Eddie Vedder returned to the Ohana Festival with a headline set built from tunes his fans love to hear: Pearl Jam songs, his solo work, and covers. On Friday (9/26) he kicked his headliner set off with a DEVO cover and it was on.
The festival takes place each year at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point and was co-founded by Vedder in 2016. Ohana Festival draws around 14,500 people per day, making it one of the larger coastal events in Southern California.
Chance the Rapper kicked off his And We Back Tour in Houston and New Orleans, celebrating his long-awaited sophomore album.
The Bayou Music Center was packed on Friday (9/26), and The Fillmore followed on Saturday (9/27), for the first live performances of material from the Chicago rapper's Star Line, which dropped inAugust.
Instead of chilling out at her apt. during the brief BlackPink hiatus before her group resumes their Deadline World Tour, Rosé has been a busy bee in the Big Apple.
Last Monday (9/22) she and her band performed a number of tunes on The Howard Stern Show that included covers of both Lana Del Rey and Paul Simon.
Cardi B proved she was up to the last minute challenge when took the stage at Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday (9/27), stepping in as the surprise headliner after The Weeknd withdrew earlier in the week.
Delivering the crowd of 60k on the Great Lawn a mini set that included “Bodak Yellow,” “I Like It,” “Outside,” as well as the live debut of “ErrTime," Cardi was hilarious and outrageous as many fans got to see for the first time a pregnant woman twerking.
KennyHoopla, who turned 28 last month, is a midwesterner who has spent time in Cleveland, Ohio, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin, b'gosh.
He began uploading music on SoundCloud in 2016, releasing the lo-fi EP Beneath the Willow Tree that mixed indie rock and experimental elements. From there, he steadily built an online following and attracted blog attention back when that medium was thriving.
Summer may be winding down but it got mighty hot at Madison Square Garden on Sunday (9/21) when Dua Lipa was joined with Lenny Kravitz for a duet on “It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over.”
The Radical Optimism Tour had already delivered a NYC surprise when, Nile Rodgers joined the sexy singer the night before, but at 60, Lenny is magically sexier than ever and strutting next to Dua: holy smokes.
Chappell Roan brought her Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour to Queens with a four-night residency at Forest Hills Stadium on 9/20, 9/21, and 9/23, with a final sold-out show scheduled for tonight (9/24). Along the way she brought up an extremely special guest.
The gigs, so far, have leaned heavily on material from The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess while still mixing in earlier tracks - which was to be expected. But fans were surprised Sunday (9/21), when Nancy Wilson of Heart joined her for the biting “Barracuda.”
The Beaches, Tornoto's all-female quartet -- Jordan Miller, Kylie Miller, Leandra Earl and Eliza Enman-McDaniel -- whose infectious indie rock sounds and style continue to gain steam, are letting us dig deep into their phones.
Their third studio album, No Hard Feelings, was released last month on AWAL, the same unique label that dropped albums this year by Laufey, Little Simz, Rex Orange County, and Disclosure.
Since 1985, Farm Aid has existed to help American farmers survive in the ever-changing environment where they often find themselves fighting against competitors around the world, Mother Nature, and even their own representatives.
When farms around the nation were being foreclosed on in the '80s, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young organized the first benefit concert in Champaign, Illinois, with the idea that music could raise both funds and awareness for struggling farmers.
Riot Fest marked its 20th anniversary this weekend (9/19–9/21) at Douglass Park in Chicago, a milestone for the independent festival founded in 2005 by Mike “Riot Mike” Petryshyn and the late great Sean McKeough.
The pair were known in Chicago’s punk and alt-rock circles for booking legacy rock and punk acts alongside rising alternative bands and for keeping the operation independent even as it grew.
Lorde proved she is still in royal form when she kicked off her Ultrasound World Tour in Austin this week where she unveiled songs from her new album Virgin in front of a sold-out crowd of Texans.
The 28-year-old New Zealander packed 'em in on Wednesday (9/17) at the Moody Center, the 15,000-capacity arena on the University of Texas campus.
Guitar hero Lita Ford was born on September 19, 1958, in London, England, to a couple right out of an old school romance novel. Harry Lenard Ford, a British soldier, and Isabella Benvenuto, an Italian nurse met during World War II, and afterwards settled briefly in England. When Lita was a young child, the family moved first to Boston, where her mother had relatives, and eventually made their way to Los Angeles for more opportunity and a better lifestyle.
As Ford later wrote in her memoir Living Like a Runaway (2016), her parents “gave me a strong, stable, middle-class home to always crawl back to,” a foundation she carried with her even as she entered the unpredictable world of rock.
