{"id":807429,"date":"2020-05-14T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=999694"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:08:58","slug":"bts-to-host-online-concert-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bts-to-host-online-concert-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS to Host Online Concert in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BTS-album-review.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\">BTS<\/a> were forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-world-tour-suspend-covid-19-coronavirus-990967\/\">cancel their international&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul<\/em> tour dates<\/a> this year because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> \u2014 including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-postpone-north-american-map-of-the-soul-tour-coronavirus-973975\/\">37-date trek<\/a> through North America \u2014 but Army now has a new event to look forward to. The seven-piece South Korean group will be throwing an online \u201con-tact\u201d (on-contact) concert, BANG BANG CON the Live, on June 14th at 6:00 p.m. KST\/5:00 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>The paid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/livestream\/\" id=\"auto-tag_livestream\" data-tag=\"livestream\">livestream<\/a> will run for 90 minutes and be hosted in a single room with the band. BTS announced that they\u2019ll be updating fans on more concert info in the coming weeks via their Weverse app.<\/p>\n<p>BTS previously threw the online musical festival Bang Bang Con, devoting a weekend to showing archival live footage from their concerts around the world. The livestream amassed a total of over 50 million views and over 2 million concurrent viewers.<\/p>\n<p>In March, BTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-dua-lipa-home-fest-corden-975614\/\">performed<\/a> \u201cBoy With Luv\u201d on a special at-home edition of <em>The Late Late Show<\/em> called Home Fest, also featuring Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and John Legend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s quite a difficult time for everyone in the world right now,\u201d member RM said. \u201cIt may seem like we\u2019re isolated, but we\u2019re still connected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-web-series-learn-korean-972026\/\">an online course on Weverse<\/a> that hosts 30 language lessons, including BTS\u2019 native Korean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-bang-bang-con-online-concert-999694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS were forced to cancel their international&nbsp;Map of the Soul tour dates this year because of COVID-19 \u2014 including a 37-date trek through North America \u2014 but Army now has a new event to look forward to. The seven-piece South Korean group will be throwing an online \u201con-tact\u201d (on-contact) concert, BANG BANG CON the Live, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 03:53:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}