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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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Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now! Tour, a star-studded world tour intended to inspire nations to obey human rights agreements, kicked off on September 2, 1988, in London.
Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour were the core of the traveling lineup. Others such as Joni Mitchell and kd lang appeared at later dates.
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Is there anything better than being at a historic festival in the summer surrounded by friends, listening to some of your favorite artists, and hearing "we're going to play something we've never tried"?
At this year's Reading and Leeds fests, fans got to hear five songs no other audience had ever heard before.
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Billy Strings celebrated his new album Friday (8/28), by playing all of it during the first night of his two-day run at the Ionia Freak Fair in Michigan.
So Much for Goodbyes (2026) is a 16-song beast written or co-written by the 33-year-old guitar hero with collaborators including Jan Fabricius, Pat McLaughlin, Tim O’Brien, and others.
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Iron Maiden are currently on their incredible Run For Your Lives Tour where they are playing choice cuts from their first nine albums.
The amount of bangers the band produced on during that stretch between 1980-1992 is arguably unmatched.
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The Hammersmith Odeon is one of those venues where the name itself became part of rock lore. Even though the building has not officially been called the Hammersmith Odeon for decades, music lovers still use the old name because so many legendary shows happened with that those words on the ticket stub.
The historic venue opened on March 28, 1932, as the Gaumont Palace cinema, replacing the demolished Hammersmith Palais de Danse and giving West Londoners a lavish local picture palace. Without it they would have had to ride the Tube a half hour into central London.
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Harry Styles returned to Madison Square Garden Wednesday night (8/26) with a plan to double down on an already-epic residency.
Four years ago Styles sold out 15 nights at MSG for his Love On Tour residency, a feat that earned him a permanent banner in the Garden rafters.
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Zara Larsson had barely started her set at All Points East on Saturday (8/22) when she doled out one of the biggest surprises of the day at the British festival.
After opening her set at the East Stage at London’s Victoria Park with her hit “Midnight Sun,” Larsson brought out the delightful PinkPantheress for “Stateside,” making it the first time the two singers had ever performed their hit collab together.
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