Urban tour pre-sale tickets starts today
The pre-sale is an exclusive special sale for his Monkeyville fan club members and will run through Dec. 31 or until tickets are sold out. Monkeyville members will still have a regular pre-sale before tickets go on sale to the general public beginning in February.
Three new dates were added to the tour and a Canadian leg was announced this past week. The tour starts June 16 in Biloxi, Miss. and concludes Oct. 15 in Minneapolis. Urban begins Canadian shows Sept. 9 in Ottawa and ends Sept. 26 in Vancouver.
The three new dates are:
Biloxi, Miss. on June 16 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum (previously Mobile, AL)
Hampton, Va. on July 26 at Hampton Coliseum
Wichita, Kansas on Aug. 16 at Intrust Bank Arena
Urban just released his sixth studio release, "Get Closer."
More news for Keith Urban
- 06/28/24: Urban goes "High"
- 05/17/24: Urban gets "Messed Up" on The Voice
- 05/06/24: Urben gets HIGH in Vegas
- 05/03/24: Urban looks to "GO HOME W U"
- 02/29/24: Urban releases "Messed Up As Me" on Friday
- 09/07/23: Urban, Gill, Bentley, Ballerini play All for the Hall
- 08/03/23: Urban, Brooks, Murphy to join Nashville Songwriters Hall
- 11/18/22: Urban drops "Street Called Main" video
CD reviews for Keith Urban
It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...
It's telling how two songs on Keith Urban's "Graffiti U" album chug along to a reggae beat because pop rhythms and non-country elements are the obvious inspirations for this collection. Opener "Coming Home" may borrow (steal?) a guitar riff from Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," but this is where that country road begins and ends.
Urban follows "Coming Home" with "Never Comin' Down," which is introduced with a funky bass line ...
Even though Keith Urban's single, "Wasted Time," borrows more than a little sonic sensibility from electronic music, there's still an upfront banjo solo. And this is how it's always been with Urban. He may play the part of the guitar hero at times, and even revealed his eclectic musical knowledge as a judge on American Idol, but Urban will always be a country boy at heart. And boyish good looks and talent have taken this country boy far, too.
The wonderfully titled ...
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