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For those about to rock in the desert for a three day weekend... we salute you.
This week the rumor mill was cranked to 11 when a mysterious, new Twitter account Power Trip was followed by Coachella Festival promoters, Goldenvoice; as well as rockers Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica and Iron Maiden.
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Elvis Costello aka Declan MacManus aka (the original) Napoleon Dynamite aka The King of America announced today he will be going back on tour alongside his old pal Nick Lowe.
The tour's name, We're All Going on a Summer Holiday, sounds sweet, and it is. It's also the first line from the Costello-penned "The Beat" off his second album - which was produced by Lowe.
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In 1986, heavy metal / hard rock was in full force. New albums were being released every week by the likes of AC/DC, Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Yngwie Malmsteen, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Mötörhead, Sepultura, Poison, Stryper, Queensrÿche, and even Bad Brains.
But the tour with the most buzz around it was Ozzy Osbourne with opening act Metallica. A double dip of new and old guard. Ozzy had just emerged from a stay in the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and was eager to get out and deliver unto his faithful fans new music from his latest solo offering, The Ultimate Sin, an album that would sell millions of copies and peak at #30 on the charts. Not bad for an LP with really just one single, "Shot in the Dark."
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We blinked and somehow it's now been 22 years since blink-182 released the classic album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
As lucky as we are to have had it in our collective consciousness for over two decades, no one was luckier on St. Paddy's Day in 2001 than the hundreds of people who packed The Castle Theatre. That audience got to hear "The Rock Show," "Reckless Abandon," "First Date," and others for the first time as the band live-debuted tracks from the album which wouldn't be released for nearly a month.
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On St. Patrick's Eve, 1987, Japanese Duran Duran fans were treated to the kickoff of the eagerly anticipated Strange Behaviour Tour.
After enormous success in the early '80s, the stylish UK heartthrobs split off into two brief side projects.
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Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel kicked off their first of eight engagements dubbed Two Icons: One Night, on Friday, March 10th.
The singing songwriting septuagenarian superstars (Nicks is 74, Joel is 73), will be hitting U.S. football stadiums this year at a rate of about one a month -- with a few months off during the summer.
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The Smashing Pumpkins swore they'd be unveiling new songs from their triple disc concept album, ATUM, and they are living up to their word.
Saturday, March 4, headlining their The World is a Vampire Festival, the Chicago rockers live debuted "The Good in Goodbye" from Act I of ATUM and "Space Age" and "Moss" from Act II.
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Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, better known as Macklemore, is having a busy day today.
First he's dropping his latest album, Ben, his third studio release.
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After taking a 99-day break, the Flaming Lips returned to the stage last night in British Columbia, Canada, for the final leg of the American Head American Tour.
Rocking out at the legendary Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, a venue celebrating its 90th birthday, the psychedelic troupe delighted the Canadian fans with an 18-song set highlighted with confetti and the giant see-thru plastic ball.
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