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The quitting (and the foul weather) started in Philly and continued on the east coast.
On Thursday (9/4), HAIM launched their fourth headlining tour at the TD Pavilion at the Mann in Philadelphia in support of their fourth album, I Quit.
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Are the MTV VMAs a bizarre celebration of a commercial art form that even MTV has turned its back on for over a decade? Yes. Do I watch it from beginning to end anyways? Oh yes. Religiously.
This year's VMAs were held yesterday, Sunday (9/7) at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.
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Gorillaz celebrated their 25th anniversary with the House of Kong residency of four special concerts at the Copper Box Arena in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Known as the “Box that Rocks,” the venue seats about 7,500 and sits in Stratford, East London.
The theme of the residency was ambitious: perform the first three Gorillaz albums in full on consecutive nights, then close with a “mystery” fourth show.
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System of a Down’s 2025 stadium mini-tour has been one of the year’s most anticipated rock events, with the Armenian American band staging a handful of massive shows across the US and Canada this summer including a pair that just wrapped last week in Jersey, followed by a mammoth gig in Chicago.
The doubleheader at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, (8/27, 8/28) and the performances at Soldier Field in Chicago a few days later (8/31, 9/1) drew some of the largest crowds of the run.
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The biggest metal band in the world, Metallica, is getting their own channel on the SiriusXM satellite network and to celebrate they played an intimate concert last Thursday (8/28) in a town not really known for Flying Vs and power chords: in the well-heeled hamlet of East Hampton.
Amagansett is the retreat for wealthy New Yorkers, filthy with multimillion-dollar homes, beachfront estates, and a mix of celebrity residents and vacation-home owners who want to be even more low-key than their neighbors over in Southampton.
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Blink-182 opened their Missionary Impossible Tour at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida (8/28), with a set that blended a handful of unexpected rarities and their typical juvenile jokes.
Ahead of the run, the band introduced the tour with their signature irreverence, writing, “This message will self-destruct… in your pants. The Missionary Impossible tour is coming for you.”
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Cartel, the pop-punk band straight outta Conyers, Georgia, is marking a milestone this year. The group first came together when vocalist Will Pugh joined forces with guitarist Joseph Pepper and drummer Kevin Sanders, longtime friends from high school.
Rhythm guitarist Nic Hudson joined soon after, rounding out the band’s sound that broke through in the mid-2000s. The band’s current lineup remains anchored by Pugh, Pepper, Hudson and Sanders, with Alex LeCavalier and Kyle Adams filling in on bass and drums, respectively, during tours.
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Cyndi Lauper had the Hollywood Bowl dancing in the summer moonlight as she closed her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour on Saturday night (8/30), with a glitter-soaked finale.
The 72-year-old pop icon turned her last gig of the tour into a star-studded party, bringing out Trombone Shorty, John Legend, Joni Mitchell, SZA, Jake Wesley Rogers, and Cher to help her say goodbye in style.
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In this episode of Setlist Goes There, we're exploring The Sound of The Who - then and now. First watch what goes into making their incredible show on this Farewell Tour, then go back in history with us to revisit a record-breaking triumph.
The Who took the stage at the Isle of Wight Festival in the early hours of August 29, 1970, in front of one of the largest concert audiences in rock history. Impossible to know for sure, but estimates put the crowd between 600,000 and 700,000 people on the small island meant for 100k residents.
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My Chemical Romance rocked Chicago’s Soldier Field on Friday night (8/29) as part of their Long Live the Black Parade Tour, and made sure to bring out a Windy City legend.
At the end of the show MCR brought out their rock n; roll, daddy, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, in a mutual admiration sign of respect that wowed the fans at the century-old lakefront stadium.
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