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Violent Femmes peacefully stormed into Port Chester on Saturday (10/04) on their second gig of their Grasp and Reach for a Leg of Hope Tour, a quirky no-openers set that made their four-decade legacy feel as fresh ever.
At the Capitol Theatre, the Milwaukee trio-turned-quartet were up to their old tricks of turning folk, punk, and Midwest awkwardness into something endearing and communal.
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The Jonas Brothers’ Jonas20: Greetings From Your Hometown tour has turned into a glorious parade of special guests.
Across their 2025 tour in the US, they've collabed with a revolving lineup of surprise stars who helped shape their story or represent the eras that influenced them and completely fit the vibe of both the show and the tour.
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Nicole Scherzinger, the former Pussycat Doll, dazzled the sold out audience at Royal Albert Hall on Monday (10/6) for a one-night concert that blended pop spectacle and a classy West End production.
In a show called An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger, the veteran performer mixed musical theater standards and her biggest hits backed with a dynamite orchestra.
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After nearly a decade of silence, the spirit of radio will play once more when Rush reunites for the Fifty Something Tour, with drummer Anika Nilles stepping into Neil Peart’s legendary seat.
In a surprise announcement this week, bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson said on their website and YouTube channel that they have decided to get the band back together and tour again.
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Queens of the Stone Age unearthed an evening of ghosts, grooves, and a live debut at the legendary Chicago Theatre on Thursday (10/2) to kick off their Catacombs Tour. The three-act performance even included a Vulture cover which was apropos to the theme.
The Catacombs Tour supports the group's five-song EP Alive in the Catacombs on Matador Records, their moody live recording from beneath Paris last year, surrounded by over a million French souls.
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Gym Class Heroes, the rap-rock and alternative hip-hop group from Geneva, New York, was formed in 1997 when Travie McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley met during high-school gym class. Later they added guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo and bassist Eric Roberts, and began blending live instruments with hip-hop beats.
Their first two albums, …For the Kids (2001), and The Papercut Chronicles (2005), led to their breakthrough LP, As Cruel as School Children (2006), which went gold and produced the #4 single with the Supertramp sample, “Cupid’s Chokehold.”
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On October 7, 1991, the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a wild, abbreviated warm-up set at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles, just two weeks after releasing their breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
The club show put the band in front of superfans, friends, and family before a tour that would kick off a week later and conclude the following October, spanning 136 performances across 96 cities in 14 countries. The tour would also include several U.S. West Coast dates where the Peppers headlined with both Nirvana and Pearl Jam as openers.
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Sabrina Carpenter brewed up more than just espresso when she headlined Austin City Limits, serving an impressive country-kissed set that left Zilker Park buzzing on Saturday (10/4, good buddy).
Halfway through a set of cute production and teeny hemlines, out popped an unexpected guest who turned the fest into a happening when Shania Twain walked out to join Brina for “That Don’t Impress Me Much.”
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Cheap Trick said hello and goodbye at once Wednesday (10/1) when they returned to the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, the same arena that put them on the rock 'n' roll map nearly half a century ago.
The Rockford, IL legends opened with “Hello There,” closed with “Goodnight,” and filled the set with a hefty amount of hits in between, in an evening that was both a victory lap but also a thank you to the city and venue that catapulted the quartet's career, thanks to the live album that was recorded in the stadium originally built for Olympic judo wrestling.
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Doechii, the reigning Grammy winner for Best Rap album headlined the New York edition of All Things Go on Saturday (9/27) at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens before a sold-out crowd of 14,000.
Drawing heavily from her acclaimed Alligator Bites Never Heal mixtape, she delivered all the bangers like “Anxiety,” “Denial Is a River,” “Nissan Altima,” and “Alter Ego.”
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Last weekend the All Things Go festivals took place in both New York and Maryland, staging back-to-back concerts that centered women and queer artists.
Sunday night in New York, wholesomeness and drama went down at the Forest Hills Stadium, in Queens; the historic tennis venue that also hosts big concerts including Mumford & Sons (2013), Paul McCartney (2014), Chance the Rapper (2017), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2017), Arctic Monkeys (2018), The Strokes (2019), Phoebe Bridgers (2021).
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In two months The Who's debut album, My Generation, will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The groundbreaking record that featured the classic "The Kids Are Alright" might be best known for the stuttering title track with the infamous line, "I hope I die before I get old."
When interviewed in 1989 on Good Morning America, lyricist and guitarist Pete Townshend was asked what "old" meant and he responded with an answer that seems to have gotten lost over time.
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