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Linkin Park Planning Album for Early Next Year | ARTICLE

Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns was released in September of last year, but the band is already working on a follow-up. "We’re in the studio and we’re well on our way to making our next record,"...
July 26, 2011 12:20 PM ET
Grace Potter Preps for Lollapalooza, Cartoon Series Debut | ARTICLE

Folk-rock singer Grace Potter has written a Christmas song, "Naughty, Naughty Children," and will lend her voice talents to a character on Prep & Landing, an upcoming Disney special to air on ABC around the holidays. "I don’t...
July 24, 2011 2:05 PM ET
Courtney Love on Amy Winehouse: 'I'm Gutted' | ARTICLE

Courtney Love has shared her thoughts on the tragic death of Amy Winehouse with Rolling Stone. "I'm not even going to say, 'Waste of glorious sublime talent,' which I feel," Love said of the 27-year-old singer. "I'm fucking...
July 23, 2011 8:50 PM ET
Guns N' Roses' Matt Sorum's Diamond Baby Releases Star-Studded Video | ARTICLE

Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum has a new band – and it's gotten off to a star-studded start. The band's first video, "The Last Rockstar," features Glee's Jane Lynch, actress Juliette...
July 21, 2011 1:55 PM ET
Evanescence's Amy Lee Thrilled to Return After Five-Year Break | ARTICLE

Evanescence hasn't come out with a new album since 2006's The Open Door – but frontwoman Amy Lee is prepared for the October 11th release of Evanescence. Lee, who moved to New York just before getting...
July 20, 2011 3:55 PM ET
'Tonight Show' Bandleader Rickey Minor Launches Festival With Stevie Wonder | ARTICLE

This Sunday, the inaugural Global Soul Festival will take place at Los Angeles's Hollywood Bowl, with Wonder, Potter, Sharon Jones, Janelle Monae, Charles Bradley and many more performing their own songs, as well as a tribute...
July 19, 2011 2:00 PM ET
Exclusive: Incubus Respond to Religious Protesters | ARTICLE

Not everyone in the Philippines is thrilled about Incubus' show there on July 28th. Last week, an unknown group sent out a text message protest, urging residents to pray against the band. The message reads,...
July 15, 2011 4:00 PM ET
311 Emerges 'Unscathed From the Craziness' for New Album | ARTICLE

Since their mid-Nineties breakthrough, when songs like "Down" topped the alternative charts, 311 have been a constant presence on the summer tour schedule, becoming almost as ubiquitous in the months of June, July and August as the...
July 15, 2011 2:40 PM ET
Duff McKagan: Velvet Revolver's Singer Search Is Not Over | ARTICLE

Velvet Revolver do not, we repeat, do not have a new lead singer. However, turns out all those recent reports that the band was close to naming their guy also were true. "We thought we landed...
April 22, 2009 12:21 PM ET
Q&A: Liam Gallagher on Discovering the Beatles and the Death of the Rock Star | ARTICLE

With their new album Dig Out Your Soul out and an international tour underway, Rolling Stone caught up with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher to chat about the first record that blew his mind, how he measures success...
October 31, 2008 10:30 PM ET
Slash on His Solo LP, "Guitar Hero" and How Guns n' Roses Changed Fans' Lives | ARTICLE

Rolling Stone recently caught up with Slash in L.A., where he was speaking to fans at a Guitar Center Sessions event (Click above to watch the guitarist talk about Gn'R's early chemistry and his guest session with...
September 16, 2008 12:15 PM ET
Ready for Revolution | ARTICLE

On the eve of the launch of the fifth Projekt Revolution — the multi-genre tour founded by Linkin Park in 2002 — Rolling Stone checked in with two of its acts, LP's Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell....
July 15, 2008 10:10 PM ET
Madonna Launches Tour With Disco Crucifixion | ARTICLE

Though Madonna's latest world tour has been dubbed the Confessions tour in honor of the singer's latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, the trek, which began Sunday night before a sold-out audience at L.A.'s hallowed Forum,...
May 22, 2006 6:03 PM ET
Ex-Jane's Addiction Supergroup the Panic Channel Debut | ARTICLE

The Panic Channel -- the new four-piece that finds former Jane's Addiction members Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney teaming with singer-guitarist Steve Isaacs, a former MTV VJ who played the lead in the Broadway incarnation...
May 16, 2006 5:39 PM ET
Red Hot Chili Peppers Play "Stadium Arcadium" Live | ARTICLE

Twenty-three years into a career that has seen them as a party band, rock stars, survivors, funk disciples and alternative-music icons, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have put all of those traits together for Stadium Arcadium, a...
May 15, 2006 4:23 PM ET
After Oscar, Ludacris Needs "Therapy" | ARTICLE

Coming off of two consecutive mainstream chart-toppers -- 2004's Chicken-N-Beer and last year's The Red Light District -- Ludacris has made his name as a multiplatinum-selling Hot-lanta rapper. But now Luda's a little worried that, despite all...
May 9, 2006 3:55 PM ET
Candlebox Reignite for CD, Tour | ARTICLE

Remember Candlebox? The Nineties Seattle band burst on the scene in 1993, hitting the Top Ten with their self-titled debut, then rode the grunge wave to a string of hit singles -- "Far Behind," "Don't You," "Simple...
May 4, 2006 2:17 PM ET
Alice in Chains Reunite to Tour | ARTICLE

When the three remaining members of Alice in Chains -- guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney -- return to the stage at L.A.'s Roxy May 18th to kick off a world tour, the...
April 25, 2006 11:09 AM ET
Velvet Revolver Dive Deeper | ARTICLE

Velvet Revolver are in the mood to experiment these days, as they dive into pre-production for the follow-up to their 2004 multiplatinum debut, Contraband. The band's branching out more than ever on the new album, tentatively titled Libertide. "The...
April 18, 2006 4:57 PM ET
Audioslave Reveal Their Soul Side | ARTICLE

For Audioslave's third album, due in June, singer Chris Cornell wanted to explore a vocal style he feels closest to but has never touched on before: R&B. "I love rock music, but my favorite singers are...
March 22, 2006 4:32 PM ET