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There is not a single venue more uniquely tied to Country Music than the Ryman Auditorium, and its intimate relationship with the Grand Ole Opry that was recorded there for decades on radio.
Those broadcasts helped inform music fans of the American music coming out of the segregated south, though written and performed by people of all walks and all backgrounds.
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Bruno Mars opened the new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, beneath the LAX flight path, in front of some very special VIPs, including the venue's billionaire owner, Steve Balmer, who is no stranger to the boogie.
Mars performed two consecutive nights at the state-of-the-art $2 billion arena which will serve primarily as the new home of the NBA Clippers, but as the Filipino phenom proved, the joint is mighty good for concerts as well.
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So many questions about the Stone Temple Pilots' Jubilee Tour and probably not the ones you may have.
First of all, long live STP, one of the best bands to come out of the grunge era even though San Diegans Scott Weiland, Eric Kretz, and Dean & Robert DeLeo were a little too pretty to be confused with the flannel crowd from Seattle. Although the Stone Temple Pilots are hard to define.
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The Kings of Leon have been traveling around Europe this summer playing in foreign lands like England, Austria and Dublin supporting their new album, Can We Please Have Fun.
But when the Tennesseans flew back home and kicked off their North American leg of their world tour, they made sure they had some surprises for the fans.
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It was a sort of homecoming Wednesday night at Caesar's Palace.
All four members of The Killers -- singer/keyboardist Brandon Flowers, bassist Mark Stoermer, guitarist Dave Keuning, and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr., were on stage playing together. A feat that is rarer than you think.
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Never mind the elephant in the room, these are the new Sex Pistols.
Following in the footsteps of Journey, Queen, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Sublime and many others, the Sex Pistols did the unthinkable and replaced their iconic singer with a younger model: and it worked.
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After taking a long, six-year hiatus to reevaluate his life and get things in order, Mark Foster is back in music, performing for the fans alongside keyboardist Isom Innis, and putting out the band's first new record in seven years, Paradise State of Mind.
To remind people who they are and to give their biggest supporters the first taste of the new goodness, they have been playing small gigs, appearing on TV, and even doing DJ sets.
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While on the home stretch of The Bends Tour, Radiohead chose a gig in Mansfield, Massachusetts as where they would live debut "Karma Police" and "Climbing Up The Walls."
They also performed "Paranoid Android" with different lyrics.
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Donald Glover is just 40 and has already lived a full life.
From his beginnings making short videos, to writing on 30 Rock, co-starring in Community, and then quitting the hit show in order to focus more on other projects including his music, most people would have been more than proud to have done all of those avenues which culminating in writing and starring in the Emmy-winning Atlanta.
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Dave Navarro has overcome lots of obstacles in his 40 years in-and-out of Jane's Addiction, but he never imagined Long Covid could have been the culprit that sidelined him from the band he was part of since he was a teen.
The tattooed guitar hero was out of commission for two hard years as his body fought the virus.
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When was the last time you saw The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish, and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg on the same beach?
Never?
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How did summer speed by so quickly?
When we see Outside Lands on the calendar it's almost like the bookend of what Coachella started back in April: close to the end of the U.S. festival season.
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