“Rock ‘n’ roll is an attitude, it’s not a musical form of a strict sort. It’s a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing...
Humble beginnings. Family hardships. The kid that got picked on in class. Doubts. Music as a savior. Amazing luck. Front Man Syndrome. Sex-Drugs-Rock-n-Roll. Fame &...
In my first post on HardRockChick.com, I told the story about how ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ was the first song I remember hearing. Here...
I received this headscratcher of a press release…really really bad. Just awful. This is not a promotion of these books- this is a warning to...
It was nice to read that Acrassicauda, the band featured in the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, is living their dream. The US granted them...
Wow, what an interesting story. Asher Roth, who has been named one of MTV’s MCs to Watch in 2009, will undoubtedly be getting a lot...
Stooges Reunion 2007 Warfield Poster Yesterday morning brought sad news to the rock community, as Ron Asheton, guitarist and bassist for The Stooges, was found...
The New York Times recently featured an article discussing music licensing, and its potential effects on the creative process of creating new music in the...
This is messed up on so many levels. Is this seriously some laid off music exec’s job- to pick out music to torture prisoners with?...
from blabbermouth: Several rock and metal musicians were quick to hail Barack Obama’s election victory as a boost for the whole world. Tony Harnell (TNT,...
I’m getting mixed messages. Wired is telling me that blogging is so 2004, that I should live twitter my reviews, no one will read my...
I loved the simple stupid muxtape. But some stupid licensing thing killed it. Now it appears it will just be some other band widget thing…poo.
All things I love, but how are they connected. Broadway, of course! American Psycho and Fight Club are rumored to be turned into stage productions,...
A decent NYT article on RATM’s latest political uprisings at the 2 recent political conventions. Here is video of the bullhorn incident, which is really...
A slightly old Rolling Stone article discusses how China is strict with letting in bands to tour in their country. Apparently Avril Lavigne and Good...
The old MTV. The one that was such a part of making me love music. I’d like them to start with fixing the MTV VMAs,...
Otep endlessly posted myspace bulletins urging her followers to register, and it paid off. She played at tonight’s Democratic National convention, where she is sure...
from their myspace: “-Some of you may have seen October tour dates posted for a tour we were to take part in. Due to circumstances...
I’ve posted about this Saul Williams/Nike issue before….and here’s Saul’s eloquent response to the fans, among other things, via a MySpace bulletin: ‘Your Summer Reading’...
Jubilee– which features Aaron North, who was NIN’s last touring guitarist- sent out a video today of Tool’s Maynard James Keenan laying down vocals for...
The Faint kicked off their tour Sunday night in…Des Moines. In an interview with a local paper, Todd Fink revealed some very interesting things about...
They hate the internet. Now, they hate bloggers in particular. Too bad, we’re here to stay. They probably really wouldn’t like my review of their...
Wow. The more things change, the more they stay the same. From BLABBERMOUTH: According to The Moscow Times, the Russian government is in the process...
The first report said that Anton Newcombe, singer of Brian Jonestown Massacre, was arrested on allegations that he stabbed is guitarist backstage at one of...
I’m a little late to this news, but it’s important for anyone who consumes live music like I do. Stay far, far away from this...
Metallica announced on its website that it’s entire upcoming album, Death Magnetic, would be available for download for Guitar Hero III day and date with...
The Times revealed that at today’s E3, MTV will announce the tracklist for Rock Band 2. The most prominent item on this tracklist is a...
Several metal festivals have been living up to their reputations lately as brutal affairs. All in the last few days: Two found dead at Norway...
Apparently Denny’s has been doing some research on their customers– because they’ve revamped their 10p-5a service. New menu, new jeans and t-shrts attire for waitstaff,...
The bassist from Scottish band The Day I Vanished went partially blind after headbanging at a show on Friday. He suffered a detached retina, which...
The Joy Division documentary just released on DVD, and someone decides to steal Ian Curtis’ ‘memorial stone‘. Perhaps Courtney Love knows who did it. BTW,...
…apparently, that’s financial code for coke and hookers in the music biz. The NY Times had a lengthy article on an industry outsider swooping in...
A pink bear-shaped handbag? Seriously? Shoulda been a heart-shaped box. I’m keeping my eye on eBay. I think he was just trying to escape from...
Nice article on The Gray Kid. But, I don’t know when Andre 3000 got downgraded to Andre 2000. Read my Gray Kid reviews here.
This makes me feel weird. Tommy Lee, ok. Paris, duh. Vince Neil, no thanks. Hendrix? I know he was plaster casted- but seriously.
Motley Crue will become the first band to debut a song through Rock Band this week. The single, ‘Saints of Los Angeles’, will be featured...
I’ve been know to make my occasional anti-emo joke. But some Mexican kids anti-emo sentiments are coming to blows. It seems that fights between the...
Seriously? A remix site. If Celebrity Deathmatch were still on, this would be a great pairing. Radiohead, however, makes you pay for the individual files....
In a unique leveraging of events, Dr. Pepper has announced that it will give a free Dr. Pepper to everyone in America- excluding the band...
I’m watching American Idol. Hey, don’t hate- chalk it up to my consuming all things music. I watched the first season, then bailed when it...
It’s been confirmed, Velvet Revolver is over. It was inevitable, as with Audioslave, that the established singer joining an established band formula is only to...
A MySpace bulletin announcement proclaimed independence from Geffen today, as SWR sets up their own online record label to handle their affairs. Here’s their announcment:...
Whenever I read something by Miss Pamela, I can’t help but turn green with envy. But my jealousy in not for the nights she spent...
Hey, guess what? Bauhaus is finishing up their first album since they broke up in 1983! Oh, but what? They are breaking up again and...
There’s a nice interview on Zombie today on the Rolling Stone blog. The thought of him making a western horror (apparently called Weird West) has...
There’s a decent article on western bands touring the East today, and Nine Inch Nails is given as an example of one of the bands....
MySpace finally got a clue and fixed their standalone player. Now I can go to an artist’s page and it will transition from song to...
At least I thought they would blame Norwegian Black Metal. But, even though the YouTube video that the little sociopath posted before acting out his...
I finally finished this monster of a book. I lugged it around everywhere, digesting 10 pages or so here and there, taking in funny looks...
NYT has a very interesting article today about the new deals being inked with bands by the dying labels. The labels are looking to diversify,...
There are rumors flying that a biopic on Plasmatics singer Wendy O. Williams will star some bland blonde from Heroes. Ick. I mean really. Something...
Is this legal? Seems a bit odd to me… Ozzy fans were duped into attending a pre-party where they were promptly escorted off to jail....
NYT has an article about the difficulty of scoring good tickets by virtue of the general on sale. GA tickets to a small to mid...
The mainstream press is catching on to the fact that lots of good music stories come from bad shows. SF Weekly has a great article...
WSJ is confirming my Rock Rant from a few months back. Have we entered the TV dinner era for music? Are we OK with ‘it’s...
It took all of 5 seconds for me to determine that this was going to be catastrophic. As if it were the last gasp of...
NYT has a fantastic article on Rick Rubin, the man behind Def Jam and now Columbia, along with many of the records we hold dear:...
The Guardian has an article on some scientific evidence that being a rock star can put a damper on your life expectancy. They forgot to...
Heart-Shaped Box: A Novelis written by Joe Hill, the pen name for none other than Stephen King’s son. Having been a huge Nirvana fan back...
NYT featured an article today about SMS and concerts. So, apparently text messaging at shows isn’t all about sending drunken messages to the jumbotron screen....
Kurt Cobain tapes from the Michael Azerrad interviews that formed Come As You Are- my beloved childhood bible- will be the only Kurt thing in...
Courtney played a small show in London last night, and is expected to do some more touring with the release of her upcoming album, ‘Nobody’s...
In the ongoing saga of the record companies vs. you, a new solution has been proposed by a service called lala.com. TechCrunch reports on this...
So I have an advertising degree. OK, I have 2. So you can imagine my interst when I heard about the dead rock stars ad...
NYT article about the recent reunion tours. It discusses the money making proposition and whether that deteriorates how good the show is really going to...
Marilyn Manson took a beating for Columbine. Ozzy Osbourne was sued for causing a teen suicide. What was this crazy Virginia Tech shooter’s music of...
Another NYT article on the struggling music industry. It discusses how some artists are now just signed to record a couple of songs. This is...
Miss Pamela. What a life. For many years, I have thought I was born in the wrong decade, that I should have come of age...
This NYT article discusses how Grandmaster Flash an The Furious Five is the first hip hop to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...
New York Times Article ‘Music Labels Offer Teasers to Download’ Do they really think this will work? Lame lame lame.