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Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen Lead Stand Up for Heroes Benefit | ARTICLE

"For sometimes, even the strongest soldier falls," sang a band of 14 veterans backing Roger Waters and guitarist G.E. Smith at New York's Beacon Theatre, closing a set that included Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and...
November 9, 2012 12:15 PM ET
Roger Waters 'Absolutely Determined to Make Another Album' | ARTICLE

More than 20 years since making a rock concept record, Roger Waters tells Rolling Stone he has finished a song for an album tentatively titled Heartland. Completed on lunch breaks during the elaborate Wall tour that...
November 6, 2012 11:45 AM ET
Morrissey Rep: 'The Smiths Are Never Going to Reunite' | ARTICLE

"The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite – ever," Morrissey's publicist tells Rolling Stone, in reaction to the latest rumors claiming otherwise. The English group, fronted by the enigmatic and outspoken...
October 2, 2012 12:35 PM ET
Neil Young Expands Pono Digital-to-Analog Music Service | ARTICLE

Aretha Franklin had never sounded so shocking, Flea decided last year, as "Respect" roared from the speakers of Neil Young's Cadillac Eldorado. Stunned by the song's clarity, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist listened...
September 27, 2012 4:40 PM ET
CBGB Film Finishes Shooting; Release Planned for 2013 | ARTICLE

Relics from New York City's bygone CBGB club – including "Smithsonian-quality pieces" like its bar, the phone booth, chunks of the walls and those stained toilets, all pulled from storage – will reunite on the big screen...
September 18, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Tom Morello Leads Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Concert | ARTICLE

Demonstrators returned to Lower Manhattan on Monday to commemorate the day protesters took over Zuccotti Park one year ago and launched the Occupy Wall Street movement, erecting tents, banging drums in solidarity and sustaining a...
September 17, 2012 2:20 PM ET
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Unite Artists Against Fracking in New York | ARTICLE

During the early 1970s, before Sean Lennon was born to John and Yoko, the couple bought a farm in Delaware County, three hours from their home at the Dakota in New York City. As a toddler, Sean...
August 29, 2012 6:20 PM ET
Deltron 3030 Hip-Hop Opus Set for October | ARTICLE

Sidelined by sickness, a rapid rewriting session and the death of his younger brother last year, Del the Funky Homosapien says the on-again, off-again dark sequel to 2000's Deltron 3030 will finally see the light of day...
August 29, 2012 1:00 PM ET
Chili Peppers Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on 'I'm With You' Outtakes Set | ARTICLE

Almost exactly a year after releasing I'm With You, their first album with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will stagger the release of 17 unheard outtakes from those sessions over the next...
July 12, 2012 2:55 PM ET
Tom Morello, Chad Smith Help Indie Band on Pro-Immigration Video | ARTICLE

Revolutions require ambition and tenacity, and Rage Against the Machine fan Miles Solay tested both in 1996, when the 15-year-old talked his way past Saturday Night Live security to meet the band in their dressing room....
July 9, 2012 12:45 PM ET
Krist Novoselic Talks Nirvana, Election Reform in CBGB Festival Keynote | ARTICLE

Nirvana never played CBGB because their agent demanded an additional $300 to perform, CBGB Festival organizer Louise Parnassa-Staley revealed to Krist Novoselic during the musician and political activist's keynote speech at the CBGB Festival in New York...
July 5, 2012 5:15 PM ET
CBGB Festival Brings Veteran Bands Back to the Stage | ARTICLE

First impressions make their mark forever, and guitarist Cheetah Chrome remembers feeling right at home the moment he entered CBGB & OMFUG in July of 1976, arriving from Ohio with his band, the Dead Boys, for their...
July 5, 2012 12:45 PM ET
Rockers Rally Against Low Wages and New Walmart Store in Los Angeles | ARTICLE

"I’m thinkin' 'bout burnin' the Walmart down," Steve Earle sings in a video uploaded to his website this week. During the clip, the songwriter urges fans to attend Saturday’s March Against Low Wage Jobs in Los...
June 30, 2012 9:40 AM ET
Dave Matthews Band's Boyd Tinsley Debuts Indie Movie in New York | ARTICLE

Filmmakers rarely score a movie before they have a script, but the idea made perfect sense to Dave Matthews Band's Boyd Tinsley, who spent part of the band's year-long hiatus producing Faces in the Mirror, an...
June 12, 2012 2:45 PM ET
Donald Fagen, Boz Scaggs, Kristen Wiig Salute Bob Dylan at Dylan Fest | ARTICLE

To know Bob Dylan is to experience him live. But for those making do with Dylan's sprawling bootlegs as he criss-crosses the globe this year, Thursday's Dylan Fest offered the goods from a revolving lineup of...
May 25, 2012 2:55 PM ET
New York Musicians to Fight Fracking at Albany Rally | ARTICLE

Just days ago, General Electric's bulldozers entered a third year of around-the-clock dredging along New York's Hudson River, where the energy giant is still working to undo the contamination it created during the Seventies. During that time,...
May 14, 2012 5:15 PM ET
Howard Stern on His 'Leap of Faith' to 'America's Got Talent' | ARTICLE

Though his judging experience is limited to decades of radio commentary on breast size and shape, Howard Stern is promising substance over shtick when he joins fellow judges Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel for Monday night's...
May 11, 2012 12:20 PM ET
#RIP: The New Media of Celebrity Deaths | ARTICLE

"I was awake," Sohaib Athar told Rolling Stone about that night one year ago, when he unknowingly broke one of the biggest news stories of the decade via Twitter: Osama bin Laden was dead. In what proved to...
May 1, 2012 12:40 PM ET
Amy Winehouse Foundation Launches U.S. Outreach | ARTICLE

Before she died last year at age 27, Amy Winehouse told her family that she wanted to one day open a music school in St. Lucia, preserve jazz culture in New Orleans, and help heal children...
April 12, 2012 2:40 PM ET
Sting, Elton John and James Taylor Rock Rainforest Fund Concert | ARTICLE

When she and Sting first visited South America's Amazon rainforest in 1988, Trudie Styler remembers flying into thick smoke from a fire raging below. "It was like seeing paradise and hell at the same time," she told...
April 4, 2012 12:40 PM ET