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Mötley Crüe Is in the Home Stretch of Its Final Tour

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Mötley Crüe is kicking off the last stretch of the final tour of its career, an 18-month global farewell that will culminate at the end of the year with three shows at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Arguably the biggest sporting event of the year (sorry, Olympics!), the Super Bowl telecast is usually the highest-rated program of the year. Did this year’s show live up to the hype?

Grunge didn't kill pop metal, it merely succeeded it as the genre of choice as part of a logical progression. To understand the emergence of alt-rock, we need to examine why the tide turned against a wave of music that had once been so popular.

There might not seem to be any rhyme or reason for pairing Mötley Crüe and Poison with the New York Dolls, but appearances can be deceiving when it comes to the self-proclaimed "tour of the summer".

Thirty years later, Motley Crüe “Kickstart” the “Same Ol Situation”.

On their first live album, Papa Roach sticks it to their former label and nearly captures the full-blown intensity of their live show with an added bonus of five new studio tracks.

Undeterred by the sweltering heat -- the kind that forms a sweat-'stache on your upper lip within milliseconds of being exposed to its nuclear-level humidity -- roughly ten thousand rock fans turned out to Holmdel, NJ's PNC Bank Arts Center Amphitheatre to catch Crüe Fest 2.

Wright’s gift is his ability to trace a story through time and weave together a piece that is chilling in both subtlety and revelation.

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