HERE TODAY GONE TODAY. IT COULD EASILY be the motto for emerging bands in today’s world of pop music. Scoring a couple of hit songs on radio and MTV drives sales in the morning and afternoon, but when dusk settles,…

WHISKEYTOWN DOES NOT CARE TO BE LABLED alternative country because the North Carolina quintet likes country music. Maybe the band’s singer/songwriter, Ryan Adams, would be better described as a country music rebel. As he says in the melancholy, fiddle-adorned title…

THE MOMENT RAMMSTEIN HITS ITS FIRST notes in concert, igniting a rowdy crowd into a head-banging frenzy, so too does frontman Till Lindemann — ignite, that is. The singer of the German band, donning a fire-proof trenchcoat plated with steel,…

AFTER 10 YEARS OF SUCCESS AT HOME Japanese pop band Dreams Come True is trying to make a go of it in America. DCT has established itself as Japan’s flagship superstar pop music act with nine albums on Sony Japan…

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF Plastilina Mosh, a place where hip hop beats collide with lounge keyboards and jazz stylings meet electronic grooves. There’s some punk rock, too, justifying the Mosh half of the name. Alejandro Rosso and his partner…