Articles by Richard Cromelin Page 2

The fans in the audience at the KROQ Weenie Roast on Saturday weren’t the only ones looking forward to the headliners. Read more

WHAT’S Flea’s favorite Metallica song? Read more

Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped translate the grandiose sonic vision of record producer Phil Spector into some of the biggest-selling and most influential recordings of the rock era, died Thursday, on his 80th birthday, at his home in Encino. Read more

Trent Reznor dropped his poison pill into the pop water supply Monday when he offered the new Nine Inch Nails album as a free download, setting a new threshold in the ongoing breakdown of the record marketplace. Read more

IN THE film clip that introduced Alicia Keys’ concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Sunday, a fiery gospel choir raised the church roof and a young Alicia stepped from her pew and prepared to make her way in the world. Read more

Read more

In their most starry-eyed moments, partisans of Coldplay have envisioned the English band as a potential successor to U2’s throne. Read more

When surfer-singer Jack Johnson took the stage to play his top-billed show late Friday night, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival experienced a precipitous decibel drop. Read more

Keyboardist Danny Federici, a low-profile but essential and original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, died Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three-year battle with melanoma, according to a statement released by Springsteen’s publicist. Read more