LOS ANGELES (AP) – Van Halen is postponing some dates on its summer concert tour.

A source familiar with the tour who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that some of the band’s long-scheduled performances this summer will be postponed. The group’s website lists tour dates through June 26.
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Los Angeles (dpa) – Country music’s biggest stars are in Las Vegas for Sunday night’s Academy of Country Music Awards.

With nine nominations for the prestigious awards, superstar Kenny Chesney leads a field of performers in which Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift all scored multiple nods.
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Explosive rock outfit TRIBES have been hailed “the best American band in Britain” by NME and now set their sights on the country whose music they love so much—America, with a set of U.S. tour dates beginning December 7 at Great Scott in Boston, MA. (more…)

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Foo Fighters will headline the closing concert of this year’s sold-out BlizzCon®, taking place October 21-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center. While tickets to the convention are currently sold out, viewers can watch at home by ordering a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, offering comprehensive live coverage of the event (including Foo Fighters’ performance) globally over the Internet and also on DIRECTV® in the United States.
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Make way for Vajra, the musical alter ego created by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Annamaria Pinna, during her self-imposed exile in India. Vajra released single ‘Inside the Flame’ from the forthcoming debut album ‘Pleroma’. “Inside the Flame” is a hauntingly dark and hypnotic track that immediately commands one’s attention.
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