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SUBLIME WITH ROME ANNOUNCES JULY 17TH RELEASE DATE FOR NEW ALBUM, SIRENS

Biggest U.S. Tour To Date Kicks Off July 16th in Chula Vista, CA According to a press release, Sublime with Rome will release their sophomore full-length SIRENS on July 17, 2015. Co-produced by Paul Leary and Rome, the 11-track album will be released on BMG Chrysalis and follows the band’s 2011 debut, Yours Truly. Yesterday

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Comedy Picks of the Week

Auggie Smith

May 21-24 | Omaha Funny Bone At the age of 19, Auggie Smith moved from Billings, Montana to Portland, Oregon to pursue a carreer in stand up comedy. After a few years of toil and struggle, he first achieved acclaim by winning the 1994 Sam Adams Comedy Contest, who’s prizes earned him his first national

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Atmosphere’s Evolution

Slug Rips the Masks Off By Kyle Eustice As a young child, Minneapolis native Sean Daley was affectionately referred to as “Little Slug-O.” He would eventually adopt the moniker “Slug” as an emcee name and pursue his irrefutable passion for hip-hop. Fast forward to 2014 and Daley sits atop an impenetrable empire known as Rhymesayers

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Featured Music News Picks of the Week

Eric Church

May 20 @ Pinnacle Bank Arena After closing out 2014 with country music’s top-selling album, the Platinum-certified and genre-busting The Outsiders, Eric Church storms in to 2015 with four GRAMMY nominations (Best Country Album for The Outsiders, Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Give Me Back My Hometown” and Best Country Group/Duo

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Featured Picks of the Week Theater

Once

May 12-17, 2015 Orpheum Theater | Slosburg Hall Winner of eight 2012 Tony® Awards including BEST MUSICAL, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who’s about to give up on his dream when

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Featured Music News Picks of the Week

TWINSMITH “ALLIGATOR YEARS” ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

The Slowdown, 724 N. 14th St May 15 @ 9pm www.theslowdown.com Talk about a hole-in-one. Omaha’s Twinsmith released its eponymous debut album last summer, and mere weeks later were signed to prestigious indie label Saddle Creek (home of Conor Oberst’s hall of fame-worthy Bright Eyes). The instant success is something of a misnomer though; the

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Hit That Dive

Register to be HitThatDive’s Best Bar or Best Wings of 2015

In years past, I’ve tried any number of ways to pick the HitThatDive “Bar of the Year”.  A few years ago, Jerry’s Bar won by virtue of an online vote (back when Facebook allowed that function for fan pages). The last two years I just decided to pick a bar I think is most deserving,

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Music News Picks of the Week

RUSH: R40 LIVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

Over the course of their amazing career, Rush has lived a lifetime together, providing an influential soundtrack to many of their fans’ lives. Some have been with them since the start, while others have discovered them along the way and delved into their incredible body of work. To quote Dave Grohl from their momentous induction

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Comedy Picks of the Week

PJ Walsh

PJ Walsh is known as one of the hardest working comedians behind the microphone, and for good reason. His boundless energy and the strength of his physical comedy have carried him around the globe, from the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, to overseas tours for U.S. troops in several countries including Iraq and

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Picks of the Week

Garth Brooks

Six concerts. Four nights. Record-breaking ticket sales. Garth Brooks is coming. The country superstar will perform six concerts at CenturyLink Center Omaha on May 7 to 10. And he still may add more. Those six shows could draw more than 100,000 people — a record for Nebraska concerts and putting Brooks on pace to shatter

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