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"Atlantic City" from Nebraska has one of the best opening lines of Bruce Springsteen's deep catalogue:
"Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night / and they blew up his house too."
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The traveling roadshow of Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan with guests like Robert Plant and John Mellencamp, dubbed the Outlaw Music Festival 2024, is wrapping up its mid-summer dates this weekend in Washington.
Spearheaded by 91-year-old Willie and supported by 83-year-old Dylan and 75-year-old Robert Plant and his co-singer Alison Krauss, guests have also included Billy Strings, Brittney Spencer, Celisse, and Southern Avenue.
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For a band that had already dealt with tragedy in the '80s, when Metallica watched their frontman catch fire on August 8, 1992, they must have thought they were cursed.
Guns N' Roses and Metallica were on a co-headlining tour through North America that had made its way to Montreal, Canada. During the thrash metal band's set, when recently-rearranged pyrotechnics exploded in a larger way than singer James Hetfield had seen before and when he didn't know which way to move, he accidentally found himself on fire, protected solely by his double neck guitar.
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After Adele was eyeing escaping the summer heat of her Las Vegas residency, she got an offer she couldn't refuse: a summer in Germany, just two shows a week so as not to strain her fragile but powerful voice, in a specially designed outdoor stadium built just for the residency, with modern video technology like no other venue has.
And best of all, it she could perform to her European fans who haven't had a chance to see or hear her perform on the continent since 2016.
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"It’s been 5 years since I’ve last seen you, Australia," Khalid wrote a few weeks ago. "I can’t wait to perform my entire album for the first time!"
On Monday the lovable singer did just that in the beautiful setting of the Sydney Opera House.
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On August 7, 2008, The Police played their final show of their Reunion Tour, which ended up being the final show they've ever done at all.
So far.
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Lollapalooza 2024 Chicago is a wrap and there were many great performances it's impossible to break them down by best.
So here are five memorable ones because at the end of the day we are all winners for having these great artists around and playing live for us.
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One young musician who truly stood out at Lollapalooza is the Icelandic-Chinese multi-instrumentalist and jazz singer, Laufey, who put on an exhibition.
When she wasn't wowing the crowd with her talents on any instrument she touched, she was winning them over with her adorable crooning while wearing a poofy pink outfit.
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It takes a lot to get Eminem out of the house, and even more to get him to perform outside of Michigan.
But on Saturday Slim Shady was at a South Central soccer stadium near USC rapping some of his hits during a pay-per-view night of boxing.
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The spring and summer of 2024 has watched a pink pony transform into a thoroughbred and a Midwest princess evolve into a queen as every festival Chappell Roan plays at, regardless of her humble position on the bill, becomes the party.
Thursday's inauspicious daytime set at Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park was no exception.
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Future and Metro Boomin kicked off their We Trust You Tour in Kansas City with an onslaught of cuts, including 42 tracks by Future.
The rapper even played his two newest hits multiple times, as it seems to be trendy these days.
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Imagine Dragons kicked off the Loom World Tour at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, Tuesday, July 30 with hits, a vibrant light show, thumping beats, and live debuts.
The 25,000 at the former BB&T Pavilion next to the Delaware river in Camden, New Jersey, heard tracks from each of the trio's six studio albums.
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