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This is the RiO!B's brand new contest. I'm giving my old 60 GB iPod away since I bought a new iPod touch. Wanna know how to win my iPod and the 8,000+ songs that are on it? Check it out and get involved! Read More

Last night on late night TV, we were transported back to a decade when rock music was the top genre. Up top you can check out the band Alice in Chains playing their brand new song "Check My Brain" on Jimmy Kimmel's show.… Read More

Lil Wayne on Weezer's album
Thom Yorke teams up with Flea Read More

As a musician, it sucks when you have to buy equipment and you're on a low budget. By low, of course, I mean almost non-existent. Especially when you have to cash in for a new amp. That's just never any fun. But the band AC/DC is giving musicians and fans a bang for their buck with their brand new box set called Backtracks which comes out November 10th.
Within this set you get all sorts of goodies from the Aussie rockers. You get three CD's featuring… Read More

So everyone, in one way or another, is gearing up for Weezer's new album Raditude which comes out on November 3rd. The album has Rivers Cuomo and crew working with artists like Butch Walker and the All American Rejects' Tyson Ritter. Well you can add one more name to that list. Lil' Wayne.
Weezy will be dropping a verse on the song "Can't Stop Partying" which was produced by Jermaine Dupri, another star in the hip-hop world. Rivers talked to MTV… Read More

I've recently seen some pictures of a Mr. Thom Yorke of Radiohead strutting about Los Angeles, CA. He recently did a DJ set at the Roosevelt Hotel and has been seen out and about in the city of angels. But now we've discovered why he's spending a lot of time on the left coast. It will blow your mind.
Consequence… Read More

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During my tour of Third Man Records in Nashville, we were also taken to United Record Pressing, Inc. which is the largest record pressing… Read More

Go show some love to the new RiO! Band of the Week: Solfege Radio.  Read More

I am proud to announce that the title of RiO! Band of the Week has come back to New Jersey and belongs to the band Solfege Radio.
I realize that the Garden State is chock full o' punk-pop bands but these kids are a slightly different case. By the way when I say kids I mean that in a literal sense. None of the members of SR are above the age of 18 yet their music sounds as if they've been playing for a good long while. It's just a testament to the fact that good… Read More