Review: Grateful Dead pay slack tribute to legacy
It began Friday as it ended in 1995, with one of the most beautiful songs in the Grateful Dead canon. "Box of Rain" was the final song performed by the...
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Ex Hex’s No. 1 rule: No slow, sad songs allowed
Mary Timony is a ferociously gifted guitarist, and her two-decade career in bands ranging from Helium to Wild Flag offers ample evidence of her kaleidoscopic command of the instrument. On...
Miguel doesn’t fit in, and he’s fine with it — sometimes
On his third album, "Wildheart" (ByStorm/RCA), Miguel Pimentel turns to Los Angeles as his muse. It's a place where everything seems possible and also a destination where dreams go to...
Grateful Dead’s farewell: A bad trip or will music save the day?
No matter if you feel love, hate or indifference toward them, the Grateful Dead mattered. They were indisputably one of the most important and influential bands in rock history, in...
Bono on Live Nation partnership: ‘I’m a pragmatist’
Bono confides that he isn't feeling particularly spry as he settles down at a table in a small French restaurant in the countryside outside Montreal, where U2 has just completed...
Superchunk singer revisits awkward, emotional youth and its soundtrack
Mac McCaughan didn't have a particularly troubled adolescence, but life on the way to forming his fabled indie-rock band Superchunk still brimmed with discoveries, musical and otherwise, that have shaped...
U2 review: Big ideas, no-frills songs at United Center
Bono dropped a little mission statement into U2's concert Wednesday, the first of five at the United Center. "We care about beautiful, inarguable songs," he told the audience. Fair enough....
Sitting on a couch with U2: Talking about concerts, life and T-shirts
Montreal -- Bono and Adam Clayton are sitting on a couch in a downtown hotel last week after a U2 concert, talking T-shirts. Suddenly they're 17 years old again hanging...
Sonny Knight trucks from karaoke circuit to international stage
Sonny Knight was once known as the truck-driving karaoke singer in a few bars around the country. Now, at 66, he's found international success fronting the soul band Sonny Knight...
Richard Thompson ‘Still’ review: Those Saturday nights at home finally pay off
On the closing track of his new album, "Still" (Fantasy), Richard Thompson sings about his youthful obsession. He claims that he wouldn't go out on Saturday nights because he had...