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Together and separately, Howie Mandel and Arsenio Hall has Hard Rock Live howling

Long before either Howie Mandel or Arsenio Hall became household names on TV, they were cutting their stand-up comedy chops in clubs, and though the Hard Rock Live Northern [More…]

Hard Rock having comic side of “Talent” judge, “Deal” host Howie Mandel alongside Arsenio Hall

No matter how famous he’s gotten from television, movies, podcasting or producing, Howie Mandel’s always held on tightly to his stand-up comedy roots, pulling off upwards [More…]

Bret Michaels and his Poison-filled Hard Rock “Parti-Gras” is “Nothing But A Good Time”

Star of the recording studio, stage and TV screen, Bret Michaels’ “Parti-Gras” Tour touched down at the Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana concert hall connected to [More…]

Hard Rock Live leans hip-hop for the pioneering likes of Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick

Hip-hop is the new pop, but it wouldn’t have come this far without the ground laid by the first few waves of creativity, which began in the early 1970s and fully emerged [More…]

Hard Rock “Happiness” continues with reunited southern rockers The Black Crowes, The Effigies

Long before the famously feuding brothers of Oasis got back together, The Black Crowes’ singer Chris Robinson and sibling/guitarist Rich buried the hatchet for just as [More…]

Elite artist, songwriter and producer Babyface brings Hard Rock Live loads of chart-toppers

Having hailed from a little further down the road in Indianapolis, it was a homecoming of sorts when Kenny Edmonds, better known to the masses as Babyface, came to Hard Rock [More…]

Reggae, ska and punk is “What I Got” during Sublime with Rome’s “Farewell” to Hard Rock

For a brief but bountiful period in the 1990s, Long Beach’s Sublime blurred the lines between reggae, ska, punk and alternative rock like no other and were well on the way [More…]

Hard Rock “This Town”: Stray Cats’ latest reunion struts, speeds and swings in honor of 45th birthday

When pop, rock and the surrounding culture of MTV were at their most excessive in the front half of the 1980s, the Stray Cats were downright revolutionary for going the [More…]

Stand-up and TV superstar Jerry Seinfeld cracks up a sold out Hard Rock Live audience

The caliber of entertainers coming to the Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana keeps on shooting into the stratosphere and stand-up comedian/television icon Jerry Seinfeld was the [More…]

Boyz II Men get down “On Bended Knee” to spread “Motownphilly” sounds around Hard Rock Live

Besides being the best-selling R&B group of all time with sales of over 64 million albums, Boyz II Men are also amongst the most decorated thanks to four Grammy Awards, [More…]