ABCQuite a few rockers are in the running for some big awards at this year’s Billboard Music Awards, taking place Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. fun. is up for the most awards of any rock act, racking up 11 nominations in a v…

Rock and Roll Hall of FameRock and Roll history was made on April 18 in Los Angeles when Heart, Rush, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, late disco queen Donna Summer, late bluesman Albert King and producers Quincy Jones and Lou Adler were inducted into the R…

Caitlin Mogridge/RedfernsThom Yorke will be contributing his talents to the silver screen. The Radiohead/Atoms for Peace frontman has signed on to help score The UK Gold, a documentary that takes on the subject of tax evasion within the United Kin…

Matador RecordsQueens of the Stone Age has unveiled the final chapter of their creepy animated series to promote their upcoming album, …Like Clockwork. The final installment wraps us all the storylines from the other short films, and serves as the …

Matador RecordsQueens of the Stone Age has unveiled the final chapter of their creepy animated series to promote their upcoming album, …Like Clockwork. The final installment wraps us all the storylines from the other short films, and serves as the …

NineInchNails.Tumblr.comNine Inch Nails has a new bassist. Frontman Trent Reznor has announced that longtime NIN collaborator Robin Finck will take over for former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery, who left the group on Wednesday so he could f…

Duff-Loaded.comMissionary Position vocalist Jeff Angell, the frontman for Duff McKagan’s side project Walking Papers, had a chance to be lead singer for Velvet Revolver.  The former Guns N’ Roses bassist revealed that Angell got a shot…

Danny ClinchGood news for My Morning Jacket fans: frontman Jim James has revealed that the band will soon begin work on their follow-up to 2011’s Circuital. “We’re going to start [recording] in October,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. “We’re in …

OMusicAwards.comMTV’s O Music Awards returns this year, and a number of rock acts have scored nominations. Beck is up for two awards, the most of any rock act. He’ll be facing off against Jack White for the Analog Genius Award, while the vi…

XL RecordingsVampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City is headed for a big #1 debut on the Billboard 200 album chart, with projected sales putting it somewhere around 120,000 copies.  If the predictions are true, this will be the band&rs…