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Concert reports, setlist discoveries, live debuts and the history behind the music.
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Neil Young and Stephen Stills Reunited, Dusted Off A Classic
Neil Young might be as acerbic and ornery as his barbed-wired guitar solos can be, but he also has a generous heart – particularly for benefit show – that can be as gentle and sweet as some of his acoustic work.
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Coldplay Rocks Brooklyn Club, Explains Looming Retirement
Coldplay made a big splash in New York this week to promote a new album, a world tour, and the possibility of putting away their confetti for good.
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Five Cool Moments from Austin City Limits Weekend One
The first weekend of Austin City Limits made for some core memories to all who were there and also to others who watched the stream on Hulu.
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Attention: Jack White IS on Tour
Of all the tours going on right now, Jack White's No Name Tour is the most unpredictable, the most intimate for such a big star, and the most down-to-earth.
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Vampire Weekend Did 23 Covers This Weekend
Vampire Weekend took a bite out of The Replacements' playbook when they treated the fans at their back-to-back shows at Madison Square Garden to a wide assortment of cover tunes from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen to Frank Sinatra and Kate Bush.
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Chappell Roan Draws Huge Crowd at Austin City Limits
By now it may sound like a broken record, but Chappell Roan attracted one of the largest audiences a festival has had again.
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Pale Waves Kick Off UK Tour with Live Debuts off ‘Smitten’
British indie band, Pale Waves, who have been compared to The Cure and The Cranberries, kicked off their UK Tour October 1 in Kingston upon Thames, with a tsunami of tour and live debuts.
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Setlist History: Foundations Forum ’91 – Rock at the LAX Marriott
The 1990s had so much rock happening, some of it was seeping out of the airport Marriott near Los Angeles' seaside airport.
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Setlist History: Run-DMC Shown Love at First VH-1 Hip Hop Honors
Twenty years ago today, October 3, 2004, VH-1, the spinoff of MTV, used to play music videos.
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O2 Arena: Venue Spotlight
The O2 Arena was built beneath the tattered remains of the failed Millennium Dome. The unusual dome, which sort of looks like a melting birthday cake was first conceived by John Major's Tory administration back in 1994 to celebrate the upcoming millennium.
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Sabrina Carpenter Live Debuts “Busy Woman” in Brooklyn
A month after announcing the bonus track "Busy Woman" was included as a bonus song for a limited edition digital version of her Short n' Sweet album, Sabrina Carpenter performed it.
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Paul McCartney Live Debuts Final Beatles Song “Now & Then”
Paul McCartney got back on his Got Back Tour with a bang in Montevideo, the capitol city of Uruguay.