It’s been a rough year for the music industry. It seems the loss of a legend makes headlines every other week. But when a legendary musician moves on, we all feel it, whether we celebrated that artist’s music during their lifetime or not. There’s just something about one person shaping the lives of millions of people with their music that leaves an impression on all of us. These artists leave behind legendary legacies, sparking shockwaves of influence that ripple through our entire culture, forever changing everything they touch. Take a minute and reflect on how the musicians who died in 2016 changed our world as we know it.
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6 Music Festivals Too Crazy to Believe
Any blissed-out fun junkie will tell you a life well lived is one spent laughing with friends, inventing dance moves with sexy strangers and discovering places where music washes over you like Niagara Falls. A good music festival will give you all this and so much more. But with hundreds (if not thousands) of new festivals popping up all over the world every year, it can be hard to figure out which ones you should check out to get the most memorable experience possible. That’s why this list of six crazy music festivals you’ll have to see to believe may just change your bucket list forever.
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10 Sexy Patriotic Miranda Lambert Photos That’ll Make Your Jaw Drop
Miranda Lambert is one of the hottest artists in country rock right now, and if you’ve seen her January 2016 appearance on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, you know that she can rock a little black dress as well as she can rock a mic. Her attitude and natural beauty really make her the ultimate All-American girl, which begs the question–what would it look like if Miranda Lambert were Photoshopped into ridiculously patriotic settings? Could the world handle the sheer sexiness that results from combining a musical superstar and some raw, unfiltered ‘Murica? Find out for yourself in this crazy sexy slideshow!
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9 Badass Things Kid Rock Could Teach Us All
Unless you’ve had your head firmly planted in a pile of sand for the last 20 years, you know Kid Rock is a red-blooded American music icon. With hits spanning the genres of rock, country, hip hop and practically everything in between, it’s clear he knows a thing or two about music and just generally how to be badass. Check out these 9 things we could all learn from Kid Rock and become enlightened on the topic of American Badassery.
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32 Concert Photos that Steal the Show
Worried your hazy memories from the 75th rally anniversary party at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip® might not last long enough to get you by until the Chip’s 35th? The legendary party brought out the very best in the performers, and the Chip’s photographers were there to capture the amazing concert photos that prove it. Transport yourself back to 32 of the festival’s most memorable musical moments here:
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Five Finger Death Punch Bombard the Backstage
Five Finger Death Punch are head honchos of the heavy metal world. When they rocked the Chip in August 2015, they were weeks away from releasing their new album, “Got Your Six,” as well as embarking on a world tour. After signing the Epiphone Les Paul being given away in the Buffalo Chip’s Rock The Holidays Sweepstakes, bassist Chris Kael and lead guitarist Jason Hook sat down with Sturgis Rider® TV host Jersey Steve to talk turkey on everything from bikes and bizarre band stories to Japanese nuclear warheads to their support of veterans and active duty military personnel. Watch and find out why the whole world is going the Way of the Fist.
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Experience Rally Mayhem Backstage with Brantley Gilbert
Brantley Gilbert has been one of country-rock’s hottest acts for the last several years. As a bona fide southern boy and motorcycle enthusiast, he knows a thing or two about how to throw a crazy party. When he stopped by Studio 14 to chat with comedian Chris Trew, they came up with some ideas that would set the Sturgis Buffalo Chip® on fire and create total mayhem. What were these outrageous ideas? Watch to find out for yourself.
35 Headliners for the Buffalo Chip’s 35th Anniversary?
A tremendous amount of work and juggling goes into securing entertainment for a music festival like the Best Party Anywhere™, and the process always starts by taking requests from fans like you. Now that planning for the Buffalo Chip’s 35th anniversary party has started, many of you have already named bands you’d give your left nut to see perform. Below is a list of 35 of them (in no particular order). Are these really the bands you’d most like to see be a part of the 2016 lineup? Yes, no, maybe so?
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Best Playlist on the Planet or Best Playlist on the Planet?
If you could have all of the best songs from the best bands from the 2015 party at the Chip all in one place, what would you do with them? Would you politely set them aside and keep listening to your smooth jazz collection? Or would you crank them up, do burnouts in your living room, randomly scream out “Freebird!” and melt the faces off your spouse, your mailman, and the family dog with your wicked air guitar skills? Well, the world is about to find out. Here’s something that may just bring all the manimal or womanimal out of you. We can’t guarantee what will happen from here, so listen at your own risk, and try not to get into too much trouble. Here it is: “Buffalo Chip Rock Vol. 1 – The Party of the Century Playlist.”
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Dee Snider’s Ideas Will Revolutionize the Sturgis Rally
Dee Snider has long been one of rock and roll’s most rebellious figures. He’s also an avid rider and Sturgis Rally devotee with the patches to prove it. When he sat down in Studio 14 with Chris Trew he got down to brass tacks, sharing what he loves about the Sturgis Rally and the Chip and some ideas that could take the Best Party Anywhere to a whole new level. So what are these twisted ideas? You’ll just have to watch and find out.
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