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Due to the return of several concerts and festivals (and my recent attendance of concerts since Covid started), I am introducing a new series that I will call The Concert Series.  In this series, I am going to discuss various topics related to concerts I have attended.  For this post, I have provided a list of artists who I would recommend seeing live, broken down by one act per genre.   I chose to do one per genre because I thought it would give a better representation of what to listen to rather than recommending my favorite live bands (many of which are alternative or metal).   If I didn’t have a genre where I saw an act I felt strongly enough about discussing, I did not include the genre.   Alternative:   Muse I saw Muse in 2013 at Mohegan Sun.   While there are several other bands that are often grouped in with alternative music that fought for a spot here, I was able to fit most of them into other categories, making Muse the clear choice ...

After teasing this post for more than a month, I have finally completed my list of biggest rappers right now.  I am considering commercial success, reputation, name recognition, and other factors along these lines.  I broke them into two tiers based on whether I think they have a case to be among the top names or just missed.  I also have sections for popular artists who are not in their prime and just missed the list, artists who have a case to be included but are likely in other genres, and some artists to watch for the future. As a note, I excluded artists who are not active or have indicated that they will likely not be active.   For example, Childish Gambino will not be included on the list because Donald Glover has indicated he will be retiring the project.   I also excluded Logic who had previously retired but is returning from retiring.   I have also excluded DaBaby because I’m not sure anymore what his popularity is for the short or long term giv...