Happy Birthday Slash! Born on July 23, 1965, the lead guitarist for Gun N’ Roses turns 55 years old. Today we look back at when Slash returned to Guns N’ Roses on the “Not In This Lifetime” reunion tour. Guns N’ Roses Not In This Lifetime Tour Monday October 23, 2017 The XL Center…
Who doesn’t love a good music festival, especially when practically all your favorite bands are on the bill! The 2013 Rock Star Energy Drink Uproar Festival didn’t disappoint as far as lineups go. Twelve bands rocked The XFINITY Theatre’s three stages, with headliners Alice In Chains and Jane’s Addiction leading the way. Today we look…
Happy Birthday to Terry “Geezer” Butler! The bassist and co-founder of Black Sabbath turns 71 years old today. Over the years Black Sabbath has played a lot of shows here in Connecticut. We’ve been lucky. Today we look back one of our favorite shows: 2013 at Mohegan Sun. Black Sabbath 13 World Tour Opening…
Incubus is a band that doesn’t come to Connecticut often. In fact, in the last decade the alternative rock band from California has played in our state only twice: 2019 at Foxwoods and 2011 at Mohegan Sun. That’s why many of us where excited when Live Nation had announced in early February that Incubus (with…
Van Halen fans have been debating for years – who’s better: David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? Both are great in their own way. David was with Van Halen at the beginning and during the height of the band’s popularity. Sammy stepped in and won many fans over with his great stage presence and his…
Iron Maiden fans will have to wait until 2021 to see the remainder of the “Legacy of the Beast” Tour. Those of us here in Connecticut were lucky to see this tour last summer as it came to The XFINITY Theatre. Today we look back at another Iron Maiden tour from 2000 with Queensryche and…
It’s hard to imagine a summer without Dave Matthews Band at The XFINITY Theatre. Since 1995, there have been only 3 summers that DMB didn’t play in Hartford: 2011, 2017 and 2020. Today we look back at DMB’s 2001 summer tour that came to The XFINITY Theatre on back-to-back nights in early August. Below is…
In 2016 AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson was ordered by his doctors to stop touring immediately or he’d lose his hearing. Pretty serious. AC/DC was in the middle of its “Rock or Bust World Tour,” and after learning of this news about Brian, the band was forced to postpone the remainder of the tour. But…
The 1990s produced some great alternative rock bands: Everclear, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy Playground and Sugar Ray are just a handful of bands that rocked the decade. In the summer of 2012 all those bands came together on one epic tour called “Summerland.” We were very lucky to see this tour as it came to…
Remember the KISS Farewell Tour? No, not the one they’re on now, but the LAST one! That “Farewell Tour” was 20 years ago this summer. Can you believe it? Though KISS really didn’t retire after the tour, this was their final tour with the original lineup. Today we look back to that tour and the…