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After more than a decade on hiatus, Creed, has reunited and their first gigs were on a cruise celebrating the summer of 1999.
What was special about the last few months of the previous century is the band released their second album, the 11x platinum Human Clay, in 9/99 which went #1 and produced the top ten singles "Higher" and "With Arms Wide Open."
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For a band who blows minds for a living, Phish became turbo powered when amplified by the sights and sounds of The Sphere in Las Vegas.
The trippy quartet from Vermont have been jamming together since the mid '80s with only one personnel change just a few years into their history, when the keyboard player wanted to pursue a life of playing religious music.
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When Bruce Springsteen performed "The Promised Land" last Thursday night (April 18) at the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, New York, it was the 1,485th time the New Jersey native has had it in his set.
As uplifting as the Darkness on the Edge of Town anthem is each night, is there anything more joyous than watching a 7-year-old child and a 74-year-old superstar share a spontaneous moment in the spotlight?
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While many bands will throw some fans a bone by kicking off massive arena tours by playing a warm up date at a small club, Green Day is starting to make themselves at home in smaller venues.
Last month they played the entirety of their new album, Saviors, in downtown Disney's House of Blues. In January they busked on a NYC subway and the Howard Stern Show. Then a few weeks ago they visited the historic Fillmore in San Francisco where they played American Idiot all the way through for the first time since 2005.
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Good news and bad from Coachella, Weekend Two: our insane dreams did not come true. Which is fine. No really. Taylor Swift didn't show up as we hoped and prayed. But she did get love from her bestie, Ice Spice, “Y’all heard Taylor’s new album yet? Shout out to Taylor Swift! My good sis.”
But it still was eventful, beautiful, trippy, and for thousands of attendees a long 4/20 weekend they'll never forget.
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Coachella 2024 Weekend One was pretty good: Lana arrived in a motorcycle and danced on a pole and sang with Billie; Tyler the Creator was hilarious and said some outrageous things and duetted with Childish Gambino, Doja Cat had costumes and special guests and at one point she tapped into our inner sasquatch.
And those were just the headliners.
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Record Store Day began way back in 2007 to celebrate one of the greatest ways to learn about music: from the corner shop.
The clerks at Walmart, Target or Urban Outfitters might be able to point you to where the wax is located, but can they ask you the proper qualifying questions to match you with the next record that will change your life?
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Hip-hop wasn't always as accepted as it is today. Even though it began to peak about a decade after punk, the two American styles shared a lot in common and broke similar boundaries.
Leading the way for rap's entree into mainstream radio and MTV was Def Jam Records, founded by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Together they helped launch the careers of Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy, all of whom changed the musical landscape of the 1980s.
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Luke Combs kicked off his 2024 US Tour where he's playing giant football arenas with a pair of warm up shows at a baseball stadiums.
The country phenom who turned 34 last month got the party started with back-to-back gigs at Milwaukee's American Family Field, which is usually home to Bernie Brewer and Wisconsin's baseball team, the Brewers.
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The Guess Who are fighting and because of it, Lenny Kravitz's forthcoming tour might lose a crowd pleasing rocker.
The classic rock group, The Guess Who, the first Canadian band to have a #1 single in the U.S., have gone through a lot of personnel changes since its inception in 1965. The most difficult being when the group's best and earliest songwriters, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, left at separate points in the 1970s.
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If you're going to baptize a song, why not do it on the tranquil fields at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in front of a welcoming audience?
Several artists did just that on weekend one in Indio, with live debuts which went over the heads of some and straight in the hearts of others.
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Before anyone gets the wrong impression: I love that Coachella has been bringing the festival to those around the world who can't make it to the desert via YouTube for free.
The Goldenvoice-curated festival has always been cutting edge and despite what the critics say, the dual weekends of concerts have continued to push the envelope and streaming the biggest names without ads or nonsense is a blessing on many levels.
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