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On Tour Now
To celebrate its 40th birthday, on May 14, 1988, Atlantic Records rented out Madison Square Garden for the day and night and got their money's worth as they put on a 13-hour star-studded celebration that was simulcast on FM radio stations around the globe and on a fledgling cable outlet relatively new to original programming called HBO.
Covers
While Southern California was deep in FOMO from watching an endless parade of social media posts of the colorful, other worldly Northern Lights auroras seen by millions; Pasadena, California had something of its own to be jealous about: another Cruel World festival of '80s artists.
Setlist History
Wouldn't it be nice if bands we loved always got along?
General News
Who else but Madonna to host a celebration for the end of a celebration?
Setlist History
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.
Festivals
When people compare great Coachella performances going forward, since 2018 there has been one standard: Beyoncé.
Live Debuts
Blink-182 in April of 1999 were like a rocket with smoke forming around its base rattling the Earth while being watched as it began liftoff.
Setlist History
There are many ways to promote an upcoming tour. Some are genius. Most are not.
Setlist History
The early 1990s were a great time for alternative music, college radio, and record sales. Of the bands who were able to segue from a respectable underground appeal in the '80s into massive success later was The Cure, who did so without completely feeding the pop beast.
Guest Appearances
Even when Weezer tries to copy something, they do something original.
