The Audition’s debut “Controversy Loves Company” was a fun album that got away with being as poppy as it was because the band sounded powerful and ballsy at the same time.

Michael Dean Damron likes rock, country and blues. So what’s a guy to do? Throw all of those influences together of course and see where you end up.

North Carolina’s KillWhitneyDead are back with a new disc called “Nothing Less, Nothing More”.

Ray Davies was something of a wild cat back when he was with The Kinks but the Ray Davies that you get to hear on “Working Man’s Café” 44 years after “You Really Got Me” is a bit of a whiner.

What Dan Yemin and the rest of Paint It Black (including new drummer Jared Shavelson) do on “New Lexicon” is impressive to put it mildly.

2007 marked the 30-year anniversary for the Buzzcocks because exactly three decades have passed since the band released the “Spiral Scratch” EP.

A couple of students start playing music together because studying all the time tends to get a little bit boring. How many bands do you think started this way? All of them?

Next to endless corn fields and the freak show known as Slipknot, Iowa is also home to metalcore outfit Too Pure To Die.