Kanye West coming to Target Center Nov. 5
KANYE WEST ANNOUNCES 7-WEEK, 23-CITY NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, OPENING OCT. 19th IN SEATTLE, PRESENTED BY AEG LIVE
TICKETS FOR THE YEEZUS TOUR
GO ON SALE STARTING FRIDAY, SEP. 13th
KANYE TO BE JOINED BY KENDRICK LAMAR
YEEZUS, KANYEs 8th STUDIO ALBUM,
REIGNS AS THE MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM OF 2013
The stage is where Kanye's brilliant vision is laid bare...in front of innovative video productions and entrancing stage sets...a synapse-sizzling light show has been guaranteed to raise the room's collective heart rate... - Rolling Stone
(September 6, 2013 - New York, NY) 21-time Grammy Award®-winner (and 52-time Grammy® nominee) Kanye West will return to the road this fall for THE YEEZUS TOUR - a 23-city North American tour presented by AEG Live - in support of his gold album YEEZUS, the most critically acclaimed new album of 2013 and the 6th consecutive #1 album of his storied career. West a legendary live performer - combines state-of-the-art staging, production, and lighting design with his unmatched aesthetic, visionary creative mind, and an increasingly impressive catalogue of hits spanning his decade-long career. To date, Kanye West has sold over 21 Million albums and over 66 Million digital tracks worldwide.
The seven week tour of the U.S. and Canada will open October 19th at the KeyArena in Seattle, and conclude on December 7th at the Toyota Center in Houston. He will be playing Target Center on November 5. Tickets and VIP Experiences go on sale in select markets - including Minneapolis - starting Friday, September 13, details at kanyewest.com. Joining Kanye in exclusive support on THE YEEZUS TOUR will be Top Dawg Entertainment's own Kendrick Lamar, who has emerged as one of the-brightest young talents in hip-hop today. Lamars debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city, released in October of last year, was recently certified platinum by the RIAA.
THE YEEZUS TOUR is Kanye Wests first major itinerary since his WATCH THE THRONE tour with JAY Z in 2011 - the highest grossing tour in hip-hop history and his first solo tour since 2008s critically acclaimed GLOW IN THE DARK tour. Recently, the Washington Post hailed West as "a visionary whos managed to tweak the serial rhythms that dictate so much of our pop culture diet. He doesnt do cliffhangers. He jumps offWe gasp, gawk and wonder, Where will he land?
Wests recent effort YEEZUS has been hailed by critics as the album of the year; The New York Times raved "the album is one long, efficient, inventive kick in the head, while the Daily News agreed that YEEZUS was "punk in attitude, genius in execution." Rolling Stone argued the album was "a brilliant, obsessive-compulsive career auto-correctThis isn't just a way to stay ahead of the competition; it's a way to stay ahead of himself. The New Yorker echoed the sentiment, proclaiming YEEZUS as "technically breathtakingTwenty years from now, Wests previous records will remain important, but a new generation may first gravitate to the lean vibrancy of this one." USA Today weighed in with "a polarizing, multi-layered body of work that probably will be debated all summer. Who does that besides Kanye West? Entertainment Weekly summed things up with "Kanye West has gone rogue again. Did you expect anything less? The job of an innovator, of course, is to keep innovating he pushes the envelope aesthetically.
Kanye again pushed the envelope at the 30th anniversary 2013 MTV VMAs, with his visually stunning, silhouetted performance of Blood On The Leaves, from YEEZUS. The performance made VMA history, marking Kanyes seventh showcase at the awards spectacular, tying him with Madonna as the two artists with the most number of VMA performances. Kanye West has delivered some of the most visually stunning and memorable - and controversial - performances in the annals of the MTV VMAs.
West now readies his powerful, innovative live performance for his first major solo tour in 5 years.
KANYE WESTS THE YEEZUS TOUR:
Date City Venue
Oct. 19 Seattle, WA KeyArena * #
20 Vancouver, B.C. Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena * #
22 San Jose, CA SAP Center * #
23 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena * #
25 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena * ^
26 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center * #
Nov. 1 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena * #
3 Denver, CO Pepsi Center * #
5 Minneapolis, MN Target Center * #
7 Chicago, IL United Center * #
10 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills * #
12 Toronto, Ont. Air Canada Centre * #
14 Montreal, Que. Bell Centre #
16 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center ^
17 Boston, MA TD Garden * #
19 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center * ^
21 Washington, DC Verizon Center #
23 New York, NY Madison Square Garden * ^
29 Miami, FL AmericanAirlines Arena * #
30 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Times Forum ^
Dec. 1 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena #
6 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center #
7 Houston, TX Toyota Center #
* Tickets on sale Friday, September 13
# With Kendrick Lamar
^ Special Guest To Be Announced
Event Details: Kanye West with Special Guest Kendrick Lamar
Venue: Target Center
Show Date/Time: Tuesday, November 5 2013 7:30pm
Doors: 1 hour prior to the show
On Sale Information: Tickets will go on sale on Friday, September 13 at 10am at Target Centers Box Office, online at TargetCenter.com, AXS.com or call 888.9.AXS.TIX
Prices: $97.50, $67.50, $47.50, $35.50 + $2 fmf
For tour contacts, see attached.
Tiffany Slavik on behalf of Courtney (Hasko) Dveris
Director of Marketing - Target Center
Office: 612.673.1388
Tiffany Cell: 612.845.3737
