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Rick Springfield managed to evade the plight of many ‘80s stars, many fading into obscurity after a series of mishaps. The singer of the hit track “Jessie’s Girl”, Springfield continues to release material and tour several decades later at the age of 63. He is far from the stereotype of a lingering flame in the

I’m happy to report that nostalgia is alive and well. No, I’m not talking about the NKOTB girl’s night out posts that seem to be clogging my Facebook feed. Saturday night, the 90s were resurrected in decadent fashion as the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox Twenty brought their summer co-headlining tour to Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheatre.

The highly accessible work of Sara Bareilles has huge commercial appeal, with crisply sonorous hooks and keyboard-driven melodies that highlight the 33-year-old’s passionate and youthful vocal delivery. On her new album The Blessed Unrest, Bareilles touches on both the accessible pop that made her 2007 single “Love Song” and 2010 album Kaleidoscope Heart chart-toppers, in

As a longtime star of the Latin pop scene, Marc Anthony has established a prolific career where his new releases continue to top the Billboard charts, 25 years after he debuted with freestyle record Rebel. For the past decade, Anthony has put out an album every three years, his most recent coming in 2010 with

Mayhem descended on Atlanta’s Aaron’s Amphitheatre Tuesday afternoon. The traveling metal festival has become something of a fixture on Atlanta’s summer calendar scene since its inaugural visit in 2008. Last year, they packed the bill with the likes of Slipknot, Slayer, Motorhead and Anthrax, making this year’s lineup a bit of a step down. Rob

Jason Isbell was a big part of The Drive-By Truckers’ songwriting success the past decade. His talents alongside the songwriting of Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley provided some of the most memorable country and folk concoctions in recent memory. After leaving in 2007 to pursue a solo career, fans wondered which direction he would pursue.

Perhaps more than any other figure in the music industry, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate Jay-Z the entrepreneur from Jay-Z the musician, who put out one of the finest hip-hop releases of all-time with Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint. Since the latter was released in 2001, Jay-Z’s finest moments have often come via high-profile