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Guns N' Roses returned home to the USA with a pair of East Coast shows to sold out venues in North Carolina and New York.
The band delivered a 29-song set in Raleigh (7/23) and then 28 tracks in Saratoga Springs (7/26) mostly from the biggest bangers off four of their albums.
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Rush returned to Chicago's United Center for the first time since 2015 for a four-show residency on 7/16, 7/18, 7/20 and 7/22, planting the flag that their Fifty Something Tour will consistently bring surprises.
Original members Geddy Lee (lead vocals, bass, keyboards, bass pedals) and Alex Lifeson (guitar, backing vocals, bass pedals) are showing off their new drummer Anika Nilles by introducing even tougher tunes to the set while the band is receiving assistance from Loren Gold (keyboards, piano, backing vocals).
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The Coverups are arguably the best side projects led by a major rocker since the era when Jack White formed the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather and when Dave Grohl moved between Queens of the Stone Age, Probot and Them Crooked Vultures.
The difference is Billie Joe Armstrong's motives seem entirely basic: to play a bunch of fun, rocking cover songs live with a small group of people for the pure joy of it.
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Suppose they gave a music war
and everyone came?
One of the most punk rock documentary concert films about the punk / new wave / post punk / ska scene is 1981's Urgh! A Music War, a revolutionary film which will be making the rounds later this year in the US.
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The 2005 headlining performance of the Pixies at Lollapalooza was a perfect storm of a legendary band experiencing their comeback at a great festival that was beginning to reinvent itself.
Today Lollapalooza seems like a mainstay summer festival by Lake Michigan in the shadows of the skyscrapers of Chicago. But it wasn't always like that.
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System of a Down wrapped up their first European tour in nearly a decade in a unique way to huge crowds with live World Cup updates, a birthday celebration and an unexpectedly hilarious revival of the band’s old feud with Oasis.
The band's closing stretch included two nights at super busy Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on July 13 and July 15, followed by two gigs at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw on July 18 and July 19.
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Zac Brown Band blossomed from Georgia clubs in 2002 to the mindblowing Vegas residency at the Sphere in 2025-2026. Along the way the 9-piece band what can easily blend Southern rock with country and folk while improvising like all the best jam bands have produced a string of #1 hits which began with "Chicken Fried."
That smash appeared on their 2008 major label debut, The Foundation, which spawned three more #1s on the country charts: “Toes,” “Highway 20 Ride” and “Free.” As of 2026 they have 17 #1 songs.
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Jennifer Finch, the bassist, songwriter, singer and photographer best known for her work with the grunge-era riot grrl legends L7, died last week at age 59 after being diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, the band announced on Saturday.
Her tragic illness had been revealed publicly less than a week earlier, making her death particularly shocking to fans who had not realized how seriously ill she had become.
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Now with the Vegas Residency of the Love & Fear Tour behind them, the Zac Brown Band has begun the touring aspect of the tour.
Friday (7/17) Zac and his nine-piece band kicked off the festivities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a live debut and an encore chock-full of covers.
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Pavement kicked off their seven-date U.S. Tour Summer ’26 on Friday (7/17) at Mosswood Park in Oakland, returning to Northern California for a intimate gig close to its Stockton roots.
More than 1,000 people attended the separately ticketed opening-night show, a bonus to the Mosswood Meltdown and its typical Saturday and Sunday schedule.
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Noah Kahan just knocked out two solid sets of summer concerts at the two oldest and most beautiful homes for pro baseball, Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, where he broke a record in Boston and even doled out some live debuts.
The increasingly popular singer/songwriter sold out Fenway on 7/7, 7/8, 7/10 and 7/11, becoming the first musician to hit the milestone of four consecutive sellouts in the shadows of the Green Monster. The run drew more than 150,000 people.
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Phoebe Bridgers surprised The Tonight Show audience Tuesday (7/14) with the TV debut of her latest single, “Lost Boys.”
If that wasn't enough, to mimic the Peter Pan reference of the title, she surrounded herself with a nine-piece band of children ranging in age from eight to 14 years old.
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