Steve Appleford

Crom is a band obsessed with barbarians and funnymen. Named for the grumbling deity of Robert E. Howard's Conan books, the five-piece Los Angeles metal act is a grinding, slashing, thrashing tribute to mindless swordplay and Rodney Dangerfield, blasting through crazed tunes on necrophilia and hot Cimmerian nights at clubs......

Jason Bonham never expected to get the call to play with Led Zeppelin. But there were always rumors about the legendary hard-rock act, some suggesting that the accomplished drummer might even sit in for his late father, John Bonham, whose 1980 death meant the end of Zeppelin. Then, in 2007,......

This is a big night out for the boys of Rue-Lynx, as so many of their nights are these days, as they await their band's 11:30 p.m. showtime at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. It's a slow evening at the old rock club, with barely 50 people on the floor......

Read all of our Coachella 2010 coverage here and view photos in our "40 Most Memorable People at Coachella" slideshow. Before April 2010, if you had asked loc...

The howl came up suddenly through the floor. It was the sound of Tom Araya, shouting again with bottomless rage and horror from the downstairs control room at t...