{"id":52480,"date":"2025-08-07T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:02:08","slug":"machine-gun-kelly-hosts-free-concert-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52480\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Kelly hosts free concert in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Machine Gun Kelly held a last-minute free concert in Toronto Wednesday night, but only 300 of the rapper turned rocker\u2019s eagle-eyed fans were lucky enough to get in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The American musician made several cryptic posts to his Instagram Stories in the lead up to the intimate concert at the Horseshoe Tavern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first of which was a picture of a private jet and the caption \u201cToronto bout to get some Lost Americana vibes today,\u201d a reference to the title of his forthcoming album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In another post, MGK, real name Colson Baker, posted a selfie with the location tagged as Toronto, Ontario with the \u201chush\u201d emoji.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MDJ22QZYXRCO5K6AXTXJMSG5VE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Machine Gun Kelly Machine Gun Kelly posts to his Instagram Stories before a free pop-up concert in Toronto. (Instagram\/machinegunkelly) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The payoff for Baker\u2019s 9.1 million followers came by way of a poster for the pop-up show, with a disclaimer that while the event was free, only 300 people would be allowed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Videos from the concert showed a packed house as Baker took requests from the crowd and whimsically opened packs of Pok\u00e9mon cards between songs, hoping to pull a holographic Charizard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MGK\u2019s latest album comes out Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Kelly held a last-minute free concert in Toronto Wednesday night, but only 300 of the rapper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[712,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-52480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}