The Live World: A Week of One-Offs

Each week, we track major tour announcements and live world news across ROSTR & NIF. The Live World is your weekly Thursday wrap-up of the live music biz stories you should know about. Let's take a look at this week's…

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BLACKPINK’S LISA announced her first residency “Viva La Lisa,” which will take place at the Colosseum for 2 weekends in November. She will be the first K-pop artist to have a Vegas residency.

1️⃣ One-Offs:

• With tickets that Los Angelenos definitely snapped up too quick, Kanye West played for the first time in the US in 5 years with 2 nights at SoFi Stadium this week

• At a private, fans-only event at The Roxy, Justin Bieber performed his first major US show in 4 years last Sunday; he played a 25-song setlist of tracks from the SWAG projects

• Hiatus Kaiyote will play the Sydney Opera House on July 12th to celebrate their 15th anniversary

🎟️ Festival Headlines:

• The 2nd edition of John Summit’s Experts Only Festival dropped its first phase of artists including Prospa, Jackie Hollander & more

• Montreux Jazz Festival announced RAYE, PinkPantheress & Lewis Capaldi as headliners for the Swiss event this July

• Snow Machine unveiled its headliners for the Queenstown festival with Ninajirachi, Keli Holiday & Chet Faker amongst others

• Seattle’s Bumbershoot shared Death Cab for Cutie, Japanese Breakfast, Turnstile & more are set to play the festival

• The 5th Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix will feature performances from Zedd, Nelly, Marshmello, DJ Diesel, Loud Luxury & Kane Brown across the 3-day party

🔥 Check out this week's hottest tours in the gallery below: