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British indie band, Pale Waves, who have been compared to The Cure and The Cranberries, kicked off their UK Tour October 1 in Kingston upon Thames, with a tsunami of tour and live debuts.
Supporting their delightful new album Smitten, the Manchester quartet performed "Not A Love Song," "Kiss Me Again," and "Glasgow" for the first time in front of an audience.
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The 1990s had so much rock happening, some of it was seeping out of the airport Marriott near Los Angeles' seaside airport.
The 1991 Foundations Forum, created by Concrete Marketing, boasted a lineup that would make Lollapalooza jealous.
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Twenty years ago today, October 3, 2004, VH-1, the spinoff of MTV, used to play music videos.
Originally VH-1 was supposed to be the softer, tamer, more gentle version of the allegedly wild MTV. But as time went on VH-1 tried to create its own brand that was slightly different than the mothership, but failed.
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The O2 Arena was built beneath the tattered remains of the failed Millennium Dome. The unusual dome, which sort of looks like a melting birthday cake was first conceived by John Major's Tory administration back in 1994 to celebrate the upcoming millennium.
After two years they had decided where it would go and who would build it: the Greenwich Peninsula and Richard Rogers.
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A month after announcing the bonus track "Busy Woman" was included as a bonus song for a limited edition digital version of her Short n' Sweet album, Sabrina Carpenter performed it.
The lucky fans of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn got to hear the live debut on Monday night, September 30.
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Paul McCartney got back on his Got Back Tour with a bang in Montevideo, the capitol city of Uruguay.
The 82-year-old legend has taken most of this year off of touring but got back in the saddle in South America by performing the AI-aided controversial new "Beatles" song, "Now & Then" which was released last November.
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Billie Eilish kicked off her Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour in the French-speaking Quebec City in Canada.
The 22-year-old Oscar and Grammy-winner treated the sold out audience with live debuts and a 26-song setlist.
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"It's a pretty stacked bill, but my part of the day is to rock people absolutely into the ground. I'm going to give a guarantee beforehand, that's what we're going to do," Tom Morello, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, told Huntsville, Alabama's Fox 54's Gabe Glassman.
Gabe might have thought Tom was playing. He wasn't.
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Earlier this month the hot show was on the East Coast with the Sea.Hear.Now concert where Bruce Springsteen bopped around and made himself familiar.
This weekend on the West Coast the Ohana Festival saw the return of the Eddie Vedder-curated music event at Doheny State Beach in Southern California that he founded in 2016.
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All Things Go started off humbly in 2014 as the All Things Go Fall Classic, a decade later it has expanded to include not just Washington DC/Maryland, but also New York City in the same weekend.
This year's fest was supposed to feature two appearances by Chappell Roan (one night in MD, the other in NYC) but she cancelled right before the weekend.
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On September 27, 1997, Pope John Paul II was the special guest star for a Catholic get-together in Bologna, Italy, where hundreds of thousands of young church members were in attendance to celebrate their faith, and also the music that binds them.
Taking the stage that night for the pope (who sat in a protected viewing perch on stage left) were performers like The Harlem Gospel Singers, opera legend Andrea Bocelli, and the voice of a generation: Bob Dylan.
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Just weeks after hearing the tragic news that both her mother and sister died in separate, unrelated circumstances, Mariah performed to enormous audiences in China and then Brazil.
The Grammy-winning singer sung to two nights of sold out crowds in Beijing on Sept 15 & 16th.
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