When I was a teenager, I filled notebooks with annotations for the lyrics to Operation: Mindcrime, the third album by Queensrÿche. I lined up four hours before doors opened (and three hours before anyone else showed up) to see them play at a theatre in Kentucky...
How this summer's Monumentour testifies to the resilient role of rock 'n' roll.
During a concert last fall at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Vampire Weekend diverged from their own material exactly once, covering Blur's Dadaist jock jam "Song 2." The choice was a surprisingly big, crunchy move for a band whose sound typically veers toward the airy and nuanced...
Since an appearance on David Letterman, the band’s rise has been meteoric.
Laura Jane Grace is the first rock musician to come out as transgender in the midst of fame.