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Dave Grohl Collaborating with Corey Taylor, Others for Sound City Studios Documentary

We’ve heard rumblings that the Foo Fighters frontman was working on some new projects lately—everything from new songs for the Foos to recording with members of Ratt. And now, Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor has confirmed additional details on Dave Grohl’s mysterious plans.  read more

2011 Voodoo Music Experience Photos

This past weekend, the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience overtook New Orleans' City Park on Halloween weekend for the 13th consecutive year. Headliners included The Raconteurs, Soundgarden and Blink 182, while the festival also featured Girl Talk, Band of Horses, TV on the Radio and many others. Check out Mark C. Austin's photos from this year's Voodoo Music Experience below.  read more

Stage Collapses at Ottawa Bluesfest

With several outdoor concerts scheduled to hit the stage this summer, it’s easy for laid-back attendees to forget the amount of safety precautions that go into planning such large-scale events—until they save lives....  read more

Cheap Trick Takes Sgt. Pepper to Las Vegas

On June 2, 1967, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Now, 43 years later, the rockers Cheap Trick are taking the album to the Las Vegas stage....  read more

Download Cheap Trick's "Green Police"

Download Cheap Trick's "Green Police" here.The song will be featured in an Audi Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, Feb. 7....  read more

Cheap Trick's Latest Available on 8-Track

Cheap Trick has a new album titled (aptly, though not especially creatively) The Latest. It has been available as a digital download since last month, and it was made available on CD and vinyl this month. But the group, ever seeking approval, decided to give its fans one more option. The band has also made a limited-edition 8-track version of The Latest available for purchase....  read more

Hanson + Cheap Trick + Smashing Pumpkins + Fountains of Wayne = Tinted Windows

In one of the strangest bits of supergroup news in, well, a good while, former Smashing Pumpkins member James Iha, a grown-up Taylor Hanson, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger are set to release their debut album on April 21 as new band called Tinted Windows. ...  read more

A Power Pop Primer: 10 Gateway Songs to a Lifelong Addiction

You could argue all day about what is and what is not "power pop," a discussion that might ill-advisedly convince you to attempt an exhaustive list of the genre's finest songs. I have neither the time nor the energy to make such a list, but I do enjoy me some of what Wikipedia calls "a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum,...  read more