Ballroom News

For a few years now, TobyMac has presented the annual Winter Wonder Slam Tour - a mix of some of the hottest contemporary Christian rock, pop, and hip hop acts with a little Christmas cheer thrown in for good measure.

Considering that power pop inhales youthful ardor and exhales youthful despair, a middle-aged man can look awfully silly performing it.

Contrary to what seems like popular opinion, Rivers Cuomo is not screwing with his fans.

Playing equal parts Texas country and melodic pop-rock, the Denton-based Eli Young Band found a national fan following with its 2005 CD Level and its Jayhawks-esque single "When It Rains." Expect a healthy crowd at this show, thanks to exposure on CMT and at large events such as the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The Dead Weather take a bow after their show-stopping performance. mtv.com Suffolk County College band, Hotel of the Laughing Tree, accept their first Woodie Award.

DanceWorks, Ballroom & Latin dance studio owner and instructor Lee Ann Wolff and her husband, David Wolff, demonstrate the right moves in the West Patrick Street studio.

Over the past few years, Kearney has quietly become one of Nashville's biggest pop/rock successes - a fact that became clear when his new album, City of Black & White ,bowed at No.

In today's music scene, it is rare to see a band made up of less than five members and each guitar playing a lackluster simplified pop-rock melody.

Taylor Swift won in three major categories at the Nashville Music Awards announced Wednesday during an event at the Cannery Ballroom near Nashville's Music Row.

Expect to hear a few of those old and reworked songs when Everclear joins Paper Tongues and Tracy Lyons at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct.

Plan ahead, as this event is likely to sell out. Oct. 8 is the "Rock the 918" event - a battle of the bands to raise funds for Tulsa Area United Way and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma.

Norwegian songwriters traveling light came to the Bowery Ballroom this week. On Tuesday Sondre Lerche played solo, and Thursday brought Kings of Convenience, the duo of Erlend Oye and Eirik Glambek Boe.

There might not be any LOLcats , but there's totes a bunny! So the folks at Rabbit Press --that biannually released arts publication I'm sure many of you have heard a bit about by now--are hosting another of their epic release parties.

What: G. Love & Special Sauce, with Eric Tollefson When: 9 p.m. Thursday, doors open 8 p.m. Where: Midtown Ballroom, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend Cost: $20 plus service charges in advance, $23 at the door.

There's a Cyrus coming to Vermont, and it's not Miley or even dad Billy Ray : It's Trace Cyrus, the older brother of the 'Hannah Montana' star, who leads a merry band of pop-rockers known as Metro Station.

There's a Cyrus coming to Vermont, and it's not Miley or even dad Billy Ray : It's Trace Cyrus, the older brother of the 'Hannah Montana' star, who leads a merry band of pop-rockers known as Metro Station.

There are monster guitarists and then there's Dick Dale , the proto-monster, a guy who plays so hard and so loud he had to have extra thick guitar strings manufactured to account for his aggressive style.

After releasing their last album, Twilight of the Innocents in 2007, Ash promptly announced it would indeed be their last album and from here on in they would only be releasing singles.

A Nashville date for Jakob Dylan -fronted pop/rock band the Wallflowers ' summer tour has been announced.