Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder, and Florence + the Machine will headline the 4th annual BottleRock Napa Valley festival from May 27 to 29. The three-day music, wine, food and craft brew festival will take place in the heart of the City of Napa at the Napa Valley Expo, and it also boasts a lineup featuring The Lumineers, Death Cab for Cutie, Lenny Kravitz, Walk the Moon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ziggy Marley, Grouplove, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gogol Bordello, Cold War Kids, Iration, MisterWives, Atlas Genius, Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, Buddy Guy, Andy Grammer, Houndmouth, The Pharcyde, The Struts, The Joy Formidable, Shovels & Rope, X Ambassadors, The Orwells, Coleman Hell, Ozomatli, and dozens more. Festival passes go on sale at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday, January 7 at www.BottleRockNapaValley.com and www.Eventbrite.com.
After U2 released Songs of Innocence in 2014, the band touted a companion album called Songs of Experience. Now, in a new interview with Q magazine, The Edge confirmed that U2 is finally completing that companion piece during the downtime between legs of their Innocence + Experience tour. The guitarist also compared the recording process to how they made their 1993 album, Zooropa, adding that producer Brian Eno “would love to see us making albums a bit more like that. Where we go, ‘You know what? We’re not going to second-guess any of this. Let’s just go for it.'”
Selena Gomez will make her first performance on Saturday Night Live on January 23. That same night, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey will host the show.
The popular “NOW” compilation series will debut its first Rock edition on January 22. NOW That’s What I Call Rock! will include 18 tracks from artists such as Bring Me the Horizon, Shinedown, Fall Out Boy, Royal Blood, Seether, Cage the Elephant, Imagine Dragons, Walk the Moon, X Ambassadors and more.
Pitbull will return to Las Vegas for a second engagement of his Time of our Lives show. The new dates run from March 12 to 26 and tickets going on sale January 8. The Miami rapper played an initial seven-day run at The Axis at Planet Hollywood Resort last September.
