Rock News

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus: I Want to Keep Blink Going for a Long Time

Now that the eternal punk trio of Blink-182 are back together and things are going so swimmingly, fans are wondering, Why did the guys ever end such a good thing in the first place?
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‘Pearl Jam Twenty’ Box Office Totals

The new Pearl Jam documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty, was released last weekend to a small handful of theaters nationwide, and fans of the rockers were loyal.
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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.
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Buckcherry, Betty White and Shaquille O’Neal Rock Childhelp [Video]

Rock guys Buckcherry are lending their musical talents to a worthy cause. The California-based group have teamed up with Childhelp, a national nonprofit committed to the prevention and treatment of child abuse, for a “Hope” Public Service Announcement to bring attention to child abuse in the United States. Watch the PSA, below.
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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.
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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.
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Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind,’ Remembered by Rev Theory and Stars Go Dim

Nirvana’s big Nevermind birthday happens on Saturday (Nov. 24), and it’s hard to believe the alternative rock nugget will be a whopping 20 years old. Staind, Crossfade and the Raconteurs have already checked in on Nevermind, and now Rev Theory and Stars Go Dim are looking back at what the album meant to their personal journey into music.
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Underoath to Release ‘Play Your Old Stuff’ Triple-CD Set

Florida Christian metal-core gents Underoath have announced the release of a 3-CD set, Play Your Old Stuff, featuring songs from three of their past albums.
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Alice Cooper: Inside the Brain of the Coop

Syringe-happy, makeup-heavy, “School’s Out”-singing shock rocker Alice Cooper doesn’t do anything halfheartedly, and mediocre isn’t in his vocabulary.
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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.
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