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Tool announces new album and tour
Tool doesn’t release new material too often and hasn’t done a tour with more than 100 shows since 2007. After a 13 year hiatus, the band has released their new album and announced tour dates. Better catch them if you can. Check the info here.
Stone Temple Pilots Reissue Purple
STP are reissuing the album Purple. It contains three discs, one disc, is a concert recording from a New Haven show from 1994. There are other bonuses to make this something to check out. Read more here.
See set lists from any artist, anytime.
Setlist.fm is a very cool site, It offers a setlist from just about every artist. You can search through the years of any artist, check out the statistics from all kinds of scenarios, i.e, how often a song was played every tour, every year, what venues a song was played around the world. Check it…
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Author of the book "Tom Petty and Me" Jon helped to launch Tom Petty and John Mellencamp's careers.
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