Rock Music October 2012 Archive

For a long time, Stone Sour seemed like just another side project. Sure, they made good albums, but everybody knew that Slipknot was Corey Taylor's "real" band -- Stone Sour ... Read More

Deftones will be releasing their new album, Koi No Yokan, on November 13. In honor of the occasion, I started thinking about the band's all-time greatest songs and went about ... Read More

Ever since Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong entered rehab at the end of September, it seemed incredibly unlikely that the band would be able to honor their upcoming tour ... Read More

It's now been almost four years since Blink-182 announced that they'd be reuniting, which led to lengthy touring and a strong comeback album, Neighborhoods, which produced two singles, "Up All ... Read More

The last few years have been the best of times and the worst of times for Kings of Leon. In the mid-2000s, they were a respected cult band that hadn't ... Read More

There wasn't a lot of moving and shaking on this week's Billboard Rock Charts, but the biggest debut was Dethalbum III, the new album from the animated fictional band Dethklok ... Read More

When you hear that the forthcoming record from your favorite band is going to be a concept album, does that make you cringe? It does for me: Often, such grand ... Read More

When you're discussing the indie-rock band Eels, usually you're simply referring to E, the group's leader and sole permanent member. But for their new album, it sounds like it's more ... Read More

Kiss have been putting out records for almost 40 years, and they remain a favorite of rock fans. Need proof? Look no further than this week's Billboard Rock Charts, where ... Read More

Because Billboard has decided -- foolishly, in my opinion -- to pursue a new methodology for how it compiles its Rock Songs chart, the time has come to address how ... Read More

Every Thursday, Billboard unveils the latest charts for all different types of music, including the Rock Songs chart, which I write about each week because I'm interested in reporting on ... Read More

There are several important milestones in the history of rap-rock, and one of them most certainly is the release of Rage Against the Machine, the debut album from Rage Against ... Read More

With Halloween just around the corner, I was thinking about scary rock songs. What's interesting is that there isn't one type of song that's scary. For some, a track like ... Read More

Muse just released their new record, The 2nd Law, and starting early next year they'll be touring North America with dates that, unsurprisingly for them, plan to be rather epic. The ... Read More

Green Day are making a lot of headlines lately, but not all that news is good. Of course, they've just released Uno!, the first disc of a trilogy of records ... Read More

Daughtry and 3 Doors Down both specialize in traditional heartland arena-rock, but that's not the only similarity they share: Although their fans may beg to differ, both groups aren't quite ... Read More

The folk-rock resurgence continues on the Billboard Rock Songs chart. The Lumineers held on to the top spot for two weeks with "Ho Hey," but now they've been supplanted by ... Read More

For several months, Foo Fighters fans have had to contend with a few ominous signals that the band would be taking a prolonged break. Back in late August, the group ... Read More

Dave Matthews Band just released Away From the World, the group's sixth straight studio effort to hit No. 1. They toured extensively over the summer, and the next North American ... Read More

Soundgarden's highly anticipated comeback album, King Animal, will be arriving November 13, but while we wait, they've unveiled the first single, "Been Away Too Long." Does the song make you ... Read More