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Monday, June 24, 2013

Music Menu Fleetwood Mac at Time Warner Cable Arena tonight (6/24/13)

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FLEETWOOD MAC
Fleetwood Mac released a new EP to coincide with its current tour, but the anorexic Extended Play consists of just three Lindsey Buckingham cast-offs and Stevie Nick's sun-dappled "Without You," which dates back to the couple's pre-Mac duo Buckingham Nicks. More telling, the tour supports the 35th anniversary reissue of the iconic 1977 LP Rumours. All early Mac iterations, including Peter Green's hard blues incarnation and Bob Welch's alchemical pop-psych machine, are ignored. Indeed, all that remains in the current repertoire of key songwriter (and hold-over from the Welch era) Christine McVie is the Bill Clinton '92 campaign anthem "Don't Stop." To be fair, though songs from the 1975 self-titled LP and Buckingham's fussy, coke-fueled masterwork Tusk make the cut, the Mac's set list revolves around Rumours. How can it not? Produced when the group was a snake pit of jealousy and betrayal, Rumours is unparalleled pop that makes private pain both universal and anthemic. Reviews of the current tour are split between "recaptured magic" and "ghastly wax museum." Yet, such a bipolar schism is fitting, coming from a band that crafted an enduring and gleaming pop surface over the hot mess wreckage of their lives. $49.50-$139. June 24, 8 p.m. Time Warner Cable Arena, 333 E. Trade St. 704-688-9000.

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