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VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Sick New World Canceled Forever?

“Sick New World” has called in sick, canceling its third and possibly final year at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on April 12. Its ambitious bill was supposed to include Metallica and Linkin Park, whom organizers were reportedly paying $5 million each.

AI renders its interpretation of a canceled “Sick New World” festival. (Image: Google Gemini)

“It is with great disappointment that we announce that Sick New World will no longer take place in Las Vegas on April 12, 2025,” festival organizers posted on the event’s website on Friday. “Despite our best efforts, we’ve encountered unforeseen circumstances that we are unable to overcome for next year’s show.”

The organizers did not identify the circumstances it couldn’t foresee, nor did they speculate on whether Sick New World might be back in 2026 or ever again. However, Vital Vegas has some intriguing guesses, some of which are tied to the fate of Circus Circus.

The festival debuted in 2022 with headliner System of a Down.

“We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the dedicated SNW fans who had made plans to join us for another cultural celebration of hard rock, goth, alternative and heavy music,” the statement continued. “Please stay tuned for further and future information regarding Sick New World.”

Anyone who already purchased tickets from Front Gate Tickets will receive a refund within 30 days, the promoters say.

Josh Groban’s Got a Small One!

The ad announcing Josh Groban’s Caesars Palace residency. (Image: Live Nation)

A small residency, that is. The classical crossover crooner — who has sold over 35 million albums globally — is playing five nights at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. That’s 95 shows short of Adele‘s Caesars residency and 15 short of The Killers’.

It’s apparently big enough for its own residency name, however. as performances of of “Josh Groban: Gems” will take place May 9, 10, 14, 16 and 17.

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. PT Friday, December 6 at ticketmaster.com/JoshGrobanVegas.

Fan club and Citi card members will have access to a presale starting 10 a.m. PT Tuesday, December 3.

Caesars Rewards members, Caesars Entertainment’s loyalty program, as well as Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers, will have access to a presale starting 10 a.m. PT Wednesday, December 4.

Back in Blackjack

As part of their first US tour since 2016, AC/DC will play Allegiant Stadium on April 26, 2025. The tour, which will play 12 other stadiums coast to coast, will feature Stevie Young filling in on rhythm guitar for his late uncle, AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young, who died from dementia in 2017. Tickets go on sale at noon PT Friday, December 6 via Ticketmaster.

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VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Adele’s $349 Vegas Live Album, Eagles Keep Landing

If you already miss spending lots of money on Adele, her new $349 box set of live Caesars Palace recordings will solve that problem for you. The superstar began selling it before all the confetti was cleaned out of The Colosseum.

Adele performs during her 100th and final Caesars Palace show on Saturday night. (Image: X/@Adele)

The “Weekends With Adele Live in Las Vegas Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set” won’t ship until February, but you can pre-order it now from shop.adele.com, the singer announced Tuesday.

The limited-edition, three-LP set collects Adele’s entire set list of 21 songs — including “Hello,” “Rolling in the Deep,” “Skyfall” and “Someone Like You” — and the between-song banter that made global headlines since November 2022.

Adele’s new $349, vinyl-only box set. (Image: Sony Music Entertainment)

It also comes with a 56-page photo book housed in a box that folds out to resemble the “Weekends With Adele” stage. And there’s even a small bag of confetti manufactured for the show.

If you ask us, though, Adele missed a massive marketing opportunity by not selling the Adele Record Player required to play any of it.

Adele bid an emotional farewell to her fans from the stage on Saturday night.

“I am very sad that this residency has ended, but also very happy that it happened, I really am,” the superstar said through tears. “I will miss it and I will miss all of you very much. But I don’t know when I will want to perform again.”

The Longer and Longer Run

You can check out the Eagles at the Sphere any time you like, because they will never leave. (Image: Kevin Mazur for Scoop Marketing)

Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Vince Gill, Timothy B. Schmit and Deacon Frey added another four shows to their ongoing Eagles residency at the Sphere on Tuesday, bringing the new total to 32. Tickets for the new dates — April 4, 5, 11 and 12 — go on sale 10 a.m. PT Friday, December 6 through the band’s website. Fans can also register here for an artist pre-sale set to begin 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 3, followed by a Live Nation and Sirius XM pre-sale at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The residency is now set to conclude in mid-April, 2025. But don’t bet on that.

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VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Bruno Mars Fans Go Gaga, Tickets on Sale for Life is Beautiful’s Sad Consolation Prize

Fans of Bruno Mars got what they wished for this week when the singer introduced his sold-out Dolby Live crowd to his partner on the new single, “Die With a Smile.” The two top-grossing Park MGM headliners performed the ballad twice during Mars’ encore. Released Aug. 16, “Die with a Smile” debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard singles chart.

Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga dance while dueting at the Park MGM on their new single, “Die With a Smile,” on Tuesday night. (Image: Instagram/@BrunoMars)

Life is Beautiful Pitiful Tickets on Sale

Tickets went on sale today for Life is Beautiful’s consolation prize this year — a thoroughly unexplained, much smaller festival with smaller acts called A Big Beautiful Block Party.

The downgraded festival that no one asked for will take place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27-28, in a parking lot behind the Plaza Hotel instead of on 18 city blocks along East Fremont Street — as it had been presented since launching 11 years ago.

The lineup for A Big Beautiful Block Party.

Headlining the new festival will be French electronic music duo Justice, South Korean DJ Peggy Gou, English DJ Jamie XX, British dance band Jungle, pianist James Blake, and American rock band LCD Soundsystem.

And if you suspect us of having to Google every single name other than LCD Soundsystem, Justice and Jungle, your suspicions are correct.

Tickets and VIP passes, starting at $178 each, are available through StubHub, which is normally a resale distributor.

Cold on Playing Sphere

In an interview with Audacy Check In, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said that seeing U2 open the Sphere scared him off the idea of performing at the orbital concert venue behind the Venetian.

“I’m a big, big U2 fan,” Martin said. “It was among, if not the, best thing I’ve ever seen them do. It took me to this place of being a total fan again. It made me so inspired, but unfortunately, it made me swear to not play the Sphere for a long time because they nailed it and I don’t want to compete with that!”

Though the singer denies it, a case can be made that he had been mulling the booking before catching the old Dubliners. Coldplay’s 2021 album was titled “Music of the Spheres.” And the Madison Square Garden Company first announced the name of its future venue in February 2018.

In other Chris Martin news, he has been added to the list of names — along with A$AP Rocky and The Weeknd — scheduled to play the annual IHeartRadio Music Festival, happening at the T-Mobile Arena on Sept. 20-21. Already committed are Gwen Stefani, Dua Lipa, the Black Crowes, New Kids on the Block, Keith Urban, Halsey, Doja Cat, Camila Cabello, Hozier, Paramore, Shaboozey, Thomas Rhett, Big Sean, and Victoria Monét. Ryan Seacrest returns as host.

Tickets are on sale now.

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‘Life is Beautiful’ Vegas Music Fest Scaling Way Back

This year, life will still be beautiful but much smaller.

This year’s “Life is Beautiful” festival will play to an audience only one-third of the festival’s maximum size. (Image: Digital Music News)

The annual “Life is Beautiful” Las Vegas music festival — held on 18 city blocks along East Fremont Street for 10 years — is being rerouted to a single vacant lot next to the Plaza Hotel & Casino downtown.

The year’s event, renamed “The Big Beautiful Block Party,” has also been scaled back from its usual three days to two.

“For a number of reasons, it was appropriate to hit pause on the Life is Beautiful Festival this year,” according to a news release from festival organizers that explained none of those reasons. “We are hard at work reimagining and evolving the festival experience for the sake of you, the fans, and the incredible community that surrounds us.”

The largest audience ever reported for “Life is Beautiful” was reported as 180,000 over three days. The 10-acre vacant lot that will host “The Big Beautiful Block Party” holds an estimated 25,000.

“This event is not intended to replace the festival,” the press release continues, rather optimistically. “For now, it gives us the opportunity to continue the annual tradition of gathering in Downtown Las Vegas to uplift one another, to express ourselves, and to connect. In time, the two will coexist.”

“Life is Beautiful” was founded by the late Tony Hsieh, former CEO of Zappos, in 2013. A controlling interest in the festival was purchased by Rolling Stone magazine in February 2022. Five years earlier, Rolling Stone laid off 30% of its editorial staff in a cost-cutting move as it shifted from bi-weekly to monthly print publication.

Last year, the festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in typically grand style, with headliners including Kendrick Lamar, ODESZA, and The 1975.

This year’s event is the first in which Rolling Stone is the sole owner.

The vacant-lot party will take place on two stages Sept. 27 and 28, from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. The acts on those stages will be announced at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 25, with two-day passes, starting at $199, going on sale 10 a.m. Thursday, June 27, via lifeisbeautiful.com.

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VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Santana Extended Instead of Canceled, Sphere Phishing

MGM Resorts International has extended Carlos Santana’s “Supernatural” residency at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.

The 15 new dates are: Jan. 24, 26, 28, and 31; Feb. 2-4; and May 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, and 23. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, via Ticketmaster.

The extension comes in spite of the anger the guitar legend stoked by uttering anti-trans comments during a concert over the summer.

“When God made you and me, before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are,” the 76-year-old rocker told the crowd at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s Etess Arena in Atlantic City.

Santana added: “Later on, when you grow up, and you see things and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good but you know it ain’t right, because a woman is a woman and a man is a man — and that’s it.”

A joint response from San Francisco Pride executive director Suzanna Ford and president Nguyen Pham read: “The fact that (Santana) used his incredible platform, onstage, to spew hate underscores the gravity of perpetuating misinformation in a society where gender’s spectrum is well-established.”

Santana posted an apology on his Facebook page a day after video of his comments made the rounds on social media, stating that his comments “don’t reflect that I want to honor and respect all person’s (sic) ideals and beliefs.”

However, another day after that, he deleted his apology.

Go Phish

According to reports, Phish is the second frontrunner — after the Eagles — for a future Sphere residency. The jam band recently wrapped a run at New York’s Madison Square Garden — which, like the Sphere, is owned by MSG Entertainment. And Phish singer Trey Anastasio was the first to test out the Sphere’s immersive audio system, for an acoustic solo show he performed at New York’s Beacon Theatre in August 2022.

Strait to Allegiant

Country music superstar George Strait will serenade Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 7, 2024. Tickets for the show go on sale to the public Friday, Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. PT.

Carrie Underwood has added 18 2024 concerts to her “Reflection” residency at Resorts World Theatre. They are March 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, and 16; May 22, 25, 26, 29, and 31; June 1; and Aug. 14, 16, 17, 21, 23, and 24. Tickets and a limited number of VIP packages are on sale now through AXS.com/carrieinvegas.

Wynn Nightlife’s “Ultimate Race Week” series — running during the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix — will bring Marshmello to XS Nightclub on Nov. 15. The Chainsmokers are next on Nov. 16, then Swedish House Mafia on Nov. 17, and Calvin Harris (with late-night sets by Diplo and Dom Dolla) on Nov. 18. RÜFÜS DU SOL and Black Coffee close out the weekend on Nov. 19.

For more information, visit wynnnightlife.com.

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