AC/DC announces 2025 stadium tour with one stop in Pa.: Where to buy tickets

Rock icons AC/DC today announced a 2025 North American tour that includes a stop in Pennsylvania.

The band will perform on its “Power Up” tour on Thursday, May 8, at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh.

Tickets will go on sale at noon Friday, Dec. 6.

This is the band’s first tour in nine years. The Grammy Award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band said, said the tour is named for its 2020 album, “Power Up.”

This year, the band performed a European leg of the tour. Band members are Angus Young, lead guitar; Brian Johnson, vocals; Stevie Young, rhythm guitar; Matt Laug, drums; and Chris Chaney, bass. Young is the only original member.

Supporting will be The Pretty Reckless.

The other tour dates are:

April 10 – Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 14 – Dallas, Texas

April 18 – Pasadena, California

April 22 – Vancouver, Canada

April 26 – Las Vegas, Nevada

April 30 – Detroit, Michigan

May 4 – Foxborough, Massachusetts

May 12 – Landover, Maryland

May 16 – Tampa, Florida

May 20 – Nashville, Tennessee

Iconic Australian band AC/DC in concert (Image by aka Francois aka Mister Pink | Flickr)
Music fans are filthy over a lost legacy. Meanwhile, IA music maestro David Kowalski finds other bands leaving heavy footprints — like Fuzz Lightyear.

AC/DC GUITARISTS’ CHILDHOOD HOME GUTTED
A big hubbub has been made about the previously National Trust-listed Burwood NSW house, once owned by the Young family, which was razed recently.

The Young family home housed eight children, three of whom went on to change the face of Australian music.

They included George, who formed the Easybeats — he went on to produce records for John Paul Young (no relation), Stevie Wright and The Angels, as well as his own music made with Harry Vanda in Flash and the Pan. And Malcolm and Angus, both of whom formed a little beat combo called AC/DC.

The outcry has mostly been around preserving the house as a monument to Australia’s musical history and the great legacy left by the Youngs. Being recognised by the National Trust list did not mean the home was heritage-listed. Therefore, it was not protected by law from demolition.

Developers claimed they had no idea of the significance of the place and have pledged to make a space in their new development for fans to remember the band.vv

Social media outcry has been mixed. Everything from ‘if the Young brothers really valued it, they have enough money, they could have bought it themselves’ to ‘this is an utter disgrace’.

We’ve seen a lot of significant history go by the cultural wayside, both here and elsewhere.

For example, the old Festival Records recording studio in Pyrmont is now a supermarket. In London and other parts of the UK they have blue plaques which recognise significant cultural landmarks that have since been redeveloped.

The Americans seem to do this a lot better than we do. This modest house in Burwood probably could have been something significant, too.

However, can everything deemed historically significant be preserved as a tourist attraction? At the end of the day, real estate developers will do what they will with their properties, whether we like it or not. At least Australian music is getting some press…

FUZZ LIGHTYEAR
It is a new year and while new things may be in the pipeline, some things never change.

For one, I still fall for a band with a punning title. A band from Yorkshire in England – Leeds, to be precise – has crossed my path, with the clever name Fuzz Lightyear.

Released through hip indie label Nice Swan – whose roster also includes favourites of mine Hallan and English Teacher – Fuzz Lightyear lives up to its name by laying on some heavily processed guitar noise that sounds like it comes from another galaxy.

The band’s website says its mission is to be the ‘the loudest, fastest and most visceral force in the Leeds underground scene’, and if its second single ‘Visual Effect’ is anything to go by, you can take that to the bank.