Music Reviews||Live Events: Saturday night at the packed Palladium, the 24-year-old (real name: Sonny Moore) held court over his largest area headlining show to date, blasting a 90-minute continuous set of bass-heavy, short-attention-span theater that was consistently thick on spectacle but often thin on substance.

Music Reviews: The show is huge, bold, and studded with great moments, but it manages to dazzle the eyes while leaving the heart largely unscathed.

Music Reviews: What Robert Lepage began so spectacularly with "Das Rheingold" has ended in a visual mishmash with "Gotterdammerung."

Music Reviews: Wilco performs to a sold-out crowd at the gloriously-preserved Wiltern Theatre on Friday night.

Music Reviews: 2012 marks the composer's 75th birthday, and he has taken to the road for a handful of live appearances in the U.S.

Music Reviews: Rick Ross has recalibrated for 2012 by honoring canceled tour dates and releasing an ambitious, doom-riddled mixtape "Rich Forever."

Music Reviews||Live Events: The much-anticipated Los Angeles debut of New York-based hype queen Lana Del Rey was a tepid and mostly awkward affair.

Music Reviews: Few would argue that Charles Gounod's 1859 operatic version of the familiar "Faust" tale is any kind of masterpiece, yet it remains a perennially popular staple of opera's repertoire.

Music Reviews: Following a highly successful but half-hearted Police reunion tour and forays into symphonic and Renaissance music, Sting has gone back to the basics on his aptly named Back to Bass tour.

Music Reviews: The resplendently renovated City Center puts its best foot forward, with tap shoes, in "Cotton Club Parade."