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Our 10 Favorite Tom Waits Albums list looks back at the career of one of America’s most original songwriters and recording artists. For more than five decades, Waits has moved through folk, jazz, blues, rock, theater music, gospel, cabaret, experimental percussion, and sounds that seem to belong entirely to him. Few artists have resisted convention and commercial expectation as stubbornly as Tom Waits. Waits has often been discussed alongside Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan. Yet the comparisons only go so far. His narrators inhabit diners, cheap hotels, bars, freight yards, back roads, theaters, prisons, and imagined

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PAM WHISENHUNT | Go Venue Magazine

Sleep Theory packed The Admiral Theatre in Omaha front to back on August 1, 2026, and the sold-out crowd made sure everyone in the building knew it. The merch line ran long all night, and by the time the band hit the stage, there was no room left to move.

Silly Goose opened the night and brought nothing but energy. Lead singer Jackson Foster never stopped pacing the stage and working the crowd. By what felt like the first song, he was already crowd surfing. At one point he had the entire floor move up fifty feet toward the stage, packing in tighter so there’d be enough hands to catch a stage diver, only to reveal he wasn’t the one taking the plunge.

He asked who in the crowd had the most energy. A guy in a Where’s Waldo shirt and hat threw his hand up. The singer called him up to the stage, asking what to call him. He said “Waldo,” and the room lost it. Jackson made sure he understood he had to do whatever he was told, then told him to dive into the crowd. The gap between the stage and the rail was pretty big and Waldo struggled to complete the challenge. Jackson gave him credit anyway, saying he did his best.

That energy carried through the rest of the set. Jackson had the whole floor drop to the ground, then jump up together on a three-count, something he ran back several times in different forms, sit, crouch, jump. Everyone played along. Before wrapping, he thanked Sleep Theory for having them out on the tour, then dove back into the crowd one more time. Security looked like they lost track of him for a minute. On the closer, he told the crowd it was their last chance to move, and it showed.

Sleep Theory came out blazing with “Fallout,” “Enough,” and “Parasite,” then eased into a run of “Hourglass,” “Just a Mistake,” and “Gone or Staying.” From there they pivoted into cover territory, opening with a soulful take on Boyz II Men’s “Can You Stand the Rain.” Frontman Cullen Moore told anyone unfamiliar with the group to look them up on the way home.

The covers kept coming. *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” and Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” both landed well with a crowd that was already loud and only got louder.

When they played “Afterglow,” Moore explained the song is about heartbreak, and that he usually dedicates it to the women in the room. Tonight, he said, it was for the guys who’ve been the sucker for too long. The guys took to that one.

Moore then made an announcement: it was bassist Paolo Vergara‘s birthday, and he got the whole room to sing Happy Birthday. That led into the story of how the two met, back in 2021 at a birthday party, where Moore first saw Vergara playing guitar. That meeting became the basis for their cover of Paramore’s “My Heart,” which they played right after.

The 20-song set closed out with three of the band’s biggest tracks, “Numb,” “Stuck in My Head,” and “Static.” Nobody left early. The room stayed locked in until the last note, not ready for the night to end.

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It took us a long time to get to a Top 10 Van Morrison Songs list because the man has released so much music throughout his career. By 2026, Van Morrison had released forty-eight studio albums, not counting compilations and live records. His most recent studio album, Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge, arrived in January 2026. Van Morrison has consistently released incredible music throughout his entire career. There have never been any down periods. Even when he was going through his enlightenment phase, he was releasing jaw-dropping material. It is difficult to compile Top 10 lists for artists

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Now in its fourth year, Maid of Stone has in a short space of time established itself as one of the very best festivals, ranking alongside the longer running Steelhouse and Stonedead for mid-sized events catering for a classic rock … Continue reading →

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When putting this list together, we faced the question of whether to write a Top 10 Crosby, Stills & Nash Songs list or compose a Top 10 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Songs list. The debate arose because Crosby, Stills & Nash recorded eight studio albums as a trio and only three as a quartet with Neil Young. However, it is Neil Young. In the end, it became clear that we had to compose two separate articles looking at both groups because, when Young was added to the equation, there was a substantial difference in the band’s sound. The first

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