Alanis Morissette – The Triple Moon Tour

Alanis Morissette – The Triple Moon Tour

Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette weaves alternative rock angst with a mainstream pop sense on deeply poetic confessionals. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva in her native Canada, she transformed herself into one of the biggest stars of the era alongside kindred spirits like Liz Phair and Tori Amos. Her breakthrough, Jagged Little Pill, caught the zeitgeist of the mid-’90s, splitting the difference between Gen-X cynicism and genuine emotional candor. Spinning off a series of enduring, chart-topping singles, including “You Oughta Know,” “Hand in My Pocket,” and “Ironic,” and winning the 1996 Grammy for Album of the Year, the LP became an international blockbuster, securing a dedicated fan base and a lasting career that gently matured on 1998’s Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and the global chart-topper, 2002’s Under Rug Swept.

While Top 40 hits slowed after “Hands Clean” from the latter album, Morissette worked steadily through the aughts and 2010s on efforts like 2008’s Flavors of Entanglement and 2012’s Havoc and Bright Lights, which returned her to the top of the Canadian charts for the first time in a decade. In 2020, she launched 25th anniversary celebrations for Jagged Little Pill and even adapted the album for a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Not one to rest on nostalgia, she continued to release new music, with Such Pretty Forks in the Road and 2022’s ambient meditation project, The Storm Before the Calm.

About Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Joan Jett’s trademark brand of rock & roll is simple, direct, and very effective. Using a stripped-down combination of glam rock stomp, bubblegum hooks, and punk power driven home by her raspy, heartfelt vocals, she is equally at home cranking out three-chord rockers as she is breaking hearts with tear-streaked ballads. Starting with her first band in the mid-’70s, the heavy metal-meets-punk Runaways, through her hit-making days in the ’80s with the Blackhearts — when her record flew off the shelves with the classic single “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” — right up until her unexpected revival in the ’90s that coincided with grunge and riot grrrl and resulted in 1990’s gritty Pure and Simple LP, she never changed her approach too much.

No matter what setting she found herself in, the defiant sneer stayed plastered on her face, the low-slung guitar kept cranking out the power chords, and her rock & roll heart stayed true. In between side jobs in the movies, running a label (Blackheart Records), producing other artists, and spending most of the year on the road, occasionally the planets would align and another great album would emerge, like 2013’s back-to-basics Unvarnished and 2022’s acoustic guitar-led Changeup.

About Morgan Wade

With a commanding voice — raspy and earthy, yet bearing bruises and scars that convey vulnerability — Morgan Wade cut a striking figure when she emerged with her debut album, Reckless, in 2021. Pitched partway between Americana and arena rock — a distance she navigated with collaborator Sadler Vaden, the guitarist in Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit — Wade blended her influences in a distinctive, emotionally candid way. “Psychopath” appeared in 2023 ahead of her sophomore album.