NYS Music 2024

Tag: Farewell Tour

  • Tokyo Police Club Play Final US Show at Irving Plaza

    Tokyo Police Club performed their final show on US soil at Irving Plaza on Thursday, November 20. This was night two of the group’s NYC run for their farewell tour. Opening the show was fellow Canadian indie rock band Born Ruffians. 

    Both Born Ruffians and Tokyo Police Club got their start in Ontario, Canada in the early 2000s. In between songs, Born Ruffians’ Luke Lalonde reminisced on the bands coming up together at the same time. Now getting to perform together on Tokyo Police Club’s final tour, it feels like a bittersweet, full-circle ending. The band has been making their way throughout the US this fall, playing two nights at Irving Plaza before continuing to Canada to finish off their tour.

    Starting their set, Tokyo Police Club played a run through of their 2010 album Champ, followed by additional songs from their nearly two decade discography. The night was filled with nostalgic banter as Dave Monks reminisced on moments the band has experienced together throughout their career. He spoke about performing in New York City for the first time in 2006 and the feeling of stepping out of a rental car to play Mercury Lounge as well as their performance on Letterman.

    Friends since the 4th grade, Tokyo Police Club has amassed a large fan base since choosing to form a band in 2005. With their first EP released in 2006, A Lesson In Crime, they entered the indie rock scene. Coming into the early 2000s, we saw an “indie rock renaissance.” The band was welcomed in, quickly performing festivals with other quintessential bands from this era including Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie.

    Tokyo Police Club will be continuing “The Final Tour” with a run of sold-out shows throughout Ontario, Canada through the end of November. These shows will be the last shows the band plans to play together. At this time, the band has no plans to reunite.

    Setlist: Favourite Food, Favourite Colour, Breakneck Speed, Wait Up (Boots of Danger), Centennial, In a Cave, Juno, Graves, New Blues, Simple Dude, Pigs, Hang Your Heart, Toy Guns, Hands Reversed, End of a Spark, Bambi, Frankenstein, Argentina (Parts I, II, III), Nature of the Experiment, Citizens of Tomorrow, Shoulders & Arms, Listen to the Math, Tessellate

    Encore:The Harrowing Adventures Of..., Ready to Win, Cheer It On, Your English Is Good

  • Foreigner Extends Farewell Tour Due to High Demand – Includes Stop in Hamburg

    Legendary rock band Foreigner has announced the extension of their two-year farewell tour to include several more dates across the US. One of the added dates is August 7, 2025, in Hamburg, NY at the Erie County Fair.

    With more Top 10 hits than Journey, as many as Fleetwood Mac, and ten multi-Platinum albums, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 80 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” and the worldwide #1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” Foreigner still rocks the charts almost 50 years into the game with massive airplay and continued Billboard “Top 200” album success. Streams of FOREIGNER’s hits are over 15 million per week. 

    Foreigner has decided to extend its Farewell Tour and include a celebration of the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Original band members will join them at select shows starting with Foreigner’s sold-out three-week fall residency at the Venetian, Las Vegas. Both Rick Wills and Al Greenwood, who are frequent guests of Foreigner, will sit in with the band they helped create for the entire residency. Discussions are in hand to include Lou Gramm as Foreigner moves toward its 50th Anniversary in 2026. The band’s performances are still so sought after 50 years later that the farewell tour had to be extended – the demand was overwhelming.

    Foreigner Farewell Tour dates announced so far:

    2024 – Oct 25 – Nov 9      Las Vegas, NV – The Venetian

    2025

    Mar 13         Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live @ Seminole Hard Rock

    Mar 15         Clearwater, FL – The BayCare Sound

    Mar 16         St. Augustine, FL – Saint Augustine Amphitheatre

    Jun 11         Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater

    Jun 14         Scottsdale, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Pool

    Jun 20         Reno, NV – Silver Legacy Resort & Casino

    Jun 21         Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live – Sacramento

    Jun 27         Arnolds Park, IA – Arnolds Park Amusement Park

    Jun 29         Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove

    Jul 4            Windsor, ON – Colosseum at Caesars Windsor

    Jul 5            Battle Creek, MI – FireKeepers Casino

    Jul 12          Chippewa Falls, WI – Northern Wisconsin State Fair

    Jul 24          Columbus, OH – Ohio State Fair

    Jul 25          West Bend, WI – Washington County Fair Park

    Jul 26          Mt. Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

    Aug 7          Hamburg, NY – Erie County Fair

    Aug 8          North Lawrence, OH – Neon Nights Country Music Festival

    Aug 28        Vancouver, BC – The Fair at the PNE

    Aug 30        Palmer, AK – Alaska State Fair

    Sep 11        Tulsa, OK – The Cove at River Spirit Casino Resort

    Sep 13        Wright City, MO – Cedar Lake Cellars Winery

    Sep 21        West Springfield, MA – The Big E – Arena

    Oct 3 & 4     Durant, OK – Choctaw Casino – Grand Theater

    Oct 10 & 11 Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena

    Foreigner Live in 1978

    For more information on Foreigner’s Farewell Tour and to purchase tickets to any of the dates, click here.

  • In Focus: Sum 41’s Final NYC Headline Show

    On Monday, May 6 in Brooklyn, at the newly reopened Brooklyn Paramount, Canadian pop-punk sensation Sum 41 took the stage for their farewell performance in New York City.

    Earlier this year the band announced it was calling it quits after 27 years, going out with a bang while celebrating their amazing career. The farewell tour coincides with the release of the new double album, Heaven :x: Hell, which came out March 29 of this year.

    Sum 41

    The bill included opening act Joey Valence & Brae from Pennsylvania, an unexpected hip-hop duo, followed by The Interrupters, who are Los Angeles based and delivered an igniting set complete with confetti in the end.

    To close out the night, Sum 41 of course! Being my first time seeing them, I have to say they put on an epic show, amazing production, filled with pyrotechnics, lasers, a beautiful light show and multiple use of streamers and confetti. A larger-than-life spectacle in a standing-room-only, sold out venue, is definitely the way to go, if you’re really gonna go.

    Sum 41 – Brooklyn Paramount – May 6, 2024

    Setlist: Motivation, The Hell Song, Over My Head (Better Off Dead), No Reason, Underclass Hero, Some Say, Landmines, Dopamine, We’re All to Blame, Walking Disaster, With Me, Makes No Difference, My Direction / No Brains / All Messed Up, Drum Solo, Preparasi a salire, Rise Up, We Will Rock You, Ring of Fire, Pieces, What We’re All About, Fat Lip, Still Waiting

    Encore: Summer, Waiting on a Twist of Fate, In Too Deep

    Encore 2: So Long Goodbye

    The Interrupters at Brooklyn Paramount 05-06-2024

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