Rock and Roll (genre)

12-12-12 Concert: The Rolling Stones make a quick exit

2012-12-12 18:49:00

The Rolling Stones in 2012 may no longer be a great rock 'n' roll band, but the act can certainly leave a crowd wanting more. The above is not meant to disparage anyone celebrating a 50th anniversary, nor does it offer a revelation. The Stones have been...

Ed Cassidy dies at 89; drummer for band Spirit

2012-12-08 00:00:00

Ed Cassidy, the drummer whose musical background influenced the jazz-tinged sound of the band Spirit, which emerged in the late 1960s as one of the West Coast's premier rock groups, has died. He was 89. Cassidy died Thursday of cancer at an assisted...

Los Angeles bands swing into an old-school music revival

2012-12-09 06:00:00

A nine-piece band replete with tuba, washboard, accordion, fiddle, mandolin, trumpet and guitar joyously pumped out early 20th century standards such as "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," Muddy Waters' deep blues and original tunes that would...

Grammys 2013: Live coverage of the nominations

2012-12-05 18:40:00

Wake up the kids, parents. The nominations for the 55th edition of the Grammy Awards are to be unveiled Wednesday night, and Pop & Hiss will be providing live coverage of the proceedings. This year, the Recording Academy has gone country, staging its...

Rush leads fan voting for 2013 Rock Hall of Fame

2012-11-27 15:38:00

Rush or Chic? Randy Newman or N.W.A? Music fans have about a week left to let their voices be heard for the first time on who deserves to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. Fortunately, making a choice between those artists isn’t...

Singer Ian F. Svenonius builds a school of rock

2013-01-04 08:05:00

-------------------- Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Band Ian F. Svenonius Akashic: 250 pp., $14.95 paper -------------------- Rock 'n' roll is not a joke, a pastime or a hobby. Nor is it a mystical "calling" that only a chosen...

Led Zeppelin songs to fuel NBC series 'Revolution'

2012-11-13 10:35:00

NBC's futuristic sci-fi series "Revolution" is turning to classic rock heroes Led Zeppelin to score its Thanksgiving-week episode. Two of the band's songs,�"Kashmir" and "Since I've Been Loving You," are set to appear Monday on the��J.J. Abrams-produced...

Review: Patti Smith rocks the Wiltern with Flea and Depp

2012-10-13 13:27:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. Among the pleas and invectives, yowls and barks coming from Patti Smith on stage at the Wiltern on Friday, the bellowed cries of “free money!” “Gloria!” and “Pussy Riot!&...

Book review: Pete Townshend's memoir 'Who I Am'

2012-10-15 00:00:00

-------------------- Who Am I A Memoir Pete Townshend Harper: 544 pp., $32.50 -------------------- Pete Townshend has always been rock 'n' roll's reluctant warrior. The driving force behind the legendary band the Who, Townshend revolutionized rock...

'The Wrecking Crew' doc screening, Q&A in Orange on Oct. 13

2012-10-12 10:54:00

When he decided to put together a home movie about highlights of his dad’s life and career, Denny Tedesco did what a lot of children do at some point in their lives. What distinguished the product of his efforts from the thousands or millions of...

The funky beat of musical New Orleans

2012-09-30 00:00:00

NEW ORLEANS — The cab careened past Washington Square and onto Frenchmen Street. It was close to 10 p.m., and the neighborhood was filled with locals adorned with tattoos, piercings and lots of ragged black accessories. "The cab drivers call this...

Big Daddy on Kickstarter for retro Broadway-Hollywood comeback

2012-10-04 14:24:00

One of the great left-field surprises of the 1980s pop music scene came with the arrival of Big Daddy, a whimsical band that reimagined hits of the day as they might have sounded had they been recorded in the 1950s. The conceit was that the group’s...

Super Bowl XL - 2006 The Team: Rolling Stones The Playbook: It was a tumble of the dice taking on halftime in the wake of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake shocking football fans two years earlier with a so-called "wardrobe malfunction.

2013-02-01 18:24:00

About as authentically rock 'n' roll as the aforementioned "The Magic of Belle Isle," "Rock of Ages" bastardizes its subject matter into the karaoke version of a "Glee" cover of a song that at one point represented sweat and sex and becomes birthday cake in translation.

2012-06-14 00:00:00

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