Fans make Radiohead a big event
Charlotte fans waited 15 years for Radiohead to perform here. So they made the British electronic rock outfit's concert Friday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre an event.
Kanye West, Rihanna, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and the Boss can't walk down the street unnoticed. But tickets to see Radiohead, a 15-year-old British experimental rock outfit which has never had a No. 1 single in this country, went faster than any of the competition so far this year.
Charlotte fans waited 15 years for Radiohead to perform here. So they made the British electronic rock outfit's concert Friday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre an event.
Since its debut in Seattle last month, Kanye West's "Glow in the Dark" tour has been called magnificent and thrilling (Seattle Times).
Lying in bed sick a few years back, reading Keith Topping's "The Complete Slayer" (a guide to TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), I came across a quote that sounded strangely familiar -- then read my own name. I called my mom.
As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard dash along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly shaking their hands.
Charlotte fans waited 15 years for Radiohead to perform here. So they made the British electronic rock outfit's concert Friday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre an event.
Since its debut in Seattle last month, Kanye West's "Glow in the Dark" tour has been called magnificent and thrilling (Seattle Times).
On "The Salvation Blues" -- the first proper solo album of his 22-year career -- singer-songwriter Mark Olson sings of the love, loss and redemption that's marked the last few years of his life.
The singing is spirited. The orchestra adds bounce. The staging brings out the story's frivolity.
The 37-year-old white trash icon (aka Bob Ritchie) is known for his love of cheap beer and cheaper women, but there's more to the rapper-turned-rocker than meets the bloodshot eye. Rock rapped about his partying, his peers and his obsession with neatness in advance of his Saturday concert at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.
Honda Civic Tour 2008 at Amos' Southend offered quite the variety of experiences.
Fifty-two years after choosing music over an Olympic tryout, crooner Johnny Mathis is still singing. The 72-year-old vocalist, whose No. 1 singles include "Chances Are" (1957), "I'm Coming Home" (1973), and "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" (1978), performs with the Charlotte Symphony tonight at Ovens Auditorium. He recently spoke with the Observer about staying healthy, his new CD, "A Night to Remember," and celebrity.
Even though Bret Michaels endured two seasons' worth of conniving, drunken debauchery, bad weaves and cat fights on his reality show "Rock of Love," he admits he still may not have found that special woman.
The Visulite Theatre gets an infusion of the shiny skintight leather variety when the Los Angeles rockers take the stage.
Until recently, I didn't know much about Todd Rundgren other than his ties to actress Liv Tyler (she spent most of her child believing the rocker was her father) and his 1973 pop hit, "Hello It's Me."