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The Cars Unleash Ferocious Live Show | ARTICLE

After the Cars' 1988 breakup, singer-guitarist Ric Ocasek flatly discouraged any reunion talk. Of course, that's all in the past: This week saw the release of a new studio album, Move Like This, and a reunion...
May 13, 2011 1:55 PM ET
Kanye West, PJ Harvey, Duran Duran Wrap Up Spectacular Coachella 2011 | BLOG ENTRY

The desert landscape of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival has become a setting for epic gestures though the years, and no way was Kanye West going to let that opportunity pass him by on Sunday...
April 18, 2011 2:15 PM ET
Tom Petty Discusses His Favorite Music and His Radio Show at Exclusive Fan Event | ARTICLE

Tom Petty is between albums in 2011, but that hasn't kept the rocker away from his usual musical obsessions. It's what fuels his weekly radio show on Sirius XM, Tom Petty's Buried Treasure (now in its...
April 18, 2011 12:20 PM ET
Day Two of Coachella: Amazing Sets by Arcade Fire, the Kills, Mumford & Sons and More | BLOG ENTRY

Day two of Coachella saw the hardest, dangerous edge of indie rock best represented by the Kills and Cage the Elephant, while headliner Arcade Fire and newcomers Mumford & Sons made a case for inspirational folk-rock...
April 17, 2011 1:50 PM ET
Kings of Leon, Robyn, Black Keys Rock Coachella's First Day | BLOG ENTRY

Beneath a cloudless sky in the California desert, the 2011 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival erupted with eclectic force on Friday, hosting a dependably diverse range of sounds – from the swaggering southern...
April 16, 2011 2:20 PM ET
Slash Auctioning Off His Prized Possessions | ARTICLE

Slash has been a guitar icon for decades, and a hoarder of guitars, T-shirts, top hats, leather, skulls, fast cars and other rock & roll gear for just as long. Tomorrow, Slash will auction off many of...
March 25, 2011 7:20 PM ET
Duran Duran and David Lynch Collaborate on Spectacular L.A. Concert | ARTICLE

Duran Duran have learned the power of collaboration. For nearly two hours on Wednesday, the band convened an inspired array of talent for a concert at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles – performing with vocalists...
March 24, 2011 3:45 PM ET
How Blink-182's Teen Angst Grew Up | ARTICLE

The dudes of Blink-182 are changed men. They're finishing up their first new album since their 2005 split – and taking what they've learned during the years apart. Their still-untitled summer release will stretch far...
March 23, 2011 2:55 PM ET
Exclusive: Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro Discuss Making 'The Great Escape Artist' | ARTICLE

Jane's Addiction hasn't had it easy these last few years, as plans for the band's first new album since 2003 have been repeatedly sidelined by delays and the abrupt exits of bassists Eric Avery and Duff...
March 18, 2011 8:20 AM ET
Travis Barker on His Painful Recovery, Solo Disc, New Blink-182 Album and More | ARTICLE

Travis Barker has a full agenda for 2011, beginning with his debut solo album (out on March 15) and a tour with Lil Wayne, plus plans to finish the long-delayed Blink-182 reunion album for release...
March 1, 2011 12:30 PM ET
Inside the Plans for the 'Big 4' Metal Reunion | ARTICLE

Yesterday, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax announced plans to invade the massive Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, for a one-day festival by the "Big 4" originators of thrash metal on April 23rd....
January 26, 2011 10:00 AM ET
Video: Liz Phair Remembers 'Exile in Guyville | ARTICLE

October 4, 2010 1:27 PM ET
Surveying the Scene at Matador 21: Basketball, Hot Tubs — and Legendary Music | ARTICLE

People sometimes celebrate birthdays in strange ways. For Matador Records, marking its 21st year with a "Lost Weekend" at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, the party began Friday on a basketball court. In a luxury suite...
October 3, 2010 5:13 PM ET
Video: Cat Power's 'Furious' Vision for New Disc | ARTICLE

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October 3, 2010 4:30 PM ET
Slash, Pumpkins, Travie McCoy Rock Sunset Strip | ARTICLE

Standing behind a podium, delivering a speech is not where you normally picture Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, Motorhead's Lemmy or Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, but the rockers took turns doing just that on Thursday. The...
August 31, 2010 11:17 AM ET
Kings of Leon Top Day Two of Outside Lands Fest | ARTICLE

Outside Lands in photos: Furthur, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon and more. Mike Ness of Social Distortion had a message for the thousands gathered yesterday afternoon for the second and final day of the Outside...
August 16, 2010 1:35 PM ET
Strokes, Furthur Lead S.F. Rock Fest Outside Lands | ARTICLE

Outside Lands in Photos: Furthur, My Morning Jacket, the Strokes, Cat Power and more. At Saturday's opening of the Outside Lands fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, fans witnessed a collision of styles...
August 15, 2010 5:39 PM ET
Yoko Ono Discusses New John Lennon Documentary | ARTICLE

John Lennon spent the last decade of his life in New York City, finding freedom, inspiration and tragedy there before his death in 1980. Those years and his relationship with what his widow Yoko Ono calls "the...
August 6, 2010 4:18 PM ET
Rage Against the Machine Rock for Immigrants' Rights | ARTICLE

Rage Against the Machine have always been a band of intense purpose, and the quartet erupted with a furious new mission on Friday at a show protesting Arizona's new anti-immigration law at L.A.'s Hollywood Palladium. The night...
July 26, 2010 10:02 AM ET
Jane's Addiction Play First Full Show With Duff McKagan | ARTICLE

At their best, a Jane's Addiction performance is about much more than music, as frontman Perry Farrell tests his philosophy that "nothing's shocking" as often as possible. He is a ringmaster of the epic and perverse, orchestrating...
July 6, 2010 1:19 PM ET