http://www.post-gazette.com/music/ Music news and blogs from post-gazette.com en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:45:38 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043055-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Seven years. That's how long it has been since Jay-Z visited the 412. All right, to be accurate, it was the 724. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043058-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml It might not be the first concert at the Consol Energy Arena, but it's the first announced for it. Lady Gaga will bring her Monster Ball Tour to the new arena on Sept. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043008-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Rock band Kings of Leon will close its 32-date summer tour with a concert at the First Niagara Pavilion in Burgettstown on Sept. 7. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042983-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml It might not be the first concert at the Consol Energy Arena, but it's the first announced for it. Lady Gaga will bring her Monster Ball Tour to the new arena on Sept. 5. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:53:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042463-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml If you're a bluegrass fan and an artist, working in any medium, the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Ky., wants to hear from you. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042466-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Among hard-core music fans, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame probably is about as popular as a skin rash. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042834-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml It's a wonderful irony to think that The Stooges' ticket to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ultimately was stamped via a certain Swedish disco band. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042114-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Based on talent and various style points, Michael Buble would have been a contender for the Rat Pack. His behavior off the stage, however, could get him into big trouble with Sinatra's crew. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:28:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042113-437.stm?cmpid=music.xml Some things to do this week. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042593-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml A little-known fact about the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is that he worked as a music critic, and an astute one, for a Moscow newspaper for several years. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042398-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml WASHINGTON -- Jauvon Gilliam, for seven years a timpanist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, really, really wanted to win the vacant timpani position with the National Symphony Orchestra when Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042400-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Rock star Bret Michaels is going from his reality cable series "Rock of Love," where women try to earn his attention, to the reality competition series "Celebrity Apprentice," where he will seek Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500