Jason Bracelin

The power trio Skating Polly leads the list of don’t-miss music heading into the weekend.

After decades of well-publicized, cats-vs.-dogs-style tumult, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Fleetwood Mac fired singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham in April. What does his departure really mean for Fleetwood Mac?

Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails play the Hard Rock Friday and Saturday night, leading off our best bets for catching some music this weekend.

“Sincerity Is Scary,” The 1975 contend on their latest record, but it can’t be too frightening: These electronically enhancedBritish rockers still come with hearts Velcroed to sleeves.

Sex talk in front of Dad, seahorse-shaped keytars, spark-shooting brassieres and giant meat grinders: Lady Gaga has always brought the spectacle to a city where spectacle is life’s blood.

Heavy metal’s biggest band hits Las Vegas Monday.

These pop-punk veterans were inspired to write their latest album, “Generation Rx,” which addresses the opioid epidemic among other things, in part by the overdose death of rapper Lil Peep, who was a fan of the band.

If rock ’n’ roll is dead, as the oft-repeated story goes, has it become a Ghost?

It’s a refuge, the blues. That’s how the ZZ Top frontman sees it, at least.

The guitars growled like the thing commandeering his gut.

‘Generation Axe’

The co-producer of the show, now in its 19th year, sounds an insistently enthusiastic note as the festivities return to Las Vegas for an 11th year.

Jesse Amoroso speaks of the guitar the way a poet might try to encapsulate the scent of a rose.

Some of the most sublime grooves of the year come courtesy of Khruangbin’s boundary-less, largely instrumental funk on the group’s latest album, “Con Todo El Mundo,” where sounds are mined from Mexico to the Middle East to plenty of points in between.