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Beck’s 2025 orchestral tour concluded Wednesday (7/30) at the Pacific Amphitheater at the Orange County Fair. The Grammy-winning innovator brought his diverse catalog into a fairly new territory, reimagined with the help of full symphony orchestras across North America.
The classy mini tour was just nine shows in eight cities, with stops big cities like Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and San Diego, with some smaller towns mixed in.
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Adding another page to their gloriously creative approach to live performances, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard launched their U.S. orchestral tour on Monday (7/28) alongside the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Conducted by Sarah Hicks, the concert was a live debut of their entire 27th album Phantom Island, played in full from beginning to end. This orchestral collaboration brought a deeper, more dynamic symphonic dimension to the Aussie's already complex psychedelic sound.
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Tyler Childers, the critically acclaimed country rock star, picked the ideal spot Monday afternoon (7/28) to host a free pop-up concert.
The 34-year-old Kentuckian set up his band on the porch of a modest East Nashville sandwich joint called Turkey and the Wolf Icehouse.
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Talk about a cliffhanger.
Destiny's Child reunited Saturday night (7/26) in Las Vegas on the closing night of Beyonce's already-noteworthy Cowboy Carter world tour.
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Bleachers’ headlining set at Newport Folk Festival on Friday (7/25) turned into an all star party showing off Jack Antonoff’s band in true collaborative form.
The pop rock began innocently enough with a trio of Bleachers originals from their first three albums, and then the parade of guests began to appear.
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When Ozzy Osbourne died last week the outpouring of love and respect was like little else we've seen in rock in a long time.
Likewise the results of his farewell concert found it had broken a record for a charity concert as it raised over $190 million for Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorn Children's Hospice, and Cure Parkinson's Held at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
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The list of artists who have been able to pull off North American stadium tours this year, in this economy, is very small: Kendrick Lamar w/ SZA, Post Malone w/ Jelly Roll, Beyoncé, Coldplay, George Strait w/ Chris Stapleton, and Billy Joel.
But the least likely of those who can easily sell out baseball and football palaces just might have to be My Chemical Romance who aren't co-headlining with another household named act.
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Do you like to tap the glass?
Do you like to sit on a bench quietly and watch the show?
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Chris Stapleton and George Strait sold out SoFi Stadium on Saturday (7/19) for the only West Coast stop on their limited-run stadium tour that also boasts Little Big Town as the openers.
The show was part of Stapleton’s neverending All-American Road Show Tour, which began way back on May 5, 2017, in Alpharetta, Georgia.
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Led Zeppelin’s American swan song began with their manager’s son being slapped backstage and ended with the tragic death of their singer’s child.
Never mind the historic breakthroughs happening in punk rock in NY and London, in 1977 there was no bigger rock group than Led Zeppelin and on July 24, they were headlining the second of two sold out shows at the giant football stadium in Northern California.
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The Offspring began over 40 years ago in Garden Grove, California, originally as Manic Subsidal. Founding members and high school pals, Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel, started playing music together when they met guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman and the chemistry gelled.
The band changed its name to The Offspring in 1986 and released their self-titled debut in 1989. After years of playing Southern California clubs, they signed with Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records and things really got cooking.
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“Funk is anything you need it to be, to save your life. It’s the DNA of Black music. It’s the gospel without the church. It’s the blues without the pain.” - George Clinton
George Clinton, the colorful and visionary bandleader behind Parliament-Funkadelic and the godfather of P-Funk, was born July 22, 1941, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey.
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