Dirnt will help bring 'Crickets' to life

Earlier this week, Metallica did a sublimely weird four-song acoustic set 10th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert, and last night, the band’s frontman did another unplugged performance for charity, this time at the Acoustic-4-a-Cure benefit. Papa Het played four songs, two Metallica ballads (“Nothing Else Matters&#...

Last month, during the second Coachella weekend, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joined the reunited Replacements onstage. This past weekend, at Atlanta’s Shaky Knees festival, it happened again. So: Is this going to be a regular thing now? Is Armstrong our new Bob Stinson? Because, if so, that’s pretty weird. Watch v...

Coachella’s second weekend may as well not exist because there’s no livestream to prove it’s all real but the bands are still in the California desert doing everything all over again. There probably won’t be as many celebrity guest appearances this weekend, but we’ve already kicked off the weeken...

The collaboration album Foreverly, between Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and jazz-pop artist Norah Jones, was a strange and yet endearing release that arrived at the end of last year. The two singers created their version of the Everly Brothers’ album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us; when we talked with the duo about the [...]