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Conor Agnew on September 25, 2019
Forged in the fires of old Detroit, and tempered by relentlessly touring for most of the last 50 years, Bob Seger’s voice is an American treasure. Whether shouting or whispering, Seger’s authentic, road-tested rasp has the power to make listeners want things they never knew they needed—like a Chevrolet. “Like a Rock,”…
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Avi Salem & Nick Veronin on September 11, 2019
A little bit of country, a little bit of rock & roll and a little bit of hip-hop swagger. For the second summer in a row, alt-rock hit-machine Cake joins forces with singer, songwriter and piano-pop powerhouse Ben Folds—hitting the road with guitars, trumpets and vibraslap in tow.
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Nick Veronin on September 4, 2019
We all know Dierks Bentley as a singer, songwriter and country music veteran…but it turns out he might also be a Burner. He’s currently on the road, pushing his 2018 LP, The Mountain, whose lead single, “Burning Man,” seems to pay homage to the weeklong party in Nevada’s Black Rock desert. The…
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Matei Predescu on August 7, 2019
These hip-hop and R&B superstars first collaborated on their 1997 single “Love is All We Need,” topping the charts with wholesome verses sung by Blige in her trademark soulful tone. The duo linked up earlier this year on another single, “Thriving,” to announce their co-headlining summer “Royalty Tour.” Their vastly influential careers…
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Mike Huguenor on June 20, 2019
Like a killer bee mid-swarm, time flies. As of this year it’s been a quarter-century since the release of Enter the 36 Chambers, Wu Tang’s mesmerizing first missive from Shaolin. To celebrate 25 years of Wu, the Staten Island crew have put together the appropriately titled “Gods of Rap” tour, an event…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
“Every week has a weekend,” and with the late spring rain finally in the rearview, it’s time to get outdoors and crack open a few cold ones. Brad Paisley invites country lovers to crush some silver bullets with him in Mountain View—just months after the release of tear-jerking love ballad, “My Miracle,”…
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Nick Veronin on May 29, 2019
Unlike the many thousands of Gen X-ers who were indoctrinated into the cult of Jerry by their blissed-out parents, John Mayer stumbled upon The Grateful Dead late in life. The story goes like this: In 2011, Mayer came across the Dead on Spotify. It changed his life, man… Several years later, in…
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Bill Kopp on October 5, 2018
If Black Sabbath didn’t single-handedly invent a particular kind of heavy rock, the Birmingham, England group certainly refined it. Beginning with the band’s self-titled 1970 debut, Black Sabbath proved itself as an exemplar of a bluesy, doom-laden and melodramatic kind of proto-metal.
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Mike Huguenor on September 19, 2018
It’s hard to imagine the last 20 years of music without the era-defining The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Winning five Grammy awards the year it was released, the first solo album by the ex-Fugees singer laid the groundwork for pan-African American albums like Kamasi Washington’s The Epic and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp…
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Estefany Gonzalez on September 6, 2018
Dave Matthews Band has been putting out top-notch jam rock for well over two decades. Combining ultra-dextrous musicianship with pop sensibility, the group has never dumbed down its songwriting to satisfy the masses. Rather, they found a way to bring everybody along for a proggy ride on tracks like “Satellite,” where mathy…
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