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  Smashing Pumpkins Plays the Hits, Minus the Albums Where Guitarist James Iha Is Missing

  July 19 at 11:40 a.m.

  The original Smashing Pumpkins were not able to reform in 2018, so Billy Corgan and company gave fans something worth remembering: a well-crafted three-hour, 31-song marathon walk down memory lane. After people found their seats to the sounds of Metric, the Great Pumpkin came out alone just shy of 8:30...

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  Anthony Green Talks 10 Years of Avalon, New Record and Touring

  July 19 at 4 a.m.

  A self-described “musical prostitute,” Anthony Green is the brains behind emo prog-rock favorites Circa Survive and Saosin, as well as The Sound of Animals Fighting (a supergroup founded by Rx frontman Rich Balling, in which the members rock out sporting animal masks). In the midst of all this, Green has...

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  American Aquarium Is Still Bringing Blue-Collar Rock ’n’ Roll to the Masses

  July 19 at 4 a.m.

  The last time BJ Barham and his band made their way through Dallas, American Aquarium looked different from how it will appear when they return to town to play in the new Statler Ballroom on July 28. In February 2017, the band, comprised mostly of childhood friends, all called it quits...

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  Starbenders and Rosegarden Funeral Party Are Helping Children of the Night Through Music

  July 18 at 4 a.m.

  It’s easy to think of human trafficking as a far away problem, but it isn’t. In the last 37 years, the nonprofit organization Children of the Night has helped rescue more than 10,000 children and young people from sexual exploitation, pornography and prostitution in the United States. To help raise...

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  Paramore's Hayley Williams and Fans Didn't Stop Dancing Saturday Night

  July 16 at 12:39 p.m.

  The crowd that filed into Toyota Music Factory to see Paramore on Saturday was a particular group; if you didn’t know what band was playing that night, you could reasonably guess the lineup on the marquee from the attendees. The throng of people entering skewed heavily female, their brightly dyed...

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  Violent Femmes Make Nostalgic Noise at Toyota Music Factory

  July 16 at 12:03 p.m.

  Package tours are a hallmark of the summer concert season. Whether they're artfully curated with alternative scene-makers, skillfully assembled with corporate branding or nostalgically organized to appeal to fans' youthful past, these types of bookings populate the calendars of sheds around the country. Sunday evening's bill at The Pavilion at...