Josh Homme

Taking a break from my month-long kidney adventures (and they're getting more adventurous, believe you me), I ventured out Nov. 14 to experience "Man of Music," Tebbe Farrell's lovely tribute to her longtime personal/professional partner Michael Riley at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Read More

The Pop Cop would like to wish Barrie O'Neill from Glasgow band Cassidy a speedy recovery after he was seriously injured in an accident in London yesterday. Read More

The new album by Cleveland duo mr. Gnome, Heave Yer Skeleton, is a surreal rock listen. Read More

Jessica Simpson must have done quite a number on the most genial tall-dark-and-handsome of the 2000s. Read More

For those who've lived under a rock for the past thirty years, a potted history of the three musicians who make up the band. Read More

Well let me be one of the first to extend an early Happy Thanksgiving wish to you and yours this week here on 411Mania. Read More

During the world premiere of Them Crooked Vultures at Metro last August, the primary joy of this latest supergroup came from surrendering to the pummeling rhythms of Dave Grohl -- one of the finest drummers of his generation with Nirvana turned one of the most pandering radio schlock meisters of the last decade with the Foo Fighters -- as he gleefully channeled John Bonham while assaulting the clock with Bonzo's old bandmate, legendary Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. Read More

Two lads from High Green, Sheffield, receive electric guitars from Santa. Read More

The genre of stoner rock probably has a somewhat maligned reputation, by virtue of its misleading name. Read More

Simon Neil, the heavily tattooed front man of Scottish trio Biffy Clyro has channelled the bright side on his band's fifth studio album Only Revolutions; quickly pointing out that the dark themes of 2007's major label debut Puzzle are all but a distant memory. Read More