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Members of Papa Roach, Shinedown, as well as new country star Oliver Anthony sang to despondent festival goers after the day of rock was cancelled due to inclement weather.
Expectations were high for the Blue Ridge Rock Festival at the Virginia International Raceway this weekend which billed itself as "North America’s Largest Rock & Metal Event."
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Busted, the British power pop group, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a Greatest Hits Tour around the UK.
The trio of James Bourne, Charlie Simpson, and Matt Willis were quite successful in Britain up until they split in 2005. Meanwhile in the US, they're probably best known for the song "Year 3000" which they originally released but then suggested in 2006 to the Jonas Brothers that they should cover it.
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The Blues Brothers were not supposed to be anything more than a fun Saturday Night Live skit that incorporated a couple of cast members and the house band.
It turned into a national phenomenon, two best-selling albums, a record-breaking live recording, one of the best musical movies of the '80s, and a chain of music venues.
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Typically the opening act of show is an up-and-coming band who needs just a little bump to make it to the next level and warming up a giant audience might just be the thing that gives them the exposure they need.
Usually these acts only have an album or two under their belt and use the 20-30 minutes in front of the curtain to blast out their best songs and then quickly get out of the way for the headliner to give the people what they paid for.
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Bruce Springsteen announced Wednesday, Sept., 6, that he is indeed human and will need a few weeks off to take care of some health issues.
The 73-year-old rocker is in the middle of leg two of his North American tour where he has been leading two-and-a-half-hour shows in sports arenas and coliseums.
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Taylor Swift's Lover debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart on Sept. 7, 2019 hitting numbers not seen since her reputation album broke records in 2017.
According to the magazine, Lover sold over 679,000 albums in its first week of release in part because the savvy singer made available four collectible deluxe CD editions at Target, as well as a variety of merchandise/digital album bundles on her popular website.
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Aerosmith kicked off their Peace Out... Farewell Tour, which the Boston legends say is their goodbye.
Way back in 1970, singer Steven Tyler, guitarists Joe Perry and Ray Tabano, bassist Tom Hamilton, and drummer Joey Kramer formed Aerosmith. In '71,Tabano was replaced with Brad Whitford.
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R.E.M. in the 1980s released six studio albums, a delightful collection of B-sides and covers, and a greatest hits LP. Each of the studio albums were more successful than their previous ones.
In the middle of that was 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant, an attempt to bring the band out of the artsy darkness of mumbling lyrics and jangly guitars and into clarity and strength.
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Pearl Jam kicked off their mini US tour with some deep cuts they hadn't played in a while.
The veteran Seattle band fronted by Eddie Vedder hadn't toured all year before they set foot on the Xcel Energy Center stage in St. Paul Minnesota on Thursday, August 31.
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Sting kicked off his 2023 North American tour with a pair of concerts at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The former Police frontman recently wrapped up the European leg of his My Songs Tour with a mixture of old faves from the '70s and '80s along with cuts from his solo albums.
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Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell, the spikey haired singer whose hit single "All Star" was catapulted to fame thanks to the first Shrek movie, died Monday, September 4, of liver failure after a brief stint in hospice. He was 56.
"Steve Harwell was a true American Original," the band's manager, Robert Hayes, told USA Today.
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Jimmy Buffett, the laid back singer who provided the soundtrack for vacations, cruises, and backyard parties held by your parents' best friends died Friday, September 1 at 76 years old.
The singer who liked to wear Aloha shirts and strum his acoustic guitar barefooted parlayed a few hit songs into a billion dollar empire of restaurants, frozen beverages and real estate.
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