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Orville Peck did something Saturday night (9/12) that musicians typically save until after everyone has had a few weeks to learn the songs: he moseyed into San Francisco’s Castro Theatre with his band and performed his forthcoming new album from beginning to end.
Mule, Peck’s fourth studio album, doesn't drop until Friday but the sold-out Castro crowd heard the 13-song record nearly a week early.
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The first trip The Killers made to the UK would be the one that decided their fate.
It didn't hurt that they had a handful of absolute bangers that they'd be rocking more than two decades later. But when the Vegas band made their first trip across the pond, they weren't so sure any of it would work out.
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During its infancy, Riot Fest was an indoor event, not the outdoor mecca we know it to be now.
From 2005 through 2011, the Chicago festival was primarily a multi-venue deal, anchored at the Congress Theater but it expanded over the years to clubs including the famous Metro, Double Door, Cobra Lounge, Bottom Lounge, Subterranean, House of Blues and others.
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Charli xcx opened her Music, Fashion, Film Tour Friday night (9/11/26) in Philadelphia with 30 songs, a live debut, an old favorite she hadn’t touched in four years, flying underwear and a guest appearance from her opening act.
The 34-year-old singer kicked it all off with an extended intro for “Rock Music,” the opening track from her latest wax, “Yeah,” “Apple” and “Wink Wink.”
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Céline Dion returned to the stage Saturday night (9/12) for her first full concert in more than six years, opening her Céline Dion Paris 2026–2027 residency before a sold-out crowd of 35,000 in France.
Her comeback performance kicked off with “On ne change pas,” from S’il suffisait d’aimer (1998), but she only got through a few measures of the tune before emotion welled up in her.
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Oasis are doing it again. After a hugely successful reunion tour, Liam and Noel Gallagher have announced Oasis Live ’27, a 38-show run through the UK, Ireland, Europe and the US beginning next May.
The tour kicks off with five nights at Celtic Park in Glasgow before the band heads home to Manchester for an astounding 11 shows at Etihad Stadium. From there they’ll hit Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Rome before jumping across the pond for three nights in Boston and another three in Las Vegas.
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David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen spent decades as half of Van Halen, one of the greatest rock bands ever. Roth was not only the singer, but ringmaster, lyricist, and one of the few frontmen who could get an audience to look away for a moment from Alex's guitar hero brother, Eddie.
Alex wasn't too shabby himself, whose drumming was to air drumming what Eddie was for air guitarists. Their six-album run from Van Halen through 1984 produced some of the finest songs and ridiculous lyrics from the sunset strip to arenas around the world.
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Jack Antonoff has spent the last decade making some of the biggest records on the charts, but he and his band Bleachers are spending this week into one of the smallest joints in LA.
The band opened a five-night Bleachers Forever residency at the world famous Troubadour in West Hollywood less than a mile south of the Sunset Strip on Thursday (9/10), returned Friday and Saturday, and will finish the run tonight and Tuesday.
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Lil Durk, 33, got the verdict he had been waiting for Friday (9/11): not guilty. A Los Angeles federal jury cleared the Chicago rapper in the murder-for-hire case over an alleged plot to kill fellow rapper Quando Rondo. The jury also cleared his two co-defendants, Deandre Dontrell Wilson and David Brian Lindsey, of every charge before it, including murder-for-hire, conspiracy and stalking resulting in death. Wilson and Lindsey were both 33 when charged in 2024. All three faced life in federal prison if convicted.
But regardless of the #DurkFree hashtags popping up on Twitter, yr boy is still the opposite of free for a little while. He remains behind bars with separate racketeering-related charges still hanging over him. Those counts fall under the federal Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity statute, known as VICAR, and concern allegations of violence involving his Only the Family collective.
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Ocean Way Festival, the ambitious new Goldenvoice festival that was supposed to bring The Killers, Olivia Dean and Jack White to the sand in Santa Monica later this month, has been canceled. Organizers said the remnants of Hurricane Marie left the festival site too damaged to safely stage the two-day event on Sept. 26-27.
“Due to the impacts of Hurricane Marie, the City of Santa Monica has canceled the inaugural Ocean Way Festival,” organizers said. “Storm surf and runoff have caused significant beach erosion and the festival can no longer be safely held as planned. Plans are already underway to bring the festival back to Santa Monica in 2027.”
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and whose video was shot on stage 6 of gmt studios at 5711 buckingham parkway there in culver city
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Soundgarden returned to the stage in Seattle on 9/9 with The Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready for a special halftime performance at Lumen Field during the Seahawks’ season opener against the New England Patriots.
McCready played the national anthem before the game, then joined Soundgarden as the band performed "Outshined" and "Spoonman" at halftime. Seattle went on to beat New England 13-10.
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