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  • "Love Lives"

    "Love Lives" | SONG REVIEW

    Tyler recorded his first solo single for Space Battleship Yamato, a Japanese sci-fi film set in 2199. But the song is stuck in 1997: It's a ballad with an orchestral sound so big you can see spaceships...

    October 14, 2010 4:25 PM ET
  • Video: Classic Performances by Solomon Burke

    Video: Classic Performances by Solomon Burke | ARTICLE

    Otis Redding was a Burke fanatic, recording...

    October 12, 2010 5:39 PM ET
  • Soul Legend Solomon Burke dead at 70

    Soul Legend Solomon Burke dead at 70 | ARTICLE

    Solomon Burke, the soul legend behind Atlantic R&B classics including "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," died early this morning after arriving at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. He was 70. Known as “The King...

    October 10, 2010 3:00 PM ET
  • Billie Joe Armstrong's 'American Idiot' Debut a Smash

    Billie Joe Armstrong's 'American Idiot' Debut a Smash | ARTICLE

    Before the curtain rose for American Idiot at Manhattan's St. James Theater last night, an announcer listed the house rules and then added, "By the way, the role of St. Jimmy will be played by Billie Joe...

    September 29, 2010 3:34 PM ET
  • Julian Lennon on His 'Timeless' Photo Exhibition

    Julian Lennon on His 'Timeless' Photo Exhibition | ARTICLE

    The opening of Julian Lennon’s "Timeless: The Photography of Julian Lennon" last night at New York’s Morrison Hotel Gallery, was, as you might expect, jam-packed. Midway through the evening, Yoko Ono, Sean and Julian Lennon themselves emerged...

    September 17, 2010 4:40 PM ET
  • Robert Plant Plays Intimate Club Gig

    Robert Plant Plays Intimate Club Gig | ARTICLE

    Robert Plant played a rare club show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom Sunday night, backed by the group behind his rootsy new project, Band of Joy (named after his mid-Sixties psychedelic-blues outfit). In a 100-minute set performed...

    September 14, 2010 2:14 PM ET
  • A Perfect Circle to Play First Concerts Since 2004

    A Perfect Circle to Play First Concerts Since 2004 | ARTICLE

    After a six-year hiatus, A Perfect Circle will reconvene in November for a West Coast theater tour. The long-awaited shows feature a surprise for hardcore fans: the band will play all three of their albums in their...

    September 13, 2010 2:17 PM ET
  • Raekwon Discusses New Album, Kanye-Bieber Track

    Raekwon Discusses New Album, Kanye-Bieber Track | ARTICLE

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    September 7, 2010 5:08 PM ET
  • Greenhornes, Girls Close Out All Tomorrow's Parties

    Greenhornes, Girls Close Out All Tomorrow's Parties | ARTICLE

    With headlining acts including...

    September 6, 2010 5:02 PM ET
  • Sonic Youth, Breeders Rock All Tomorrow's Parties

    Sonic Youth, Breeders Rock All Tomorrow's Parties | ARTICLE

    September 5, 2010 2:56 PM ET
  • Video: Stooges, Mudhoney Rock All Tomorrow's Parties

    Video: Stooges, Mudhoney Rock All Tomorrow's Parties | ARTICLE

    September 4, 2010 3:00 PM ET
  • Chris Martin Introduces New Song, 'Wedding Bells'

    Chris Martin Introduces New Song, 'Wedding Bells' | ARTICLE

    Apple’s press conference to announce Ping and iPod updates featured another surprise: A new song from Chris...

    September 1, 2010 6:36 PM ET
  • TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek on His Poppy New Disc

    TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek on His Poppy New Disc | ARTICLE

    August 30, 2010 8:24 PM ET
  • Live at 'Rolling Stone': Chief

    Live at 'Rolling Stone': Chief | ARTICLE

    August 20, 2010 1:37 PM ET
  • "Mean Old Man"

    "Mean Old Man" | SONG REVIEW

    Kris Kristofferson sang the original version of this country stomper, but its hard-edged crankiness is pure Jerry Lee. "If I look like a voodoo doll . . . who'd rather bite you back than crawl, that's what...

    August 17, 2010 12:00 PM ET
  • Parliament Guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins Dies at 66

    Parliament Guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins Dies at 66 | ARTICLE

    Phelps "Catfish" Collins, the legendary funk guitarist who played with James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic, died Friday in Cincinnati after a battle with cancer. He was 66. "My world will never be the same without him," said his...

    August 9, 2010 4:58 PM ET
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My Morning Jacket Hit the Studio

    My Morning Jacket Hit the Studio | ARTICLE

    Last weekend, Jim James played a stunning acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival and showed up onstage with both the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and folk legend John Prine. Backstage, the My Morning Jacket frontman...

    August 5, 2010 2:46 PM ET
  • "Depression"

    "Depression" | SONG REVIEW

    Bingham and producer T Bone Burnett — who together won an Oscar for co-writing "The Weary Kind" for Crazy Heart — reconvened for Bingham's Junky Star LP. The first single is about a jobless romantic who refuses...

    August 4, 2010 12:30 PM ET
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Levon Helm, Edward Sharpe Rock Newport Folk Festival

    Levon Helm, Edward Sharpe Rock Newport Folk Festival | ARTICLE

    As the sun was setting over Newport Harbor Sunday night, Levon Helm returned to the stage in front of 8,000 fans sprawled to the waterfront docks. The 70-year-old drummer invited a multi-generation group of guests onstage —...

    August 2, 2010 2:00 PM ET
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Jackson Browne on New Tour, The Power of Polyester

    Jackson Browne on New Tour, The Power of Polyester | ARTICLE

    In the early Seventies, Jackson Browne relied on sideman David Lindley so heavily, Browne named his touring band "The Lindley Brothers." The musician played everything onstage and in the studio: guitar, slide, Hawaiian steel, banjo and violin....

    July 30, 2010 1:03 PM ET