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Despite Spinal Tap not being in attendance, there was some big bottom last Thursday (1/22) at the Bass Magazine Awards in Santa Ana.
Primus hosted a short set which incorporated four guest bassists over five of their original hits in The Observatory behind the Orange Curtain.
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Despite being able to seat just 80 attendees, and being squeezed in a storefront in a Nashville strip mall so tiny that even the musicians say it's smaller than they ever imagined, The Bluebird Cafe has helped launch the careers of some of the biggest stars in country music.
Stars like Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Jason Isbell, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, and Miss Taylor Swift, performed at the unassuming cafe, magic happened, and their lives transformed.
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The kids who snagged tickets to a bill advertised as “Mike Dirnt with very special guests,” were pleasantly surprised when the guests turned out to be Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong.
Indeed, Green Day, who are no strangers to raucus surprise club shows, notched another one up Wednesday (1/22) at The Observatory in Orange County, California.
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Born Alexandra Ashley Hughes in Toronto and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Allie X moved to Los Angeles early in her career and began releasing music independently while also working as a songwriter for other artists, most notably co-writing “BITE” and “Bloom” with Troye Sivan for his Blue Neighbourhood album.
Prolific, experimental, and always growing, Allie X has had several releases of her own: her studio albums are CollXtion II (2017), Cape God (2020), Girl With No Face (2024), as well as the 2018 EP Super Sunset.
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Eminem stanned his hometown by doing something he clearly is not crazy about anymore.
Marshall Mathers has made it clear in actions, not words, ironically, that he sorta hates doing full concerts.
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Geese gave the most polarizing performances on SNL (1/24) in recent history, probably since the time Sinéad O'Connor ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II after singing an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War.”
But the art-rocking New York quartet were not protesting anything. No photographs were harmed.
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RAYE kicked off her aptly named - This Tour May Contain New Music - tour on Thursday (1/22) in Poland.
The talented singer from London lived up to the name of the tour by live debuting eight tunes at the Atlas Arena in Łódź. Presumably they will all be part of her forthcoming sophomore studio LP, This Music May Contain Hope, due in March.
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Avenged Sevenfold launched the Life Is but a Dream... Latin America Tour 2026 on Tuesday (1/14) in San Juan, opening the rescheduled run at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot.
The show marked the veteran metal band’s return to the region after a forced delay due to a vocal injury. Once back, they reset the tour with an emphasis on newer material rather than nostalgia.
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Midnight Til Morning emerged in 2024 with a ready-made backstory, forming during Netflix’s Building the Band and moving quickly to prove they were more than a reality-show footnote.
The poppy group, Shane Appell, Zach Newbould, Conor Smith and Mason Watts, did not win the series, but the exposure was enough to land a deal with Chugg Music, the Australian indie label that has helped break Lime Cordiale, Sheppard, and Teenage Dads.
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For the last 25 years, The Light of Day Foundation have been organizing concerts in and around Asbury Park, NJ, the unofficial home town of Bruce Springsteen.
The name of the non-profit devoted to fighting Parkinson’s disease and related neuro-degenerative diseases takes its name from the Boss' 1983 song "(Just Around the Corner to the) Light of Day," which was originally recorded by Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox for the movie, Light of Day (1987).
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Too humble to call the tour A League Of Their Own, The Human League will be embarking on their first extended American tour in 15 years, joined by Soft Cell and Alison Moyet for The Generations Tour.
The memorable stars of the British electronic pop that became a signature sound that dominated MTV and Top 40 radio in the 1980s will kick off the tour in June in San Diego and then hop up the freeway to the legendary Hollywood Bowl before jetting off to 19 other cities.
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Musician, actor, fashion innovator and TikTok star, formerly known as LilHuddy, cofounder of the Hype House, Chase Hudson has been putting out music for the last five years, starting with his debut single, 2021's "21st Century Vampire."
Since then he has released more than a dozen other singles, including 2022's "All the Things I Hate About You" which went to #17 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart.
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