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It looks like music fans are bringing back the oldschool ways of jamming their favorite tracks after albums sold on vinyl and cassette saw double digit sales growth in the U.S. last year. Unfortunately, it looks like physical CD sales still have a long way to go. Read more: ‘The Greatest Showman’ soundtrack outsells every album […]

All four members of British alt-indie band Viola Beach and their manager were killed in a car crash in Stockholm Saturday morning.  The group were headed to a gig in Guildford, England when the vehicle they were traveling in veered off a bridge and into a canal. The 25-foot plunge killed frontman Kris Leonard, guitarist […]

Dave Navarro and Billy Idol's Billy Morrison have banded together to present a new mental health awareness show called 'Above Ground.' The charity event will benefit the Recording Academy's MusiCares Foundation, and will feature special guest performances from Corey Taylor, Courtney Love and more. Read more: Movements, Halflives, more discuss mental health in the music industry […]

For close to 15 years, coed wiseguys MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE have been twitching the synapses of listeners with their jittery electro-convulsive rock action. It’s been a year since the release of the band’s fifth album, How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence, and they’re hitting the road again to […]

THERE COMES A CERTAIN POINT IN AN ARTIST’S CAREER where the creative anxiety settles. Album-release schedules might start feeling more routine than anything, and the only thing that truly matters is the art. Not the outside noise, not the theatrics, but rather what that piece of themselves and insight into their lives — however they […]

Corey Taylor, the outspoken frontman of Slipknot, recently sat down with The Mike Calta Show on 102.5 The Bone WHPT to talk about album sales, whether or not rock is dead, and if the band ever considered calling it quits. Read more: Slipknot, Korn, Bring Me The Horizon, Beartooth, more announced for Knotfest 2015 On the possibility of […]

Shirts For A Cure are up for the Artist Philanthropic Award presented by Sub City/Take Action at the APMAs with Rise Against! Get to know the organization / Syrentha Savio Endowment with founder Mark Beemer in this APTV profile. If you love their work and want to support them, be sure to vote for them over at the […]

Soul Control Bore Core EP Like a horse carcass hurled off a skyscraper, Soul Control’s bloody, guts-smeared post-hardcore works best when it’s blurring by at terminal velocity. That’s not to say the Rhode Island crew aren’t good at any speed; on past releases like 2009’s (vaguely Refused-esque) Cycles and last year’s (far more Refused-esque) Get […]

THE FIRST TIME DAISY JONES & THE SIX PLAYED A LIVE GIG, the tequila shots were flowing, the drums were blaring and there was nary a backing track in sight. But it wasn’t a beer-soaked local dive bar or even a sweaty, sold-out crowd at The Troubadour — it was a debut performance in front […]

STORY: Luke O’Neill This past weekend, YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! drummer Devon Clifford died after sustaining a brain hemorrhage during a show in Vancouver, Canada. It’s heartbreaking, but one positive aspect of this devastating story is that Clifford–who lived in the Vancouver suburb of Abbottsford–was rushed to a local hospital by paramedics and […]