This week brought Maynard confessing he’s been writing new music for Tool, Rage Against the Machine talking new music and Guns N’ Roses news. Read More
This week brought old enemies making up (Sharon Osbourne and Gene Simmons), plus news on Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses. Read More
Summer just began, but it’s not too premature to start thinking about fall tours. One trek that packs a lot of bang is the 2011 Rock Allegiance Tour, featuring Papa Roach, Buckcherry, P.O.D., RED, Puddle of Mudd, Crossfade and Drive A. The tour sets of Aug. 24 in Grand Prairie, Texas, and continues through Sept. 25 in Sacramento, Calif. More dates are expected to drop, as well. Read More
Devin Forbes, guitarist for alternative rock band Paper Tongues, talks about the band’s chance meeting with American Idol’s Randy Jackson that changed their lives, plus Paper Tongue’s mission. “We consider ourselves a band that’s trying to make a difference in a very hopeful way,” he says. Read More
Rage Against the Machine guitarist, Nightwatchman frontman and apparent Cubs fan took to his six-string to perform a dedicated cover version of ESPN’s, “Baseball Tonight,” theme song. Morello can even make a baseball song rock hard. Watch the video, here! Read More
Switchfoot mean business with their upcoming, eighth studio record. For one, they hit up famed producer Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Weezer) to record it in their San Diego, Calif., home studio. Two, they spent months prepping for the release, taking care to make the perfect alternative pop / rock, both epic and sincere. Read More
This week’s rock headlines include Google celebrating Les Paul with a killer virtual guitar, news from the Grateful Dead camp and Buffalo Springfield promising Bonnaroo 2011 isn’t the band’s “Last Time Around.” Read More
This week saw Aerosmith’s Joe Perry going to Facebook to a answer fans’ questions, a reissue from Jimi Hendrix and Alice Cooper’s strange tale about Elvis. Read More
Even as U2 is all-consumed by their current 360º Tour — the highest grossing tour of all time, according to Billboard, at over 7 million fans strong — they still make time to give to the greater good. Read More