More like the adventurous rock stations of the Seventies than its current ultracorporate competitors, Los Angeles' Indie 103.1 has challenged the city's alt-rock powerhouse, KROQ, with broader play...
When Springsteen and the E Street Band formally opened their 2007-08 tour in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 2nd, Springsteen, 58, was at a new peak in his performing life, combining the politica...
The best live band in rock played its greatest concert ever on June 17th, 2006, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
In the Seventies, the Orange Peel was a premier funk-and-soul club. Since it reopened five years ago, Bob Dylan and Smashing Pumpkins (who picked the spot for their nine-show reunion run last year)...
Coachella might have Cameron Diaz in the VIP tent, and Lollapalooza might draw more fans, but Bonnaroo — where 80,000 congregate each summer in the wilds of Manchester, Tennessee — is the ultimate ...
Robert Randolph was a star in a small world — a virtuoso of sacred-steel guitar, a wild style of Pentecostal-church music — when he was invited to play on the 2001 album The Word with organist John...
With sales down more than $5 billion since 2000, the record business desperately needs to generate some cash. One of the most radical ideas is picking up steam: Why not have Internet service provid...
With more than seven minutes of insanely fast guitar shredding, DragonForce's 2006 song "Through the Fire and Flames" is hardly hit-single material — but it has nevertheless been on iTunes music st...
Sunn O))) is an American drone metal band in its broadest sense; however, it incorporates elements of the dark ambient, black metal and noise genres as well. More on the article: http://www.rollin...
Perfect sound, clear sightlines and zero attitude make the Bowery the best place to see a show in Manhattan. The indie-heavy club, which opened ten years ago in a former discount shoe store, has ho...
Meshuggah is a Swedish five-piece experimental metal band from Umeå, known for their use of extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs...
Over the past twenty years, he has been by The Edge's side at every single concert and recording session, making sure his fleet of fifty-plus rare guitars are in perfect working order. Article con...