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A Banger Was Released Every Day In November
November gets plenty of credit for turkey, football and the annual rush to buy a slightly larger television. The record stores deserve a little attention, too. From Nirvana unplugging to Wu-Tang kicking the door in, this month has delivered an impressive pile of albums and plenty of ways to drown out Thanksgiving arguments. Here’s one for every day.
November 1: Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York (1994, DGC Records). MTV once put musicians on television and let them play entire songs. Imagine. Nirvana used the opportunity to sidestep the obvious hits and lean on David Bowie, Lead Belly and the Meat Puppets. Kurt Cobain’s final howl in “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” makes the usual unplugged-session chatter about intimacy seem rather inadequate. Also: Megadeth, Youthanasia (1994); The Cure, Songs of a Lost World (2024).
Innings Festival 2027 To Feature Pitbull, The Strokes & Alanis
Pitbull will get the party started as the Friday night headliner when the ninth edition of Innings Festival returns to Tempe Beach Park & Arts Park February 26–28, 2027.
Mr. Worldwide has spent much of this year on his I’m Back Tour with Lil Jon, which launched in West Palm Beach (5/14) and reached the Hollywood Bowl two weeks later.
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Amsterdam’s Paradiso was built for people looking for salvation. Since 1968, it has become the city's oldest religious meetinghouse turned rock landmark. Perfectly situated near bustling Leidseplein, the former church has has welcomed generations of musicians and music lovers.
The main hall holds 1,500 people, making it intimate for the stadium acts that either want a warm up gig or a reminder of what it was like to see all the fans straight in their eyes. Upstairs, a separate 210-capacity room gives newer artists a safe space to work out the kinks.
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Doja Cat’s Birthday Show From Forum To Air Tonight After Football
This year Amazon is really trying hard to get people to watch Thursday Night Football. So instead of trying to squeeze the artists into performing a 15-minute halftime set, they air a recent show after the NFL game.
Previously the streamer has broadcast Noah Kahan’s Seattle finale at T-Mobile Park (8/31), Don Toliver’s Barclays Center concert in Brooklyn (9/6), and Lainey Wilson’s Mohegan Sun Arena show (10/10) in Uncasville, Connecticut.
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Hayley Williams Joins Bleachers For Live Debuts and Covers
Paramore's Hayley Williams joined Bleachers on Thursday (10/23) at the Beacon Theatre in New York for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians Live, a collaborative event designed to highlight artists who inspire each other.
Williams and super-producer Jack Antonoff not only had a chance to perform together but also chat it up in front of the Beacon audience.
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Shots were fired in Las Vegas at the spanking new Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas when the typically soft-spoken singer /songwriter Roland Orzabal took aim at a pair of peers.
“Last time we played Vegas it was with Hall & Oates. They called it a battle of the duos," Orzabal quipped Wednesday night (10/30) just off The Strip.
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