After more than 30 years, 16 albums and multiple bouts with cancer, Mike Peters still finds a way to connect people — through the Alarm’s music and through his Love Hope Strength charity. “When you see me, it’s just the joy of being alive,” he says.
The Forum wasn’t quite the right space, but Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds gamely went for the emotional jugular during their stop on a four-date North American tour.
Avant garde electronic music enjoys two nights out of the underground with the debut of this weekend’s Secret Project festival in Chinatown.
Members of Nirvana, with John McCauley and then Joan Jett standing in for Kurt Cobain, reunited for a six-song set at Cal Jam, capping a day highlighted by Iggy Pop, Garbage and the hosts and headliners, Foo Fighters.
U.K. rockers Killing Joke sated a packed house at the Regent with songs from the four-decade career.
Foo Fighters will host a pop-up show and exhibition on Sunday at the Palladium as part of the build-up to October’s Cal Jam.
After 26 years of dabbling in mind-altering music under the vehicle of Spiritualized, Jason Pierce shares new samplings of space rock from his upcoming album, “And Nothing Hurt.”
Tom Morello welcomes a long line of collaborators for his new album “The Atlas Underground,” coming in October.
Patti Smith, Karen O, Flea, Eric Burdon, Imany and skate legend Tony Hawk will lend their celebrity to Pathway to Paris’ efforts at the Sept. 16 concert at the Theatre at Ace Hotel.
Role players engage in a ferocious battle — and a truce is sealed with a kiss — in the video for L.A. quartet’s Punch Punch Kicks ‘Licking My Wounds.’
