Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Rezbor and co-composer Atticus Ross scored the Academy Award for Best Original Score for, “The Social Network,” at the 2011 Oscars. Read More
Poised with guitars, drumsticks and fists of might, Shinedown got together in the early ’00s in Jacksonville, Fl. With post-grunge exploding, Shinedown’s sound fit perfectly, bringing chunky guitars, melodic vocal lines and Alice In Chains-style layered harmonies. In this interview, Shinedown frontman Brent Smith opens up about his musical influences and making hard rock hits. Read More
Punk rock band Against Me! just released a video for the track, “Spanish Moss,” from their 2010 album, White Crosses, which will be their fifth and last album with Sire Records. Even though the guys are parting ways with their label, they plan to release their next album, Total Clarity, on May 24. Read More
Corey Taylor and the guys of Slipknot have been on the road since, “Audio Secrecy,” dropped in September of last year, but they took some time to stop by, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” to play, “Hesitate.” Read More
Rock News: Hear the Foo Fighters’ new song, “Rope,” off the grunge-rockers’ highly anticipated, Butch Vig-produced new album, “Wasting Light,” out April 12. Read More
Billy Corgan is the king of getting awesome female bass player to back the Smashing Pumpkins, and word is that his latest pick, former Veruca Salt and Spinnerette bassist Nicole Fiorentino, is actually one of the two girls on the cover of, “Siamese Dream,” the band’s 1993 release. Corgan Tweeted the news this week. Read More
Interview: Platinum-selling hard rock band 3 Doors Down gears up for new songs with, “Time of My Life,” out April 12. Produced by Howard Benson (P.O.D., Flyleaf, Daughtry), the disc finds 3 Doors Down with catchy tracks, more mature and hard rockin’ than ever. Bass player Tod Harrell talks charity and playing for the US troops. Read More
Hard rock band RED’s third full-length, “Until We Have Faces,” debuted No. 1 on the iTunes rock chart this month and entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2. Hear the band’s new single, “Feed the Machine,” here. Read More
Rock news: Alternative rock band Radiohead – arguably the first commercial band to fully utilize digital downloads with 2007’s, “In Rainbows,” pay-what-you-want release – has dropped its eighth album, “The King of Limbs,” a day early. Read More
In typical Foo fashion, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have released details on their upcoming full-length slowly, mysteriously. But as of this week, most of the info is out, including the title, release date and single. Read More