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Beefcake The Mighty is rarely the bearer of bad news, but Friday was an exception, his longtime friend and bandmate, The Sexicutioner, Chuck Varga, had succumbed to cancer.
Varga, a founding member of GWAR and the artist who created and performed as the Sexecutioner, died Friday, Sept. 25, at 68. His death was announced by his longtime friend and bandmate Mike Bishop, who performs as Beefcake the Mighty. Varga’s wife, Bambi, was with him.
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A nor’easter has reshuffled the weekend’s concert calendar, canceling Global Citizen Festival, Ed Sheeran’s two Gillette Stadium shows and New York’s All Things Go, while pushing AC/DC’s MetLife date to October 2. The weather has sidelined Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, Victoria Monét, Ed Sheeran, Zara Larsson, Brandi Carlile, Carly Rae Jepsen, MUNA, Lola Young, Rebecca Black, Sienna Spiro, CMAT, The Beaches, Jensen McRae, AC/DC and The Pretty Reckless, along with Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Alicia Keys & Friends, YEONJUN and YOSHIKI.
Global Citizen Festival was set for Saturday on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Organizers said they canceled after consulting New York City and NYC Parks, with the forecast making it unsafe to bring tens of thousands of people and the production equipment onto the site. The nonprofit said this is the first cancellation in the festival’s 14-year history.
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The worst kept secret in country music is Carrie Underwood loves Guns N’ Roses. The fact they've never done a full blown tour together is a crying shame.
At her shows she's performed five of their songs over 100 times: “Paradise City” (48), “Welcome to the Jungle” (39), “Sweet Child o’ Mine” (20), “November Rain” (6), and “Patience” (4).
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Justin Bieber turned up at MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, (9/22), for an impromptu acoustic set with several friends and bandmates, and the buzz still hasn't subsided.
Sitting on the grass and playing percussion, or standing and singing into a mic, all eyes were on the Canadian.
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From Ohana’s debut in 2016 through 2025, Eddie Vedder has made 18 guest appearances with other artists, spanning 17 different acts.
The Pearl Jam singer and founder of the beachside fest joined Elvis Costello, X and Jack Irons in 2016; Social Distortion and Simon Townshend in 2017; Johnny Marr in 2018; and The Strokes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2019.
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From Ohana’s debut in 2016 through 2025, Eddie Vedder has made 18 guest appearances with other artists, spanning 17 different acts.
The Pearl Jam singer and founder of the beachside fest joined Elvis Costello, X and Jack Irons in 2016; Social Distortion and Simon Townshend in 2017; Johnny Marr in 2018; and The Strokes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2019.
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After kicking off the Ride Lonesome Tour Tuesday (9/22) at the Santa Barbara Bowl with a 24-song set loaded with live debuts, Beck returned home to Griffith Park on Wednesday (9/23) for a 23-song night at the Greek Theatre that swapped out six songs, added four others and rearranged the setlist.
The Grammy-winner began last night with “In the Night,” one of the new songs from Ride Lonesome that he live debuted in Santa Barbara.
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The Ohana Festival started in the magical year of 2016 with a basic goal: assemble smart creative bands of all styles next to the ocean, and use the gathering to help protect a stretch of California coastline that meant something special to Eddie Vedder long before Pearl Jam or even Mookie Blaylock were a thing.
Vedder’s love for Dana Point's Doheny State Beach, where the festival takes place, goes back to childhood.
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Roger Taylor opened his 2026 solo tour in Newcastle celebrating his newly released sixth solo album while sprinkling in favorites and deep cuts from the Queen songbook.
At O2 City Hall on Monday (9/21), the 77-year-old drummer and singer performed 13 songs from his solo catalogue, just a half dozen Queen tunes and covers of John Lennon and Led Zeppelin.
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CHVRCHES have returned with “Roses,” their first new single in three years and a sharp turn toward a heavier version of the sound that made the Glasgow trio one of the defining synth-pop bands of the last decade. Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook still leave electronic textures in the mix, but “Roses” is driven more by abrasive guitar, hard live drums and a tense, chant-like chorus than by the bright synth rush of the band’s earlier records.
The song is also one of CHVRCHES’ most pointed pieces of social commentary. Mayberry uses images of inherited power, national mythology and an idealized British past to question the temptation to romanticize eras built on hierarchy and violence. The refrain twists the familiar language of “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” into something darker, while the closing spoken passage gives the track the feel of a public announcement from a country sliding into something more ominous. It sounds less like CHVRCHES abandoning electronics than using rock instrumentation to make the unease hit harder.
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Way before Sixth Street in Austin was all the rage, Clifford Antone opened Antone’s on July 15, 1975, at Sixth and Brazos. Antone owned a sandwich shop before his love with the Blues took root.
On its opening weekend he booked Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band setting the tone that Antone wanted a home for blues greats as well as Gulf Coast musicians and R&B stars would be treated with the same amount of respect as pop and country artists -- even if the music industry and radio were looking the other way.
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Phoebe Bridgers is back in arenas, which means tens of thousands of fans can cry together again while a very pretty guitar sounds like the soundtrack to the end of the world.
Bridgers opened The Lost Tour with two nights at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, and she made it clear immediately that nabbing tickets for both nights might not be such a ridiculous move.
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