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 Counting Crows Announce 2012 Dates

Counting Crows’ spring tour begins in March with two hometown shows in San Francisco.

Soulful songstress Adele capped a momentous year of Grammy Awards triumph and medical woes with a double win at the U.K.’s Brit music awards Tuesday, taking prizes for album of the year and best British female solo artist before making an obscene gesture after the show’s host cut her acceptance speech short.

Country duo Sugarland says it is devastated that people “want to point fingers and try to sensationalize” an Aug. 13 stage collapse that killed seven people and injured 58 before the band’s show at the Indiana State Fair.

The lineup for this year’s Governors Ball Music Festival is in place featuring Beck, Passion Pit, Modest Mouse and Duck Sauce.

Want to spend five days in the Catskill Mountains with Todd Rundgren?

The Songwriters Hall Of Fame’s newest group of inductees includes Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Seger and Don Schlitz.

Marking the first time they’ve toured together, Rob Zombie and Megadeth unveil a May co-headlining adventure.

Slim Dunlap, guitarist for The Replacements, was admitted to a Minneapolis hospital.

The songstress schedules a handful of shows following her appearance at this year’s SXSW.

Kanye West and Jay-Z’s co-headline tour “Watch The Throne” is headed overseas for a European excursion that begins in May.