America250 Sets Headliners As Trump’s Plan Stumbles America250 Sets Headliners As Trump’s Plan Stumbles America250 has unveiled the biggest music event yet tied to the nation’s 250th birthday celebration: Chris Stapleton and the Smashing Pumpkins will headline America’s Block Party, a July 4 concert at the 78,000-capacity Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted by Queen Latifah. […]

Bret Michaels, Martina McBride Continue Freedom 250 Exodus Bret Michaels of Poison performs in 2022 (photo: Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Live Nation). Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair lineup is shrinking faster than a campaign promise after Election Day. Two days after SPIN highlighted the deeply bewildering artist roster attached to the National […]

The Founding Fathers Deserve Better Than Freedom 250 Milli Vanilli in 1988. America’s 250th birthday celebration is locked and loaded — and if you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a county fair and a casino brunch buffet collided on the National Mall, Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 has your answer. Organizers spearheading the country’s semiquincentennial […]