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Extreme with Special Guests King’s X at the House of Blues, Chicago

Extreme’s Take us Alive 2008 tour is the bands first tour in 13 years. After an extended hiatus the band decided to take on the air waves again…

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From the beginning of their musical careers, the one thing that has stayed constant with Oasis, in sickness and in health, has been their unfailing belief that no rock and roll riff is too time-worn to be used…

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Extreme’s new album, 13 years after the what we thought was the last of the Boston-based funk-hard rock band starts with the single “Star”s vocal harmony intro, and you instantly know that this album is going to be ‘bigger than…

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Few bands can make such a huge impact in the world of music that they become almost instantaneously connected with a particular genre. One of the mightiest titans to rise from the ashes of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew album…

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In 1962, Duke Ellington joined fellow jazz great John Coltrane in recording an album that would be titled after the two legends. Duke was considerably senior than John in age and musical experience yet he temporarily became part…

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