2012 is shaping up to be an amazing year for Grammy Award winning guitarist Slash. He closed out 2011 riding high on the success of his landmark, self-titled debut album which managed to take the Billboard top spot for Rock Album, Hard Rock Album and Independent Album as well as the… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

SOPA Strike! Thank you for being a part of the largest online protest in US history. Senators need to hear from you NOW.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future http://vimeo.com/fightforthefuture on Vimeo.

Tell Congress not to censo… Read full post »

Emily Armstrong discusses how her love of blues, folk and punk brought Dead Sara's hard-rocking debut album to life.

DEAD SARA Interview Video - EMILY ARMSTRONG

"There's certain influences that I look to in songwriting, which is a lot of folk rock from the sixties. And then there's the influ… Read full post »

As Scream Tour: The Next Generation came roaring through Atlanta I had a chance to talk with one of the hottest new entertainers breaking on the teen music scene, Jacob Latimore. Video: Jacob Latimore: Interviews from the Edge  http://youtu.be/4nnj6dyjh08

Earlier this year Jacob… Read full post »

MACHINE HEAD DAVE McCLAIN - Wacken, Mayhem, Soundwave Revolution and Tattoos

 

 

It's loud. It's hot. It's chaotic... It's Mayhem!

Dave talks about opening the Mayhem Festival Rockstar Main Stage, headlining the Revolver Stage, playing the inaugral Mayhem Festival and German… Read full post »

"LOCUST" Machine Head's first music video from Unto the Locust (Roadrunner Records). Looks like the end is pretty frickin' nigh.

http://youtu.be/jxjeqCd6Zm0
Unto the Locust album review: http://bit.ly/ommv48

Director Mike Sloat, working with a team of Hollywood CGI artists and monster makers… Read full post »

VIDEO INTERVIEW: GODSMACK - SHANNON LARKIN sets the record straight on Crue Fest 2, Nikki Sixx and Cryin Like a B*tch (Language Warning)

During a live backstage interview at Mayhem Festival Atlanta 2011, Godsmack's drummer Shannon Larkin set the record straight o… Read full post »

The official video for "Curl Of The Burl" from Mastodon's latest album, The Hunter, has been unleashed.

Mastodon: Curl Of The Burl [Official Video] <--Watch on YouTube

Directed by Robert Schober. Concept by Brann Dailor.

Obviously there's a moral to this video, from what I can… Read full post »

GODSMACK SHANNON LARKIN - tattoos, drum battles, Godsmack and Metallica - Interviews from the Edge
New backstage interview with Shannon Larkin of Godsmack.

Godsmack Interview Pt 1: Shannon Larkin sets the record straight on Nikki Sixx, the Crue Fest 2 feud and Cryin' Like a Bitch - Video Inte… Read full post »

Previously published Anberlin Interview: Stephen Christian of Anberlin talks about the inspiration for their latest album, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place as well as the making of the video for the first single "Impossible."

Album review: Dark is the Way, Light is a Place

Dark is… Read full post »

Godsmack at Welcome to Rockville festival 2011

 

Godsmack - Concert Photos (No Music)

Godsmack: look for the coming review: Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival 2011 with Disturbed and Megadeth
Visit http://godsmack.com for tour dates and information.

GODSMACK headlining Welcome to R… Read full post »

In 1971 a new generation of rebel was being born; the hippie ideal of peace and love had met a swift and violent end at Altamont and Kent State. Young men were dying in a jungle half a world away and in California a man who fancied himself a… Read full post »

 

All You Need is Now sold out Atlanta, GA. Duran Duran delivered an absolutely stunning concert performance.

On the day John Lennon died I realized something about legacies; they are as fluid as the currents in the ocean: moving, shifting and constantly in motion. I had come home from sc… Read full post »

Legendary rock and roll hero Neil Young is hitting the road for a rare and much anticipated solo tour.

Neil Young, one of rock and roll's most legendary guitarists has just announced plans for a solo tour that will begin April 15th and run through May 7th. The tour will… Read full post »

On May 8th Monster Energy Drink, Metro PCS and Jagermeister will kick off the first Welcome to Rockville festival in Jacksonville, Florida. More than 20 Bands playing on three stages in one day. Bands include: Godsmack, Seether, Stone Sour, Theory of a Deadman, Puddle of Mudd, Skillet and Hale… Read full post »

 

After 13 years of steady growth, Ultra Music Festival has finally outgrown itself. The festival has become a showcase for some of the top techno, electronica and beat-driven pop bands around the world.

Ultra Music Festival, held in Miami, Florida, expanded to a three day event for the… Read full post »

Slash and Ozzy Osbourne hit the stage at Bridgestone Arena with the kind of raw charisma and fuel-driven performances that distinguished them from their peers in their earlier days and now from those who follow in their footsteps.

From the moment they hit the stage you could feel it: that natu… Read full post »

In 2008, Rise Against, one of Chicago's premiere hardcore punk bands released their fifth album, Appeal to Reason.

Politically charged and deliberate, Appeal to Reason took the band in a whole new direction. It built bridges--and burned some as well. Hardcore fans turned their backs on the ba… Read full post »

As The Band of Heathens gears up to hit the road their latest album, Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster’s Son, produced by George Reiff (Chris Robinson, Courtyard Hounds, Ray Wylie Hubbard) and set for release on March 29, 2011, finds the band in fine fighting form.

Clearly a band on… Read full post »

One of the first major tours of the year, Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns has already raised the bar for 2011; an incredibly brilliant and unforgettable concert experience.

Barely two weeks into the first leg of their highly anticipated A Thousand Suns tour and Linkin Park is poised to stake… Read full post »