So, in talking about the marvel that was Phoebe Bridgers’ opening night at L.A.’s Intuit Dome Friday night, which part of the show do you talk about first? Would it the emotionally riveting middle section of the show, in which Bridgers used the no-phones setting to elaborately explore, in song and in monologue, her complicated […]

With Aerosmith, fans might not want to miss a thing, but they most especially did not want to miss — if at all possible — the band’s two all-star-guest-augmented shows at the Hollywood Bowl this week, the first of which was Thursday night. These two outings are the group’s first shows since they had to […]

It’s hard to single out any one song as the “secret weapon” of Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”; as the best pop debut of the 2020s, the entire album was pretty weaponized. But the ballad “Coffee” certainly counts as a sleeper — and Roan was not sleeping on it when […]

Smashing Pumpkins: great band. Some might even say they’re the 100th best band of all time. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: Great album. Some might even say it’s the 84th best record of all time. So, Billy Corgan and company’s “Rats in a Cage Tour,” which features a full set…

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I’ll say it: It’s really hard to dislike Olivia Rodrigo. Shocker, I know, but it turns out — and stay with me on this — that she’s pretty dang good. And with the commercial and critical success of her latest album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in…

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When do trimmings become the main course? Or, to pose it in employment terms: When does a side hustle became the real hustle? And can that just go down without a hitch? These are just ways into trying to think about developments in the career of Hayley Williams, who easily sold out two shows this […]

Conventional wisdom says you can’t have it all. But Guitarricadelafuente is hellbent on proving everyone wrong in 2026. Not content with having one of the defining Spanish albums of the past decade in Spanish Leather, the 29-year-old stars in La Bola Negra, an epic film that has garnered major Oscar…

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There are good concerts, there are great concerts, and then there are the concerts you tell your grandkids about. AC/DC and Foo Fighters at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Friday night was one of those magical concerts. If it weren’t for a nor’easter that rolled into the…

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The Strokes have spent their year playing a lot of shows. They’ve headlined (or subheadlined) upward of 8 festivals, including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Summer Sonic, Outside Lands, Shaky Knees, and Just Like Heaven. It’s surely been a loaded 12 months for the New York band, so for their homecoming show, they designed…

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Mastodon’s “Poisonous Weapons Tour” stopped at the Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday night, delivering a triple bill with Deafheaven and Alcest. A single ticket offers the opportunity to see three of the most acclaimed metal acts of the 21st century, only enhanced by the fact that Baroness…

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