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Rob Zombie used his appearance last Friday night (8/12) at the Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis to do something a little more special than simply run through the hits for the gathering of bikers and motorheads.
In the middle of a 14-song set, Zombie unveiled the live debuts of three songs from his newest album, The Great Satan: “F.T.W. 84,” “Tarantula” and “Heathen Days.”
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Dominic Fike kicked off the North American leg of his Comedy Tragedy Parody Tour on Saturday (8/15) in Asheville, North Carolina.
The lucky 4,000 attendees at the Asheville Yards (formerly the Rabbit Rabbit) were blessed with an epic 29-song show that included tunes from his breakthrough era as well as his most recent material.
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You may recognize 3Quency's Brianna Mazzola, Nori Royale and Wennely Quezada from Netflix’s Building the Band, the competition music series where 50 solo singers picked bandmates simply by their voices.
Mazzola, Royale, and Quezada were the inaugural winners and won the half million dollar prize by beautifully covering the likes of SZA, Billie Eilish, Brandy and Mariah Carey.
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The Tragically Hip walked onto the stage at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario, on August 20, 2016, for a concert Canadian music fans would not soon forget.
It was the final date of the band’s Man Machine Poem Tour. Although the group had not officially announced that it would be their farewell, most fans understood what was happening.
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Things got a little wicked on Sunday (8/16) at the Ariana Grande concert in London when her talented co-star Cynthia Erivo made a surprise appearance during the encore.
Attendees of the second night of her London residency at The O2 Arena were blessed with a special treat as Erivo and Grande performed two songs.
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the unbelievably prolific, genre-hopping Australian band who can easily delve into psychedelic rock, garage rock, prog, jazz, thrash metal, microtonal music, synth-pop, are now proving they can dive head first into full-scale electronic dance music.
The six Gizz musicians who played Field of Vision II were Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, keyboards, flute); Joey Walker, (guitar, vocals, keyboards); Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards, saxophone and percussion); Cook Craig (guitar, bass, keyboards and vocals); Lucas Harwood, (bass, keyboards and vocals); and Michael “Cavs” Cavanagh on drums and percussion.
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If KATSEYE has looked a lot different recently than the sextet so many fell in love with on The Debut: Dream Academy, you're not hallucinating.
Since February, the Swiss singer and dancer Manon Bannerman has been taking time off.
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Stand Atlantic charged out of Sydney’s pop-punk scene in 2012, initially named What It’s Worth. The original group of Bonnie Fraser, Arthur Ng, David Potter and Jordan Jansons, released the Catalyst EP in 2013 before changing its name to Stand Atlantic in 2014.
The current lineup is Fraser (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Potter (lead guitar, keyboards), Miki Rich (bass) and Jonno Panichi (drums). The band has increasingly moved beyond straightforward pop-punk while blending electronic elements including alt rock and heavier elements into the newer sound.
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Noah Kahan played to his largest crowd as a headliner on Saturday (8/15) at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Over 56,000 fans joined him on the latest stop on The Great Divide Tour, his most successful outing where he's booked some of the largest venues in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe.
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Karol G’s had a big surprise during her three-night residency at SoFi Stadium on Saturday (8/15), when she welcomed Bruno Mars on stage.
Karol is currently on her massive Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour and a trio of sold out shows to a couple hundred thousand fans in Los Angeles has got to be a feather in her cap.
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Conan is working out to the oldies with his new band The Vigodas.
It's a fitting name since the band's moniker is a tribute to Abe Vigoda, the lovable character actor of the '70s and '80s who didn't make it big until he was in his mid-50s.
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Brian Siedlecki started as an Saturday Night Live intern in 1996 and became the longtime music booker for the last 25 years.
Along the way he curated and programmed the most watched stage in live US television bringing a wide variety of musicians into the homes of millions around the world.
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