December31
Halfway into Paramore's tour kickoff Friday night in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, Hayley Williams took a breather to reflect on how much things have changed for the band since their last gig here five years ago. Hint: That earlier show wasn't in a big outdoor amphitheater with big black-and-white neon ...
December31
She's fallen afoul of everyone from the United Stated immigration department to skeptical reporters, but near the end of her set at New York's HARD Fest on Governor's Island Saturday night, M.I.A. was shut down by Mother Nature. Two long, sharp flashes of lightning brought to a close a set ...
December31
Bruce Springsteen shocked fans with a surprise appearance during Alejandro Escovedo's Saturday night performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Stone Pony. Springsteen joined Escovedo on "Always a Friend," a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" and "Faith," a track from Escovedo's new studio album Street Songs of Love ...
December31
Friday night in Northampton, Massachusetts, Interpol found themselves back in the kind of college club where they launched their careers. At Pearl Street, a venue with wood-boarded floors, tall Victorian-style windows covered with sheets and makeshift bleachers tucked into one corner of the room, the New York rockers kicked off ...
December31
It's been 23 years since the Cars split, but the band is finally hinting at a reunion. On their official Facebook page, the band posted a photograph of the surviving members — singer Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, drummer David Robinson and guitarist Elliot Easton — gathered together in a ...
December31
Throughout rock history, concerts have come to abrupt ends for stranger-than-fiction reasons, but Kings of Leon's show in St. Louis this past weekend raised the bar: pigeons in the rafters used the stage as a toilet, dropping excrement into Jared Followill's mouth. Here's a rundown of more early exits: • ...
December31
On September 14th, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant will release Band of Joy, the first album from his revived band of the same name. While the original Band of Joy was an experimental blues outfit that ran from 1966 to '68 and featured drummer John Bonham, Plant's new lineup — ...
December31
Rihanna will make the jump to the big screen in the upcoming sci-fi action film Battleship, based very loosely on the board game of the same name. Rihanna, who was once rumored to fill the lead female role in a remake of the '80s kung fu classic The Last Dragon, ...
December31
Ben Keith, a steel guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who played alongside Neil Young for nearly 40 years, has died of unknown causes. He was 73. Highly skilled on the electric guitar, piano, alto saxophone and pedal-steel, he contributed to countless Young classics including "Heart of Gold," "Rockin' in the Free World," ...
December31
Best Coast mastermind Bethany Consentino has crafted a perfect summer record in Crazy for You: breezy, lo-fi, garage-pop numbers about sunshine, searching for boys and spending lazy days sitting on the couch. Though the album is packed with girl-group tunefulness, Consentino is more than just a Sixties pop revisionist — ...