IN UTERO was nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. "All Apologies" was nominated for 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and for Best Rock Song. Personnel: Kurt Cobain (vocals, ...

Theory of a Deadman: Tyler Connolly (vocals, guitars); David Brenner (guitars); Dean Back (bass guitar).

"Plush" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal." The group that put San Diego, California, on the musical map, Stone Temple Pilots released their debut album with little fanfare, and caught the public eye only after ...

Additional personnel includes: Paul Buckmaster (conductor, arranger). "Drops Of Jupiter" won the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). The band that brought "Meet Virginia" to the ears of the nation's youth via heavy-rotation MTV ...

San Francisco's 4 Non Blondes burst onto the national scene with their massive, neo-hippie anthem "What's Up" from their debut Bigger, Better, Faster, More? Although they failed to recreate the single's success, the album, as a whole, is a fairly ...

Considering that Marilyn Manson never pandered to the Top 40 set, LEST WE FORGET can't rightfully be dubbed a greatest-hits record; it serves more as a reminder of the man and his group's 10-year blitz of ghoulish, gory, industrial rock. ...

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. 16 Biggest Hits may be missing some noteworthy songs, but it does provide an excellent summary of Johnny Horton's Columbia recordings between 1956 and 1960. Since it does contain the majority of ...

Hootie & The Blowfish won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and "Let Her Cry" won the Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Hootie & The Blowfish are a powerhouse regional band exploding ...

Precocious Brit Florence Welch fired a bullet into the head of the U.K. music scene in 2008 with the single "Kiss with a Fist," a punk-infused, perfectly juvenile summer anthem that had critics wiping the names Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, ...

Audio Remixer: Michael Brauer. Recording information: AIR Studios; Hammersmith Apollo, London, England. Personnel: David Gray (vocals, various instruments, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, piano, harmonium, organ); Tim Bradshaw (various instruments, guitar, electric guitar, keyboards); McClune (various instruments, omnichord, drums, percussion, background vocals); Robert ...

Bands that look to the '60s and '70s for inspiration are nothing new in the realm of rock music -- it seems every year, a new group appears that sounds like they thoroughly studied and regurgitated their parents' album collection. ...

The Decemberists' sixth, full-length studio outing finds the Portland, Oregon-based indie rock collective exploring a region that has thus far eluded them. Raised on a steady diet of Morrissey, Robyn Hitchcock, Shirley Collins, and Fairport Convention, The King Is Dead ...

Preceded by the single "Damn This Town," Hiatt's 20th studio album, 2011's Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns, was recorded in Nashville and produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, the Black Crowes). Recording information: Ben's Studio, Nashville, TN. Photographer: David McClister. Personnel: John ...

In an age where rock is becoming progressively more slick and studio enhanced, it's quite refreshing to see a band like White Stripes come up from the underground and play raw, sloppy, and soulful rock & roll the way it ...

As made clear by the White Stripes, the COLD MOUNTAIN soundtrack, and his lauded album with Loretta Lynn (VAN LEAR ROSE), Jack White approaches all of his music with full commitment, and the Raconteurs is no exception. Not quite a ...

Recorded between 1994 & 2003. Includes liner notes by David Wild. Producers include: Don Gehman, Don Was, Pete Masitti, Spencer Proffer, Mark Williams. Compilation producers: Hootie & The Blowfish, Karen Ahmed. Hootie & the Blowfish: Darius Rucker (vocals, guitar, dobro, percussion). Personnel: Mark Bryan ...

Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow follows Director's Cut, a dramatically reworked collection of catalog material, by six months. This set is all new, her first such venture since 2005's Aerial. The are only seven songs here, but the album ...

Home School Valedictorian, the Las Vegas-based modern rock outfit Adelitas Way's sophomore effort, polishes the already slick foundation on which the band built their 2009 debut. Bolstered by a radio-ready, appropriately bitter first single, "Sick," a movie trailer-ready, Killers-esque anthem ...

Based out of the industrial, lakeside town of Muskegon, Michigan's Pop Evil specialize in the kind of hard-hitting, relatively simplistic, AOR rock that dominates radio stations with names like "The Hammer" and "The Grind." Cut from the same pair of ...

M83's Anthony Gonzalez took his time delivering the follow-up to 2008's much-loved Saturdays=Youth, but it was worth it: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is a sprawling double album that reaffirms M83's dreamy romanticism while setting off for bold new territory. Gonzalez ...

The Head and the Heart were still a young unsigned band when they released this self-titled debut in June 2010. A mix of Northwestern folk and homespun Americana, the album attracted the attention of several labels. The group wound up ...

With his flat cap, fully-grown beard, and husky Ray LaMontagne-esque set of pipes, 25-year-old Londoner Alex Clare could quite easily pass for another member of the nu-folk brigade, but proving that appearances can be deceptive, his debut album, The Lateness ...

Los Angeles-based dream pop/alt-rockers Silversun Pickups tapped Grammy-winning producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M., Weezer) for their third studio album. Preceded by the shoegazey, slow-burning first single "Bloody Mary," Neck of the Woods is set for release in spring 2012. Recording information: ...

On their sixth studio album, Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation), the Counting Crows offer up 15 cover version of some of their favorite artists' tunes, ranging from the ubiquitous to the obscure. This album marks ...

Fallen Empires is the sixth studio album from British alt-rock outfit Snow Patrol. Following the success of hit singles such as "Chasing Cars" -- which spent 106 weeks in the U.K. charts -- lead singer Gary Lightbody suffered bouts of ...