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SUMMARY:Bruno Mars at State Farm Stadium
DESCRIPTION:A born entertainer with a stage name ideal for a showman\, Bruno Mars is not only a charismatic performer but also a songwriter\, producer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and all-around studio collaborator whose Grammy nominations and awards have recognized his full range of talent. Putting an updated pop twist on styles such as early rock & roll and R&B\, new wave\, and reggae\, Mars rose to prominence in 2010\, the year his name appeared at or near the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with B.o.B‘s “Nothin’ on You\,” his own “Just the Way You Are\,” and CeeLo Green‘s “Fuck You” — all three of which he had a hand in writing and producing. Those hits\, along with Mars’ multi-platinum debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans\, led to a total of 13 Grammy nominations and a win for Male Pop Vocal Performance. Mars was only getting started. His 2012 return Unorthodox Jukebox\, chart-topping Mark Ronson collaboration “Uptown Funk\,” and production for Adele‘s 25\, followed by his 2016-issued third album 24K Magic\, combined for ten Grammys including wins in three of the Big Four categories. Having contemporized several shades of funk\, mid-’80s pop\, and new jack swing on 24K Magic\, Mars then teamed with touring partner Anderson .Paak to record a set of knowing retro-soul under the name Silk Sonic. Their 2021 LP\, An Evening with Silk Sonic\, became Mars’ fourth platinum album with the number one pop hit “Leave the Door Open” alone taking four Grammys. The duo’s 2022 cover of Con Funk Shun‘s “Love’s Train\,” fronted by Mars with typically raspy conviction\, has since become an R&B radio staple. Collaborations with Lady Gaga (“Die with a Smile”) and Rosé (“APT.”) attracted further accolades before Mars returned with his fourth album\, The Romantic (2026)\, heralded by the chart-topping “I Just Might.” \nBorn Peter Hernandez in 1985 in Honolulu\, Hawaii\, Mars kicked off his career at the age of four by fronting his uncle’s band\, becoming Oahu’s youngest Elvis impersonator in the process. Ten years later\, he was impersonating the King of Pop\, Michael Jackson\, as part of the Legends in Concert show. After graduating high school in 2003\, he took his uncle’s advice and moved to California to pursue a music career. He eventually met songwriter Philip Lawrence\, who convinced Mars to try his hand at writing songs for other artists. The two dubbed themselves the Smeezingtons and co-wrote Brandy‘s “Long Distance.” The duo scored their first number one hit in 2009\, when they co-authored Flo Rida‘s international smash “Right Round.” \nBy 2010\, Mars seemed to be everywhere: singing alongside B.o.B on the chart-topping “Nothin’ on You\,” co-writing “Billionaire\,” and collaborating with CeeLo Green on the Grammy-nominated hit “Fuck You.” He also began issuing his own material\, starting with the May 2010 release of his first EP\, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand. Doo-Wops & Hooligans\, his full-length debut\, appeared later that year and quickly produced a number one single\, “Just the Way You Are.” He hit number one again with “Grenade” and remained in the Top Ten with “The Lazy Song” and “It Will Rain.” In 2012\, Mars both hosted and performed as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live\, debuting tracks from his upcoming album. \nThat record\, the genre-jumping effort Unorthodox Jukebox\, was released later in the year and featured the chart-topping single “Locked Out of Heaven\,” along with production from Mark Ronson\, Diplo\, and others. “Locked Out of Heaven” topped the Hot 100\, and the album reached number two in the U.S. The second single\, “When I Was Your Man\,” also hit number one. Unorthodox Jukebox later won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. All that success made Mars a natural for one of the world’s most prestigious gigs\, the half-time show for Super Bowl XLVIII\, where he performed with Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2014. Mars later fronted Mark Ronson‘s “Uptown Funk\,” a song he co-wrote that was among the most popular singles of that year. It topped charts around the globe (becoming his sixth number one) and took home several Grammy Awards\, including Record of the Year. \nIn 2016\, Mars returned with another funk-flavored hit\, “24K Magic\,” and its parent album of the same title. Influenced by soul\, funk\, and ’90s R&B\, 24K Magic peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and produced Mars’ seventh chart-topper\, “That’s What I Like\,” as well as “Finesse” with rapper Cardi B and “Versace on the Floor\,” which was also released as a remix by David Guetta. The album took home the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album\, Non-Classical. In February 2019\, Mars again collaborated with Cardi B on the track “Please Me\,” which landed at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. That July\, he joined Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton on the song “Blow.” \nIn early 2021\, Mars teamed with Anderson .Paak — who opened the European leg of the 24K Magic World Tour — as Silk Sonic. After releasing their first single\, “Leave the Door Open\,” in March\, the duo made their television debut with a performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards. A year later\, the pair dominated the 2022 Grammys ceremony\, taking home awards for Record of the Year\, Song of the Year\, Best R&B Performance\, and Best R&B Song for “Leave the Door Open” from their global Top Ten debut An Evening with Silk Sonic. Also in 2022\, the duo returned to the airwaves with a faithful cover of Con Funk Shun‘s 1982 deep quiet storm classic “Love’s Train.” 2024 saw Mars collaborating on a pair of high-profile hits. “Die with a Smile” was a joint effort with Lady Gaga that topped the Hot 100 and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group\, and it was followed in October by an appearance on “APT.\,” a number three hit single for Rosé. The latter was nominated for three Grammys. Mars returned to solo recording for the first time in a decade with 2026’s The Romantic. Led by the single “I Just Might\,” his first song to debut at number one in the U.S.\, it was produced by D’Mile and the artist himself.
URL:https://clicksfromthepit.com/event/bruno-mars-at-state-farm-stadium/
LOCATION:State Farm Stadiu\, 1 Cardinals Dr.\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
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SUMMARY:Insane Clown Posse at Marquee Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Part rap group\, part societal phenomenon\, Insane Clown Posse amassed an unlikely cult around their cartoonish and critically loathed horrorcore rap styles. Loosely connected themes of psychopathic clowns\, Faygo soda\, and the importance of friendship were enough for thousands of die-hard fans to don clown make up and proclaim themselves “juggalos\,” part of a community of Insane Clown Posse superfans drawn to their lowest-common-denominator humor and shock-factor rhymes. Staunchly independent\, ICP only had brief and controversy-heavy associations with major labels around the time of their 1997 album The Great Milenko\, but spent most of their decades of existence releasing their albums (as well as the music of an extended family of artists) on their own Psychopathic Records label. The group’s grassroots approach resulted in millions of album sales\, with a creative and commercial peak around the time of their highly conceptual late-’90s/early-2000s output. A loose narrative exposed over the course of several albums — records like 1995’s Riddle Box and 1999’s The Amazing Jeckel Brothers — was presented as different “joker’s cards\,” culminating with the spiritual reveal of 2002’s The Wraith: Shangri-La. At that point\, however\, the wicked clowns were the center of a global counterculture\, and they charged ahead for decades to come with releases like 2007’s The Tempest\, and the unveiling of a second deck of joker’s cards with albums like 2011’s Bang! Pow! Boom! and 2021’s Yum Yum Bedlam. \nDown to a duo\, ICP were originally formed in 1989 as a hardcore Detroit rap group called Inner City Posse. After combusting in 1991\, the only members left\, Violent J (born Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (born Joseph Utsler)\, slightly altered their name to reflect the fact that they had been visited by the Carnival Spirit\, who ordered them to carry the word of an impending apocalypse by touring the nation and releasing six “joker cards” (popularly known as LPs) with successive revelations of the final judgment. The first\, Carnival of Carnage\, appeared in 1992 on their own Psychopathic Records label. The group became notorious in Detroit’s underground scene\, but several tours around the region failed to ignite much more than the rage of community leaders. \nDown to a duo\, ICP were originally formed in 1989 as a hardcore Detroit rap group called Inner City Posse. After combusting in 1991\, the only members left\, Violent J (born Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (born Joseph Utsler)\, slightly altered their name to reflect the fact that they had been visited by the Carnival Spirit\, who ordered them to carry the word of an impending apocalypse by touring the nation and releasing six “joker cards” (popularly known as LPs) with successive revelations of the final judgment. The first\, Carnival of Carnage\, appeared in 1992 on their own Psychopathic Records label. The group became notorious in Detroit’s underground scene\, but several tours around the region failed to ignite much more than the rage of community leaders. \nOn Halloween 2000\, the group issued its sixth album\, which apparently did not count (as all the other albums had) as a joker card (in the ICP fantasy world\, the sixth joker card was supposed to signal the apocalypse). Similar to Guns N’ Roses‘ Use Your Illusion\, the album was released in two completely different\, separate versions\, titled Bizzar and Bizaar. Finally needing to live up to the years of hype\, 2002’s The Wraith: Shangri-La revealed that the hidden message of their music was always to follow God and make it to Heaven. Considering the murder fantasies of “Beverly Kills 50187” and the necrophiliac overtones of “Cemetery Girl\,” this may have been a shock to longtime fans. \nIn August 2004\, the band released the sixth and final joker card\, Hell’s Pit\, in two separate editions; both had the same CD but were packed with different DVDs. Nevertheless\, the Dark Carnival wasn’t fully shuttered. Spring 2005 found ICP hyping a new direction for the mythology\, to be revealed with the May release of Calm. The EP also prepped Insane Clown Posse’s devoted fan base for the sixth annual Gathering of the Juggalos that July. Their 2007 effort\, The Tempest\, found the duo reuniting with producer Mike E. Clark\, the man behind the first four joker card releases. Clark stuck around for their 2009 Bang! Pow! Boom! album. That same year\, the duo presented a second feature-length film. This time exploring a western motif\, Big Money Rustlas featured the clowns in gunslinger garb and was again released outside of theaters. \nFeaturing Freshness\, a two-disc collection of the group’s work with other artists\, arrived in 2011. A year later\, the conceptual The Mighty Death Pop focused on their detractors and other “certified hoes\,” with Clark returning as producer. In 2015\, The Marvelous Missing Link (Lost) landed as the first of that year’s two albums\, while The Marvelous Missing Link (Found) landed later in the year. In 2017\, while recording the next joker card\, the duo released a pair of solo albums\, with Shaggy 2 Dope‘s F.T.F.O.M.F. arriving months before Violent J‘s American Life/Lives. In mid-2018\, the group announced that their 15th studio album\, Fearless Fred Fury\, would be released in October of that year\, but it was ultimately pushed back until February 2019. An eight-song EP\, Flip the Rat\, was scheduled for release on the same day. In advance of the group’s next studio album\, they released the eight-song EP Yum Yum’s Lure in February of 2021\, eventually delivering a full album\, Yum Yum Bedlam\, on the last day of October that same year. The album represented the fifth joker’s card in the second deck of the ongoing Dark Carnival saga\, and included guest appearances from Roadside Ghost and Vinnie Dombroski.
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LOCATION:Marquee Theatre\, 730 N Mill Ave\, Tempe\, AZ\, 85281\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sick New World 2026 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds
DESCRIPTION:After hitting a bump in the road in 2025\, the Sick New World festival is returning in a big way in 2026\, staging massive one-day events in both Las Vegas and Forth Worth\, Texas\, both headlined by System of a Down. \nThe 2026 Vegas edition\, taking place April 25th at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds\, boasts System of a Down\, Korn\, Bring Me the Horizon\, Ministry\, Evanescence\, Marilyn Manson\, AFI\, Acid Bath\, Knocked Loose\, Danny Elfman\, Cypress Hill\, Mastodon\, Underoath\, Melvins\, Filter\, Clutch\, and many more acts. \nTICKETS\nThe inaugural Fort Worth edition\, set for October 24th\, 2026\, at the Texas Motor Speedway\, features System of a Down\, Deftones\, Slayer (celebrating the 40th anniversary of Reign in Blood)\, Evanescence\, Ministry\, AFI\, Mastodon\, Knocked Loose\, Power Trip\, The Prodigy\, Underoath\, Clutch\, Down\, Melvins\, and more. \nA pre-sale for the Vegas edition of Sick New World festival starts Thursday\, October 23rd\, at 10 a.m. local time\, using the code SICK26 at this location. The pre-sale for Texas starts on Friday\, October 24th\, at 10 a.m. local time using the code SICK26 at this link. \nThe 2025 edition that was set to feature Metallica and Linkin Park in Las Vegas was abruptly canceled within weeks of its announcement\, reportedly due to low ticket sales. For 2026\, organizers once again tapped System of a Down\, who headlined the successful first two editions of Sick New World in 2023 and 2024 in Sin City. \nSee the full lineups for both festivals in the posters below.
URL:https://clicksfromthepit.com/event/sick-new-world-2026-at-las-vegas-festival-grounds/
LOCATION:Las Vegas Festival Grounds\, 2880 S Las Vegas Blvd\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89109\, United States
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