Devo's Jerry Casale wants it to be known that their newest song "Don't Roof Rack Me Bro" isn't meant as a partisan statement – even though it viciously mocks Mitt Romney for strapping his Irish (More...)

Chris Brown and Drake have been hit with a $16 million dollar lawsuit over their June brawl at the joint NYC nightclubs Greenhouse and WiP reports the New York Post Entertainment Enterprises Ltd who o (More...)

One of the biggest Outside Lands surprises this past weekend came from Jack White who thrilled fans by parking his mobile Third Man Records truck in the woods and performed a guerilla-style pop-up c (More...)

Robert Wayne Birch a bassist who recorded and toured extensively with Elton John over the past two decades was found dead near Los Angeles early this morning of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wo (More...)

Originally a lot of the best rock lyrics were gibberish like "Awopbopaloobop" Then Bob Dylan married the poetry of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" to the sound of the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" and ch (More...)

Song "Livng In the Shadow Of the Terrible Thing"Artist Therapy?Album A Brief Crack of Light "The whole idea was to write a kind of absurd lyric about the unnameable thing no one wants to talk about w (More...)

What are Green Day doing in the new video for "Oh Love" which debuted last night on MTV? Nothing much just playing music for some friends who happen to be scantily clad models with expressions of (More...)

Click to listen to California Wives' 'Blood Red Youth' Chicago New Wave outfit California Wives are prepping their full-length debut Art History out September 4th on Vagrant "Blood Red Youth" a drivi (More...)

Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine has made no secret of his right-of-center political views but the singer took an ugly conspiratorialist turn last week in Singapore when he said on stage during a concert (More...)

Silversun Pickups have told Mitt Romney to stop using their song "Panic Switch" at campaign events sending a cease-and-desist order to the Republican presidential hopeful "We don't like people going b (More...)

Michael Jackson's father has dropped his wrongful death suit against Conrad Murray the doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter for his role in the pop singer's 2009 death according to court (More...)

Cee Lo Green will lend his voice to this year's Thursday Night Football theme Billboard reports  The song is reportedly called "I Love Football" and is set to the tune of the Ramo (More...)

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has called out Nineties contemporaries including Soundgarden for cashing in with their reunion tours PhilStarcom reports  "There are those bands that (More...)

Nas has been part of the Rock the Bells family since first performing with the hip-hop festival in 2005 After the event expanded to multiple cities two years later he performed for it every year (asid (More...)

"Recording should be fun" says Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke Judging from this behind-the-scenes clip of the Southern rock godfathers cranking out some new tunes in the studio it seems like (More...)

Paul McCartney tweeted a message of support today for jailed Russian punk trio Pussy Riot who await the verdict in their trial for performing an anti-Putin "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Savior (More...)

Click to listen to Art Garfunkel's 'Lena' In celebration of his storied career Art Garfunkel is readying The Singer a 34-track collection of his songs spanning the Simon & Garfunkel years through (More...)

Fatboy Slim says he enjoyed a "bromance" with Russell Brand during their starring roles at the Olympic Closing Ceremony DJ Norman Cook followed Brand on the August 12th show performing "Right Here Ri (More...)

Bobby Brown checked himself into a rehab center last week as part an agreement stemming from his March arrest for driving while drunk in Los Angeles The Associated Press reports Although a representa (More...)

Raphael Saadiq has more than one sound ringing in his head these days As he begins work on a new album in his Los Angeles studio he's already moving beyond the classic soul flavor of 2011's critically (More...)

The process of recording the Flaming Lips' forthcoming album according to frontman Wayne Coyne was a double-edged sword On the one hand the psych-rock band's 15th LP which the singer is tentatively re (More...)

In September of 1969 Crosby Stills Nash and Young were one of the hottest groups in the country The original trio of CSN had released their mega-selling debut a few months earlier and Neil Young had j (More...)

A year ago Martin Solveig was just another très cool Parisian club DJ  But after producing tracks for Madonna's recent rave-tastic comeback MDNA and then scoring a global hit of his own &n (More...)

In past years the Sunset Strip Music Festival has honored Slash Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe This year the festival traces back its musical origins honoring the Doors who helped create the (More...)

Back when I was a senior in high school, a friend called me up and was yelling at the top of his lungs about an “Ozzfest.”  When he told me about the dream line up, I was beyond excited.  (More...)

Swedish gods of bluesy, psychedelic rock GRAVEYARD have set Lights Out as the title for their third studio album, due out in Europe on October 26th and in North America on November 6th. ?Lights Out? (More...)

INTRONAUT have posted a short video of a new song they are working on for the follow up to Valley of Smoke. It sounds pretty nice. Check it out: (More...)

Let’s get one thing clear, the underground extreme music industry is just as trendy as the mainstream music scene. Fake music is everywhere. How many copycat bands emerge once one band of a par (More...)

A documentary on LA hardcore heroes, the CIRCLE JERKS, entitled CIRCLE JERKS – My Life as a Jerk is set to be released on September 25, 2012 via MVD Entertainment Group. Filmmaker David Markey ( (More...)

LAMB OF GOD vocalist Randy Blythe has issued an official statement following his release from Czech jail. He was arrested and criminally charged in connection with the death of a concert goer at a LAM (More...)