You could look at Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones' 25th album, as a tour of the group's musical variations. But it mixes ...

The best indie rock show in the Midwest over the weekend took place on the shores of Lake Erie. With Spoon and The Beths co-headlining a show Saturday night outside the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in ...

Buy me a boat? That’s so 2015. This year, country music — or at least a few of its leading men — is moving up from fishing rigs and pontoons to the easy listening waters of yacht rock. On Friday, ...

Kid Rock’s scrotum is in my face. To be precise, an enormous, computer-generated rendering of Kid Rock’s, uh, rocks are all my eyes can see. For the better part of an hour, the Jumbotron has been ...

How many of these songs from 1996 do you still sing along to? It's easy to credit the songwriting for delivering something memorable that sticks with you, but there are often more elements that go ...

How many of us have had a moment like this: a song comes on over the radio, maybe at a party, maybe at an event. It's a well-known song, and people start to chime in as the music blasts. You feel that ...

Kid Rock performs at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July 2024. The Charlotte Observer was not invited to photograph Kid Rock’s concert at Truliant Amphitheater on ...

The spirit of rock ‘n’ roll has always laughed in the face of rigidity, convention, and, in some cases, even mortality. In the earliest iterations of rock music, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, ...

He couldn’t sing, dance or tell funny stories. But Johnny Carson loved him and his persona: a D-list star clinging to celebrity. By Trip Gabriel Monti Rock III, an entertainer of murky talents who ...

Alternative rock lyrics are often poetic, dark, and vulnerable. That’s part of what makes the genre so appealing, after all. Still, nothing tops the following four lyrics and lines from some of the ...

Mark Plotnick has been a fan of rock music since he was a child. “My parents bought me a piano at the age of 8,” the Libertyville resident said. “After about a year of classical lessons, I started ...

The singer staged his own alternative halftime show on Super Bowl Sunday — and has now weighed in on the NFL’s official performance. Kid Rock criticized Bad Bunny's all-Spanish Super Bowl halftime ...