2013 OCR Music Archive Stories

There is a good chance – say 100 percent – that Joe Bonamassa will be singing and playing th

Ol' Dirty Bastard hologram to perform with Wu-Tang Clan. Photo by Scott Griles, Getty Images Make way for more hip-hop hol

Has there been a recent album as anticipated as Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”? That’s, perhaps, an arguable point, but it&r

Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs at Wango Tango. Photo by Kelly A. Swift, for the Register

Jim James performs at SXSW with his band in March. Photo by Mark Davis, Getty Images M

Kate Nash performs at the Observatory in Santa Ana. Photo by David Hall, For the Register

Patty Griffin performs at a benfit in 2006. Photo by Brad Barket, Getty Images Patty Grif

Prince plays in Vancouver, Canada on April 15 in this photo. No photos were allowed when he playe

Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott joked that she took her first daughter to Disneyland before she was even born. But the pregnant star didn't just go on "It's a Small World" or watch a parade at the park: She and her band performed on the classic Golden Horseshoe Saloon stage to promote Lady Antebellum's new album. The country

Obfuscation from Prince has become as much a signature from the artist formerly known as The Artist as his penchant for purple. Legenda

In a strange coincidence, popular music blog Stereogum posted

As heavy rock and metal artists began to walk the black ca

Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic “Jump,” died at an Atlanta ho

Big congrats to Josh Hanson, frontman for much buzzed-about O.C. band Yellow Red Sparks

Pet Shop Boys: The prolific English electro-pop forebears will release their 12th proper album – Electric, eight new ones plus a c

The Monkees: Missed their reunion with long-absent guitarist and singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith when they played the Greek last November? Good news: t

Popular Mexican singer, actress and television personality Lupita D'Alessio will return to the U.S. stage with a Cinco de Mayo performance in Santa Ana. It's called "el gran regreso," or the great return, of the Tijuana-born performer, who recently turned 59 and hasn't performed in the U.S. for several years. "She has been out of

We thought Saturday at Stagecoach was the hottest it

It just might be a mellower Weenie Roast this spring. KROQ/106.7 FM has revealed the roster for its 21st daylong gathering at Verizon

Despite temperatures rising well over 100

Friday morning's news of the passing of George Jones weighed heavy on the h

It's been 15 years since Rod Stewart performed in a room as intimate as the Troubadour in West Hollywood, which he did Thursday night fo

What a way to start Stagecoach: George Jones, the country music institution considered by peers and critics alike to be the greatest voice the genre ever

Black Sabbath confirms a 20-city North American Tour. Photo by Tim Whitby, Getty Images What started out as