Ryan Seacrest is having his own music festival! He will indeed host The iHeartRadio Music Festival, what Clear Channel has billed as ‘the biggest live music event in radio history’, which will be held on September 23 and 24th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
And the line up is almost everybody’s dream or… my own nightmare:
Night 1 will have Coldplay, Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, John Mayer, Carrie Underwood, Bruno Mars and Jane's Addiction, and night 2 will have Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Kenny Chesney, Nicki Minaj, Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkson, David Guetta, Sublime with Rome and special guest performances by Sting and Usher.
In a video statement Seacrest declared: ‘This is a once-in-a-generation gathering of artists and fans from all over the country for a true, must-see music event. The iHeartRadio Music Festival, like the iHeartRadio digital radio service, will showcase top artists across all genres of music. Listeners from all over America will travel to Las Vegas to celebrate the next generation of iHeartRadio, while seeing the greatest musicians in the world on one stage.’
All genres of music? I see only one genre, Ryan-Seacrest’s-rehashed-top-40-crap, but that’s just me.
Each performance will be streamed live online, on mobile devices and through some radio station websites, and pre sale tickets are already available through facebook (if you accept to like iHeart Radio at http://www.facebook.com/iheartradio), and will go on sale for the general public on Saturday at 10 am.