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Tears For Fears Announce 2023 Tour

The British duo were one of the most iconic bands of the ‘80s with such hits as “Shout,” “Everybody Wants To Rule the World,” and “Mad World”

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Talking Heads ‘More Songs About Buildings and Food’: Artful Music

“We don’t fit into anyone else’s category, so we’re going to have to create our own,” said David Byrne about the band’s second album.

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Paul Rodgers, Billy Gibbons Lead Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at CMT Music Awards

The tribute comes on the 50th anniversary of Skynyrd’s first album. Slash and Warren Haynes will also perform on a pair of timeless hits

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Sire Records Founder Seymour Stein, Who Signed Talking Heads, Madonna, and The Ramones, Dies

The much-honored exec was an early champion of the punk and new wave music that was breaking out of the downtown New York City clubs

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Play First NYC Concert in 7 Years

The band performed at Madison Square Garden, their first of five area concerts this spring. The tour began Feb. 1 and continues into December

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Ray Shulman, One of 3 Brothers in Prog Rock Band Gentle Giant, Dies at 73

With his brothers Derek and Phil, and several other members, the band released 11 studio albums during the 1970s

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1 Dead, Dozens Injured as Roof Collapses at Concert

The Illinois city was in an indirect path of dangerous tornadoes. Roughly 260 people were attending the metal concert

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Joni Mitchell Joined By All-Stars at Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Concert

The lineup included James Taylor, Graham Nash, Annie Lennox, Brandi Carlile, Herbie Hancock, and Mitchell herself

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A New Box Celebrates Pink Floyd’s Classic ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ @50: Review

Both adventurous and accessible, the album is one of the most commercially successful in the history of rock.

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Prince Insiders Talk About His 1987 Masterpiece, ‘Sign O’ the Times’: Exclusive

“A lot of musicians end up doing the same song over and over. This sounds like nothing he’d ever done before,” his archivist says. “It is staggering”

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