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topicnews · July 17, 2025

Wu-Tang clan, blues traveler, ghost under the highlights of the area concert

Wu-Tang clan, blues traveler, ghost under the highlights of the area concert

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where we look at shows that will come to the region next week. As always, your music taste is rock 'n' roll, jazz, heavy metal, r & b, singer-songwriter or indie, there will always be something to be seen. Here are seven of the best on the docket for the week of July 18:

WU-Tang-Clan Friday in the Wells Fargo Center

With a foundation that is based on texts that combine the reality of New York with the world of martial arts from the 1990s, Wu-Tang Clan has created a unique mythology that captures the hearts of fans worldwide. The best known collective in hip-hop history is to end your touring days with “Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber”, and the last show of the first leg is in Philadelphia on Friday. The group founder RZA said in an explanation of the tour: “This is a special moment for me and all of my WU brothers to run around the globe again and to spread music and culture. The most important thing is that we touched our fans and those who have supported us over the years.” RZA promises a show like no other, and with the duo you guide the jewels as an opener, they only know that it is to get a start of a murder.

Rose City Band – Friday in the Ardmore Music Hall

Rose City Band's music is timeless country rock with an apparently effortless swing that bears the joy of creation without ignoring the darkness that penetrates today's world. Under the direction of Ripley Johnson, the guitarist/singer, the group's music is rooted in his love for records in the middle to the late 1970s. Her latest album, “Sol Y sombra”, reaches his heels in insatiable grooves with a parade of catchy songs that conjure up a sunset drive through an open desert, both a celebration of a stay and a range for the warmth of the home.

Ghost will appear in the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday. (Ryan Chang)

Ghost – Saturday in the Wells Fargo Center

Ghost's latest LP “Skeleta” about the genre and the defiant trends in 1st place on the Billboard 200, when it was released last spring, debut in 1st place and was the first hard -rock album for over four years. Now comes the “Skelettur World Tour”, in which the meat and the bone of the front man Papa V Perpetua contains on a North American swing that already attracts the largest and most diverse audience in the band. From lifelong disciples to curious faithful to the fact that they have to be experienced and others who find consolation in the music of the mind, everyone is welcome to escape the difficulties of everyday life and become one with the exciting ritual.

Blues Traveler + Gin Blossoms + Spin Doctors – Saturday in the Ovation Hall in the Ocean Casino Resort

If you are looking for a bit of nostalgia from the 90s this weekend and by chance on the shore, we have a show for you. Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms bring their co-headliner summer to Atlantic City, New Jersey, with spin doctors who perform the opening tasks. Blues Traveler played over 2,000 shows in front of more than 30 million people, and her song “Run-Around” had the longest divided radio single in Billboard history, which brought them a Grammy for the best rock performance of a duo or a group with singing. Gin Blossoms rose after the publication of her big label debut “New Miserable Experience and The Singles” Hey Eifersy “,” Allison Road “and” Until I fall away “. Then there are the spin doctors, who are primarily known for their multi-platinum album “Taschenhilfe Full of Kryptonite” and sold 10 million albums worldwide and contained hits “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can'tan Be Lupy”.

Mekons – Saturday in the Philadelphia Ethical Society

The legendary postmodern, post-punk, post-Human collective, which recently returned with a new album for 2025 in “Horror”, which offers a cautious reflection of the world in its current Murk and our arrival. The LP deals with the history and legacy of British imperialism with pureed texts against a typical versatile sound that from Dub, Country, noise, rock'n'roll, electronica, punk, music hall, polka, and you can even take your partner on “sad and sad”. Fifty years later, they are astonishment with their sound, mood and method for perfection, which are mixed on both recording and on stage.

The warning – Saturday at Union Transfer

In Mexico-born sister Trio, who pulled strength and strength from a lifespan of thousands of kilometers on the street, generated hundreds of millions of millions of streams and left countless fans in honor. All of these tireless work and commitment have shaped their sound with a knife precision and sharpened and armed alternative hymns with catchy hooks and an uncompromising hard -rock kick. Her most recent offer, “Keep Me Fed”, has accumulated over 155 million streams worldwide and ended up with the largest album debut for a purely female rock group in the 2020s at the top of the emerging artist card from Billboard. The current headliner shows come after a spring that was opened for Halsey, and they are already warmed up for a complete set at Union Transfer this weekend.

The Decemberists – Wednesday in Wind Creek Event Center

In 2000, as a singer, songwriter and guitarist Colin Meloy from Montana to Portland, Ore years since then the band Tour The World, performed at countless big festivals, and even found the peace and quiet of the travelers, a festival of their own curation in Missoula, Mont. On the musical journey they also performed in “The Simpsons”, worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda and released Illimate's own board game financed by crowd.

Sound check

• Wu-Tang clan: “Protect your neck”

• Rose City Band: “Lights on the way”

• Spirit: “Satanized”

• Blues Traveler: “Run-Around”

• Gin flowers: “Until I removal”

• Spin doctors: “two princes”

• Mekons: “Mudcrawlers”

• The warning: “Hell, you call a dream”

• The Decemberists: “Severned”