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This fascinating metropolis found poking its way out into the extreme east of the Mediterranean Sea has been moulded and shaped over more than five millennia by the seafaring Greeks, Imperial Romans, Arabic caliphates, invading Ottomans and tumultuous religious divisions alike, making it unquestionably one of the most enthralling cities in the Middle East.

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Rabbit R1 Review: This AI Device Can't Replace Your Smartphone Apps Yet

The Rabbit R1 is a gamble on a new type of operating system, but it feels half-baked.

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To edit a spreadsheet, all I had to do was hold the gray button while speaking the following words into the tiny orange box in my hand: "Transcribe this spreadsheet and swap column B with column C." A revised version of the spreadsheet popped up in my email inbox almost instantly. It was surprisingly impressive… until I realized the words in the first column were cut off. 

This sums up my experience using the Rabbit R1 , a $199 app-free handheld device that uses AI to complete tasks. There were moments when everything clicked and I understood the hype behind what creator Jesse Lyu calls a "real world" Pokedex. 

But there were many more moments when the Rabbit R1 fell short of my expectations. The services that currently work with the R1, like Uber and Doordash, feel much more limited on the Rabbit R1 than they do on your phone -- if they work at all. The R1 also had trouble identifying certain landmarks when I took it sightseeing in New York City and it lost internet connectivity occasionally. Battery life is also painfully short, although a software update should fix that soon enough .

The Rabbit R1 is a tiny, handheld gadget that you primarily interact with through verbal commands. Instead of using apps, the operating system runs on software that Lyu says can learn how to operate digital apps and services on your behalf using AI. It's a novel concept, and one that Lyu thinks will ultimately prevail and become the dominant way we get things done in the future.

And he isn't alone; Rabbit fans who preordered the device flocked to the product's New York launch event on April 23 to be among the first to get their hands on it. A man I spoke with while waiting in line even drove all the way from Massachusetts.

But the current version of the R1 doesn't live up to these lofty ambitions. The R1 can call you an Uber (or at least it's supposed to), order Doordash, create images with Midjourney, play songs on Spotify, answer questions, translate speech and use its camera as a visual search engine, among other things. It's fresh and interesting, but many of these experiences feel inferior to the smartphone right now. On the whole, the R1 feels like a work in progress and a bet on the future rather than the AI revolution it's been made out to be.

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The R1's retro design

You can press and hold the Rabbit R1's side button and speak into it like a walkie-talkie. 

If there's one thing Rabbit got right with the R1, it's the design. It's about half the size of a smartphone and comes in a deliciously bright orange color. The device has a tiny 2.8-inch screen, a scroll wheel for navigation and an 8-megapixel camera. There's a SIM card for cellular connectivity, but I used the R1 by connecting it to Wi-Fi networks and my phone's mobile hotspot. 

The R1, which was designed in collaboration with Teenage Engineering , somehow feels nostalgic and futuristic at the same time. It reminds me of the seashell phone from the horror movie It Follows. In that movie, one of the characters is seen using what appears to quite literally be a clamshell-shaped mobile device with an e-ink screen. While the R1 doesn't physically resemble this device, they both create the illusion of a handheld electronic that somehow feels like it's from the past and the future at the same time.  

The R1's size also makes it feel like a walkie-talkie when you speak into it, which is likely intentional given that's the primary way you interact with the device. It's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, much like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 when closed.

The Rabbit R1 is about the same size as the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 when closed. 

The Rabbit R1's design is important for more than just aesthetic reasons; it dictates how you interact with the device. Since the display is so small, the screen isn't meant to draw your attention the way a smartphone's does. It doesn't tempt you to browse around the operating system or launch an app when you're bored as you might while using a phone. And it forces you to think about what question you should ask to get your intended task done rather than which app you should open.

Since it's a new type of gadget, there is a learning curve. On my first day with the device , I forgot that you need to shake it twice to launch the settings menu, for example. I also didn't realize that you exit the camera interface with the same gesture you use to launch it: double pressing the side button. Other gestures felt surprisingly natural and clever, like using the scroll wheel to adjust screen brightness and volume.

The Rabbit R1 is small enough to easily fit in the palm of your hand. 

Setting up the Rabbit R1 was fairly simple and involved connecting it to the internet and scanning a QR code. In order to get the most out of the Rabbit R1, you need to link it to digital services so it can actually do things on your behalf. You can connect these services through an online portal called the Rabbithole, but right now Spotify, Uber, Doordash and Midjourney are the only services visible as options. But according to Lyu's keynote, there are a bunch of new features and integrations planned for summer 2024 and beyond, including support for Yelp, Amazon Music and Apple Music, as well as calendar and contact functionality, reminders, shopping features and more. 

Rabbit uses the authentication systems from each of these services to log in, meaning it's not directly handling your login credentials or saving them. It feels like logging into a website on a web browser. Lyu said user requests are handled directly by the language models that process them, so Rabbit doesn't see or save your specific words. 

Using the R1 as a handheld tour guide

The Rabbit R1 can answer questions about objects it sees in the real world. 

The R1's camera serves a different purpose than the one on your phone. Instead of using it to document important moments and events, the R1's camera is primarily used to learn about the world around you. Just point it at a nearby object and ask it a question, and it should be able to identify it and answer your query. I thought the best way to test this out in practice would be to take it out for a day of sightseeing in lower Manhattan. 

I tried using the Rabbit R1 for everything from learning about landmarks to ordering an Uber to my next point of interest and finding nearby coffee shops. Most of the time, I just ended up reaching for my phone to get these tasks done. However, there were a few instances in which the Rabbit R1 gave the answers I was looking for, such as when I pointed it at the arch at the entrance of Washington Square Park. Not only did it correctly identify the Washington Square Arch, but it also described the nearby scenery -- making me curious about the R1's potential as an accessibility device in the future. 

But the Washington Square Arch was the only landmark the R1 was able to consistently identify that day. It couldn't recognize the New York Stock Exchange or the Castle Clinton monument right on the water near Battery Park. Instead, the Rabbit R1 gave me its best guess at what I might be looking at. For the Stock Exchange, it described a "grand, historic building, likely a government or financial institution." It could tell Castle Clinton was a "historic landmark or attraction," but it couldn't say much more than that. 

The Rabbit R1 has a tiny display that's significantly smaller than your smartphone's.

Answers can also vary depending on the angle and positioning of the camera, as well as what else is in frame, which I learned when asking the Rabbit R1 to identify the iconic Charging Bull statue near Wall Street. It answered correctly on the first try but couldn't identify the statue on the second or third try, perhaps because there were too many tourists and sightseers standing in the way.

The R1 is fun to use as a visual search tool, but you can get similar functionality from Google Gemini and Google Lens. I received nearly the same results using the Rabbit R1 and Google Gemini running on a Pixel 8 Pro when pointing the camera at my ice blue Nintendo 64 to see if it could tell me what year the console came out. (I thought this was a fitting question for the Rabbit R1 given its retro theme.)

Battery life is the biggest obstacle to using the Rabbit R1. The battery drained significantly during my first few days with it even when the device wasn't being used. On the day that I took the R1 sightseeing, I had to go back to my office because the battery was nearly depleted by lunchtime. On a different day, the battery dipped down to 34% after being off its charger for about 5 hours. It got so bad that I started carrying a portable charger anytime I left my house with the R1, although Lyu says a fix is coming . 

I needed to plug the Rabbit R1 into a portable charger to get through the day. 

As of April 29, I began noticing some battery improvements, but I'm still not brave enough to leave the house without a power bank. The battery level is down to 23% as of 5:49 p.m. ET after unplugging it shortly before 9 a.m. 

The Rabbit R1 as a work companion

The Rabbit R1 can generate images through Midjourney.

While the idea of using the Rabbit R1 as a tour guide is interesting, I'm far more intrigued by its potential to help with productivity. Remember that spreadsheet example I mentioned earlier? Unfortunately, the R1 isn't all that great at editing spreadsheets just yet. Words in the first column got cut off, and in my experience the camera isn't wide enough to capture all of the data in a big spreadsheet anyhow. But the fact that it was able to make any sort of edit to a document and send it to my email instantly still felt like a big deal. 

You can also use the Rabbit R1 to generate images on the fly through Midjourney. All it took was a quick command like, "Create an image of a cute puppy with floppy ears and big eyes," and the Rabbit R1 conjured up four images matching my prompt. Even though Google Gemini accomplished a similar task slightly faster, generating an image with the press of a button, without having to tap or type any inputs, still felt impressive.

The Rabbit R1 can also serve as a personal translator and a voice recorder for quickly saving dictated memos, and voice recordings are stored in the Rabbithole portal for later reference. These features work as expected for the most part, although I sometimes found that I had to use a specific phrase to get these tools to work properly. For example, in response to the phrase, "Record a note,"  Rabbit says "saving your note" and then follows up by adding that it doesn't have enough information to save a note. It may sound minor, but it can be frustrating when you just want to save a quick thought in a hurry. And Rabbit can't translate text in images; it works only with speech, which limits its usefulness. 

The Rabbit R1 as a search engine

The Rabbit R1 can answer questions, play music on Spotify, use its camera to answer questions about what it sees and more. 

The Rabbit R1 can answer questions about the weather, pop culture, nearby points of interest and more -- similar to phone-based virtual assistants. But it has pros and cons compared to the digital helpers that live on our mobile devices, like Apple's Siri, for example. 

I noticed that Rabbit sometimes provides more information than Siri might, such as when I asked who the pop icon Taylor Swift is dating. Siri answered first, but Rabbit provided extra details, such as when the couple began seeing each other. The case was the same when asking Rabbit to recommend nearby coffee shops that are ideal for working. Rabbit provided a rating and mentioned factors like Wi-Fi and ambience, while Siri just pulled up a list of results. I liked that I didn't get a generic "Here's what I found on the web" type of answer when asking Rabbit questions like I sometimes do with Siri.

Rabbit's coffee shop recommendations were pretty spot on for my neighborhood, but the quality of its suggestions sometimes changed depending on my location. When asking for coffee shops near Washington Square Park, some of the suggested coffee shops weren't very close by, including one option located in Brooklyn. 

That said, I'm surprised by how well the Rabbit R1 can understand language and intention. When it can't answer my questions, it at least tells me why and acknowledges that it knows what I was trying to ask. For example, when I pointed it at my salad and asked how many calories were in the meal, it said it needed more information about portion size and the specific ingredients. 

Rabbit may have done a better job at understanding the specific intent behind my question, but the experience of looking through recommendations was still easier on my phone. The R1 doesn't save verbal responses to the Rabbithole portal; it only stores voice memos and visual queries at this time. It also can't send responses to your email the way it does with spreadsheets. So once the R1 is done dictating its response, there's no way to access that answer. (In another testament to the R1's language understanding capabilities, it told me to just jot down its response when I asked it to send recommendations to my email.) A Rabbit spokesperson said the company plans to add the ability to save answers in a future update. 

Rabbit OS instead of apps

The Rabbit R1 can use Doordash on your behalf. 

The overarching goal behind the Rabbit R1 is to provide an experience that's faster and more intuitive than your smartphone. Instead of opening multiple apps to accomplish a single task, Rabbit OS promises to get things done for you with a simple prompt. 

But that dream still feels like it's in its early stages. The Rabbit R1 doesn't support many services yet, so you can't ask it to do much other than calling an Uber or ordering lunch on Doordash. I haven't even been able to get Uber to work properly yet even though I linked my account to my Rabbit device. I would either get a response indicating the request couldn't be processed because of maintenance issues, or the R1 would fail to accurately pinpoint my location even when I dictated the address. A Rabbit spokesperson said the company's working to improve the success rate and transparency of booking a ride using the R1.

Ordering Doordash may be faster using the Rabbit R1 if you already know what you want and it happens to be on Rabbit OS' implementation of Doordash. But in most cases, using your phone is the better option. Rabbit OS doesn't pull up as many restaurant choices as Doordash would on your phone, and it doesn't show the full menu either. A Rabbit spokesperson said it's constantly working to improve the selections on Doordash.

There are also a couple of puzzling bugs I ran into when using the R1 that are unrelated to Uber and Doordash. For one, the time zone appears to be stuck in Pacific time even though I'm located on the East coast. Lyu posted on X that a fix for this specific problem, along with the battery drain issues, is coming soon. And while the Rabbit R1 was usually accurate with my location when I asked for the weather, it pulled up temperature forecasts for Massachusetts on a couple of instances. I also had a hard time exiting the Spotify interface on multiple occasions, and the device can't seem to reconnect to my phone's hotspot after disconnecting. Instead, I have to manually forget the network and rejoin, which means typing in the password every time. 

Rabbit R1 overall thoughts

The Rabbit R1 is a handheld device that you interact with using voice commands. 

The Rabbit R1 isn't meant to be a phone replacement, but it is meant to do certain things better than your phone can. It's not there yet, but I can see the pieces of a new type of operating system starting to come together. While it's true that you can do many of the same things the R1 does on your phone -- including generating images based on a voice prompt and using the camera as a visual search tool  -- it's more about how you're doing those things. 

Just because you can unlock your phone and ask Google to identify a nearby landmark or plant doesn't mean you're going to. We're so accustomed to opening apps, typing and scrolling that it doesn't always feel intuitive to fire up the camera and ask a question. The R1, however, forces you into these types of multimodal interactions. And that's promising; so few gadgets actually succeed in breaking us out of our comfort zones when it comes to user interfaces. 

But "eventually" is the key word there. Based on the R1's current state, that vision feels closer to a promise than it does to reality. Many of its features and experiences feel unfinished, and you're much better off just using your phone. Smartphone makers are also moving toward this idea of evolving beyond apps, as evidenced by Google's Circle to Search feature, meaning the R1 may soon have to try even harder to compete with your phone. Our mobile devices also have a big advantage that the R1 doesn't when it comes to serving as a virtual assistant: They already know so much about us. And that's going to be tough to beat.  

If you're thinking about buying the R1, do it because you're curious about the future and don't mind gambling $200 on it. But for most people, my advice is to just stick with your phone. There may be big things ahead for the Rabbit R1, but I can't review what isn't there yet. 

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New Edition's Las Vegas residency is still going strong through 2024, though only a few tour dates remain. Luckily, the iconic music group has added additional tour dates and there are a few different ways to buy New Edition tickets.

New Edition began their residency at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas in February, with their stay ultimately being extended through November. After their original six shows, New Edition added two more legs for this year for a total of 10 more concert dates. Performing on their 2024 concert tour are group members Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, who sing their classic hits like "Candy Girl," "Cool It Now," and "If It Isn't Love."

If you're still looking for how to buy tickets to New Edition's concerts, we've got you covered. Here's our breakdown of the R&B group's tour schedule, purchasing details, and ticket prices. You can also browse tickets and show specifics on StubHub and Vivid Seats at your leisure.

New Edition 2024 tour schedule

All six members of New Edition are returning for the remainder of the group's Las Vegas residency, which kicks off on July 3. It features seven shows from July 3 to July 13 in Las Vegas, with the third leg picking back up for three additional concert dates in October and November.

The group is also appearing at the Cincinnati Music Festival in July.

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How to buy tickets for New Edition's 2024 concert tour

You can buy original tickets for New Edition's 2024 Las Vegas residency concert dates and music festival appearance on Ticketmaster. However, since the residency extension shows went on sale in March 2024, the quantity of remaining original tickets is limited.

Tickets can also be purchased from verified resale vendors like StubHub and Vivid Seats . You may have better luck with the variety of seating options and availability on resale sites compared to the original tickets still left.

It's also important to note that New Edition's shows at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas only permit concertgoers ages 18 and up — so be sure to bring your ID to get into the group's residency performances.

How much are New Edition's tickets?

Given the high demand for the group's remaining Las Vegas residency shows, tickets to see New Edition in 2024 are relatively expensive. Furthermore, ticket prices vary depending on each show's concert date and demand. Resale ticket prices are comparable to or cheaper than original ticket costs.

The cheapest original ticket prices on Ticketmaster begin at $175 for New Edition's Las Vegas shows on October 30 and November 1. The least expensive seats are generally in the left or right mezzanine. However, most other dates with remaining original tickets are a bit more costly, with the cheapest seats coming in at over $200.

On the other hand, original one-day Saturday tickets for New Edition's Cincinnati Music Festival performance start at only $65. This ticket also lets you see artists like Kem, Stokley, En Vogue, and Coco Jones. Check out the full line-up here .

The least expensive resale tickets available to New Edition's Las Vegas residency on StubHub start at $165 for the group's July 5 performance. Vivid Seats offers similar prices for resale tickets, as the cheapest available Las Vegas show passes begin at $165. However, both sites' base fares are slightly more expensive than the $65 original tickets for the Cincinnati Music Festival, as StubHub's begin at $72 while Vivid Seats' start at $73.

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A few weeks ago in our Friday feature the Playlist, I recommended a bubbly new single by the pop artist Sabrina Carpenter and made a bold prediction: “Get ready to hear this one everywhere.” Even more quickly than I imagined, the prophecy has come true. Last week, “Espresso” debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Carpenter’s highest charting hit yet. More important, it has taken over the nation’s psyche. You can hardly go anywhere these days without hearing someone quoting the song’s infectious hook “That’s that me espresso” or wondering aloud, “what is a ‘me espresso?’”

That’s a profound philosophical question for another day. Today, we are simply honoring the absurdist joy of “Espresso” with a playlist of songs about caffeinated beverages.

Coffee has been a consistently evocative theme throughout pop musical history, so this mix travels from 1940 right up to the present moment. That trusty beverage is often used to describe a sophisticated kind of romance (as it does on Otis Redding ’s swooning ballad “Cigarettes and Coffee”) or perhaps the idle hours waiting around for said romance to occur (see Peggy Lee ’s sultry take on the 1948 standard “Black Coffee”). Chappell Roan tries to use it as a shield against romance on a track from her 2023 album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” reasoning with a former flame, “I’ll meet you for coffee, ’cause if we have wine/You’ll say that you want me, I know that’s a lie.”

In “Espresso,” Carpenter uses the caffeine metaphor to suggest how restless she makes a guy she has wrapped around her finger: “Say you can’t sleep? Baby, I know.” Also, crucially, she understands that “espresso” rhymes with “I guess so.” That’s poetry.

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1. sabrina carpenter: “espresso”.

A breezy summer bop with a dash of bizarro humor, “Espresso” is about to be blaring from every other beachside boombox. Carpenter’s gloriously unbothered vocal and the track’s disco-inflected sheen make the whole thing go down easy. ▶ Listen on Spotify , Apple Music or YouTube

2. Squeeze: “Black Coffee in Bed”

A memorable image — “there’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was” — kicks off this smoldering, six-minute classic about trying to move on from a relationship while concrete memories linger all around. (And yes, that is Elvis Costello on backing vocals.) The British band Squeeze’s songwriter and guitarist Chris Difford revealed in a 2019 interview that an actual coffee ring inspired those opening lines: “Yeah,” he said . “I still have the notepad in my office.”

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3. Peggy Lee: “Black Coffee”

The great Peggy Lee kicks off her 1956 debut album with an elegant reading of this song, written by Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Weber and first made famous by Sarah Vaughan. That titular brew helps her stay awake as she waits up for an absent lover: “I walk the floor and watch the door/And in between I drink/Black coffee.”

4. SZA: “Percolator”

This brief but effervescent track from the deluxe edition of SZA’s 2017 debut album, “Ctrl,” chronicles the singer’s insecurities and doubts before declaring, “I wanna be a percolator.” I’m just going to pretend she’s talking about the coffee kind.

5. The Ink Spots: “Java Jive”

This 1940 single from the pioneering vocal group the Ink Spots is a fun and slangy ode to a hot cup of Joe. “Slip me a slug from the wonderful mug,” singer Deek Watson croons, “and I’ll cut a rug till I’m snug in a jug.” And you thought “that’s that me espresso” was silly!

6. Otis Redding: “Cigarettes and Coffee”

Companionship and good conversation make an ordinary moment glow — “just talking over cigarettes and coffee” — in this warm, crackling ballad from Otis Redding’s “The Soul Album.” “I don’t want no cream and sugar,” he sings, “’cause I’ve got you now, darling.”

7. Chappell Roan: “Coffee”

This playlist began with one rising pop girlie, and it concludes with another: the suddenly ubiquitous Chappell Roan. Over a sparse but theatrical piano arrangement, Roan figures meeting an ex “only for coffee” is a better bet than meeting for dinner or drinks: “Nowhere else is safe, every place leads back to your place.” By the end, though, she’s not even sure a quick, caffeinated date is innocuous enough: “’Cause if we did coffee, it’s never just coffee.” Don’t even ask her about espresso.

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“A Brief Tour of Pop Music’s Caffeine Addiction” track list Track 1: Sabrina Carpenter, “Espresso” Track 2: Squeeze, “Black Coffee in Bed” Track 3: Peggy Lee, “Black Coffee” Track 4: SZA, “Percolator” Track 5: The Ink Spots, “Java Jive” Track 6: Otis Redding, “Cigarettes and Coffee” Track 7: Chappell Roan, “Coffee”

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HOUSTON − It’s not only stunning, but it's somewhat miraculous that more than 60 years after their first tour, the Rolling Stones are still filling stadiums.

It’s even more head-spinning to realize that along with their treasured hits, the Rolling Stones are enhancing their set list with a trio of songs from last year’s well-received “Hackney Diamonds” – their first album of original material in 18 years and the impetus for this 16-city tour.

We’d call it a victory lap, but frontman Mick Jagger is better suited for marathons.

At the kickoff Sunday at NRG Stadium in Houston, the core triumvirate of Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – along with their supporting cast of exceptional musicians and singers – hit the massive stage to the sounds of Richards’ slashing out the riff of, fittingly, “Start Me Up.”

Jagger, the nimble CEO of Stones Inc., peacocked in a silver shimmering jacket, his elastic legs a mere pedestal for his rotating torso.

Richards, still owning his disheveled pirate look with a knit cap and multicolored scarf dangling from his hip, and Wood, grinning continuously and occasionally scampering down the lengthy catwalk, retained their roles as faithful consiglieres.

There isn’t a patch of smooth facial skin among them (Jagger and Richards are 80 and Wood is 76). But with the energy to plow through an 18-song, two-hour set – yes, shorter than previous Stones shows, but still fulfilling – no one is looking to crown them pageant winners.

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While the band needed a couple of songs to fully find their groove – the striding cadence of a reworked “Get Off Of My Cloud” and a ramshackle “Rocks Off” felt curious rather than robust – Jagger compensated with his riveting presence and still-supple vocals.

Along with the “Hackney Diamonds” songs plucked for their major live debuts (the band played a few of the new tracks at an intimate New York club gig in October ), including the feisty “ Angry ” and encore of gospelized “ Sweet Sounds of Heaven ,” the 1966 tune “ Out of Time ” also received its U.S. debut. The band revived it last year during some performances for the overseas Sixty tour.

“I don’t think you really knew it, but you got to know it,” Jagger said with a smile after leading the nearly full stadium through the arm-waving chorus.

As typical for a Rolling Stones production, the stage ran the width of the stadium, blanketed with screens beaming images of the band with magnificent clarity. Close-ups of drummer Steve Jordan, who assumed rhythm duties after the death of original drummer Charlie Watts in 2021, joyfully thundering through the gem “ Paint It, Black ” and birthday boy Chuck Leavell ripping out a fleet-fingered solo on his Yamaha keyboard on “Honky Tonk Women” offered fans a peek at the magic happening a few feet behind Jagger and Co.

During the always-visceral “ Sympathy for the Devil ,” as serpents and fire crawled across the screens, Jagger prowled through the sinister groove, augmented by percussion provided by background vocalist Bernard Fowler and chunky bass lines from Darryl Jones.

Keyboardist Matt Clifford added French horn to “ You Can’t Always Get What You Want ” as Jagger, playing an acoustic guitar, strolled through the message of acquiescence that escalated into a gospel throwdown.

The horn duo of Karl Denson and Tim Ries coated many familiar anthems – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Miss You” among them – with their rich brass sounds. But, as fans have realized over the decades, the ominous “Gimme Shelter” remains a centerpiece of any Rolling Stones concert, and Jagger has a new onstage playmate in powerhouse background vocalist Chanel Haynes.

The woman who starred as Tina Turner in the West End musical of Turner’s life and officially became part of the band last year steamrolled through “Gimme Shelter” with a voice blaring attitude and vigor. As she and Jagger strolled the catwalk, sharing vocals and chemistry, Jagger wisely backed off a couple of times, allowing Haynes to unleash her theatrical verve.

But this is still Jagger’s circus, and whether he’s bobbing like a jittery prizefighter or wiggling his shoulders like the world’s most slender Chippendales dancer, he is an octogenarian who captivates.

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With a large band – five musicians, three background vocalists – behind him, Clark was the epitome of cool in dark shades and a bandanna as he took the stage with “Maktub” from his recently released fourth album, “JPEG Raw.”

Clark is a big name for an opener (then again, it is the Rolling Stones) and he used his time well with massive licks on the crunch rockers “Bright Lights” and “This is Who We Are,” with singer Naala joining him.

The soul-inflected “Feed the Babies” seared as a set highlight as the singer/guitarist displayed sizzling playing and a breezy vibe for the crowd.  

Neil Young Stuns at 2024 Tour Launch, Unveils Lost ‘Cortez the Killer’ Verse

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In typical Neil Young fashion, virtually nothing was revealed about his 2024 U.S. tour before it kicked off Wednesday night at San Diego’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, other than the fact he’d be backed by Crazy Horse , and that Micah Nelson would be taking over guitar duties from Nils Lofgren. Would he pull a Greendale and debut an entire rock opera nobody had ever heard? Would he focus the set around the three new studio albums he cut with Crazy Horse between 2019 and 2022? Might he repeat the concept of his 2023 solo tour by spotlighting obscure Eighties and Nineties album tracks and skipping most of his hits?

They jammed for six minutes before Young sang the opening lines, igniting the crowd into a frenzy, but the big moment came near the end, when he began singing completely unfamiliar words. As he teased earlier this month , it was the legendary lost segment of the song that failed to record during the 1975 Zuma sessions because the console briefly lost power. Young recently found the lyric manuscript, and worked out where they originally fit in the song.

“I floated on the water,” Young sang. “I ate that ocean wave/Two weeks after the slaughter/I was living in a cave/They came too late to get me/But there’s no one here to set me free/From this rocky grave/To that snowed-out ocean wave.”

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Young was talking about “Scattered (Let’s Think About Livin’),” from 1996’s Broken Arrow, which was the newest song they played all evening. The rest of the set was music recorded when Briggs was alive, largely between 1969 and 1979, beginning with “Don’t Cry No Tears.” He followed it up with a triple shot of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere : “Down by the River,” “The Losing End,” and the title track. And it was a particularly mesmerizing “Down by the River” that stretched out for 16 blissful minutes.

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After the Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere mini-set, the quartet (Crazy Horse 4.0?) kicked into one of the greatest renditions of “Powderfinger” I’ve ever heard, thanks to improvisational guitar work prior to each verse by Young and Nelson. What came next was a 16-minute “Love and Only Love,” the band walking offstage, and then Young strapping on an harmonica rack for solo acoustic renditions of “Comes a Time,” “Heart of Gold,” and “Human Highway” that had the entire amphitheater singing along.

The band returned to wrap up the night with “Don’t Be Denied,” an autobiographical tale that carries a lot more emotional weight when Young sings it at age 78 as opposed to 28, and a thrashed-out “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black).”

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