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On the Road With Country Mice

Austin Nelson | Posted 05.20.2013 | Arts
Austin Nelson

I got an email asking if I would audition to play drums for their upcoming tour of the US. I was thrilled to be playing with a band again, but it was also a chance for me to take photos on the road, which is my favorite thing in the world to do.

Don't Quit Without Saving: A Review Of The New Fall Out Boy Album

Stereo IQ | Posted 05.03.2013 | Entertainment
Stereo IQ

By Ronald Metellus How do you go from being a Chicago punk rock act to the nation's most ubiquitous rock band in less than three years? Not easily...

Rush's Triumph at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (By The Way, Randy Newman Was Inducted Too)

Roger Weisman | Posted 04.29.2013 | Arts
Roger Weisman

Rush fans can celebrate together that their guys have been accepted at last, and that they helped to make it happen. As a Randy Newman fan, I will still just quietly smirk at the acknowledgement that I am one of the few who gets it.

First Kisses of Rock + Lit

Tamsin Smith | Posted 04.23.2013 | Arts
Tamsin Smith

Radio Silence is full of great writers chronicling musically-induced epiphanies and musicians recounting ecstasies bred by verse and prose. Fans of both will feel giddy at this blurring of the lines between artist and audience.

In the Presence of Royalty: B.B. King In Concert

Craig Carpenter | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Craig Carpenter

For the second time in my still short life, I got to see Mr. King performing again. The Keswick Theater, a classic movie house, converted into a performance venue, is located just outside of Philadelphia. There was something especially fitting and refreshing for me to see him in such a setting.

Finally Getting Their Due

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 04.19.2013 | Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — Rush fans can relax. The band is now officially in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Canadian rockers were welcomed into the mu...

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Mosquito Swats At New Styles

Stereo IQ | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Stereo IQ

By Alex Koenig Ten years have passed since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' breakout debut LP, Fever To Tell. A decade in the dynamic and unforgiving music bus...

3 Things That Never Die: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

Janie Emaus | Posted 04.12.2013 | Fifty
Janie Emaus

Suffice it to say that sex "in my sixties" is not quite the same as sex was "during the sixties." Not that I don't still have sex, but after thirty years of marriage, I now embrace the concept of "cuddling with benefits" rather than the "Free Love" spirit of my hippie days.

Fans Rage Over Astronomical Rolling Stones Ticket Prices

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.04.2013 | Entertainment

"You Can’t Always Get What You Want," according to one famous Rolling Stones track. Fans might want to heed that advice, as a furious backlash has e...

Is the Music of the 1960s Really the Best Ever?

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.03.2013 | Science
Wray Herbert

It's hard to prove, one way or the other. But my critics do have some psychological science on their side.

Broken Mirrors And A Bloody Nose: The Legacy Of The Exploding Hearts' Guitar Romantic

Stereo IQ | Posted 04.23.2013 | Entertainment
Stereo IQ

By Alex Koenig The Exploding Hearts sought to finish what their punk forefathers started. The Portland quartet donned ripped blue jeans and dishev...

Nirvana in the Supermarket, DOMA on the Line

Emmett Rensin | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Emmett Rensin

As oral arguments over California Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act begin before the Supreme Court, I can't help feeling that marriage equality will soon follow indecency and rock and roll into the halls of blasé consensus.

Texas Republican Dan Patrick Wants to End Rock 'n' Roll History With the No Grateful Dead/No Day of the Dead Bill

Tony_Diaz | Posted 03.26.2013 | Latino Voices
Tony_Diaz

Dan Patrick keeps talking about creating "comprehensive history courses." What can you talk about in these comprehensive courses if you can't talk about race, gender, class... or rock 'n' roll history?

Usher's Rock And Roll Hall Honors

AP | Posted 03.26.2013 | Entertainment

CLEVELAND — Usher, Carole King, John Fogerty, Spike Lee, Harry Belafonte and others have been added to the list of performers and presenters for...

Comedown Machine And The Chameleon Cool Of The Strokes

Stereo IQ | Posted 05.22.2013 | Entertainment
Stereo IQ

By Alex Koenig Reviewing a Strokes album for a new generation of fans requires reminiscence so let me take you on a trip down memory lane: The fiv...

How To Make The Universe Take Your Order

Sandi Bachom | Posted 05.21.2013 | Fifty
Sandi Bachom

I'm not a Boomer, I'm a War Baby, born in October of 1944, the end of WWII. My generation survived everything, drugs, sex AND rock and roll. Hell, we invented them! We refuse to age; we will be dragged kicking and screaming into senility.

Please Please Me at 50: Britain's Rock Monarchy Begins

Darin Murphy | Posted 05.21.2013 | Entertainment
Darin Murphy

By year's end they had cracked the top twenty on the British charts with their first single and they had a second one on deck. Not bad for a group who had started the year off with little more than a local following in Liverpool and Hamburg, and was shuffling drummers like Spinal Tap.

Waiting for Sugar Man

András Simonyi | Posted 05.19.2013 | World
András Simonyi

In the age of Facebook, Google and Twitter, is rock really still as important a vehicle to convey the message of freedom?

Public Enemy's Chuck D: Digital Distribution Is the Future

Shira Lazar | Posted 05.16.2013 | Technology
Shira Lazar

Public Enemy hip hop sensation Chuck D stops by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus at SXSW 2013 to talk about being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his Evil vs Heroes instrumental album, and the new digital label for independent artists, SpitDigital.

High Times in Yugoslavia

John Feffer | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
John Feffer

In 1968, protests erupted around the world. The protestors, most of them part of a new generation, demanded an end to war and dictatorships. Yugoslavia experienced youth protests in 1968 as well, though they too proceeded along a different trajectory.

Robyn Hitchcock Celebrates His 60th Birthday with a Fine New Rock Album

Steven Rosen | Posted 05.04.2013 | Fifty
Steven Rosen

The English musician Robyn Hitchcock, who turned 60 on March 3, says this in the press notes for his new album, Love From London: "Rock and roll is an old man's game now, so I'm staying in it."

Confessions of a Guitar-a-holic

Jim Moret | Posted 04.07.2013 | Arts
Jim Moret

Well into my forties, I still had two guitars from my boyhood and I had added a couple more when "IT" came along and transformed my love into an addiction. "IT" was eBay.

Whatever Happened To The Grammy Category: Best Female Rock Vocal Performance?

Xaque Gruber | Posted 04.06.2013 | Entertainment
Xaque Gruber

While an official confirmation of the category's retirement was never announced by NARAS, we pray for its return as rock women have NEVER gone away nor are they vanishing anytime soon.

Jackson Browne: Still Takin' It Easy

Jim Moret | Posted 04.01.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Moret

He is a rare breed of singer-songwriter-musician, looking as comfortable behind the keyboard as he is holding an acoustic guitar. Browne's style is simple and straightforward, but that's where his elegance lies.

She Speaks in Tongues: The Chicago Band That Changed My Mind

Liz Joynt Sandberg | Posted 03.31.2013 | Chicago
Liz Joynt Sandberg

Suddenly tears started streaming down my face! I was shocked. And I stood there for the duration of the set weeping and feeling like a major weirdo. This? This is not what I expected.