Best New Bands » JR JR https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 JR JR Close Out Tour In Chicago https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jr-jr-close-tour-chicago/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jr-jr-close-tour-chicago/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:04:06 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27983 Chicago – And just like that, the JR JR tour is gone. See what I did there? JR JR (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.) played their final show of the JR JR American Fall Tour, in support of the Detroit duo’s third album JR JR. Fans from all over the Midwest, but especially Michigan, filled the ground floor

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