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Review: Ryan Adams

In a night that covered more than two hours and comprised 21 songs, including hits, rarities and fan favorites, the most memorable song may have been the one that didn’t even exist when the concert began.

Farewell, Don Cornelius

The host and creator of "Soul Train" died today of an apparent suicide. He was 75. "Soul Train" was a Saturday ritual in the 1970s for anyone born in mid-50s or after. Read more here.

Your Middle of the Map lineup

Above: White Denim is one of several marquee bands that will perform at this year's Middle of the Map fesrtival. 

Last year's inagural two-day festival was a blast and a smashing success. This year's three-day festival looks like it will be even better. Eighty bands will perform on 10 stages in eight venues in and near Westport on April 5-7. Tickets are $20 a day or $35 for the entire festival. The first 500 tickets sold will get free entry to RecordBar and the Riot Room on Thursday, April 5. Go here for tickets and more information. The Thursday night will include reunion shows by three local bands:  Molly McGuire, Season to Risk and the Esoteric. Two other local bands will get together for reunion shows during the remainder of the festival: Reflector and the Minus Story. A list of partcipating bands is below.

Get ready for Rush day

Not the sorority/frat kind. The day -- 2/1/12 -- has been dubbed Intergalactic Prog Metal Day and it will honor the music and the greatest prog-rock band ever, even though it comes from Canada. Read about it here.

Review: J.D. Souther

Photos by Matt Cook/Friend of B2R

Show time for Saturday’s performance by J.D. Souther was supposed to be 8 p.m. But at 7:50 p.m., patrons entering Knuckleheads were advised: The show was being delayed, by at least an hour. Inside, a crowd of about 100 was gathered, most were sitting at tables in near silence, listening to a guy tap out single notes on an upright piano. Earlier that evening, Souther and his accompanist, Chris Walters, told Knuckleheads management that the piano wasn’t tuned to their liking and needed to be adjusted or the show wouldn’t go on . So a tuner was summoned on a Saturday night to fixed what ailed the piano. And 75 minutes after its scheduled start, the show began.

Review: Anthrax

Photos by Megan True/The Star

Pioneering hip-hop act Public Enemy mentioned thrash metal band Anthrax in its groundbreaking 1987 song “Bring the Noise.” The seemingly unlikely reference indicated that the members of Public Enemy considered Anthrax a similarly disruptive act bent on challenging established conventions in music.

New music alert: Reviews and notices

craig finn | ‘clear heart full eyes’

| By Steven Wine, The Associated Press

Just before the final chord on the song “Terrified Eyes,” Hold Steady lead singer Craig Finn counts out the beat — “one, two, three, four” — to ensure the band finishes together.

This weekend: Old-time country and an 'Oz'/Floyd tribute

Talking Heads get the tribute treatment Sunday at the RecordBar.

This weekend’s music docket includes some old-time country music, some dinner-time funk and some familiar music, thanks to a couple of tribute shows.

Anthrax: The future sounds like the golden past

Anthrax headlines at the Midland theater, 1228 Main St. Testament and Death Angel open. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20.Anthrt

When Anthrax took the stage for 2010’s Big Four tour with thrash-metal peers Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica, it was the only band without any new material.

Who's your Big Four? Metal enthusiasts speak up

If you’re in the vicinity of the Midland tonight, you might not only hear what’s going on inside, you might feel it too.

Anthrax headlines a show with two fellow thrash-metal bands, Testament and Death Angel.