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Way back in the 1900s, Woody Guthrie's daughter, Nora, invited British singer/songwriter/activist Billy Bragg access to a treasure trove of her father's previously unheard lyrics that had yet to be married to music.
Nora's wish was that a contemporary musician could turn some of the thousands of lyrics into songs that weren't imitations of her father's "This Land Is Your Land" style, but something different.
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“This is a dream come true for me,” legendary musician Herb Alpert told the sold out audience at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday (7/5).
“I never thought I’d be doing this at 91,” he admitted.
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Lionel Richie is back and he's got jokes - all of which are a great relief to his countless fans.
When the 77-year-old Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Lionel Richie kicked off his Sing A Song All Night Long tour last month in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was forced to cut short the show after 9 1/2 songs after he had a dizzy spell during a rendition of the Commodores classic "Three Times A Lady."
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The Bouncing Souls are one of punk’s great lifers, a band that came out of the late 1980s scene in New Jersey around Basking Ridge and New Brunswick and have remained true, while writing some catchy anthemic tunes.
Greg Attonito, Pete Steinkopf, Bryan Kienlen began as high school friends before becoming a road-tested pop punk institution. Formerly of Against Me!, George Rebelo is the new guy on drums even though he's been in the group for 13 years.
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When Metallica hit the final note of "Enter Sandman" Sunday they officially put the exclamation mark on their three-year M72 World Tour.
The 99-gig, eight-leg stadium blitzkrieg began April 27, 2023, in Amsterdam and rocked sold-out venues across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania.
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When Ellie Rowsell straps on the Flying V, only good things follow.
On Sunday (7/5) the singer/guitarist of Wolf Alice had already blazed through 20 tunes from the quartet's four studio albums and EP when she and the band broke into the familiar Nirvana strains of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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The Smashing Pumpkins, who seven weeks ago did a secret show for 300 guests at an American Legion Hall in Hollywood, performed Saturday (7/4) in a stadium 200x larger just 11 miles away.
The Chicago rockers were on the unusually billed America 250 LA Fourth of July Concert that also featured Maren Morris, Queen Latifah, and Chris Stapleton.
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Standing tall at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Carnegie Hall is the legendary NYC music mecca built by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born industrialist who became one of America’s wealthiest steel magnates.
After amassing his fortune early, Carnegie devoted much of his energies later in his life to libraries, universities, cultural institutions and other public causes. Carnegie's vision of a grand music hall was that it would become a permanent home for serious music in New York and a place where public figures could be seen and heard.
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Pop heartthrob sombr returned to the Tonight Show last Thursday (6/25) to live debut his new single, "My Body Isn't Ready," to the delight of his fans in TV land and elsewhere.
The 20-year-old singer born Shane Michael Boose had a top 10 debut album last year with I Barely Know Her which spawned a pair of singles that made it onto the top 20 ("Back to Friends" and "Undressed").
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A$AP Rocky brought his Don't Be Dumb World Tour to the Fabulous Forum on Saturday (6/27) so of course it had to have a little more flair than the other dates on his schedule.
Throughout the long, theatrical set that spanned every stage of his career, he was joined by two very different Angelenos as guests.
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It was 10 years ago today, in the magical year of 2016, that someone figured out the 182nd day of the year should be proclaimed blink-182 Day.
According to legend, bassist Mark Hoppus sent out a tweet declaring July 1 as the special day, and voila, it happened.
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Foo Fighters tipped their cap on Saturday (6/27) to the four fresh fellows that put Liverpool on the musical map, when Dave Grohl et al covered the Beatles on the second of a two night stand at at Anfield Stadium.
Now a dozen dates deep into the Take Cover 2026 Tour, each show clocked in at close to three hours long, with songs being pulled from their entire catalogue of three decades in rock.
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