Foo Fighters, Rolling Stones, Neil Young Among New Orleans Jazz Fest Headliners
Not long after one of the country’s most-anticipated festivals (Coachella) announced their desert-based line-up, another one down in the bayou said, “Hold my beer.” The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival released its 2024 roster yesterday… and it is stacked.
The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Killers, Chris Stapleton, Jon Batiste and Queen Latifah are confirmed to appear… and those are just the headliners. Also set to play the two-weekend festival are Heart, Vampire Weekend, Anderson.Paak & The Free Nationals, Hozier, Greta Van Fleet, Widespread Panic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and The Beach Boys and many more.
“Jazz Fest,” as it’s commonly known, is set at New Orlean’s Fair Grounds Race Course from April 25th-28th and then May 2nd-5th. Weekend and VIP passes are available now, while single-day tickets drop next month.
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Billie Jo Armstrong Admits Things Got Emotional When He Met Eddie Van Halen:
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong had no problem admitting he was in tears the first time he saw the late great Eddie Van Halen play live in 1984 (at the age of 12). But what surprised the rocker was the legend’s response when they met years later. “It was right when Van Halen got back together with David Lee Roth,” Armstrong recalled. “And then, like, this really insane thing happened, where he kind of stared crying. He looked at me… and he goes, ‘You’re the only one that understands me.’” The Green Day rocker also revealed their interaction ended with what he called “a father-son moment” between the icon and Wolfgang Van Halen.
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Chris Stapleton Used to Ask His Wife to Write Songs with Him on Friday Nights as an Excuse to Have a Date
Chris Stapleton met his wife Morgane at the same publishing house when they were songwriters in 2003. And he admits that he used their professional connection to sneak dates with her.
Quote, "She would make the joke that I'd ask her to write songs at 8:00 on a Friday night. And she wasn't wrong. Some things are electricity. Sometimes you just know those things intuitively about who your love interest is."
He adds, quote, "You can't explain those things. There's an electricity to it. I think when people talk about lightning striking this way, it's not really like a bolt. It's more like a buzz . . .
"And then one day you wake up 16 years later and you're like, 'Okay. I still feel kind of buzzed.'"
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Desmond Child, who wrote '80s hits for KISS, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Alice Cooper, to name a few, says grunge musicians, quote, "weren't really guitarists and couldn't really play."
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