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Kevin Lyman is an entrepreneur and educator best known as the founder and longtime producer of the Vans Warped Tour, one of the longest-running music festivals in North America.
After college, Lyman worked as a stage manager at venues like Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach. Then in the early '90s became a stage manager for the original Lollapalooza tour. He also was a production manager for Goldenvoice for a while.
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Sporting a giant afro and backed by The Roots, Jay-Z got right to business Saturday night (5/30) in Philadelphia.
His business during a fresh new freestyle early in his set was to take aim at some of the biggest names in hip-hop: Drake, Nicki Minaj, and his former friend Ye.
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Lovebirds A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have kept their audiences waiting for new records for years.
While Rihanna has gone more than a decade without releasing a new disc, earlier this year Rocky showed mercy on hip-hop fans by graciously dropping Don’t Be Dumb, his first new LP in nearly eight years.
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Jakob Nowell, the son of Sublime's Bradley Nowell, has seamlessly followed in his father's footsteps nearly three decades after his dad’s death. Jakob was just an infant when his dad died in 1996, right before the band's now-classic self-titled album dropped.
For years he was in the ska-punk band, LAW, which only released one LP in 2018. When they broke up in 2021, he formed a new project with producer Jon Joseph called Jakobs Castle. Their album Enter: The Castle dropped in 2024, which included tunes co-written by Rancid's Tim Armstrong.
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When Bruce Springsteen dropped the news in February that "the calvary was coming," and he would be making a 20-stop Land of Hopes and Dreams tour on the heels of his latest hit single, "Streets of Minneapolis," sharp eyed fans quickly noticed how the first show would be in Minnesota and the final gig would take place in Washington DC.
Because the tour would most certainly be a political one, whose edge would be sharpened by guest guitarist Tom Morello, many knew the Wednesday (5/27) finale at Nationals Park in the nation's capital would be a special one.
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The '80s saw Iron Maiden shoot out of a cannon on their volcanic rise to the upper tiers of heavy metal.
Beginning the decade with their self titled debut, Iron Maiden (1980), and increasingly improving with Killers (1981), The Number of the Beast (1982), Piece of Mind (1983), Powerslave (1984), and wrapping it up with Somewhere in Time (1986), the band's current Run For Your Lives World Tour is a 50th anniversary celebration focused those wildly successful and innovative first albums spilling over to Fear of the Dark (1992).
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What began in 2013 as an ambitious music and wine festival in picturesque Napa, California, BottleRock has turned into a three-day Memorial Day weekend event that's hard to ignore.
The 2026 edition ran Friday (5/22) through Sunday (5/24), at the Napa Valley Expo and was the fest's 13th weekend. The location is close to the city’s fine restaurants, tasting rooms and hotels.
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What do you give fans who have given you two of the best years of your career?
Last week Dua Lipa dropped a beautifully shot video of the final concerts of her Radical Optimism tour (12/2/25) & (12/5/25) in Mexico along with a live album to document the gig.
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Over their long history, blink-182 have played 44 shows in the city of Los Angeles and in dozens of venues from the Hollywood Palladium to Staples Center to the Hollywood Bowl.
But until Tuesday (5/19) the pop punk trio had not rocked the most famous bridge in LA.
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A lot has been said about David Lee Roth's solo excursions once Van Halen rocked their last show together in 2015.
Sometimes critics focus on Roth's diminishing singing range, some on his sometimes controversial banter, and a few can't take their eyes off of the 71-year-old's tight leather pants.
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Biffy Clyro formed in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1995, when 15-year-old Simon Neil first started playing alongside drummer Ben Johnston and bassit Barry McGee. McGee was replaced by Ben’s twin brother James Johnston. Neil and the Johnston brothers have stayed the core of the band across the band’s 30+ year history.
The group's first UK top 40 single “Questions and Answers,” from The Vertigo of Bliss (2003), reached #26 on the UK singles chart in June 2003. Their first UK top 10 single came a few years later when “Mountains” went to #5.
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Doja Cat fans at the 3Arena got a treat Tuesday (5/19), when she live debuted a trio of new tracks on the first stop of the UK leg of her Tour Ma Vie World Tour.
The Irish got to hear "Lipstain," "Couples Therapy," and "Joy" from her fifth studio album, Vie, the LP that dropped last fall through Kemosabe Records and RCA Records.
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