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Last night saw the return of the legendary Deep Purple to Southern California for the first time in nearly four years. This performance was unique, as the band's current tour sees them performing with an orchestra, something which they have never done for American audiences. Pictures and sounds from the show along with a riff by riff rundown of the set list await you inside!

On Friday night, just over a year after they were forced to reschedule their return to Southern California, U2 played the first of two shows which will likely go down as among the greatest concerts to ever take over the playing field of Anaheim Stadium. And even though I was perched high above the stage in the View Level, I've never felt so close to a band as they played live before.

As the well-worn chestnut goes: Time flies (too fast). Time from a devolutionary perspective, doubly so. Incredible as it may be, an entire year of devolution has occurred since the release of DEVO's first new album of the past two decades, Something for Everybody . The run up to its release on June 15, 2010 was an exercise in crowdsourcing, memes and viral marketing of the most ingenious sort. DEVO didn't stage a comeback album as much as they let those of us fans who were clever enough to "get it", back into their world.

This is another tale of "I might never have known about this artist were it not for Twitter". It is also the tale of my first time supporting a musician's project via Kickstarter. Having never heard (or heard of) Shaun Hague prior to kicking in a few dollars to his fundraising campaign, you could also consider this an example of taking a Euterpean leap of faith. What convinced me to do so was the company he kept.