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Live: Romeo Santos Summons Usher And Prince Royce To Madison Square Garden

By Nick Murray Mon., Feb. 13 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Aventura, Live, Madison Square Garden, Nick Murray, romeo santos

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Romeo Santos
Madison Square Garden
Saturday, February 11

Better than: Coming home and hearing about Whitney.

I lived in the Bronx during the 23 weeks when Aventura's The Last reigned over the Billboard Latin chart, and the local quartet's music was everywhere. From all-night dance clubs to family reunions at Crotona Park, corner bodegas to Orchard Beach, there were few places you could go to escape it. Of course, why would you have wanted to when any of the album's 16 tracks (the two skits don't count), plus the inevitable throwbacks like "Obsesion" and "Hermanita," could start a party as quickly as they could turn around a floundering one?


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Year In Review

My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton

By Rob Harvilla Thu., Dec. 9 2010 at 7:30 AM
Categories: Aventura, Eminem, Faith No More, Featured, Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Last Night, Live, Michael Bolton, Michael Mayer, Pavement, Public Image Limited, Salt-N-Pepa, Swans, Year In Review

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Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.
The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all furtively documented on an iPhone notepad and sometimes captured via relentlessly amateurish photography. The best were a mix of usual suspects and total surprises, current hitmakers and reconstructed old-timers, all hitting whatever stage with some combination of joy, ferocity, indifference, disdain, and messianic grandeur. Here are the 10 that made my imminent hearing loss seem nonetheless somehow totally worth it.

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