Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek

The Black Keys
It’s too facile to call the Black Keys counterparts of the White Stripes: they share several surface similarities -- their names are color-coded, they hail from the Midwest, they’re guitar-and-drum blues-rock duos -- but the Black Keys are their own distinct thing, a tougher, rougher rock band with a purist streak that never surfaces in the Stripes....

Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan made inroads on the Nashville scene as a songwriter before releasing his debut, I’LL STAY ME. ~ Rovi

Thompson Square
A husband-and-wife country duo comprised of Keifer Thompson and Shawna Thompson, Thompson Square combine classic rock, country, and singer/songwriter strands into a sharp, pleasant country-pop mix. Shawna grew up in Chatom, AL, where she listened to acts like Alabama and Reba McEntire on the radio and learned country songs from her guitar-playing father....

Keith Urban
Began playing a ukulele at age 3, guitar at 6 and was winning country-music talent shows by 8. Moved from Australia to Nashville in 1992 and formed the three-man band the Ranch before developing his solo career....

Little Big Town
The country vocal quartet Little Big Town began with Kimberly Roads and Karen Fairchild, two Georgia natives who began singing together in college. Arkansa-born and Alabama-raised Jimi Westbrook, a friend of Fairchild's husband, joined them to make a trio, and the group was completed by the addition of Arkansan Phil Sweet in 1998....