Following singer Scott Weiland’s abrupt and characteristically acrimonious split from Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots’ massive 2008 reunion tour suggested the troubled singer hadn’t yet conquered all his demons. Afterward, Weiland spent...

An hour after his scheduled start time, Scott Weiland took the stage not to a taut rock riff or a triumphant Stone Temple Pilots hit but… a 20-minute blues jam. With reggae undertones. On which he played Theremin. With his bac...

After spending much of last year on the road with Velvet Revolver and then his reunited Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland is touring again, this time behind his new solo album, “Happy” in Galoshes, his first in 10 years. Though the album, which he self-released, hasn’t attracted much commercial attention, it finds Weiland in fine form, rocking his way through a mostly gleeful set of David Bowie-ish glam rock and pausing occasionally...

Scott Weiland toured a lot in the last year-too much, by his own account. The singer started 2008 on the road with Velvet Revolver, his band with three Guns N' Roses vets. When that tour turned sour, ending with Weiland's acrimonious (and inevitable) departure from the group, he immediately rejoined his former Stone Temple Pilots band mates for a six-month reunion tour. "It was cool," Weiland says, "but we ended up touring longer than we should have. It was supposed to be four months, and the first four months were a lot of fun. But I think six months was a bit much when you're...

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With the band still clocking major play on both hard-rock and modern-rock radio, the timing was perfect for a Stone Temple Pilots reunion—except for one small thing: Singer Scott Weiland still hasn’t concurred the personal problems that induced the band to break up five years ago. Reviews of this tour's...

Red Knife Lottery @ The Cascio Groove Garage, Summerfest, 5:15 p.m. Three years after their gut-punching debut record, So Much Drama, Milwaukee’s Red Knife Lottery returned this spring with the Hip Bruisers, a seven-inch that further hones the group’s violent, thrashing punk with soulful, down-tempo respites and fur ther showcases...

The long-rumored cat is finally out of the bag: Summerfest has confirmed that Stone Temple Pilots will headline the Marcus Amphitheater on July 4. The stop is part of a 65-date tour the recently reunited band has announced, and hopefully it comes early enough in the summer to occur before Scott Weiland inevitably ticks off his bandmates and/or disappears for no discernible reason, spurring anoth...