After more than three years of providing guitar lines and credibility boosts to The Cribs, Johnny Marr has left the British band to concentrate on his own solo work. Marr had become an official member of the group in 2008, contributing to the songwriting on 2009’s Ignore The Ignorant, bringing tons of Smiths diehards to [...]

As we reported last week, the new video for Death Cab For Cutie’s “You Are A Tourist” will be filmed and broadcast live today at 7 p.m. ET. Who knows what crazy, spontaneous-yet-scripted moments will occur when director Tim Nackashi (best known for his work with OK Go) puts Ben Gibbard and Co. through their [...]

In the heavy metal universe, you would be hard-pressed to find a more talented band than Symfonia. Featuring vocalist André Matos (Angra), guitarist Timo Tolkki (ex-Stratovarius), drummer Uli Kusch (ex-Helloween), keyboardist Mikko Härkin (Sonata Arctica), and bassist Jari Kainulainen (ex-Stratovarius), the term ‘supergroup’ is definitely applicable. Symfonia’s debut album, ‘In Paradisum,’ hits stores on April [...]

“We ride into the atmosphere / And leave the world behind / Ride because the end is here / No force on Earth can hold us down.” — Becoming the Archetype, ‘Path of the Beam’ “The title of the song is drawn from the ‘Dark Tower’ series by Stephen King,” guitarist Seth Hecox recently told [...]

Eventually every rocker reaches a point where he turns reflective and feels the urge to slow it down a little and experiment, and that’s when he straps on the ukulele—or at least, that’s what Eddie Vedder is doing, as he’s announced that his second solo album, Ukulele Songs, will be recorded entirely on Hawaii’s gift [...]