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Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD

Back from the brink of extinction, Merriweather Post Pavilion found a new owner who gave the old place a face-lift, changed their booking philosophy and in the process gave it a new lease on life. Many a Maryland native

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The 20 Greatest Re-Imagined Covers

Here’s our list of re-imagined or re-interpreted covers, meaning the artist took the song and made it a completely new entity juxtapositioning genres

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USANA Ampitheatre – West Valley, Utah

The USANA amphitheatre located on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, in West Valley City, may be able to join that list of awe-striking venues. The Wasatch Mountains serve as a backdrop for the stage, vying for your attention with their imposing beauty.

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Pink Floyd: The $250 Million Dollar Question

In 1982 Don Henley said “hell would freeze over before the Eagles would play together again.” Sure enough, the apocalypse never arrived and the Eagles were delivering their feel-good California rock twelve years later in one the most anticipated reunion tours ever.

But who would have thought Pink Floyd would reunite? There were better odds of Barbara Streisand marrying Tommy Lee than seeing Roger Waters and David Gilmour spit out “Comfortably Numb” together on stage.

But sure enough it did happen, when a Pink Floyd reunion stole the show at Live 8 last month in London. That’s right, all four members, minus of course the mysterious recluse Syd Barrett took the stage together. In Live 8 terms, it’s pretty common knowledge that Pink Floyd band leaders David Gilmour and Roger Waters see about as eye to eye as George Bush and Bono. But there was Waters, along with Gilmour and Nick Mason and Rick Wright performing “Breathe,” “Money,” “Wish You Were Here” and “Comfortably Numb.”

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The Time Warp and The Pelvic Thrust

I wish my first fight against censorship was about something significant in the grand scheme of things, like my freedom to worship the unpopular deity of my choice, but it was about my right to sing “The Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Review: Scotch Ale: Batch #43

Here is the Scotch Ale I brewed back in November. This has been a mainstay in my fridge for the last month, and some of my mornings have paid the consequences of me brewing this strong, heavy ale.

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Beacon Theatre, NY, NY

The Beacon was birthed in 1928, and as with many of its theatre brethren of the same era it began life as a vaudeville hall, before later morphing into a high-end

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