“For your family at home to love you,” Karol G said mid-concert Saturday night, “that’s worth gold.” The Colombian artist sang an intimate rendition of “Ocean” on a small circular lever that propelled her front and center of a crowd of over 50,000 people. The song’s lyrics took on new …
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Midway through the Eagles marathon show at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, Don Henley stepped up to the microphone and addressed the crowd for one of the few times that evening. “The first thing I want to do is thank you for your support all these years,” he said. …
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On Thursday evening at New York City’s newly renovated Webster Hall, BuzzFeed did the best they could to present “the internet,” IRL. The result was as messy and unfocused as any given person’s Twitter timeline at any given moment can be, but was thankfully glued together with moments of irreverent …
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Elton John was about two-thirds of the way though his set on the opening night of his farewell tour at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s PPL Center when he paused the tell the audience why he’s calling it quits. “I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you’ve …
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For this writer, the quintessential moment of the 2018 Newport Jazz Festival came in transit. A quick stroll on Saturday afternoon took me from the main stage, where Laurie Anderson was wrapping up a set of luminous, exploratory string-trio free improv, to one of the smaller tents, where octogenarian Memphis …
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In the week since Beyoncé marched into Coachella as a drum majorette with a 100-member band, transformed the traditionally rock & roll festival into a homecoming celebration at an HBCU and added another crown – Queen of ‘Chella, natch—to her collection, her show has been lauded as historic, a game-changer, …
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“I wrote this song a year ago, which means it’s not from the Sixties,” singer and mandolinist Chris Thile joked at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Thile was referring to the theme of the night – an evening of durable protest songs, pegged to a city-wide festival devoted to the legacy …
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