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Rain be damned. Bad Rabbits hit the stage to launch the inaugural Boston Calling music festival, and the drops stopped - if only temporarily.

Bust out your best concert t-shirt and bring a pair of earplugs because the loudest show on television, That Metal Show , returns next Saturday June 1st for season number 12.

Judas Priest are for all intents and purposes the first modern heavy metal band.

Amy Ray is a member of the folk duo Indigo Girls along with Emily Saliers. Ray also has a solo career, released six albums under her own name and founded a record company called Daemon Records.

The singer has announced she is donating $1 million in proceeds from her recent Blown Away Tour to the Red Cross for relief efforts, reports AP.

Steve Martin, comedian: He was the most successful stand-up comic in America in the 1970s, playing sold-out arenas.

Cypress Hill Member Shows Off a Massive Joint Posted by AJ Grey on 05.24.2013 It was six ounces... Here is Cypress Hill member B-Real posting a pic of what has to be one of the biggest joints ever rolled.

Rapper Young Jeezy hoped to fly in from New York Thursday night to do his show at The NorVa the same evening, but weather delays nixed that plan.

Our ongoing You Oughta Know love affair with New Zealand's bluesy pop star Gin Wigmore is spreading all over the U.S. thanks to her heavy tour schedule this summer.

Conversations at Infest last night were as entertaining as Black Flag itself: "See you at the edge of the pit!" "Dude, we're seeing Black Flag! And you don't have to shave your head for it!" "Goddammit, where are the chairs?! I can't stand up this long anymore!" I fully expected to walk in on an illicit Geritol transaction in the men's room.

Muse will perform at a premiere for one of the summer's biggest movies, Katy Perry draws Chief Keef 's ire on Twitter, and Kendrick Lamar wants one of hip hop's recent trends to end.

Geno Smith announced Wednesday that he was signing with Roc Nation Sports after firing his agent following the NFL draft.

I'm your host, Joseph Lee. This week we have Tony Acero against Joseph Paige Jr.

This year's Summer Soulstice Music Festival will take place on Saturday, June 22, from noon to midnight on East Murray and North Avenues.

Yesterday on New.Music.Live. we revealed the Top 3 finalists for the Much and Coca-Cola Covers Competition and the Oducado Twins came out of the Top 10 swinging with their cover of Phillip Phillips' breakthrough track, Home .

Yesterday on New.Music.Live. we revealed the Top 3 finalists for the Much and Coca-Cola Covers Competition and the Neil Pranjivan came out of the Top 10 with his cover of Frank Ocean's breakthrough track, Thinkin Bout You .

Last week, Desoto County, Mississippi put out an arrest warrant for the supposedly dead Tim Dog, citing no evidence proving his death.

ArtsQuest's Musikfest Cafe has added blues guitarist Popa Chubby, "Classic Albums Live - The Beatles," "The Music of Simon & Garfunkel performed by AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle," "Big Shot - The Ultimate Billy Joel Experience" and Bethlehem-based rockers Billy Bauer Band to its summer lineup.

Some artists just sound better remixed. Case in point: Lana Del Rey . Her drawl works surprisingly well with a number of different sounds, including dubstep, '80s synth, techno, even Jay-Z. Her songs lend themselves to the creative appeal of remix artists who have mastered taking her sound to a whole new level.

If a first-year music festival draws 8,000 people to an NFL stadium in the sweltering heat of late May in Tampa, how on earth does it grow? At that point, is there really any room to get bigger? The organizers of Saturday's Sunset Music Festival believe so.