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Chicago and Styx kicked off their Windy Cities Tour in Tampa, Florida on Monday night (7/13) with hit after hit.
The two Chicago mainstays have been staples of FM radio for decades and yet have never toured together until now.
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Patti LaBelle who began her career singing in the choir at Beulah Baptist in Southwest Philadelphia, took the 43,916 in attendance at the MLB All Star Game on Tuesday (7/14) to church.
As the sun was setting and the fighter jets made their approach for a flyby, the 2x Grammy winner surrounded by the Military District of Washington Joint Chorus and the West Point Band nailed a unique performance of "The Star Spangled Banner."
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Pitbull set a pair of records Friday (7/10) at the British Summer Time festival in London and reunited with an old pal.
The first milestone was a Guiness World Record for largest gathering of people wearing bald caps when 22,141 fans at Hyde Park arrived honoring his silky smooth look.
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"I have this opportunity to go out and be in the party again. You know, where you play for a lot of people, and you play all your old hit songs, and I quit doing that 17 years ago," John Mellencamp tells his old pal Sean Penn in a video advertisement set in a vintage diner called Jack's.
Naturally all of the waitresses have name tags that say Diane. The two men are sitting in a booth.
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My Chemical Romance just finished up a three night residency at the historic Wembley Stadium in London on Wednesday (7/08), Friday (7/10) and Saturday (7/11) in front of their largest weekend crowds of their career.
The residency sold more than 230,000 tickets, averaging more than 76,000 people per night who were there to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Black Parade, the band's landmark LP that was released in October 2006 which follows a dying character known as the Patient as he faces death through memories, fear, regret and the image of a childhood parade.
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Charli xcx popped up in a 650-capacity Brooklyn club on Thursday (7/10) to roll out the next phase of her music career.
Her 12-song set featured new bangers from her forthcoming studio LP Music, Fashion, Film (due next week), covers, and a reminder that it's always Brat Summer.
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What went down this weekend in the Bronx could easily be argued as the most incredible three consecutive nights at Yankee Stadium in its history,
Since the Steinbrenners erected their new stadium in 2009 and moved the Yankees from its former home that opened in 1923 ("The House That Ruth Built") into the new digs, a laundry list of memorable and historic events have happened there.
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Guitar hero Jack White kicked off his 2026 North American Tour in the nation's capital on Friday (7/10) and in Brooklyn on Saturday (7/11) with a deluge of hits, classics from both his solo era and when he led The White Stripes.
But the centerpiece of the setlist were a heavy dose of new rockers from his brand new album, Frozen Charlotte, his 7th studio LP as a solo artist.
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A staple of 1980s radio and MTV, Bonnie Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins. She grew up in Skewen, Wales, to a coal mining father and a mother who loved opera. Like many singers, Bonnie got her start singing in church where she developed her remarkable voice.
Hers, though would help her sell over 100 million records.
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Proving that even in their 64th year in rock n' roll, they're still the bad boys, The Rolling Stones hosted a star-studded album release party on Wednesday (7/8) where they live debuted their most politically biting tune in years.
In a swanky London hotel overlooking the Thames 82-year-old Mick Jagger (who celebrates a birthday in a few weeks) and guitarist Ronnie Wood (who just turned 79) played a three-song set to celebrate their new album, Foreign Tongues.
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The Cure kicked off their career by releasing eight fantastic albums in a ten-year stretch: Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen Seconds (1980), Faith (1981), Pornography (1982), The Top (1984), The Head on the Door (1985), Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987), and Disintegration (1989).
The short list of other groups that have been able to do that is elite: Prince, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, REM, The Beatles and The Stones.
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Just four months after wrapping up his 50 date American Heart Tour, Benson Boone kicked off his Wanted Man Tour on Tuesday (7/7) in Pittsburgh.
The former American Idol contestant (who quit the show mid-season to pursue his professional career) who opened a few shows for Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour treated the fans at this sold out show at PPG Paints Arena with many beautiful things including the live debut of two new songs.
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