Rock music Grammy winners

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Tonight is the night where the biggest and brightest stars in music come together to congratulate each other for winning awards based on the amount of records they sold the quality of their records and songs.
But here's something you may not have known. A ton of the awards are handed out prior to the televised show that you see due to time constraints. Since so many of those awards were already handed out… Read More

Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at MusiCares with Josh Klinghoffer

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

When it was first announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers would play the MusiCares Person of the Year awards dinner in honor of Neil Young, many of us assumed it would be with longtime RHCP axeman John Frusciante. But after Read More

Mark Hoppus wants to release new Blink-182 in 2010

Friday, January 29th, 2010

2011 is too far away. Gonna do all I can to have a blink-182 album in 2010. - Mark Hoppus via his Twitter page.
After recent reports saying that Blink-182 wouldn't release their new album in 2011, Hoppus has been on the war path trying to do what he can to bring the masses a new Blink album before the year's end.
MTV… Read More

RiO! Band of the Month: January

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Viniloversus
This Nightmare Ends At Sunrise
Used2BSyris Read More

Pete Townshend will stalk your kids in Miami

Friday, January 29th, 2010
If the flyer below has any type of impact come Super Bowl weekend then residents will be shuffling their kids into their homes and locking their doors because Pete Townshend is in town and he's out to do terrible things to the children of South Beach.

The group known as Protect Our Children, Inc. distributed this flyer to residents who live near Sun Life Stadium where the The Who will be performing during the halftime show. Because apparently, according… Read More

RiO! Band of the Week – Viniloversus

Friday, January 29th, 2010
In a first for the RiO!B, our band of the week comes from Caracas, Venezuela in South America and they're called Viniloversus.

You would think that a band from the southern hemisphere may have a latin vibe to them. Well you can go ahead and throw that idea right your window. The sound that comes from this four-piece group can only be described as upbeat dance-garage rock. If you need a comparison, think of the first album from Arctic Monkeys.
Make… Read More

RiO!B episode – Jan. 28, 2010

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Duff McKagan in Jane's Addiction?
Liam Gallagher… Read More

Liam Gallagher releasing new record in July

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Liam Gallagher is continuing to blaze down a musical path without his brother/former bandmate Noel as he announced that his first record after Oasis will be out hopefully this July.
NME reports that Liam and the rest of his band mates, in the still unnamed band, have eight songs that they're taking into the studio soon.
"A lot of these songs I wrote before the band [Oasis] split up," Liam said. ""We're… Read More

Duff McKagan in Jane’s Addiction?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

So I saw this rumor a few days back and posted it on my Twitter page but apparently this story is picking up steam. My boys over at Antiquiet are reporting that former GnR/Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan may team up with Jane's Addiction since their original bassist Eric Avery will not take… Read More

Sigur Rós on break for 2010

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

While many bands are releasing some great albums this year, other bands look at 2010 as their time to get away. The Killers and TV on the Radio are just a few of those groups and now we can add Icelandic ambient-rockers Sigur Rós to the list.
Consequence of Sound (via Spinner)… Read More