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Live Review: Def Leppard @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater — 8/31/25

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Def Leppard performs live at Veterans United Amphitheater on August 31, 2025. (Photo by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography)

Def Leppard Close Latest USA Tour with a Triumphant Blowout in Virginia Beach
Words and photos by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography

There’s a unique electricity in the air when a band hits the last night of a tour. It’s not the same as opening night, where nerves and fresh energy bubble over. No, the finale has its own flavor — looser, heavier, tinged with nostalgia, and often, a little bittersweet.

Def Leppard recently brought that whole cocktail of emotions to the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, closing out their US leg with the kind of unapologetic spectacle that proves why they remain one of the last standing giants of arena rock.

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Live Review: Extreme (Opening Def Leppard) @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater — 8/31/25

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Michael Sprouse
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Extreme performs live at Veterans United Amphitheater on August 31, 2025. (Photo by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography)

Extreme Bring Guitar Firepower and Old-School Swagger to Virginia Beach
Words and Photos by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography

Virginia Beach has this way of making big shows feel like backyard parties. The salt air rolls in from the ocean, the crowd is already half-charged before the first note, and by the time the lights drop, you’re reminded that this seaside town knows how to host a proper rock spectacle. Recently, the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater shook under the weight of Extreme — still loud, still cocky, and still more fun than a band with that much technical precision has any right to be.

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Snapshots: Erykah Badu and The Alchemist @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 8/17/25

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Erykah Badu performs live at The Fillmore Silver Spring on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Chris Castillo)

Erykah Badu turned The Fillmore Silver Spring into a late-night séance on August 17, drifting onstage to “Echos” and setting a heady, slow-burn tone for a phone-free crowd sealed in Yondr pouches. With The Alchemist at the decks and The Cannabinoids threading live textures, the room felt equal parts lab and lounge — an invitation to lean in rather than film from afar.

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Live Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band @ Wolf Trap — 8/29/25

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Mark Engleson
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Tedeschi Trucks Band perform live at Wolf Trap on August 29, 2025. (Photo by Ari Strauss)

The Tedeschi Trucks Band is a quintessentially American musical institution. A multiracial 12-member ensemble fronted by the husband-and-wife duo of guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks and singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, their sound draws on a wide variety of traditions from the cradle of American music in the South to beyond the borders of the United States, embracing elements of Indian and African music.

In their recent performance on a perfect summer night at Wolf Trap, Tedeschi Trucks Band offered the audience a reminder of the beauty and diversity that makes this country great.

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Live Review: Robert Randolph w/ Blessed Offor @ The Atlantis — 8/27/25

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Mark Engleson
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Robert Randolph performs live at The Atlantis on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Ari Strauss)

Sacred music has been thoroughly intertwined with rock ‘n’ roll since its earliest days. Elvis Presley made gospel albums, there’s plenty of fire and brimstone in Jerry Lee Lewis’s piano boogie, and Little Richard became, for a time, a minister. New Jersey pedal steel virtuoso Robert Randolph, who grew up in the House of God with its Sacred Steel music, admirably continues the tradition of representing for his faith while rocking hard.

Touring behind his first solo album (on his previous records, he shared billing with his Family Band), Preacher Kids, released earlier this year, Randolph and his ace band shook the house and brought the spirit in their recent appearance at The Atlantis.

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Live Review: Gary Clark Jr. (Opening The Black Keys) @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/28/25

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Michael Sprouse
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Gary Clark Jr. performs live at Merriweather Post Pavilion on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography)

Gary Clark Jr. Brings the Heat at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Words and Photos by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography

There’s an undeniable electricity that fills the air before a Gary Clark Jr. concert — like you’re on the edge of something big, something that’ll grab you by the shoulders and shake you awake. When he recently opened The Black Keys at Merriweather Post Pavilion, that feeling wasn’t just in the air — it was in the sound, the vibe, and in every note Clark played. With his signature blend of rock, blues, and soul, he not only reminded the crowd why he’s considered one of the best guitarists of his generation but also why his live shows are something you need to experience to truly get it.

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Live Review: The Black Keys @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/28/25

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Michael Sprouse
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The Black Keys perform live at Merriweather Post Pavilion on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Michael Sprouse/ Odd Rocker Photography)

There’s something about a beautiful, cool late-summer night at Merriweather that just feels tailor-made for rock and roll. The Black Keys rolled into Columbia, in support of their new album, No Rain, No Flowers like they owned the place, and by the end of the night, you could argue they did.

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Live Review: Silversun Pickups w/ Girl Tones @ 9:30 Club — 8/26/25

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Silversun Pickups perform live at 9:30 Club on August 26, 2025. (Photo by Marc Shea)

Silversun Pickups have a sound that is instantly recognizable. They’ve been around for 25 years — and in that time, they have released six full length albums. When they most recently played the 9:30 Club, they created a career-spanning setlist that included hits and fans favorites plus a few deep cuts.

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Live Review: Nine Inch Nails @ CFG Bank Arena — 8/26/25

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David LaMason
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Nine Inch Nails (Photo courtesy the band)

In the time of Doc Martens, dyed black hair, and silver chains enough to choke a den of werewolves bands like KMFDM and Skinny Puppy reigned supreme over suburban malls across America. And while the popularity of the industrial goth aesthetic has waxed and waned over the years, one band that has consistently found a foothold in the angst of each subsequent generation since then has been Nine Inch Nails. 

Nine Inch Nails, led by frontman and songwriter Trent Reznor, has been going strong for nearly 40 years. On the heels of the band’s new material as part of the film Tron: Ares, the band announced a massive world tour, The Peel It Back Tour, through the summer with a stop at Baltimore’s CFB Bank Arena. The famed industrial act last graced the streets of Charm City way back in 2008 as part of the Virgin Mobile Fest (though Reznor and company did play The Anthem in DC in 2018). But Nine In Nails more than made up for the lost time on Tuesday night. 

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Interview: James McMurtry (@ The Birchmere, 9/18/25)

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Mark Engleson
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James McMurtry (Photo by Mary Keating-Bruton)

James McMurtry on Politics, Language, and His New Album, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
Interview by Mark Engleson

James McMurtry is angry. “We’ve got the Gestapo, now,” he tells me, “Only we call it ICE. And they’re disappearing people.” I mention how, when I saw I’m Still Here, the film about the disappearances in Brazil in the 1970s, I turned to my date after the movie and said that was America’s future. I wish I hadn’t been right.

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