K-pop boyband xikers have announced their upcoming 2025 ‘Road to XY: Enter the Gate’ world tour, featuring concerts in Rosemont, Atlanta, New York and more.
Today (February 21), xikers announced the dates and cities for the US leg of their upcoming 2025 ‘Road to XY: Enter the Gate’ world tour. The KQ Entertainment band are set to kick off the tour with a show in Seoul on May 3, before they head stateside.
xikers will kick off the US leg of their 2025 ‘Road to XY: Enter the Gate’ world tour with a concert in New York on May 7, before going on to perform shows in Atlanta, Rosemont, Dallas and Los Angeles throughout the same month.
Pre-sales for fanclub membership holders are due to begin on February 26 at 10am local time to February 27 10pm local time. General public on-sale begins on February 28 at 10am local time.
MAY 2025
3: Seoul, South Korea, Yes24 Live Hall
7: New York, New York, Kings Theater
9: Rosemont, Illinois, Rosemont Theater
12: Atlanta, Georgia, Fox Theater
14: Dallas, Texas, Texas Trust CU Theater
17: Los Angeles, California, The Novo
In other touring news, ARTMS are also embarking on their US leg of their 2025 world tour ‘Lunar Theory’, beginning with shows this April in Detroit and New York before they go on to perform six more cities in the US. The five-piece will then head to Vancouver for the tour’s sole Canadian stop to round up the North American leg.
Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.
The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.
She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”
During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”
Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.
She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.
“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”
