By the Associated Press
With a hit Broadway show and now their own edition of the “Rock Band” franchise, Green Day is establishing themselves as a punk rock brand.
“I just like being diverse and trying new things as far as Green Day is concerned,” says front man Billie Joe Armstrong.
The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum trio joins the Beatles […]

Sunset Concerts return to an improved Civic Center Park
APPLE VALLEY — The Sunset Concert Series presented by Target kicks off June 17 with Phat Cat Swinger back again for opening night, sponsored by the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union.  It is high quality groups like this that earned the concert series a nod as a […]

By BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA, Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES • Spangles, sparkles, tassels, bumping and grinding.
That’s what most people think is all it took to be in burlesque, but  “Behind the Burly Q” documents the evolution of burlesque and  strip tease in the United States by interviewing the dames, straightmen and second bananas that made the art […]

CHRISTY LEMIRE,AP Movie Critic
Lots of things get blown up and torn apart in “Iron Man 2,” as you would expect from any self-respecting blockbuster kicking off the summer movie season. The magnitude of destruction far exceeds that of its predecessor — from rows of cars to armies of drones to Tony Stark’s cliff-top Shangri-La — […]

Pearl Jam is taking the more-is-more approach to sharing their music this spring: the band has just announced that the shows on its current 2010 world tour will be released as official bootlegs, started a preorder audio release of a quartet of Philadelphia shows from October, and launched Pearl Jam Radio. All three of the […]