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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
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Brood and Rage in Hollywood | ARTICLE

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds celebrated the release of their Push the Sky Away album with a revivalist's fervor last night at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. With an expanded ensemble of string players and...
February 22, 2013 1:30 PM ET
Pink Dazzles Staples Center Crowd With Stagecraft and Attitude | ARTICLE

Pink isn’t easily contained on a normal concert stage, regardless of its size. She hungers to be airborne, kicking and bouncing and twisting high into the air on bungee cord and cable,...
February 17, 2013 4:10 PM ET
Cold War Kids Preview New Album at Desert Gig | ARTICLE

Cold War Kids fans got a vivid preview from the band’s Dear Miss Lonelyhearts album last night out in the California high desert, in the...
February 16, 2013 5:34 PM ET
Beck Remakes Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' With 'No Limitations' | ARTICLE

Tell Beck he can perform a classic song with "no limitations or restrictions," and he will definitely wander into some strange territory. Last night, it landed the singer-songwriter on a movie soundstage at 20th Century Fox...
February 6, 2013 1:55 PM ET
Tegan and Sara Explore New Territory in L.A. Show | ARTICLE

Tegan and Sara had some changes to share in front of a full house of true believers last night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles as they delivered a new sound of searing,...
February 2, 2013 2:20 PM ET
Dave Grohl's Sound City Players Throw Three-Hour Bash in L.A. | ARTICLE

Dave Grohl is an evangelist for the soul of rock & roll, and he's gotten into the habit of making his adolescent rock dreams come true. It happened again last night at the Hollywood Palladium,...
February 1, 2013 2:15 PM ET
Metallica Will Get Lifetime Achievement Award at Golden Gods | ARTICLE

Metallica will lay claim to another corner of the heavy metal universe on May 2nd, when the multi-platinum band closes this year's Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony with a live performance in Los Angeles. It will...
January 31, 2013 11:30 AM ET
Q&A: Fleetwood Mac on Reissuing 'Rumours' and Making New Music | ARTICLE

Few expected the reunion of Fleetwood Mac's classic Seventies lineup back in 1997, and even fewer could have predicted it would still be going strong in 2013. On April 4th, in Columbus, Ohio, the band
January 28, 2013 11:50 AM ET
Muse Open U.S. Tour With a Bang | ARTICLE

Muse is not a band for stripping things down. Last night at the first of three concerts at Staples Center in Los Angeles, the British trio kept its reputation intact for flash and sweeping rock gestures....
January 24, 2013 11:50 AM ET
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Roll Out New Songs at Pomona Show | ARTICLE

"We’re back, man, we’re back," Karen O told a wildly cheering crowd last night in Pomona, California, near the end of 70-minute Yeah Yeah Yeahs warm-up gig for an impending Australian tour. The career-spanning show at...
January 12, 2013 2:24 PM ET
Jackson Browne, Bob Weir Top All-Star 'Jam-a-Thon' Benefit in L.A. | ARTICLE

Jackson Browne called Jonathan Wilson "the jam king," and last night Browne was one of several major artists to join the Los Angeles folk-rocker at the Troubadour for a "goodwill jam-a-thon." Taking turns onstage were the...
December 21, 2012 2:50 PM ET
Johnny Depp Joins Alice Cooper Onstage in L.A. | ARTICLE

No rocker has had more wild fun in the dark than Alice Cooper, who unveiled a renewed nightmare last night at L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre, an old vaudevillian palace befitting this master horror-rock showman. Cooper was joined...
November 30, 2012 1:10 PM ET
Refused End U.S. Tour With Ferocious Hardcore Spectacle | ARTICLE

It's no small thing to recapture a moment, and even harder to throw it away afterward. Yet as the unlikely 2012 reunion of Refused races to an explosive finish, the Swedish hardcore act is somehow managing both....
November 6, 2012 3:35 PM ET
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler on 'Another Last Goodbye' - Track-by-Track Premiere | ARTICLE

Click to listen to Aerosmith's 'Another Last Goodbye' Aerosmith's first album of new material in 11 years opens with the words "Hello, hello, hello...
November 6, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Aerosmith's Joe Perry on 'Something' - Track-by-Track Premiere | ARTICLE

Click to listen to Aerosmith's 'Something' RollingStone.com will be premiering Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension! album, one track at a time, in the weeks leading up to the...
November 5, 2012 9:00 AM ET