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Q&A With Julian Lennon: 'I'm Quite Happy Where I Am' | ARTICLE
Fifteen years after the release of his last album, Julian Lennon was ready Friday night to celebrate his return to public life as an artist, both musical and visual. The 50-year-old Lennon's new album, Everything Changes, is...
June 17, 2013 12:20 PM ET -
Atoms for Peace Play Surprise Show in L.A. | ARTICLE
"This is the rehearsal, right?" Thom Yorke joked last night from an old ballroom stage in Los Angeles, leading his band Atoms for Peace through a surprise show and two hours of intense...
June 15, 2013 2:24 PM ET -
Ringo Starr Opens Grammy Museum Exhibit | ARTICLE
Ringo Starr had a reunion with his past yesterday when he got his first look at "Ringo: Peace & Love," an exhibition of vivid artifacts from his life and career, opening today at the...
June 12, 2013 2:05 PM ET -
John Fogerty Celebrates Birthday, New Album in L.A. | ARTICLE
"When I don't know what to say, I just go directly into music," John Fogerty declared last night at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, ripping into the molten swamp rock of "Green River" as...
May 29, 2013 1:50 PM ET -
The Olms on Recording Their Debut Album: 'There Were a Lot of Ghosts Floating Around' | ARTICLE
The Olms are a new band devoted to some old ways, recording to tape on vintage gear while writing songs in a classic folk-pop mode. The duo of singer-songwriters Pete Yorn and J.D. King came together a...
May 15, 2013 10:00 AM ET -
Kevin Smith Takes Jay and Silent Bob on the Road | ARTICLE
The home headquarters of Kevin Smith's fanboy empire of movies, comic book men and Smodcasts resides in a Hollywood hillside house once owned by pal Ben Affleck. It was more of a fraternity clubhouse in those days,...
May 10, 2013 11:35 AM ET -
Q&A With Refused's Dennis Lyxzen: Reunion Success Was 'A Bit Trippy' | ARTICLE
The intense, roaring crowds that greeted last year's reunion tour of the Swedish hardcore act Refused were a welcome shock to singer Dennis Lyxzén. Last playing the States in 1998 to half-empty basements and coffeehouses, they broke...
May 6, 2013 1:40 PM ET -
Golden Gods Awards Honor Metallica | ARTICLE
The fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony in Los Angeles carried an extra heavy load of brightness and dark last night, with real excitement over Metallica's headlining set counterbalanced by news of the death...
May 3, 2013 1:15 PM ET -
Paramore Have Been 'Grinding Our Teeth,' Says Hayley Williams | ARTICLE
"You look good!" Hayley Williams declared last night to a cheering, sold-out crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, as she led Paramore through an excitable 90-minute concert after some time away ...
May 2, 2013 1:10 PM ET -
Q&A: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on Bosnian Rainbows and At the Drive-In's Dramatic Reunion | ARTICLE
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is a restless creative force, with endless musical projects as guitarist and producer, his own label and an accelerating sideline as an experimental filmmaker. In the past, he's walked away from popular bands just to...
May 2, 2013 9:00 AM ET -
Q&A: Spiritualized's Jason Pierce on Playing Coachella and Recording With Bowie's Producer | ARTICLE
Jason Pierce has some experience in the desert. In 1999, the British bandleader brought Spiritualized into the heat of Indio, California, for the inagural edition of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, where they played pulsating, emotional...
April 22, 2013 12:20 PM ET -
Grimes Stays in Charge of It All | ARTICLE
Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, doesn't mind working alone. She sees herself less as a modern pop diva than an experimental producer, and her dual roles are on full display during her
April 20, 2013 2:04 PM ET -
Q&A: Jamie XX on DJing, the XX's Next Steps and His Surreal First Coachella | ARTICLE
Jamie Smith of the xx has a special way of winding down after a gig with the band: spinning real vinyl deep into the night. Several nights a week, the producer/multi-instrumentalist hosts a party as a DJ...
April 15, 2013 4:35 PM ET -
James McCartney: 'When I Was 23 I Got Disillusioned By Music' | ARTICLE
James McCartney is a man of many family traditions. He is serious about his music and photography, and yesterday in the Southern California desert, he carried on a new one: playing at the...
April 14, 2013 4:50 PM ET -
Iron and Wine and Glen Hansard Unite for Intimate Club Gig | ARTICLE
They brought no plan or set lists, but modern troubadours Sam Beam (a.k.a. Iron and Wine) and Glen Hansard (the Frames, Swell Season) filled a tiny club in Los Angeles last night with...
April 6, 2013 3:43 PM ET -
Q&A: Michael Nesmith on Solo Tour and Being the 'Difficult Monkee' | ARTICLE
Michael Nesmith just launched his first U.S. solo tour in 20 years, with a set list emphasizing his post-Monkees career through elegantly performed pop, cosmic cowboy blues and storytelling. At his recent show at the Canyon...
April 1, 2013 12:55 PM ET -
Rob Zombie Looks Forward to 'Monstrously Gigantic' Mayhem Festival | ARTICLE
Rob Zombie likes to keep busy. As he prepares for the release of his newest film as a director, The Lords of Salem, this April, he's already making plans for the summer: he'll release a new...
March 19, 2013 1:40 PM ET -
Alicia Keys Spreads Love, Brings Kendrick Lamar Onstage in L.A. | ARTICLE
"Are you in love tonight?" asked Alicia Keys of her sold-out Staples Center audience last night in Los Angeles, the fourth stop on her North American arena tour. It was early in a night of affection...
March 13, 2013 3:00 PM ET -
Green Day Return to the Road After Billie Joe's Rehab | ARTICLE
"How many vintage Green Day fans are out there tonight?" asked singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, midway through the opening show of the band's U.S tour – the...
March 11, 2013 1:10 PM ET -
The Hives 'Peaking' on Tour With Pink | ARTICLE
Backstage at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, the Hives are stripping down to various stages of undress. A couple of them are already shirtless, and guitarist Nicholaus Arson has only a towel around his waist,...
February 28, 2013 11:45 AM ET
