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Up top you can check out the Rock it Out! Blog's exclusive interview with the up and coming NYC indie-rock band Freelance Whales.
With music that reminds you of bands like Arcade Fire, The Decemberists and Broken Social… Read More

The lineup for Coachella 2010 has been announced and it looks like it's gonna be a damn good time!
With artists like Muse, Gorillaz, Them Crooked Vultures, Jay-Z, Pavement and Thom Yorke to name a few, Indio, CA is ready to kick off the festival season with a massive three-day celebration.
Of course, with Coachella being the spot where many indie-rock bands catapult into stardom, bands like Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit, Major Lazer,… Read More

The Bamboozle festival is starting to look like one of the better summer festivals of 2010. With headliners Weezer and Paramore and a ton of great supporting acts, the parking lot at Giants Stadium will probably be more active than tailgating for a Giants/Cowboys game. But now there's a whole new reason to hit up the festival and it has four letters: MGMT.
The indie-rock duo will co-headline the second night of the festival… Read More

Glory, glory hallelujah! Rivers Cuomo has fully recovered from his injuries and Weezer heading back out onto the road for more shows.
Cuomo, who was injured in a bus accident last month, was given the green light by doctors to perform again. Karl Koch, the blogger over at Weezer's website, recently posted a statement regarding Rivers and the band.
"Its with relief that I can announce that Rivers' recovery has gone well… Read More

2010 is the year we finally get new material from everyone's favorite animated foursome, Gorillaz, via their new album Plastic Beach. Updates are slowly making their way onto the interwebs thanks to the most mischievous member of the band, Murdoc Niccals, by way of his twitter account (via NME).
Some of the more recent posts from the band badass… Read More

Well turn me upside-down, tickle my belly and call me Biscuit (it's a phrase I heard in Nashville). But it's because of stories like this that make me utter ridiculous phrases like the previous one. Apparently, thanks to some digging by our boys over at CoS, Paul McCartney was approached to be the bassist for the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.… Read More

Disturbed recording new album
Slash… Read More

David Draiman and the dark rockers of Disturbed are set to hit the studio next month and begin work on their fifth album.
Guitarist Dan Donegan spoke to The Pulse of Radio and added some insight on the upcoming recording sessions. "I think at this point we're probably somewhere between 15 to 18 songs, with the exception of David (Draiman, singer) having to finalize, you know, a few more lyrics to some of the songs. But, you know, we're ready to go. You know,… Read More

May 10th will be the day you get your English three-piece piano rock groove on when Keane releases their new EP called Night Train.
NME reports that the band recorded the EP while touring during their last world tour in support of their latest full-length Perfect Symmetry. The album will feature eight tracks and will feature rapper K'Naan on the song "Stop For A Minute" and Japanese funk MC Tigarah… Read More

OK it was funny the first time Coldplay got slapped with a plagiarism accusation from Brooklyn band The Creaky Boards. It was kinda funny when Joe Satriani called foul on the band saying they ripped off his tune "If I Could Fly" for their song "Viva La Vida". It got real funny when Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens to the non-updated) stepped… Read More