Month: December 2024

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Mariah Carey to release ‘Merry Christmas’ 30th anniversary edition

Mariah Carey at the Variety's 2019 Power Of Women held at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills^ USA on October 11^ 2019.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Mariah Carey’s seminal Merry Christmas album, Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings will re-release the LP with several new variations in December. Each version includes “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” as a bonus track.   To preorder, head HERE.

A new limited edition 2 LP set features Mariah’s full Merry Christmas album on disc one and the newly remastered version of her 1994 St. John of the Divine concert on disc two. This deluxe set, available on December 13th, also includes a 24-page photo booklet of Carey’s Christmas journey and a special Mariah Christmas card, all housed in a hardbound package.

Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” will be the subject of several single offerings with different bonus tracks and previously unreleased new cover art for each; with each single offering is expected to ship around December 6th.

Every year since 2019, Merry Christmas has re-entered the Top 200 charts and ranks as one of the three most commercially successful holiday albums ever made. “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” has climbed to No. 1 on the Hot 100 every year since 2019, and spent 12 total weeks at No. 1 as of November 2023. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1 in 2019, extending her record for the most No. 1s of any solo artist.

Carey also just kicked off Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time, making stops in 20 cities across the country. Performances include the famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, and more before wrapping on December 17th in her hometown of New York City.

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Fall Out Boy, The Killers to headline 2025 Innings Festival

Concert of Fall Out Boy. 22 June 2022. Hella Mega Tour^ Stadspark Groningen^ The Netherlands

Fall Out Boy and The Killers will headline the seventh annual Innings Festival 2025, returning to Arizona’s Tempe Beach Park & Arts Park on February 21 and 22, 2025  for two days of music and baseball-themed fun during Cactus League Spring Training season.

The festival is divided into two weekends, February 21-22 and February 28 – March 1. Fall Out Boy will headline the show on Friday, Feb. 21 while The Killers will headline on Saturday, Feb. 2 A social post read: “Introducing our 2025 All-Star Team 💫  🎫 Sign up at http://inningsfestival.com/innings for tickets”

Among the 18 artists appearing on the lineup for the festival includes Incubus, The Black Keys, Slightly Stoopid, The All-American Rejects, and more on Friday, while Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Boyz II Men, and Jack’s Mannequin among others will take the stage Saturday.

Fans can look forward to interactive baseball activities and numerous appearances by MLB greats Vince Coleman, Evan Longoria, Jim Abbott, Jake Peavy, Brett Butler, plus Olympic medalist and ESPN analyst Jessica Mendoza, and the return of Off the Mound with Ryan Dempster, featuring live interviews and special performances from surprise guests including artists from the festival lineup.

The 2024 edition of Innings Festival saw the rollout of a new festival called Extra Innings the following weekend. Extra Innings 2025 will be back on Friday, Feb. 28, and Saturday, March 1.

For information, head to the festival’s website: HERE.

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Melissa Etheridge announces spring 2025 tour

xMelissa Etheridge at the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year Honoring Jon Bon Jovi at the Convention Center on February 2^ 2024 in Los Angeles^ CA

Melissa Etheridge is set to launch a co-headlining tour with Joss Stone April 18 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and also has planned a series of solo dates, with ore dates “coming soon,” according to Etheridge’s Instagram.

Etheridge will hit the road on April 4th in Waterloo, NY, and will travel up and down the east coast hitting Huntington, NY, Wilmington, DE, Washington DC, and more before the start of her co-headlining tour on April 18th with Grammy-winning, singer/songwriter Joss Stone.

As previously reported, Melissa is featured in the new Max documentary Louder: The Soundtrack of Change, described as “a celebration of fearless women and their music that moved us.” Executive producer Selena Gomez says in the trailer, “A lot of women paved to way for us to be as loud and proud as possible,” with Melissa adding, “I have seen the world change and grow, but today, it seems like things are going backwards.”

Tickets for all tour dates are available on: MelissaEtheridge.com.

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Watch the trailer for RM’s Documentary ‘Right People, Wrong Place’

RM of BTS arrives at the Forum Los Angeles in Inglewood^ CA. Los Angeles^ California / USA - December 6 2019

HYBE and CJ 4DPLEX have released the official trailer for RM‘s upcoming documentary, Right People, Wrong Place, which sees the BTS member open up about living his life. RM says in the trailer: “I have no idea what lies ahead, but it feels like this is what I wanted to do from the beginning.”

As shared in a press release along with the trailer, RM’s documentary will focus on the eight months in which he wrote and recorded his sophomore solo album, Right Place, Wrong Person, released on May 24, 2024, while also “reflecting both the continuous challenges of the person he is off the stage (Kim Namjoon) and his genuine commitment to and love for his art.”

Right People, Wrong Place is scheduled to have its global release on December 5. Lee Seok-jun directs the documentary while Sanyan, Junkyard, Jang Se-hoon Son Ji-min will be making appearances alongside RM.

RM: Right People, Wrong Place premieres December 5; watch the trailer HERE.

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