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Concert reports, setlist discoveries, live debuts and the history behind the music.
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All Of Metallica’s Live Debuts During Their M72 Tour
From “Screaming Suicide” to “You Must Burn!” Metallica premiered quite a few new tunes on the tour… and left three off the setlist
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Wolf Alice Covered Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” at Homecoming Show
The British quartet played to their largest headlining crowd at Finsbury Park in London and celebrated with a long set capped with the classic grunge anthem
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Smashing Pumpkins Rock Their Largest LA Crowd Ever
Celebrating America’s 250th birthday, Billy Corgan and company played the LA Coliseum for the Fourth of July on a bill with Chris Stapleton
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Carnegie Hall: Venue Spotlight
Celebrating its 125th anniversary, the music mecca funded by Andrew Carnegie has hosted notable concerts by Benny Goodman, Judy Garland and Led Zeppelin
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Sombr Live Debuted ‘My Body Isn’t Ready’ on The Tonight Show
It’s the third single the singer has released this year as he gets ready for the You Are The Reason 2026 World Tour
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A$AP Rocky Brought Out Tyler The Creator and Danny Elfman in LA
Elfman joined Rocky on “PUNK ROCKY” and “STOLE YA FLOW,” while Tyler did two of his own songs with his old friend
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Setlist History: blink-182 Day
July 1 is the 182 day of the year, which for the last decade has meant it was blink-182 Day, which was first celebrated in Central Park in NYC very early in the morning
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Foo Fighters Covered The Beatles in a Liverpool Live Debut
Dave Grohl & Co did The Beatles’ “I Want You” (She’s So Heavy)” on the second night of their time in the Fab Four’s hometown
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Raye, Doechii, SZA, Cardi B, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Shine at BET Awards
The 25th anniversary of the BET Awards featured a moving tribute for Ms. Lauryn Hill who was honored by many including two of her sons
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Alan Jackson’s Farewell Show Featured Four Star-Studded Covers
From Carrie Underwood to Eric Church to Luke Combs, country legends came out to Nashville to honor one of the greats
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Setlist History: AC/DC’s First Show with Brian Johnson
After Bon Scott had died, Brian Johnson replaced him by co-writing Back in Black and hitting the road with it.
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Nerf Herder Live Debuts “Dog Wearing Headphones”
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of their self titled debut, the Santa Barbara quartet improvised a song about a four-legged concert-goer