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Warped Tour Takes Off in California | ARTICLE

Punk-rock fans got another lesson in endurance on the Warped Tour's opening weekend, landing Sunday at its usual spot at Seaside Park in Ventura, California. More than 90 bands erupted beneath an overcast sky, as new acts...
June 28, 2010 3:50 PM ET
Eminem, Jane's Addiction Rock Massive E3 Party | ARTICLE

Backstage at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday, Pharrell Williams was in deep concentration, tapping a piano keyboard plugged into his laptop. He wore headphones with his Gucci shades, but anyone in the room could hear...
June 15, 2010 2:26 PM ET
Anarchy in Florida: Against Me! Return With Raging Political Record | ARTICLE

May 21, 2010 12:22 PM ET
Jane's Addiction Debut New Song, Duff McKagan at Intimate L.A. Gig | ARTICLE

Jane's Addiction had special reason to celebrate Cinco de Mayo on Wednesday night, performing for the first time with new bassist Duff McKagan for an intimate crowd of fans and friends in Hollywood. The quick seven-song set...
May 6, 2010 10:58 AM ET
Thom Yorke, Gorillaz's All-Star Bands Wrap Coachella 2010: Full Day Three Report | ARTICLE

"You've had a long weekend, and you need to freak out," Thom Yorke declared to the many thousands gathered for the final night of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival. In moments, Yorke and his solo...
April 19, 2010 8:33 AM ET
Muse, MGMT Cap Eclectic Day in Coachella Heat: Full Day Two Report | ARTICLE

Coachella is a fest of many sounds and sizes, a setting for grand gestures and insurgent new music, and Saturday's crowded roster made for impossible choices. Muse and Faith No More delivered big, muscular rock on the...
April 18, 2010 10:21 AM ET
Jay-Z Blasts Coachella With Huge Headlining Set: Full Day One Report | ARTICLE

It was a cool and cloudless desert night at the Coachella Music and Arts festival Friday the moment Jay-Z emerged suddenly from the floor of the main stage in cool shades and black leather. He shouted, "Everybody...
April 17, 2010 7:25 PM ET
Public Image Ltd. Return to the U.S. Stage With a Sneer in L.A. | ARTICLE

"Proper fucking noise!" John Lydon declared with a crooked grin on Tuesday, facing a crowd at Club Nokia in Los Angeles for the opening night of Public Image Ltd.'s first U.S. tour in 18 years. "If you...
April 14, 2010 3:23 PM ET
Muse Pack Arena-Size Anthems Into Surprise SXSW Show | ARTICLE

Muse are a band that like things on a massive scale, igniting big sounds on the biggest stages, with the kind of big visual effects known only to the likes of Pink Floyd and Daft Punk. That's...
March 20, 2010 11:40 AM ET
Stone Temple Pilots Debut Songs, Rock With Robby Krieger at SXSW | ARTICLE

Stone Temple Pilots are not a band many could have expected to survive two full decades. Even acts without the internal wounds of serious addiction and ongoing conflict rarely make it this long, but when STP emerged...
March 19, 2010 10:34 AM ET
Ringo Starr Reflects on Beatles' "Beautiful" Bond at Walk of Fame Star Ceremony | ARTICLE

Ringo Starr returned to the iconic Capitol Records Tower and a gathering of several hundred Beatles fans to celebrate the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday night. "I want to thank...
February 9, 2010 12:00 AM ET
Tankian Focuses on "Symphony" as System of a Down Weigh Return | ARTICLE

Serj Tankian remains one of the most compelling singers of hard rock, best-known for his soaring, emotional vocals within the complex noise and melody of System of a Down. But he had another dream, which finally came...
January 29, 2010 12:00 AM ET
Radiohead Rock For Haiti at Small Los Angeles Benefit Show | ARTICLE

Even Radiohead can be surprised by the difference a rock band can make. On Sunday, the forward-looking Oxford quintet took a break from recording sessions for its next album to perform at the Henry Fonda Theatre in...
January 25, 2010 12:00 AM ET
Pixies Celebrate 20 Years of "Doolittle" at L.A. Tour Launch | ARTICLE

There are drawbacks to performing an entire album live in concert — even for the Pixies, who unfurled 1989's groundbreaking Doolittle on Wednesday in the first of three sold-out nights at the Hollywood Palladium. "You can't...
November 5, 2009 12:16 PM ET
Weezer Riff Like Metal Gods, Party With a Hip-Hop Star at Tour Launch | ARTICLE

Rivers Cuomo loves his job. It wasn't always so for the Weezer frontman, who was visibly wary of the spotlight in his earliest days on the Los Angeles music scene, even after he became a consistent craftsman...
October 26, 2009 11:54 AM ET
Ozzy Osbourne Digs Out Sabbath, Solo Tracks at Sunset Strip Fest | ARTICLE

Ozzy Osbourne was back in the old neighborhood on Saturday, howling and drenching fans with a fire hose at the second annual Sunset Strip Music Fest. For years, he lived just blocks away in a house made...
September 14, 2009 8:31 AM ET
Nine Inch Nails Wrap Final Tour With Epic Los Angeles Show | ARTICLE

Trent Reznor came to Los Angeles to end it all. Two decades after releasing his first Nine Inch Nails album, Reznor brought the band's life as a touring act to a close Thursday with a sweeping three-hour...
September 11, 2009 12:15 PM ET
Kiss "Born Again" With Walmart's "Sonic Boom": Band Talks New LP | ARTICLE

"Is there any way to play it back on a man's level?" says Gene Simmons, requesting more volume and rolling his eyes at Conway Studios in Los Angeles. Kiss are finishing up Sonic Boom, the band's first...
August 17, 2009 10:38 AM ET
"The Beatles: Rock Band" Boasts Unheard Lennon, McCartney Audio | ARTICLE

"Hello, this is John speaking with his voice. We're all very happy to be able to talk to you like this ..." The voice is John Lennon's, cheerfully greeting fans from a 1963 Beatles Christmas disc recorded...
August 14, 2009 11:19 AM ET
Mark McGrath on the Ugly Truth About Sugar Ray (And Why Their New Album Still Rocks) | ARTICLE

Mark McGrath knows what you're thinking. The singer never called Sugar Ray the world's greatest rock & roll band, but they had some fun during their peak years in the '90s with bouncy radio hits like...
July 21, 2009 11:04 AM ET