John Oates: Celebs Rumors

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Newport Folk Festival is returning to Fort Adams State Park for three days of delicious food and drink, good times and great music.Just a few of the stars on hand this year to deliver the folks-y jams include Lana Del Rey, My Morning Jacket, Maggie Rogers, Jason Isbell and John Oates.Aimee Mann, Billy Strings, Angel Olsen, Goose and Los Lobos will be there too.Heck, even Stephen Colbert’s bandleader Jon Batiste is slated to perform.Don’t forget The Hold Steady either.Seriously, we could do this all day — Newport has a truly exciting three-day lineup planned for music fans.As a result, ticket prices are quite high.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on multi-day general admission passes was $993 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $721 before fees.Want to find out more about the multi-day extravaganza before committing?Here’s everything you need to know and more about the 2023 Newport Folk Festival.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best single and multi-day general admission passes for the Newport Folk Festival can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

The consolidation in the talent representation space continues. Agency for the Performing Arts and music touring agency Artist Group International (AGI) are merging, with the combined full-service agency rebranded as Independent Artist Group (IAG). APA President Jim Osborne is being named CEO of IAG, with Dennis Arfa, founder and CEO of AGI, as Chairman of the Music Division of IAG. Former longtime APA CEO Jim Gosnell will serve on the board of AGI alongside Osborne and Arfa.

APA has taken a big step to fortify its future as a full-service talent agency by combining with touring powerhouse Artist Group Intl. to create the newly named Independent Artist Group, led by APA president Jim Osborne. Osborne will become CEO of Independent Artist Group (IAG), taking over day-to-day management of the firm. Jim Gosnell, APA’s longtime leader, segues into board member role with a mandate to evaluate growth and acquisition opportunities for the new venture. Dennis Arfa, co-founder of Artist Group Intl., will serve as chairman of IAG’s Music division. Artist Intl. Group president Marsha Vlasic becomes vice chairman of music.

Agency for the Performing Arts and Artist Group International, the premier independent music touring agency, have joined forces to create a more powerful full-service agency with one of the top music divisions in the industry. The two agencies have merged and will rebrand as Independent Artist Group, the companies said Wednesday.Jim Osborne, current president of APA is being named CEO of IAG, while Dennis Arfa, founder and CEO of AGI, is being named chairman of the music division of IAG, effective immediately.The board of IAG will consist of Osborne, Arfa and former longtime APA CEO Jim Gosnell, who will spearhead vertical growth opportunities for IAG while passing the baton of running the day-to-day operations of the agency to Osborne.

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Daryl Hall and John Oates are going on tour — just not together.From May 24 through June 9, Daryl Hall and the Daryl’s House Band are taking off on an eight-concert tour that includes stops in Montclair, NJ on May 24, Port Chester, NY on June 7 and Atlantic City, NJ on June 9.His bandmate, John Oates will play five spring shows in California, Nashville and Chicago from April 13 through May 25.At the time of publication, none of Oates’ shows are scheduled to take place in the Northeast.No word on whether either Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will appear at each other’s shows either.With that being said, if you want to see half of Hall and Oates — Hall or Oates — here’s everything you need to know.A complete calendar including all tour dates and venues for Hall’s eight 2023 concerts can be found below.A complete calendar of all John Oates tour dates is listed below.Hall went old school in 2022 and dropped the rare double album.“Before After,” comprised of 30 tracks, features Hall’s signature classic sound — the indefinable center between pop and rock.If you want to hear the double album in its entirety, you can find “Before After” here.Last year, Oates dropped just one song — the sensual single “Pushin’ A Rock” that sounds like it could fit in a playlist next to “She’s Gone,” “Maneater” and “Rich Girl.”In 2023, Oates went a bit more downtempo.

Roy Trakin British synthpop pioneer Howard Jones has signed with Jonathan Wolfson, joining a roster that includes Daryl Hall & John Oates, Loverboy and Fee Waybill’s The Tubes. “Being a proud Gen X-er, I was always a big fan,” said Wolfson. “Not only was Howard Jones a ubiquitous force on MTV, but his eternally optimistic songs have also passed the test of time.  His current live show is a celebration of his legacy, as well as the present, and things to come.” Jones, who was managed from the beginning of his career in the early ‘80s by U.K.-based David Stopps, parted ways “amicably” seven years ago to handle his career with wife Jan, but was introduced to Wolfson by his agent, Paradise Artists’ Rick Shoor, who invited the manager to see the artist’s June show at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticIn another example of it raining when it pours, the greater Los Angeles area, which previously had zero country or Americana festivals, is now going to have two in the coming months. The latest to be announced is the BeachLife Ranch Country & Americana Festival, to take place Sept.

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Chris Willman Music WriterEllen Zoe Golden, a veteran record industry publicist whose clients over the years included Billy Idol, Daryl Hall and John Oates, and Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summits, died at her home in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. The cause of death was brain cancer, which Golden told friends she had been diagnosed with late last fall.

Annie Zaleski A new Tears for Fears album would be cause for celebration for fans under any circumstance, but especially so with “The Tipping Point” being their full-length in 18 years — a gap that has seen a lot of personal and professional tipping points come and go for Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith and their off-again, on-again teaming.Much has changed for Tears and Fears in the nearly two decades since 2004’s “Everybody Loves a Happy Ending” and their just-released seventh album. For starters, they’ve become increasingly popular touchstones for younger musicians and fans, thanks to TikTok popularity and an abundance of samples and covers.

Blake Shelton has been a coach on “The Voice” for each of the show’s 21 seasons. So when he says someone has performed a “Top 3 Blind Audition of All Time,” you know he means it!

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www.strathmore.org.At Merriweather Post Pavilion, the season will launch with a bang over the July 4th weekend with the annual, three-day M3 Rock Festival headlined by Queensryche, Night Ranger, and Kix (7/2-4). Other shows planned this summer, all at reduced capacity with socially distancing, include Rod Stewart with Cheap Trick (8/11), Wilco & Sleater-Kinney (8/20), the Dave Matthews Band (8/21), Alanis Morissette with Garbage and Liz Phair (8/31), Daryl Hall & John Oates with Squeeze and KT Tunstall (9/18), and Pet Shop Boys & New Order (9/28).

Dave Grohl explained the story behind the creation of Foo Fighters classic ‘Everlong’ at Oates Song Fest 7908 over the weekend, and the video is now available to watch back.Oates Fest, organised by Hall & Oates‘ John Oates and his wife Aimee Oates to raise awareness and money for Feeding America, took place on Saturday (March 20).After sharing the tale of how the song came to be, Grohl duly performed a solo acoustic version of the 1997 hit.In the 11-minute video, now available on YouTube following last weekend’s festival, Grohl explained how he hit on what would become the intro to ‘Everlong’ when he began strumming “a cool Sonic Youth chord”.He remembered: “I recorded the song and I brought it back to the guys.

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AS one half of the most successful pop-rock duo of all time, Daryl Hall has seen his songs take on a life of their own. None more so than the 1980 love song You Make My Dreams which has just reached a BILLION streams, 40 years since its initial release.

Sixty years later and Ben E. King’s hit is still bringing people together.

American singer-songwriters Daryl Hall and John Oates - or as they are known by their moniker Hall & Oates - are celebrating a massive career milestone as their classic hit You Make My Dreams reaches 1 billion streams worldwide.

Madonna and Michael Jackson, the duo goofed their way through “the embarrassment” of music videos with blow-dried mullets and “absolutely no regard for our image”. So it comes as no surprise when Oates tells me he’s celebrating the billionth stream of the duo’s 1981 single “You Make My Dreams Come True” not with a hip party but with “some sort of a gluten-free vegetable pizza.

Madonna and Michael Jackson, the duo goofed their way through “the embarrassment” of music videos with blow-dried mullets and “absolutely no regard for our image”. So it comes as no surprise when John Oates tells me he’s celebrating the billionth stream of the duo’s 1981 single “You Make My Dreams Come True” not with a hip party but with “some sort of a gluten-free vegetable pizza.

Hall & Oates’ 1980 track ‘You Make My Dreams’ has become of the most one of their most recognisable songs, ubiquitous in films such as 500 Days of Summer, The Wedding Singer, Dumb & Dumberer and Despicable Me 2.

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With more than 15 years of touring under her belt, KT Tunstall is well accustomed to life on the road. And this summer will be no different, as the 44-year-old Scottish singer is part of Daryl Hall & John Oates' 2020 trek, kicking things off on May 29 at Los Angeles' famed Hollywood Bowl.Before she sets out on tour with Hall & Oates, Tunstall is playing her own headlining shows in Europe, North America (even Hawaii!) and her native UK, the latter supporting Rick Astley and The Barenaked Ladies.

Live Nation has been tapped to exclusively book the open-air music center Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.