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    Drake May Be on Tour But He’s Stuck in NeverlandIt’s All a Blur is a blend of gaudy spectacle and never-grow-up nostalgia.
    By Dylan Green
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    Cozying Up to Coldplay Hits at the Apollo Is Only Half As Surreal As It SoundsThe performance was as loose and intimate as it gets for an arena juggernaut.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    What Do They Do-Do-Do-Do-Do-Do-Do at Baby Shark Live?On tour, two minutes of song become 80 minutes of kid bliss.
    By Joshua David Stein
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    The Rolling Stones Live: So Much More Than the Greatest HitsInside the stadium, concerns about Jagger’s health quickly evaporated. The 76-year-old never missed a step, a hop, or a shake.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Björk’s Cornucopia Concert Is the Wildest Visual Display That I’ve Ever SeenIt’s fitting for a catalogue that doesn’t much sound like anything else to generate a live show that doesn’t look like anything else.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Jay-Z Continues to Lay Out the Blueprint for How to Age in Rap With B-Sides 2As Jay told the crowd, he can’t help it if his B sides are A sides.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Ariana Grande’s Coachella Set Made It Even Harder to Come for Her CrownGrande needn’t be framed as Beychella’s successor. That’s impossible. Instead, Arichella was a force in its own right.
    By Eve Barlow
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    A Star Is Born Again: Lady Gaga’s Vegas Residency DazzlesShe was born to perform at this scale.
    By Eve Barlow
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    Drake’s New Tour Is Worth Seeing for the Stage AloneIt carries on the creative innovation set forth by Kanye’s Saint Pablo tour.
    By Dee Lockett
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    Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run Tour II Makes Marriage Look Like Performance ArtPop’s First Family want you to believe their love is real, but what’s real anyway?
    By Dee Lockett
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    Don’t Underestimate G-EazyG-Eazy shows off his strengths, while embracing his limits, at Radio City Music Hall.
    By Frank Guan
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    Kendrick Lamar Earns His Black Belt in Rap on the DAMN. TourThe DAMN. tour is a career highlight reel, but Kendrick doesn’t seem content stopping now.
    By Dee Lockett
  13. U2’s Two-Hour Pep Talk Is Exactly What We Need Right NowTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of U2’s seminal The Joshua Tree, the band is playing what basically amounts to a very expensive two-hour pep talk.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Vince Staples Finds Power in IsolationThe impressive power of a solo stage performance.
    By Frank Guan
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    PJ Harvey Went Big, in Both Sound and Message, at NYC’s Terminal 5The record, and by extension the show, speaks to all of the tiny ways that America hides the truth that it’s a territory that subsists on a dream of prosperity many never live to experience.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    The Cure Finish Their MSG Residency With a 3-Hour Set and 4 EncoresOver three hours, the Cure charted a voyage through the vast waters of a nearly 40-year recording career, maneuvering through hits, deep cuts, and new material with masterful poise.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    The Formation Tour Is Beyoncé at Her Most Humanly InfallibleAttending a Beyoncé concert puts you front row to a series of spectacles.
    By Dee Lockett
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    A Blow-by-Blow of a Secret Prince Concert: Dancing Until Dawn“We ain’t got no curfew tonight!” Amen.
    By Jada Yuan
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    LCD Soundsystem’s Reunion Show Proves It Hasn’t Lost Its EdgeWhen Murphy sang the opening line of “Tribulations” — “Everybody makes mistakes” — it sounded like an admission that perhaps he had stepped away from the spotlight much earlier than he should have.
    By Mike Rubin
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    Anti on Display: Rihanna Brings Full Defiance to Barclays ConcertRiRi’s victory lap begins.
    By Dee Lockett
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    Iggy Pop & Josh Homme Thrill With Post Pop Depression Cuts at SXSWIf Iggy Pop is truly retiring, this is a helluva send-off.
    By Hilary Hughes
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    Lady Gaga Stole the Show at CBS Sinatra ConcertUsher’s middle finger was also a standout. Adam Levine, not so much.
    By Andrew Hampp
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    Kendrick Lamar’s Kunta’s Groove Sessions Just May Be the Best Rap Tour of 2015Lamar deftly leads both his choir and his congregation.
    By Dee Lockett
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    Kacey Musgraves Played the Apollo and Killed ItThe midlevel star ain’t pageant material, but she sure nails the talent portion of the night.
    By Jillian Mapes
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    Live Review: Jay Z Brings Tidal to BrooklynBeyoncé and Nicki Minaj gave the night its most-talked-about moment.
    By Dee Lockett
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    Live Review: Carnegie Hall’s Bill Withers SaluteThe reclusive singer-songwriter abruptly exited the spotlight in the 1980s, but his legacy continues to flourish, particularly this year.
    By Lauretta Charlton
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    Concert Review: Madonna’s Rebel Heart Takes MSGBitch, she’s Madonna. 
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  28. Live Review: U2 Embrace the Underdog Role at Madison Square GardenBono is bleach-blond now, by the way. 
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Live Review: Taylor Swift Is the Cheer Captain of the UniverseThe Jumbotron was made for her. 
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Concert Review: Diana Ross Reopens Kings TheatreExcess and uplift at the refurbished Brooklyn venue.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    The National at Barclays Center: Middle-Aged and Loving ItHow parenthood and success helped the National find contentment.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    Teen Rapper Kitty Pryde Hits New York City and Channels Her Internet MagicHer appearance at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory was the next step in her ascent as an Internet rapper.
    By Joe Coscarelli
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    Bruce Springsteen Was the Past and the Present at the Apollo Friday NightHe’s still the hardest working white man in show business at 62.
    By Lizzy Goodman
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    Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Coldplay, and Many More Are Paid to Remind Kids That Radio LivesAttending the two-day iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas was like scanning through old-time Top 40 radio.
    By Josef Adalian