System Of A Down playing west coast dates
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Look who's back?! System Of A Down are scheduled to play west coast dates in May. According to the Scenestar, SOAD will perform on May 15th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California; May 22nd at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Chula Vista, California; May 24th at The Forum in Inglewood, California and May 25th at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater… Read More
Check out 30-second samples of The Strokes’ Angles
Monday, February 28th, 2011
I know you can't wait for the new Strokes album. You told me so yourself! So to help you out a bit, here are some free samples of new material from the NYC band.
Down below, thanks to CoS (via YouTuber bungie17,) you can check out 30-second clips of every single track off of their forthcoming… Read More
Trent Reznor wins an Oscar!
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have done it again!
The duo won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network after already winning a Golden Globe. Reznor will team up with Social Network director David Fincher to work on the score for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which will be in theaters this December.
I've never actually screamed aloud during the Oscars but Trent's win elicited that reaction from me when he walked on… Read More
RiO!B episode – February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 24th, 2011U2 headlining Glastonbury festival
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
U2 are having a go at it again. After pulling out of the Glastonbury festival in 2010 due to Bono's back injury, they'll headline the festival this year on the Pyramid Stage on Friday, June 24th. U2 will join Coldplay and Beyoncé as this year's headliners.
The band was announced as a headliner at the NME Awards in London with a video message from The Edge. The guitarist, who played a few songs with Muse at last year's fest, said, "It's more a way of life than a festival. I made… Read More
RiO!B episode – February 23, 2011
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011RiO!B/Axis of Audio are holding a party in Austin, TX!
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
You need a reason to go to South by Southwest this year? How about a party held by the Rock it Out! Blog and four of the best music sites on all of the interwebs?!
RiO!B, Consequence of Sound, Antiquiet, Some Kind of Awesome and TwentyFourBit have joined forces to become the Axis of Audio and… Read More
Watch: Green Day – “Cigarettes and Valentines”
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Green Day's forthcoming live album is called Awesome as Fuck and I would argue that this song help's the title's case.
The song "Cigarettes and Valentines," which was supposed to be the title track of the album that was going to be released instead of American Idiot, can now be watched up top. The song may be standard three-chord fare, like most of their songs, but it's catchy and will stay in your head all day.
Green Day plays the song in Japan along with… Read More
Listen: Foo Fighters – “Rope”
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Open wide and say "Ahhhhh!" The new single from Foo Fighters, "Rope," is now available for you to check out.
How to describe the song? Well it's not as hard as "White Limo" but still just as good. It almost has a "Learn To Fly" feel to it as far as the tempo of the song goes. Distorted guitars are the leaders of the song as Dave Grohl's vocals start on a lower register before climbing into the hook that features the words, "Gimme some rope." But my favorite part… Read More
