Kid Rock News

"The Kid" met "The King" on a snowy night in Memphis, when Kid Rock delivered an epic performance at Graceland.

Passengers pack the lobby bar, balancing luggage with buckets of ice-soaked beer bottles, and flashing room keys that double as charge cards to keep the drinks flowing.

One of the unlikeliest success stories in rock at the turn of the millennium, Detroit rap-rocker Kid Rock shot to superstardom with his fourth full-length album, 1998's Devil Without a Cause.

What: Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival with Mumford & Sons, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Kid Rock, Sugarland, Steve Miller Band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Vintage Trouble.

The singer-songwriter will play McPhillips Station Casino on June 19 in support of his forthcoming album, Midnight Special.

Longtime DJ for best friend Kid Rock, former Detroit hip-hop artist Uncle Kracker might be the most unlikely country star in Nashville history.

Genre-bending multiplatinum recording artist Uncle Kracker will perform at Hard Rock Cafe Tampa, on Sunday, May 20.

There's no doubt that Kid Rock rocks, but how much more interesting would it be if you put a full orchestra behind his Twisted Brown Trucker band? That was the general idea behind Rock's special performance Saturday night in his hometown to raise funds for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

8 tonight. $100-$1,500. 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 576-5111. 2. "Now That I Can Dance" at Detroit Film Theatre: The gifted teenagers of the Mosaic Youth Theatre portray the talented youth of the 1960s in "Now That I Can Dance," a celebration of Motown.

It's all about Motor City music this weekend. Kid Rock jams with the DSO, local songwriter Jill Jack celebrates a new release, Mosaic Youth Theatre pays tribute to Motown and George Clinton, who has Motown roots, performs in Royal Oak.

ABOVE: Rob Mathes, right, rehearses with Jon Bon Jovi and Bettye LaVette at President Barack Obama's inaugural "We Are One" concert.

One of the unlikeliest success stories in rock at the turn of the millennium, Detroit rap-rocker Kid Rock shot to superstardom with his fourth full-length album, 1998's Devil Without a Cause.

In an online video posted Friday afternoon , Kid Rock gives Rolling Stone writer David Wild a personal performance of the "Born Free" track "For the First Time ." "For the first time in my life, I'm coming out of my shell," Rock tells Wild in the beginning of the clip, a bottle of Jim Beam resting on the console behind him.