“It's gonna be a long, fuckin' sweaty night,” said a jubilant Dave Grohl, a few songs into Foo Fighters' long-anticipated return to Milwaukee.

Ben Folds has kept busy since he disbanded his piano-rock trio Ben Folds Five shortly after the release of its bold final album, 1999's The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. He's recorded plenty of solo albums...

Rock isn't dead and it probably never will be, but it's certainly seen better days. In recent years the genre has been stuck in a creative vacuum, resisting innovation even as its sales have...

I�m in the early stages of organizing my best of 2008 list, and I�m struck by what a stellar year it�s been for just about every genre of music: indie-rock, soul, electronica, rap, Top 40, etc. I�m equally struck, though, by what a crappy year it�s been for modern rock. In the wake of post-grunge, modern-rock has mostly been an artistic dead-end, but in recent years there have been at leas...

Lewis Black @ Potawatomi Bingo Casino, 11 p.m. Though he’s likely blown any chance he had at film stardom after a string of appear ances in awful movies like Robin Williams’ Man of the Year and the 2006 kid film Unaccompanied Minors, angry comedian Lewis Black has had better luck cashing in his "Daily Show"...