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Concerts Cancelled & Postponed Due To Coronavirus: A Running List
March 15, 2020

Concerts Cancelled & Postponed Due To Coronavirus: A Running List

Last night, the NBA suspended its entire season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for coronavirus. This seems likely to spell doom for any large public gatherings people in the immediate future, something that will hit the music world especially hard. The coronavirus epidemic has already led to cancellations or postponements massive events like SXSW and Coachella. Today, we’re looking at a flood similar announcements, and we’ll keep you updated as we get them.

• The Who were scheduled to start a tour the UK and Ireland on Monday, and they have since announced that the tour is postponed. In a statement, singer Roger Daltrey says that the shows “definitely happen and it may be the last time we do a tour this type, so keep those tickets, as the shows will be fantastic.”

• My Chemical Romance have postponed the Japanese leg their reunion tour indefinitely. They also postponed their Australian and New Zealand concerts. That means that, naturally, openers Deftones will also not perform.

• Bikini Kill have postponed their planned tour dates in the Pacific Northwest.

• Billie Eilish has postponed all her North American tour dates through the end March.

• Former Hole bandmates Courtney Love and Melissa Auf Der Maur were planning to play a reunion show, a benefit for Planned Parenthood, in New York this Saturday. They have postponed it, and no new date has been set.

• Pearl Jam postponed their 2020 tour in support new album Gigaton.

• Disclosure have cancelled their American tour, where they were going to DJ in intimate venues.

• Melted Music Fest in Columbus, Ohio — which was set to feature people like Oh Sees, Protomartyr, Twin Peaks, Mikal Cronin, Windhand, and Control Top, has been cancelled, though organizers are looking into rescheduling it.

• Miley Cyrus has cancelled her bushfire-relief benefit concert in Melbourne, which was also set to feature Lil Nas X, the Veronicas, and Seb Fontaine.

• Pixies, in the midst an Australian tour, have postponed the rest their dates.

• They Might Be Giants have rescheduled a series planned East Coast dates, which will now happen later in the year.

• Washington, DC’s Made In The DMV conference, set for this weekend, is postponed.

• Adam Green’s upcoming tour with Nation Of Language is cancelled.

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Driving to Cleveland I had a bunch calls w my booking agent and my family, and it looks like the tour is cancelled and we have to return home to nyc— We’re now on the road in the middle a pandemic, and one the things that's going to help us get through this is to stop gathering in crowds. I’d been pushing myself to do the rest this tour, but I realize it can't be at the risk making things worse. Sorry to everyone who had bought tickets and was looking forward to us coming to your town. I will try to reschedule as much this as possible once the world is healthier. I’d like to thank Nation Language for coming out on tour with us – I was so happy we got to do Boston, Montreal, and Toronto together. We wish we could keep going, but Coronavirus has left us with no choice but to do what feels right.

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• Ween’s March Mitzvah weekend has been rescheduled to October.

• The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame’s 5/2 induction ceremony in Cleveland has been postponed, Rolling Stone reports.

• Lollapalooza Argentina will be pushed back to the second half the year.

• Chris Stapleton has postponed his March tour dates.

• Michael Bublé has postponed his spring tour dates.

• A good chunk Wilco’s dates in the Western US are postponed.

• Cher’s “Here We Go Again” tour has been suspended.

• Kenny Chesney’s initial Chillaxification dates are postponed. You’ll have to chillaxificate at home.

• The British/Scottish/Irish country music festival Country 2 Country is postponed.

• Luck Reunion, the so-called anti-festival that’s put on by Willie Nelson during SXSW, has also been cancelled. “Turn out the lights. The party’s over,” they wrote in a statement. “We’re lucked if we don’t…for now.”

• Capitol One’s JamFest, which was Taylor Swift’s only American show outside her LoverFest tour dates, has been cancelled.

• Bob Dylan’s Japanse tour, which was scheduled to take place from 4/1-4/24, has been cancelled. A statement says that they “will look to rebook the shows in the future.”

Phil Elverum has announced that Mount Eerie’s tour, which was set to take place in April, is cancelled.

• The remainder Against Me!’s tour with Stef Chura has been cancelled.

• Rage Against The Machine have postponed the first leg their reunion tour with Run The Jewels. They are scheduled to pick back up the tour as scheduled on 5/20.

• Canada’s music awards show the Junos have also been cancelled. It was scheduled to take place on Sunday. “We are devastated to cancel this national celebration music,” readsa statement from the City Saskatoon, where the awards were to be held.

• Concert promoters Live Nation and AEG have both postponed their live music operations globally. More information here.

• Concert promoters Live Nation and AEG have both postponed their live music operations globally. More information here.

• Thom Yorke has postponed the North American leg his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour.

• J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival in Raleigh has been postponed from 4/4 to 8/29.

• Virginia Beach’s Something In The Water festival, scheduled for this April, has been postponed until next year.

• The 2020 WFMU Record Fair is cancelled.

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