Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan: It’s Time to Make a Real Album
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan talks about why the alternative rock band’s next collection, Oceania, will be released as a traditional album.Read More
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Nirvana’s ‘Live at Paramount’ to Air Commercial-Free on Vevo
Nirvana enthusiasts may travel to Vevo.com today (Sept. 27) for an exclusive, commercial-free, 24-hour on-demand showing of the band’s ‘Live at Paramount’ show.Read More
Red Hot Chili Peppers Talk 20 Years of ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’
Is it possible that two of the most influential albums in alternative rock, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Nirvana’s Nevermind, arrived to ‘90s-fashioned cassette players and boom-boxes on the same day? It’s true, as last Saturday (Sept. 24) marked the anniversary of both alt-rock benchmarks.Read More
Switchfoot’s Jerome Fontamillas Goes Inside ‘Vice Verses’ [Interview]
Switchfoot’s upcoming album, Vice Verses, is out this week, and guitarist Jerome Fontamillas is chatting about the new album and touring with Anberlin.Read More
Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge: We Have Our Power Back
Eternal skate-punk boys Blink-182 reunited in 2009, initiating a major international tour and bringing fans to their knees, begging for new material. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), those cries will be answered with a progressive punk-pop collection, Neighborhoods.Read More
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl: Nirvana’s Nevermind Was Perfect
Nevermind was never intended to change the world, but one can never forecast when a fresh spirit will turn a generation upside down, and Nirvana’s sophomore LP resulted in alternative rock colliding into the mainstream. Then-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl and bass player Krist Novoselic remember oh-so well those early Nirvana days.Read More
Staind Singer Aaron Lewis, Crossfade Recall Nirvana’s Nevermind
Sometimes, knowing it’s been 20 years since Nirvana started the grunge rock movement simply makes one feel old. “My thoughts are… ‘I’m getting old!’” laughed Staind frontman Aaron Lewis, when Audio Ink gave him the news.Read More
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Says Breakup Was Necessary
Blink-182 bass player Mark Hoppus says the band’s famous breakup made the guys stronger. The punk-pop band’s new album, Neighborhoods, drops Sept. 27.Read More
Rare Nirvana Concert to Air on VH1 Classic
Music television network VH1 Classic will air a scarce, never-before televised concert from grunge rock band Nirvana on VH1 Classic at 11 p.m. EST Friday.Read More
Raconteurs Drummer Recalls Watching Nirvana’s Nevermind Tour
Nirvana’s now-famous debut, the grungy and groundbreaking Nevermind, celebrates its 20th anniversary on Saturday (Sept. 24), and Raconteurs drummer Patrick Keeler remembers checking out Nirvana on the band’s fabled Nevermind tour.Read More