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This year’s MTV Europe Music Awards hosted some of today’s biggest names in music. Among those in attendance was Italian rock band Måneskin, who were nominees in multiple categories. The four-piece took home the award for Best Rock Act. While it was exc...

Flashback to your 2000s scene phase. You’re a day out from a road trip and focused entirely on prepping. Does that mean double-checking your suitcase or gas tank, though? Of course not. You’re more concerned with loading up your iPod with alternative summer hits. Fortuna...

"Not all bands fronted by women sound like Paramore" is beginning to become a pretty popular adage in the alternative music scene. It's not that drawing a likeness to Hayley Williams isn't a compliment—it may be one of the highest. But consi...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note... But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know like the backs of our hands. You don't even have to be a guitarist to get the sentiment. As l...

Is there anything more distinctly indicative of late-2000s culture than living room setlists? Transcending the confines of genre, the Rock Band series allowed us to connect with our favorite songs in the most intimate way possible—by performing them. Read more: Billie ... Read More ...

You may have started the new year with some lofty wellness goals. But was working out alongside Ryan Key and Derek Sanders among them? Maybe it should have been... In a move straight from our wildest dreams, the Mayday Parade and Yellowcard frontmen have partnered with Cardio Sport to co-host and DJ a pop-punk-fueled, emo night-style fitness class...

Are you dreaming about leaving your hometown? Sure you are. Because pop-punk kids have felt self-isolated long before the pandemic. All the shows are canceled, and there’s nothing else to do, so there’s no better time to order in an unhealthy amount of pizza, reminisce about Warped Tour and dust off that Fender or Gibson you’ve been neglecting to learn some genre classics.  These tracks... Read Mo

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of this century showcased way more than 20 perfect examples of a timeless guitar riff. It was qui...

Rock Band 4 came out back in 2015 and it's surprisingly still going strong with new content being frequently added to the game but a new addition of a Lizzo track is causing some controversy over uncensored lyrics. The game developers recently added her song "Juice" to the game as well as the Strokes' "Bad Decisions" and players quickly noticed they never censored the n-word in

Last month we reported that Rock Band VR would be heading to Oculus Rift March 23, and now Harmonix has released the first set list for the game—there will be 60 songs total when the game is released. Read more: Man repeatedly drops Nintendo Switch on concrete in the name of science The game will feature songs by a ton of artists in our scene including Paramore, Avenged Sevenfold, Against The Cur

If you're a fan of the video game "Rock Band" you'll be happy to hear that the popular game is getting a VR addition March 23. So now you can really live out that dream of playing in front of a sold out crowd. Read more: Unbelievable Nintendo fan collects every single Nintendo Wii game The game will only be available to those who have an Oculus Rift and the game is unlike the originals.

Harmonix has revealed that the latest version of the play-along video game "Rock Band" will feature "SING" by My Chemical Romance, "So Far Away" by Avenged Sevenfold and "We Are Young" by fun., featuring Janelle Monae. Previously announced tracks for "Rock Band Blitz" include Fall Out Boy's "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More ‘Tou