Pure Music

We’ve always thought Dave Grohl was a man of the people, what with his affable demeanor and all the hilarious videos from the Foo Fighters. Now, the frontman has proven us correct after he tossed an unruly fan from a London gig on Monday night. While performing at the Roundhouse, Grohl spotted a fan who started a fight. After stopping mid-song and pointing out the offender, Grohl yelled “You don’t f—ing fight at my show, you a——. Let me see him, who’s fighting right now? It’s that guy in the striped shirt. Hey motherf—er, look at me. Read more…

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Led Zeppelin virtually defined rock-god excess with drugs, groupies and one notorious shark. While Zep’s wild ride is long over, the band’s imitators occasionally manage to inspire debauchery themselves.

“There was a trapeze artist who made it onto our tour bus once,” says Steph Paynes, guitarist for the all-female Zep cover band Lez Zeppelin, which plays the Circle Line Music Cruise on Friday night. “She set up a trapeze in the back and did a little act for us. It was ve

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Chicago Folk and Roots Festival: The Old Town School of Folk Music’s annual throw-down is a multi-act, family-friendly event that includes as headliners R&B singer Delbert McClinton and rockabilly siren Rosie Flores (Saturday) and Cuban flutist Maraca and Congolese rapper Baloji (Sunday), 12:30 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday at Welles Park, Lincoln and Montrose, $10 donation ($5 for seniors and children); chicagofolkandroots.org.

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For Mana drummer Alex Gonzalez, who spent his early years in South Florida, playing in Miami this week was a homecoming.

The Mexican rockers are savoring success with their first tour in four years, and an album that won’t quit the top of the Latin Billboard charts. As he prepared to go on Thursday night at the American Airlines Arena, Gonzalez said he was excited to have run into a classmate from middle school while doing publicity in nearby Hallandale Beach a day before.

“Now we might have a reunion from my 7th and 8th grade when we come back through here on the second leg of the tour next year,” Gonzalez told The Associated Press. Read more…

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In a sure sign that some form of goodness exists in the universe that guides us all and protects us from evil and darkness, Taylor Swift has been stricken with bronchitis, forcing the young singer to cancel a string of shows in which she would have surely tortured crowds of innocent thousands with her warbling songs about various celebrity ex-boyfriends.

Look, I’m not saying that she’s an agent of Evil or anything, or like the final plague that comes before The End of All Things, I’m just saying that it’s a possibility, you guys.

Via Reuters:

“Country-pop singer Taylor Swift on Wednesday canceled three more of her U.S. concerts

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