Charli xcx’s “Music, Fashion, Film Tour” is pretty literal. At her Monday, September 14th show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center — just the second stop on the trek — all three elements of that title were on display. There’s the music: a whopping 29 songs, including all 11 from her great new…

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Of course Angine de Poitrine’s New York City debut was at a place called Le Poisson Rouge. (Or, LPR for short — does that mean we can start calling them ADP?) Then again, in the current context of how they’ve already outgrown venues this size, maybe it is a bit…

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There are concert bills that look good on paper, and then there are bills that make you wonder how three bands with this much history somehow ended up sharing the same stage. Saturday night was the latter.Metal icons Iron Maiden brought their “Run for Your Lives Tour” to Sports Illustrated…

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Well, Brady Corbet has got his work cut out for him. That was one of the first thoughts that came to mind soon after David Byrne and company took the stage for the first of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. It stemmed from an announcement having come out just one day earlier […]

Kacey Musgraves is a real one, y’all. Her “Middle of Nowhere” tour stop on Monday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden wasn’t just a testament to her star power, it was a reminder that Musgraves is a particularly unique star — one who rejects the carefully composed image that…

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You know an inaugural festival has been a success when, after the temperature reached 95 degrees, humidity topped 80%… perspiration stains were so pervasive that it was the odd dry spots that looked like stains… constant 12-minute trudges back and forth between two action-packed stages threatened to sap what few excess pounds hadn’t been sweated […]

Apart from the special show he performed with an orchestra in London, Harry Styles has played basically the same set since his “Together, Together” tour opened in Amsterdam 33 shows and nearly three months ago. But for the opening night of his unprecedented 30-show stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, he completely […]

The LA Phil has played with plenty of pop and rock acts before, but it may have taken Foo Fighters to really put the dude in Dudamel. And not a moment too soon, with this being famed conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s final weekend at the helm of Los Angeles’ primary house symphony. The Phil’s hookup with […]

“My name is Noah Kahan and I am here to make you fucking miserable!” the biggest male rock star on the charts right now announced almost at the outset of his sold-out show Saturday night at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium. In this, he was unsuccessful, but to Kahan’s credit, he did not really try very […]

Nostalgia is a funny thing. Through a certain lens — one I’ve personally gazed through many times — it can be lazy, reductive, even dangerous. Spend your time longing for a past that you imagine to be your best years, and you hobble yourself from building a meaningful present or,…

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