fair shake. This is democrat central. And in democrat central, Trump doesn’t have a chance.

OK. So, what happens once you actually enter the courthouse?

Outside, there’s all this fanfare. But inside, it’s a little bit business as usual. So I go up to the 15th floor, and I walk into the courtroom, and I sit down, and it’s the same old courtroom. And we’re sitting and waiting for the former president.

Around 9:30, Trump walks in. He looks thin. He looks a little tired, kind of slumping forward, as if to say with his body like let’s get this over with. Here we go.

The judge walks in a little bit after that. And we think we’re all set for the trial to start, but that’s not what happens here. And in fact, there are a series of legal arguments about what the trial is going to look like and what evidence is going to be allowed in.

So, for example, prosecutors ask that they be allowed to admit into evidence headlines from “The National Enquirer” that were attacks on Trump’s 2016 opponents — on Ted Cruz, on Marco Rubio, on Ben Carson.

Because prosecutors are in some sense putting Trump’s 2016 campaign on trial. These headlines are a big part of that because what prosecutors say they show is that Trump had this ongoing deal with “The National Enquirer.” And the publisher would promote him, and it would publish damaging stories about his opponents. And then crucially, it would protect Trump from negative stories. And that’s exactly what prosecutors say happened with Stormy Daniels. That “The National Enquirer” tipped Cohen off about Stormy Daniels trying to sell her story of having had sex with Donald Trump, which he denies. And that led to the hush money payment to her. So what prosecutors are doing overall with these headlines is establishing a pattern of conduct. And that conduct, they say, was an attempt to influence the election in Trump’s favor.

And the judge agrees. He’s going to admit this evidence. And this is a pretty big win for the prosecution. But even though they win that one, they’re not winning everything.

They lose some important arguments here. One of them was that after the Access Hollywood tape came out, there were allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump. And you know this, Michael, because you reported two of them — two of the three in question at this very trial.

Prosecutors had hoped to talk about those during trial in front of the jury to show the jurors that the Trump campaign was really, really focused on pushing back against bad press in the wake of the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump seemed to describe sexual assault. That was a big problem for the campaign. Campaign did everything it could to push back, including against these allegations that surfaced in the wake of the tape.

But the judge, saying that the allegations are hearsay — that they’re based on the women’s stories — says absolutely not. That is incredibly prejudicial to the defendant.

Interesting.

And that Donald Trump would actually not get a fair trial were those allegations to be mentioned. And so he will not let those in. The jurors will not hear about them.

So this is a setback, of course, for the prosecution, a victory for Trump’s legal team.

It’s a setback. And it also just shows you how these pre-trial motions shape the context of the trial. Think of the trial as a venue like a theater or an athletic contest of some sort. And these pre-trial motions are about what gets led into the arena and what stays out. The sexual assault allegations — out. “The National Enquirer” headlines — in.

OK. And how is Trump sitting there at the defense table reacting to these pre-trial motion rulings from the judge?

Well, as I’ve just said, this is very important stuff for his trial.

Right. Hugely important.

But it’s all happening in legal language, and I’m decoding it for you. But if you were sitting there listening to it, you might get a little lost, and you might get a little bored. And Trump, who is not involved in these arguments, seems to fall asleep.

Seems to fall asleep — you’re seeing this with your own eyes.

What we’re seeing, overall, including our colleague, Maggie Haberman, who’s in the overflow room and has a direct view of Trump’s face — I’m sitting behind him in the courtroom, so I can’t see his face that well.

You guys are double teaming this.

That’s right. I’m sitting behind him, but Maggie is sitting in front of him. And what she sees is not only that his eyes are closed. That wouldn’t get you to he is asleep.

And we have to be really careful about reporting that he’s asleep, even if it seems like a frivolous thing. But what happens is that his head is dropping down to his chest, and then it’s snapping back up. So you’ve seen that, when a student —

I’ve done that.

(CHUCKLES) Yeah. We all kind of know that feeling of snapping awake suddenly. And we see the head motion, and it happens several times.

Lawyers kind of bothering him, not quite shaking him, but certainly trying to get his attention. And that head snapping motion, we felt confident enough to report that Trump fell asleep.

During his own criminal trial’s opening day.

Does someone eventually wake him up?

He wakes up. He wakes up. And in fact, in the afternoon, he’s much more animated. It’s almost as if he wants to be seen being very much awake.

Right. So once these pre-trial motions are ruled on and Trump is snapped back to attention, what happens?

Well, what happens in the courtroom is that the trial begins. The first trial of an American president is now in session. And what marks that beginning is jurors walking into the room one by one — many of them kind of craning their necks over at Donald Trump, giggling, raising their eyebrows at each other, filing into the room, and being sworn in by the judge. And that swearing in marks the official beginning of the trial.

The beginning is jury selection, and it’s often overlooked. It’s not dramatized in our kind of courtroom dramas in the same way. But it’s so important. It’s one of the most important parts of the case. Because whoever sits on the jury, these are the 12 people who are going to decide whether Trump is guilty or whether Trump is innocent.

So how does jury selection actually look and feel and go?

So, jury selection is a winnowing process. And in order to do that, you have to have these people go through a bunch of different hurdles. So the first hurdle is, after the judge describes the case, he asks the group — and there are just short of 100 of them — whether they can be fair and impartial. And says that if they can’t, they should leave. And more than half the group is instantly gone.

So after we do this big mass excusal, we’re left with the smaller group. And so now, jurors are getting called in smaller groups to the jury box. And what they’re going to do there is they’re going to answer this questionnaire.

And this part of the process is really conducted by the judge. The lawyers are involved. They’re listening, but they’re not yet asking questions of the jurors themselves.

And what’s on the questionnaire?

Well, it’s 42 questions. And the questions include, their education, their professional histories, their hobbies, what they like to do whether you’re a member of QAnon or Antifa.

Whether you’re far left or far right.

That’s right. Whether you’ve read “The Art of the Deal,” Trump’s book, which some prospective jurors had.

Right. It was a bestseller in its time.

That’s right. And some of it can be answered in yes/no questions, but some of it can be answered more at length. So some of the prospective jurors are going very, very fast. Yes, no, no, no, yes.

Right. Because this is an oral questionnaire.

That’s right. But some of them are taking their time. They’re expanding on their hobbies. So the potential juror in seat 3, for example, is talking about her hobbies. And she says some running, hiking. And then she said, I like to go to the club, and it got a huge laugh. And you get that kind of thing in jury selection, which is one of the reasons it’s so fun. It’s the height of normality in this situation that is anything but normal.

Right. The most banal answer possible delivered in front of the former president And current Republican nominee for president.

Well, that’s one of the fascinating parts about all this, right? is that they’re answering in front of Trump. And they’re answering questions about Trump in front of Trump. He doesn’t react all that much. But whenever someone says they’ve read “The Art of the Deal —” and there are a few of those — he kind of nods appreciatively, smiles. He likes that. It’s very clear. But because there are so many questions, this is taking forever, especially when people are choosing to answer and elaborate and digress.

This is when you fall asleep.

This Is. When I would have fallen asleep if I were a normal person.

And by the end of the day. Where does jury selection stand?

Well, the questionnaire is another device for shrinking that jury pool. And so the questionnaire has almost these little obstacles or roadblocks, including, in fact, a question that jurors have seen before — whether they would have any problem being fair and impartial?

Hmm. And they ask it again.

They’re asked it again. And they’re asked in this more individualized way. The judge is questioning them. They’re responding.

So, remember that woman who said she liked to go to the club got a big laugh. She reaches question 34. And question 34 reads, “Do you have any strong opinions or firmly-held beliefs about former President Donald Trump or the fact that he is a current candidate for president that would interfere with your ability to be a fair and impartial juror?” She said, yes, she does have an opinion that would prevent her from being fair and impartial. And she, too, is excused.

So that’s how it works. People answer the questionnaire, and they get excused in that way, or they have a scheduling conflict once they reach the jury box. And so to answer your question, Michael. At the end of day one, given all these problems with the questionnaire and the length of time it’s taken to respond to and people getting dismissed based on their answers, there is not a single juror seated for this trial.

And it’s starting to look like this is going to be a really hard case for which to find an impartial jury.

That’s the feeling in the room, yeah.

We’ll be right back.

So Jonah, let’s turn to day 2. What does jury selection look like on Tuesday?

So when the day begins, it looks almost exactly like it looked when the day ended on Monday. We’re still with the questionnaire, getting some interesting answers. But even though it feels like we’re going slow, we are going.

And so we’ve gone from about 100 people to now there’s about 24 the room there’s 18 the jury box. And by the time we hit lunch, all those people have answered all those questions, and we are ready for the next step in the process.

Voir dire. And what it is the heart of jury selection. This is the point where the lawyers themselves finally get to interview the jurors. And we get so much information from this moment because the lawyers ask questions based on what they want out of the jurors.

So the prosecution is asking all these different kinds of questions. The first round of wajir is done by a guy named Joshua Steinglass, a very experienced trial lawyer with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. And he’s providing all these hypotheticals. I’ll give you one example because I found this one really, really interesting. He provides a hypothetical about a man who wants his wife killed and essentially hires a hitman to do it. And what he asked the jurors is, if that case were before you, would you be able to see that the man who hired the hitman was a part of this crime?

And of course, what he’s really getting at is, can you accept that even though Michael Cohen, Trump’s fixer, made this payment, Trump is the guy who hired him to do it?

That’s right. If there are other people involved, will jurors still be able to see Donald Trump’s hands behind it all?

Fascinating. And what were some of the responses?

People mostly said, yes, we accept that. So that’s how the prosecution did it.

But the defense had a totally different method of voir dire. They were very focused on their client and people’s opinions about their client.

So what kind of questions do we get from them?

So the lawyer, Todd Blanche, is asking people, what do you make of President Trump? What do you think of President Trump?

And what are some of the responses to that?

Well, there’s this incredible exchange with one of the jurors who absolutely refuses to give his opinion of Donald Trump. They go back and forth and back and forth. And the juror keeps insisting you don’t need to know my opinion of him. All you need to know is that I’m going to be fair and impartial, like I said. And Blanch pushes, and the guy pushes back. And the only way the guy budges is he finally kind of confesses almost at the end that, yes, I am a Democrat, and that’s all we get.

And what ends up happening to this potential juror?

Believe it or not, he got dismissed.

[LAUGHS]: I can believe it. And of course, it’s worth saying that this guy and everybody else is being asked that question just feet from Trump himself.

That’s right. And you might think you were going to get a really kind of spicy, like, popcorn emoji-type exchange from that. But because these are now jurors who have said they can be fair and impartial, who, to some extent, want to be on this jury or at least wouldn’t mind being on this jury, they’re being very restrained.

Mostly, what they are emphasizing — much like that guy just described dis — is that they can be fair. They can be impartial. There’s one woman who gives this really remarkable answer.

She says, I thought about this last night. I stayed up all night. I couldn’t sleep, thinking about whether I could be fair. It’s really important to me, and I can.

What ends up happening to that particular juror?

She’s also dismissed. And she’s dismissed without any reason at all. The defense decides it doesn’t like her. It doesn’t want her on the jury. And they have a certain number of chances to just get rid of jurors — no questions asked.

Other jurors are getting dismissed for cause — I’m doing air quotes with my hands — which means that the lawyers have argued they actually revealed themselves through their answers or through old social media posts, which are brought up in the courtroom, to be either non-credible, meaning they’ve said they can be fair and they can’t, or somehow too biased to be on the jury.

Wait, can I just dial into that for a second? Are lawyers researching the jurors in real time going online and saying — I’m making this up — but Jonah Bromwich is a potential juror, and I’m going to go off into my little corner of the courtroom and Google everything you’ve ever said? Is that what’s happening in the room?

Yeah, there’s a whole profession dedicated to that. It’s called jury consultant, and they’re very good at finding information on people in a hurry. And it certainly looked as if they were in play.

Did a social media post end up getting anybody kicked off this jury?

Yes, there were posts from 2016 era internet. You’ll remember that time as a very heated one on the internet, Facebook memes are a big thing. And so there’s all kinds of lock him up type memes and rhetoric. And some of the potential jurors here have used those. And those jurors are dismissed for a reason.

So we have these two types of dismissals, right? We have these peremptory dismissals — no reason at all given. And we have for cause dismissals.

And the process is called jury selection. But you don’t actually get selected for a jury. The thing is to make it through all these obstacles.

You’re left over.

Right. And so when certain jurors are not dismissed, and they’ve made it through all these stages, by the end of the day, we have gone from zero juror seated to seven jurors who will be participating in Donald Trump’s trial.

Got it. And without going through all seven, just give us a little bit of a sketch of who so far is on this jury. What stands out?

Well, not that much stands out. So we’ve got four men. We’ve got three women. One lives on the Upper East Side. One lives in Chelsea. Obviously, they’re from all over Manhattan.

They have these kind of very normal hobbies like spending time with family and friends. They have somewhat anonymous jobs. We’ve got two lawyers. We’ve got someone who’s worked in sales.

So there’s not that much identifying information. And that’s not an accident . One of the things that often happens with jury selection, whether it be for Donald Trump or for anyone else, is the most interesting jurors — the jurors that kind of catch your attention during the process — they get picked off because they are being so interesting that they interest one or the other side in a negative way. And soon they’re excused. So most of the jurors who are actually seated —

Are not memorable.

Are not that memorable, save one particular juror.

OK. All right, I’ll bite. What do I need to know about that one particular juror?

So let me tell you about a prospective juror who we knew as 374, who will now be juror number five. She’s a middle school teacher from Harlem. And she said that she has friends who have really strong opinions about Trump, but she herself does not. And she insisted several times, I am not a political person.

And then she said this thing that made me quite surprised that the prosecution was fine with having her on the jury. She said, quote, “President Trump speaks his mind, and I’d rather that than someone who’s in office who you don’t know what they’re thinking.”

Hmm. So she expressed approval of President Trump.

Yeah, it was mild approval. But the thing is, especially for the defense in this trial, all you need is one juror. One juror can tie up deliberations in knots, and you can end with a hung jury. And this is actually something that I saw firsthand. In 2019, I was the foreperson on a jury.

How you like that?

Yeah. And the trial was really complicated, but I had thought while we were doing the trial, oh, this is going to be a really easy decision. I thought the defendant in that case was guilty. So we get into deliberations, but there’s this one juror who keeps gumming up the works every time we seem to be making progress, getting a conversation started.

This juror proverbially throws up his hands and says, I am not convicting. This man is innocent. And we talked and we talked. And as the foreperson, I was trying to use all my skills to mediate.

But any time we made any progress, this guy would blow it up. And long story short, hung jury — big victory for the defense lawyer. And we come out of the room. And she points at this juror. The guy —

The defense lawyer.

The defense lawyer points at this juror who blew everything up. And she said, I knew it. I knew I had my guy.

OK. I don’t want to read too much into what you said about that one juror. But should I read between the lines to think that if there’s a hung jury, you wonder if it might be that juror?

That’s what everyone in the courtroom is wondering not just about this juror, but about every single person who was selected. Is this the person who swings the case for me? Is this the person who swings the case against me?

These juries are so complex. It’s 12 people who don’t know each other at the start of the trial and, by the end of the trial, have seen each other every morning and are experiencing the same things, but are not allowed to have talked about the case until deliberations start. In that moment when deliberations start —

You’re going to learn a whole lot about each other.

That’s right. There’s this alchemical moment where suddenly, it all matters. Every personality selected matters. And that’s why jury selection is so important. And that’s why these last two days are actually one of the most important parts of this trial.

OK. So by my math, this trial will require five more jurors to get to 12. I know also they’re going to need to be alternates. But from what you’re saying what looked like a really uphill battle to get an impartial jury or a jury that said it could be impartial — and Trump was very doubtful one could be found — has turned out to not be so hard to find.

That’s right. And in fact, we went from thinking, oh, boy, this is going awfully slowly, to the judge himself saying we could be doing opening arguments as soon as Monday morning. And I think that highlights something that’s really fascinating both about this trial and about the jury selection process overall.

One of the things that lawyers have been arguing about is whether or not it’s important to figure out what jurors’ opinions about Donald Trump are. And the prosecution and, I think, the judge have really said, no, that’s not the key issue here. The key issue is not whether or not people have opinions about Donald Trump.

Right. Who doesn’t have an opinion about Donald Trump?

Exactly. They’re going to. Automatically, they’re going to. The question is whether or not they can be fair and impartial. And the seven people we already have seated, and presumably the five people that we’re going to get over the next few days and however many alternates — we expect six — are all going to have answered that question, not I hate Trump; I love Trump, but I can weigh in on the former president’s innocence or guilt, and I can do it as fairly as humanly possible.

Now, Trump is not happy about this. He said after court yesterday, quote, We have a highly conflicted judge, and he’s rushing this trial.” And I think that he is going to see these beats of the system the criminal justice system as it works on him as he is experiencing it as unfair. That is typically how he talks about it and how he views it.

But what he’s getting is what defendants get. This is the system in New York, in the United States. This is its answer to how do you pick a fair jury? Well, you ask people can you be fair? And you put them through this process, and the outcome is 12 people.

And so I think we’re going to see this over and over again in this trial. We’re going to see Trump experience the criminal justice system.

And its routines.

Yeah, openings, witnesses, evidence, closings. He’s going to go through all of it. And I think, at every turn, it makes sense to expect him to say, well, this is not fair. Well, the judge is doing something wrong. Well, the prosecutors are doing something wrong. Well, the jury is doing something wrong.

But at the end of the day, he’s going to be a defendant, and he’s going to sit, mostly silently if his lawyers can make him do that, and watch this process play itself out. So the system is going to try and treat him like any other defendant, even though, of course —

— he’s not. And he is going to fight back like no other defendant would, like no other defendant could. And that tension, him pushing against the criminal justice system as it strives to treat him, as it would anyone else, is going to be a defining quality of this trial.

Well, Jonah, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

Of course. Thanks so much for having me. [MUSIC PLAYING]

PS, have you ever fallen asleep in a trial?

I have not.

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Political and legal history are being made in a Lower Manhattan courtroom as Donald J. Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to undergo a criminal trial.

Jonah Bromwich, who covers criminal justice in New York, explains what happened during the opening days of the trial, which is tied to Mr. Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star.

On today’s episode

Jonah E. Bromwich , who covers criminal justice in New York for The New York Times.

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Jonah E. Bromwich covers criminal justice in New York, with a focus on the Manhattan district attorney’s office and state criminal courts in Manhattan. More about Jonah E. Bromwich

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