Buy a ticket to the Projekt Revolution concert and your purchase will contribute to eliminating an estimated 167 tons of carbon emissions this year — which should make you feel pretty damned good about yourself. In fact, give yourself a pat on the back for hitting up a tour that…

Twenty-year-old British soul phenom Joss Stone sings with a quiet but powerful strength that epitomizes what the French meant when they came up with the word chanteuse. With three hit records under her belt, it´s hard to believe how much she´s accomplished in such a relatively brief career. None of…

There is no better way to dismissively sum up a rock band than by labeling it ¨emo.¨ This has worked almost universally for the past six or seven years, with few exceptions. The problem arises when a few exceptions occur, as music aficionados and pop culture in general must scramble…

Here’s a good rule to follow: You should never trust what critics have to say about music, since most critics, as far as this journalist can tell, don’t even trust what other critics have to say about music. Here’s another good rule to follow: Ignore that first rule if the…

Musicians have faced adversity on the road to success since time immemorial. Hell, the Polish hunted down and killed thousands of musicians called bandurists for four centuries before they got over that nasty habit. In other words, a lot of forces have always conspired to keep musicians from achieving their…

Forrest Kline, vocalist and guitarist for power-punk stooges Hellogoodbye, might be dying. But probably not. He couldn’t come to the phone the other day — something about being sick — and he doesn’t sound much improved today. “Oh, [I’m a] little bit [better],” he says, still unable to pinpoint what’s…

It’s no secret that Pink has a beef with the pop tarts whose genre she inhabits — Britney Spears is practically her arch-nemesis — but on the first single, “Stupid Girls,” from her latest album, I’m Not Dead, she threw punches at every other “porno paparazzi girl” you’ve read about…

It used to be that dating someone in your band could only lead to headaches, the type no amount of Vicodin could silence. Forming a band with a sibling was almost as volatile a combination too — just ask Oasis. These days, though, sharing a bed or DNA with your…

Colonel J.D. Wilkes is high-tailing it through Mississippi, drifting in and out of currents of reception as his 15-passenger van dips in and out of gullies on its way to Hattiesburg. That’s where his band — known variously as The, Those, and Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers — is set to…

Editor’s Note: This concert has been canceled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. The New Cars nearly off-roaded. On Monday, June 5, guitarist Elliot Easton had to be rushed to the hospital after a little vehicular mishap. It all started in the front lounge of the band’s tour bus,…

Born in Communist Georgia where she played “I Want to Break Free” on air guitar, raised in Belfast where she fell in love with the singer-songwriter aesthetic, and a certified pop star in the U.K. before the age of 20, Katie Melua quite literally burst onto the music scene by…