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Consider 2024 the Year of the Diss Track.
While Drake is licking his wounds after Kendrick unleashed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 shots at the Champagne Papi; Miranda Lambert has entered the ring to sing a song about betrayal and possible retribution.
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Limp Bizkit has had a long and colorful career that just keeps rollin rollin rollin along.
The kings of Nu Metal, who will celebrate their 30th anniversary next year, are currently bringing their Loserville Tour to 24 North American cities will a bill that includes Bones with Eddy Baker, N8NOFACE, and the one and only Corey Feldman.
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It was not a runaway train that brought Soul Asylum to the inaugural Minnesota music festival on the shores of the mighty Mississippi. Nor was it a Chevy van.
"I arrived to the gig in my yacht," founding member Dave Pirner joked to the crowd on Saturday, June 20.
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The Minnesota Yacht Club Festival kicked off its inaugural weekend with headliners The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morrisette, and Gwen Stefani.
No Doubt's singer surprised the 35,000 in attendance when she brought out her hubby for a duet. On Saturday, Soul Asylum featured two new songs.
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The Rolling Stones might be sticking to a script, but we are glad to see a trend in some of the all-female opening acts: live debuting new tunes in football stadiums.
Last week down in LA (actually Inglewood), the adorable teen post-punkers The Linda Lindas gave the Stones fans at SoFi Stadium the first listen to a new mystery tune whose name was not revealed.
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Everyone's favorite face-tattooed rocker/rapper/country star not named Jelly put on a heck of a hoedown in Nashville.
Post Malone, who is following in the footsteps of fellow Texan, Beyoncé, in that he has a forthcoming country album, F-1 Trillion due out next month.
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On July 18, 2021, legendary bass player Dusty Hill played his last show with his longtime band, ZZ Top.
How long was "longtime" in this case? 51 years.
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While some are doing their best to keep their offspring from being seen as nothing more than nepobabies, others are embracing sharing their talents with their kids.
Jewel, who just kicked off a tour with Melissa Etheridge, has been happy to encourage her son, Kase, to explore his clearly obvious gift to sing like his momma.
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There was a time, not that long ago, when live records were just as important and beloved as studio recordings.
Some live cuts even transcended their originals. "I Want You To Want Me" off of Cheap Trick at Budokan is the preferred version for most listeners.
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Depending on who you talk to, the return of Catfish and the Bottlemen is either one of the greatest bits of news in alternative rock or much ado about nothing from a band who made three records that sounded the same and whose singer has a big head.
Last Thursday in Liverpool the quartet drew their largest audience ever when 32,000 headlined the In The Park Festival at Sefon Park.
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Sammy Hagar kicked off the Best of All Worlds Tour in West Palm Beach, Florida, Saturday night in a show where 15 of the 21 songs were from the Van Halen catalogue, three of which were from the David Lee Roth era.
Surrounding the Red Rocker was long time friends and talented bandmates Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Joe Satriani who have played with Sammy in various groups from Chickenfoot to The Circle.
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Few bands have prospered as well during and after Covid as The Linda Lindas, the all-female teens from Los Angeles.
After getting an opening slot for Bikini Kill in 2019, sisters Mila and Lucia de la Garza, their cousin Eloise Wong and friend Bela Salazar received prominence when they recorded a song inside a shuttered LA public library, "Racist, Sexist Boy."
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