Rock Music August 2012 Archive

Normally, Top 10 lists are fun to make, but my latest list wasn't such a blast to put together. Living through the death of a close friend or loved one ... Read More

Deftones haven't put out an album since Diamond Eyes, the best rock record of 2010, but for longtime fans, the wait was hardly a surprise: Usually, the quintet go several ... Read More

For the fifth time in the last six weeks, Green Day's "Oh Love" is at No. 1 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart. What that also means is that one ... Read More

Smashing Pumpkins did something this year that a lot of '90s bands have failed to do: make a new album as good as the ones from their heyday. This June's ... Read More

On September 6, the annual MTV Video Music Awards will be held. Most of the categories won't be important to rock fans, but at least there's the Best Rock Video ... Read More

At this point, it's unwise to bet against the commercial firepower of Green Day. The band's last two albums, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, both went to No. 1 ... Read More

Soundgarden's first studio album in 16 years is nearly upon us, and it's going to be called King Animal. Yesterday, the grunge veterans announced the title of their forthcoming set, ... Read More

It hasn't quite reached Chinese Democracy-like levels of procrastination yet, but fans of Queens of the Stone Age have been waiting for quite some time for the band to release ... Read More

By the early 2000s, it looked like Creed were on their last legs. Tensions between frontman Scott Stapp and the rest of the band, exacerbated by Stapp's drug and alcohol ... Read More

When the Billboard Rock Songs chart was established in the summer of 2009, the No. 1 song for the first week was Green Day's "Know Your Enemy." The trio have ... Read More

In November of last year, Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor made it be known that his band's next record was going to be ambitious. "It's basically the story of a ... Read More

It's not uncommon for musicians to set up residencies in Las Vegas, but they tend to be artists like Celine Dion or Elton John, not rock 'n' roll bands. (Although ... Read More

The Whigs are an under-the-radar band recommended to fans of pure garage rock. They've put out four albums, including the forthcoming Enjoy the Company (out September 18), which exult in ... Read More

While Green Day fans await the release of Uno! next month, the lead single, "Oh Love," is waging an epic battle with Linkin Park for No. 1 on the Billboard ... Read More

Last September, R.E.M. shocked their fans by announcing that they were breaking up. Of course, they haven't completely disappeared: In November, they put out a career-spanning compilation of their 30-year ... Read More

In the last seven years, Incubus have only released two studio albums. (During that time, they also put out the compilation Monuments and Melodies.) But those hoping that the band ... Read More

Like most other award shows, the MTV Video Music Awards favor pop and hip-hop over rock, so it should be little surprise that when the cable channel announced its nominees ... Read More

After 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart, Linkin Park's "Burn It Down" was taken down a peg by Green Day's "Oh Love," which snagged the ... Read More