It takes a concerted effort to stay hopeful during these times. Live music is still your best entertainment value, when it comes to soul-feeding and body-rumbling. Here, in no particular ranked order, are 30 of the tours or individual concerts that stirred and rattled us most in the year’s first half… from the stadium shows by Beyoncé, the Weeknd and the double-teaming of Kendrick Lamar and SZA to Hollywood Bowl gigs by Rhiannon Giddens, Halsey, Tyler Childers and the dynamic duo of WIllie Nelson and Bob Dylan… and from a club gig by Sir Paul McCartney to
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