Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 7/12

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Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age have had to cancel a number of tour dates due to frontman Josh Homme’s need of emergency surgery. While the nature of the specific surgery was not disclosed, in June of 2023, Homme had told Revolver Magazine about a cancer diagnosis, stating at the time that they had successfully removed it.

QOTSA was apologetic in the extremis, telling fans, “Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue.”

The remaining tour dates are below.

Queens of the Stone Age 2024 Tour Dates:

07/13 – Trenčín, SK @ Pohoda Festival

07/16 – Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle Spandau

07/17 – Ostrava, CZ @ Colours Of Ostrava

07/18 – Vienna, AT @ Metastadt Open Air

07/20 – Transylvania, RO @ Electric Castle

07/23 – Zagreb, HR @ Šrc Šalata

07/24 – Zagreb, HR @ Šrc Šalata

07/27 – Athens, GR @ Athensrocks Festival

08/08 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Festival

08/09 – Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival

08/10 – Copenhagen, DK @ Syd For Solen Festival

08/15 – Charleville-Merieres, FR @ Cabaret Vert

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08/16 – Biddenghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival

08/18 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival

08/21 – Villar De Mouros, PT @ Villar De Mouros Festival

09/28 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall @ Fenway *

09/29 – Bridgeport, CT @ Soundside Festival

10/01 – Cincinnati, OH @ Andrew J Brady Music Center *

10/02 – Chicago, IL @ Bank Pavillion at Northerly Island *

10/04 – Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field *

10/06 – Memphis, TN @ Mempho Music Festival

* = w/ The Kills

Duran Duran

Iconic British pop band Duran Duran has a special event planned on Halloween of this year; a Halloween show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This show will be the penultimate concert of a number of small east coast shows, not necessarily a tour, covering Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York.

About the show, the band promises  “a unique production featuring the hits alongside songs from the crypt,” They are inviting Halloween fans to come and take part. The show is on Thursday, October 31s at Madison Square Garden.

DURAN DURAN: 2024 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

10/21 – PPL Center – Allentown, PA

10/23 – The Event Center at Turning Stone Resort Casino – Verona, NY

10/25 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT

10/26 – Borgata Event Center – Atlantic City, NJ

10/28 – CFG Bank Arena – Baltimore, MD

10/31 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY **HALLOWEEEN DANSE MACABRE PARTY**

11/02 – SNHU Arena – Manchester, NH

Beastie Boys

Restaurant chain Chili’s, a stalwart of suburban America, paid corporate homage to the Beastie boys by allegedly copying elements of the band’s video “Sabotage” in a social media commercial. Unfortunately, they never The Beastie Boys before thewy did it, and now Brinker International, owner of Chili’s, is getting sued by the band for copyright infringement.

The attorneys for the Beastie Boys claimed that  “three characters wearing obvious 70s-style wigs, fake mustaches, and sunglasses who were intended to evoke the three members of Beastie Boys,” and that they “performed scenes depicting them ‘robbing’ ingredients from a Chili’s restaurant intercut with fictitious opening credits, in ways obviously similar to and intended to evoke in the minds of the public scenes from Plaintiff’s well-known official ‘Sabotage’ video.”

The band is seeking $150,000 for infringement and for them to take down the ad.

Amanda Hatfield, Scoop Harrison