The Eminem-produced STANS documentary detailing the inner workings of superfandom is slated to arrive in the U.S. on Aug. 7, and the film will be in just over 135 AMC theaters for one weekend only through Aug. 10.
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Directed by Steven Leckart, STANS debuted to applause from critics at the inaugural SXSW London Screen Festival in June. U.S. tickets are available for purchase now along with the soundtrack’s pre-order, which boasts previously unreleased music, while international tickets will go on sale on July 24. For global fans, Trafalgar Releasing is set to launch STANS in more than 50 territories and 1,600 theaters worldwide also on Aug. 7.
The trailer delivers a snapshot of images and visuals throughout Em’s career while he’s being peppered with popular questions from fans about his personal life, family, music and fame. To close out the clip, he sits down for what appears to be an interview. “What’s your first question?” he asks.
STANS is set to examine Eminem’s iconic career through the eyes of his most rabid fans over his nearly three decades in the spotlight. Slim Shady’s prominent collaborators contributed to the doc along with the fans, whom he provided the soundtrack to their lives.
The documentary was based on the 2000 hit of the same name, “Stan,” which arrived in May that year as the third single from The Marshall Mathers LP. Produced by 45 King, the storytelling track about an obsessive fan peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has more than 1 billion streams on Spotify.
“Stan” has even become common vernacular in the music world for crazed fans, as the word was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2019.
Eminem made his participation official when he took to social media in 2024 to call for his most diehard fans to get involved.
In addition to Em’s Shady Films, DIGA Studios, Fuqua Films and MTV Entertainment Studios are all on board as producers of the poignant documentary.
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Amazon Prime Day has become the major sale event next to Black Friday to score slashed prices across every possible shopping category while also giving you a chance to do some early holiday shopping. The bi-annual event ended on Friday (July 11), but that doesn’t mean you still can’t snag steals on everything from fashion, tech, beauty and video games.
Whether you’re searching for gifts for the music lover in your life or just need to refresh your wardrobe for the fall season, you can rely on Amazon in order to score deep discounts on high-quality items. Major brands across all categories are celebrating the upcoming long weekend with post Prime Day sales that’ll keep the money saving opportunities going.
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The estate of legendary British blues guitarist Peter Green has finalized a deal with Primary Wave Music, transferring ownership of his Rattlesnake music publishing catalog, rights to all his compositions, and select recordings by the Fleetwood Mac co-founder. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Years before they were soft-rocking themselves to superstardom with the help of two young Californians — one of whom is also part of the Primary Wave family — Fleetwood Mac was a hard-charging British blues rock band led by Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, and featuring another talented singer-guitarist, Jeremy Spencer.
Within just two years, this lineup released three studio albums and a string of non-album singles — many penned by Green — that would go on to define the psychedelic blues genre. Those Green gems include the dreamy instrumental “Albatross,” the hard-stomping “Oh Well” and the delicately poignant “Man of the World.” Green is also responsible for “Black Magic Woman,” which appeared on one of the group’s compilation albums in 1969 before becoming a major hit for Santana a year later.
The band’s studio albums during the Green era include their eponymous debut and Mr. Wonderful, both 1968, and 1969’s Then Play On. Standout tracks from Green on those releases include “Looking for Somebody,” “Long Grey Mere,” “Rollin’ Man” and “Love That Burns.” His final song with the band, the non-album single “The Green Manalishhi,” reached the top 10 on the UK charts.
Born in London in 1946, Green began his career with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, replacing Eric Clapton in time to feature on the band’s 1967 album A Hard Road, which featured two of his songs. That same year he and fellow former Bluesbreakers Fleetwood and McVie formed Fleetwood Mac. They later added Spencer, and towards the end of the sixties, a third guitarist Danny Kirwan.
After leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1970 due to mental health struggles and a later diagnosis of schizophrenia, Peter Green launched a solo career with The End of the Game, concluded his solo discography with Kolors in 1983, and re-emerged in the 1990s with the Peter Green Splinter Group, releasing several albums through the late ’90s and early 2000s.
Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a founding member of Fleetwood Mac and remained a revered and enigmatic presence until his passing in 2020 at 73. Later that year, Fleetwood honored his legacy with a star-studded tribute concert featuring performances by Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour and others.
“Without Peter Green, there would be no Fleetwood Mac,” Fleetwood has said.
“When I look at the definition of a musical genius, Peter Green ticks every box,” noted Primary Wave’s Robin Godfrey Cass. “As a musician, songwriter, and founder of Fleetwood Mac, he is an icon. It has been over 60 years ago since he began writing his body of legendary songs which are still in use every day. I am ecstatic that the estate has given Primary Wave the reins to continue his amazing legacy.”
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It’s well known that Snoop Dogg hails from Long Beach, Calif. But the rapper isn’t the only legend whose roots stretch from that coastal city nestled in southeastern Los Angeles county. Which inspired a current exhibit — and launch of an ongoing initiative — at the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach.
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Running through July 26, “Don’t Leave Me This Way: The Legacy of Thelma Houston” is named after the Motown/Tamla singer’s 1976 No. 1 crossover R&B/pop dance disco classic, a song that came in at No. 55 on Billboard‘s recent list of the best dance songs of all time.
The exhibit chronicles the career of the Long Beach-raised Houston, whose catalog includes the top 20 R&B hits “If It’s the Last Thing I Do,” “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” and “You Used to Hold Me So Tight.” Earning her first Grammy nomination for her first R&B-charting single (No. 64), 1974’s “You’ve Been Doing Wrong for So Long,” Houston won a best R&B vocal performance Grammy for “Don’t.”
Houston’s vocal versatility has graced songs by notable writers such as Laura Nyro, Kris Kristofferson and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and garnered collaborations with composer Jimmy Webb, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The exhibit also encompasses her role as the Clock during season 11 of The Masked Singer in 2024 — during which a new generation of music fans witnessed her still powerful vocals — and the April induction of her 1975 album with Pressure Cooker, I’ve Got the Music in Me, into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Still performing and recording, Houston recently released a cover of the O’Jays’ “Love Train.”
Thelma Houston at the Thelma Houston Exhibit at the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach.
Courtesy of Sharon Diggs
“I never thought I’d have an exhibit about my life anywhere, to be honest,” Houston tells Billboard. “I look back on some of these things, especially at the exhibit, and it’s hard for me to believe that all these things happened to me. It’s very interesting to be living and see your life, your career, unfold right there in front of you. All I ever wanted to do was make my living as a singer.”
Born in Leland, Miss., Houston relocated to Long Beach with her family when she was 10 years old. She credits her junior high school principal Buck Catlin as the mentor who told her early on that she could have a singing career. “I started singing and then professionally in Long Beach,” she adds, “so Long Beach has a very special place in my heart.”
Houston’s sentiment about the formative role Long Beach played in her career stands at the heart of what Sharon Diggs-Jackson, a founding board member of the African American Cultural Center, wants to impart through future exhibits starring other Long Beach-bred legends.
“This year we had an intentional effort,” says Diggs-Jackson, a fellow Long Beach native who also serves as the center’s exhibit curator. “We had to do Thelma; the longevity of a career is the other part of what we want young people to understand. When you look at Thelma, who’s 82, you really see that. We’re going to continue focusing on Long Beach legends in 2026, wanting to tell the story of their amazing music careers and legacies.”
Thelma Houston and Harold Brown at the Thelma Houston Exhibit at the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach.
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Two months ago, the center launched its legacy spotlight featuring the late Freeman Davis, aka Brother Bones, known for his ability to play the bones, whistle and tap dance. It’s his version of “Sweet Georgia Brown” that the famed Harlem Globetrotters adopted as their official theme song. Diggs-Jackson says she and her team are currently working on an exhibit about the city’s hip-hop legacy slated for 2026.
“We hope to also feature [singer-songwriter-producer] Art Reynolds as well as War,” says Diggs-Jackson. “[War co-founder] Harold Brown was here for Thelma Houston’s exhibit opening [June 6]; the group got their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year. When we think of our musical legends, those are the ones that we are looking to feature.”
Future plans also include a move from the center’s temporary location into a larger permanent venue. “We hope to have something in place before the 2028 Olympics,” adds Diggs-Jackson, “so we can really tell the African American story here in Long Beach.”
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The BoykinZ have excellent timing. The self-described “Black girls of country” sister act from the Atlanta suburbs will bring its R&B-inflected Southern sound to the America’s Got Talent stage on Tuesday (July 15) for a run through its signature 2024 single “Fell in Love With a Cowboy.”
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In an exclusive preview shared with Billboard, the sisters introduced themselves and their sound. “We are a country-infused band with Western R&B and pop,” explains Kylan. “You don’t get that every day, do you?”
Chimed in Nytere before they kicked off their performance: “Plus, we dance!”
“I-I-I fell in love with a cowboy, I/ Fell in love with a cowboy, I/ Ride or die for a cowboy, I,” siblings Kylan, Anale, Nytere and Alona sing as they stomp and kick out their boots while hooking a finger on their belts and swaying side to side. Dressed in jeans, cowboy boots and hats and leather jackets, the family band has no problem roping the studio audience in with its irresistible energy and instantly hummable tune. Encouraging the fans in the studio to get on their feet and get into it, the quartet has the crowd clapping along to its mostly a cappella performance of the song that perfectly blends yearning, soulful singing with cowgirl attitude and acoustic twang.
The performance that had the audience clapping and hooting along as the quartet lit up the stage with its infectious original.
While the sisters have been grinding away at it since 2022, their AGT spot comes as Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter world tour continues to shine a bright light on the Black origins of country music. In addition to sharing the stage with country royalty Shania Twain at the 2023 CMT Awards, that same year the quartet became the first signed country artist under a recording deal with Quality Control Music/HYBE, whose roster includes Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Quavo, Bankroll Freddie and others.
Check out a preview of the BoykinZ’s performance of “Fell in Love With a Cowboy” above.
America’s Got Talent airs on NBC at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and streams on Peacock the next day.
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Naoki Osada, former CEO of Avex USA, has announced the launch of Nebula17, a multi-faceted music company that offers label, publishing, venture capital, international strategy and management services. Like much of his work at Avex USA, the company is designed to propel forward-thinking Japanese artists, looking to launch their careers in the U.S. and other global markets.
Launched as demand for J-pop and other Japanese genres grows abroad, Nebula17 will be headquartered at a new studio house in West Hollywood, Calif., that will serve as both an office and a hub for its songwriters.
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Already, Nebula17 has a record deal in place with Awich, a leading voice in Japanese hip-hop who has collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and A$AP Ferg, and a publishing deal inked with writer-producer Marcus Munroe, whose credits include GENERATIONS and BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE. Osaka has also recruited Oscar Cornejo (Tyla, Quavo, Rich The Kid) to act as head engineer for the Nebula17 studio. According to a spokesperson for Nebula17, the company is also actively developing “multi-platform IP and preparing its first slate of international releases” for later this year.
On the venture capital side, Nebula17 has participated in the early-stage financing round for Indify, an online platform designed to connect viral indie artists to strategic investors. Nebula17 itself is backed by a group of strategic investors, all of which hail from entertainment, culture and technology-related industries. This includes Akatsuki Inc., a leading Japanese entertainment company, which led this round of funding, and other key investors like Japanese management companies BMSG, ASOBISYSTEM and And Music. Angel investors include Paul Bragiel (serial entrepreneur and an early investor in Uber and Unity), the co-founders of the crypto-centric VC Decima Fund, and executives from gaming and Web3 firm Gumi.
“There couldn’t be a more perfect time to bring this vision to life,” says Osada. “The world is finally ready to hear these voices, and Nebula17 is here to amplify them — with the right A&R strategies, global management expertise, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Our goal is to build a new bridge between Japanese culture and the global mainstream — one artist at a time, powered by top U.S. creatives and business leaders.”
Osada brings more than two decades of experience working for the Japanese entertainment company Avex, both in his homeland of Japan and in the U.S.. While at the helm of Avex USA, he made a strategic investment in S10 and launched a publishing joint venture with S10 founder Brandon Silverstein, leading to the signing of top talent like Harv, Jasper Harris and GENT!. Osada also created a publishing joint venture with Runner Music, a company co-founded by Ryan Tedder, where he signed producer Grant Boutin. Additionally, Osada used his top post to help launch the Japanese boy band ONE OR EIGHT internationally.
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They say don’t meet your heroes. But if you have just spent nine hours painting a shockingly life-like portrait of one of the biggest pop stars in the world and she summons you backstage to meet her while praising your brushwork, well, maybe that old saying doesn’t apply to you.
Just ask Madrid, Spain-based artist Esther Moya González, who chronicled her painstaking portrait painting effort to capture Jennifer Lopez outside the singer’s concert at Movistar Arena in Madrid, Spain on Saturday (July 12). As she typically does, González arrived way early and set up her easel outside the venue and, she said, after some of JLo’s dancers spotted her handiwork, she set out to find the singer’s tour manager to see if she could deliver her finished piece to Lopez.
In an Instagram post, González showed off the life-like rendering of Lopez gazing over her shoulder with a sultry look, chronicling the half-day she spent working it up, from the first sketched outlines through the finished product and her up-close view of the show from the floor of the arena.
In another post she labeled “a dream come true,” an off-camera member of Lopez’s crew informs González that the singer is just on the other side of a backstage door as the artist holds up her finished canvas and covers her mouth in shock. “This is very heavy,” she says in shock as she recounts the nine hours she spent on the piece and her excitement to be ushered backstage afterwards for a meet-and-greet.
Flustered, González waits anxiously, shaking with anticipation and unsure how she’s going to react when they meet. Cut to Lopez, wearing a sparkly purple crop top and low rise jeans standing next to the painting and saying, “It is so good! Wow. I’ve seen paintings of myself that are not good. This is amazing.” González squeals with delight at the praise and, in a post-meeting video, cries while recounting all the people who helped make her dream come true. Lopez later shared the painter’s video, and the clip of their meet cute, on her Instagram story.
In addition to her other non-celeb portraits, González has made her “in line” concert queue paintings a thing, including previous portraits of Karol G, Young Miko, Nicky Jam, Dua Lipa, Maluma, Ozuna, Carin Leon and many other Latin music stars.
Lopez launched her Up All Night overseas tour in Vigo, Spain on July 8 and will be on the road across Europe through an Aug. 10 show at Central Stadium in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Billie Eilish has long been leading the charge against the music industry’s negative impact on the environment — and in an interview on an upcoming episode of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, the singer-songwriter looks back on the positive changes she’s been seeing since she started speaking up.
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In an exclusive clip shared with Billboard from the singer’s conversation with CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, Eilish opens up about the culture shock of going from growing up in an eco-conscious household to becoming famous in an industry marked by overabundance and excess. Eilish’s mom and fellow climate activist, Maggie Baird, also joins her for the interview.
“We were meeting different brands, and I was going to go on tour and making perfume and my own clothing line,” Eilish recalls of the early years of her career. “We learned how much unbelievable waste is going on that we don’t really know is happening.”
“We stepped into this other world, and it was a little bit like, ‘Oh my gosh, what is happening here?’” Baird added incredulously.
The mother-daughter duo go on to say that the music industry didn’t have any sort of “plan” for minimizing its eco footprint back when Eilish first found fame around 2016 — but now, they say it’s changing for the better. “You would not believe how wasteful this industry is,” the nine-time Grammy winner says in the clip. “They then started making plans, because we would yell at them. We would demand a plan.”
“I was raised to feel this way, but I think I also have my mom’s gene of really caring about the world and animals and not wasting things,” Eilish adds.
For years, the musician has been a fierce climate advocate. In addition to working with fashion brands such as Nike and Oscar de la Renta to create vegan designs and partnering with environmental nonprofit REVERB on tour, the star launched her very own climate summit, Overheated, in 2022. She’s also been a key player in carrying out the initiatives of Support + Feed, an organization founded by Baird in 2020 with a mission to fight climate change and food insecurity.
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Eilish and Baird’s segment on The Whole Story echoes what both women previously spoke with Billboardabout last year. Recalling how “bleak” it was to take meetings with record label executives who couldn’t even speak to their companies’ sustainability efforts — or lack thereof — the singer pointed out how wasteful unethically sourced merchandise and album variants can be.
“It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable,” she said at the time. “Then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.”
In that same interview with Billboard, Baird praised Universal Music Group for coming “a long way” in its environmental practices since Eilish signed to them nearly a decade ago. The live music industry has also been making strides, from Lollapalooza implementing a battery-powered hybrid system for its main stage to Coachella debuting a zero-carbon stage in 2025.
Eilish is just one of a few musicians featured on the latest installment of The Whole Story, which will premiere at 8 p.m. ET on July 20. Titled “Change Amplified: Live Music and the Climate Crisis,” the episode will also include first-hand accounts from Bonnie Raitt, Jack Johnson, Perry Farrell and AJR’s Adam Met about how they’re personally working to revolutionize the music industry’s approach to environmentalism.
Watch the exclusive clip from Eilish and Baird’s interview with Weir above.
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Louis Tomlinson hasn’t posted on X much lately. On Tuesday morning (July 15), though, the former One Direction star and solo singer explained his absence, attributing it to what he deemed a river of unsolicited conversation and criticism of his personal life. He said the unspecified comments included jibes about his eight-year-old son, Freddie Reign Tomlinson, who he shares with ex-girlfriend stylist Briana Jungwirth.
“The last few months have made it impossible to be on here,” he wrote. “All the conspiracy chat about my relationship, my son or even stretching sometimes to opinions on my Mum. It’s just too much and too hurtful for me to see! Thank you to everyone who always has my back!”
At press time Tomlinson had not provided specifics on which comments he was referring to, though many of the fans who commented on the post said they adamantly had his back. “I hate that you feel that way. Just because someone has an opinion about someone does not mean they need to blast it on social media. There is a reason I don’t do much on social media and this is an example of it. You do what you need for your own mental health,” wrote one. Another added, “Sorry that people are still trying to make a narrative of your life and decisions. No one have ever walked in your shoes and will never understand what you have been through or going through in your entire life. You are enough as you are.”
Tomlinson has not gone official with his latest relationship, though British tabloids have claimed he is dating a well-known British reality star and documentary filmmaker. The singer’s mother, Johannah Deakin, died in Dec. 2016 of leukemia and his sister, Félicité, 18, passed from an accidental overdose in March 2019.
The singer has not released a new album since 2022’s sophomore solo effort, Faith in the Future. He has played a handful of festival dates this year, at the July 9 Ejekt Festival in Athens, Greece and a gig at ZOA City in Zurich, Switzerland on July 11. His only other scheduled show at the moment is a July 26 stop at the MBank Summer Festival in Lodz, Poland.
In late May, Tomlinson posted a series of pics from a recording studio in which he stood in front of a vocal mic while seemingly checking lyrics on his phone. He captioned the pics “Pura Vida,” which translates to “pure life” in Spanish and is a commonly used phrase in Costa Rica, though the pictures did not indicate where he was.
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If the immersive, state-of-the-art entertainment venue Sphere didn’t already exist, Zac Brown would have had to invent it.
“I’ve been wanting to do a spectacle for a couple years,” he tells Billboard. “I’ve been planning to figure out how to do something where the production and the fan experience is just on [another] level. And then in my planning for doing that, I heard about the Sphere and toured the building while it was under construction. I was like, ‘This is the place…’ The Sphere is the greatest canvas that’s ever been created for imagination.”
A little more than two years after Sphere opened in September 2023 with U2, Brown and his Zac Brown Band mates will get their time there with Love & Fear, a four-show limited engagement that coincides with the Dec. 5 release of the band’s similarly titled, seventh full-length album. The Sphere dates are Dec. 5-6 and Dec. 12-13. When asked if he anticipates more concerts being added, Brown simply says, “Yes.”
Last week, the band scrubbed their socials and hinted that a new chapter was coming, posting on Instagram, “There’s no way to sum up what the last chapter has meant to us…The next chapter? It’s the biggest one yet.” Then on Monday (July 14), the band posted the dramatic cover of the Love & Fear album, which features what looks like a battle between a mythical angel and devil, with the message, “Two sides of the same truth.”
Brown calls the Sphere appearance and the new album “2.0 for our band. There’s some bands, they keep going for a while and then they kind of get tired, they stop,” he says. “But my passion and my creativity is as good now as it’s ever been, and I just want to keep pushing the envelope of what our band is capable of and bringing our fans along for the ride… This is our chance to show that we’re not slowing down. We’ve actually got our foot on the gas.”
The Grammy-winning band, who has landed five albums on top of Billboard’s Country Albums chart, began working on the album two-and-half years ago and then creating the visuals for the Sphere run began 14 months ago. “Every single detail of [the] show is going to be extremely memorable,” Brown says. He promises the performance will (in a good way) “make people’s eyes bleed and make them feel every range of the human emotion that we’re capable of.”
The album, which the band is self-releasing, and the show tell the story of Brown’s life. “You know, I’ve never really told the story of my life to anyone that doesn’t know me really well,” the Georgia native says, “and so this is a chance to get to do all of those things.”
The album’s first track, “I Ain’t Worried About It,” is already out, while a new track, “Let It Run” (feat. Snoop Dogg), will come out Friday (July 18). The album also features Dolly Parton and Marcus King.
Brown goes so far as to call Love & Fear “one of our masterpieces, and the amount of work we put into that is incredible, from having a 40-piece orchestra [to] having a 20-piece choir.” He says that same detail has gone into the enveloping experience the band has created for Sphere. (Since Sphere acoustics can’t handle a live orchestra, the symphony’s parts for the Sphere show were recorded on the Sphere stage and will be incorporated into the visuals).
Brown, who has seen Phish, Eagles and Anyma at the venue, says the process of planning the show has been all-consuming. “Our challenge for ourselves is to raise the bar. You’re only limited to your imagination and your budget,” he says. “It’s this massive creative mountain, but I absolutely love it, and I’m obsessed with it. You’re kind of building the plane as you’re flying it.”
The show will take attendees on a journey, featuring around six songs from the new album with many of the multi-platinum group’s hits reimagined in a way that builds a cohesive story, Brown says.
He says he has no hesitation about revealing so much of himself in the album and show. “I think that’s what makes our humanity,” he says. “As an artist, you’re naked on a fence anyway and people can either say, ‘That’s amazing,’ or they can throw rotten vegetables at you. But that’s a risk that you have to be willing to take. I’m unapologetically musically going to do the things that I feel like I’m led to do. It’s just an expression of my life and my influences and the things that happened. If you don’t know who you are, the music industry will chew you up and spit you out the other side. You’ve got to fight hard for who you are.”
Zac Brown Band
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The band limited its touring to develop the album and show and to encourage fans to come to Sphere—ZBB only has a handful of Australian dates in October between now and the Vegas run.
“I’m pulling every favor from every friend that I have on the planet for this album and the Sphere,” he says. “Because of the contract with the Sphere, you can’t really go out and tour, so all the money we’d be making touring, we’re just kind of betting on ourselves and investing all the money it takes to create it all. I want to step things up, and this is a time for us to do it, and this is the venue we’re going to do it in. This is the album that’s going to help us to get there.”
After the Sphere run, Brown, plans to take the Love & Fear show on the road. Though certain elements will only work in the Vegas attraction, the themes will be adapted and carried over to more conventional venues.
“We’re having to build all of our staging and all of our lighting and everything that’s going into the Sphere, so we will be able to bring those pieces out on the road,” Brown says. “But the level of detail and amount of time and energy that’s gone into creating the video content [for Sphere], it just won’t be on as grand of a canvas [on the road.] I mean, the Sphere is like a modern marvel.”
Tickets to Love & Fear go on sale to the general public on July 25 at 10 a.m. PT at ZacBrownBand.com. Travel VIP packages, which include a concert ticket and two-night stay at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas are available now at ZacBrownBand.com. All other VIP packages will be on sale July 21 at 10 a.m. PT.
https://i0.wp.com/neztelinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/station.nez_png.png?fit=943%2C511&ssl=1511943Yvetohttps://neztelinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nez_png.pngYveto2025-07-15 12:01:432025-07-15 12:01:43Zac Brown Wants to ‘Step Things Up’ With His Band’s Sphere Run & New LP: ‘This is the Venue & the Album That’s Going to Help Us Get There’