They may not be the youngest punk rockers around these days, but Hot Water Music still serve up a killer dose of youthful adrenaline… which you might expect from a band that has died and been resurrected more times than Bob Saget's career.

The combination of politics and music in '08 certainly has a notable pulling power; it seems nearly every young, Democratic-leaning person in the Twin Cities came out to the Turf Club last night to support Barack Obama on the eve of the Republican National Convention, which happens here next week.

Bathed in violet light, the stage of Seattle's WAMU Theater was set last night for an evening of prodigious musicianship from fabled Britpop stalwarts Oasis, who began the North American leg of their world tour to a sold-out audience.

With the astounding score of 398,000, Eric Miller blew away his rivals on stage last night in Boston, winning the booty in the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith ROCKS the Hard Rock competition. His prize?

Searching for an exciting end to the opening day of Outside Lands, concertgoers wiped bay-fog off their shoulders as they cozied in between the blood-red curtained walls of San Francisco's Independent Friday night for SPIN and Dell's afterparty, featuring sets from the Matches and the Felice Brothers.

Last night at Detroit's Pike Room, as the crowd amassed near the bar in anticipation of the night-capping set from Montreal's Handsome Furs, the husband/wife duo emerged for a couple pre-show cocktails and to greet their fans.

The Cool Kids certainly had one hot night at Emo's in Austin, TX.

Though he's known for fronting the original lineup of Saosin, going full force with his current band, Circa Survive, and acting as a member of supergroup side project the Sound of Animals Fighting, Anthony Green left the clever band names at home last night as he hit San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill venue and strummed through cuts off his first solo album,

"Good show so far. Let's see if we can't fuck it up," exclaimed the Faint's lead singer, Todd Fink, as the electro-rock quintet launched into their set at Manhattan's cavernous Terminal 5 venue last night.

Portland, OR's indie rock upper crust -- including members of Spoon, Sleater-Kinney, the Thermals, Quasi, and many more -- packed the air-conditioned confines of Valentine's Saturday night (Au