Ska and Rockabilly Join Together for the Rude and Crude Festival

To be held at The Glasshouse, in the heart of Pomona's Art's Colony, Rude and Crude will also bring with it a vendor village at the Thomas Plaza, directly across the street from the Glasshouse. -

Green Day Up For Three Grammys

Green Day were nominated for three 2010 Grammy Awards, including two for their single "21 Guns" ("Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals") and for their gold-certified album 21st Century Breakdown, which was nominated for "Best Rock Album."

Over the course of their 22-year career, Green Day have been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, and have won three: Rock Album of the Year for their blockbuster 2004 album American Idiot, Record of the Year for the American Idiot single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," and Best Alternative Music Performance for their Diamond-certified 1993 album Dookie.

Green Day is 2009's No. 1 artist at both Alternative and all Rock radio formats combined, including spins of current and recurrent catalog songs, according to Mediabase's Year to Date charts. - more on this story

Slayer Hate Appeals To N.A.R.A.S. Members

Dancing with the Devil must appeal to the N.A.R.A.S. membership, as they've gone and done it again nominated Slayer for a Grammy Award. And the members of Slayer - guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, and drummer Dave Lombardo - are wickedly pleased.

This, Slayer's fourth Grammy nod in the Best Metal Performance category, is for the track "Hate Worldwide," off of the band's new album World Painted Blood, which offers a Slayer-ized viewpoint of our world - God's terrifying global genocide, the chaos of our broken political system, the way-too-close proximity of world horrors that technology has brought us, and a chilling hypothesis of how the rest of the world might view America.

"Hate Worldwide," written by King, showcases classic Slayer hate-fueled venom spewed forth at impossible speeds - "That's why it's become my obsession/To treat God like an infection/My scars, insane/My life, profane/I deny, defy, and spread a little hate worldwide." - more on this story

The Gun and Doll Show Release New Concept Album

San Francisco's The Gun and Doll Show is releasing their fourth album, American Radio Two, a much-anticipated sequel to the band's last release American Radio One, in an homage to classic rock, punk, ballads, dance music and pop.

The album is a versatile and imaginative auditory trip across the radio dial, compared in sound and style to The Tubes, The Breeders, Garbage, Frank Zappa meeting Todd Rundgren, even Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Killian MacGeraghty is the ringleader, mastermind, writer and lead singer of this super-charged 7-member band consisting of three female vocalists, two guitarists, a bassist and drummer. Known for their attention-commanding live performances, and recently deemed the "Best Damned Rock Show in San Francisco"1, the Gun & Doll Show over-delivers. - more on this story

Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen Duet Earns Grammy Nomination

Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals" for "Sea of Heartbreak," a duet with Bruce Springsteen that appears on her critically acclaimed album The List. This is Cash's ninth career nomination. She won a Grammy Award in 1985 for "Best Country Vocal Performance, Female" for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me."

"Sea of Heartbreak," a cover of the country classic popularized by Don Gibson, is the only track eligible for a 2010 nomination as it was released on August 25th, several days before the August 31st deadline. The List was released by Manhattan Records on October 6th, 2009, and will be eligible for consideration next year.

Cash's first-ever covers album, The List is a collection of 12 classic songs she selected from a list of "100 Essential Country Songs" that her legendary father Johnny Cash gave her when she was a teenager. The album has earned widespread praise from media outlets across the country, including NPR Music, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, the Associated Press, USA Today, Time, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, People, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard, Elle, Paste, Relix, American Songwriter, and the San Francisco Chronicle. - more on this story

Audacity To Support Crystal Antlers Tour

Audacity, kick off their tour with Long Beach, CA's Crystal Antlers on Monday, December 7th, where they will have in tow with them an exclusive tour only cassette featuring 8 new songs recorded by Kid Kevin and limited to 250 copies!

Known for their characteristically frothing-at-the-mouth live performances that Seattle's The Stranger called, "raw, raucous, ramshackle rock with youthful vigor that sometimes threatened to spill over into dissonant chaos," AUDACITY along with Crystal Antlers (who themselves are known for their highly charged live performances) will be providing for all those in attendance the sweatiest two hours of their lives this winter.

Audacity's latest debut full length release, Power Drowning, which Vice Magazine described as "rambunctious, slop-pop garage [that] wobbles like shopping cart wheels at terminal velocity" was recorded and mixed in under a week at Costa Mesa, CA's surreptitiously legendary Distillery-used also by the Seeds, Mika Miko, Rocket From The Crypt and the Black Lips (who flew to California specifically to work there)-and released on vinyl earlier this year by Anaheim garage-pop label Burger. Power Drowning's fifteen songs collide the Adolescents' blue album and Redd Kross' Born Innocent with the supercharged teenage melodrama of the Shangri-Las and the tossed-off swagger of the Sweet or Alice Cooper-before his complexion fell apart. - more on this story

Iron Age Mini Tour

Wednesday night at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, Iron Age kicked off a support tour with metal giants Baroness. The tour continues tonight at The Troubadour in Los Angeles.

Iron Age have been slugging it out in hardcore and punk circles since the middle of the decade, touring the North America and abroad with such contemporary hardcore luminaries as Rise And Fall, Cold World, Fucked Up, and Trash Talk while steadily honing the riffed-out hardcore sound established on their 2006 debut Constant Struggle.
With The Sleeping Eye, Iron Age remains a modern torchbearer for the long tradition established by the crossover classics (Corrosion of Conformity's Animosity, Crumbsuckers' Life of Dreams, Cro-Mags' Best Wishes, etc), but twists the NYHC-inspired thrash of their debut to create something bigger and darker, enhancing the violence of their former efforts with mammoth Lovecraftian atmopshere. Gargantuan guitar riffs conjure images of astral behemoths while unnamed terrors lurk in the unwavering, resolute rhythm section. The demon doesn't truly emerge though until the blood-curdling, blasphemous growls of Jason Tarpey crawl to the startling forefront. Fans of the vocal madness of King Diamond or G.I.S.M.'s Sakevi can rejoice at this reverb-drenched shrieking.

The Sleeping Eye is a sprawling modern heavy metal opus that doesn't forsake its hardcore roots, but follows them to their sonic extremities, forging a sound that honors the crossover forefathers while treading new ground in brutal atmosphere and doomy ambiance. - more on this story

Final Conflict Stand Up Again

Good news for the fans of Final Conflict. This progressive rock band from Midlands, UK is currently in the studio working on two new releases.

The first one is their long awaited 6th full length studio album "The Return of the Artizan". The second one is a re-release of the very successful album "Stand Up". The "Stand Up" re-issue will be released by Metal Mind Productions in early 2010.

"Stand Up" is the band's third album which includes such classic FC's tracks like "Stand Up", "Miss D Meanour" or "Stop". Originally released in 1997 by German Angular Records the album got sold out in 2003. Ever since then, the band wanted to re-release this title. - more on this story

. A Buyer's Guide to the Beatles Remasters

While others were rushing to get the reviews of these remasters out in record time, I couldnt do that, I had to listen to every last song on a CD player no less allowing me to revel in the brilliance of the Fab Four. - Read the full A Buyer's Guide to the Beatles Remasters review

. Blue October Interview (Justin Furstenfield)

Jackie Lee King shares this interview with Blue October frontman Blue October which was conducted during the Rock on the Range Festival this past Spring. - Read the full Blue October Interview (Justin Furstenfield) review

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