hard rock

Van Halen's 2012 tour has gone from being extended to major postponements.  The band has postponed all dates after their June 26th show.  This impacts a number of Texas and Oklahoma dates.  Click though for details.

Man I'm feeling the new "Black Stone Cherry".  If you're a fan, it's probably not new to you, but traditionally bands and record companies feed radio stations 'one song at a time' .  We just got the latest release from Black Stone Cherry and it's an EXCELLENT followup to "In My Blood".  More after the jump.

KORN has released a video of "Way Too Far".  It's kind of interesting because I thought the band and record company had moved their focus to the title track "Chaos Lives In Everything".  None the less, this is a pretty cool clip because for the most part it's just a live performance track, even though the performance takes place in some kind of practice space.  More after the j

Corey Taylor and Jim Root do double duty in Slipknot and Stone Sour.  Last year Slipknot suffered a huge tragedy with the death of bass player Paul Gray.  Now Stone Sour has parted ways with their bass player.  More details after the jump.

Earlier today (May 4), music fans learned of the tragic news that Beastie Boys co-founder Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch had passed away. In a new lengthy statement, posted below, the cause of death has been confirmed as Yauch’s three year battle with cancer.

This is "two great tastes that taste great together"!!! Take one killer ass Soundgarden comeback song and match it up with a bunch of previously unseen Avengers footage and you're ready to rock!  More after the jump.

You wanna rock?  You gotta see Trapt.  Trapt is one of those bands that you don't realize how many great songs they have until you see them live.  I'm going to try to remedy that with just a few music videos after the jump.

I'm a big fan of the Offspring.  The Offspring even inspired all of the Day Of The Dead" tattoos that I have.  I got the idea from the cover of "Xnay on the Hombre".  The last Offspring album "Rise and Fall, Rage & Grace" was chock full of good stuff, so much so, it's hard to believe it came out three years ago!  More after the jump.

Our photog has literally hundreds of pix to go through before we post the definitive wrap up to an unbelievable weekend. In the meantime, dozens of folks posted cool little clips from the shows on YouTube.  I've hunted down some of my favorites for you.

Buckcherry have shared a minute-long audio clip of the song ‘Wherever I Go.’ The tune has prime placement on ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the soundtrack to ‘Marvel’s The Avengers,’ which is easily one of the most hyped and talked about action films of the summer.

The loss of vocalist Ronnie James Dio to stomach cancer in 2010 still stings the hearts of metal fans, including that of the mighty Metallica. The band plans to be involved in the upcoming Dio ribute album, which will also feature Anthrax, Rob Halford and more. It turns out that Metallica even contacted Dio’s widow directly in order to get the ball rolling on their participation.

Well we get started today.  We finish around 1 a.m. Sunday morning.  What else do you need to know?  Well, you regular concert goers are pretty hooked up, but since these concerts are both so big, we're getting a lot of questions from people who rarely attend shows.