Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

The original Duran Duran reunites for smoking hot show at L.A.’s Roxy: Last night (Tuesday, July 15), the original ’80s Duran Duran lineup celebrated their 25th anniversary by playing Los Angeles’s 450-capacity Roxy nightclub as a warm-up for their much-hyped brief U.S. reunion tour, which officially kicks off tonight at …

Tom DeLaughter's "choral symphonic pop band" gets its big label release.

Catching up with NYC's art-punkers. . .

The famous Glastonbury Festival is online for your dining and dancing pleasure, including webcasts of a number of acts: The virtual festival gates are now OPEN! If you haven’t managed to snag a ticket, there’s no need to fret (and there’s certainly no need to jump the fence – that …

More creative use of the web – the glammy Dandy Warhols are moving their new website, called “The Odditorium,” around to various hosts in advance of the domestic release of their Welcome to the Monkey House album: The Odditorium will feature short films (both live and animated), rare and unreleased …

I keep waiting for R.E.M. to come back with something really great and return to their former seat atop the modern rock pantheon, but it may never happen and the band may just go on forever being pretty good. There are worse things I guess. Anyway, they just set off …

After three years of appeals, virtually nothing changed in the Jello Biafra-Dead Kennedys legal dispute over (what the hell else is new?) royalties, songwriting credits, all the usual depressing crap you would hope a bunch of old idealistic punks could avoid. But no: Former Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra …

A second look at the new Fountains of Wayne release

The great iconoclast Lou Reed will be latest inductee to Hollywood’s RockWalk Tuesday, June 24, at noon. Sweet Lou Reed will also appear at Tower Records Sunset for an in-store signing on Monday, June 23 at 7 p.m. and will perform at The Wiltern Theatre on Tuesday, June 24. The …

I am deeply saddened that Adam Ant, who should know better at 49, can’t keep it together. He clearly has real problems: Adam Ant was arrested on Wednesday after he went on a rampage and exposed himself at a café near his North London home. Ant, given name Stuart Leslie …