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Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, better known as Twenty One Pilots, have released six studio albums, including last year’s Scaled and Icy, which nabbed the Top Rock Album prize at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. After an extensive European festival run earlier this year and the duo’s international Takeover Tour …

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Sometimes, you just have to make the leap of faith. Princeton Pike Church of God, in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Hamilton, Ohio, has been around since 1928, and its worship spaces have continually grown over the years. But by the time the congregation began meeting in its newest sanctuary—nearly …

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In recent years, the push towards inclusiveness and diversity within worship communities has brought broader demographics under one roof. A good example of that is Nashville Life, the 10-year-old ministry founded by gospel artist and 15-time Grammy Award-winner CeCe Winans and her husband, Alvin Love II, and where their son, …

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Glen Haven Baptist Church, just south of Atlanta in McDonough, Georgia, celebrated a milestone this year when the church turned 75 years old. And like more and more older churches, Glen Haven Baptist spent its diamond anniversary looking into the future. In this case, the church saw and installed a …

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Chicago’s Fine Arts Building is a Romanesque treasure in the city’s famous Loop neighborhood, and within the building is an even more exquisite jewel: the 600-seat Studebaker Theater. Both have plenty of history—the Fine Arts Building, originally built as the Studebaker Company’s carriage assembly site in 1885, took on its …

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Photo above: Tedeschi Trucks Band (pictured here with members of Los Lobos) is carrying a PRG-supplied L-Acoustics K2 system out on its North American Wheels of Soul Tour The Grammy Award-wining Tedeschi Trucks Band is known for its relentless touring, but plans for the group’s sixth Wheels of Soul Tour, …

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Starting with her eponymous first album release just five years ago, Dua Lipa has rapidly become an international music sensation. Winner of (so far) six Brit Awards, three Grammy Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, two Billboard Music Awards, an American Music Award, and owner …

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Like a cultural lighthouse beckoning visitors to Toronto’s artistic shores, the Harbourfront Centre Theatre (HCT) is the jewel in the crown that is the city’s iconic waterfront park. Seating only 350 patrons in its normal configuration, the theatre has impressively hosted intimate performances by A-list musical artists like Celine Dion …

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Franklin Music Hall on Philadelphia’s North 7th Street first opened its doors in 1995 as Electric Factory, the second incarnation of a bygone local ’60s/’70s venue. The new 2,500-capacity venue quickly emerged as one of the city’s prime destinations for eclectic artists spanning genres from rock to punk to noise …

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Photo above: Pearl Jam FOH engineer Greg Nelson (left) and system engineer Andrew Gilchrest at the Gigaton Tour’s FOH mix position with some of the L-Acoustics K Series PA seen in the background In March of 2020, just as Pearl Jam was set to drop Gigaton, its eleventh studio album …

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