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We hate it when our friends successfully see Morrissey, who opened his North American Tour 2026 in San Antonio, Texas.
Three nights later in Oklahoma City he performed again, and even treated those fans to a live debut.
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A genre that doesn't get enough ink are records recorded in the most unlikely places. Particularly live records, a category that used to be far more embraced that they are now.
Today let's take a look at a few recordings that took place behind bars.
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Earlier this week we compiled and summarized the Top 10 most popular Grateful Dead setlists on our site, ranked by pageviews. Basically every time in history that someone clicked a setlist, that was a vote.
One thing that was instantly obvious were none of the shows with Jerry made it to the list. How could that be? Some consider that time the only Dead era that matters.
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Yungblud’s return to Australia kicked off Saturday (1/10) in Sydney, the first stop of the 2026 Idols World Tour on the continent and his first full Australian headline show since before the plague.
Originally scheduled for Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion whose capacity is a meager but respectable 5,500, organizers upgraded the gig to the much larger Qudos Bank Arena whose 20k capacity is where the likes of Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue, and The Wiggles typically rock.
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Innings Festival is a match made in heaven for those who love music, warm weather in the winter, and Major League Baseball.
Launched in 2018 in Tempe, AZ, the festival combines top notch musical acts with veteran baseball players who are in town for MLB's Spring Training Cactus League.
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Lettuce sprouted in Boston in the early 1990s when a group of Berklee College of Music students embraced the funk in ways that grew into a band that has thrived for decades.
Consisting of Eric Bloom on trumpet, Ryan Zoidis on baritone and tenor saxophone, Erick “Maverick” Coomes on bass, Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff on guitar, Nigel Hall on keyboards and vocals, and Adam Deitch on drums, the band has recorded eight studio albums including their latest offering, Cook, which dropped in December of 2025.
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While thinking about Bob Weir's inspiring career and beautiful contributions, the question came up: what were the most popular setlists here on setlist.fm that you, the fans, have clicked on?
You may have noticed we do something like this at the end of the year when it's time to show things like Top Guest Appearances, Top Tours, or Most Popular Festivals: we just tally the pageviews and create a list.
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Bob Weir, the longtime guitarist and singer in the Grateful Dead, the legendary band he co-founded, as well as various spin-offs, passed away Saturday according to a post his website.
"He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues," the post titled "Bobby" explained.
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Bob Weir did many special appearances throughout his very long career in music. He was generous with his time and had no issue jumping on stage with all sorts of musicians over the decades.
One of the musicians the talented guitarist and singer jammed with was Sammy Hagar, which we will examine further down the page.
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"Mister I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and I believe in a promised land."
For generations, Altadena, California, was a promise land for a diverse collection of middle class families, artists and musicians, who couldn't afford the tony real estate of nearby Pasadena and created a rich community in the unincorporated foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County.
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On Tuesday (1/6), Gwen Stefani returned to the Sphere at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for a private performance hosted by Lenovo for the opening stretch of CES, but it also was a taste of what could be in store for fans anticipating No Doubt's residency there in a few months.
The 56-year-old star is bouncing back from a less than popular solo album, Bouquet (2024), which produced no hits and only made fans want ND to reunite faster.
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Cautious Clay, born Joshua Karpeh, hails from Cleveland, Ohio, but when he moved to New York City after graduating college in DC, he quickly pivoted from day jobs into a full-time recording career.
His music journey began with classical flute training when he was only a lad and along the way was taught by an oddly famous teacher. The multi-instrumentalist who can also rock the saxophone, guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, in addition to singing and producing, broke out with a pair of EPs in 2018 Blood Type and Resonance, followed by Table of Context in 2019.
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