all the noise that's fit to blog
Earlier this month the hot show was on the East Coast with the Sea.Hear.Now concert where Bruce Springsteen bopped around and made himself familiar.
This weekend on the West Coast the Ohana Festival saw the return of the Eddie Vedder-curated music event at Doheny State Beach in Southern California that he founded in 2016.
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All Things Go started off humbly in 2014 as the All Things Go Fall Classic, a decade later it has expanded to include not just Washington DC/Maryland, but also New York City in the same weekend.
This year's fest was supposed to feature two appearances by Chappell Roan (one night in MD, the other in NYC) but she cancelled right before the weekend.
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On September 27, 1997, Pope John Paul II was the special guest star for a Catholic get-together in Bologna, Italy, where hundreds of thousands of young church members were in attendance to celebrate their faith, and also the music that binds them.
Taking the stage that night for the pope (who sat in a protected viewing perch on stage left) were performers like The Harlem Gospel Singers, opera legend Andrea Bocelli, and the voice of a generation: Bob Dylan.
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Just weeks after hearing the tragic news that both her mother and sister died in separate, unrelated circumstances, Mariah performed to enormous audiences in China and then Brazil.
The Grammy-winning singer sung to two nights of sold out crowds in Beijing on Sept 15 & 16th.
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Katy Perry is taking a curious approach to supporting her new album, 143: she seems to not be that interested in hitting the road or beginning her Lifetimes Tour until next summer.
That made the crowd at her recent Rock In Rio even more lucky because her live appearances will be relatively rare unless there's something up her sleeve in regard to future tour dates.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds treated the audience of the Rudolf Weber Arena with nine live debuts off their new album Wild God on Tuesday night in Germany.
Fresh off celebrating his 67th birthday, the eternally dapper Cave sat at the piano, stomped around the stage and gave fans everything they came for during the 22-song set that would have gone longer if not for that dreaded curfew.
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The rift between David Gilmour and Roger Waters has robbed Pink Floyd fans of decades of new music the guitarist and bassist could have created that would have extended their unprecedented run.
The solo work each of the men produced after 1983's The Final Cut had their moments, but neither Waters' lone efforts nor Gilmour's rejiggered Floyd or his solo albums lived up to the catalogue that included The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, or Wish You Were Here.
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Earlier this month Bruce Springsteen had a wild homecoming in Asbury Park, New Jersey which found him playing old haunts, jumping on stage with locals and legends including Trey from Phish.
When it was his turn to headline the Sea.Hear.Now Festival on the coast of the Jersey Shore, the Boss dug deep into his rich catalogue and brought back some treasures that have never sounded better in live recordings.
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Sabrina Carpenter kicked off her much anticipated Short N' Sweet Tour in Ohio last night, September 23, to a sold out crowd which was treated to eight live debuts from her chart topping album.
The Short N' Sweet album is currently number one on the album chart for the third consecutive week. Taylor Swift has been the only other person to have gone three straight weeks at #1 this year, when she did it withTortured Poets Society.
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If you read social media and follow popular culture, you're bound to see a photo of one of the female music stars of today like Lady Gaga, Kesha, Madonna, or Lana Del Rey and you'll see something odd.
Someone in the comments will type MOTHER!
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Riot Fest had to jump some hurdles to make the show happen, but in the end everything worked out and another dynamite weekend was had in Chicago.
The biggest issue was location. Some neighbors at the Douglass Park neighborhood didn't appreciate the noise from the three day festival or issues with parking. In June Riot Fest announced it was moving to the suburbs. But after some negotiations, there was an about-face. “Festivals are about activating and enhancing communities, and the North Lawndale community has been very clear that Riot Fest’s home is in Douglass Park,” Chicago Park District General Superintendent Rosa Escareño, said in the release.
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Two days after singer Jarvis Cocker's 61st birthday, he was overlooking Douglas Fairbanks' enormous tomb at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, wrapping up Pulp's last show on the US leg of the This Is What We Do For An Encore Tour.
The Britpop stars had performed 19 songs, including two encores.
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