Kenny Chesney just won’t go away.
The country pop superstar has been a consistent presence on the Billboard charts since he broke onto the seen in 1994. Not a year has gone by since then without at least one new hit from the Tennessee-born singer lighting up the radio.
Now, nearly two decades into his chart-topping career, he’s back on the road, touring behind his latest No. 1 album, “Life on a Rock,” a beach-friendly return to form for the sun-dappled singer. He will headline Century Link Field in Seattle at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Chesney might have trouble filling a venue that size by himself. Luckily he isn’t traveling alone.
Opening act Eric Church commands a crowd in his own right; he drew a record-breaking audience of more than 9,000 people to Everett’s Comcast Arena in November.
Church’s bar-band sound, showcased on his 2011 breakthrough album, “Chief,” has given him some crossover appeal. He’s the only mainstream country act playing this summer’s alt-rock festival Lollapalooza, in Chicago.
Tickets are $40 to $247 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
Foals and Surfer Blood, meanwhile, will offer up a very different kind of double bill. The two indie rock bands headline the Neptune Theatre at 9 tonight and Saturday.
Foals gets top billing for the night. After releasing its first two albums on Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, the English rockers made the jump to Warner Bros. for their latest set, the well-received “Holy Fire.”
Surfer Blood also are new faces at Warner Bros. The group is prepping its sophomore album, “Pythons,” the follow-up to its indie-released debut, “Astro Coast,” which made plenty of top 10 lists upon its release in 2010.
Tickets are $25 tonight or $22.50 in advance for Saturday at stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849.
Then at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, pop-punk group New Found Glory will hit the Showbox at the Market. The group will play one of its biggest albums, “Sticks and Stones,” in its entirety.
That album marked New Found Glory’s crossover into the mainstream, as the band hit No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and scored several hit singles, including the radio-friendly “My Friends Over You.”
The group remains a force today, most recently releasing “Radiosurgery,” in 2011, which again found the group cracking into the top 40.
Tickets are $19.99 at showboxonline.com or 888-929-7849.
Fiji is also headed to town, playing the Showbox SoDo at 8 tonight.
The Polynesian singer has made a name for himself with his fusion of hip-hop and reggae, sounds that are front and center on his latest album, this year’s “Born and Raised II: The Rebirth.”
That album topped the reggae charts thanks to its soulful sounds and helped push the singer — a big name in the islands — a little further into the mainstream in the U.S.
Tickets are $35 at showbox online.com or 888-929-7849.
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