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Elliott Smith performed the last concert of his life 20 years ago, September 19, 2003.
The Oscar-nominated singer / songwriter would stab himself in the heart a month later during an argument with his girlfriend.
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Run The Jewels, the explosive hip-hop duo made up of Killer Mike and El Producto, dropped their self titled debut in 2013. To celebrate 10 years in the game, the group is doing short residencies in a few major cities in North America
Kicking it off in NYC, the pair performed the album the great producer Prince Paul once deemed one of the Top 5 best concept albums. “To me that’s a concept record, because they came out with personas of hardcore gangster guys and made songs based on that," he told All Hip Hop.
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Olivia Rodrigo had a huge hit in 2021, and had appeared on a wide variety of shows to solely play "drivers license," but it wasn't until September 18 that she had her first real concert experience.
The then-18-year-old singer closed out the Daytime Stage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas with a five-song set from her debut album, Sour,
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Roger Waters took The Wall on tour for the first time on September 15, 2010.
The co-founder of Pink Floyd and lyricist of the moody 1979 rock opera had previously taken the group's other enormous album, 1972's The Dark Side of the Moon, around the world from 2006-2008.
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Major League Baseball stadiums are big, clumsy, awkward, ridiculous places to hold a concert.
Since most parks have no roof, the acoustics can be bad, and since the playing field is so long and flat, there are certainly some dead areas on "the floor" one would rather not be. And if it's still baseball season, as it is now, some teams choose to cover the infield, preventing fans from trampling across the all-important manicured grass.
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Wanna feel old? Hozier took us to church ten years ago. Gas was $3.60 cents a gallon and dropping, Miley was riding her wrecking ball, and Daft Punk was getting lucky winning Grammys.
At the same time, the 6'6" handsome Irish tenor who was born Andrew John Hozier-Byrnex was poised to release "Take Me To Church" on 9/13/13. The complicated tune written and recorded in his parents' attic would go 4x platinum, top the Spotify charts, and do pretty pretty well on YouTube where it's been viewed 769 million times.
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Amy Winehouse was born Sept 14, 1993 in the suburban area of North London called Southgate. Today she would have turned 40.
When Amy was 20, she was interviewed by The Guardian about her debut album, Frank, which didn't agree with the singer. The label chose mixes and songs she did not approve of and the hype, she felt, was not there
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Beyoncé has been packing screaming fans into football stadiums and arenas all around the world in her record-breaking Renaissance Tour which has now made its way to Canada.
One of the fun moments of the evening occurs during "Energy" when Bey sings the lines
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Lynyrd Skynyrd were blazing in the summer of 1976. In a miraculous streak, each year from '73 they released a gritty, soulful, southern rock studio album that went at least gold.
Starting with Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd which produced "Gimme Three Steps" and "Free Bird," to its '74 follow up Second Helping that gave us "Sweet Home Alabama," Skynyrd could do little wrong. Even 1976's Gimme Back My Bullets delivered with the title track, "Double Trouble," and "Every Mother's Son."
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The Eagles kicked off the first two dates of the first leg of their Long Goodbye Tour with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.
As is typical for many Eagles shows, the band started the historic gigs with the beautiful harmonies of "Seven Bridges Road," a Steve Young cover the band used to sing the song in the backstage shower area acappella to warm up.
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Neil Peart, Stewart Copeland and John Bonham often sit atop the lists of the three greatest rock drummers of the '70s and '80s.
Few compare to Bonham's powerful grooves, Copeland's off-kilter beats, or Peart's complex runs. But today isn't about ranking them haphazardly. or trying to get a debate going.
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Gwen Stefani returned to her hometown of Anaheim, California, to headline a special show celebrating the Honda Center's 30th anniversary. To make things extra special she played a popular No Doubt song she'd never sung solo before.
The Honda Center is an indoor arena 3 1/2 miles from Disneyland and home to the NHL Ducks. Over the years it has been the host to over 300 concerts.
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