Ryan Adams' music is often overshadowed by his eccentric behavior and the pure volume of his recorded output. But on "Cardinology," due Tuesday (October 28), his songs...
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Ryan Adams pitched another fit for a Minneapolis audience, a few years after his last local meltdown.
Throughout a show Thursday night, the 32-year-old singer-guitarist...
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Sometimes, when Ryan Adams brought samples of his new music to show label chief Luke Lewis what he was doing — and there were plenty of those opportunities over the...
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Ryan Adams, "Easy Tiger" (Lost Highway/Universal)
The title of Ryan Adams ninth album draws on a familiar retort meant to slow someone down. The notoriously hyperactive...
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Ryan Adams has an unlikely fan in horror author Stephen King.
In a statement written by King about Adams's new album Easy Tiger, the horror author praised the...
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Ryan Adams's appearance at Stonehenge has been called off.
The singer was due to play the historic site as part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival on June 5, but...
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Liz Phair and Ryan Adams are among
the guests on actress/musician Minnie Driver's second album,
"Sea Stories."
The 12-track collection of songs penned by Driver will...
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Barry Manilow became one of the world's best-selling artists by making timeless classics out of unknown songs. But these days, he's more likely to rely on other people's...
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It's not just Montana state that squeaks out photo finishes.
With all the discs counted, the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana soundtrack held its spot atop the charts by a...
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When his "Modern Times"
debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old
Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart.
Dylan benefited from...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Back before the Drive-By
Truckers got it in gear, when Ryan Adams was still settling in
Whiskeytown, the Bottle Rockets were setting off musical M-80s
as perhaps the most...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have
lashed out at a music pirate who leaked the funk-rock band's
upcoming album onto the Internet, and urged fans not to
download it...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the
first band confirmed for the eighth Voodoo Music Experience to
be held in New Orleans on October 28-29, organizers said
Thursday.
Last...
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Behind those hazel eyes is a performer itching to hit the road.
Original American Idol champ turned certified pop star
Kelly Clarkson is set to launch a 24-city summer...
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Three is the magic number for Lollapalooza '06.
As the alternative generation's standard-bearer for touring
festivals parks itself in Chicago's Grant Park as a...
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Beth Orton could never understand why some performers would go on tour and refuse to sing their most popular songs once they hit the stage.
"It seemed really selfish,"...
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Two men are accused of violating copyright laws by posting music by alternative country artist Ryan Adams on a Web site before its public release, federal officials said...
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With three nominations each, My
Morning Jacket, moe., Benevento/Russo Duo, John Medeski, Mike
Gordon and the North Mississippi Allstars lead the field for
the sixth Jammy...
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Dweezil Zappa will participate in a special tribute to his late dad, Frank Zappa, while My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams and the North Mississippi All-Stars will be among the...
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As Lost Highway Records marks its
fifth anniversary this year, it is also celebrating a
remarkable Grammy Awards achievement. Since its inception, the
label has released 50...
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New York singer/songwriter Jesse Malin will release his third solo album through a label
co-founded by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
There's neither a title nor...
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Looks like Mary J. Blige made Santa's nice list.
The
Queen of Hip-Hop Soul handily held off strong challenges from Jamie Foxx
and the Notorious B.I.G. to lead the...
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The Redneck Woman has gotten all jacked up on the charts.
Gretchen Wilson, the country music rebel who created a huge splash with
last year's surprise hit Here for the...
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Country singer Gretchen Wilson's
second album opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday,
ahead of new releases by Sheryl Crow, Toni Braxton and
incarcerated rapper...
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The Voodoo Music Experience, which
was to be held in New Orleans October 29-30, has been moved to
Memphis' Tom Lee Park in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Nine Inch Nails,...
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Nine Inch Nails have taken a bite out of the competition.
The industrial alt-rock mavens' first official studio release
in six years, With Teeth, debuted atop the pop...
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In its fifth year of preaching the virtue of live performance and grassroots success, Dean Budnick and the rest of the Jammy Awards committee continue to preserve the most...
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Patti Smith), former Phish bassist
Mike Gordon, Huey Lewis and Mavis Staples have joined the
performance lineup for the fifth annual Jammy Awards, honoring
the best in...
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Alt-rocker Ryan Adams and mellow piano man Bruce Hornsby will immerse themselves in the jam band scene at the fifth annual Jammy awards, which will also feature Medeski...
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Rock 'n' roll reunion tours come in
many shapes, whether it's the classic rock band cashing in on
decades-old nostalgia, or indie-rock darlings tromping though
the clubs...
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For Kings of Leon, fame is a
relative thing.
The four-piece rock outfit from Tennessee has achieved
platinum sales in the United Kingdom, where the group is a bona
fide...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Roots-rock outfit Son Volt has
reunited and is about to begin work on a new studio album.
Group members Jay Farrar, Dave and Jim Boquist and Mike
Heidorn recently ended a...
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You never know where the Foo
Fighters' Dave Grohl is going to show up.
Now he's playing drums on the new Nine Inch Nails album,
but he is already looking ahead to the next...
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Former Hole/Smashing Pumpkins
bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur will embark on her maiden North
American solo tour May 11 in Minneapolis opening for the
Offspring, the artist...
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In her new role as VP of artists
and repertoires at Lost Highway Records, Kim Buie says she is
looking to sign "rebels, mavericks and outsiders."
But that doesn't mean...
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Edgar Bronfman Jr. has lured Lyor Cohen away from Island Def Jam Music Group to head Bronfman's recently acquired Warner Music Group, it was announced Sunday.
The move...
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American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams broke his wrist in a fall from the stage during a gig in Liverpool, his publicist said Friday.
Adams, 29, plunged from the stage...
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American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams broke his wrist in a fall from the stage during a gig in Liverpool, his publicist said Friday.
Adams, 29, plunged from the stage...
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After two decades of survival and success in the cutthroat music business, the world's pre-eminent white rap mogul found himself trapped in a place most horrific: A witness...
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Publishing executive John Rollins, who witnessed the infancy of Vibe and Spin magazines, had a revelation one day when he dropped a Buena Vista Social Club album into his CD...
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Toby Keith knows how to shock 'em. Despite being the biggest
loser at last week's Country
Music Association Awards, Keith wound up the biggest winner on the
album chart.
...
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Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams , whose
new album "llornkcoR" debuted at No. 33 on the latest U.S.
chart, has set a handful of December North American tour dates,
to follow his...
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Talk about a photo finish. OutKast, Rod Stewart and Clay Aiken
ended the weekly album chart derby in a virtual dead heat, with fewer
than 750 copies separating the three.
...
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Ryan Adams sat in with opening act Tegen And Sara at the Los Angeles stop of his current solo-acoustic tour on Wednesday at the Wiltern (October 23). Adams joined the...
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Ryan Adams's Monday (October 14) night concert at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville proved to offer more entertainment than fans bargained for.
The...
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Beck, Ryan Adams, Uncle Kracker, Tonic, and Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller are among the crowded field of artists issuing their latest albums Tuesday (September 24). The...
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, electronica team the Chemical Brothers, and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr are among the artists lending a hand to Beth Orton on...
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Elton John sang songs from Ryan Adams's latest CD effort, Gold, during the TV taping for CMT's Crossroads Tuesday night (April 2) in Nashville. Adams re-paid the musical...
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Alanis Morissette has mapped out the beginnings of a U.S. tour in support of her latest album, Under Rug Swept, with shows spanning from Southern California to the Southeast...
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Elton John played a rare, intimate show in New York City last night (March 19) during what was to have been a taping for CMT's Crossroads television show. John was scheduled...
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The Counting Crows, who just finished mixing their fourth studio album, played a surprise warm-up performance at Ryan Adams's hotly anticipated show Monday night (February...
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It was Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and the 600 fans at Lee's Palace in Toronto gave thanks that they were attendance Monday evening (October 8) when Elton John popped...
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Elton John joined rock up-and-comer Ryan Adams on stage at New York's Irving Plaza Wednesday (October 3) to perform a pair of songs. John took a seat at the piano to...
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