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Best Coast mastermind Bethany Consentino has crafted a perfect summer record in Crazy for You: breezy, lo-fi, garage-pop numbers about sunshine, searching for boys and spending lazy days sitting on the couch. Though the album is packed with girl-group tunefulness, Consentino is more than just a Sixties pop revisionist — ...

Ben Keith, a steel guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who played alongside Neil Young for nearly 40 years, has died of unknown causes. He was 73. Highly skilled on the electric guitar, piano, alto saxophone and pedal-steel, he contributed to countless Young classics including "Heart of Gold," "Rockin' in the Free World," ...

On September 14th, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant will release Band of Joy, the first album from his revived band of the same name. While the original Band of Joy was an experimental blues outfit that ran from 1966 to '68 and featured drummer John Bonham, Plant's new lineup — ...

Rihanna will make the jump to the big screen in the upcoming sci-fi action film Battleship, based very loosely on the board game of the same name. Rihanna, who was once rumored to fill the lead female role in a remake of the '80s kung fu classic The Last Dragon, ...

It's been 23 years since the Cars split, but the band is finally hinting at a reunion. On their official Facebook page, the band posted a photograph of the surviving members — singer Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, drummer David Robinson and guitarist Elliot Easton — gathered together in a ...

Friday night in Northampton, Massachusetts, Interpol found themselves back in the kind of college club where they launched their careers. At Pearl Street, a venue with wood-boarded floors, tall Victorian-style windows covered with sheets and makeshift bleachers tucked into one corner of the room, the New York rockers kicked off ...

Bruce Springsteen shocked fans with a surprise appearance during Alejandro Escovedo's Saturday night performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Stone Pony. Springsteen joined Escovedo on "Always a Friend," a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" and "Faith," a track from Escovedo's new studio album Street Songs of Love ...

She's fallen afoul of everyone from the United Stated immigration department to skeptical reporters, but near the end of her set at New York's HARD Fest on Governor's Island Saturday night, M.I.A. was shut down by Mother Nature. Two long, sharp flashes of lightning brought to a close a set ...

Halfway into Paramore's tour kickoff Friday night in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, Hayley Williams took a breather to reflect on how much things have changed for the band since their last gig here five years ago. Hint: That earlier show wasn't in a big outdoor amphitheater with big black-and-white neon ...

Pete Seeger may be 91 years old, but the iconic folk singer still has plenty to protest. On Friday night at New York's City Winery, Seeger debuted a new song he wrote about the disastrous BP oil spill as part of a fundraising concert for the Gulf Restoration Network and ...

A pigeon infestation forced Kings of Leon to cut their performance at St. Louis' Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre short Friday night. Bird excrement rained down on the band, forcing them offstage just three songs into their set. According to the Riverfront Times , fans initially thought the band was pulling a ...

The legal battle between Guns n' Roses' Axl Rose and his former manager, Live Nation Entertainment CEO Irving Azoff, got off to a rocky start as tensions between lawyers on both sides forced a recent deposition to be suspended. At one point during questioning, Azoff reportedly hurled a newspaper at ...

Rage Against the Machine have always been a band of intense purpose, and the quartet erupted with a furious new mission on Friday at a show protesting Arizona's new anti-immigration law at L.A.'s Hollywood Palladium. The night raised money for immigrants' rights groups and the Sound Strike artist boycott against ...

Nineteen people were killed and nearly 400 injured after chaos broke out at Love Parade 2010, a dance music festival in Duisberg, Germany, on Saturday. The stampede took place in a tunneled underpass that connected the festival's main area and an expansion site that was opened nearby after close to ...

It's been 31 years since Gary Numan unleashed "Cars," the massive hit that helped usher in a decade of forward-thinking synth-pop — not to mention many more excellent New Wave hair bands like Flock of Seagulls. Numan hasn't come close to matching the success of that track but his influence ...

Elton John and writer Lee Hall are reportedly teaming up for a new stage show based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. "I'm deep into it, writing songs for pigs and other four-legged friends," Hall told The Daily Mail about penning songs based on Orwell's satire about the Stalinism era. "It's ...

Bret Michaels and his touring crew were caugh with possession of marijuana and other controlled substances on Wednesday night in Dekalb County, Indiana, the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel reports. Police discovered the contraband after pulling over Michaels' two buses for a routine traffic violation. No arrests were made, although officers on ...

While she was touring North America in support of her Grammy-winning 2008 album, 19, R&B singer Adele says a whole new world of musical inspiration opened up for her after a friend introduced her to a country legend. "I got addicted to this Wanda Jackson hits album," says the singer. ...

The last time Aerosmith played an American show, things didn't go so well. At a gig in South Dakota in 2009, frontman Steven Tyler fell off the stage while singing "Love In An Elevator," causing him to break his shoulder and get a gash in his head — and forcing ...