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Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie
at Forest Hills Stadium (July 24, 7 p.m.).
Costello's music has always been so omnivorous, so prolix and so beyond the margins that defining it is difficult. But to the extent that he has created a genre unto itself over the past 40-plus years, his most recent album, Look Now, represents it fully: that heady Costello mix of Broadway balladry, Detroit soul and postpunk self-righteousness. He appears at Forest Hills as part of a double bill with Blondie, the Debbie Harry-fronted new-wave idols who rose to fame alongside Costello in the late 1970s. On their latest album, Pollinator, Blondie maintain the sharp guitars and neatly chopped drums they're known for, but douse them in layers of synth.
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