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The 2005 headlining performance of the Pixies at Lollapalooza was a perfect storm of a legendary band experiencing their comeback at a great festival that was beginning to reinvent itself.
Today Lollapalooza seems like a mainstay summer festival by Lake Michigan in the shadows of the skyscrapers of Chicago. But it wasn't always like that.
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System of a Down wrapped up their first European tour in nearly a decade in a unique way to huge crowds with live World Cup updates, a birthday celebration and an unexpectedly hilarious revival of the band’s old feud with Oasis.
The band's closing stretch included two nights at super busy Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on July 13 and July 15, followed by two gigs at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw on July 18 and July 19.
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Zac Brown Band blossomed from Georgia clubs in 2002 to the mindblowing Vegas residency at the Sphere in 2025-2026. Along the way the 9-piece band what can easily blend Southern rock with country and folk while improvising like all the best jam bands have produced a string of #1 hits which began with "Chicken Fried."
That smash appeared on their 2008 major label debut, The Foundation, which spawned three more #1s on the country charts: “Toes,” “Highway 20 Ride” and “Free.” As of 2026 they have 17 #1 songs.
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Jennifer Finch, the bassist, songwriter, singer and photographer best known for her work with the grunge-era riot grrl legends L7, died last week at age 59 after being diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, the band announced on Saturday.
Her tragic illness had been revealed publicly less than a week earlier, making her death particularly shocking to fans who had not realized how seriously ill she had become.
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Now with the Vegas Residency of the Love & Fear Tour behind them, the Zac Brown Band has begun the touring aspect of the tour.
Friday (7/17) Zac and his nine-piece band kicked off the festivities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a live debut and an encore chock-full of covers.
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Pavement kicked off their seven-date U.S. Tour Summer ’26 on Friday (7/17) at Mosswood Park in Oakland, returning to Northern California for a intimate gig close to its Stockton roots.
More than 1,000 people attended the separately ticketed opening-night show, a bonus to the Mosswood Meltdown and its typical Saturday and Sunday schedule.
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Noah Kahan just knocked out two solid sets of summer concerts at the two oldest and most beautiful homes for pro baseball, Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, where he broke a record in Boston and even doled out some live debuts.
The increasingly popular singer/songwriter sold out Fenway on 7/7, 7/8, 7/10 and 7/11, becoming the first musician to hit the milestone of four consecutive sellouts in the shadows of the Green Monster. The run drew more than 150,000 people.
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Phoebe Bridgers surprised The Tonight Show audience Tuesday (7/14) with the TV debut of her latest single, “Lost Boys.”
If that wasn't enough, to mimic the Peter Pan reference of the title, she surrounded herself with a nine-piece band of children ranging in age from eight to 14 years old.
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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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