The live solo debut from Interpol frontman Paul Banks -- nom de tune Julian Plenti -- Friday night at New York City's Guggenheim Museum was a highfalutin mind-bender: Where else can 200 dapper folks stand beneath a dizzying Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda, hear one of rock's chicest stars unleash brooding new tunes, and examine the brushstrokes of paintings from Vasily Kandinsky's

Friday night the KISS army invaded Detroit Rock City. Suburban families, pony-tailed bikers, cleavage-flaunting cougars, and packs of 40-year-old fathers bulging in their aged acid-washed jeans all painted their faces black and white for the opening date of KISS' U.S. tour at the old-school Cobo Hall. Their mission: To rock. HARD.

Mission accomplished.

Ryan Adams is willing to go the distance for charity. In fact, the rocker-cum-author-cum-painter will even alter his artwork especially for YOU -- as along as the price is right.

When you're Pearl Jam, Key Arena is your living room and your family is 17,000 screaming Seattleites.

"I have a rule about not playing in shorts," Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly said prior to the New Jersey post-hardcore sextet's U.S. tour opener at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia on Friday night. "But I have a pair of cutoffs that I'm gonna whip out just for this show, and then I'll go back to my rule."