In the opening moments of last night's mtvU Woodie Awards at NYC's Roseland Ballroom, a co-ed octet of Matt & Kim back-up singers slowly peeled away shirts, argyle socks and, finally, skinny jeans during a bombastic, arm-swinging performance of "Lessons Learned." The apparel was hurled with careless aba

Here’s a great problem to have: more hits than you could conceivably play in a 90-minute concert.

Launching their U.S. tour Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., Savannah, GA, quartet Baroness wasted little time in showing off the grand, intricate style of Blue Record, one of 2009's most acclaimed metal albums.

As a fleet of cameras zoomed over the crowd eagerly awaiting the second show of John Mayer's new tour at New York City's Beacon Theatre on Tuesday night, a man stepped onstage to explain what was going on. "This is not a TV show, it's a concert," reassured Michael Simon, who was directing a live broadcast for Fuse TV. A concert, he added, "with two small commercial breaks."

New Moon mania hit L.A. hard Monday night, and the film's stars were as frazzled as anyone by the hysteria surrounding the highly anticipated sequel.

His hair long (but not excessively so), his face slightly obscured by five o'clock shadow (but not fully-bearded), and wearing jeans and a T-shirt underneath an open long-sleeve button-up, Devendra Banhart sang roughly half of his new What Will We Be (Warner Bros.) during a 90-minute set at Chicago's Vic T

One city, four concerts, nine months: Most performers would wear out their welcome, but Raphael Saadiq is not most performers -- and Seattle can't get enough of the lady-killing, big-band-leading soul slinger.

Numerous bouquets of flowers made their way from audience to stage Thursday night in Baltimore as the Cranberries played their first U.S. concert in more than six years—accepted by beaming frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan, who sported the same boyishly cropped hair that fans remember from the band's mid-'90s peak, and the same spunk.

Legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr took time out from his gig playing in Modest Mouse to join the Cribs at the Roxy in West Hollywood on Monday for the first American date of the U.K. group's new tour.

If this pop star thing doesn’t work out, Julian Casablancas has a great future as a production designer.