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One of the most diverse and entertaining tours of the summer was Area2, which featured tour organizer Moby, as well as David Bowie, Busta...
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One of the most diverse and entertaining tours of the summer was Area2, which featured tour organizer Moby, as well as David Bowie, Busta...
It's hard to mistake the beginning of a Lenny Kravitz show. First, there's the afro-haired silhouettes as his four-piece band bounce to their spots...
The extraordinary success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, her first full-length album for Blue Note, has taken many people by surprise, not...
The current incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band is unquestionably one of the strongest they've put together in their long history; some fans even
The Cranberries are on a world tour promoting both the 2001 album Wake Up and Smell the Coffee and this year's four-CD box set...
Out on a world tour since January, Mary J. Blige brought her No More Drama show to the Chronicle Pavilion (Concord, Calif.) in late...
Last seen supporting U2 on their Elevation tour, Garbage geared up for their own spring U.S. tour to promote 2001's Beautiful Garbage. Mix caught...
Supposedly, this is the most equipment that any band has ever tried to put onstage here, explains Nickelback tour manager/FOH engineer Kevin Zaruk. Standing
The Moss Brothers, teenage music phenomenon from Oakland, Calif. (you may have seen them on The Tonight Show), recently visited Ashkenaz (Berkeley, Calif.)
In 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill, which went on to become one of the best-selling records ever by a solo artist. The...
Touring to promote their fourth album for Interscope, Rock Steady (2001), No Doubt has been on the road since last fall and will be...
After 40 years of recording and touring the world, The Chieftains have become an institution in Irish music, a musical idiom otherwise known for...
Rob Zombie is out on tour with a brand-new Martin Audio Wavefront W8L line array system, supplied by Delicate Productions of Camarillo, Calif. The...
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....
SUM 41 has rocketed to the top in record time. Exploding out of Ajax, Ontario, the band was signed to Island Records in 1999,...
The Kronos Quartet are best known for their unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation. Since the group's inception in 1973, the
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...
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...
Formed in 1986 in New Jersey, Blues Traveler, led by harmonica wizard John Popper, quickly took New York City clubs by storm and landed...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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
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
Last summer, the sixth incarnation of Ozzy Osbourne's wildly successful Ozzfest tour slithered its way across the country. The main stage lineup included
The band who could do no wrong: There is no question that the summer of 2001 simply belonged to Radiohead. For a few perfect...
Finding the right producer can be as important, and sometimes as difficult, as finding the right bandmembers. The right producer came to the hard...
Any FOH engineer at the top of his game will tell you that he is always busy. But few are as busy as Robert...
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...
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...
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)...
During the winter of 99, the rumors were everywhere; Tool's elusive frontman Maynard James Keenan and songwriter/guitarist Billy Howerdel, without management
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Ricky Martin has been called the Latino Elvis, but on the weekend before Thanksgiving at the San Jose Arena, it probably would have been...
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...
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,...