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Throughout rock history, concerts have come to abrupt ends for stranger-than-fiction reasons, but Kings of Leon's show in St. Louis this past weekend raised the bar: pigeons in the rafters used the stage as a toilet, dropping excrement into Jared Followill's mouth. Here's a rundown of more early exits: • …
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It's been 23 years since the Cars split, but the band is finally hinting at a reunion. On their official Facebook page, the band posted a photograph of the surviving members — singer Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, drummer David Robinson and guitarist Elliot Easton — gathered together in a …
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Friday night in Northampton, Massachusetts, Interpol found themselves back in the kind of college club where they launched their careers. At Pearl Street, a venue with wood-boarded floors, tall Victorian-style windows covered with sheets and makeshift bleachers tucked into one corner of the room, the New York rockers kicked off …
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Bruce Springsteen shocked fans with a surprise appearance during Alejandro Escovedo's Saturday night performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Stone Pony. Springsteen joined Escovedo on "Always a Friend," a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" and "Faith," a track from Escovedo's new studio album Street Songs of Love …
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She's fallen afoul of everyone from the United Stated immigration department to skeptical reporters, but near the end of her set at New York's HARD Fest on Governor's Island Saturday night, M.I.A. was shut down by Mother Nature. Two long, sharp flashes of lightning brought to a close a set …
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Halfway into Paramore's tour kickoff Friday night in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, Hayley Williams took a breather to reflect on how much things have changed for the band since their last gig here five years ago. Hint: That earlier show wasn't in a big outdoor amphitheater with big black-and-white neon …
Pete Seeger may be 91 years old, but the iconic folk singer still has plenty to protest. On Friday night at New York's City Winery, Seeger debuted a new song he wrote about the disastrous BP oil spill as part of a fundraising concert for the Gulf Restoration Network and …
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A pigeon infestation forced Kings of Leon to cut their performance at St. Louis' Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre short Friday night. Bird excrement rained down on the band, forcing them offstage just three songs into their set. According to the Riverfront Times , fans initially thought the band was pulling a …
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On the first night of the North American leg of their Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour, Aerosmith proved that all they have to do to keep their fans happy is do what they still do best — rock hard. The band hasn't released a studio album since 2004, or …
The legal battle between Guns n' Roses' Axl Rose and his former manager, Live Nation Entertainment CEO Irving Azoff, got off to a rocky start as tensions between lawyers on both sides forced a recent deposition to be suspended. At one point during questioning, Azoff reportedly hurled a newspaper at …
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