Glastonbury: Radiohead in the rain They brought the new wine but not the vintage: In a set mostly culled from music between 2007’s In Rainbows and this year’s The King of Limbs, the enigmatic band from Oxford brought its signature sound to a rainy, muddy festival on Friday. The Guardian was neither shaken nor stirred. In its first Glasto appearance, U2 turned in a “a lean, combative, frontloaded...

Goodbye, Big Man Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player whose burly, distinctive sound became the indelibly soulful anchor of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, died on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., of complications from a stroke. Clemons, whom Springsteen introduced to one and all as “the...

Los Angeles: Theatertown For a 12-day period in June, Los Angeles will be the site of an unlikely perfect theatrical storm, one that will bring new and vastly different theater festivals with outsize aspirations to the city in what Reed Johnson of the Los Angeles Times says is “one of the largest,...

Seattle: Death of a theatre For The Stranger’s Brendan Kiley, the demise of the Intiman Theatre is a cautionary tale of how feckless, inexperienced arts boards; a shortage of funding for the arts; and a climate of mistrust can have the worst of results despite the best of intentions.Image: Intiman...

Bonnaroo: Late night with Lil Wayne In something of a coming-back party, Weezy turned in a fierce, combustible set this morning, re-establishing his bona fides as a king of the game and gaining serious cred with the Bonnaroo crowd. James Montgomery of MTV News reports. See MusicPhoto: Erika G...

The boys with the Arab rap The soundtrack of the deadly, pivotal protests in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia is often a hip-hop thing. From the beginning of the uprisings in the Arab spring, the work of hip-hop artists and a global presence via YouTube have been catalysts for change. Ann Powers of NPR...

Cairo: Egypt's Daily Show Aroused by the chaos and change of the Egyptian revolution, Bassem Youssef made mock Arabic newscasts of the event for YouTube, a tribute to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. The result? A production deal with Egypt's ONTV, 88,000 Facebook likes and 4 million YouTube uploads....

Beautiful night: U2 hits Seattle After a yearlong wait, rock’s Irish kings brought the mammoth 360 Degree Tour to Qwest Field on Saturday night. Bono, his swagger intact after recovering from a bout with a bad back, paced the band through old favorites and even arranged a surprise from outer space....

Some more sounds of summer UK: Music with a British accent: It’s shaken and stirred us for generations, and this summer we’ll hear the sound of the future, again, at festivals from Hop Farm to Glastonbury, from Download to the Isle of Wight. The Guardian breaks it down Seattle: Bumbershoot 2011...