Movie review: Stewart, Fanning rock into adult roles in 'Runaways' - Charleston Daily Mail
Dakota Fanning, left, and Kristen Stewart star as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett in the story of the 1970s rock band "The Runaways." "The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with Kristen Stewart and DakotaMarch 18, 2010
'Experience Hendrix' brings blues, rock all-stars to Akron's Civic Theatre - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jimi Hendrix. "Purple Haze" alert! Billy Cox, Living Colour, Joe Satriani and others are set to celebrate the music of Jimi Hendrix with an "Experience Hendrix" concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Akron Civic Theatre, 182 S. Main St., Akron. Tickets are $39.50-$85 at the box office andMarch 18, 2010
Memphis music loses ‘Big Star’ — singer, songwriter Alex Chilton dies at 59 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Alex Chilton in an undated early photograph. For nearly a decade starting in 1962, American Sound Studios in Memphis churned out hit after hit: including The Letter and Cry Like a Baby by the Box Tops (with a young Alex Chilton). By the 1980's, Chilton and Big Star, would foster a generation of rockMarch 17, 2010
Sony bets up to $250 million that Michael Jackson left enough material that can rock with you - Baltimore Sun
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The record-breaking deal in which Michael Jackson's estate will get up to $250 million in the next seven years probably isn't a huge gamble for the company that will pay the money out, Sony Music Entertainment. Before he died last June at age 50, Jackson, a prolific songwriterMarch 16, 2010
In Motown, tax credits lure music industry - Detroit Free Press
... designed to lure big-name artists to record in Michigan, which already is home to several chart-topping performers including Eminem, Kid Rock and Bob Seger ... asked Brian Pastoria, a partner at Harmonie Park Studios, a Detroit recording studio ...March 14, 2010
CHRISTIAN ROCK MUSIC - Associated Content
As a football player, Indianapolis Colts' punter Hunter Smith has been on a winning Super Bowl team. As a Christian Rock musician, he has gotten to play with some pretty famous groups and singers. He just wants to share his faithMarch 10, 2010
"Ah, Mozart; yeah, rock music" - Boston Globe
In a recent lecture to the Royal Philharmonic Society, at London's Wigmore hall, the New Yorker's classical-music critic, Alex Ross, discussed an issue that vexes people who want to broaden the appeal of classical music: the "to-clap-or-not-to-clap ...March 17, 2010
Metric: One of the hardest working bands making music ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
You might not know it, but Metric is one of the hardest working bands making music today. The Canadian rock group, fronted by former Broken Social Scenester Emily Haines, will be playing a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo Sunday and it will likely be ...March 19, 2010
No Rock 'N' Roll Fun - Forbes
In Rock 'n' Roll it's the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, which was so utterly perplexed by rock music's infectious spontaneity that the system crumbled. All those lugubriously rigid apparatchiks were shivered to pieces by hedonistic rhythms, the ...March 18, 2010
Metric: Canada's hardest working pop-rock band - Seattle Post Intelligencer
You might not know it, but Metric is one of the hardest working bands making music today. The Canadian rock group, fronted by former Broken Social Scenester Emily Haines, will be playing a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo Sunday and it will likely be ...March 19, 2010
