On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a drum-and-guitar blues duo seemed like the last thing the world needed in 2002. Fortunately, the guys revisiting the tried and true were guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney a.k.a. the Black ...

THE JOSHUA TREE won the 1987 Grammy award for album of the year. Additional personnel includes: Daniel Lanois (guitar, keyboards, tambourine, background vocals); Brian Eno (keyboards, programming, background vocals). Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. U2: Bono (vocals, harmonica); The Edge (guitar, ...

After a decade-long absence from the pop charts, Rob Thomas and company return with their fourth studio album, North. Spearheaded by the radio-ready first single "She's So Mean," this is the first full set of new material (2007's singles collection ...

­Dos! is the second installment in Green Day's power pop trilogy of 2012, arriving in November, just two months after the first. Like the first and third installments ­Uno! and ­Tres!, ­Dos! is designed to be a return to the ...

JAGGED LITTLE PILL won the 1996 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Rock Album. "You Oughta Know" won the Grammys for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. "You Oughta Know" was also nominated for ...

The black and white lithographs by Layne Staley that dot the cover and liner notes of ABOVE are a subtle hint of what lies in wait on this disc. Gray shades of music ebb along, seared by an occasional lead ...

Includes a bonus DVD with interviews, a live performance, tutorial and gallery.

Although the Red Hot Chili Peppers have received the hits treatment before (most notably on 1992's WHAT HITS?), this compilation serves to highlight the band's peak years with guitarist John Frusciante, both before his sudden departure in 1992 and after ...

Led by the raspy-voiced Ed Roland, Collective Soul avoided falling into the morass of sameness plaguing many of their faceless post-grunge brethren and instead quietly established themselves as one of the more intellectually stimulating bands of the '90s. For its ...

Under the guidance of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley -- the kings of early-'80s British pop -- Bush turn in an album that follows all the rules and sounds of American hard rock, specifically Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The group's ...

With a few notable exceptions (Courtney Love, Evanescence) the '90s and aughts heavy rock scene remained largely a boys club. Lizzy Hale and her band Halestorm sought to remedy the situation with a muscular, metal and grunge-influenced update of Heart ...

ELEPHANT won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. The album was also nominated for Album Of The Year. "Seven Nation Army" won for Best Rock Song. The song was also nominated for Best Rock Performance By A ...

San Francisco's Train hit the charts with a bang early in the 21st century with hits like "Calling All Angels" and "Drops of Jupiter." They began as a band that courted an alternative audience and quickly traded it -- without ...

Following his group sojourns with major-label projects Home Town Hero (on Maverick) and Under the Influence of Giants (on Island), Aaron Bruno resurfaces as a one-man band (albeit with a lot of help, including longtime partner Drew Stewart) under the ...

For five years, Grace Potter & Nocturnals have been hammering it out on stages large and small, playing 200 shows a year, and impressing audiences in the U.S. They've recorded two previous albums -- 2005's rightfully acclaimed Nothing But the ...

Nu-metal stalwarts Linkin Park return with their fifth album, Living Things, a more personal effort than their previous releases. Teaming again with Rick Rubin, who's worked on all of their albums since Minutes to Midnight, they continue to refine their ...

R.E.M. close out their Warner contract -- not to mention their entire career -- with the double-disc Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage, their first compilation to combine early recordings from their time at IRS with their major-label ...

In English, the Greek word "anastasis" is literally translated as "resurrection." The definition is apt as the title to Dead Can Dance's reunion offering, their first recording of new studio material since 1996's Spiritchaser. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry established ...

The sequel to his 2002 album, Electric Tears, inscrutable avant-garde guitar virtuoso Buckethead returns with the more ambient leaning, Electric Sea. The 35th studio effort from the wildly prolific axeman, the album finds the guitar wizard tackling a pair of ...

The first in an ambitious trilogy of albums from Green Day, Uno! finds the trio reuniting with producer Rob Cavallo and breaking away from the rock operas of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Leaving behind narratives and melodrama, the ...

Neon Trees' debut, Habits, was only eight songs long, almost more of an EP than a true album, yet they made the most of it, taking their Strokes-meets-Killers pop in a far more mainstream direction than either of those influences ...

The 2012 set The Greatest Hits -- the first-ever compilation of the new millennial modern rock band 3 Doors Down -- does indeed serve up most of the group's biggest hits, beginning with their 2000 breakthrough "Kryptonite" and wrapping up ...

Recorded live at Sony Music Studios, New York, New York on November 18, 1993. UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Sadly, MTV Unplugged stands as Nirvana's last album. While it's an album of covers ...

This is a Hyper CD which contains regular audio tracks and provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser. Most modern hard rock bands miss the mark by over-emphasizing great riffs and neglecting the importance ...

Recorded at Pachyderm Studio, Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Live: Edward Kowalczyk (vocals, guitar); Chad Taylor (guitar, background vocals); Patrick Dahlheimer (bass); Chad Gracey (drums, background vocals).