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How a Trip to the Grocery Store Helped Weezer Make the Blue Album

Rivers Cuomo has revealed how a simple trip to the grocery store helped Weezer create their 1994 self-titled debut, commonly referred to as the Blue Album.In hindsight, it’s easy to see why the LP was a success. The Blue Album is chock full of such modern classics as “Buddy Holly,” “Say It Ain’t So” and “Undone (The Sweater Song).” Still, Weezer was an unknown band at the time, and there […]

todayApril 13, 2024 1

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Power Trip Announce 2024 Return, Name Live Vocalist

A few months after reuniting for a brief live set this past December, Power Trip have announced their 2024 live return and named the vocalist they will continue with for these upcoming gigs.The members of Power Trip — Blake Ibanez, Nick Stewart, Chris Whetzel and Chris Ulsh — played a show in Austin, Texas on Dec. 1 with Seth Gilmore of the bands Skourge and Fugitive. It marked their first live performance […]

todayFebruary 20, 2024

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Here’s How You Can Win a Trip to Experience Green Day in D.C.

You'd have to be an (American) idiot to miss your chance to see one of rock's biggest names when they hit the road this summer. It's a once-in-a-lifetime 'holiday' with Green Day in our nation's capitol, and you'd have to be a total basket case to not wanna win.Here's What You Could WinYou and a guest will fly to Washington, D.C., and catch Green Day's 'The Saviors' tour stop at […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024 1

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How Judas Priest’s Power Trip Performance Almost Didn’t Happen

Judas Priest delivered one of the standout performances at 2023's inaugural Power Trip festival. As frontman Rob Halford tells UCR, their travel experience left them sweating collectively as they tried to get there for their highly-anticipated appearance.The British heavy metal legends were a late addition to the bill, stepping in after Ozzy Osbourne was forced to cancel his planned return to the concert stage due to continuing health issues. It […]

todayJanuary 21, 2024

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Roger Waters puts his politics center stage at Desert Trip

Meanwhile, a parade-size balloon shaped like a pig floated above the audience. It had Trump’s face painted on the side with the words ‘‘Ignorant, lying, racist, sexist pig.’’ And in case that wasn’t straightforward enough, giant letters flashed across the big screen reading ‘‘Trump is a pig.’’Waters followed up with ‘‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part II),’’ during which 15 school-age children came onstage wearing T-shirts that read, ‘‘Derriba el […]

todayDecember 21, 2023 3

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CSO takes a musical trip to Italy, plus a Glass premiere

The Chicago Symphony is off to Italy.Musically, that is. Physically, the orchestra doesn’t travel to the homeland of its former music director, Riccardo Muti, until January, the grand finale of its first European tour since 2020. But the Italian-ish program the CSO unveiled on Thursday will become a calling card for much of that tour, as well as the orchestra’s season-opening residency at Carnegie Hall in New York next week.Mind […]

todaySeptember 29, 2023 2

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‘Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical’ at A.C.T. — Dominique Morisseau engineers an inventive new jukebox :: Bay Area Reporter

Dominique Morisseau wasn't interested in working on another jukebox musical after writing the book for "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations," which debuted at Berkeley Repertory in 2017 and went on to a hit run on Broadway, garnering a dozen 2019 Tony nominations (including Best Book). And yet this week, she returns to the Bay Area for the premiere production of "Hippest Trip: The Motown Musical" […]

todaySeptember 5, 2023 4

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