Rock and Roll (genre)

Los Lobos songbook drives 'Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe'

2012-05-13 00:00:00

The way Louie P�rez remembers it, there was nothing more all-American than growing up Mexican American in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Yes, there were serious economic and social roadblocks to Latinos joining the middle-class mainstream. But P�rez and...

Gene Simmons rolling with Rock & Brews

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Gene Simmons knows a thing or two about night life, and now he has a new gig: bar owner. The KISS leader is one of three principals behind the recently remodeled, music-focused craft beer spot Rock & Brews, and keeping his attention at one of its...

Los Angeles Beer Festival to toast craft brews

2012-04-05 00:00:00

A craft beer frenzy has taken over Los Angeles in recent years with gastropubs and eateries specializing in artisanal brews popping up across the city. Beer tasting is the new wine tasting, and Saturday's fourth annual Los Angeles Beer Festival invites...

At Coachella festival, music and fashion are a natural fit

2012-04-08 00:00:00

As the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival expands from one weekend to two, so do the fashion and music marketing opportunities in Southern California. Labels such as Levi's, H&M, Lacoste, Armani A|X, Mulberry and Madewell (J. Crew's little sister)...

Jim Marshall dies at 88; creator of famed rock 'n' roll amplifiers

2012-04-06 00:00:00

It was the physical embodiment of rock's power and majesty — a wall of black, vinyl-clad cabinets, one atop the other, crowned with a rectangular box containing the innovative circuitry that revolutionized the music. This was the famed Marshall...

Coachella: The Hives play it again without ever having broken up

2012-04-09 00:00:00

When the Hives last played the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, the appearance could have been considered a victory lap for the band. It was 2003, and the practitioners of lean, fashionable rock 'n' roll had a year earlier seen their air-guitar-...

SiriusXM's winning niche playlists

2012-04-01 00:00:00

NEW YORK — Perched on the 36th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, SiriusXM Radio Inc.'s glass-walled lobby teemed with 52 buff bachelors, a diminutive Catholic nun and singer Chris Isaak strumming his guitar, a pint-sized white terrier at his heels....

'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Rock ballroom with a KISS

2012-04-10 04:37:54

Axl Rose says no to Rock Hall

2012-04-12 07:03:00

This weekend, Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will throw its annual induction ceremony and concert to celebrate its newest members, which include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan and Guns N' Roses. Make that four-fifths of Guns N' Roses....

Dick Clark, 82, dies of a massive heart attack in Santa Monica

2012-04-18 13:36:00

Dick Clark, who died of a massive heart attack on Wednesday in Santa Monica, was considered by many to be the person most responsible for the bonfire spread of rock 'n' roll across the country in the late 1950s through his show "American Bandstand."...

Dick Clark, pioneer of radio and TV, is dead at 82

2012-04-18 16:37:29

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, dies

2012-04-19 12:50:00

Levon Helm, the widely respected and influential singer and drummer with the Band, whose Arkansas drawl colored the group's signature hits, including "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," died Thursday in New York of throat...

Soon Guns N' Roses will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but first the band is making more music history.

2011-12-17 00:00:00

Teen star Taylor Momsen was a presenter at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The "Gossip Girl" actress, however, has a rock 'n' roll side, as she fronts the band the Pretty Reckless. The band didn't perform at the awards, so Momsen's rock side was confined to her look.

2010-11-08 12:37:14

Carolyn Mantagu, a self-described "local, old-time rock 'n' roller."

2009-09-15 16:24:53