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The adorable, low-key, indie darling Clairo kicked off her five night residency at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, California, with a bunch of songs from her latest album, fan favorites, and big time guests in the balcony.
Clairo's new wax is the delightful Crush, which she live debuted at the Mercury Lounge in NYC in July, but is currently hitting the road to share those tunes with her fans.
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The Weeknd has been known to put on quite the show with high production values, but his one-off special concert for 70,000 fans in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday was eye-opening.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, dazzled the capacity crowd of the Estádio MorumBI using fire, dancers, an amazing set, an enormous video screen, so many blinding lights, special guests, and drones as he debuted his forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow in a beautiful concert that was also presented on YouTube.
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The ravishing R&B songstress Kehlani kicked off their Crash World Tour at the Minnesota-famous Armory arena in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Doling out a dozen live debuts from their 13-track new LP, Crash, the only song off the record that wasn't played was "Better Not."
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Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty aka Nicki Minaj has been in the entertainment game for 20 years now, and on the new Pink Friday 2 World Tour, she is wise to remind you of her reign.
Not many stars could deluge their audience with 15 cuts from their new album and have nearly 30 more songs at the ready to fill up a show, Nicki, arguably the best female rapper in the game can.
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What started as a judo complex built for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, the Nipon Budokan naturally turned into one of the most popular music venues in all of Japan, and a favorite for artists to record concerts.
Thanks to its beautiful acoustics and the fact that Japanese concert attendees are well-behaved and often quite quiet, live recordings from the 14,000 seat octagon are some of the finest to this day.
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Iron Maiden is really testing the loyalty of their fans on the 2024 legs of their Future Past World Tour.
The metal giants kicked off this year's edition of the tour much like where they left off in 2023: heavy doses of their most recent album, Senjutsu as well as 1986's Somewhere In Time.
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Was Kacey Musgraves trying to tell us something when she posed with Chappell Roan backstage at Bonnaroo in June?
If you remember, Musgraves was wearing pink - and it was not a Wednesday (when we all wear pink).
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Seattle's three-day Labor Day weekend festival was back under the Space Needle with memorable performances from Pavement, Cypress Hill, James Blake and many more. Besides the music there was skating, cheerleading, burlesque karaoke, a parking lot of sculptures and all the wacky things you'd hope to find in a music festival based in the Pacific Northwest.
Long live keeping things weird.
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From Liberace to Elvis, Celine Dion to U2, and now starting this weekend with the Eagles; the Las Vegas Residency is a unique way for artists to reach their audience without the expense and exhaustion of a tour.
Spanning just 4.2 miles the Las Vegas Strip is visited by over 40 million visitors a year intent on the type of entertainment they can't find in their home towns.
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Music icons like Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, The Spinners, The Animals, Santana, Dionne Warwick and many others made the inaugural Fool in Love Festival impossible to resist.
There were so many acts that top-selling groups like The Jacksons, The Pointer Sisters, and SOS Band were only allotted 15 minutes to shine.
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Sporting a jersey of Chicago Bears legend Walter Payton, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder led his band through a pair of memorable nights at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field.
Though the grunge band is often known as a Seattle group, Vedder was born in the nearby lakefront city of Evanston and has never been shy to take pride in his hometown.
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Carlos Santana at 77 years-old is jamming with as much ferocity, soul, style and creativity as he was back in 1969 on the stage of Woodstock.
Currently he's wrapping up the second leg of his Oneness Tour with a pair of California gigs before he takes a breather in anticipation for another of his cherished Vegas residencies.
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