Counting Crows
It may seem strange that Counting Crows is celebrating a quarter century with their 25 Years and Counting Tour, given that only a few of those years found them with much chart presence, but keep in mind that the sort of MOR radio hits that the band traffics in are genetically designed to have the half-life of uranium. They had something of a comeback in 2014 when their seventh studio album, Somewhere Under Wonderland, made a top-ten chart debut and spun-off a mildly successful single, their first in years, with “Dislocation.” However, the tour title makes it clear that they’ll mainly be leaning on nostalgic evergreens, with the greatest hits production heading for Mattress Firm Amphitheatre on July 10, where chart-topping Pennsylvania rockers Live just might steal the show from the celebratory headliners, with alt-anthems aplenty like “Lightning Crashes,” “All Over You,” and the omnipresent “I Alone.”