Tours

By Sarah Jones ⋅ Published: 05/01/2002

Alicia Keys was probably born in high gear. The 21-year-old R&B singer/songwriter was singing Broadway tunes at age four and writing songs at 14....

By By Sarah Benzuly ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

The Kronos Quartet are best known for their unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation. Since the group's inception in 1973, the

By Steve Jennings-x ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

SUM 41 has rocketed to the top in record time. Exploding out of Ajax, Ontario, the band was signed to Island Records in 1999,...

By Steve Jennings-x ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

Billy Idol is back! On tour for most of the summer of 2001, Idol wound up the year with a three-night stand at The...

By by Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

If there's any act within the current strata of hard rock bands that no one has the guts or ability to rip off, it...

By by Candace Horgan ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

Formed in 1986 in New Jersey, Blues Traveler, led by harmonica wizard John Popper, quickly took New York City clubs by storm and landed...

By By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 02/01/2002

Everyone remembers where they were on September 11. I happened to be in Denver for a k.d. lang show and, once the show was...

By by Candace Horgan ⋅ Published: 02/01/2002

When Phish, the most popular jam band in the country, announced in 2000 that they were going on an indefinite hiatus, many fans didn't...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Deep Purple has been using HK Audio T-Series and M-Series speakers as onstage monitors. According to monitor engineer Rob Hodgkinson, The new VT 115...

By by Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Depeche Mode took to the road last summer, playing sold-out sheds and arenas around the world in support of Exciter, their 13th full-length release....

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Madonna's six-month Drowned World 2001 world tour combined state-of-the-art sound equipment, provided by Clair Bros./Showco, with good old-fashioned hard

By BY CHRIS MICHIE ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Digital audio has made steady, if not entirely trouble-free progress in the recording world, and even devout analog believers now accept that their work

By by Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 12/01/2001

Last summer, the sixth incarnation of Ozzy Osbourne's wildly successful Ozzfest tour slithered its way across the country. The main stage lineup included

By by Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

The band who could do no wrong: There is no question that the summer of 2001 simply belonged to Radiohead. For a few perfect...

By by Elianne Halbersberg ⋅ Published: 09/01/2001

Finding the right producer can be as important, and sometimes as difficult, as finding the right bandmembers. The right producer came to the hard...

By BY ANDREA ROTONDO HOSPIDOR ⋅ Published: 09/01/2001

Any FOH engineer at the top of his game will tell you that he is always busy. But few are as busy as Robert...

By By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 07/01/2001

Riding high in the saddle with a chart-topping single, Ain't Nothing 'Bout You, Brooks & Dunn have been out on a tour to promote...

By by Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 07/01/2001

Back in the mid-'90s, while we here in the U.S. were still content to pick at the decaying corpse of post-Cobain alt-rock, our European...

By By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT WITH ROCK'S REIGNING SUPERSTARS After picking up three Grammys (Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rock Performance)...

By ROBERT HANSON ⋅ Published: 04/01/2001

During the winter of 99, the rumors were everywhere; Tool's elusive frontman Maynard James Keenan and songwriter/guitarist Billy Howerdel, without management

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 04/01/2001

The long-awaited third season of The Sopranos debuted March 4, airing back-to-back episodes of the acclaimed HBO series that depicts the complicated life

By Mike Mann ⋅ Published: 02/01/2001

Britney Spears is currently dazzling her European fans with her all-American mix of dance, song and showmanship. But how are things backstage? I met...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

Surely one of the great success stories of the past year has been the steady and impressive rise of Papa Roach, the hard-rocking alt...

By ROBERT HANSON ⋅ Published: 12/01/2000

TOUR PROFILE Hip hop's dominance of the airwaves and charts has completely revolutionized the sound of popular music. But the genre, especially in its

By Gregory A. DeTogne ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

When Slipknot first em-erged from Middle America in 1998, the press had a field day with the fact that its nine bandmembers, with their...

By Sarah Jones ⋅ Published: 04/01/2000

LC's career has always been a roller-coaster ride, and the past year was no exception. The early 1999 release of the R&B trio's third...

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Ricky Martin has been called the Latino Elvis, but on the weekend before Thanksgiving at the San Jose Arena, it probably would have been...

By Gregory A. DeTogne ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Absent from the touring scene for some two-and-a-half years before the release of her latest album, Breakdown, Melissa Etheridge took to the road in...

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Michael Kamen is sitting back, looking over the sea at his home in Tuscany, Italy. He's coming off a tremendous first half of 1999,...

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

It was the end of the world as we know it, according to the Aztec calendar, R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe announced. But Stipe and...

By Eric Rudolph ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Hit the Road Again Bruce Springsteen worked with the E Street Band for close to 20 years...

By Robyn Flans ⋅ Published: 07/01/1999

Sitting in his living room sipping a glass of wine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, Californication , blasting in the background, drummer...

By Anne Eickelberg ⋅ Published: 05/01/1999

The pairing of Marilyn Manson and Hole was surrounded by controversy from the get-go. Unofficially dubbed the "Beautiful Monsters" tour by Hole bassist

By Sarah Jones ⋅ Published: 05/01/1999

Lauryn Hill was only 15 years old (and working part-time as a soap opera actress) when she got together with high school classmate Wyclef...

By Robert Scovill ⋅ Published: 04/01/1999

Matchbox 20 has experienced a phenomenal run with their debut CD, You or Someone Like You, which has sold millions of records worldwide and...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 03/01/1999

Capping a whirlwind tour of North America in support of his sixth album, Speak of the Devil, Chris Isaak recently sold out two nights...