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Aerosmith Set 'Global Warming' Tour Dates
March 26, 2012 10:23 AM ET| Andy Greene
Aerosmith have announced dates for their 2012 Global Warming North American Tour, which will kick off on June 16th at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and wrap up on August 8th in Tacoma, Washington – though more dates may be added. Cheap Trick will open for the band on all announced dates. Aerosmith last toured the United States in the summer of 2010. "The old Aerosmith is back with a new vengeance and we will kick your ass and make out with your mothers," said frontman S... | More »
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Kraftwerk to Perform 3D Concert Series at MOMA
February 15, 2012 3:35 PM ET| Matthew Perpetua
Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will perform each of their eight albums at a special retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in April. The series, Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, will be held over eight consecutive nights, with the group focusing on one record per night along with other original compositions intended to showcase their influence on contemporary culture. The concerts will include 3D projected images and other visual elements. Kraftwerk&#... | More »
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Avicii to Headline Ultra Music Festival in Miami
December 23, 2011 12:10 PM ET| Steve Baltin
Last year's Ultra Music Festival in Miami was the biggest event in the series' 12-year history: a sold-out expansion to three days and over 100,000 attendees. Given how this was before the very well-documented 2011 dance music boom, next year's installment should promise even more. Even newly announced headliner Avicii isn't sure how big the event will be when festival returns March 23–25. "It’s gonna be unbelievable. I really have no idea what to expect," Avi... | More »
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Tori Amos Performs with String Quartet in Manhattan
December 4, 2011 1:20 PM ET| Matthew Perpetua
Tori Amos stepped outside of her comfort zone for her latest album, Night of Hunters, a classical song cycle. Her tour in support of that record also finds her stepping outside of her typical patterns, albeit in a more minor way, with a string quartet augmenting the arrangements of a majority of the songs in her set. Though her show touches on a few selections from Night of Hunters, the concert is more of a gussied-up version of her usual piano-centric show rather than a full-on classical per... | More »
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U2 Revisit the Nineties at Epic New Jersey Show
July 21, 2011 3:20 AM ET| Matthew Perpetua
U2 entered the home stretch of their two-year-long 360° Tour last night at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the quartet delivered a generous career-spanning set with an emphasis on selections from the Nineties.Throughout the tour, U2 have fixated on different periods in their discography – early on, they went heavy on material from The Unforgettable Fire, and in the middle of the jaunt, they would play up to five songs per night from 2000's All ... | More »
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Tour Kick-Offs: Bob Dylan, Lil Wayne, Furthur and More
July 11, 2011 12:45 PM ET| Rolling Stone
Check back every week for a rundown of summer festivals and tours kicking off in the coming days. BOB DYLANJuly 14th-August 20thTickets: $30-$200Dylan's Never Ending Tour, launched back in 1988, is rolling on for yet another summer. In recent years the set list has fallen into a reliable pattern: Dylan mostly stands behind a keyboard and leads his band through vintage classics and recent album cuts, typically closing the main set with a spell-binding "Ballad of a Thin Man" before encore... | More »
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U2 Brings Blind Fan Onstage To Perform 'All I Want Is You'
July 3, 2011 1:40 PM ET| Andy Greene
Most every show on U2's 360 world tour has ended with "Moment Of Surrender," but before walking offstage last night in Nashville Bono saw a blind fan upfront holding up a sign saying he wanted to play a song for his wife. "What do you want to play?" Bono said to him. "Get a guitar for this dude. Gents, we have a surprise guest." The man said he was really nervous, but once handed Bono's acoustic guitar he began playing "All I Want Is You." It started with just Bono on vocals... | More »
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Back in the USA: U2's Victory Lap
June 8, 2011 8:30 AM ET| Brian Hiatt
After U2 clattered through a sped-up, revamped version of "Magnificent" at the kickoff of the final leg of their 360° Tour, Bono smiled and offered an apology to the Denver crowd: "It's in development, that one," he said of a song they've played more than 100 times over the past two years. With 7 million fans in attendance, the 360° Tour is the most successful of all time, beating the Rolling Stones' record with a $700 million gross. But with fewer than 20 dates to go, ... | More »
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Aretha Franklin Comes Back Strong at Chicago Tour Kick-Off
May 20, 2011 1:20 PM ET| Nicole Frehsee
Thursday night at the Chicago Theatre, Aretha Franklin kicked off her first gig since last October with one request (and it wasn’t for r-e-s-p-e-c-t): "Please turn the air off so I don’t have to leave the stage." It was a welcome, though sweaty, reminder that the ultimate diva – who shuns air conditioning because it dries out her vocal cords – is back, months after being sidelined by a mysterious injury that forced her to cancel a string of tour dates last fall. Choo... | More »
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