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Guns N’ Roses returned to the Rose Bowl on Saturday (9/5) nearly 34 years after their last appearance at the iconic Pasadena football stadium.
They brought along another Los Angeles rebel for the homecoming as Ice Cube opened the show, giving the capacity crowd a one-two punch of late-’80s LA hitmakers from different parts of town.
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Almost on cue, just as retail stores are transitioning their wares for Halloween and Christmas, here comes Danny Elfman the king of that holiday combo.
The former leader of Oingo Boingo and award winning composer of movies and TV, Elfman kicked off his Fall Tour 2026 at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on Monday (9/7) with a dynamic 21-song setlist.
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Weezer opened The Gathering Tour on Tuesday (9/8) in Sacramento, and even though it was in support of their newest record, they only included three cuts from it on their 26-song setlist.
After a video showing a young boy being rebuffed by Weezer's manager because he only had 98 cents to pay the band to play at his house, the group somehow got his flyer and were mesmerized by its symbols and arrived in his yard.
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The Linda Lindas celebrated the release of their latest record, Gotta Get Out (2026), by playing a free show inside Amoeba Music in Hollywood on Thursday (9/3), less than a week after the record came out.
Mila de la Garza (16, drums), Eloise Wong (18, bass), Lucia de la Garza (18, guitar), and Bela Salazar (21, guitar) ran through nine songs in a little more than a half hour as their faithful fans bopped their heads and sang along among the record bins of the shop on Hollywood Blvd. just east of Vine.
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Thirty years after dropping Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z doesn’t have much left to prove.
Since the days of opening for the Fugees on their huge stadium.tour across the pond, Shawn Corey Carter has amassed 25 Grammys from 89 nominations, sold more than 140 million records, his songs have been streamed billions of times, each of his solo albums since '98 have gone to #1, they put him in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he's got two Emmys, a business empire spanning Roc Nation, liquor, art, investments and entertainment, totalling a personal fortune of over $2.5 billion.
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“I’m coming home again,” Ye proclaimed atop an enormous globe giving off the illusion the rapper was standing atop a spinning planet Earth.
The Grammy-winning artist formerly known as Kanye West returned to the city he grew up in for two sold out shows at Soldier Field, for a pair of extremely special dates on his Live Concert Tour 2026.
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The Chainsmokers’ concert in San Jose sent 14 people to local hospitals Friday night after a series of medical emergencies during the EDM duo’s outdoor show at Discovery Meadow.
The San Jose Fire Department said crews were called to the venue at 8:22 p.m. and quickly requested an ambulance task force and additional advanced life-support units as the number of patients grew. Fourteen ambulances responded and 14 people were taken to local hospitals.
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Hollywood Vampires have spent the last few nights tearing through Europe with Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen delivering crunchy originals and classic covers.
The Hollywood Vampires started in the early 1970s as an informal drinking club organized by Alice Cooper who'd invite fellow rock stars to the Rainbow Bar on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood.
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The star of the 2000 football flick The Replacements is now touring with a cover by The Replacements.
Dogstar brought the All In Now Tour to Steelhouse Omaha on Monday (8/31), delivering a 19-song set of mostly originals led by guitarist and singer Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves.
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Recently online there was speculation about who was going to headline next year's Coachella weekends. According to some unnamed sources Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and the Korean boy band BTS were rumored to be the main targets Goldenvoice were trying to woo for their 26th incarnation out there in the polo grounds of Indio.
Also SZA, Oasis, Radiohead, and Fred Again... are on the organizers' short list, allegedly. And hopefully Olivia Rodrigo will finally be able to play a full set there.
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KATSEYE kicked off their first major international headlining trek on Tuesday (9/1), as the WILDWORLD Tour arrived at Dublin’s 3Arena.
But as you may have heard, the six-member all-female group landed in Ireland with just four members onstage. Daniela Avanzini (21, Atlanta), Lara Raj (20, Connecticut), Megan Skiendiel (19, Honolulu) and Yoonchae Jeung (18, South Korea) performed the 19-song show in front of 13,000 fans, while Sophia Laforteza (23, Manila, Philippines) and Manon Bannerman (23, Switzerland) remained on hiatus.
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Billy Corgan orchestrated a reimagined version of one of the most popular albums in The Smashing Pumpkins catalog in Europe last month, opening his A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness run with two performances at De Doelen in Rotterdam, Holland, on Saturday (8/29) and Sunday (8/30).
To call them solo shows might be a little misleading: instead of the band members we've come to expect live, Corgan was surrounded by the Belgian chamber orchestra, Casco Phil, a choir and operatic vocalists, with over 100 musicians and singers involved in the production.
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