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Morrissey, the snide young man with the unbuttoned shirt and perfect hair, singer of The Smiths, and now solo artist who might play a laundry list of your favorite songs or not show up at all, turns 65 years old today.
Certain people are forgiven. A few get a pass. Steven Patrick Morrissey, simply for the five short years he fronted The Smiths and gave us four albums and bonus tracks, is off the hook.
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To celebrate his first album in six years, Blue Electric Light, Lenny Kravitz has announced he will be performing a Vegas residency, his first, later this year.
The 59-year-old, 4-time Grammy winner, let it be known on Monday that he would grace Sin City with his leather pants and flying V with a quick five-night residency on October 18, 19, 23, 25 and 26 at the Dolby Live at Park MGM.
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Just Like Heaven has been called a high school reunion festival for elder millennials.
I'm not sure if that is meant as a slight but it's mighty fitting, especially for Southern Californians as the full day fest is held in the shadows of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Rain may have delayed the start of the Saturday portion of the three-day music festival at the Gulf Shore in Alabama, but the show went on and on.
There was something for everyone at the festival which started in 2010, Odesa, Nelly, Renee Rapp, Zach Bryan, and The Chainsmokers were just some of the big names that brought young and old down to the waterfront.
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AC/DC, arguably the greatest hard rock touring band of all time, got back on the road last week after playing just one live show since 2016.
Angus Young and Brian Johnson, the final remaining touring members of the group since their 1980 monster hit Back in Black, have gone through a lot since '16 which put a damper in the band's career.
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Lana Del Rey headlined the Hang Out Festival this weekend in gulf shores of Alabama.
Because she's amazing, and also prepping people for her forthcoming new country record, Lasso, the singer invited Jelly Roll on stage to sing a Lynyrd Skynyrd classic with her.
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Joanna Newsom, perhaps the most famous harpist in popular culture since Harpo of the Marx Bros., is back to performing live after taking a long hiatus.
The singer/songwriter/actress (and long-time wife of Andy Samberg) has put recording new material on the back burner after 2015's Divers which debuted atop the Billboard's Alternative Album chart.
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If Megan Thee Stallion wants to start her Hot Girl Summer Tour in the spring, who's going to tell her no?
You?
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If it seem like Janet, pardon me, Miss Jackson, has been around forever, despite turning just 58 today, it's because she has been trying to get our attention since she could walk.
In both a blessing as a curse, Janet being the adorable little sister of the Jackson 5 came with more disadvantages than nepo plusses.
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Rammstein, the German metal giants whose over-the-top stage production has been deemed an important member of the band, enjoy kicking off their tours with a special show for their biggest supporters, the fan club.
Our records show that since 1997 Rammstein have stoked their fan club with a dress rehearsal, although the notes on the debut special gig says instead of pyro, the effects were temporarily replaced with water.
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By the time Queen made it to chilly Montreal for a pair of late November shows, they had already completed 5 legs of a world tour of 80 shows, soon to be 82. Those two would live forever because they were beautifully documented in a film that has gone from the silver screen to IMAX and starting today, streaming on Disney+.
It couldn't be a better representation of this remarkable assemblage of very different musicians peaking creatively and as a live unit.
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The Kings of Leon treated a lucky crowd in Nashville, on May 9, to nearly a half dozen new tunes and from their latest record Can We Please Have Fun. as well as hits from their deep catalogue to kick off their new tour.
The band livestreamed a private concert in one of the prettiest Tennessee barns you'll ever see and played for over an hour, delivering six tunes from their first record with their new label, Capitol.
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