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Violent Soho
Locksley
Drist
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Them Crooked Vultures debut album came out this week and it's already being touted as one of the best albums of 2009. However, with a group like Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones providing the nastiness behind the music, you would think that this would only be a once in a lifetime thing. But the band doesn't seem to think that way.
TCV has said that they are already plannning on making a follow up album, according to NME.… Read More

Alice in Chains is hitting the road next year in support of their album Black Gives Way To Blue with the first date in Vancouver on February 2nd at the Orpheum Theater. The rest of the dates are down below.
Tickets are going on sale December 4th and 5th but if you're really itching to see them before the new year you have an opportunity. December 12th is the date for KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas show at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, CA… Read More

No Oscars for rock docs
New Interpol album in 2010
New Dead Weather… Read More

It's already time to start getting hyped up for next year's festivals and one of the biggest ones of all is already getting set to sell tickets.
The Bonnaroo festival, held in Manchester, Tennessee, will go down from June 10-13, 2010. Ticket pre-sales for the festival go on sale from November 27th until 11:59 pm on December 31st. Bonnaroo will once again offer general admission tickets for five easy payments of $50 plus applicable fees through the holiday pre-sale.… Read More

The Dead Weather, whose album Horehound is a contender for the RiO!B's top 5 albums of 2009, may very well also be a contender for our top 5 albums of 2010 if Jack White isn't pulling our leg.
Jack spoke to Rolling Stone and hinted that March of 2010 may be the due date for album number two. "We’ll probably be having… Read More

The New York band that you hate to love or love to hate (not the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) will be coming out with a new album in early 2010. Oh btw that band is Interpol (via CoS).
In a recent interview with Paste Magazine, drummer Sam Fogarino talked about the… Read More

Oh, Beck Hansen. You know just how to make everyone smile, don't you? Guys, we have ourselves some brand new Beck due to a mistake by The Fiery Furnaces talkin' shite about Radiohead...allow me to explain.
Matt Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces recently talked to Spinner and had some choice statements about Radiohead and their writing of a song in… Read More

This year we were lucky enough to have gotten two amazing documentaries on rock n' roll. The first one being the wildly popular and the very well done film called Anvil! The Story of Anvil which focused on the members of the 80's metal band and their re-rise to stardom. The other, It Might Get Loud, featuring three masters of the guitar: Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White.
Sadly, however, these documentaries will not be honored come next year's… Read More

I think we've found Vampire Weekend's new "A-Punk". Behold the video for their brand new song "Cousins" from their upcoming album Contra which hits stores on January 12, 2010.
The song is only two and a half minutes long so for a video that short to work it can only be one thing. Sporadic. VW pulls off what could be the greatest musical YouTube… Read More