Blur Triumph at London's Hyde Park
Even for a summer packed with high-profile arena shows -- Oasis, U2, Coldplay, and even Jay-Z -- there's really only one gig in London this week: Blur are back.
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Stone Temple Pilots Kick Off U.S. Tour
"So this is the first show of our tour," Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland told the sold-out crowd at Los Angeles' House of Blues during the inaugural St. Jude Rock'n'Roll Hope Show, a new event to raise funds for children's cancer research. "Ready or not," he continued. "Ready or not."
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MGMT -- Live from Brooklyn!
Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd Kick Off Tour
It's a match made in American Badass heaven: Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd, kindred souls in music and patriotism, kicked off their joint Rock N' Rebels tour Friday night at West Palm Beach, FL's Cruzan Amphitheatre.
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Dinosaur Jr. Rock L.A. Like It's 1989
Music fans are wise to be leery when they see phrases like "all-original lineup" and "long-anticipated reunion tour" followed by that cracked-out whore of the punctuation world -- the exclamation point. We all know what she's hiding: The fact that the band members are broke and temporarily putting aside mutual hatred for quick cash.
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Evanescence Members, 'American Idol' Smithson Debut New Band
America, meet your new goth rock queen: pale and plangent-voiced ex-American Idol star Carly Smithson, who has joined with three former members of Evanescence -- including co-founder/principal songwriter Ben Moody -- to form a new band, We Are the Fallen. Hey, say what you want about Moody, at least he has a type -- when it comes to frontwomen.
