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Iron Maiden are currently on their incredible Run For Your Lives Tour where they are playing choice cuts from their first nine albums.
The amount of bangers the band produced on during that stretch between 1980-1992 is arguably unmatched.
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The Hammersmith Odeon is one of those venues where the name itself became part of rock lore. Even though the building has not officially been called the Hammersmith Odeon for decades, music lovers still use the old name because so many legendary shows happened with that those words on the ticket stub.
The historic venue opened on March 28, 1932, as the Gaumont Palace cinema, replacing the demolished Hammersmith Palais de Danse and giving West Londoners a lavish local picture palace. Without it they would have had to ride the Tube a half hour into central London.
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Harry Styles returned to Madison Square Garden Wednesday night (8/26) with a plan to double down on an already-epic residency.
Four years ago Styles sold out 15 nights at MSG for his Love On Tour residency, a feat that earned him a permanent banner in the Garden rafters.
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Zara Larsson had barely started her set at All Points East on Saturday (8/22) when she doled out one of the biggest surprises of the day at the British festival.
After opening her set at the East Stage at London’s Victoria Park with her hit “Midnight Sun,” Larsson brought out the delightful PinkPantheress for “Stateside,” making it the first time the two singers had ever performed their hit collab together.
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The incredibly prolific Rivers Cuomo has written so many songs that he's recorded with Weezer that they could put on several shows with setlists solely of music that has never been played live.
Of their 13 studio albums, four EPs, the Death to False Metal compilation, deluxe and bonus editions, B-sides, soundtrack appearances, fan-club releases and standalone singles, there are approximately 90 songs that were recorded and released that never got an audience.
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More than three decades after Dave Grohl started the Foo Fighters, on Saturday (8/22), they finally got to headline the iconic Hollywood Bowl.
Sadly the appearance was a little bittersweet as it was part of a four-night farewell to Gustavo Dudamel who had conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 17 years and would soon be packing his baton and heading to the Big Apple to become the music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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Dolly Parton died Tuesday (8/25) in Nashville at 80 after what her representatives said was a brief battle with cancer.
Throughout the day on social media and TV, countless fans who were touched with her love and generosity joined the chorus in praising the little girl who grew up poor and made it to the top in the sweetest way.
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August 2026 is a big month for Smash Mouth as the band released Mercury Comet, their first album of original material since 2012's Magic, and the first LP of the Zach Goode era.
The 12-song disc dropped on August 12 and includes “Better Believer,” “Had Enuff,” and “Monsters On My Block” among others.
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The Daisy Chain Fields festival is nearly here and even though the lineup is perfect in every way, what if some women arrived, unannounced as special guests?
It happens all the time at festivals when musicians were just going to be there anyway, and one thing leads to another and there they are on stage singing "Wonderwall."
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Dolly Parton had a full life spanning 80 years which blessed practically everyone who heard her along the way. Famously born in a one room cabin in the Smoky Mountains, Dolly was the fourth of 12 children and grew up poor to parents who could neither read nor write.
Her father, Robert Lee Parton, worked with his hands as a sharecropper and in construction while her mother, Avie Lee, raised the family while singing church spirituals around the tiny home.
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Kacey Musgraves celebrated her 38th birthday in style by kicking off the arena run of the Middle of Nowhere Tour at Chicago’s United Center on Friday (8/21) with Midland opening the sold-out show.
A little more than half of the setlist was devoted to her new album, Middle of Nowhere, and of course she mixed in hits from her previous albums including Same Trailer Different Park and Golden Hour.
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YUNGBLUD may be young, but he's old enough to know the show must go on.
After breaking his leg in a mighty rock 'n roll way via a motorcycle accident at Sturgis earlier this month, YUNGBLUD (aka Dominic Harrison) shook it off and hired a pair of nurses who have equipped him with crutches and a wheelchair that seemed as comfortable in the pit as he does.
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