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Robert Plant Plays Intimate Club Gig
September 14, 2010 2:14 PM ET| Patrick Doyle
Robert Plant played a rare club show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom Sunday night, backed by the group behind his rootsy new project, Band of Joy (named after his mid-Sixties psychedelic-blues outfit). In a 100-minute set performed before less than a thousand fans, Plant presented solo material and several revitalized Led Zeppelin classics, retooling many with an ethereal, reverb-heavy sound. The group emerged a few minutes past 9 p.m. and played “Monkey,” a dark, eerie track... | More »
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Activists Arrested at U2's First-Ever Russian Show
August 26, 2010 9:32 AM ET| Daniel Kreps
U2's first-ever concert in Russia began on a sour note. Before the show, which happened at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, police arrested Amnesty International activists who were handing out leaflets, and forced out volunteers for other non-profits, including Greenpeace Russia and U2's own ONE Campaign Against AIDS. "We were not allowed to collect signatures and to talk to people," Greenpeace organizer Ivan Blokov told the BBC. "Our activities were agreed with by U2's manageme... | More »
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Mellencamp Hits the Road with Dylan, Plans Fall Tour
August 9, 2010 3:08 PM ET| Jesse Stanek and Jeff Vrabel
Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp kicked off their summer tour in Lincoln, Nebraska, yesterday, delivering two sets of spirited Americana nicely suited to Haymarket Park and its Midwestern surroundings. Mellencamp last played the venue as part of a Farm Aid benefit "100 years ago," he joked to the crowd. (The concert, for the record, was actually in 1987.) While his set favored crowd favorites and enduring deep cuts like "Pink Houses" and "Paper In Fire," Mellencamp also brought the crowd into th... | More »
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John Mayer Covers Prince and Police at Hometown Gig
July 22, 2010 10:06 AM ET| Erica Futterman
// "/> About an hour and a half before doors opened at Long Island's Jones Beach last night, a Ben & Jerry's truck pulled into the parking lot to dole out free samples of Heath Bar and Milk and Cookies. The man doing the scooping: John Mayer, who came up with the idea two weeks ago as a surprise for his recently launched Battle Studies tour. He happily signed autographs and snapped photos with fans, even instructing his photogr... | More »
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U2's 360 Tour Named Top North American Trek of 2009
December 31, 2009 12:00 AM ET| Daniel Kreps
U2's massive 360° Tour wasn't just the biggest trek this year in terms of sheer size: the band's latest jaunt supporting No Line on the Horizon has also been named the year's most successful show by concert tracker Pollstar. Their research also revealed that despite the recession, concert ticket sales for the top 50 tours were up this year across the board compared to 2008's final numbers. That's thanks largely to U2, who easily surpassed all other acts by se... | More »
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Bob Dylan Celebrates Charlie Sexton's Return By Cranking Up His Guitar in L.A.
October 14, 2009 12:12 PM ET| Mikael Wood
There are many reasons to celebrate Charlie Sexton's return to Bob Dylan's live band, but the biggest one might be that Sexton's presence frees up Dylan to peel off terrifically cranky lead lines on a guitar that sounds like it's been strung with straightened-out wire hangers. Kicking off a three-night stand at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles last night, Dylan spent a good deal of his two-hour set tangling with the Austin blues-rock whiz, who this fall is playing gu... | More »
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U2 Reinvent the Stadium Show as 360 Tour Launches in Chicago
September 13, 2009 1:05 PM ET| Andy Greene
The last time U2 played a stadium concert in America it was nearly 12 years ago at the tail end of their disastrous Popmart tour. Terrible record reviews and half-empty stadiums for their gigantic production brought the band's spirits to an all-time low. "If we come back again I think it's going to be something very different," Bono had told the crowd at Seattle's Kingdome. "Because I don't think we'll ever be able to afford this again." Their next two American tours ... | More »
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Dave Grohl Discusses U2, Eddie Money and LSD, Jams with Jon Brion at L.A. Chat Show
March 19, 2009 12:35 PM ET| Shirley Halperin
One monster jam went down at Hollywood's Largo Theater last night, as Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion pounded through a medley of classics by Rush, Foghat, Eddie Money and the Edgar Winter Group all in under three minutes. It followed a dramatic stage reading by Grohl of metal band Manowar's "Gloves of Metal" and "All Men Play On Ten," recited as poetry while Brion tickled the piano keys with a serene lullaby. If that sounds ridiculously... | More »
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U2 Rock Fordham University: On the Ground at the "Secret" Set
March 6, 2009 12:47 PM ET| Jenn Pelly
"I joined a rock & roll band so I could get out of going to college," Bono told students at New York's Fordham University at 8 a.m. this morning, during a somewhat-secret six-song U2 set at the school's picturesque Bronx campus that was aired on Good Morning America. "Maybe if it looked like this, and felt like this, things could have been different," he added. The show — which capped the band's first-week publicity blitz for its new No Line on the Horizon — to... | More »
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U2 Launch Promotional Blitz as "No Line on the Horizon" Hits Stores
March 2, 2009 12:38 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
With their new album out tomorrow, U2's promotional blitz for their five-star No Line on the Horizon begins tonight as the band performs the first of five consecutive gigs on The Late Show with David Letterman. After the long struggle of recording Horizon, U2's promo appearances are pure fun, the Edge tells Rolling Stone. "In some ways, it's a relief from the intensity of trying to finish the album," he said. "It's a holiday." The band is expected to wrap up their Letterm... | More »
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