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Sum 41, who announced their retirement in May after 27 years of delivering their brand of pop punk, are currently on their pre-farewell tour.
The Canadian band, led by frontman and singer Deryck Whibley, guitarists Dave Brownsound and Tom Thacker, bassist Cone McCaslin, and drummer Frank Zummo are traveling around North America this summer opening for The Offspring. Simple Plan is also on the bill.
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Who doesn't love a good supergroup? A member from this band joins forces with a member of another, and then a few others jump ship, all to make a brand new sound.
From Cream to Damn Yankees to The Traveling Wilburys, if there's one complaint about supergroups it's that there aren't enough all-female ones, which is why it's so great to see boygenius' recent success.
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Nirvana headlined one of their biggest shows of their career on August 30, 1992, the Reading Festival, so naturally Kurt Cobain was pushed out on stage in a wheelchair while wearing a long blonde frightwig and a hospital gown to play into the rumors he was sickly and creeping towards death.
These were the days when Reading only accommodated about 50,000 fans -- today it's twice that -- but all eyes were on the skinny singer who had been in the newspapers for his drug use, his wife's shockingly rumored dalliances (while pregnant) and the hugely successful grunge band's precarious future.
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Ronnie James Dio had some tough shoes to fill in 1980 when Black Sabbath asked him to be the singer to replace Ozzy Osbourne.
Both Sabbath and Ozzy had admittedly turned into sloppy, drunken, drug-using rock stars, but the difference was Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward had the upper hand on the insanity.
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Drake attracts drama like few others.
Rappers write diss tracks against him, he's usually involved in a romantic situation he probably shouldn't be in, he picks fights with people he shouldn't, his credibility as an original lyricist is constantly challenged, and even recently an up-and-coming podcaster who was granted a one-of-a-kind interview with Drake while in a bed soon unfollowed him on Instagram.
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Beyonce's Renaissance Tour is a bit like the film Oppenheimer.
While all eyes are on Barbie, the three-hour film about a bomb has been a boom, earning $778 million despite lack of product tie-ins or cute pink bus stop benches.
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BLACKPINK concluded their Born Pink encore leg through North America with sold out shows in New Jersey, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
In a stunning run that began over a year ago, Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa, and Rosé strutted, swayed and even swore in giant stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico.
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Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera kissed during the opening performance of the 2003 MTV VMAs on this day, August 28, and it was instantly iconic.
Nearly 20 years previous, during the music video channel's inaugural Video Music Awards, a then 26-year-old Madonna rolled around the stage in a wedding dress, grinding on it while singing her hit "Like A Virgin."
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Rob Zombie kicked off his traveling horror fest to Texas alongside the legendary Alice Cooper. Ministry and Filter were strong openers on the tour that will travel the country.
Some lineups, like this one, just fit perfectly.
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Bruno Mars surprised an adoring audience in 2010 when he live-debuted "Marry You" at the Bowery Ballroom on August 25.
2010 was a groundbreaking year for Peter Gene Hernandez who now signs autographs Bruno. The native Hawaiian's production company, The Smeezingtons, had a hit on their hands with B.O.B.'s "Nothin' on You" that went #1.
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Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" record-setting streak for most consecutive weeks at #1 ended in August of 2019.
For nineteen straight weeks the song Montero Lamar Hill aka Lil Nas X created by rapping over a $30 sample he bought off a Nine Inch Nails snippet added to an 808 drum beat, captured the imagination of the world, and prompted the debate as to what exactly is country music.
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant got back together because of MTV.
The station who used to show music videos, reality shows, cartoons, game shows, and live concerts, had incredible success with MTV: Unplugged and in 1993 taped performances by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, and Neil Young and both the artists and the network profited.
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