Why You Should Go: American Idol will soon be off the air, but its original champ continues to thrive. "I'm hoping to use it as an excuse to cut loose a little bit and maybe act vaguely wild for me." "Charli is a fucking blast, she really is," he says. "Everyone is overly obsessed with video walls and I want to be about what's happening on the actual stage." In addition to playing songs from last year's Strange Desire, Antonoff is planning to debut new songs from their "slightly more fucked-up-sounding" next album and sing some unexpected covers with his co-headliner. "It looks like it could have been a great late-Seventies arena show," he says.
"Well, Charli is kind of on the outskirts of pop, and I sit on the outskirts of alternative, so I guess it makes sense within that." For his biggest tour yet with his once-modest side project, Antonoff is planning an entirely new show. Why You Should Go: "It makes sense in that it doesn't make sense," says Bleachers' Jack Antonoff, discussing the upcoming Charli and Jack Do America Tour. Image Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Cassandra Hannagan/Getty And they are keeping the spirit of Malcolm with them: "Mal told me the only thing I gotta do is play," says Angus Young. Why You Should Go: For their first tour without ailing guitarist Malcolm Young and beleaguered drummer Phil Rudd, the Aussie rockers have brought in two familiar hands: former drummer Chris Slade, who left the band in 1994, and Malcolm's nephew Stevie Young. I've been looking to those bands and what they do with stages, like how Axl Rose will command a whole stadium." For the Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour, Hemmings notes that their vibe is mostly to create a sense of intimacy with everything from the setup to the lighting. "Like the Guns N' Roses one, the Poison one, Bon Jovi. " been watching a lot of ," reveals lead singer Luke Hemmings. Now the quartet - who are all between the ages of 18 and 21 - have embarked on their first tour as headliners and are looking back to the Eighties for some arena-rock inspiration.
The Australian pop-punkers have since found their own way, riding high on the success of their smash single "She Looks So Perfect" and self-titled debut. Why You Should Go: 5 Seconds of Summer grew as a band by opening for One Direction across the world for two summers straight.
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