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Drummer Lee Vincent on the new record and other important issues including Italian B-movies, embracing tweed and covering Willow Smith.

Nobody, it seems -- including current and former band members -- know whether Guns N' Roses will wind up playing at their April 12 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in Cleveland. But they'll certainly be in close enough proximity to talk about it.

Things don't always work as you'd planned at SXSW. The festival has a lot of moving parts, and they're not always in sync. Bands play short sets that are at all times competing with dozens of others. So a venue that's running behind can easily throw off your schedule.

Prior to the release of his new live album, blues guitarist Lefty Williams - who pursued the six-string despite being born without his right hand - returns to Charlotte with Winston-Salem's Sam Robison.

Jerry's "Meet Your Local Distiller" event Feb. 8 is an ideal opportunity to see why we're bullish on local craft spirits in 2012. [ more › ]

Throw the Goat

Soda Bar sets up anti-folkies Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard Thursday night. They'll play an early in-store at M-Theory. Thursday 8 “Well, it’s hard to get too bored when you pick the right two chords.” There’s the rub.

For four days starting next Thursday, Portland will be the center of the cocktail universe.

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "The Devil" Hughes is taking his solo band Boots Electric on the road

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "The Devil" Hughes is taking his solo band Boots Electric on the road

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes may act like a super-confident sexual puma when he's onstage, but it took ' Natural Born Killers ' actress Juliette Lewis to help him find his mojo while making his first Boots Electric solo album, 'Honkey Kong.' The problem for Hughes, apparently, was in learning how to strut his stuff without having a guitar strapped across his shoulder. "I was ...