rock music

“He was angry and hurt that his home state had not embraced him,” says IU rock professor Glenn Gass.

Haunting, ethereal harmonies may be the trademark of Lily & Madeleine, but their tastes run the gamut from classic rock to the latest indie bands.

The longtime rapper and vocalist chats with us ahead of his gig at the Fountain Square Music Festival on July 4.

“(Orchestras) would say, ‘Our audience won’t be interested in this.’ Our point was, ‘We aren’t looking for your audience. We’re looking for classic-rock fans.'”

This was a fully engaged audience feeding off the contagious, nonstop energy of the free-spirited five-piece act.

About that time Aerosmith played Deer Creek, and Steven Tyler walked up and licked her cheek …

Two nights before playing a concert sponsored by marketing-tech company ExactTarget at Lucas Oil Stadium, the rockers popped up on The Lawn downtown.

The Trekkies from Five Year Mission are boldly going where no nerds have gone before: writing a song about each episode of the original, 1960s Star Trek series.

The intimacy of the venue and the performance shone through Panic!’s willingness to joke around on stage and fill awkward pauses with ’90s cover songs

The majority of these songs provide mellow-rock moodiness that begs for a beer or three. While that held true for this live show, it was also amped up a significant notch.

Eventually, the time comes when you realize the music that defined their youth is now old—and that you, by extension, are now old, too.

When you heard The Romantics were on the bill for tonight’s Rev Your Engines concert (Monument Circle, Saturday at 8 pm, free), perhaps you thought the same thing I did when I saw them in the lineup for a music fest I went to last year.

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