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“And just like that, 20 years,” Billie Joe Armstrong marveled in the final seconds of “Whatsername” during Green Day‘s Tuesday concert at the Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, Kansas. You could see the gravity of it hit him in that moment. Twenty years since the blockbuster American Idiot gave the Bay Area punks a new lease on life and made them one of the biggest rock bands in the world for the second time — just as their meteoric major-label debut Dookie had done 10 years earlier. With a combined 16 million U.S. sales, these twin peaks cemented Green Day’s status as one of the last rock ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Post Malone whips through five decades of country music across 18 songs on F-1 Trillion, his first-ever country album. There’s a steel-soaked waltz, a glossy bit of effervescence, one or two boots-and-sawdust tributes to the ’90s, and several shows of understanding of 2000s country music. It’s all made contemporary by way of a youthful production team and 15 very willing collaborators. Related: Stunning Post Malone Facts — 11 Things Country Fans Need to Know With maybe one exception (listen and decide for yourself), Post’s song partners give 110 percent on F-1 Trillion. You can almost hear Dol...
The Boot
Post Malone whips through five decades of country music across 18 songs on F-1 Trillion, his first-ever country album. There’s a steel-soaked waltz, a glossy bit of effervescence, one or two boots-and-sawdust tributes to the ’90s, and several shows of understanding of 2000s country music. It’s all made contemporary by way of a youthful production team and 15 very willing collaborators. Related: Stunning Post Malone Facts — 11 Things Country Fans Need to Know With maybe one exception (listen and decide for yourself), Post’s song partners give 110 percent on F-1 Trillion. You can almost hear Dol...
Taste of Country
At times, there’s a campfire quality to Chris Stapleton‘s set on the All-American Road Show Tour. Elsewhere, one feels like he or she is watching a garage band. Spacious venues like Bridgestone Arena aren’t always the best fit for selections from his catalog, but even when important lyrics in songs like “Cold” and “Fire Away” get lost in the rafters, he’s still able to project unparalleled emotion. Add in a world class band, and thrilling a sold-out show looks pretty easy. Friday night’s (Aug. 9) show in Nashville stayed true to a set list he’d written down for much of this summer’s tour. Ther...
Taste of Country
There are two types of album-anniversary tours: those that re-energize a band still at the peak of its powers, and those that make you wish a diminished artist had made this decision 10 years earlier. Lamb of God and Mastodon‘s Ashes of Leviathan tour is unquestionably the former. The co-headlining trek — which commemorates the 20th anniversaries of Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake and Mastodon’s Leviathan — launched on Friday and stopped at Austin’s Germania Insurance Amphitheater the following night, rocking roughly 7,000 fans to their core with ferocious sets highlighting arguably the best a...
Loudwire
Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall‘s joint tour came to New York City on Tuesday night, specifically to the showplace of the nation, Radio City Music Hall. For those scratching their heads after hearing those two names together — this writer included when she initially heard it several months ago — there is a history. Four decades ago, Hall contributed harmony vocals to one of Costello’s albums, 1984’s Goodbye Cruel World, on a song called “The Only Flame in Town.” (Hall also appeared in the accompanying music video. From Costello’s album liner notes: “Naturally, my romantic rival was Daryl, but my...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Settings and storylines that make for good gameplay rarely lend themselves to compelling plots and filmable universes. So it's pretty amazing that Amazon's new Fallout series manages to be faithful to the aesthetics and vibe of the video games on which it's based while also working as a fun and enjoyable (albeit gruesome and bizarre) action-adventure show. The show, like the games, is set in a nuke-ravaged wasteland formerly known as the United States, where 1950s camp bleeds into Wild West gunslinging and ultraviolent post-apocalyptic gore-horror. The plot follows the intersecting stories of ...
Reason
A new documentary chronicles the legal troubles of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who took the titular trust fall into the arms of the American public when he published information governments didn't want us to know. Certain activists have risen to his defense, including most libertarians, but "Free Assange" has hardly been a mass rallying cry. The Trust Fall, though typical in its structure (mostly talking heads, some bespoke animation) and proudly on its subject's side, might convince even doubters that Assange's actions—accepting classified documents from a source, then publishing them—a...
Reason
Sebastian Bach‘s still got it. If his crushing new solo album, Child Within the Man, didn’t already make it clear, Bach drove the point home at the Rock Box in San Antonio on Sunday, where he blasted through Skid Row classics and highlights off his new LP with the same gutsy aggression of his youth. You can see UCR’s exclusive photos and the full set list below. Bach came out swinging with Child Within the Man lead single “What Do I Got to Lose?,” a vintage metal anthem that worked the audience into a fast frenzy. Bach kept it old-school on all fronts, noting early in the set that there were “...
Ultimate Classic Rock
The first reviews have started coming in on Ghost‘s ambitious new film Rite Here Rite Now, so what are the the critics saying? Back in May, Ghost revealed that Rite Here Rite Now would be the name of their new film and that it would receive a worldwide theatrical release for two days only. The band recorded a pair of Los Angeles shows last fall to provide the concert portion of the movie, but much like Metallica‘s Through the Never movie, the concert is only part of the film with an actual narrative element surrounding the performance. What’s New to Be Learned From the First ReviewsThe first r...
Loudwire
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