A simmering new melding of Southern rock and R&B arrives with the new JJ Grey album, while the Replacements and Shuggie Otis — yeah, you read that right — return with their first new music in ages.
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Guns N' Roses exploded onto the stage in Melbourne on Sunday night with a bang.
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First emerging in the early '80s, They Might Be Giants were compelling, confounding, and arguably without precedent.
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The world and nearly everyone in it has been reduced to trembling excitement by the return of David Bowie, but for some of us there is another recent resurrection perhaps even more miraculous and just as unexpected, a comeback by The Replacements, who today release online the Songs For Slim EP, their first new recordings in more than 20 years.
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Every once in a while an artist puts it all together.
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When these stars align, I think Power Pop. So, what bands will become the next Cheap Trick, Posies, Material Issue or Big Star?
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I'm sure just them getting together has sparked tons of rumors about reunions, but in a recent quote, Stinson pretty much said that he ruled that out, citing a number of factors.
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The Replacements were one of the most original and influential rock bands of the 1980s.
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It wasn't quite as nihilistically put out as punk, so it had little credibility there.
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With Found Footage, we dig through the depths of archival video online.
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I've always adored the shuffle to this one, and especially that guitar line.
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So, we're still recovering from yesterday's news that The Replacements — more specifically, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson — reunited recently to record an EP full of covers.
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Take the most vulnerable, volatile performers you can find, place them in the most intense circumstances imaginable, and watch what happens next.
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Green Day have an international tour which brings them to NYC for shows at Irving Plaza this Saturday (9/15) and Barclays Center on January 16.
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It's been six years since Minneapolis alt-rockers Soul Asylum last released an album, their last with bassist Karl Mueller, who passed away from cancer in 2005.
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Hey how are you doing Mike, what's happening?
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Although many Seattleites may have this weekend's Capitol Hill Block Party on their minds, there's a flurry of new music this week to keep your ears busy until this weekend.
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"While Bad Brains sound has shifted from hardcore and punk to dub and reggae, they still mix it up for the audience coming to see them. Opening with a pounding set of their signature aggressive sound, the music of guitarist Dr. Know and bassist Darrel Jennifer along with drummer Earl Hudson was tight and very intact. Yet, one of the more interesting experience's to everyone was watching singer H.R., dressed in a valor jump suit with a dress shirt and tie underneath and knit hat, H.R., who has battled drug addiction and years of abuse to his body doing this profession simply looked burnt out. Slurring many of his words and mumbling in between songs, at points Jennifer would look at him and laugh, yet while his annunciation skills were not as top as the band's sound, it was still an overall experience watching him perform." -[
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You'd think being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame would be any musician's dream, proof of the respect they have from their peers for a successful and influential carrer.
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Guns N' Roses are to be inducted into America's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next weekend by Green Day. The presentation, revealed on the organisation's website , will take place in Cleveland, Ohio. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beastie Boys are also being inducted into the Hall of Fame on 14 April.
Read MoreNPR is streaming live performances from SXSW Music, including shows by Sharon Van Etten , Bruce Springsteen , and others.
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It's hard to walk into a Guns N' Roses concert these days without feeling a bit of trepidation.
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We're still two months away from South by Southwest 2012 , but today the schedule for the music portion went live, adding a slew of new names to the bill.
Read MoreMy daughter turned 18 months old this week, which means that in 2011 I listened to far more Yo Gabba Gabba and the Fresh Beat Band than any new records that came out this year.
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Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed has declared that the band's new material sounds "pretty amazing".
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Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has defended himself from criticisms of his tendency to be late for live shows by blaming his management and former bandmate Slash in a forthcoming television interview – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch.
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Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson has said that the band are keen to return to the studio to record a new album.
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Whether he's on his own, playing with Soul Asylum or touring with Guns N' Roses , Tommy Stinson doesn't have any trouble finding gigs.
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Guns N' Roses have announced their first US tour in five years.
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The two often cross paths, and, truly, you can't be an indie rock fan without appreciating both seminal bands.
Read MoreThe demo that launched a recording career, "Raised in the City" sounds like a lost '70s radio classic about cheap thrills in the big city: the exhilarating drums pumped at double time, Paul Westerberg's raspy defiance ("Raised in the city, ready to listen / Keep tellin' me what I've been missing / Why don't you sit down?"), the first of many truncated Bob Stinson solos to come.
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In the new issue of Rolling Stone , on stands and available through Rolling Stone All Access on August 19th, the Red Hot Chili Peppers talk about the turmoil they went through after guitarist John Frusciante quit the band in 2009.
Read MoreDeath Cab for Cutie members talk to the Independent about the band's new album, Codes and Keys. Monkey See recommends comics for summer reading.
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