McGraw, Urban play iHeart festival
The Band Perry also will be part of the weekend fest.
Urban is playing on the Friday slot along with Katy Perry, Queen + Adam Lambert, fun., Elton John, J. Cole, Muse, Tiesto and Chris Brown.
McGraw will be joined on the Saturday show with Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, Phoenix, Ke$sha, Miguel, Zedd, Thirty Seconds to Mars and Benny Banassi.
The show will be held at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. eastern on Saturday, July 20.
The Band Perry will perform as part of the iHeartRadio Music Festival Village on Saturday afternoon. Others playing include Miley Cyrus, The Wanted, Jason Derulo, Avril Lavigne, Krewella, Cher Lloyd, twenty one pilots, Pete Tong, AWOLNATION and a special guest appearance by Ne-Yo.
T he Festival will broadcast live across Clear Channel radio stations in 150 markets nationwide, and this year will air as a two night special on The CW Network on Sept. 30 (night one) at 8-10 p.m. eastern/Pacific and Oct. 1 (night two) at 8-10 p.m. eastern/Pacific, to launch the network's fall season.
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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