Rolling Stones 2024 Tour Dates Announced

The Rolling Stones have been on... a roll.  On October 23, 2023, they released Hackney Diamonds.  And even better: the Rolling Stones 2024 tour announcement has been released:  16 cities in the U.S.A. and Canada. Scroll down to see if you can "spend the night together" in a city near you or read on for a short analysis of why the places were chosen.

The 2024 tour dates (as compared to 2021) are mostly new locations with a handful of exceptions. It's the smart move whether we like it or not.  Hitting "new" venues gives them a chance to take the show to new places... places they didn't hit last tour. This is always good for ticket sales. Plus, you know Mick loves to tour the U.S. and check out cities on the down low.

The locations that The Rolling Stones 2024 tour will revisit are Vegas, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.  The previous tour notably missed New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia. I would look for possible second shows to be added to NYC, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The Rolling Stones are offering presale tickets (you need a code) through rollingstones.com. If you get your code before Tuesday, November 28th, 2023, you can purchase tickets between Wednesday, November 29th at noon and 10pm Thursday, November 30th.  Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 1st at 10am.

Tickets are not cheap.  Honestly, I can't blame them for charging a lot.  They're The Rolling Stones.  That band has spent six decades on stage.  They put on an amazing show.  You know every song.  I have tremendous respect for The Stones' ability to consistently put on kick-ass rock shows for sixty years now.  They are prepared, professional, and 100% comfortable on stage.  I will travel for that kind of show, my friend... and I will pay.

Can't get enough Rolling Stones live?  Check this out:

Today, the Rolling Stones release another live album: Licked Live In NYC, recorded at New York's Madison Square Garden in January of 2003, while on their 40th-anniversary tour. It comes less than a month after Live At El Mocambo, a live recording of a surprise set that the band did at the 300-capacity club El Mocambo in Montreal in March of 1977; calling themselves "The Cockroaches," they were actually opening for April Wine!

There's been something of a deluge of Rolling Stones live recordings available in the past few decades: some released by ABKCO Records (who owns most of their catalog from the '60s), Universal Music (who distributes everything on Rolling Stones Records, the lalel the band set up for themselves and has put out their music since 1971's Sticky Fingers. And finally, Mercury Studios, formerly known as Eagle Rock Entertainment, licenses live recordings and other special products from the band.

So we listened to a lot of live Stones music to share with you our favorite commercially available concert recordings. Of course, there's nothing like the real thing, so yeah, we're hoping that the Stones return to the U.S. this year or next to play more shows.